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The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of exist... -
David and Goliath_ Underdogs, Misfits, and - Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet. -
Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great
SUMMARY:Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe... -
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[Axel_Honneth]_The_Idea_of_Socialism__Towards_a_Re(z-lib.org)
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. ... -
Jeffry A. Frieden - Global Capitalism_ Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century-W. W. Norton & Company (2007)
"Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1900 international trade reached unpr... -
David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative—and dazzling—book yet.T... -
Hobbit, The - J. R. R. Tolkien
Amazon.com Review"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with.... -
You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem
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Wilt - Tom Sharpe
Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literatur... -
What-the-Dickens_ The Story of - Gregory Maguire
Review~TWILIGHT~ BY EVENING, WHEN THE WINDS ROSE yet again, the power began to stutter at half-strength, and the sirens to fail. From those streetlights whose bulbs hadn’t been sto...