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  • Trash Talk
    Trash Talk
    Kohan, Rafi
    Whether in basketball, football, or MMA, athletes talk trash to each other—and sometimes to fans—like it’s their job. And in some ways, it is: sports only matter if we decide to care about them. And insulting your opponent, or playing the heel, is probably the fastest route to making someone care. Talking smack is as old as the bible; it’s perhaps the original sport.But until n...

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  • Power and Progress
    Power and Progress
    Acemoglu, Daron / Johnson, Simon
    The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear: progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communic...

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  • Edible Economics
    Edible Economics
    Chang, Ha-Joon
    Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economicsFor decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongsi...

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  • Playmakers
    Playmakers
    Florio, Mike
    The story of a modern NFL that can’t get out of its own way—and can’t stop making moneyIn recent decades, the NFL has simultaneously become an athletic, financial, and cultural powerhouse—and a League that can’t seem to go more than a few weeks without a scandal. Whether it’s about domestic violence, performance-enhancing drugs, racism, or head trauma, the NFL always seems to b...

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  • Culture Map, The
    Culture Map, The
    Meyer, Erin
    An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your ow...

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  • Future of War
    Future of War
    Freedman, Lawrence
    An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence.Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look ...

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  • Poor Economics
    Poor Economics
    Banerjee, Abhijit / Duflo, Esther
    Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics , Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called marvellous, rewarding," the authors tell how the stress of ...

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  • Good Economics for Hard Times
    Good Economics for Hard Times
    Banerjee, Abhijit V.
    The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of ...

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  • Disordered Cosmos, The
    Disordered Cosmos, The
    Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
    From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & TechnologyA Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of ...

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  • Value of Everything, The
    Value of Everything, The
    Mazzucato, Mariana
    Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to ensure a capitalism that works for us all.Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA scathing indictment of our current global financial system, The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been accounted and reveals how ...

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  • Like a Rollins Stone Bob Dylan at the crossroard
    Like a Rollins Stone Bob Dylan at the...
    Marcus, Greil

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  • Why Managers Matter
    Why Managers Matter
    Foss, Nicolai J. / Klein, Peter
    A manifesto on managers and hierarchy that bucks the trend of the lean, flat, leaderless organizationAs business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and make an organization tick. It’s tempting to be seduced by futurist fantasies where every company has the culture of a startup, and wher...

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  • Good Economics for Hard Times
    Good Economics for Hard Times
    Banerjee, Abhijit V / Duflo, Esther
    The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of...

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  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
    Zuboff, Shoshana
    The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance...

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  • Looting Machine, The
    Looting Machine, The
    Burgis, Tom
    The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals ...

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