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Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it....

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In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege...

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A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today. Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" ...

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The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society — even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account...

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What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does terror affect a child's mind-and how can that mind recover...

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What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery...

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One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2021One of Bill Gates' Five Favorite Books of 2021...

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Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of social convention? In this brilliant and provocative classic, the distinguished feminist scholar Anne Fausto-Sterling argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about...

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In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt...

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A renowned psychologist argues that free will is not only real but essential to our well-being It's become fashionable to argue that free will is a fiction: that we humans are in the thrall of animal urges and unconscious biases...

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A "razor-sharp" introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) — and explains how its core tenets could effect positive change in America and worldwide...

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This revised edition of Applied Economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. It now includes a chapter on the economics of immigration and new sections of other chapters on such topics as the"creative" ...

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In The Case for Trump, acclaimed historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat ...

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating ...

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The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere...

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For however smart your Roomba or Alexa might seem, historically, robots have been fairly dumb. They are only able to do their jobs when given a narrow set of tasks, confined in a controlled environment, and overseen by a human operator...

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In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military...

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In this fifth edition of Basic Economics , Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics...

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