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Why We Can't Stop Caring.

How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything.

by Robert Bates ...

Series Book 1 - Greater Intent
Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship, ... Read more

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Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship,
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Why We Can't Stop Caring

Greater Intent, #1

by Robert Bates ...

Series Book 1 - Greater Intent
Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship, ... Read more

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Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship,
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Twenty-three and a half hours' leave

Enriched edition. Love, Sacrifice & the Turbulent Era of War: A Historical Fiction Journey

by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kelsey Bates ...

In "Twenty-three and a Half Hours' Leave," Mary Roberts Rinehart masterfully weaves a narrative that explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the fleeting nature of time against the backdrop of World War I. The novella is characterized by Rinehart's deft use of suspense and her ability to blend humor with poignant moments, encapsulating the anxieties and hopes of soldiers and their loved ones. ... Read more

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In "Twenty-three and a Half Hours' Leave," Mary Roberts Rinehart masterfully weaves a narrative that explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the fleeting nature of time against the backdrop of World War I. The novella is characterized by Rinehart's deft use of suspense and her ability to blend humor with poignant moments, encapsulating the anxieties and hopes of soldiers and their loved ones.
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We The People... Are Bad At This

by Robert Bates ...

We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world—and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of ... Read more

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We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world—and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of
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We The People... Are Bad At This

by Robert Bates ...

We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world-and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of ... Read more

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We want safer streets, affordable homes, good schools, and a government that can occasionally locate the document it requested from us twice. Our desires are understandable. Our ability to judge what will deliver them is less reliable.Every election sells a future. Every policy offers a method. What happens when the promise meets the world-and why do we so often defend the purchase instead of
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Markets and States in Tropical Africa

The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

by Robert H. Bates ...

Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic ... Read more

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Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic
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Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

Edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson ...

This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the ... Read more

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This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the
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Why We Can't Stop Caring

How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything

by Robert Bates ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Eric E, Digital Voice River E, Digital Voice Bob E ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Greater Intent
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5 hours 33 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate
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Analytic Narratives

by Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast ...

Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting ... Read more

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Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting
... Read more
Carneiro

The Concise Evolutionary Essays

Edited by Robert Bates Graber ...

Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s ... Read more

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Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s
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K2, The Savage Mountain

The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World's Second-Highest Mountain

by Charles Houston, Robert Bates ...

When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world’s second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of ... Read more

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When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world’s second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all—for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of
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We The People... Are Bad At This

A Declaration For Better Judgment About Politics, Promises, And Progress

by Robert Bates ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Asher E ...

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You care about something real: safer communities, better schools, economic opportunity, freedom, fairness, a future that feels less fragile. Someone offers a plan. The promise sounds convincing. You give it your support.Then the results arrive—and somehow the original promise becomes harder to find.In We the People… Are Bad at This, Robert Bates ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You care about something real: safer communities, better schools, economic opportunity, freedom, fairness, a future that feels less fragile. Someone offers a plan. The promise sounds convincing. You give it your support.Then the results arrive—and somehow the original promise becomes harder to find.In We the People… Are Bad at This, Robert Bates
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