By 2000, the number of air rage incidents in the United States topped 10, 000, Hunter said in her book.

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Alboher focuses squarely on careers that deal with social good, but in many ways, this book provides basic tools for any midlife job hunter.

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NPR's Special Africa correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault's new book, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance, chronicles modern day life and the changes happening on the continent.

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Hunter S. Thompson wrote a book titled Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, which was later turned into a movie with Johnny Depp.

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North, a Nobel Prize-winning economic historian, asserts in his book Structure and Change in Economic History that when most of mankind stopped being hunter-gatherers 10, 000 years ago and settled down to farm, there was a basic shift from common property rights to exclusive ones.

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