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The Coat Route

The Coat Route

Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat

by Meg Lukens Noonan

Hardcover, 244 pages, Spiegel & Grau, $27, published July 16 2013 | purchase
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  • Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat
  • Meg Lukens Noonan

An account of international travels explores sites where the rare materials for a luxury hand-crafted coat are gathered and created, from a vicuna shearing festival in the Peruvian Andes to the elite silk boutiques of Florence, and witnesses the struggles of elite artisans against the forces of globalization and mass production.

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Deadly Spin

Deadly Spin

An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

by Wendell Potter

Hardcover, 277 pages, St Martins Pr, $10, published November 9 2010 | purchase
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  • An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
  • Wendell Potter

A former senior vice president at Cigna who testified before the Senate panel on health care reform explains how health insurers bankroll propaganda campaigns and lobbying efforts aimed solely protecting a company's profits and not the health of those insured.

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Sleepless in Hollywood

Sleepless in Hollywood

Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business

by Lynda Obst

Hardcover, 283 pages, Simon & Schuster, $26, published June 11 2013 | purchase
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  • Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business
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The veteran producer and author of Hello, He Lied explores how the collapse of the DVD market has triggered a Hollywood refocus on special effects and 3D over expensive actors and writers. Obst draws on insights from top entertainment minds to consider if an increasingly eccentric movie business is salvageable.

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Why the West Rules For Now

Why the West Rules For Now

The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

by Ian Morris

Paperback, 750 pages, St Martins Pr, $22, published October 25 2011 | purchase
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  • The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
  • Ian Morris

An archaeologist and historian offers his view on why the West has dominated the globe for the past two hundred years and whether or not its power will last, examining the past fifty thousand years of human history and predicting what the next one hundred years will bring.

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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely

Paperback, 285 pages, HarperCollins, $14.99, published June 18 2013 | purchase
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  • How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves
  • Dan Ariely

From Washington, D.C., to Wall Street, the classroom to the workplace, author and behavior economist Dan Ariely explores the question of dishonesty. He helps us understand why cheating is so prevalent and what we can do about it.

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The Billionaire's Apprentice

The Billionaire's Apprentice

The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund

by Anita Raghavan

Hardcover, 493 pages, Grand Central Pub, $29, published June 4 2013 | purchase
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  • The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund
  • Anita Raghavan

Depicts the collapse of a multi-billion dollar South Asian hedge fund due to insider trading and describes the case brought against them by the son of Indian immigrants who went up against the corporation's founder.

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Lean In

Lean In

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg

Hardcover, 228 pages, Random House Inc, $24.95, published March 11 2013 | purchase
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  • Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
  • Sheryl Sandberg

Facebook's chief operating officer shares provocative, anecdotal advice for women, urging them to take risks and seek new challenges to find work that they can love and engage in passionately.NPR Bestseller

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Eleven Rings

Eleven Rings

The Soul of Success

by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty

Hardcover, 356 pages, Penguin Group USA, $27.95, published May 21 2013 | purchase
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  • The Soul of Success
  • Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty

The head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers traces the life experiences and philosophies that inspired his championship-winning techniques. He cites his relationships with such players as Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Kobe Bryant, while describing how he forged successful teams by combining talents and promoting trust.NPR Bestseller

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Overdressed

Overdressed

The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

by Elizabeth L. Cline

Paperback, 258 pages, Penguin Group USA, $16, published August 27 2013 | purchase
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Low-priced clothing is what Elizabeth Cline calls "fast fashion": clothes made on the cheap for big chains like H&M or Zara. Customers wear them and discard them, buying new clothes to match new trends and dropping the old like they're disposable products. In Overdressed, Cline reports on how the globalization of the garment industry has led to cheap products in the U.S. but human rights violations and environmental damage elsewhere in the world. She also documents her transformation into a conscientious consumer — one who resoles shoes and shops for local, sustainable clothing.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast And Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

Paperback, 499 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $16, published April 2 2013 | purchase
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  • Daniel Kahneman

A psychologist draws on years of research to introduce his "machinery of the mind" model on human decision-making, revealing the faults and capabilities of intuitive versus logical thinking.NPR Bestseller

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Letters to a Young Scientist

Letters To A Young Scientist

by Edward O. Wilson

Hardcover, 244 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $21.95, published April 15 2013 | purchase
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  • Edward O. Wilson

A Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist weaves together letters that highlight his childhood, career and why he became a biologist, in the hopes of inspiring today's young people into similar pursuits.NPR Bestseller

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Uncommon Grounds

Uncommon Grounds

The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

by Mark Pendergrast

Paperback, 424 pages, Perseus Books Group, $19.95, published September 28 2010 | purchase
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  • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
  • Mark Pendergrast
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Without Reservations

Without Reservations

How a Family Root Beer Stand Grew Into a Global Hotel Company

by J. W., Jr. Marriott and Kathi Ann Brown

Hardcover, 191 pages, Atlasbooks Dist Serv, $19.99, published March 1 2013 | purchase
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Chronicles the history of leading hospitality company Marriott International while revealing J.W. Marriott, Jr.'s thoughts on his health, the impact of 9/11 on the industry, and the 2011 appointment of a CEO from outside of the family.

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The Alchemists

The Alchemists

Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

by Neil Irwin

Hardcover, 430 pages, Penguin Group USA, $29.95, published April 4 2013 | purchase
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  • Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
  • Neil Irwin

In May 2010, the world's most powerful central bankers met in Basel, Switzerland: European Central Bank's Jean-Claude Trichet, the Bank of England's Mervyn King and the Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke. A Washington Post columnist explores the role this meeting played in safeguarding the global economy.

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