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With all the wit and brilliance of Chekhov, a distinctive collection of lyrical stories from Sait Faik Abasıyanık, “Turkey’s greatest short story writer�
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Pages: 167
Authors: Calvin Hui
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-21 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Since embarking on economic reforms in 1978, the People’s Republic of China has also undergone a sweeping cultural reorganization, from proletarian culture un
Why Education Is Useless
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-09 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads.
Useless Knowledge
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
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A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scie