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The Genetic Lottery : Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Harden, Kathryn PaigePrinceton University Press 2021A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DN...
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The Grownup
Flynn, GillianCrown 2015NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling t...
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Dataclysm : Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
Rudder, ChristianCrown 2014A New York Times Bestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on u...
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The Divide : American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Taibbi, MattRandom House Publishing Group 2014NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the...
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Social : Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Lieberman, Matthew D.Crown 2013We are profoundly social creatures—more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that ou...
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When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Lowenstein, RogerRandom House Publishing Group 2001“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...