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Written by William R. Catton Edition: 1982 Format(s): PDF Language: English
@CATTONOvershoot@”Perhaps at no time in human history has there been a more compelling need to re-examine public assumptions and to change national expectations. Overshoot is a book that contributes to this vital task.” — Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior
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Overshoot The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change - William R. Catton
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Did Jesus Exist? - Bart D. Ehrman
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Written by Bart D. Ehrman Format(s): EPUB MOBI TXT Language: English
In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, “Did Jesus exist at all?” Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’ mission and message, and offers a compelling portrait [...]
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James Joyce - A New Biography - Gordon Bowker
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Written by Gordon Bowker Format(s): EPUB TXT Language: English
A revealing biography of one of the twentieth century’s towering literary figures
James Joyce is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, foundational in the history of literary modernism. Yet Joyce’s genius was not immediately recognized, nor was his success easily won. [...]
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From Utterances To Speech Acts - Mikhail Kissine
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Written by Mikhail Kissine Format(s): PDF TXT Language: English
Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential component of human communication have received little attention. This book [...]
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Perfect Spy - The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent - Larry Berman
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Written by Larry Berman Format(s): PDF TXT Language: English
During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA’s William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale—not to mention the most influential members of the [...]
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
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Written by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
ublication Date: March 10, 2014
The main driver of inequality–returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth–is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and [...]
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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism - David Harvey
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Written by David Harvey Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Publication Date: February 18, 2014
“What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and [...]
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Utopia or Bust A Guide to the Present Crisis - Benjamin Kunkel
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Written by Benjamin Kunkel Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Publication Date: March 11, 2014
After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.
But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone [...]
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By All Means Necessary How Chinas Resource Quest is Changing the World - Elizabeth Economy, Michael Levi
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Written by Elizabeth Economy, Michael Levi Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
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Publication Date: January 7, 2014
In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere [...]
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Island The Complete Stories - Alistair MacLeod
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Written by Alistair MacLeod Edition: 2011 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: “This sturdily textured debut novel never hesitates or meanders.”—Library Journal
Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of [...]
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Chimera - Debra Flores
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Written by Debra Flores Format(s): EPUB Language: English
Emile Warren has a nice, normal, tranquil life. If not a lonely one. Until the day she discovers she possesses something other people want and are willing to do anything to get. But she also discovers that she is not alone, that there are [...]
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The Deception Dance - Rita Stradling
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Written by Rita Stradling Format(s): EPUB Language: English
After a year of preparation, eighteen year old Raven Smith has researched and planned out every detail of her summer vacation in Europe; those plans DO NOT include boys, romance, or falling in love (definitely not the last one). But, even before the plane touches-down [...]
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Alutia Rising, Anniversary Edition (Alutia Rising Series, Book 1) - Craig Gerttula
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Written by Craig Gerttula Edition: Anniversary Edition Format(s): EPUB MOBI PDF Language: English
Travel back to the book that started it all with the Anniversary Edition of Alutia Rising, Book One of the Alutia Rising Series!
Trent Marcello’s life has turned from bad to worse.
Learning of his girlfriend’s betrayal, he falls into [...]
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Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think - Professor Peter T. Leeson
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Written by Professor Peter T. Leeson Edition: 2014 Format(s): EPUB Language: English
In Anarchy Unbound, Peter T. Leeson uses rational choice theory to explore the benefits of self-governance. Relying on experience from the past and present, Professor Leeson provides evidence of anarchy “working” where it is least expected to do so and [...]
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Destroyermen 09 - Deadly Shores - Taylor Anderson
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Written by Taylor Anderson Language: English
The long-planned raid on the heart of the Grik Empire has grown more ambitious—and dangerously ill defined. Only Matthew Reddy, commander of the old destroyer USS Walker, seems focused on its original intent.
Many Lemurians see an opportunity to reconquer their sacred homeland, which was stolen long ago, and [...]
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American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
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Written by Bret Easton Ellis Format(s): EPUB MOBI PDF Language: English
In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman [...]
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Defender (Kris Longknife #11) - Mike Shepherd
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Written by Mike Shepherd Format(s): EPUB MOBI Language: English
Kris Longknife is back in the good graces of the brass—and to demonstrate that, they’ve promoted her to Admiral. Now her mission is to find the home base of the space pirates who are plaguing the fringes of the galaxy.
But no mission is ever [...]
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They Killed Our President - Jesse Ventura
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Written by Jesse Ventura Format(s): EPUB MOBI Language: English
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past fifty years, you’re aware of the many hypotheses that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was not done by one man. Whether you’ve read one or a dozen of the books on this [...]
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Thursday’s Children Frieda Klein - Nicci French
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Written by Nicci French Format(s): EPUB MOBI Language: English
Thursday’s Children by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday’s Gone and Waiting for Wednesday.
Expect the same satisfyingly rich combination of brilliant, three-dimensional characters, psychological suspense, police procedural and ever-present menace. It’s sure to [...]
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The Kill Switch - James Rollins
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Written by James Rollins Format(s): EPUB MOBI Language: English
Who does the U.S. government call upon when a mission requires perfect stealth, execution, and discretion?
From the two bestselling masters of action and political intrigue, James Rollins and Grant Blackwood, comes the first in a groundbreaking new series, featuring Captain Tucker Wayne and his [...]
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