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xxiii, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy -- and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common problem at the bottom of them all: racism -- but not just in the obvious ways that hurt people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It's the common denominator in our most vexing...
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An analysis of the economic tensions behind the Olympics and the World Cup games.
Andrew Zimbalist looks beyond the headlines of two of the world's most beloved sporting events: the Olympics and the World Cup.
In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, “Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup”, Zimbalist tackles the bogus claim that cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting...
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viii, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Who's Your City? offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside.--From amazon.com.
5) Immigration
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xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Stuart Anderson is executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a research group in Arlington, VA. He was formerly head of policy at the Immigration and Naturalization Service and staff director of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee. Anderson's work on immigration has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. Offering a detached, unbiased analysis of the economic, fiscal, and other...
6) Gomorrah
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301 pages : map ; 24 cm
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A major bestseller in Italy, this is a heroic young man's impassioned account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra affects cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast, and is the deciding factor in why Campania, for instance, has the highest...
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xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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While all art is unique, the challenges artists face are shared regardless of back ground, experience, and artistic medium. With decades of experience training and helping artists worldwide, the expert staff of the New York Foundation for the Arts -- in conjunction with outside professionals -- have compiled a "best practices" approach to planning and organizing an art career. This newly revised edition has made considerable updates to reflect changes...
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xv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"With reality tv shows, glossy bridal magazines, and fanciful Pinterest boards leading the way, it can be easy for a recently engaged couple to slide from wedding planning into wedding madness. Inspiration and ideas abound; what couples really need is clear guidance on how to assess this information and sort the useful from the disastrous. Enter A Practical Wedding Planner, the (practical) companion volume to A Practical Wedding. Meg Keene walks couples...
10) The humane economy: how innovators and enlightened consumers are transforming the lives of animals
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xv, 352 pages ; 24 cm
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From the leader of the nation's most powerful animal-protection organization comes a frontline account of how conscience and creativity are driving a revolution in American business that is changing forever how we treat animals and create wealth. Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the United States reveals how entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 CEOs, world-class scientists, philanthropists, and a new class of political leaders are driving the burgeoning,...
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xiii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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"Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism,...
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xvi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Evaluates the negative impact of digital network technologies on the economy and particularly the middle class, citing challenges to employment and personal wealth while exploring the potential of a new information economy.
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321 pages ; 24 cm
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"A smart, lively history of the world economy, seen through the crucial inventions that shaped it. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? What is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers? In [this book], author and economist Tim Harford paints an epic yet intimate picture of economic change by telling the stories of the ideas, people, and tools that...
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xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm
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The United States has long been the leader in Artificial Intelligence. But Dr. Kai-Fu Lee--one of the world's most respected experts on AI -- reveals that China has caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid pace. As Sino-American competition in AI heats up, Lee envisions China and the US forming a powerful duopoly in AI. He outlines the upheaval of traditional jobs, how the suddenly unemployed will find new ways of making their lives meaningful,...
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278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction -- it's reality. Humans are venturing up and out, and we're taking our competitive spirit with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers, and seas have impacted civilizations around the world. It's no coincidence that Russia, China, and the USA are leading...
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Overview: Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly,...
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Code is the "how" of human productive activity. The creation, implementation, and refinement of code have been the infrastructure of human progress from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from the production of Stone Age axes, to the invention of chocolate chip cookies, to the experience of Burning Man, Philip Auerswald argues that the key driver of human history is the advance of code. At each major...
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"Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and pharma companies to coffee shops and gyms, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source...
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