Presents an interview with Chinua Achebe made by Kay Bonetti during the author's residence at the University of Mass.

• Course lectures:
• 1. The business of America
• 2. John Jacob Astor: from furs to real estate
• 3. Cyrus McCormick and the business of agriculture
• 4. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould: speculating on America
• 5. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: an obsession for efficiency
• 6. J.P. Morgan: the triumph of the money man
• 7. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan: capturing the dream
• 8. Walt Disney: the business of fantasy
• 9. Robert Woodruff: as American as Coke --

• 10. Ray Kroc: the industrialization of eating
• 11. Sam Walton: will the real Uncle Sam please stand up?
• 12. Mary Kay Ash: what do women want?
• 13. Andrew Grove and Bill Gates: Intel (and Microsoft) inside
• 14. The past and future of American business.

A series of fourteen lectures reviewing core principles of American economic philosophy through the lives of American entrepreneurs from John Jacob Astor to Andrew Grove and Bill Gates.

Gwendolyn Brooks reads and explains her poetry; she also talks about her life, writing poetry and winning the Pulitzer Prize.

• Disc
• 1. When the good road is closed, the bad road will never be open
• Disc
• 2. I wanna pour gas on you!
• Disc
• 3. Ben Webster is Jewish
• Disc
• 4. I wouldn't work this shithouse town for fifteen million dollars
• Disc
• 5. You better bring your toothbrush
• Disc
• 6. Sign a release? I didn't do my fag at the ballgame bit yet.

Complilation on six sound discs with accompanying book, by the same title, of various Lenny Bruce performances. A more detailed description of disc contents can be found on p. 71-76 in book.

• La soledad
• La muerte de Tello
• Claudia.

Presents the Nicaraguan guerrilla commander, Omar Cabezas, reading three selections from his autobiography, La montaña es algo más que una inmensa estepa verde.

The author talks about the genesis, intent, and development of his three novels and his long struggle to write the story of his year in Vietnam which eventually was published as A rumor of war. Mr. Caputo also talks about the war novel genre and the literature of Vietnam.

• Introduction: Are you done taking sh*t?
• Speaking the unspeakable
• You can't break a badass
• Don't rob my dream!
• You have the right
• "Asking for it"
• Forced into silence
• Men who defend
• Enough already!
• Our children are watching
• Be fierce
• Join me.

The star news anchor recalls her career-risking decision to speak out against sexual harassment in the workplace, shares the stories of women who have faced similar challenges, and outlines recommendations from lawyers, psychologists, and other professionals on how to resist injustice.
"When star news anchor, journalist, mother of two, and former Miss America Gretchen Carlson spoke up about sexual harassment in the workplace, she had no idea what lay ahead. But now, inspired by her actions, the floodgates have opened and thousands of women are joining her to Be Fierce and reclaim their power against any abuse or injustice. In BE FIERCE, Gretchen shares her own experiences, as well as powerful and moving stories from women in many different careers and fields who decided they too weren't ready to shut up and sit down. Gretchen became a voice for the voiceless. In this revealing and timely book, Gretchen shares her views on what women can do to empower and protect themselves in the workplace or on a college campus, what to say when someone makes suggestive remarks, how an employer's Human Resources department may not always be your friend, and how forced arbitration clauses in work contracts often serve to protect companies rather than employees. Her groundbreaking message encourages women to stand up and speak up in every aspect of their lives. Gretchen also discusses why this fight will require both women and men working together to ensure that our daughters and sons will have a brighter future. BE FIERCE is a cultural movement and a motivating testament to what we can accomplish if we collectively decide to become warriors in the path for a better future. The time is now. Take back your life, your career, and your dignity."--Jacket.

"When Yahoo hired star Google executive Marissa Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California's headquarters. On them, there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But just more than a year later--on November 4, 2013--Mayer sat in front those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo's campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair wet, and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posed questions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in the room - and behind it, a question: Was Mayer actually going to be able to do this thing? Nicholas Carlson's fast-paced narrative is the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Mayer's controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an Internet icon. "-- Provided by publisher.
"A page-turning, warts-and-all narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38"-- Provided by publisher.

• King of tenors, Enrico Caruso (1:05)
• Il trovatore. Di quella pira / Giuseppe Verdi (1:44)
• Family background (6:34)
• Core'ngrato / Cordiferro-Cardillo (4:31)
• Early singing lessons (2:51)
• Cavalleria rusticana. Siciliana / Pietro Mascagni (2:12)
• Caruso's first operatic roles (7:06)
• Fenesta che lucive / Teodoro Cottrau (3:41)
• More auditions and Enrico meets Puccini (3:06)
• La bohème. Che gelida manina (part 2) / Giacomo Puccini (2:25)
• Enrico and Ada (3:14)
• Fedora. Amor ti vieta / Umberto Giordano (1:59)
• 1898, St. Petersburg (1:08)
• Aïda. Celeste Aïda / G. Verdi (3:24)
• The "monarch-in-waiting" (2:50)
• Tosca. E lucevan le stelle / G. Puccini (2:42)
• December 1990, debut at La Scala (2:01)
• L'elisir damore. Una furtiva lagrima / Gaetano Donizetti (4:17)
• Humiliation in Naples (3:11)
• Germania. Studenti, udite / Alberto Franchetti (3:04)
• 1900, Gaisberg records Caruso (3:04)
• Rigoletto. Questa o quella / G. Verdi (2:20)
• 1902, Covent Garden debut with Nelly Melba (4:11)
• Tarantella sincera / Vincenzo de Cescenzo (3:40)
• 1903, Caruso joins the New York Metropolitan Opera (2:26)
• Rigoletto (1904 version). La donna e mobile / G. Verdi (2:08)
• The "King" is crowned (3:16)
• Lucia di Lammermoor. Chi mi frena in tal momento? / G. Donizetti (4:19)
• 1904-6, international touring (6:05)
• Carmen. La fleur que tu m'avais jetée / George Bizet (3:53)
• An earthquake and a brush with the press (9:04)
• La bohème. Addio, dolce svegliare alla mattina / G. Puccini (3:25)
• 1906, La bohème at the Met (1:13)
• Madama Butterfly. Non ve l'avevo detto? / G. Puccini (3:58)
• Caruso's health (4:25)
• Il trovatore. Di quella pira / G. Verdi (1:44)
• 1908, family upsets (3:36)
• Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Ruggiero Leoncavallo (3:20)
• Family and health problems (4:27)
• The 1909-10 season at the Met (:38)
• La giaconda. Cielo e mar! / Amilcare Ponchielli (2:49)
• Mafia interest and a recording contract (4:23)
• Tosca. Recondita armonia / G. Puccini (2:32)
• Ill health (7:37)
• 1912-13, back at the Met (1:35)
• La bohème. O soave fanciulla / G. Puccini (3:30)
• 1913-14, Covent Garden, Tosca and Aïda (3:27)
• Un ballo in maschera. Di' tu se fedele / G. Verdi (3:04)
• The war years (2:19)
• Samson et Dalila. Vois ma misère / Camille Saint-Saëns (4:37)
• Fund-raising concerts (6:43)
• La danza / Gioacchino Rossini (3:26)
• Caruso's daily routine (5:14)
• Caruso's private life (4:32)
• Your eyes have told me what I did not know / Geoffrey O'Hara (2:06)
• 1918-20, marriage to Dorothy Park Benjamin (1:09)
• La forza del destino. Solenne in quest'ora / G. Verdi (4:23)
• Dorothy in Italy ; Caruso on tour (7:45)
• La juive. Rachel! quand du seigneur / F. Halévy (4:34)
• 1920, Cuba (6:11)
• 1920-21, injury and worsening health (8:12)
• Otello. Oh! mostruosa colpa! / G. Verdi (4:42)
• Goodbye to the Met ; Caruso retires to Naples (1:25)
• Neapolitan song "Addio a Napoli" / T. Cottrau (3:23)
• The death of Caruso (6:29)
• Rigoletto (1908 version). La donna e mobile / G. Verdi (2:17).

Legendary talk show host Dick Cavett chronicles some of the most interesting moments from his life. From confronting Richard Nixon to escapades with the likes of Bette Davis, John Updike, and William F. Buckley.

Following a brief introduction to his life and work, author Crews reads episodes, including the burning accident and the hog butchering incident, from his book, A childhood, the biography of a place, which is about growing up in Bacon County, Ga., during the depression.

The story of John Draper, master hacker, better known as Captain Crunch, as he relives his life as one of the legendary master hackers.

• Ansela van de Caab / Victor Fredericks
• Die ommeswaai / Charles Louw
• Ansela van de Caab / Victor Fredericks
• Die dooplied / Victor Fredericks
• Jou losie moes ons agterlaat / Victor Fredericks
• Geen slawe nie! / Victor Fredericks
• Stille nacht, heilige nacht (Tradisioneel)
• Tula, tula (Tradisioneel)
• Ansela van de Caab / Victor Fredericks .

A former CEO, president, and chairperson of Hewlett-Packard traces her educational upsets before entering the business world, her struggles as a businesswoman in a male-dominated arena, her role in HP's controversial merger, and her public firing.

• David and Goliath
• Noah.
• Part 1
• David and the king
• Noah.
• Part 2
• Daniel
• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Chip Gaines is well known as a TV star (HGTV's Fixer Upper), renovation expert, husband to Joanna, and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn't quite work out as planned. Whether it was buying a neighborhood laundromat or talking a bank into a loan for some equipment to start a lawn-mowing service, Chip always knew that the most important thing was to take that first step. We walk alongside him as he relives some of his craziest antics and the lessons learned along the way. His mentors taught him to never give up and his family showed him what it meant to always have a positive attitude despite your circumstances. Throw in a natural daredevil personality and a willingness to do (or eat!) just about anything, and you have the life and daily activity of Chip Gaines.

The husband-and-wife stars of the popular "Fixer Upper" television program share the story of their life together, from how they met in Waco, Texas, to their success as entrepreneurs and television personalities.

Martin Garbus discusses his new book, Courting disaster : the Rehnquist court and the unmaking of American law. He also recounts his experiences representing the Gone With the Wind heirs in the Wind Done Gone litigation and representing the defendants in district court in the Universal v. Reimerdes (a.k.a. the NY DVD case) challenging the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

• Prologue: The garden of forking paths
• Part 1: Disturbing the peace. The undertakers of capitalism
• The human attention exchange
• Knowing how to swim
• Abandoning the shipwreck
• Part 2: Pseudorandomness. Let me see your war face
• Like marriage, but without the fucking
• Speed is a feature
• D-Day
• A conclave of angels
• The hill of sand
• Turning and turning in the widening gyre
• ¡No pasarán!
• The dog shit sandwich
• Victory
• Launching!
• Dates @Twitter
• Acquisition chicken
• Getting liked
• Getting poked
• The various futures of the forking paths
• Retweets are not endorsements
• The dotted line
• Endgame
• Part 3: Move fast and break things. Boot camp
• Product masseur
• Google delenda est
• Leaping headlong
• One shot, one kill
• Twice bitten, thrice shy
• Ads five-oh
• The narcissism of privacy
• Are we savages or what?
• O Death
• The barbaric yawn
• Going public
• When the flying saucers fail to appear
• Monetizing the tumor
• The great awakening
• Barbarians at the gates
• IPA> IPO
• Initial public offering: a reevaluation
• Flash boys
• Full frontal Facebook
• Microsoft shrugged
• Ad majorem Facebook gloriam
• Adiós, Facebook
• Pandemonium lost
• Epilogue: Man plans and God laughs.

"The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of early social media and online marketing, sharing critical insights into how they are shaping today's world."--NoveList.

After a biographical introduction, mystery writer Joe Gores talks about his days as a working detective and the mystique of Dashiell Hammett. He discusses the writing he did for such television shows as Mike Hammer and Kojak. He also explains the how to's of writing mysteries for TV and film.

The greatest judge never to be appointed to the Supreme Court, Learned Hand embodied the notion of human liberty. A questioning man, Hand was a liberal skeptic, "never too sure he was right." An advocate of judicial restraint, Hand nevertheless ruled for free speech in his obscenity decisions and spoke out against McCarthy. His rulings came to be a rich part of America's story.

• [Part 1]. Pure
• Numb
• Poison
• Family
• Getting pure
• Slide
• "Wishy-washy, twinkly-twinkly piano, soft-rock American garbage"
• Lord Scott Harrison
• Pursuit
• Captured
• Escape
• Mercy
• [Part 2]. Focus on the hope
• A new day
• Patient number one
• Ship time
• Homesick
• "Actions, not words"
• "They drink this?"
• {Part 3]. Mercy.
• Better to beg --Africa time
• No strings attached
• Nonprofits for dummies
• Charity: water
• Three pillars
• True believers
• Vik
• Born in September
• Oblivious
• Running on empty
• [Part 3}. Actions, not words
• Radical transparency
• Do something
• Totally undisciplined
• Do better
• Rachel's gift
• Dirty brown laundry
• With no one looking over your shoulder
• Just keep going
• All the sound bites are true
• Chief water boy
• The spring
• Someone like you
• You are invited.

At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze, and models. But 10 years in, desperately unhappy and morally bankrupt, he asked himself, "What would the exact opposite of my life look like?" Walking away from everything, Harrison spent the next 16 months on a hospital ship in West Africa and discovered his true calling. In 2006, with no money and less than no experience, Harrison founded charity: water. Today, his organization has raised over $300 million to bring clean drinking water to more than 8.2 million people around the globe. Now Harrison recounts the twists and turns that built charity: water into one of the most trusted and admired nonprofits in the world. Renowned for its 100% donation model, bold storytelling, imaginative branding, and radical commitment to transparency, charity: water has disrupted how social entrepreneurs work while inspiring millions of people to join its mission of bringing clean water to everyone on the planet within our lifetime. Harrison outlines how to build a better charity, a better business, and a better life -- proving it's never too late to make a change.

This is the true story of a young girl on the brink of womanhood--living through the Vietnam War and dealing with death, rape, and her struggle with long-standing loyalties and the traditions of her ancestors.
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Presents an interview with Josephine Humphreys made by Kay Bonetti. Josephine Humphreys talks about her life and work.

"Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen"-- Provided by publisher.

"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both. Advance praise for When Breath Becomes Air "Rattling, heartbreaking, and ultimately beautiful, the too-young Dr. Kalanithi's memoir is
"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated. With incredible literary quality, philosophical acuity, and medical authority, When Breath Becomes Air approaches the questions raised by facing mortality from the dual perspective of the neurosurgeon who spent a decade meeting patients in the twilight between life and death, and the terminally ill patient who suddenly found himself living in that liminality. At the base of Paul's inquiry are essential questions, such as: What makes life worth living in the face of death? What happens when the future, instead of being a ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present? When faced with a terminal diagnosis, what does it mean to have a child, to nuture a new life as another one fades away? As Paul wrote, "Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn't really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live." Paul Kalanithi passed away in March 2015, while working on this book"-- Provided by publisher.
proof that the dying are the ones who have the most to teach us about life."--Atul Gawande "Thanks to When Breath Becomes Air, those of us who never met Paul Kalanithi will both mourn his death and benefit from his life. This is one of a handful of books I consider to be a universal donor--I would recommend it to anyone, everyone."--Ann Patchett"-- Provided by publisher.

After an introduction to her life and work, author Kingston discusses the structures and manner of compositions in her works The woman warrior and China men. She reveals how each work portrays the Chinese-American experience with a poetic blend of myth, legend, oral history, factual narrative, fiction, memoir, and autobiography.

"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business--a business that would be dynamic, different. Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream--along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything"-- Provided by publisher.
"Young, searching, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year, 1963. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In this Age of Startups, Knight's Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is more than a logo. A symbol of grace and greatness, it's one of the few icons instantly recognized in every corner of the world. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always been a mystery. Now, for the first time ever, in a memoir that's candid, humble, startling, funny, and beautifully crafted, he tells his story at last. He begins with his crossroads moment: twenty-four years old, backpacking around the world, wrestling with life's Great Questions, he decides the unconventional path is the only one for him. Rather than work for a big corporation, he will create something all his own, something new, dynamic, different. Knight details the many terrifying risks he encountered along the way, the crushing setbacks, the ruthless competitors, the countless doubters and haters and hostile bankers--as well as his many thrilling triumphs and narrow escapes. Above all, he recalls the foundational relationships that formed the heart and soul of Nike, with his former track coach, the irascible and charismatic Bill Bowerman, and with his first employees, a ragtag group of misfits and savants who quickly became a band of swoosh-crazed brothers. Together, harnessing the electrifying power of a bold vision and a shared belief in the redemptive, transformative power of sport, they created a brand, and a culture, that changed everything"-- Provided by publisher.

A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.

• Introduction
• The Proteus problem. Sons of Proteus ; Clockwork ; From complicated to complex ; Doing the right thing
• From many, one. From command to team ; Team of teams
• Sharing. Seeing the system ; Brains out of the footlocker ; Beating the prisoner's dilemma
• Letting go. Hands off ; Leading like a gardener
• Looking ahead. Symmetries.

As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technology, Al Qaeda was outmaneuvering America's most elite warriors. McChrystal came to realize that today's faster, more interdependent world had overwhelmed the conventional, top-down hierarchy of the U.S. military. Al Qaeda had seen the future: a decentralized network that could move quickly and strike ruthlessly. To defeat such an enemy, JSOC would have to discard a century of management wisdom, and pivot from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. Under McChrystal's leadership, JSOC remade itself, in the midst of a grueling war, into something entirely new: a network that combined robust centralized communication with decentralized managerial authority. As a result, they beat back Al Qaeda. In this book, McChrystal shows not only how the military made that transition, but also how similar shifts are possible in all organizations, from large companies to startups to charities to governments. In a turbulent world, the best organizations think and act like a team of teams, embracing small groups that combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share what they've learned. Drawing on a wealth of evidence from his military career, the private sector, and sources as diverse as hospital emergency rooms and NASA's space program, McChrystal frames the existential challenge facing today's organizations, and proposes a compelling, effective solution.

• Foreword / by Bill Gates
• From Hyderabad to Redmond: how Karl Marx, a Sanskrit scholar, and a cricket hero shaped my boyhood
• Learning to lead: seeing the Cloud through our Windows
• New mission, new momentum: rediscovering the soul of Microsoft
• A cultural renaissance: from know-it-alls to learn-it-alls
• Friends or frenemies?: build partnerships before you need them
• Beyond the Cloud: three shifts: mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing
• The trust equation: timeless values in the digital age: privacy, security, and free speech
• The future of humans and machines: toward an ethical framework for AI design
• Restoring economic growth for everyone: the role of companies in a global society.

Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation and offers his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies. He examines how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform, how they must 'hit refresh' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. Yet he feels strongly that one of our essential qualities -- empathy -- will become ever more valuable. Satya Nadella also discusses his childhood in India and how he learned to lead along the way. He shares his meditations as sitting CEO -- one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He explains how the company rediscovered its soul -- transforming everything from its culture to its business partnerships to the fiercely competitive landscape of the industry itself. Nadella concludes by introducing an equation to restore digital trust, ethical design principles, and economic growth for everyone.

Presents an interview with Gloria Naylor made by Kay Bonetti. Gloria Naylor talks about her life and her work.

The urbane British actor looks back on his life, from the warm-hearted streetwalker who was his first love, to the ups and downs of his Hollywood years. His reminiscences glitter with portraits of the movie greats--producers Goldwyn and Zanuck, and stars like Olivier, Errol Flynn, and Vivien Leigh. Read by David Niven.
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An intimate memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.

• Introduction: The new confessions
• Part I. 1963-1971
• Dirty business
• An economic hit man is born
• "In for life"
• Indonesia : lessons for an EHM
• Saving a country from communism
• Selling my soul
• Part II. 1971-1975
• My role as inquisitor
• Civilization on trial
• Opportunity of a lifetime
• Panama's president and hero
• Pirates in the Canal Zone
• Soldiers and prostitutes
• Conversations with the general
• Entering a new and sinister period in economic history
• The Saudi Arabian money-laundering affair
• Pimping, and financing Osama bin Laden
• Part III. 1975-1981
• Panama Canal negotiations and Graham Greene
• Iran's king of kings
• Confessions of a tortured man
• The fall of a king
• Colombia : keystone of Latin America
• American republic versus global empire
• The deceptive résumé
• Ecuador's president battles big oil
• I quit
• Part IV. 1981-2004
• Ecuador's presidential death
• Panama : another presidential death
• My energy company, Enron, and George W. Bush
• I take a bribe
• The United States invades Panama
• An EHM failure in Iraq
• September 11 and its aftermath for me, personally
• Venezuela : saved by Saddam
• Part V. 2004-today
• Conspiracy : was I poisoned?
• A jackal speaks : the Seychelles conspiracy
• Ecuador rebels
• Honduras : the CIA strikes
• Your friendly banker as EHM
• Vietnam : lessons in a prison
• Istanbul : tools of modern empire
• A coup against Fundacion Pachamama
• Another EHM banking scandal
• Who are today's economic hit men?
• Who are today's jackals?
• Lessons for China
• What you can do
• Things to do
• Documentation of EHM activity from 2004 to 2015
• John Perkins personal history.

"Featuring 12 explosive new chapters, this new edition of the New York Times bestseller brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U. S.--but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back"--Provided by publisher.