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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most...
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English
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Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel In a small seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new relationships and new futures, ones that would have been near-unthinkable while their father was alive.Caught in their crossfire are the conservative religious communities that border Asbury Park, the longtime locals who have been pushed...
6. Dominance
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Publisher:
Sumarie Nel
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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In the midst of my own personal turmoil, I, Ellie Adams, a successful writer, sought refuge from the chaos by escaping to Chicago. Little did I know that this impromptu trip would become a turning point in my life.Upon settling into the cozy embrace of my new studio apartment, I found solace in the serenity it offered. The balcony, in particular, became my sanctuary, where I spent evenings immersed in the soothing symphony of the city. However, this...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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"One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Jeffrey M. Lacker" Brink Lindsey is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a consultant for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He is the author of The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture (Collins) and Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (Wiley). Why the rich are getting smarter while the poor are being left...