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    Outside the Box
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    Outside the Box

    Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money...
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    Democracy and Prosperity
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    Democracy and Prosperity

    A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global...
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    Keywords;
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    Keywords;

    An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and cultureThe university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines...
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    Darkness by Design
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    Darkness by Design

    An expose of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced...
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    All the News That's Fit to Click
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    All the News That's Fit to Click

    Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written, how news is promoted, and even which journalists get hired and fired. Do metrics make...
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    Taken for Granted
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    Taken for Granted

    How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Offering a...
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    Billionaire Wilderness
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    Billionaire Wilderness

    A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential...
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    Dark Commerce
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    Dark Commerce

    A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced...
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    The Oil Curse
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    The Oil Curse

    Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how...
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    The New Global Rulers
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    The New Global Rulers

    Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common...
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    The End of the West
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    The End of the West

    Has Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end? It would seem so. The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, and former Soviet Bloc countries have experienced ethnic or religious disturbances, sometimes violent. Greece, Ireland, and Spain...
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    The Butterfly Defect
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    The Butterfly Defect

    The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies...
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    The Great Brain Race
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    The Great Brain Race

    In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution...
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    IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq

    I feel that I have been sleeping all my life and I have woken up and opened my eyes to the world. A beautiful world! But impossible to live in. These are the words of fifteen-year-old Hadiya, blogging from the city of Mosul, Iraq, to let the world know...
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    You and Yours

    In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and...
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    Managing Global Innovation
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    Managing Global Innovation

    In the past, your company could rely on a handful of resources close to its home markets to innovate new offerings. But today, knowledge and other resources critical to your innovation efforts lie outside your company's home territories-sometimes far...
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    Reverse Innovation

    Reverse Innovation introduces the idea of developing in emerging markets first-instead of scaling down rich world products-to unlock a world of opportunities for your business. Written by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble of the Tuck School of...
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    Border Patrol Nation

    "In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics. . . ...
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    Mindwandering
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    Mindwandering

    'An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world's leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders - and when and why it's good for you' Daniel Gilbert 'A gentle and humane book that should be read by everyone interested in...
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    Win-Win Negotiations for Couples
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    Win-Win Negotiations for Couples

    Charlotte WhitneyÕs Win-Win Negotiations for Couples is the first book to apply the successful Òwin-winÓ principle from business management to interpersonal relationships. The first chapter includes methods for setting up a personal negotiation session,...
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    Peak
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    Peak

    'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak. Rest assured that the book is not mere theory. Ericsson's research focuses on the real world, and he explains in detail, with examples, how all of us can apply the principles of great...
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