Mostly Harmless is the fifth & final part in Douglas Adams' much-loved cult classic series Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up After years of galactic wanderings Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella & becomes a sandwich maker Looking forward to a quiet life his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in their hands When she runs away Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe After all
- he's encountered most of them before With exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives & an introduction by Dirk Maggs
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The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments & differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes In the modern experimentalist paradigm these techniques address clear causal questions such as Do smaller classes increase learning? Should wife batterers be arrested? How much does education raise wages? Mostly Harmless Econometrics shows how the basic tools of applied econometrics allow the data to speak In addition to econometric essentials Mostly Harmless Econometrics covers important new extensions--regression-discontinuity designs & quantile regression--as well as how to get standard errors right Joshua Angrist & Jorn-Steffen Pischke explain why fancier econometric techniques are typically unnecessary & even dangerous The applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use & relevant for many areas of contemporary social science An irreverent review of econometric essentials A focus on tools that applied researchers use most Chapters on regression-discontinuity designs quantile regression & standard errors Many empirical examples A clear & concise resource with wide applications ...

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Moth Smoke is the first novel by Mohsin Hamid author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist' You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife' In Lahore Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan Daru wants to be happy for him Ozi has everything a beautiful wife & child an expensive foreign education
- & a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle As jealousy sets in Daru's life slowly unravels He loses his job Starts lacing his joints with heroin Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver & falls in love with Ozi's lonely wife But how low can Daru sink? Is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?'A vivid portrait of contemporary young Pakistani life where frustration & insecurity feed not only the snobbery decadence & aspirations of the rich but also the resentment of the poor' The Times' Fast-paced intelligent pulls us despite ourselves into its spiralling wake' New Yorker'A subtly audacious prodigious descendant of hard-boiled lit & film noir A steamy & often darkly amusing book about sex drugs & class warfare in postcolonial Asia' Village Voice' Stunning a hip page-turner' Los Angeles Times' Sharply observed powerful evocative' Financial Times'A novel of remarkable wit poise profundity & strangeness A treat' Esquire Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moth Smoke & How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards & been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize He has contributed essays & short stories to publications such as the Guardian The New York Times Financial Times Granta & Paris Review Born & mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University & Harvard Law School & has since lived between Lahore London & New York
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Writerdirector Rodrigo Garcia (NINE LIVES) teams with executive producer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu to craft this drama highlighting the powerful bond between a mother & her child It&s been years since Karen (Annette Bening) gave her daughter Elizabeth up for adoption & the decision to abandon her child has always haunted her Upon meeting laid-back Paco (Jimmy Smits) Karen permits her anxiety & mistrust to get the best of her On the surface it appears that Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) is none the worse for never knowing her biological mother; she&s a fast-talking lawyer who&s just landed a high-profile job at a firm fronted by Paul (Samuel L Jackson) though her unsavory penchant for exploiting others is about to blow up in her face Meanwhile maternal-minded baker Lucy (Kerry Washington) longs to experience the joys of motherhood eventually deciding that adoption is the best bet to start a family with her husband Joseph (David Ramsey) ...