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The Bee: A Natural History
$17.95 Add to cartAn incomparable illustrated look at the critical role bees play in the life of our planet
Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that we rely on to survive. Bees are also crucia- Author: Wilson-Rich, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0691182477
- Language: English
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all to
- Series: Princeton Science Library #36
- Author: Abbott, Edwin Abbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165556
- Language: English
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The Life of Birds
$61.67 Read moreBased on the spectacular ten-part program on PBS, The Life of Birds is David Attenborough at his characteristic best: presenting the drama, beauty, and eccentricities of the natural world with unusual
- Author: Attenborough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 1998
- ISBN10: 069101633X
- Language: English
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Economics for the Common Good
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society
When Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street- Author: Tirole, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192251
- Language: English
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Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
$75.00 Add to cartThe unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets
Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America’s founders as a land- Author: Liu, Glory M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0691203814
- Language: English
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The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
$17.95 Add to cartHow businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What- Series: Our Compelling Interests #2
- Author: Page, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191530
- Language: English
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Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
$18.95 Add to cartEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than i… [more below]
- Author: Haskel, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183295
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
$27.95 Read moreHow America’s high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previ- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #70
- Author: Gordon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175802
- Language: English
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Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
$18.95 Add to cartHow knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain future
If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you’d take necessary precautions. If your fin- Author: Wagner, Gernot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0691171327
- Language: English
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Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
$21.95 Add to cartThe groundbreaking classic that explores how women can and should negotiate for parity in their workplaces, homes, and beyond
When Linda Babcock wanted to know why male graduate students were teaching- Author: Babcock, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0691210535
- Language: English
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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
$19.95 Read more“Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.”–David Byrne, New York Times Book Review
How the history of tec- Author: Frey, Carl Benedikt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210799
- Language: English
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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
$20.95 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone
- Author: Frank, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178305
- Language: English
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The Pandemic Paradox: How the Covid Crisis Made Americans More Financially Secure
$58.33 Add to cartWhy most Americans’ finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression–and the policy choices that made this possible
In March 2020, economic and social life across th- Author: Fulford, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245320
- Language: English
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Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
$22.95 Read moreA new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behavior
Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can’t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and effi- Author: Lo, Andrew W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191360
- Language: English
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
$22.95 Add to cartIn this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pur
- Series: Princeton Classics #2
- Author: Hirschman, Albert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160252
- Language: English
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Understanding the I Ching: The Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes
$32.00 Add to cartThe West’s foremost translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how contemporary readers could benefit from this ancient work and its perennially valid insights into change and ch
- Author: Wilhelm, Hellmut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0691001715
- Language: English
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
$26.95 Add to cartWhy Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that sprea- Author: Mokyr, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180962
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Short History
$20.95 Add to cartA comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to today
In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world’s most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive- Author: Kocka, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178224
- Language: English
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Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
$19.95 Add to cartWhy the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much good
Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well- Author: Akerlof, George A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173028
- Language: English
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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
$16.95 Add to cartWhat Charles Darwin can teach us about building a fairer society
Who was the greater economist-Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an econ- Author: Frank, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0691156689
- Language: English
