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Mungo Parks Ghost (Kennedy Dane (George Washington University Washington DC))The British sent two large expeditions to Africa in 1816, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. The forgotten story of their disastrous failures is a revealing case study of the hubris that spurred the exploration of |
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Emma (Wisehouse Classics - With Illustrations by H.M. Brock) (2016) (Austen Jane)AMMA, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy o... |
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Fdrs Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism (Kalman Laura)A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates. In the last past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that famously crashed and burned in the... |
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Victory CityThe epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie. In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten k... |
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Mukherjee Siddhartha)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is an extraordinary achievement (The New Yorker)--a magnificent, profoundly humane biography of cancer--from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the tw... |
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Jupiters Legacy, Volume 4 (Netflix Edition) (Millar Mark)The superheroes have taken over the world, and only the supervillains can save us from their disastrous mistakes and monumental hubris. Hutch and Chloe have been in hiding with their son, but now theyre gathering a team of supervillains to go back to America to retake the White House in the name of ... |
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History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies (Hardt Mark D.)Beginning in the mid-19th century tremendous gains were made in the historical struggle with infectious diseases. The emergence of modern medicine and epidemiology, and the establishment of public health measures, helped urban populations overcome a historical death penalty. The conquest of infectio... |
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What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Paul Jim)Jim Pauls meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all--his fortune, his reputation, and his job--in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit th... |
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Politics and the Knowledge Economy: A Sympathetic History of Three Decades of Hubris (ODonovan Nick (Manchester Metropolitan University))In the 1990s, the knowledge economy was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization - an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing levels of social exclusion and widening regional inequa... |
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Trinity, Trinity, Trinity (Kobayashi Erika)Delicately weaves generations of women to the lasting wounds of nuclear destruction and the hubris of war. A unique and unforgettable novel. --Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of Light A literary thriller about the effects of nuclear power on the mind, body, and recorded history of three gener... |
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Al Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of Al-Qaeda and Its Consequences (Mendelsohn Barak)The al-Qaeda Franchise asks why al-Qaeda adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. After all, transnational terrorist organizations can expand through other organizational strategies. Forming franchises was not an inevitable o... |
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The Power LawFrom an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a legendary venture capitalist to... |
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Dark Desert Highway - Mick Wall'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', yet for The Eagles their story was one where the dividing line between ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows was blurred beyond recognition, blinded by white-powdered double-visio... |
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Good War (Fairweather Jack)In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph, a good war in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. This book explores the intentions and hubris that caused the Wests strategy in Afghanistan to flounder, refuting the long-held notion that the war could have been won ... |
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Winners Take All (Anand Giridharadas)*The International Bestseller*'Superb, hugely enjoyable ... a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' Aditya Chakrabortty, GuardianWhat explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand G... |
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Into the WildNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to ... |
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Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Leffler Melvyn P.)A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no way predetermined. Americas decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains cen... |
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Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War (Sixsmith Martin)Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipola... |
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Bad BloodA National Besteller"ChillingReads like a West Coast version ofAll the President's Men."The New York Times Book ReviewThe full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story a... |
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"Hubris" ("Kristo Rodzevski") (CD / Album (Jewel Case)) |
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