The Power Of Creative Destruction

Steven D. Levitt / Stephen J. Dubner

The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a beautiful 20th anniversary edition featuring a new foreword Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to...

John Cassidy

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. Capitalism has long been understood as a driving force behind the biggest political, economic, and social dislocations of our time. But in this sweeping, kaleidoscopic history of the economic system th...

Ian Kumekawa

The rise of globalization and financialization as seen from a barge—one Swedish barge, to be exact, built in 1979What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to...

Faiz Siddiqui

The rise, fall, and revival of the Caesar of Silicon Valley. Elon Musk has cast himself as the savior of humanity, an altruistic force whose fortune is tied to noble pursuits from halting our dependence on fossil fuels to colonizing Mars. Once frequently heralded as a modern-day Edison, Musk has taken up a new place in the public consciousness with his growing desire to disrupt...

Gary Rivlin

A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work. Artificial Intelligence has been "just around the corner" for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential. But now, with the emergence and growing u...

Banerjee, Abhijit / Duflo, Esther

In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a "rich and humane" (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually live Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations but pay for unnecessary drugs? Why do children fro...

Varios Autores

¡Más de 100 enigmas por resolver, solo para los detectives más ingeniosos!Un hacker anda suelto y ¡pretende hacerse con el control de todo internet! Es hora de poner a prueba tus habilidades y demostrar tus dotes de agente secreto para resolver todos los enigmas de esta misión secreta ¡y atrapar al hacker antes de que sea demasiado tarde!En este libro encontrarás más de 100 eni...

Varios Autores

Cuando tienes talento, ¡solo necesitas la oportunidad para demostrarlo!A Will Harris le encanta el rugebol y sueña con llegar a ser jugador profesional algún día. Pero, por ahora, los animales más grandes no dejan que alguien tan pequeño como él entre en la cancha. No puede jugar igual que los grandes, pero si aprende a sacar partido de sus puntos fuertes, podría cambiar el jue...

Varios Autores

Bestiario del miedo es una antología fascinante y feroz de cuentos de terror anglosajones de los siglos XIX y XX, donde los animales -naturales o sobrenaturales- se convierten en protagonistas del espanto. Desde gatos vengativos hasta criaturas marinas abisales, pasando por leyendas indígenas y objetos malditos, esta colección reúne a maestros del género como Edgar Allan Poe, B...

Varios Autores

Desde el principio de los tiempos el mar ha fascinado al ser humano ya fuese como promesa de aventura, puerto de llegada o de huída, frontera por donde aparecen los barcos de guerra, como entretenimiento o fuente de comida, como anhelo o paisaje cotidiano, y también como un espejo donde contemplar la belleza. No se conoce de un solo pueblo ni de un siglo que no le haya escrito ...

Varios Autores

¿Es posible un amor que dure para siempre? En un mundo de relaciones frágiles y promesas que se rompen con facilidad, este libro responde al deseo profundo de amar sin miedo y para toda la vida. Inspirado en la llamada a un verdadero catecumenado matrimonial, este libro es una guía imprescindible para quienes se preparan para el sacramento del matrimonio. No se trata de unas po...

Varios Autores

Celebrate Jane Austen's classic novels with this short story anthology starring forgotten characters as they experience their own happy endings. In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together with wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen's minor characters. Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone from Pr...