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Money

The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

by Jacob Goldstein ...

**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of ... Read more

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**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of
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The Last Summer

A Tale of the Glawackus

by Jacob Jones-Goldstein, JW Harp ...

Series Book 26 - Systema Paradoxa
There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes ... Read more

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There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes
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MONEY

The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

by Jacob Goldstein ...

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The cohost of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at money, a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years... from the rise of coins in ... Read more

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The cohost of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at money, a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years... from the rise of coins in
... Read more
Scary Stuff

A Horror Anthology

Edited by Nicholas Leamy, Jacob Jones-Goldstein ...

Strange sounds in the dark. A weird person watching from across the street. The dread of an unknown call at three in the morning. All these evoke a primal response. Scary Stuff is a collection of short stories in the vein of Tales from the Crypt and other horror classics, meant to tap into those deep fears.You hold in your hands a tribute to the classic style of horror published in comics from the ... Read more

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Strange sounds in the dark. A weird person watching from across the street. The dread of an unknown call at three in the morning. All these evoke a primal response. Scary Stuff is a collection of short stories in the vein of Tales from the Crypt and other horror classics, meant to tap into those deep fears.You hold in your hands a tribute to the classic style of horror published in comics from the
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Money

The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

by Jacob Goldstein ...

Narrated by Jacob Goldstein ...

Unabridged

5 hours 37 min

**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of ... Read more

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**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of
... Read more

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Tales of Steel And Sorcery

A Fantasy Anthology

by Nicholas Leamy, Jonathan Maberry ...

Tales of Steel and Sorcery is a collection of Fantasy stories from every corner of the genre. The stories in Tales of Steel and Sorcery take you on adventure after adventure. Be it the familial bonds of "Dragons and Domesticity" by Jessica Andrewartha, the wizardly court intrigue of Jon Negroni's "The Fool Who Learned the Spell," or David Shoemaker's epic poem "The Bard's Song," there is something ... Read more

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Tales of Steel and Sorcery is a collection of Fantasy stories from every corner of the genre. The stories in Tales of Steel and Sorcery take you on adventure after adventure. Be it the familial bonds of "Dragons and Domesticity" by Jessica Andrewartha, the wizardly court intrigue of Jon Negroni's "The Fool Who Learned the Spell," or David Shoemaker's epic poem "The Bard's Song," there is something
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International Financial Policy: Essays in honor of Jacques J. Polak

Edited by Morris Mr. Goldstein, Jacob Mr. Frenkel ...

During his distinguished career at the IMF, Jacques J. Polak served as both Director of Research and, subsequently as a member of the IMF Executive Board. His distinct contribution to the discipline of international financial policy is highlighted in this book edited by Jacob A. Frenkel and Morris Goldstein. The papers included were prepared for a conference, cosponsored by the Netherlands Bank ... Read more

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During his distinguished career at the IMF, Jacques J. Polak served as both Director of Research and, subsequently as a member of the IMF Executive Board. His distinct contribution to the discipline of international financial policy is highlighted in this book edited by Jacob A. Frenkel and Morris Goldstein. The papers included were prepared for a conference, cosponsored by the Netherlands Bank
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Edible Alliums

Botany, Production and Uses

by Avinash Ade, Sarah Almulla, Edivânio R. Araújo, Ashwini Benke, Andrés Bermúdez, Abdul Karim Darkal, Gabriel Dorado, Nikolai Friesen, Mostafa Abdelrahman, Suresh GawandeI, Pranjali Gedam, Irwin L. Goldman, Pilar Hernández, Yoshihiro Imahori, Claus Jacob, R Kamenetsky Goldstein, Anil Khar, Kiran Khandagale, Mirtes F. Lima, Neelima Mahato, Jesús Martín, Sameena Mateen, Muhammad Jawad Nasim, Yannick Ney, Srinath Pashikanti, Ross Peters, Samjhana Pradhan, Pragati Randive, Renata S. Resende, Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem, Muhammad Sarfraz, Kavita Sharma, Einat Shemesh-Mayer, Masayoshi Shigyo, Dhananjay Shirsat, Major Singh, Hikaru Tsukazaki, Turgay Unver, Atsushi Yamasaki ...

Series series Botany, Production and Uses
Allium crops include more than 30 species, many of which (for e.g. onions, shallots, garlic, leeks, bunching onions, and chives) are of economic importance. Bulb onions rank second only to tomatoes in terms of global production. Alliums are farmed and harvested in a range of climatic conditions worldwide, forming important parts of local diets. This book provides a comprehensive review of major ... Read more

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Allium crops include more than 30 species, many of which (for e.g. onions, shallots, garlic, leeks, bunching onions, and chives) are of economic importance. Bulb onions rank second only to tomatoes in terms of global production. Alliums are farmed and harvested in a range of climatic conditions worldwide, forming important parts of local diets. This book provides a comprehensive review of major
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International Folkloristics

Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore

by Béla Bartók, Séamus Ó Duilearga, James George Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Kenneth S. Goldstein, Antonio Gramsci, Jacob Grimm, Reinhold Köhler, Kaarle Krohn, Wilhelm Mannhardt, Max Müller, Axel Olrik, Giuseppe Pitrè, Vladimir Propp, Géza Róheim, William Thoms, Arnold van Gennep, Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, W.B Yeats, Yuri Sokolov, Boris Sokolov ...

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is ... Read more

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International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is
... Read more
Functioning of the International Monetary System

by Jacob Mr. Frenkel, Morris Mr. Goldstein ...

The fiftieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference served as an opportunity to reappraise the desirability of strengthening the IMF's oversight of the functioning of the international monetary system. Whatever the design of an exchange rate system and the arrangements for the provision of international liquidity, it is widely accepted that to be effective such oversight must rest on a strong ... Read more

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The fiftieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference served as an opportunity to reappraise the desirability of strengthening the IMF's oversight of the functioning of the international monetary system. Whatever the design of an exchange rate system and the arrangements for the provision of international liquidity, it is widely accepted that to be effective such oversight must rest on a strong
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Equality

More or Less

by Robert E. Tully, Bruce Chilton, Brandon Jason Archuleta, Richard H. Davis, Morten G. Ender, David S. Frey, George W. Gawrych, Robert J. Goldstein, Christopher W. Jacobs0, Hugh Liebert1, Betsy Lucal2, Courtney Morris3, Graham Parsons4, Darya Pushkina5, Shai Secunda6, Tehseen Thaver7, Dominique Townsend8 ...

Series series Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point
The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed ... Read more

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The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed
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Characteristics of a Successful Exchange Rate System

by Paul Mr. Masson, Morris Mr. Goldstein, Jacob Mr. Frenkel ...

Series Book 82 - Occasional Papers
This study identifies the key characteristics of a successful exchange rate system. It focuses on regimes in the industrial countries and consider the implications for the operation of the international monetary system. ... Read more

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This study identifies the key characteristics of a successful exchange rate system. It focuses on regimes in the industrial countries and consider the implications for the operation of the international monetary system.
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