Now offered to mass market, How to Make Love All the Timeteaches readers how to give and get the love they need, whetherthey are in a relationship or looking for one. Dr. DeAngelis is afrequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Hour Magazine, and TheSally Jesse Raphael Show.
Simon Kuper's "New York Times" bestseller "Soccernomics"pioneered a new way of looking at soccer through meticulousempirical analysis and incisive--and witty-- commentary. Kuper nowleaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul ofthe world's most popular sport in the new, extraordinarilyrevealing "Soccer Men." "Soccer Men" goes behind the scenes with soccer's greatestplayers and coaches. Inquiring into the genius and hubris of themodern game, Kuper details the lives of giants such as ArseneWenger, Jose Mourinho, Jorge Valdano, Lionel Messi, Kaka, andDidier Drogba, describing their upbringings, the soccer culturesthey grew up in, the way they play, and the baggage they bring totheir relationships at work. From one of the great sportswriters of our time, "Soccer Men" isa penetrating and surprising anatomy of the figures that definemodern soccer.
Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educationalsystem derives from its failure to supply students with atranslucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earliergenerations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" ofeconomic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment.What alternative strategies can we use to instill our children witha sense of global citizenship, healthy intellectual skepticism,respect of America's traditions, and appreciation of its diversity?In answering this question, The End of Education restoresmeaning and common sense to the arena in which they are mosturgently needed. "Informal and clear...Postman's ideas about education areappealingly fresh."--New York Times Book Review
From the best-selling author of "The Rise of the CreativeClass" comes a brilliant new book on the surprising importance ofplace, with advice on how to find the right place for you. It's amantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn'tmatter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in theAlps or a cottage in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valleystart-up.According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Globalizationis not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasinglyrelevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Where welive determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the peoplewe meet and the 'mating markets' in which we participate. Andeverything we think we know about cities and their economic rolesis up for grabs."Who's Your City?" is the first book to report onthe growing body of research on what qualities of cities and townsactually make people happy in their lives. Choosing a place to liveis as important as choosing a spouse or career, but until n
