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Hugger Mugger

Robert B. Parker

Spenser novels (27)

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Sharif

The Portable John Adams

The Portable John Adams

Murderers and Other Friends

Murderers and Other Friends

John Clifford Mortimer

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works-- and How It's Transforming the American Economy

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really ...

Charles Fishman

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

Pekka Hamalainen

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa From the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa From the Rise of the Slave ...

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't ...

David Weinberger

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

Who Owns the Future?

Who Owns the Future?

The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke

The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke

Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One ...

The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America

The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America

The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon

The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, ...

William M. Adler

20% Chance of Rain: Exploring the Concept of Risk

20% Chance of Rain: Exploring the Concept of Risk

Richard B. Jones

Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and ...

Malcolm Potts & Thomas Hayden

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--And a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--And a Trove of Letters--Revealed ...

The Americans: The Colonial Experience

The Americans: The Colonial Experience

Daniel J. Boorstin

Elsewhere, U.S.A.

Elsewhere, U.S.A.

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It

Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and ...

Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer

Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer

Duncan J. Watts

The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--And Spawned a Global Crisis

The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street ...

Michael W. Hudson

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: Stories

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: Stories

David Foster Wallace

The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies

The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret ...

The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great ...

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women ...

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping ...

Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Andrew Bacevich

There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America

There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America

When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, New York's Great Newspaper Street

When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, New York's Great Newspaper ...

The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life

The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers ...

Michael Blastland & A. W. Dilnot

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire ...

Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius ...

David Pietrusza

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation From Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation ...

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch ...

Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant

Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Daniel Mendelsohn

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Underground

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime ...

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, ...

Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the ...

Melissa Hope Ditmore (Editor) & Antonia Levy (Editor) & Alys Willman (Editor)

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction ...

Jeff Deck & Benjamin D. Herson

Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's ...

Adrian J. Desmond & James Moore

The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages

The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered ...

K. David Harrison

Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything

Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live ...

Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good ...

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

Thomas Buergenthal & Elie Wiesel

How She Does It: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success

How She Does It: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules ...

Margaret Heffernan

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing ...

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

The Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasons

The Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasons

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con ...

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--And the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--And the Century-Long ...

Jo Marchant & Josephine Marchant

Icons of England

Icons of England

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying ...

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

Steven E. Landsburg

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders From ...

David W. Anthony