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“stephen poloz”

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  • The Next Age of Uncertainty

    How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future

    by Stephen Poloz ...
    ***WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD**FINALIST FOR THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, a far-seeing guide to the powerful economic forces that will shape the decades ahead.**The economic ground is shifting beneath our feet ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Next Age of Uncertainty

    How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future

    by Stephen Poloz ...
    Narrated by Stephen Poloz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    ***WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD**FINALIST FOR THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, a far-seeing guide to the powerful economic forces that will shape the decades ahead.**The economic ground is shifting beneath our feet ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Age of American Unreason

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 57 min

    Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon—one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    How to Be a Climate Optimist

    Blueprints for a Better World

    by Chris Turner ...
    Narrated by Chris Turner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    **WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side.**Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged—from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Aftershocks

    Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

    by Colin Kahl, Thomas Wright ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 56 min

    **This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors.NAMED A BEST NEW POLITICAL AUDIOBOOK BY VARIETY IN 2021Two of America's leading national security experts offer a definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the United States and the world order in the 21st Century.**“Informed by history, reporting, and a truly global perspective, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Size

    How It Explains the World

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness“No one writes about the great issues of our time with more rigor or erudition than Vaclav Smil.” — Elizabeth KolbertTo answer the most ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • How to Be a Climate Optimist

    Blueprints for a Better World

    by Chris Turner ...
    **WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side.**Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged—from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Aftershocks

    Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

    by Colin Kahl, Thomas Wright ...
    A riveting account of how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the world order and exposed deep vulnerabilities in the international system.Aftershocks offers a comprehensive look at one of the most consequential years on record. Drawing on interviews with officials from around the world and extensive research, Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright tell the story of how nationalism and major power rivalries ... Read more

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  • Fermat's Enigma

    The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

    by Simon Singh ...
    xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Age of American Unreason

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American Unreasonfocuses on the convergence of social forces—usually treated as separate entities—that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Theory of Everything Else

    A Voyage Into the World of the Weird

    by Dan Schreiber ...
    "A pleasure. ... Suitable for beach reading or for mainlining before a dinner party." —Dan Piepenbring, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"Absorbing. ... As thoughtfully written as it is nuts." —Chicago TribuneA collection of the world’s most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories by the co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, Dan Schreiber.<p... ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

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  • Third Millennium Thinking

    Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

    by Saul Perlmutter, PhD, Robert MacCoun, PhD, John Campbell, PhD ...
    Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information.In our deluge of information, it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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