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Publisher Description This program is read by the authors, with Paul Giamatti, and includes sections recorded in front of a live audience.The highly anticipated first boo...

Description In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work, in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why ...

Description With unmatched suspense and emotional insight, Harlan Coben explores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town in this powerful new thriller. Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brot...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIs he a little bored with his iPhone? Tech.Science.Society/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I rather thought that tech CEOs all go around being nice to each other in public and only offering criticisms of other CEOs' companies through Masonic-like winks, nods and code words.I was moved, therefore, on Saturday night when I saw splendidly forthright Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff retweet this: "Crazy seeing Apple trying to catch Samsung. Battery life, waterproofing, blue color, front led light, &...

Shooting-star superfans are in for a special treat this month as the Perseid meteor shower -- one of the best aual opportunities to spot bright, fast bits of space rock buing up in the night sky -- is expected to be twice as nice as normal."Forecasters are predicting a Perseid outburst this year with double normal rates on the night of August 11-12," Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office said in a statement. "Under perfect conditions, rates could soar to 200 meteors per hour."You might think of the Perseids as arriving at Earth every August, but really we're the ones visiting their home turf each year. Our planet ventures through trails of debris left over from comet Swift-Tuttl...

When diversity proponents point to the low percentage of women in places like boardrooms, a common response is that qualified candidates are few and far between.Profiles like these are what theBoardList uses to match companies up with qualified female directors. theBoardList Take, for instance, a survey of CEOs conducted by theBoardList, which is a marketplace of sorts for coecting tech companies with qualified female directors. Only half felt there is enough female talent available, and it's estimated by research group Catalyst that women hold just a fifth of the board seats among S&P 500 companies.To co...