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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much [Audiobook]
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much [AudiobookScarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much [Audiobook In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging examination of how scarcity - and our flawed responses to it - shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
 
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Tags: shapes, lives, responses, flawed, scarcity, Scarcity, Means, Audiobook, Having, Little
Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870
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Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering.
 
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Tags: novel, memory, Selves, British, scarcity, Amnesiac, bears