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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

Published: 2016-09-06

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Longlisted for the National Book AwardNew York Times BestsellerA former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our liv...

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Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

by Derek Thompson

Published: 2017-02-07

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off." -- Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKENothing “goes viral.” If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-o...

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The Daughters of Ireland (Deverill Chronicles)

by Santa Montefiore

Published: 2017-08-15

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Ireland. 1925.  The war is over. But life will never be the same... "Everything Santa Montefiore writes, she writes from the heart,” says JOJO MOYES. See why in this unforgettable story of love, loss, and life, perfect for fans of DOWNTON ABBEY and KATE MORTON.In the green hills of Wes...

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Daughters of Castle Deverill

by Santa Montefiore

Published: 2016-07-14

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The sweeping new novel from number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore. It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again. Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland for hundreds of years, has burned to the...

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The Royal Rabbits of London

by Santa Montefiore, Simon Sebag Montefiore

Published: 2017-03-23

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Life is an adventure. Anything in the world is possible - by will and by luck, with a moist carrot, a wet nose and a slice of mad courage! Shylo has always been the runt of the litter, the weakest and queitest of all of his family, his siblings spend their days making fun of him for not being like the...

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Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry

by Clayton W. Barrows, Tom Powers, Dennis R. Reynolds

Published: 2011-02-15

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Readers seeking management careers in hospitality will enter a dynamic industry filled with opportunities. The rewards are many, but so are the challenges. Today's hospitality managers must deal with such complex factors as globalization, terrorism threats, ecotourism, internet commerce, n...

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My Ántonia (Norton Critical Editions)

by Willa Cather

Published: 2015-08-26

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In the final volume in her prairie trilogy, Willa Cather fully transforms memory into art to create her most autobiographical novel. Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather’s own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant,...

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The Increment: A Novel

by David Ignatius

Published: 2010-05-03

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The New York Times bestseller: “A remarkably timely and pulse-quickening tale of deception, divided loyalty, and moral haziness.”?Raleigh News & Observer Harry Pappas, chief of the CIA’s Persia House, receives an encrypted message from a scientist in Tehran. But soon the source of se...

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Espresso Tales

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2006-07-11

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44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother.    Back are all o...

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Through a Glass, Darkly: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

by Donna Leon

Published: 2015-06-09

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On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and Inspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti—an environmental activist arrested during a protest against toxic waste being dumped into the city’s waters—released from prison. But on the ...