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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
James Kwak · Pantheon Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics,... |
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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World
HOWARD BLUM · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence... |
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
Scaachi Koul · Picador
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFEIn One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share... |
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Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
CRAIG PITTMAN · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Oh, Florida! To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie... |
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Reason and Wonder: Why Science and Faith Need Each Other
E R Priest · Templeton Press
Pages: 211
Format: Paperback
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Often science and religion are seen as completely separate entities. Science exists in the realm of fact, whereas religion exists in the realm of faith. Conversations about genes, psychology, or even the meaning of life occur in silos. But as Eric Priest, Keith Ward, David Myers, N. T. Wright,... |
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Une Femme Française: The Seductive Style of French Women
CATHERINE MALANDRINO · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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All American women aspire to have the nonchalant style and grace of French women, that je ne sais quoi that makes all of their habits seem natural and effortless. In Une Femme Française, fashion designer Catherine Malandrino, a Frenchwoman who has lived and worked in the US for thirty... |
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Bookshops: A Reader's History
Jorge Carrio?n · Biblioasis
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilized detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carrion brings page-turning excitement... |
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The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
Jenn Granneman · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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An introvert guide and manifesto for all the quiet ones -- and the people who love them. Is there a hidden part of you that no one else sees? Do you have a vivid inner world of thoughts and emotions that your peers and loved ones can't seem to access? Have you ever been told you're... |
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Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
Adriaan E Waiboer · Yale University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark exploration of the engaging network of relationships among genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art. The virtuosity of these works, as this book demonstrates,... |
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
KEVIN YOUNG · Graywolf Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take the center stage of American culture?Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers -- from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk... |
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Orphan Black Classified Clone Reports
None. · Harper Design
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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From the secret files of Dr. Delphine Cormier, comes this ultimate guide to all of the characters, conspiracies, and shadowy organizations in the smart, innovative BBC America television thriller Orphan Black.Designed to resemble the classified files and notes of Dr. Delphine Cormier, this... |
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No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Ursula K Le Guin · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's... |
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