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Straight Flush, The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire, A Fast-Paced and Wildly Chaotic Account by Ben Mezrich

On May 23, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, by Editor

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the sources for the films The Social Network and 21—comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colossus based out of the hedonistic paradise of Costa Rica.

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City by Robin Nagle

On May 11, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle introduces us to the men and women of New York City’s Department of Sanitation and makes clear why this small army of uniformed workers is the most important labor force on the streets. Throughout, Nagle reveals the many unexpected ways in which sanitation workers stand between our seemingly well-ordered lives and the sea of refuse that would otherwise overwhelm us.

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet and the Spam Business by Finn Brunton

On May 7, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

Spam shows us how technologies, from email to search engines, are transformed by unintended consequences and adaptations, and how online communities develop and invent governance for themselves.

Who Owns the Future? Arguments by the Prophet of Silicon Valley Jaron Lanier

On May 5, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Technology, by Editor

For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology is transforming our culture. Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin

On April 9, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, by Editor

Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen. Irwin covered the Fed and other central banks from the earliest days of the crisis for the Washington Post, enjoying privileged access to leading central bankers and people close to them.

Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity by Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn

On April 9, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, by Editor

For decades, Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn have championed simplicity as a competitive advantage and a consumer right. In SIMPLE, the culmination of their work together, Siegel and Etzkorn show us how having empathy, striving for clarity, and distilling your message can reduce the distance between company and customer, hospital and patient, government and citizen-and increase your bottom line.

Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made by Charles V. Bagli

On April 4, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, by Editor

In just over three years, real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investors’ dollars on a single deal. The New York Times reporter who first broke the story of the sale of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village takes readers inside the most spectacular failure in real estate history, using this single deal as a lens to see how and why the real estate crisis happened.

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman

On April 1, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state—especially the Federal Reserve—has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts.

The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

On March 18, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, by Editor

What is wrong with today’s banking system? The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth. The Bankers’ New Clothes examines this claim and the narratives used by bankers, politicians, and regulators to rationalize the lack of reform, exposing them as invalid.

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, A Shocking Manifesto by Michael Moss

On March 16, 2013, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin

Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made by Charles V. Bagli

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman

The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

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