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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers

Posted on September 16, 2010
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Author(s): Richard N. Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 311 pages
List Price: $28.99

by Richard N. Bolles. Ten Speed Press. 2010. 311 pages. $18.99.

The job search as career coach is not a matter of looking for available positions; it is one of self-discovery and personal futuring.

What If European History Repeats Itself?

Posted on August 6, 2012
The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics
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Author(s): Daniel Cohen
Publisher: The MIT Press (2012)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages
List Price: $27.95

The globe’s steepest risk this century is the emerging higher standards of living and material consumption throughout the developing world, argues French economist Daniel Cohen in The Prosperity of Vice. China, India, and other once-impoverished nations are assuming the lifestyles of Western countries, and the globe cannot possibly sustain it.

What's Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science

Posted on November 23, 2009
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Author(s):
Publisher: Vintage (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 237 pages
List Price: $16.95

When the Oil Wells Run Dry

Posted on June 14, 2012
Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
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Author(s): Steve Hallett, John Wright
Publisher: Prometheus Books (2011)
Binding: Hardcover, 375 pages
List Price: $26.00

Petroleum enabled the world population to reach its present-day total of 7 billion, argue environmental scientist Steve Hallett and journalist John Wright. They both doubt that this population will sustain itself once oil supplies run low this century.

Whose Economy Is It, Anyway?

Posted on June 7, 2012
Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government- —and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
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Author(s): David Rothkopf
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2012)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages
List Price: $30.00

Public-sector versus private-sector interests—it’s a power struggle that has been waged through history, only to enter a whole new stage in recent years, according to Carnegie Endowment for International Peace scholar David Rothkopf.

Why We Cooperate

Posted on September 17, 2010
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Author(s): Michael Tomasello
Publisher: The MIT Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 232 pages
List Price: $14.95

by Michael Tomasello et al. MIT Press. 2009. 204 pages. $14.95.

In the next decade, research into human infants’ thought patterns might help answer millennia-old questions about human nature, speculate anthropologist Michael Tomasello and co-authors in Why We Cooperate.

Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century

Posted on September 10, 2010

Renowned twentieth-century experts made many educated guesses about what life in the early twenty-first century would be like, and many of those guesses turned out to be spectacularly wrong, notes freelance journalist Paul Milo in Your Flying Car Awaits.