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A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? …

CAN I GET A "RAMEN" FROM THE CONGREGATION?!Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based …

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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and …

The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told …

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A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more …

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in …

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only …