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  • The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies

    by William Preston Robertson ...
    Series series The Year's Work
    A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences—westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus—and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies contains ... Read more

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  • Elements of Pure Economics

    by Léon Walras ...
    Translated by William Jaffé ...
    Elements of Pure Economics was one of the most influential works in the history of economics, and the single most important contribution to the marginal revolution. Walras' theory of general equilibrium remains one of the cornerstones of economic theory more than 100 years after it was first published. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...

    Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

    by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein ...
    This New York Times bestseller with a recently refreshed look is the hilarious, insightful philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school"[Cathcart and Klein] know their stuff and wear their learnedness lightly, and Plato and a Platypus is a pleasure to read . . . I can't help but love this book, and I have been quoting liberally from it." — Philosophy NowOutrageously funny, Plato an... ... Read more

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  • The Queer Art of Failure

    by Jack Halberstam ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and ... Read more

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  • Pricing the Future

    Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation

    by George G Szpiro ...
    Options have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prize -- winning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the "quants." Wall Street would never be the same.In Pricing the Future, financial economist George G. Szpiro tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who ... Read more

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  • Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics

    The British Connection in French Classicism

    by Samuel Hollander ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    This book explores the perceived paradigmatic conflict within British classical economics between the so called 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. Samuel Hollander provides the reader with extensive evidence, utilizing all editions of Say's main texts and his lesser-known writings in order to demonstrate his adherence to much of Ricardian theory.This ... Read more

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  • Reality Hunger

    by David Shields ...
    A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete ... Read more

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  • Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity

    Edited by Richard Feist, Chantal Beauvais, Rajesh Shukla ...
    Series series Philosophica
    A philosophical examination of technology’s growing influence. This pioneering collection explores the relationship between technology and free will. Rejecting the notion of technology as a neutral addition to our lives, the contributors examine the type and degree of our society’s technological dependence. Technology is revealed as something from which we have, and will continue to have, ... Read more

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  • Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love

    A Journey to the End of Taste

    by Carl Wilson ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking ... Read more

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  • Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation

    The Origins of Modern Finance

    by Mark Davis, Louis Bachelier, Alison Etheridge ...
    March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away from those usually considered by our candidates," appreciated its high degree of originality. This book provides a new translation, ... Read more

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  • On Being Awesome

    A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck

    by Nick Riggle ...
    In this lively treatise, pro-skater-turned-philosopher Nick Riggle presents a theory of awesomeness (and its opposite, suckiness) that’s both sharply illuminating and more timely than ever“Nick Riggle’s fun book is ‘awesome’ by its own definition. But don’t miss its profound ambition, which is to show how philosophy unearths the structure of ordinary language, defines the meaning of life in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Specter of Capital

    by Joseph Vogl ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalism—with its bewildering array of new instruments—by tracing the historical stages through which the financial market achieved its current autonomy. Classical and neoclassical economic theorists have played a decisive role here. Ignoring early warnings about the instability of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD