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Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this ve...

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Revised and updated edition of this award-winning study of debt.

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This thrilling critique of the forces viying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about our selves and our world. W...

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One of American political history's most famous figures, who knows what it's like to stand up to an authoritarian White House, joins with an expert on authoritarianism to take a piercing look at how someone like Donald Trump and his followers achi...

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Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin "I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in the fall of 1987, the poet ...

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Paperback edition of the history of bureaucracy, from the author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years". A powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, it reveals how bureaucracy shapes our lives in ways we may not eve...

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In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and Donald Trump's initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the "antifa" opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And w...

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This highly anticipated followup to the acclaimed Wittgenstein Jr. finds a young Nietzsche experiencing the excitements and the humiliations of finals season in a modern high school. When a new student transfers in from private school, his public ...

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Johnny Cash seemed like the stuff of legend when he was alive, and even more so as he achieved something close to sainthood in death. The interviews collected here bring us closer to the actual man: brilliant, falliable, introspective, and longing...

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This short, accessible, and argument-driven book shows the way to 100% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. Most experts agree that we need to get to negative greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by the year 2050 in order to stave off the most cat...

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"A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."-Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Ti...

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A look at inequality through the ages and around the world, outlining policies that have worked to create more just societies.

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A plague of rats, the end of philosophy, the cosmic chicken, and bars that don't serve Plymouth Gin-is this the Apocalypse or is it just America? "The apocalypse is imminent," thinks W. He has devoted his life to philosophy, but he is ab...

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A brilliant highbrow comedy written primarily as a witty, acerbic dialogue, reminiscent of the works of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard. "Exodus" is the 3rd novel by an author whose literary and intellectual reputation is on the rise.

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In a raucous debut that summons up Britain's fabled Goon Squad comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a "slightly more successful" friend and their journeys in search of more palatabl...

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By submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, the author has assembled an extensive guide featuring 75 patches--icons that represent CIA projects known by peculiar names and illustrated with occult symbols and cartoons--to reveal a se...

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The Female Monster is alive and well in the pop-cultural imagination. What does she tell us about ourselves and how we live today? Funny, smart and encyclopedic, nimbly addressing everyone from the biblical Lilith, to the movie Carrie, to Hae Min ...

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The rat race of Wall Street is turned on its head when Bartleby the copier decides that he simply would prefer not to in this absorbing early modernist tale.

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This masterful tale of a young man's struggle to find a satisfying life in a stagnant, provincial town chronicles the young Misail's journey into manhood as he tries to fight the morally and mentally deadening effects of his surroundings.

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This brilliantly realised, morally ambiguous tale of a young writer and his encounter with 'The Master', an accomplished writer whom the young man has long idolised, is a humorous and devastating inquiry into the emotional price that an artist pay...

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A young man too destitute to propose marriage to his beloved finds a morally dubious means of making money by publishing the love letters another woman wrote to him in this deft, psychological portrait of how social status, money, and self-decepti...

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mystery of a terrifying, ancient curse and its deadly ramifications for the Baskerville family in this tale set in the dark and murky English moors. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas incl...

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Vivid realism captures the attitudes of Felicite the housemaid and her life of domestic servitude in this deceptively simple tale. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collec...

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Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville H...

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A New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin is the setting of this elegant, accessible masterpiece that ends with a signature epiphany by the protagonist, who offers a perspective on the lives, dreams, and feelings of the party's guests. This beautifully...

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Presents a tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne're-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan. This work features two of the author's unforgettable characters, the ultra-vivid Cockneys Peachy Carnahan an...

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Features a romance between an adventurous British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing - and mysterious - hostility. Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders? This story c...

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The classic story of a sixteenth-century man who suffers injustice and takes the law into his own hands. After horse trader Kohlhaas protests an unfair tax, things escalate until he becomes the heroic leader of a rebellion against the king.

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One of Dostoevsky's best-yet least known-works in its first-ever stand-alone publication. The tale of two men engaged in a twisted psychological duel-after one learns the other had an affair with his wife-builds to a startling conclusion.

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Part of the "The Art of the Novella Series", this is a tale of one man's descent into madness.

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