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Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today's economy? The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were...

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs...

This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of...

Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion...

What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely...

"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition...Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover...

Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared...

Chronicles the life of the Russian Jew and World War II correspondent for the Soviet Army who became a passionate critic of the new regime.

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author caused the usual stir--but then...

The wild ride of Chet Baker, the most romanticized icon in jazz, is thrillingly recounted in this first major biography ever.From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young...

The book titled Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart by the author Steven Bach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Gore Vidal called him the century's "greatest English-language critic". Anthony Burgess hailed him as "our best literary critic". Now, at last, all of Pritchett's best literary essays are collected here...

Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams , his letters-more intimate and...

As parent, reading partner, and social science observer, Shelby Wolf documented countless moments during the preschool and early grade-school years of her two daughters. "The Braid of Literature" interweaves her...

The book titled The Intruders by the author Stephen Coonts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

With Flight of the Intruder, Final Flight and The Minotaur, Stephen Coonts has established himself as one of the nation's premier novelists of technological suspense thrillers. Following the Summer '90...

The book titled A New York Life: Of Friends and Others by the author Brendan Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Cities by the author Peter Conrad. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled "Interzone": Anthology: 2nd by the author John Clute. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Robertson Davies, one of North America's most beloved and critically acclaimed novelists, added an impeccable sense of style to all his diverse writings. Now, in this exciting publishing event, there...

Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...

Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in...

"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies

The book titled Davies Robertson : Murther & Walking Spirits(Us) by the author Robertson Davies. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Two girls are head over heels in love with the same boy. Which girl does he love best. Only Laurie knows for sure.

The book titled The Sorrow of Belgium by the author Hugo Claus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Petain: Hero or Traitor? the Untold Story by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This work covers feminist art history. It tells how the depiction of women in art defined and confined their role in Victorian Britain. It offers an analysis of the regulation...

The book titled Andropov by the author Zhores A. Medvedev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Oro by the author Cizia Zyke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Langrishe, Go Down by the author Aidan Higgins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Watermelon Moon and Other Stories will appeal to junior secondary students. Featuring main characters who are teenagers or younger, the stories come from a wide range of genres and countries....

This series takes up the challenge of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of seminal modern readings of key authors, genres and critical approaches. Rachel Bowlby's anthology of aricles on Virginia...

Death is nasty and not a little inconvenient. Being dead even more so. Especially when you're tied to an amulet that has its own evil designs on the world. For...

'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African novel in English to draw international attention. ' New York Times 'The forerunner of an entire school of African...

Ulysses continues to be one of the central books of the twentieth century and this is an audacious new take on it. It was never meant to be an abstruse...

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major...

John Carey is an acclaimed critic and editor of the bestselling The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Reportage. In his spellbinding new anthology he charts the...

At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour....

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

The book titled The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets by the author D. J. Enright. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Chinese Whispers by the author Robert Sproat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Randall Jarrell's Letters by the author Randall Jarrell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Fast, Fresh and Fabulous" is much more than a collection of recipes from Britain's most respected vegetarian author. With a wealth of interesting facts and inspiration, Rose shares the secrets...

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush , the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf's...

A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner, carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to...

Raymond Priestley was the first salaried Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. It was a time of great upheaval, as Australian universities reshaped and reasserted themselves after the Great Depression....