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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
By Porchlight
In this midsummer's month we decided to run a few of the classic Jack Covert Selects. The books discussed in these reviews have emerged as staples in contemporary business thought literature. Each has been a consistent bestseller for our company, and all regularly appear on bestseller lists throughout the country.
July 13, 2007
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart by Ian Ayres, Bantam, 272 pages, $25. 00 Hardcover, August 2007, ISBN 9780553805406 Computer technology has had an undeniable impact on our decision-making. Netflix can recommend a movie and eHarmony will recommend a mate.
August 24, 2007
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future by Iain Carlson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Twelve, 336 pages, $27. 99 Hardcover, October 2007, ISBN 9780446580045 "The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age could well end long before the world runs out of oil. " That statement pretty much sums up the argument made in Zoom, and ironically, it was not made by an environmentalist, but by former Saudi oil minister Sheik Yamani.
November 16, 2007
The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking by Roger Martin, Harvard Business School Press, 224 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, December 2007, ISBN 9781422118924 Most leadership books teach readers how to become a better strategist or a successful manager or how to get things done. "In recent years, the dominant question addressed for the would-be leader is 'What should I do?
December 14, 2007
Blog / Staff Picks
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
New business books, recently released and upcoming, written by women.
September 09, 2017
Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers have written a speedy compendium of sports stories and human behavioral tendencies that serves up social science insight with agility and good humor.
February 11, 2016
Book Review by Porchlight
Mark Vanhoenacker's new book Skyfaring is a beautifully constructed, exquisitely written love letter to flying.
June 03, 2015
Our staff picks summer reading—what they recommend, what they are looking forward to, and what they just cleared their decks to pay attention to.
June 23, 2015
Jonathan Galassi, the President of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, gives us a beautiful tale of publishing and poetry, and the important difference between the two.
July 14, 2015
Michael Wolff's new book details why the television industry, despite presentation changes, still reigns supreme.
July 21, 2015
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