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The Gridlock Economy
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Michael Heller
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HOW TOO MUCH OWNERSHIP WRECKS MARKETS, STOPS INNOVATION, AND COSTS LIVES
Today's leading edge of innovation - in high tech, biomedicine, music, film, real estate - requires the assembly of separately owned resources. But gridlock is blocking economic growth all along the wealth creation frontier.
Micheal Heller takes readers on a lively tour of gridlock battlegrounds. He zips from medieval robber barons to modern-day broadcast spectrum squatters; from Mississippi courts selling African-American family farms to troubling New York City land confiscations; and from Chesapeake Bay oyster pirates to today’s gene patent and music mash-up outlaws. Each tale offers insights into how to spot gridlock in operation and how we can overcome it.
The Gridlock Economy is a startling, accessible biography of an idea. We can unlock the grid; this book shows us where to start ...
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Good books about things that matter.
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Entertaining & informative books for the way you live.
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What Happened
Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
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Scott McClellan
With unprecedented candor, one of George W. Bush’s closest aides takes readers behind the scenes of the Bush presidency, and what exactly happened to take it off course
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Escape from the Deep
A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
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Alex Kershaw
The adrenaline-soaked story of nine men who fought the Japanese from America’s deadliest submarine, survived its sinking, and endured months of brutal torture in captivity
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A unique collaboration between publisher and author.
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Hamburger America
One Man's Cross-Country Odyssey to Find the Best Burgers in the Nation
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George Motz
A State-by-State Guide to 100 Great Burger Joints
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Domestic Affairs
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Eileen Goudge
From the bestselling author of Woman in Red comes a moving story in which an unlikely twist of fate has the potential to change the lives of three women in ways they never could have imagined
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Groundbreaking books. By women. For women.
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Rick Steves' Portugal
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to visit Lisbon, the Algarve, Salema, Évora, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos? With Rick Steves' Portugal, travelers can experience the best of
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The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide
Field-tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane and Connected When Youre Raising Kids at Home
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Melissa Stanton
Melissa Stanton's The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide is an all-encompassing, truth-telling how-to book that addresses the many practical and psychological issues facing stay-at-home moms today. How do
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Distinguished publisher of college textbooks.
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Party Crashing
How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence
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Keli Goff
One of the biggest young talents in Democratic politics takes on a subject she knows from the inside: why the new generation of black voters is leaving the Democratic Party
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The Lesbian and Gay Movements
Assimilation or Liberation?
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Craig A. Rimmerman
Throughout their relatively short history, the lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist strategies. This
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