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  • MAY CONTAIN LIES
    MAY CONTAIN LIES
    ALEX EDMANS
    Adam Grant’s “8 New Idea Books to Start Spring”Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books for May 2024 How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are e...
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    Q. 250

  • THE WANNABE FASCISTS
    THE WANNABE FASCISTS
    FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN
    Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.   With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fasc...
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    Q. 250

  • AGROTROPOLIS
    AGROTROPOLIS
    WAY, J.T.
    u003cpu003eIn u003ciu003eAgrotropolis,u003c/iu003e historian J. T. Way traces the developments of Guatemalan urbanization and youth culture since 1983. In case studies that bring together political economy, popular music, and everyday life, Way explores the rise of urban space in towns seen as quintessentially "rural" and showcases grassroots cultural assertiveness. In a post-r...
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    Q. 410

  • CALIGULA
    CALIGULA
    ALOYS WINTERLING
    The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him, turned part of his palace into a brothel, a...
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    Q. 260

  • RULE OF EXPERTS. EGYPT, TECHNO-POLITICS, MODERNITY
    RULE OF EXPERTS. EGYPT, TECHNO-POLITICS, MODERNITY
    PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EA / TIMOTHY MITCHELL
    Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?u003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eRule of Experts u003c/iu003eexamines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on E...
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    Q. 585

  • MARKETING DEMOCRACY
    MARKETING DEMOCRACY
    JULIA PALEY
    "This will be an important book, and a powerful exemplar for the growing numbers of anthropologists who seek to place such things as democracy, citizenship, and neoliberalism under an ethnographic lens."—James Ferguson, author of u003ciu003eExpectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambin Copperbeltu003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003e"In joining activis...
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    Q. 540

  • COCAINE POLITICS
    COCAINE POLITICS
    PETER DALE SCOTT
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    Q. 210

  • THE FISH IN THE FOREST
    THE FISH IN THE FOREST
    DALE STOKES
    The Fish in the Forest is an elegantly written, beautifully illustrated exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem. Dale Stokes shows how nearly all aspects of this fragile ecosystem--from streambeds to treetops, from sea urchins to orcas to bears, from rain forests to kelp forests--are intimately li...
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    Q. 300

  • LAUGHTER IN ANCIENT ROME
    LAUGHTER IN ANCIENT ROME
    MARY BEARD
    What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the sp...
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    Q. 300

  • MASCULINITIES
    MASCULINITIES
    CONNELL, RAEWYN
    This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's groundbreaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. In its first edition, Masculinities provided one of the most important voices in feminist scholarship by men. Connell argued that there is no such thing as a single concept of masculinity, but, rather, that many different m...
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    Q. 580

  • BEYOND CLADISTICS: THE BRANCHING OF A PARADIGM
    BEYOND CLADISTICS: THE BRANCHING OF A PARADIGM
    DAVID WILLIAMS
    Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics - an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history - took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period - the 1960s and 1970s - much of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtu...
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    Q. 625

  • BECOMING DR. Q
    BECOMING DR. Q
    ALFREDO QUIÑONES-HINOJOSA
    Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story--from his impoverishe...
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    Q. 280

  • PATHWAYS OF POWER
    PATHWAYS OF POWER
    ERIC R. WOLF
    "Eric Wolf has literally set the terms for anthropological thinking about peasantries, culture and power, complex societies, and interactions between noncapitalist societies and capitalism. Every item in this excellent collection has stimulated and influenced both my own thought and that of many others in our field, as well as beyond it. " (Katherine Verdery, University of Mich...
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    Q. 480

  • 2000 YEARS OF MAYAN LITERATURE
    2000 YEARS OF MAYAN LITERATURE
    DENNIS TEDLOCK
    Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock?ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author?draws on d...
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    Q. 330