“I think they’re absolutely right... what’s happening to themis reflective of what’s happening across this economy.”--PresidentBarack Obama on the workers at Republic Windows Doors December 5, 2008: It wasn’t supposed to work like this. Daysafter getting a $45 billion bailout from the U.S. government, Bankof America shut down a line of credit that kept Chicago’s RepublicWindows Doors factory operating. The bosses, who knew whatwas coming, had been sneaking machinery out in the middle of thenight. They closed the factory and sent the workers home. Thensomething surprising happened: Republic’s workers occupied thefactory and refused to leave. Kari Lydersen, an award-winning Washington Post reporter, tellsthe story of the factory takeover, elegantly transforming theworkers’ story into a parable of labor activism for the 21stcentury, one that concludes with a surprising and little-reportedvictory.
The author of Simple Spells for Love returns with everythingthe curious reader needs to know about the art of casting spellsand crafting charms to increase prosperity, enhance creativeprocesses, attract investors and partners, increase businessopportunities, and find the right career.
Nobel-Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argues thatbusiness leaders need to understand the differences betweeneconomic policy on the national and international scale andbusiness strategy on the organizational scale. Economists deal withthe closed system of a national economy, whereas executives live inthe open-system world of business. Moreover, economists know thatan economy must be run on the basis of general principles, butbusinesspeople are forever in search of the particular brilliantstrategy. Krugman's article serves to elucidate the world ofeconomics for businesspeople who are so close to it and yet arecontinually frustrated by what they see.
“Excellent. . . . A funny and moving memoir, it is one of thefrankest accounts of race relations in America in recent years.”–The New York Times Book Review“With clarity, courage, and a deepfamiliarity with his literary predecessors–from James Joyce toJames Baldwin–Clemens has written a book as riven, wounded, and yetsurprisingly durable as its subject.” –Jeffrey Eugenides, author ofMiddlesex“Compelling. . . . his relationship to Detroit is rich andcomplex, brimming with experiences both hurtful and redemptive.”–The Los Angeles Times“Marvelous. . . . Passionate, intelligent.”–Entertainment Weekly
Old Europe’s new crisis. Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. Butlately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes anddemonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamiccells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even thepolice won’t enter them. In Spain, a terrorist attack promptsinstant capitulation to the terrorists’ demands. In France, thesuburbs go up in flames every night. In Holland, politicians andartists are murdered for speaking frankly about Islamicimmigration. This isn’t the Europe we thought we knew. What’s going on overthere? Traveling overland from London to Istanbul, journalist ClaireBerlinski shows why the Continent has lately appeared sobewildering—and often so thoroughly obnoxious—to Americans.Speaking to Muslim immigrants, German rock stars, French cops, andItalian women who have better things to do than have children, shefinds that Europe is still, despite everything, in the grip of thesame old
