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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Matt Murphy |Trevor Noah |Jack Weatherford |Michael Lewis
Join Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell as they bypass pleasantries and promotional banter to deliver raw, unfiltered conversations with some of today’s most influential figures.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
audible.com | Sun Tzu |Jack Weatherford |Bill Bryson |Scott Lewis
From twenty-two-year naval and marine veteran Montel Williams comes a thrilling history of how one World War II aircraft carrier’s crew defied all odds, redefining the very meaning of what it means to struggle, persevere and survive. 1944. The USS Intrepid set sail on its first combat voyage, only to be struck by a Japanese torpedo plane, jamming its rudder at a forty-five-degree angle. It could only sail in circles amid treacherous waters.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
audible.com | Matti Friedman |Sun Tzu |Jack Weatherford |Scott Lewis
A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War Narrated by: Matti Friedman Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
laphamsquarterly.org | Edward Castronova |Jack Weatherford |Alex Cuadros
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. —Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you’re bourgeois, money is it. It’s all the questions and all the answers. Ain’t no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn’t money, it isn’t nothing.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Benjamin Nathans |Robert Greene |Jack Weatherford
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia).
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Daisy Dunn |Jack Weatherford |Roberto Calasso |Tim Parks
“The Mongols swept across the globe as conquerors,” writes the appreciative pop anthropologist-historian Weatherford (The History of Money, 1997, etc.), “but also as civilization’s unrivaled cultural carriers.” No business-secrets fluffery here, though Weatherford does credit Genghis Khan and company for seeking “not merely to conquer the world but to impose a global order based on free trade, a single international law, and a universal alphabet with which to write all the languages of the...
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Timothy C. Winegard |Jack Weatherford |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
Sometimes weighed down by too-abundant detail, but a thorough, comprehensive look at the horse across time and space. Everything you ever wanted to know about the genus Equus.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Joshua Buhs |Walter Isaacson |Jack Weatherford
Despite extensive research, this book is mainly for aficionados of the weird. An offbeat investigation of how the source code for conspiracy theories was written long ago. Charles Fort (1874-1932) is not a household name today, but his influence reaches deep into American life. In the early years of the 20th century, Fort began to collect newspaper articles about odd things or “anomalous reports”—e.g., rains of fish or stones, strange lights in the sky, contact with the dead, etc.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kelly Clancy |Jack Weatherford |Walter Isaacson
A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries. An intriguing book that shows how games are much more than just diverting fun. Clancy is a neuroscientist and physicist whose research focuses on the mechanics of human intelligence, and she has worked with the AI lab DeepMind. Consequently, she brings an interesting perspective to this study on games, game theory, and the meaning of games.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | DW Gibson |Jack Weatherford
A readable, provocative study of globalism and anti-globalism in conflict. A fly-on-the-wall history of a fateful gathering of capitalist trade ministers in 1999. What is the World Trade Organization? By some lights, it’s a group that makes sure that international business plays by the rules. By others, it’s a means by which the major capitalist powers keep the developing world on a string.
