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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right …

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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
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New York: The Penguin Press, 2011
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The Alphabet and the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
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In this groundbreaking book, Leonard Shlain, author of the bestselling Art & Physics, proposes that alphabetic …

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Civilization Before Greece and Rome
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For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two …

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Road to Riches or The Wealth of Man
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000
This book tells the story of the rise and the fall of whole economies and nations, the ascent …

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A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2000
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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
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In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the …

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A History of Private Life – V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times
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The fifth and final volume in an award-winning …

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