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Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has slowed substantially from its postwar highs, has raised alarm bells. But should it?...
Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (Global South Asia)
Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (Global South Asia)
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in coordination with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his...
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern...
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly poisoning us. 

Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to
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Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics
Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics
A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory
 
A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with
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I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

“Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David
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International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Security and Intelligence ATCI 2018: Applications and Techniques in Cyber Security ... in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 842)
International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Security and Intelligence ATCI 2018: Applications and Techniques in Cyber Security ... in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 842)
The 2018 International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence (ATCI), building on the previous successes in Ningbo, China (2017), Guangzhou, China (2016), Dallas, USA (2015), Beijing, China (2014), and Sydney, Australia (2013), is proud to be in the sixth consecutive conference year in Shanghai....
Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He’s spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In Wherever the Sound Takes You, he explores the essence of music’s meaning with a vast spectrum of players, trying to understand...
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.


Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago
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The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments
The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments
Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social organization is often a feature of local organization. While those forces may seem beyond...
TMI: My Life in Scandal
TMI: My Life in Scandal

“Delicious memoir. . . . catnip for Hollywood gossip hounds.” Publishers Weekly 

The story of how Mario Lavandeira becomes Perez Hilton, the world's first and biggest celebrity blogger, with millions of readers around the globe. 

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The Aeneid
The Aeneid
A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.

“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland,
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