Casual Books Unlisted
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The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
4 stars
Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II …
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How the World Ran Out of Everything by Peter S. Goodman
How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? …
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Spectacular Vernaculars by Russell A. Potter (The SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture)
Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the …
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A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
4 stars
A tiny American town’s plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a …
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How Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin Peters
4 stars
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed …
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The Price of Liberty by Claude Andrew Clegg
In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the …
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Foucault in Iran by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Foucault in Iran centers on the significance of Foucault’s writings on the Iranian Revolution and the profound mark it left …
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Mussolini's Italy by R. J. B. Bosworth (Allen Lane History)
With Mussolini 's Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in …
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Quantum Ontology by Peter J. Lewis
Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself …
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Brother Number One by David P. Chandler
In Cambodia’s recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. In this revised …
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Emissions Trading by Ralf Antes, Bernd Hansjürgens
Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental …
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Farm To Factory by Robert C. Allen
To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. …
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The Senses in Late Medieval England by C. M. Woolgar
Crucial to an understanding of life in the past is an appreciation of how individuals perceived their world. This book …
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The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
4 stars
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner …
