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Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
Russ Roberts - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From the host of EconTalk, a guide to decision-making when you can't crunch the numbersAlgorithms and apps analyze data and tell you how to beat the traffic, what books to buy, what music to listen to, and even who to date - often with great results. But what do you do when you face... |
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Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap
Louise Story - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America's financial system through public and private actions that created today's Black-white wealth gap. The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection.... |
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You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music
Glenn McDonald - Canbury Press
Format: Paperback
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'If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today, how to find it, or how to create it, you will find what you need right here. ' Joseph Menn, Washington Post writerFor the first time in history, almost every song ever recorded is available instantly. Everywhere. You Have... |
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza. * "Ms. Satow's carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through... |
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Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
Rachel O'Dwyer - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket. **Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year**. Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens,... |
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Universal Basic Income (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Karl Widerquist - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback
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An accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.. The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media... |
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The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
Zeke Hernandez - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, and nonpartisan.Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict immigrants as either villains or victims. The villain narrative is that... |
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Timeboxing: The Power of Doing One Thing at a Time
Marc Zao-Sanders - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Paperback
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The gloriously simple practice of choosing one thing to do, when to do it, and getting it done.Every day, a billion knowledge workers wake up, gravitate towards a pixelated screen and process information for eight hours or more, facing an endless and bewildering array of work and life choices.... |
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