Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Hardcover - Michael Lewis

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From the author of Liar's Poker and The Big Short, this is the laugh-out-loud tale of Europe in meltdown, now in paperback. 'Michael Lewis's bravur...

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Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Action Party's signature style of tec...

Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his tra...

All of the color, gaiety, and charm of Burma springs to life with this master story-teller, despite the fact that at the time of his visit much of ...

From the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER comes the definitive 21st-century business storyP...

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The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

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Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.

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Mimi explores the beautiful coasts and countrysides of Italy in this lavishly photographed cookbook featuring simple, authentic recipes inspired by...

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The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man fro...

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"I would like . . . to help dreamers, they find it hard to get on in life." -- Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel, born in Sweden in 1833, was a brilliant i...

In the latest fruit of a brilliant career, Michael Nagler argues that nonviolence--not just as a tactic but as a way of being--is the only way to u...

In this rich and original photo book, Austrian photographer Michael Koenigshofer explores how lives are lived in the intense and extreme environmen...

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Many black neighborhoods in New Orleans are perceived by outsiders as being areas of decay. However, to photographer Michael P. Smith, in these nei...

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A black student is shot dead during a demonstration claiming "Beethoven Was Black" in Bonn's historic M nsterplatz with its majestic monument to th...

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Once in a while a travel book comes along that pushes at the boundaries of the genre. Quondam: Travels in a Once World does exactly that, asking us...

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An exploration of Crowley's relationship with the United States - Details Crowley's travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick,...

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The Cambridge Handbook of Environment in Human Development - Linda Mayes, Michael Lewis

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In this now classic text, December Green and Laura Luehrmann show how history, economics, and politics converge to create the realities of life in ...

The illustrated diary of Japanese Navy floatplane pilot Warrant Officer Nemoto Kumesako, dating from the early months of the Pacific War, presented...

How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world.Have you logged into Facebook rec...