This Is How It Goes, Paperback - Neil Labute

But as Laura's mystery man proves difficult to find--and as she uncovers family secrets--she may have to reimagine the life, and love, she always thought she wanted. Besides, what are the odds that she'd find The One on the same island where her parents first met and fell in love, especially as she sets out to write an article about their romance? From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year comes a heartwarming and hilarious tale that asks: What if you picked up the wrong suitcase and fell head over heels for its mystery owner? Her only consolation is its irresistible contents, each of which intrigues her more and more.

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Each page contains a discrete cheat sheet, which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant.Perfect for the knowledge hungry and time poor, this collection of graphic-led lessons makes economics interesting and accessible. From Adam Smith and Karl Marx to taxation, debt crisis, inequality and economic freedom, every key figure, discovery, controversy and concept is explained with succinct and lively text and graphics.

The Electric Kingdom, Hardcover - David Arnold New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth.

An unhappily married woman becomes enmeshed in her bisexual husband's attempt to create a ménage à trois with a much younger man.

Like Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All, The Quick Fix is a fresh and powerful indictment of the thought leaders and influencers who cut corners as they sell the public half-baked solutions to problems that deserve more serious treatment. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Boston Globe, and other publications. Turning toward the explosive popularity of 21st-century social psychology, Singal examines the misleading appeal of entertaining lab results and critiques the idea that subtle unconscious cues shape our behavior.

" --Donald Lyons, New York Post "LaBute [is] our American Aesop, a mad moral fabulist serving stiff tonic for our country's sin-sick souls.Staged on continually shifting moral ground that challenges our received notions about gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, THIS IS HOW IT GOES unblinkingly explores the myriad ways in which the wild card of race is played by both black and white in America." --John Istel, American Theatre . As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly doubt the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry and betrayal.

Cerletty's subjects always return a scrutinizing gaze, seeking connection with a viewer who might catalyze the work's completion. What could possibly impel him to depict a jet ski, a green ottoman, a brown leather belt, a laundry rack or white ceiling molding with such bright, marvelously matter-of-fact and painstaking realism? Mathew Cerletty: Full Length Mirror, Hardcover - Mathew Cerletty Mathew Cerletty creates eerie hyperrealist portraits of everyday objectsThe idealized household objects of New York-based painter Matthew Cerletty (born 1980), scaled up and isolated on single color backgrounds, float in a purified, contaminant-free space..

Typical except that Cody is black -- "rich, black, and different," in the words of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a former (white) classmate." --Donald Lyons, New York Post "LaBute [is] our American Aesop, a mad moral fabulist serving stiff tonic for our country's sin-sick souls. "Neil LaBute is the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepard -- since Edward Albee, actually -- to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and power. As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly doubt the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry and betrayal.

The funny thing about this is that the natural inclination to solving this mystery is not necessarily to dwell upon a single painting or drawing, but to look at another, and then another, in hopes of shaking out the fils rouges between them. What could possibly impel him to depict a jet ski, a green ottoman, a brown leather belt, a laundry rack or white ceiling molding with such bright, marvelously matter-of-fact and painstaking realism? Mathew Cerletty: Full Length Mirror, Hardcover - Mathew Cerletty Mathew Cerletty creates eerie hyperrealist portraits of everyday objectsThe idealized household objects of New York-based painter Matthew Cerletty (born 1980), scaled up and isolated on single color backgrounds, float in a purified, contaminant-free space.And yet the more you glance between the works, the more opaque, enigmatic and inscrutable they are liable to become. Cerletty's subjects always return a scrutinizing gaze, seeking connection with a viewer who might catalyze the work's completion.