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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters cover

1. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters

by Pietra Rivoli

The Economics of Self-Destructive Choices (Advances in Japanese Business and Economics, 10) cover

2. The Economics of Self-Destructive Choices (Advances in Japanese Business and Economics, 10)

by Shinsuke Ikeda

Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) cover

3. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

by Joshua Spodek

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Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow cover

4. Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow

by Joshua Spodek

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Chaos: Making a New Science cover

5. Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick

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Essentials of Accounting cover

6. Essentials of Accounting

by Leslie Breitner, Leslie Pearlman Breitner, Robert Newton Anthony

The Lessons of History cover

7. The Lessons of History

by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character cover

8. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

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Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers cover

9. Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

by Ellen E. Schultz

Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets cover

10. Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets

by Jessica Pierce

The Making of Buddhist Modernism cover

11. The Making of Buddhist Modernism

by David L. McMahan

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A compiler generator (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation) cover

12. A compiler generator (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation)

by William Marshall McKeeman, James J. Horning, David B. Wortman

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

13. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic cover

14. A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic

by Om Swami

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Stretching: Pocket Book Edition cover

15. Stretching: Pocket Book Edition

by Bob Anderson

Metaphors We Live By cover

16. Metaphors We Live By

by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

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Riemannian Geometry cover

17. Riemannian Geometry

by Manfredo P. do Carmo

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm cover

18. This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

by Ted Genoways

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

19. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1) cover

20. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)

by Peter Wohlleben

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PC Intern: System Programming : The Encyclopedia of DOS Programming Know How (Developer's Series/Book and Disk) cover

21. PC Intern: System Programming : The Encyclopedia of DOS Programming Know How (Developer's Series/Book and Disk)

by Michael Tischer

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eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work cover

22. eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

by Randall E. Stross

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet cover

23. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

by Yasha Levine

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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science) cover

24. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (Popular Science)

by Nick Lane

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The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War cover

25. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War

by Samuel Eliot Morison

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

26. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup cover

27. Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup

by Bill Aulet

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Reliable software through composite design cover

28. Reliable software through composite design

by Glenford J. Myers

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Flight: My Life in Mission Control cover

29. Flight: My Life in Mission Control

by Christopher C. Kraft

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Psychology and Life Plus NEW MyLab Psychology with eText -- Access Card Package (20th Edition) cover

30. Psychology and Life Plus NEW MyLab Psychology with eText -- Access Card Package (20th Edition)

by Richard J. Gerrig

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment cover

31. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by Robert Wright

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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life cover

32. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

by Thomas Gilovich

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