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Does technology help create jobs? Economists throughout history have tried to settle the question. Adam Smith and other ...
A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios. By Jennifer Szalai Chilly thrillers, snowy fantasies and Alpine ...
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Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... This was reasonable, given the C.I.A.’s history, but Coll indicates that it was exactly the wrong fear.
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No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it ...
The bestselling author of “Presumed Innocent” has a new masterful legal thriller. A judge named Rusty finds his peaceful retirement disrupted when his troubled stepson and his girlfriend ...
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The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson were some of the most shocking deaths by brain injury in history, but this new book by brain surgeon Theodore H. Schwartz delves into ...
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