Hubris

How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars - Billy Gallagher

A fast-paced, highly readable history of one of the defining companies of our time. If you're interested in Snapchat, or just plain mystified by it, you must read this book' -- Brad StoneWould you turn down three billion dollars from Mark Zuckerberg?When he was just twenty-three years old, Evan Spie...

"Hubris in Excelsis" ("Scythian") (Vinyl / 12" Album)

Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witchs Mouth (Fritscher Jack)

In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen Kings immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contempo...

Victory City - Rushdie Salman

The 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...

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...

Requiem for a Species (Hamilton Clive)

This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. This book is about why we h...

Museum Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability (Cameron Fiona R.)

This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions, methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically refiguring the epistemological foundations of curatoria...

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...

Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History (Auzanneau Matthieu)

Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.--Nature The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of ou...

Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It (Tang Aaron)

How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices partisan leanings rather than on a fa...