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The Habit Project: 9 Steps to Build Habits that Stick (And Supercharge Your Productivity, Health, Wealth and Happiness)

In this book, you will discover how to:

• Kick-start personal change using small habits.

• Create BIG changes in your life by harnessing the power of keystone habits.

• Keep yourself motivated using big-picture thinking (based on research at Ohio State University).

• Hack your psychology and set yourself up for success by becoming a realistic optimist.

• Use an if-then strategy to triple your chances of success (based on research by Peter Gollwitzer).

• Create a chain for ensuring you stick to your habits.

• Be more productive, improve your health, take control of your finances and transform any – and every – area of your life.

• BONUS QUIZ: Discover your Habits Roadmap

• And lots, lots more...

That may sound like a big promise to make, but it’s one that we’ll keep. 

By the end of this book, in addition to gaining a whole new understanding of habits, you’ll be able to use them effectively to spark personal change.

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.
 
Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty.Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.
 
We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

By the time Sanders’s campaign came to a close, however, it was clear that the pundits had gotten it wrong. Bernie had run one of the most consequential campaigns in the modern history of the country. He had received more than 13 million votes in primaries and caucuses throughout the country, won twenty-two states, and more than 1.4 million people had attended his public meetings. Most important, he showed that the American people were prepared to take on the greed and irresponsibility of corporate America and the 1 percent.

In Our Revolution, Sanders shares his personal experiences from the campaign trail, recounting the details of his historic primary fight and the people who made it possible. And for the millions looking to continue the political revolution, he outlines a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that will create jobs, raise wages, protect the environment, and provide health care for all―and ultimately transform our country and our world for the better. For him, the political revolution has just started. The campaign may be over, but the struggle goes on.

THE MAN WHO KNEW The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan By Sebastian Mallaby

THE MAN WHO KNEW
The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
By Sebastian Mallaby
Illustrated. 781 pp. Penguin Press. $40.

In 1959, at the annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, a 33-year-old economist named Alan Greenspan argued that central banks should beware of letting financial markets get too comfortable. The Federal Reserve’s success in smoothing economic fluctuations in the 1920s, he said, had led to the dangerous belief that “the business cycle is dead.” The crash and depression that followed were “inevitable” consequences of that cavalier attitude toward risk.
You may be familiar with two landmarks of Greenspan’s early years: He was a professional jazz musician and a disciple of the extreme-libertarian novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand. Greenspan’s stint as a clarinet and saxophone player in a second-tier swing band started when he was 18; his Rand infatuation began in his late 20s.
It was Greenspan’s libertarianism that propelled him into politics, but his other attributes that made him successful at it. At Rand’s urging, he delivered a series of lectures in 1963 and 1964 on the “Economics of a Free Society,” inveighing against, among other things, “one of the historic disasters in American history, the creation of the Federal Reserve System.” 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/books/review/alan-greenspan-man-who-knew-sebastian-mallaby.html?ref=economy