Category - Business & Economics
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From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Int...
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How...
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Better Prosperity: On Justice and Affluence in America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This timely and thoughtful volume tracks the American experiment with special attention to justice and prosperity. Its wide-ranging survey begins...
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The Rise of the Creative Class
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century — now updated with ...
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head--from the "brilliant, deepl...
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards "A smart and accessible cultural history."-Los Angeles Times "A fantastic examination of what b...
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Welcome and necessary...illuminating and revelatory." - The New Yorker The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to micro...
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Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the America...
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time i...
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply s...
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards "A smart and accessible cultural history."-Los Angeles Times A portrait--by turns celebratory, ...
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their comm...
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Worn: A People's History of Clothing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of--an unparalleled deep-dive i...
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history an...
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency"[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of ...
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty Before there was money, there was ...
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Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British lifeFrom its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth ce...
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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today's multi-billion-dollar diversity industry--and provides...
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that bi...
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