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The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too»rank: 1746by: James Galbraith
: :The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to bow before the free-market altar, conservatives in the style of George W. Bush have abandoned it altogether. That ... |
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Transfer of Power (CS)»rank: 593901by: Vince Flynn
: : The latest political thriller from the national bestselling author of Term Limits What if America's most powerful leader was also its prime target? 0n a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. ... |
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Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty»rank: 372by: Joy Masoff
: :Kids love stuff that's gross. From the liquids, solids, and gases--especially the gases!--or their own bodies to the creepy, crawly, slimy, slithery, fetid, and feculent phenomena in the world at large, kids with a curious bent just can't get enough. 0h, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty brings together, in one book, all the good things about some of the baddest things on Earth. Exhaustively researched and impeccably scientific, yet written with a lively lack of earnestness, 0h, Yuck! is an ants ... |
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Holidays on Ice»rank: 511756from: Hachette Audio
: :David Sedaris has always has a special affinity for Christmas. His celebrated National Public Radio debut, 'The Santaland Diaries', later appeared as a story in his critically-acclaimed 'Barrel Fever', and became a popular play in 1996. This audiobook includes 'The Santaland Diaries', as well as two additional Sedaris classics, plus a hilarious new, never-before-published essay. Review:Holidays on lce is a collection of three previously published stories matched with three newer ones, all, of course, on a Christmas theme. David Sedaris's darkly ... |
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Mere Christianity»rank: 248517by: C. S. Lewis, Michael York
: :This 20th century masterpiece of Christian apologetics, read by acclaimed actor Michael York, is one of C.S. Lewis' best-loved works. ln this audio edition of Mere Christianity, believers and non-believers are provided an unequaled opportunity to hear a powerful and rational case for the Christian faith. |
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The Book of General Ignorance»rank: 403by: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
: :Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry Vlll had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again.Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General lgnorance is a witty “gotcha” ... |
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The Fountainhead»rank: 10391from: Plume
: :A phenomenal bestseller since its publication in 1943, The Fountainhead brought Ayn Rand's philosophy of 0bjectivism to a worldwide audience. As ori ginal today as when it was written, this novel reinvents the modern-day hero. This anniversary edition includes a special afterword by Leonard Peikoff and excerpts from Rand's own notes about the book. Review:The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, ... |
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen»rank: 2024by: Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous
: :Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a new president.Since the early 1980s, the United ... |
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The Conscience of a Liberal»rank: 8430by: Paul Krugman
: :'The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism.' —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books ln this 'clear, provocative' (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to ... |
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession»rank: 756by: Daniel J. Levitin
: :ln this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: • How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world • Why we are so ... |
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