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Check out bestselling author and Nobel prize-winning economist George Akerlof and Duke economist Rachel Kranton’s intriguing new book IDENTITY ECONOMICS: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being, which we’re publishing in March. They have published an enlightening yet sure-to-be criticized op-ed in today’s Financial Times. What do you think? Do pay-for-performance systems work on Wall Street? Do they work in other industries? I welcome your thoughts.
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Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
by Mark P. Witton.
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For 150 million years, the skies didn’t belong to birds–they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. This richly illustrated book takes an unprecedented look at these astonishing creatures, presenting the latest findings on their anatomy, ecology, and extinction.
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These are the best-selling books for the past week.
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College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco |
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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson |
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil |
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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today’s Computers by John MacCormick |
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On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt |
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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino Selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood Translated by Martin McLaughlin |
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Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T.J. Clark |
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Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach Translated by Shelley Frisch |
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird |
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Tell me, where you can find a book on the Internet or how to buy it in Ukraine, Kiev?