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Guest Review: Malcolm Gladwell on The Checklist Manifesto

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In this Amazon.com exclusive, New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers) reviews one of our December picks for Best Books of the Month, Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto. Gawande is, in Gladwell's words, "a writer of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine ... It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking."

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2008 Nobel Prize for Economics: Paul Krugman

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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics went to the best-known American economist since Milton Friedman, professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. See our list of Krugman's books, including bestsellers like The Conscience of a Liberal as well as the more academic work that won him the prize.

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Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America In Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America, Elizabeth Fraterrigo examines how the magazine’s vision of sexual liberation, high living, and the “good life,” have become ingrained in American society.

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