Scott Shane, Author . Oxford Univ. $29.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-19-537342-4
Bored at work? Prone to taking dangerous risks on the job? A control freak? Your genes may be to blame, argues economics professor Shane in this analysis of how our professional destinies are influenced by our genetic and hormonal makeup....
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Scott Shane, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $25 (335p) ISBN 978-1-56663-048-1
What did the people know, and when did they know it? Probing these questions, Shane--who from 1988 spent 39 months as the Baltimore Sun 's Russian bureau chief--shows how information technology doomed the Bolshevik experiment. In a system that...
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Scott Shane. Crown/Duggan, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8041-4029-4
Reviewed by William M. ArkinShane, who for over a decade has covered terrorism for the New York Times, may not be responsible for a bland title or a journalist's lack of emotion, but in his second book (after Dismantling Utopia), such flaws weaken...
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Scott Shane. Celadon, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-84321-0
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Shane (Objective Troy) brings to vivid life the exploits of abolitionist Thomas Smallwood in this exhilarating account. Born into slavery in Maryland in 1801, Smallwood eventually bought his own freedom, established
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