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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.

Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t by Robert G. Kaiser

On May 11, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and doesn’t—that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008. Act of Congress, as entertaining as it is enlightening, is an indispensable guide to a vital piece of our political system desperately in need of reform.

The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line by Jennifer Margulis

On May 11, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, by Editor

An illuminating combination of meticulous research and in-depth interviews with parents, doctors, midwives, nurses, health care administrators, and scientists, Margulis’s impassioned and eloquent critique is shocking, groundbreaking, and revelatory. The Business of Baby arms parents with the information they need to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of their infants.

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 New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

On April 24, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.

Top 5 Priorities For Running Your ecommerce Website

On April 18, 2013, in Blogging, Blogging Aspects, Professional Blogging, by Editor

So you are excited. You have just started your new ecommerce website, and you are anxiously awaiting the first orders. Or, better, you have been waiting anxiously for orders for weeks and not much has happened. Been there, done that, didn’t like it…

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.

Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t by Robert G. Kaiser

The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line by Jennifer Margulis

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

Top 5 Priorities For Running Your ecommerce Website

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

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