Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff
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The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright...
Globalization and Welfare Restructuring in China: The Authoritarianism That Listens
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In the past few decades, the change in China's welfare system has been characterised by a balanced...
Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know
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3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from...
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science
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Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the...
Approaches to Economic Geography: Towards a Geographical Political Economy
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The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism...
Arguments for Welfare: The Welfare State and Social Policy
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This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world...
Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory
Soren Askegaard and Benoit Heilbrunn
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Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory is the first reference work to compile the contributions of...
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
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From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the...
Hopscotch: A Memoir
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"Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking." (Roddy Doyle). Hilary is...
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
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In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace...