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Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how small or innocuous a decision might seem, there's almost no way to guess the effect it might have. The authors of The Importance...

Excerpt from Patent Pointers: Or, How to Obtain Patents Through the Scientific AgencySecond - He shall file therewith a specification, a written description of the invention in such full, clear, concise and exact, terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound and use the same.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of tho...

Un giovane irlandese alla ricerca della propria realizzazione nel mondo, dopo molteplici incontri e varie vicende decide, come si conviene, di sposare la sua fidanzata e avere da lei molti bambini. Il protagonista vive le sue avventure passeggiando nei luoghi da cui Flann O'Brien non si allontanò mai: Dublino e i suoi immediati dintorni che, come nella migliore tradizione irlandese, non sono soltanto simbolo del mondo, ma anche e soprattutto f...

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When nine-year-old Miranda Watts goes missing, suspicion falls on Samuel Curly, a local man responsible for the abduction of another girl some years previously.

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Excerpt from Patent Pointers: Or, How to Obtain Patents Through the Scientific Agency It may be set down as a universal rule of action with men in civilized communities, (the exceptions being very few comparatively), that when one needs some service in a calling other than his own, he seeks the aid of some person trained and skilled in the calling to which the needed service pertains. If he be sick, he calls in the best medical talent availab...

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DI Sally Speckle gets a phone call from a man who calls himself Fred telling her that he has left a birthday present for her at the Old Mill. The call makes no sense, but it unnerves her particularly as the call is from a payphone in Loston Mental Hospital. Her present is the battered body of a faceless young woman.