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Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths...

Young Albert Einstein's dreams are imagined in a book that joins science and art to ponder such questions as the viscosity and flexibility of time. Reissue.Author: Alan LightmanPublisher:...

Brilliant. --The Daily Telegraph No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war...

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a...

Follows the efforts of Sir Jack Pitman to realize his vision of England as a "theme park," in which all of the nation's principal treasures are grouped together on the Isle of Wight.Author: Julian...

National Bestseller and a New York Times 2016 Notable Book In these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody?s Fool. Now, ten years...

Everything Inside: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)Author: Edwidge DanticatPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jul 07, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That fa?ade, reports former New York Times Asia correspondent Howard French,...

Exer'sed: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is althand Rarding - 9780525434788Author: Daniel LiebermanPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 464 pagesLanguage:...

ExhalationAuthor: Ted ChiangPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jun 30, 2020Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1101972084ISBN-13: 9781101972083

Exile And The KingdomAuthor: Albert Camus, Carol CosmanPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Feb 13, 2007Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0307278581ISBN-13:...

Describes the building of the world's biggest tourist hotel in tourist-free North Korea, the effects of inflation in Argentina, shortages in Cuba, and crime in ParaguayAuthor: Pico IyerPublisher:...

A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune Here is a selection of Munro?s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a...

A heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of beingtaken for granted--and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms. To the rest of the world, Polly Solo-Miller...

The latest installment in the warm and welcoming 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland's most celebrated address navigating their enchanting and eventful lives. Angus...

From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us?or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGE Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a...

Findingatinx: In arch Of The Voices Redefiningatino IdentityAuthor: Paola RamosPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Oct 20, 2020Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ? A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR ? FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION ? A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the...

The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychological pain and the role of the exceptional healer in the journey back to health. ?To treat, even to cure,...

Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it. --The Wall Street Journal A mind-bending new collection of...

An anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth, featuring stories by: Marika Bailey ? Alyssa Cole ? Zoraida...

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's...

This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment...

The award-winning translators bring us a new translation of an 1870 comic novel by Russia's greatest satirist?whose mockery of Russian autocracy is newly relevant in the age of Putin. A major classic...

Forbidden ColorsAuthor: Yukio MishimaPublisher: VintagePublication Date: February 22, 1999Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0375705163ISBN-13: 9780375705168

Selected stories from each period of Chekhov's career offer a humorous look at ordinary people in trying situationsAuthor: Anton ChekhovPublisher: VintagePublication Date: March 06, 1991Number of...

The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading group's discussion of Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers:...