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Venture Work: Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms
Venture Work: Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around so-called precarious or venture work, as the proportion of those employed by start-ups and thinly-capitalized firms continues to grow. Filling a gap in literature, the author explores the relationship between venture co-workers and examines how they cope with economic...

Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Underland: A Deep Time Journey

National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

From the best-selling,
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Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians

In the vein of Neil Strauss’ The Game and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from...

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION

The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century.

When
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Introduction to Symplectic Geometry
Introduction to Symplectic Geometry
This introductory book offers a unique and unified overview of symplectic geometry, highlighting the differential properties of symplectic manifolds. It consists of six chapters:  Some Algebra Basics, Symplectic Manifolds, Cotangent Bundles, Symplectic G-spaces, Poisson Manifolds, and A Graded Case, concluding with a discussion of the...
Integral Calculus
Integral Calculus
In this book, we shall be concerned with applications in relation to the determination of Plane areas, Lengths of arcs and Volumes and Surfaces of solids of revolution, Centre of gravity and Moment of Inertia....
The Prophetic Dimension of Sport (SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies)
The Prophetic Dimension of Sport (SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies)

Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of Religion and Sport, this book examines the prophetic dimension of sport, to arrive at a better understanding of the nature of sports in the United States. By detailing and analyzing particular sports, a portrait of sport as an important space for social and political critique...

Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
Foreword by Janet Yellen

Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.

Shan, a former hard laborer
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Life Isn't Binary
Life Isn't Binary

'Barker and Iantaffi have written the book we all need for this moment in time.' - CN Lester

Much of society's thinking operates in a highly rigid and binary manner; something is good or bad, right or wrong, a success or a failure, and so on. Challenging this limited way of thinking, this...

Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
Do you ever feel like life is weighing you down? Like the stuff in your home, the to-dos in your schedule, the worries in your heart are too much? Make "lightly" your mantra, one lovely little word to live by, and transform your life.

There's no shortage of decluttering books on the market, but Lightly
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.

When Tobe Hooper’s low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure
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Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and details serial television and "binge watching," the exceedingly popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to dominance over the past decade. Author Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that...

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