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by Bridget Brennan
Understand how women buy to tap into their significant purchasing power, a key skill for businesses in today's economy.
by Rita Franceschini
Franceschini's "Retorica" explains the ancient art of persuasion and shows its lasting power to shape thoughts and actions.
by V. S. Naipaul
In Trinidad, a failed schoolteacher becomes a respected mystic, entrepreneur, and politician, navigating a world of odd characters and social quirks with wit and charm.
by Jerry Z. Muller
Jerry Z. Muller traces conservatism's intellectual history from Enlightenment critiques to modern thought, showing its unique identity and repeated arguments across centuries and cultures.
by Mark Ivor Satin
Mark Ivor Satin's 'New Age Politics' imagines a decentralized, holistic society where personal change and ecological wisdom form the basis of a new political future.
by Richard H.F. Lindemann
This catalog unearths every creature, place, and hidden detail from Dr. Seuss's long career, from first editions to Latin translations.
by Patrick White
In the Australian wilderness, one man's quiet struggle to cultivate land and family shows the poetry of an ordinary life across generations.
by Per Jarle Bekken
This study examines Paul's interpretation of Deuteronomy 30:12-14 in Romans 10, showing how his seemingly unusual reading fits within the Jewish exegetical traditions of his era, similar to methods used by Philo and Baruch.
by Pasquale De Marco
This deep look into psychology examines what bad luck is, offering a kind guide to understanding its causes and building resilience through old wisdom.
by T.C. Boyle
In 1907, a funny group of characters arrives at Dr. Kellogg's Battle Creek Spa, where they swap steaks for enemas and common sense for a longer life in a wild search for health and money.
by V. S. Naipaul
Two English expatriates, once liberated by Africa, face a harrowing drive through a land consumed by tribal conflict, their journey a microcosm of a continent teetering on the brink of Idi Amin-like tyranny.
by Gillian Tett
Gillian Tett shows how J.P. Morgan's credit derivatives, conceived at a Boca Raton poolside, sparked a banking revolution that ultimately fueled the 2008 financial crisis through a mix of ambition and greed.
by Chester Carroll Farr
This lab manual helps users learn to cultivate field crops through experiments, from soil analysis to harvest.
by Susanna Clarke
In an alternate 19th-century England where magic is a forgotten art, two rival magicians, one reclusive and traditional, the other charismatic and daring, bring back ancient powers, inadvertently plunging their nation into a dangerous struggle with dark fae and forgotten enchantments.