Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

6 best books like Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (Ted Nace): The Machine Stops, Permanent Record, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

The Machine Stops

Author

E.M. Forster

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.

After being voted one of the best novellas...

Permanent Record

Author	Edward Snowden
ISBN	1250237238

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Author	Alan W. Watts
ISBN	0394704681

In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy. The Wisdom of Insecurity underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human...

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

Author	Richard Fortey
ISBN	0375706216

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Author	Jason Fried
ISBN	0062874780

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.

In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced...

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

Author	John De Graaf
ISBN	1576753573

affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.

We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book...