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Revised and updated edition of this award-winning study of debt.

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"A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."-Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Ti...

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Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this ve...

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"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." —bell hooks bell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and profes...

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The strange tale of how one Jewish family —the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories over the course of the last 2 centuries. For more than 200 years, the name "Rothschild" has been synonymous with two th...

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The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, a...

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A smart and funny manifesto about the simple art of hanging out and how our collective social experiences can be transformed into acts of resistance and solidarity, from a brilliant young feminist critic. Almost every day it seems that our world b...

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Paperback edition of the history of bureaucracy, from the author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years". A powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, it reveals how bureaucracy shapes our lives in ways we may not eve...

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"The best biography of Lord Byron ever written," according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades. Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life...

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The rat race of Wall Street is turned on its head when Bartleby the copier decides that he simply would prefer not to in this absorbing early modernist tale.

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Throwing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House’s new series, FUTURES. Over a long, hot Christmas in Austral...

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Award-winning historian Jeff Biggers opens a new window into the hidden treasures of Sardinia in a groundbreaking travel narrative that crisscrosses one of the most enigmatic places in Italy After three decades of living and traveling in Italy, Je...

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"An indispensable must-read. This is THE book to read to understand what’s going on in the cases against Trump.” — Joy Reid, MSNBC News anchor and host of The ReidOut A former prosecutor provides an essential guide to ensuri...

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"A modern-day classic... equally audacious and brilliant."-Ron Charles, Washington Post All is not boding well for Father Julius. . . A street preacher decked out in denim robes and running shoes, Julius is a source of inspiration for a ...

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A close look at the whole Trump phenomenon, using psychological and social science studies, and polling analyses, to understand who, exactly, Donald Trump's followers are. How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, ...

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This short, accessible, and argument-driven book shows the way to 100% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. Most experts agree that we need to get to negative greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by the year 2050 in order to stave off the most cat...

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While Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most discussed artists of all time, it's shocking how little is actually known about him at least, according to most of his biographies. Why did he leave his small hometown? Why didn't he complete so many proj...

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A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic saint, Simone ...

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In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and Donald Trump's initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the "antifa" opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And w...

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A young man too destitute to propose marriage to his beloved finds a morally dubious means of making money by publishing the love letters another woman wrote to him in this deft, psychological portrait of how social status, money, and self-decepti...

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mystery of a terrifying, ancient curse and its deadly ramifications for the Baskerville family in this tale set in the dark and murky English moors. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas incl...

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Vivid realism captures the attitudes of Felicite the housemaid and her life of domestic servitude in this deceptively simple tale. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collec...

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Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville H...

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Presents a tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne're-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan. This work features two of the author's unforgettable characters, the ultra-vivid Cockneys Peachy Carnahan an...

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Features a romance between an adventurous British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing - and mysterious - hostility. Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders? This story c...

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The classic story of a sixteenth-century man who suffers injustice and takes the law into his own hands. After horse trader Kohlhaas protests an unfair tax, things escalate until he becomes the heroic leader of a rebellion against the king.

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One of Dostoevsky's best-yet least known-works in its first-ever stand-alone publication. The tale of two men engaged in a twisted psychological duel-after one learns the other had an affair with his wife-builds to a startling conclusion.

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Mark Twain's classic tale is a funny yet blistering indictment of political hypocrisy. A mysterious stranger is treated badly by the town of Hadleyburg-the town that proclaims itself "the most honest and upright town in the region." Thro...

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The master of realism, George Eliot, makes a daring departure in this dark tale of ESP, mesmerism, and telepathy. In this little-known story-the only thing she ever wrote using a first-person voice-she explores the psychological state of a man who...

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Balzac's erotically charged tale of a rich and ruthless young man in nineteenth-century Paris is a daring classic. The hero, jaded in his pursuit of pleasure and novelty, falls into an amorous entanglement with a mysterious beauty. Through his gro...

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