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Founder & CEO @mlxdoing Economic AI. @DevEconX Causal impact. Affiliate @The_IGC. Ex-Prof @UCBerkeley, @cornell_tech. Visit 👉 https://t.co/ywmCg4QU5m

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Book Cover for: Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters, Freeman Dyson

Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters

Freeman Dyson
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Hearing great things about Freeman Dyson's “Maker of Patterns”. One of the most noteworthy Americans in history. https://t.co/DhKUnUTfsu

Hardcover, 2018

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight
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It’s more than “just do it.” Evidence from Phil Knight of Nike with some great morning quotes (from Shoe Dog, his memoirs): “Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.”

Paperback, 2018

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway
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“Now is not the time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” —Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Paperback, 1995

$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ninth Census of the United States: Agriculture, United States

Ninth Census of the United States: Agriculture

United States
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“Many Filipinos came to work in agriculture, primarily on fruit and vegetable farms along the West Coast and sugarcane plantations in Hawaii, though some came to the United States to obtain education.”

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Book Cover for: Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: Tex: The Program, Donald Knuth

Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: Tex: The Program

Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth who made (La)TeX went even further in the late ‘80s: “Thus, I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual…

Hardcover, 1986

$69.99$44.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: My Journeys in Economic Theory, Edmund Phelps

My Journeys in Economic Theory

Edmund Phelps
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🆕My Journeys in Economic Theory by Edmund Phelps. “….this book shares the joy of intellectual achievement: the excitement of coming up with a new idea that radically departs from prevailing views and the satisfaction of exercising one’s own ingenuity...” https://t.co/Vqe0GPWiU8 https://t.co/Y2M0evcMVb

Hardcover, 2023

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Book Cover for: Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom

Milton Friedman
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@sarahlouwou @paulgp From the Capitalism and Freedom book by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman. https://t.co/ERuqNUUbQB

Paperback, 2020

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Luis A. Caffarelli

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Luis A. Caffarelli
Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.DKweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D

Luis Caffarelli has won the 2022 Abel Prize for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation: https://t.co/zu9XwxTXDv https://t.co/MtHLA5nh5D

Paperback, 2011

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries, Pranab Bardhan

A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries

Pranab Bardhan
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Today at 2pm! 📚 Join .@OxfordEconDept & .@ODID_QEH in the Manor Road lecture theatre for a book talk by the great Pranab Bardhan about his book “A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries”. https://t.co/d8K9zdnZjr

Hardcover, 2022

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness, Maureen Murdock

The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness

Maureen Murdock
Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.DKweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D

@Noahpinion The female protagonist storytelling framework equivalent of Campbell’s classic “Hero’s Journey” is actually called “The Heroine’s Journey” by Maureen Murdock, Campbell’s student. It’s in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Hunger Games, Moana, the Silence of the Lambs, and many more.

Paperback, 2020

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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