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Yale University Press
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In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot be - fully understood. Further the success of designs for social organization depends on the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as...
82) Winesburg, Ohio
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In setting out to gather the town's daily news, George Willard, reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, ends ups discovering the town's deepest secrets as the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears.
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No Starch Press
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The Art of Assembly Language teaches programmers how to understand assembly language and how to use it to write powerful, efficient code. Using the proven High Level Assembler (HLA) as its primary teaching tool, The Art of Assembly Language leverages your knowledge of high level programming languages to make it easier for you to quickly grasp basic assembly concepts. Among the most comprehensive references to assembly language ever published, The...
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Yale University Press
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"In this combative and controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism--that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on--he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been...
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Blackwell great minds volume 7
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008.
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English
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97) Macs for dummies
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Intrigued by your new Mac? Baig presents a guide for beginners that explains how a Mac computer works, describing how to print, fax, and e-mail, use the Internet, manage music, photo, and video files, and troubleshoot common problems.
