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 | 1) Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles,
by Sowell, Thomas
Paperback (062007)
In this classic work, Thomas Sowell describes the two competing visions that shape debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power. "A Conflict of Visions" offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks. ... read more
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 | 2) Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche,
by Watters, Ethan
Hardcover (012010)
Journalist Watters explores the globalization of the American psyche. ... read more
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 | 3) Never Cry Wolf,
by Mowat, Farley
Paperback (092001)
The classic of nature writing--the spellbinding story of adventures among arctic wolves--is now available in a new paperback edition. ... read more
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 | 4) The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google,
by Carr, Nicholas
Paperback (012009)
In this lucid and compelling look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation on the economy, Carr weaves together history, economics, and technology to explain why computing is changing--and what it means. ... read more
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 | 5) Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall,
by Funder, Anna
Paperback (062004)
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 | 6) In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise,
by Prochnik, George
Hardcover (042010)
More than money, power, and even happiness, silence has become the most precious commodity of our modern world. Now Prochnik delivers a brilliant and far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and of the growing war between them. ... read more
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 | 7) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,
by Gladwell, Malcolm
Hardcover (032000)
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 | 8) Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life,
by Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo, Barbasi, Albert-Laszlo
Paperback (042003)
The nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks takes readers on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. ... read more
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| 9) The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today,
by Davis, James C
Paperback (082005)
Using anecdotes, pungent quotations, and bits of humor to illuminate big events, historian Davis presents an eminently readable, compact history of human society from the Stone Age to the present. ... read more
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 | 10) The Wildlife Detectives: How Forensic Scientists Fight Crimes Against Nature,
by Jackson, Donna M, Shattil, Wendy, Rozinski, Bob
Paperback (032002)
A riveting account of dedicated people and how they band together with the help of science and law to catch an elk poacher. Photos. ... read more
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 | 11) El Poder del Ahora: Un Camino Hacia La Realizacion Espiritual,
by Tolle, Eckhart, Matarranz, Margarita
Paperback (082001)
Now available to Spanish-language readers, this bestselling book shows how a combination of Buddhist principles, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory can connect the reader to "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death." ... read more
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 | 12) Bet the House: How I Gambled Over a Grand a Day for 30 Days on Sports, Poker, and Games of Chance,
by Roeper, Richard
Hardcover (022010)
During the course of 30 days in early 2009, Roeper risked more than a quarter-million dollars on every method of gambling available in America. This exploration both celebrates and details the pitfalls and lures through Roeper's stories about his lifelong affair with gambling. ... read more
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 | 13) The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex,
by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
Paperback (032007)
Fund and destroy: the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. ... read more
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 | 14) Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda,
by Chomsky, Noam, Et
Paperback (072003)
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 | 15) On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work,
by Huler, Scott
Hardcover (052010)
"On the Grid" brings infrastructure to life and details the ins and outs of our civilization with fascinating, back-to-basics information about the systems we all depend on. ... read more
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 | 16) Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other Bribes,
by Kohn, Alfie
Paperback (091999)
A landmark psychological critique of basic motivational strategy, this book attacks the strategy of dangling incentives in front of people to affect their behavior. ... read more
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 | 17) Robert's Rules of Order,
by Robert, Henry M, III
Paperback (032010)
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 | 18) Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us: Customer Service and What It Reveals about Our World and Our Lives (Updated),
by Yellin, Emily
Paperback (082010)
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 | 19) An Essay on Liberation,
by Marcuse, Herbert
Paperback (061971)
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 | 20) The Savage Mind,
by Levi-Strauss, Claude, Weightman, John, Weightman, Doreen
Paperback (091968)
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 | 21) The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality,
by Diop, Cheikh Anta, Cook, Mercer
Paperback (071989)
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 | 22) Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape,
by Kunstler, James
Paperback (071994)
In this "eminently relevant and important book" (Library Journal), the author traces the evolution of America's landscape, where every place looks like no place in particular, and where accommodating the automobile jeopardizes the individual and the environment. ... read more
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 | 23) War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race,
by Black, Edwin R
Hardcover (092003)
In War Against the Weak, award-winning investigative journalist Edwin Black connects the crimes of the Nazis to a pseudoscientific American movement of the early twentieth century called eugenics. Based on selective breeding of human beings, eugenics began in laboratories on Long Island but ended in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Ultimately, over 60,000 unfit Americans were coercively sterilized, a third of them after Nuremberg declared ... read more
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 | 24) We Have Never Been Modern,
by Latour, Bruno, Porter, Catherine, Porter, Catharine
Paperback (101993)
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 | 25) The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes,
by Mark, Margaret, Pearson, Carol S, Mark Margaret
Hardcover (012001)
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