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Debates continue about organic evolution 100 years after publication
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A classic volume about value investing
Ask Warren Buffet, one of the great financial investors in the world, what book a newcomer in the stock market should read. Then, he will be sure to pick up this book, “The Intelligent...
New era of metaverse dawns
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Michel Foucault brings forth concept of episteme
In his book “The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences,” French philosopher Michel Foucault brought forth the concept of “episteme.”
The 1966 book is about 55 years old, but his “episteme,”...
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