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Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
Roberto Bolaño and Ignacio Echevarria and Natasha Wimmer
The essays of Roberto Bolano in English at last. Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered ...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom
An indispensable handbook to the art of scepticism from two brilliantly contrarian scientists. We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we?Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture eleva...
How to Win an Indian Election: What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know
Shivam Shankar Singh
What role do political consultants play in election campaigns? How are political parties using technological tools such as data analytics, surveys and alternative media to construct effective, micro-targeted campaigns? How does the use of money impa...
Mark Twain on Religion: What Is Man, the War Prayer, Thou Shalt Not Kill, the Fly, Letters From the Earth
Mark Twain
Book Description: Mark Twain talks about his personal views on religion, the Bible and God, in these five writings. Table of Contents: Publisher’s Preface; What Is Man? And Other Essays Of Mark Twain; What Is Man?; The Death Of Jean; The Turning...
Selected Non-Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prolo...
Why Honor Matters
Tamler Sommers
A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamle...