Category - Business & Economics
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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the impor...
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban,...
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Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents “a trailblazing study” (Kirkus Reviews) that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for ...
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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that ...
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition i...
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Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /How identity influences the economic choices we make Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavio...
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Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition / Edition 5
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Now in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas. In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, profes...
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Knowledge resistance: How we avoid insight from others
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society’s many problems? In a world of ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’ that som...
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The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The extensively revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg’s hugely popular book, The Armchair Economist—“a delightful compendium of quotidi...
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban,...
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Brownfields Redevelopment: Case Studies and Concepts in Community Revitalization
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In urban planning, a brownfield is a former industrial or commercial site where environmental contamination hinders development. They exist in al...
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The High Cost of Free Parking: Updated Edition / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /One of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how ...
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The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates
PaperbackOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy - the "market-institutional" perspective - which e...
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Harvard Square: A Love Story
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Harvard Square isn't what it used to be." Spend any time there, and you're bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same th...
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The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Get the best from accelerating social change with the new book from the bestselling author of 2030 and "acclaimed thought leader" (Kirkus), Mauro G...
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The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of the 2023 SABEW Best in Business Book Award for Investing and Personal FinanceAn award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysi...
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How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities. When ...
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Freakonomics REV Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive dis...
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The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems. In The Two-Parent Privilege, Mel...
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Energy and Equity
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Ivan Illich poses that human problems must be solved by the impressment of still more "energy slaves' to meet the expanding demand of human masters...
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Nudge: The Final Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /*Once again a New York Times bestseller! First the original edition, and now the new Final Edition* An essential new edition―revised and updated fr...
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University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that ...
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On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.We live in less i...
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The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Economist's Best Books of 2023 Forbes Top 10 Business Books of 2023Financial Times' Monthly Best Business Books to Read Pick In this "handboo...
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