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  • THE UTOPIAN DILEMMA IN THE WESTERN POLITICAL IMAGINATION
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    THE UTOPIAN DILEMMA IN THE WESTERN POLITICAL IMAGINATION
    JOHN FARRELL
    In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persist...

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  • GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT
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    GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT
    JOHN O'FARRELL
    In this collection of acid-tongued essays, "the U.K.'s answer to Dave Barry" skewers his American cousins ( Publishers Weekly).   Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars' Awards and Britain's finest satirist, John O'Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America's right-wing cabal of dunces, dunderheads, dimwits, ...

    $149.00

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  • THIS IS YOUR LIFE
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    THIS IS YOUR LIFE
    JOHN O'FARRELL
    "[A] satire of celebrity culture and the numbing effects of fame" by the international bestselling comedy writer and author of Things Can Only Get Better ( Publishers Weekly).   It's a big night at the London Palladium. Jimmy Conway is about to perform his stand-up comedy routine in front of two thousand invited guests and millions more watching the event live on TV. He steps i...

    $149.00

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  • ROBUST COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR BOUNDARY LAYERS
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    ROBUST COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR BOUNDARY LAYERS
    PAUL FARRELL / ALAN HEGARTY / JOHN M. MILLER / EUGENE O'RIORDAN / GRIGORY I. SHISHKIN
    Current standard numerical methods are of little use in solving mathematical problems involving boundary layers. In Robust Computational Techniques for Boundary Layers, the authors construct numerical methods for solving problems involving differential equations that have non-smooth solutions with singularities related to boundary layers. They pres ...

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  • THE BEST A MAN CAN GET
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    THE BEST A MAN CAN GET
    JOHN O'FARRELL
    A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.   Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and playing trivia games with his underachieving roommates. And when he feels like it, Michael crosses the city and ret...

    $179.00

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  • MAY CONTAIN NUTS
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    MAY CONTAIN NUTS
    JOHN O'FARRELL
    This hilarious novel of a helicopter mom and dad is "a near-flawless caricature of 21st-century upper-middle-class parenthood" ( Publishers Weekly).   Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to lis...

    $229.00

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