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In Creditworthy, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from from an industry that relied on personal knowledge to the modern consumer data industry. He highlights the role that commercial surveillance has played in monitoring Americans' economic lives.

James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information.

Lyrical Individualism presents a selection of André Colomer's crucial writings, with a focus on anarchist theory and the philosophy of Henri Bergson.

Fang Fang's explosive short novel inspired widespread social debate in China upon its publication in 2001. In exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of radical social change, The Running Flame bears witness to widespread experiences of gendered violence and inequality.

Lyrical Individualism presents a selection of André Colomer's crucial writings, with a focus on anarchist theory and the philosophy of Henri Bergson.

Fang Fang's explosive short novel inspired widespread social debate in China upon its publication in 2001. In exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of radical social change, The Running Flame bears witness to widespread experiences of gendered violence and inequality.

Soft Burial is one of the most remarkable-and most controversial-recent works of Chinese literature. Part mystery, part historical fiction, and part social exposé, the novel intercuts different generations, regions, and time periods.

Nergis Ertürk traces the literary and exilic itineraries of Turkish communist and former communist writers, examining revolutionary aesthetics and politics across Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through the 1960s.

Nergis Ertürk traces the literary and exilic itineraries of Turkish communist and former communist writers, examining revolutionary aesthetics and politics across Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through the 1960s.

This book offers a new account of economic policy making in China over the past four decades that reveals how bureaucrats have spurred large-scale transformations from within.

This book offers a new account of economic policy making in China over the past four decades that reveals how bureaucrats have spurred large-scale transformations from within.

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled in The Tale of the Heike, vividly recording stages in the passage from rule by the imperial court in Kyoto to rule by the warrior government in Kamakura.

The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of the crucial decades surrounding the events chronicled in The Tale of the Heike, vividly recording stages in the passage from rule by the imperial court in Kyoto to rule by the warrior government in Kamakura.

Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings.

Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings.

The Same Moon Shines on All explores the world of Seigan and K¿ran, pairing an in-depth account of their lives and times with an inviting selection of their poetry.

The Bloomberg Guide to Business Journalism provides students and professionals with the essential tools for reporting on companies, industries, financial markets, economies, banks, and government policies anywhere in the world.

The Bloomberg Guide to Business Journalism provides students and professionals with the essential tools for reporting on companies, industries, financial markets, economies, banks, and government policies anywhere in the world.

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai'i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai'i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.

In this critical study, Joseph McBride offers new ways to understand Wilder's work, stretching from his days as a reporter and screenwriter in Europe to his distinguished as well as forgotten films as a Hollywood writer and his celebrated work as a writer-director.

Oil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent past. Ibrahim AlMuhanna-a close adviser to four different Saudi oil ministers over that span of time-examines the role of individual and collective decision making in shaping market movements.

Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War.

Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.

To Catch a Dictator is a dramatic insider¿s account of the hunt for Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, and his momentous trial. The human rights lawyer Reed Brody recounts how he and an international team of investigators, legal experts, and victims went on a quest for justice.

This book presents the first comprehensive history of Buddhism among the Uyghurs from the ninth to the seventeenth century.

Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living working behind the scenes in galleries and museums while making their own art to little acclaim.

This book presents the first comprehensive history of Buddhism among the Uyghurs from the ninth to the seventeenth century.

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches of planetary ways of living.

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches of planetary ways of living.