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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider : How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels
Heard, Stephen B.Yale University Press 2020An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial sy...
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The Vory : Russia's Super Mafia
Galeotti, MarkYale University Press 2018The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era gulags to become Russia’s international criminal class. Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on or...
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Grave New World : The End of Globalization, the Return of History
King, Stephen D.Yale University Press 2017A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic orderGlobalization, long considered the best route to economic pro...
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The Innovation Illusion : How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
Erixon, Fredrik; Weigel, BjörnYale University Press 2016Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial—a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growthConventional wisdom ho...
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A Little History of Religion
Holloway, RichardYale University Press 2016"For readers in search of a thoughtful, thorough, and approachable survey of the history of religion, this book is an excellent place to start."—Booklist Written for those with fa...
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An American Genocide : The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Madley, BenjaminYale University Press 2016The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perh...
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Suspended Sentences : Three Novellas
Modiano, PatrickYale University Press 2014A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author...