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Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
An examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our lives, our society, and our culture.
alanz rated The Secret of Our Success: 5 stars
The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Patrick Henrich
"Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often …
alanz rated The Secret History: 4 stars
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
In a rural Vermont college, a group of Classics students get carried away at a bacchanal, and an innocent man …
alanz rated The Secret History: 5 stars
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
In a rural Vermont college, a group of Classics students get carried away at a bacchanal, and an innocent man …
alanz rated "MAYFLIES": 3 stars
alanz rated Narrow Dog To Carcassonne: 4 stars
alanz rated Bring Up the Bodies: 5 stars
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning Wolf Hall; and part of …
alanz rated Death's End: 5 stars
Death's End by Liu Cixin, Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3)
alanz rated The Fourth Hand: 4 stars
alanz rated The Dawn of Everything: 5 stars
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote …
Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed by James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. …
alanz rated Let Over Lambda: 5 stars
alanz rated Entangled Life: 5 stars
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies …