Iran wants to build ten new uranium enrichment plants; drawings by John Springs To western officials who have spent months trying to slow down Iran's nuclear program, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement of is deeply unsettling. But the real worry may be

By Tony Judt The following is adapted from a lecture given at New York University on October 19, 2009.

By Ian BurumaThe Journal of Hélène Berrtranslated from the French and with an introduction and an essay by David Bellos, and an afterword by Mariette JobRésistance: Memoirs of Occupied Franceby Agnès Humbert, translated from the French and with notes by

By Jerome E. Groopman In the November 5 issue of The New York Review, Dr. Jerome Groopman wrote about his experiences observing interns and residents at Massachusetts General Hospital and the way that new technologies and practices have affected the

By Cathleen SchineWhen Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Presentby Gail Collins In When Everything Changed, Gail Collins picks up the saga of women and their role in the culture, economy, and political life

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The economy [isn't] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product),' notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR's Marketplace, 'economics is about who gets what and why.'

How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent

Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his bestselling books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist, he was one of the world's most successful investors. He cofounded the Quantum Fund and made so much money that he never needed to

We all want to get to yes, but what happens when the other person keeps saying no? How can you negotiate successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate customer, or a deceitful coworker? In Getting Past No, William Ury of

Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, once wrote that a person who spends his life performing the same repetitive tasks 'generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.'

As Robert Shiller's new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets 'has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the

How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today's message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below the surface, so deep within

Mark Billingham is one of the country's best-selling crime writers. He and his wife Claire, 47, live in north London with their two children.

Clover Stroud reviews a collection of French landscapes and a guide to the best walks in the Thames Valley.

Serena Davies revels in a beautiful collection of art history books, from a sumptuous edition of Van Gogh's letters, via Titian, the Pre-Raphaelites and a modern day art sleuth

Jake Kerridge investigates a thrilling crop of crime novel including David Peace's Occupied City and Megan Abbott's The Song is You

Lucy Davies enjoys the best of this year's photography books