Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James
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Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players...
Relentless: Seven Marathons, Seven Continents, Seven Days
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The World Marathon Challenge-seven marathons on seven continents in seven days-is the ultimate race...
Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Darrell Dawsey
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In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a...
Einstein: A Biography
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Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most...
Kafka: The Early Years
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How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's...
Mad Men Unzipped: Fans on Sex, Love, and the Sixties on TV
Karen E. Dill-Shackleford, Cynthia Vinney, Jerri Lynn Hogg and Kristin Hopper-Losenicky
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This is the story of the Mad Men fan phenomenon: how the show and its fans distinguished themselves...
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...
Handbook of Value: Perspectives from Economics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology
Tobias Brosch and David Sander
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What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, decisions and...
Self-Knowledge for Humans
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Human beings are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless and uncritical, and our...
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
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On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time....