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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of...
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic...
Making Social Spending Work
How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what...
Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy,
Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and...
An Economic History of the English Garden
The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today An Economic History of the English Garden draws on never-seen primary sources to explore how much...
Swoosh: The Unauthorized Story of Nike, and the Men Who Played There
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Six smart but inexperienced men--a Stanford MBA, a track coach, a paralyzed long jumper, a former welfare worker, a lawyer and an accountant--formed a tight-knit brotherhood, merging their personal and...
How to Make Money: The 88 Steps to Get Rich and Find Success
The business wisdom of self-made millionaire Felix Dennis Felix Dennis is one of Britain's wealthiest self-made entrepreneurs with an estimated fortune of e500 million. And he didn't get there simply...
How to Work a Room, 25th Anniversary Edition: The Ultimate Guide to
The classic bestseller on socializing-now fully updated for social interactions in a digital age How to Work a Room (R) is the classic bestselling book on improving communication and socializing...
Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and Our Sanity
'A brilliantly candid, timely and perceptive account.' Andy Haldane 'Asks all the right questions.' Mark Carney Has the West gone bust? Or is there another way? In their new book,...
Travellers' Money
The book titled Travellers' Money by the author John Booker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital
Mutant Ecologies traces the spinning of new synthetic threads into the web of life. It is a critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments...
Dancing with the Devil: The Political Economy of Privatization in
From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy. This fundamental change took place under the Chinese Communist Party...
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time...
Change Ahead: How Research and Design are Transforming Business
In a complex and networked world, business, more than ever, is about adaptability to change and the capacity to create new propositions through a dynamic interaction with the environment. Much...
The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond
Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is...
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour- or its greatest momentThe consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace...
Real Wages in 19th and 20th Century Europe: Historical and Comparative
Real wages, the result of a simple division of wages by prices, are at the centre of historical and socio-economic research. In a time of growing commercial and industrial internationalism,...
Making Rural Australia
Making Rural Australia challenges two common by contradictory views of Australian history. One is the 'fatal shore': Australia was a place of horrible destitution and those miserable beginnings set the...
The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
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The book titled The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by the author Jean Gimpel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Software in 30 Days
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The book titled Software in 30 Days by the author Ken Schwaber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Ignite Your Research Mojo: How You Can Make User Research Impactful
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Why do so many companies' research projects fail? And why do even the best corporations sometimes struggle to make good use of their research data? Strangely enough, no text on...
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China today, how it got there and why it has
With the world's second-largest (and fastest expanding) economy, a population of more than 1.3 billion, a place at the core of the G20, a permanent seat on the UN Security...
The Modern Money Manifesto: The No-Nonsense Guide to Boosting Your
Written for Millennials and Gen Z readers looking to change their attitude toward money management, The Modern Money Manifesto is a savvy and no-nonsense guide to navigating every step of...
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the
The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains...
Who Cares Wins: How to Protect the Planet You Love: A thousand ways to
A radical guide to thinking differently about the world and initiating change Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naive and it is not impossible. We...
Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the
The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women...
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2025
An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 This is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and...
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's
A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism,...
An Introduction to Global Financial Markets
This is an introduction to the world's principal financial markets and institutions. This new edition has been updated to include: European Union developments; deregulation, and its effects on banking systems;...
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea
An expose of the plunder of the world's oceans, and the devastating environmental and economic impact that is having across the globe The sea provides more than half the oxygen...
Dirty Business: Battle for the Riches of the Tobacco Industry
In Dirty Business Peter Pringle uncovers the complex set of issues that make up the legal case against t he tobacco industry. The book reads as a fly-on-the-wall thr iller...
The Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
Author: Zahaan Bharmal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
In this groundbreaking study, S. Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German business leaders remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. He...
The Big Fail: How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most
A damning indictment of American capitalism, as exposed through the failures of the government, private sector and overall economic resilience throughout the COVID pandemic. From the author of the modern...
Every Body Counts: Money, lies, and the hidden trade in human lives
Author: Barbie Latza Nadeau Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Property: The myth that built the world
Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of...
Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to
Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine. 'Absolutely fascinating and totally absorbing' JAMES HOLLAND 'A brilliant book'...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and
'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and
'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
The Voltage Effect
The definitive guide to the science of scalability- how to make good ideas great, and great ideas scale Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take...
Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to
Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine. 'Absolutely fascinating and totally absorbing' JAMES HOLLAND 'A brilliant book'...
The Gambling Animal: Humanity's Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How
Evolution is a series of bets and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes....
The Gambling Animal: Humanity's Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How
Evolution is a series of bets and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes....
Femonomics: The Life-Changing, Data-Driven Guide to Making Better
*This book is published in the USA with the title HAVING IT ALL* 'Empowering' FINANCIAL TIMES ' Life-changing.' LUCY MANGAN 'Revelatory...rigorous...exhilarating' IRISH TIMES IT'S NOT IN YOUR HEAD. IT'S IN...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...