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Manhattan Institute books have an unmatched record of opening new intellectual frontiers and catalyzing change. Charles Murray's Losing Ground reframed the dialogue about welfare and led to historic reform-legislation. Peter Huber's Liability and Galileo's Revenge, and Walter Olson's The Litigation Explosion, sparked national debates on civil justice, junk science, and tort reform. Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare spotlighted the devastating impact of the Sixties' "counterculture" on the underclass. In Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, George Kelling and Catherine Coles articulated the policing strategies that reduced crime at record rates. We promote our books to the media opinion leaders, and the general public. Our authors get attention through reviews, speaking engagements, radio and television bookings, magazine and newspaper features, webcasts, and op-eds. The books' messages resonate, typically, long after the initial hardcover printing—underscoring not only the quality of the content, but the enduring power of books in the digital age.

POWER HUNGRY: THE MYTHS OF "GREEN" ENERGY AND THE REAL FUELS OF THE FUTURE
By Robert Bryce (Public Affairs, April 2010)

Power Hungry delivers a smart, contrarian view on wind and solar energy. Robert Bryce explains why increased use of wind energy will not result in substantial reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. He shows why Denmark, a country that many environmental advocates claim is a model to be copied, instead is an excellent example of why wind energy is so ineffective. And by looking back through automotive history, he shows why electric cars are The Next Big Thing…and they always will be.

Power Hungry proves that what we want isn’t energy at all—it’s power. Bryce masterfully deciphers essential terms like power density, energy density, joules, watts, and horsepower. And after guiding readers through basic math and physics, he methodically shows how the US can lead the transition to a cleaner, lower-carbon future by embracing the fuels of the future: natural gas and nuclear.

SHAKEDOWN: THE CONTINUING CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER
By Steven Malanga (Ivan R. Dee, October 2010)

In Shakedown, Mr. Malanga shows how this machine's single-minded goal is always bigger government and more public spending. The bill, he says, is now coming due for the relentless rise of this new political powerhouse. He chronicles how public-sector unions and the corrupt political hacks beholden to them have all but bankrupted once-rich states like California and New Jersey. He details the campaigns to undermine the successful and popular 1990s welfare reform and to revitalize the failed, wasteful War on Poverty programs that funnel taxpayer money to the advocacy groups that are integral cogs in the new political machine. And he provides a comprehensive summary of how these same advocacy groups spent decades helping undermine mortgage standards in the name of helping the poor—in the process enriching themselves and enabling the housing meltdown. As Americans anxiously ponder the future direction of their government and their economy, Shakedown explores the questions of who got us in this mess and why we need change—constructive change—more than ever.

MANNING UP: HOW THE FEMINISM REVOLUTION TURNED MEN INTO BOYS
By Kay Hymowitz (Basic Books, 2010)

In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider have been turned upside down as "pre-adult" men, stuck between adolescence and "real" adulthood, find themselves lost in a world where women make more money, are more educated, and are less likely to want to settle down and build a family. Their old scripts are gone, and young men find themselves adrift. Unlike women, they have no biological clock telling them it's time to grow up. Hymowitz argues that it's time for these young men to "man up."

Glaeser reveals a little known but essential paradox of modern life: technology and globalization, long seen as the bane of urbanity, are actually making cities healthier and more vital than ever. He also offers up a wealth of other counterintuitive lessons: how misguided California environmentalists created the Sun Belt boom, what a great city like New York can learn from a middling city like Houston, which cities must shrink or die, what’s wrong with London, what’s right with Lagos, and much more.

Using intrepid reportage, myth-shattering analysis, and eloquent argument, Glaeser makes an impassioned case for the city’s import and splendor. He reminds us forcefully why we should love our cities and how to give them their due or else suffer consequences that will hurt us all, no matter where we live.

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