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Dorothy Parker is well-known for her wit in her writing, and in her The Standards of Living, she satirizes the two young girls for their empty desire for wealth and the role of money and luxury in life. This paper aims to apply functional fixedness to explain why the two girls have such daydreams which is contrasted with the fact. The paper finds out that the class they live in limit their power to imagine and their superficial understanding of wealth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In fact, it was often the case that alchemists who claimed to be philosophers supported an allegorical understanding of recipes, often engaging in a rhetorical battle with "inferior" or "vulgar" alchemists who understood them literally. The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700, written by Jennifer M. Rampling Jennifer M. Rampling, I The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 i (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2020), 416 pp., $35.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 226 71070 9. [Extracted from the article]

As a debate coach, I had some trepidation when I picked up Robert Litan's I Resolved: Debate Can Revolutionize Education and Help Save Our Democracy i . Resolved: debate can revolutionize education and help save our democracy: By Robert Litan. Litan's book advocates for what he describes in the first chapter as "Debate Centered Instruction" (DCI) as a pedagogical approach comparable to the popular Project Based Learning (PBL) model that similarly focuses on student engagement with ideas and issues. [Extracted from the article]

What happened to Detroit was that neighborhood downgrading caused by excess housing construction at the suburban fringe is exactly what was predicted by Galster's housing submarket model. In his effort to understand neighborhoods - their origins, the ways they change, and the consequences of revitalization and decline - Galster explains and then applies a housing submarket model. Explaining the dynamics of these different markets and submarkets links housing submarket behavior and neighborhood dynamics. [Extracted from the article]

Erik Olin Wright on last year's best-seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article reviews the book, "Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China," by Jack Linchuan Qiu.