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Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few
By Robert B Reich. 2015
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything
By Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner, Anatole Muchnik. 2006
Quel lien entre la législation de l'avortement et la baisse de la criminalité aux États-Unis ? Quelles sont les vraies…
motivations des agents immobiliers ? Pourquoi les revendeurs de drogue vivent-ils plus longtemps chez leur mère ? L'économie, vue sous cet angle, incongru en apparence, mais qui est celui de la plus sérieuse rationalité des agents, des comportements, des causes et effets, traite de sujets peu conventionnels. Elle a reçu un nom : freakonomics, ou " économie saugrenue ". Elle jette une lumière de biais sur le désordre des événements ; elle met à nu des a priori à prétention de scientificité irréfutable ; elle transforme notre regard sur le monde globalisé, qui nous apparaît, pour finir, moins impénétrable et incompréhensible. 2006. Titre uniforme: Freakonomics.Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
By Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner. 2005
The author offers his view of how the economy really works; examining issues from cheating and crime, to sports and…
child-rearing. He offers a very different view on what drives the economy. 2005.The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
By Steve Lopez. 2008
Los Angeles Times columnist describes his relationship with Nathaniel Ayers, a former student at Juilliard, who became homeless after succumbing…
to paranoid schizophrenia. Lopez discusses his and his readers' efforts to expose callous treatment of Ayers and relates Ayers's attempts at recovery. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008.The pianist: the extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw 1939-45
By Anthea Bell, Władysław Szpilman. 1999
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who, uniquely, managed to stay alive in Warsaw throughout World War II. Immediately…
afterwards, he wrote this account of his experiences during the war. 1999.Brother Ray: Ray Charles' own story
By Ray Charles, David Ritz. 1978
Candid autobiography of the famous American singer and musician who was born black and poor in the deep south, became…
blind as a small boy, and was orphaned as a teenager. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1978.