From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly-believing they wee avoiding risk-road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives...

HOW CHINA'S ASCENDANCE AS AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER WILL ALTER THE CULTURAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ETHNIC BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, UNSEATING THE WEST AND IN THE PROCESS CREATING A WHOLE NEW WORLD According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's...

Owning Up Your world as a director has suddenly changed. You've seen members of other boards take the heat when their companies imploded. The managements of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Washington Mutual clearly failed, but so did their boards. Now the board of every company beset with problems is coming under scrutiny. The pressure is on. Your board must own up to its accountability for the performance of the corporation....

John Bogle-founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund-is an industry pioneer. Over the years, he has single-handedly transformed the mutual fund business, and today, his vision continues to inspire investors. It has been over a decade since the original edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was first published. While much has changed during this time, the importance of investing and the issues addressed...

Our intuition about how things should behave is usually right in the everyday world. We see the baseball soar in the air, arc, drop, and lie stationary on the ground. Through data gathered by our senses and basic knowledge of the laws of classical mechanics, the motion of a ball makes perfect sense. But enter the world of the tiniest particles on earth-the motion of electrons, the shapes of molecules-and everything we think we know about the world...

How the world's leading innovators push their ideas to fruition, time and time again. Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare. According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be strengthened by anyone willing to build their organizational habits and harness the...

You negotiate every day of your life. Whether you are asking your employer for a raise or persuading your child to do his homework, everything is a negotiation. Written by Gerald Nierenberg, the world's foremost authority on the subject, and recognized as the Father of Contemporary Negotiation, The New Art of Negotiating is an updated, expanded version of the million-copy bestseller , The Art of Negotiating, which was the first on the subject of negotiating...

This all-ages collection of stories set in the world of Batman: The Animated Series stars one of Batman's most vexing villains…the Riddler! His schemes are never easy to solve, and in these adventures, it's no different! Riddler flips the script by leaving Batman clues…to other villains' crimes, and faces the music when he holds a rock star hostage! And when a copycat tries to steal the Riddler's style, who will find them first-Batman or the Riddler?...

Jake loves living in Chicago but when big city violence hits a little close to him his parents buy a campground in rural Minnesota and moves the family there. Jake hates living at the campground until he meets Peter, the boy from across the river. The two quickly become best friends and spend a fun-filled summer together on the river. In one of their conversations, Peter shares his faith with Jake. Jake uses his new faith to help a friend through...

Terry McGinnis is the Batman of the future, protecting a high-tech Gotham City from threats new and old. But the battle is never-ending...and soon there might not be a Gotham left to protect! After Terry's friend and ally, Max, is recruited by secretive Undercloud for her extraordinary computer abilities, she discovers the full extent of their mission, and it threatens to control the city! Meanwhile, in Neo-Gotham's slums, a new Batgirl is rising...but...