Javier Santiso - Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible; Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers (2006).jpg
Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condition. Latin America must move beyond utopian schemes and rigid ...
Garet Garrett - The Bubble That Broke the World (2007).jpg
This book blows away the conventional interpretations of the crash of 1929, not only in its contents but that this book exists at all. It was written in 1931. He ascribes the crash to the pile of up debt, which in turn was made possible by the Fed printing machine. This created ...
Martin A. Gardner - The Marx Brothers as Social Critics; Satire and Comic Nihilism in Their Films (2009).jpg
The Marx Brothers' films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes, gags, puns, pratfalls, and mimicry. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, political practices, economic conditions, ...
George Sanford - Democratic Government in Poland; Constitutional Politics Since 1989 (2002).jpg
Democratic government has now been entrenched in Poland. An increasingly significant European actor, Poland presents problematic but also stimulating challenges to new NATO and EU associates. This authoritative overview examines in depth the constitutional and ...
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One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice ...
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Hans Halberstadt, please make more books like these! This book was perhaps one of the first books to introduce the Jacques Littlefield collection, the worlds largest privately owned armor vehicle collection with over 220 tanks/vehicles. He passed in 2009, but created the ...
Weapon; A Visual History of Arms and Armor (2006).jpg
Weapons illustrated historyfrom ancient world (3000 bce–1000 ce), middle ages (1000–1500)early modern world (1500–1775), revolutionary world (1775–1900)modern world (1900–2006)For 4,000 years weapons, and the warriors who used them, have acted as the ...
John Quiggin - Zombie Economics; How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us (2010).jpg
The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a ...
Jane Mayer - The Dark Side; The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (2008).jpg
In the days following September 11, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and ...
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RussianПольша была первой страной, павшей жертвой нацистской агрессии в годы Второй мировой войны. Несмотря на это, ее армия продолжала ...
Marc Morris - A Great and Terrible King; Edward I and the Forging of Britain (2009).jpg
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king – a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an ...
Martin Sixsmith - The Litvinenko File; Politics.jpg
Subtitle varies, (which hinders crossreferencing) MacMillan, London: The Litvinenko file : the true story of a death foretold St. Martin's, NY: The Litvinenko file : the life and death of a Russian spy Pan Books, London: The Litvinenko file : politics, polonium and ...
Roger Lowenstein - The End of Wall Street (2010).jpg
With razor-sharp insight, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein tells the full story of the end of Wall Street as we knew it.Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street unfurls a gripping chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse, drawing on 180 interviews with top government ...
Ha-Joon Chang - Bad Samaritans; The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2007).jpg
In the 1950s, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, suffering the aftereffects of decades of brutal Japanese colonialism and war with its northern counterpart. During his childhood, Chang (Kicking Away the Ladder), a respected economist at the ...
Marc Headley - Blown for Good; Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology (2009).jpg
Nominated by Foreword Magazine as 2009 Book of the Year Award Finalist. Marc Headley provides an insider's view of life as a member of Scientology's "Sea Organization". Marc worked at Scientology's secret desert compound, which houses all Scientology management, for 15 ...
Tariq Ali - Iran in the Eye of Storm.jpg
The Iran crisis has become a synonym for escalation dangerously tending towards confrontation. Tehran therein is accused by the U.S.-led West of developing nuclear weapons. This in fact is an alerting highlight in the tense history of U.S.-Iranian relations since World ...
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As late as the mid 1980s, Iceland’s economy revolved around little else than a semi-robust cod-fishing industry. By the end of the century, however, it had transformed itself into a major player in world finance, building an international banking empire worth twelve ...
