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“paul sabin”

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  • The Bet

    Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

    by Paul Sabin ...

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Bet

    Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

    by Paul Sabin ...
    In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine—with apocalyptic ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden

    A First Historical Assessment

    by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, María Cristina García, Joel K. Goldstein, Michael Kazin, Daniel C. Kurtzer, Joyce Mao, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Timothy Naftali, Ekaterina Pravilova, Noah Rosenblum, Paul Sabin, Timothy Stewart-Winter, Sean H. Vanatta, John Witt, Mary Ziegler ...
    Leading historians offer the first look at Biden’s four years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Joseph R. Biden presents a first draft of history by providing insights into how this one-term president fits within the broader historical forces shaping the United States in the twenty-first century. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings together some of today’s leading scholars to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Public Citizens

    The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

    by Paul Sabin ...
    **“Crisp, clear, eloquent.” –Kim Phillips-Fein, New RepublicAn “elegantly argued and meticulously documented” (Timothy Noah, New York Times Book Review) account of the postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society.**In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

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    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? ... Read more

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  • David and Goliath

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  • Gone Girl

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    by Gillian Flynn ...
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  • The Great Divergence

    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

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    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

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  • Let them Eat Tweets

    How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
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  • Don't Blame Us

    Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

    by Lily Geismer ...
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    Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily ... Read more

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