No Joke
Ruth R. Wisse
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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterwor
Econometrics
Bruce Hansen
Econometrics is the quantitative language of economic theory, analysis, and empirical work, and has become a cornerstone of graduate economics programs. Econometrics provides graduate and PhD stude
Probability and Statistics for Economists
Probability theory is the quantitative language used to handle uncertainty and is the foundation of modern statistics. Probability and Statistics for Economists provides graduate and PhD students w
The Making of Barbarians
Haun Saussy
Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The M
Crabs
Peter J. F. Davie
This lavishly illustrated book offers a remarkable look at the world’s crabs. More than 7,000 crab species, in 100 different families, are known today. Their unique physiology and complex behaviors
Trading at the Speed of Light
Donald MacKenzie
In today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execu
What We Owe Each Other
Minouche Shafik
Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, p
Leviathan on a Leash
Sean Fleming
States are commonly blamed for wars, called on to apologize, held liable for debts and reparations, bound by treaties, and punished with sanctions. But what does it mean to hold a state responsible
Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide
Christopher L Caterine
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An indispensable guide for grad students and academics who want to find fulfilling careers outside higher education An estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanitie
Metrics at Work
Angele Christin
When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traffic and activity. Has this advent of audi
Know Your Remedies
He Bian
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Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a co
Not Born Yesterday
Hugo Mercier
Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe—and argues that we’re pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier
Utopophobia
David Estlund
Throughout the history of political philosophy and politics, there has been continual debate about the roles of idealism versus realism. For contemporary political philosophy, this debate manifests
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers
Xuetong Yan
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Why Not Default?
Jerome E. Roos
How creditors came to wield unprecedented power over heavily indebted countries―and the dangers this poses to democracy The European debt crisis has rekindled long-standing debates about
How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls
David Hu
Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach us Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how
The New Mind Readers
Russell A. Poldrack
The ability to read minds has long been a fascination of science fiction, but revolutionary new brain-imaging methods are bringing it closer to scientific reality. The New Mind Readers provides a c
A Crisis of Beliefs
Nicola Gennaioli
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How investor expectations move markets and the economy The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescu
Talaat Pasha
Hans-Lukas Kieser
Talaat Pasha (1874–1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern Turkey. He was also the architect of the Armenian Genocide, w
The Art of Being Governed
Michael Szonyi
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How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their oblig
Metacommunity Ecology
Mathew A. Leibold
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochastici
Big Mind
Geoff Mulgan
A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. T
A Different Kind of Animal
Robert Boyd
Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature a
The Diversity Bonus
Scott E. Page
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thin
Modern Classical Physics
Kip S. Thorne
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The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
Robert I. Rotberg
Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globally Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Abraham Flexner
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A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs. A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony
Kevin N. Laland
Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit
The Great Leveler
Walter Scheidel
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequ
Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models
Edward P. Herbst
