Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
Robert J. Shiller and George A. Akerlof
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Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with...
Economics Rules: Why Economics Works, When it Fails, and How to Tell the Difference
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The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global...
India: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
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India s population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each...
Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the...
The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth
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In The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth John Gribbin shows what makes our planet so special,...
Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land
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Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their...
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 15
TV Season
Finlay finds her car rigged to explode ("The CSI Effect") as Sara and Greg are quarantined ("Bad...
The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism
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Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture --...
Pop Expressionism: Works on Paper by Rudolf Humm
Edward Lucie-Smith and Philipp-Rudolf Humm
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Philipp Rudolf Humm is a German/Belgian artist living in London. Humm started out to become an...
Albert Camus
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One of France's most high-profile writers, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and...