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Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance
$21.99 Add to cartThe finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience… [more below]
- Author: Kay, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1610397150
- Language: English
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Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
$36.00 Add to cartThe death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The “Irish Economic miracle” was built … [more below]
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488813
- Language: English
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Don’t Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy
$36.00 Add to cartAfter everything that’s happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions are only common
- Author: Shenker-Osorio, Anat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391772
- Language: English
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The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization
$30.00 Add to cartA brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.
The world is at a turning point simi… [more below]- Author: O’Sullivan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724062
- Language: English
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Jews Without Money
$19.99 Add to cartAs a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was… [more below]
- Author: Gold, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: March 05 2004
- ISBN10: 786713453
- Language: English
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
$19.99 Add to cartA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After tw- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541774051
- Language: English
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
$21.99 Add to cartThis groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson prote… [more below]
- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1541774531
- Language: English
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The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World
$29.00 Read moreBestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia–and for a more human future
In The Future Is Analog, David Sax points out that the onset of the pandemic instant- Author: Sax, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701550
- Language: English
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Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
$18.99 Add to cartJoseph Nye coined the term “soft power” in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently–and often incorrectly–by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is soft po… [more below]
- Author: Nye, Joseph S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1586483064
- Language: English
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Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People
$19.99 Read moreA classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewi… [more below]
- Author: Sharansky, Natan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1541742443
- Language: English
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Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World
$21.99 Add to cartTower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and i… [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393813
- Language: English
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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
$19.99 Add to cartA story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond base… [more below]- Author: Nusbaum, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541742222
- Language: English
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Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of Hunter S. Thompson’s crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America–and the devastating price he paid for it
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-crac- Author: DeNevi, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541768019
- Language: English
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Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
$30.00 Read moreHarvard Public Health Magazine, Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022
The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now- Author: Krishnan, Vidya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1541768469
- Language: English
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
$19.99 Add to cartOne of Michiko Kakutani’s (New York Times) top ten books of 2016
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We’ve begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tec- Author: Sax, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 24, 2017
- ISBN10: 1610398211
- Language: English
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
$18.99 Add to cartA renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a practical pathway forward for a system that has lost its moral and ethical foundation.
Free market cap… [more below]- Author: Henderson, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1541730143
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
$19.99 Add to cartSyrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her Af… [more below]
- Author: Kahf, Mojha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0786715197
- Language: English
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You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
$19.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE
The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers
WINNER OF THE 2022 SPERBER PRIZE- Author: Becker, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 154176823X
- Language: English
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
$19.99 Read moreThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen–and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite di- Author: Gruber, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1541762495
- Language: English
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Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
$30.00 Read moreThe Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did
In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Ye- Author: Suri, Jeremi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541758544
- Language: English
