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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....
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...
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...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...
The Decline of the Age of Oil: Petrol Politics: Australia's Road ahead
The book titled The Decline of the Age of Oil: Petrol Politics: Australia's Road ahead by the author Brian J. Fleay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of...
The New Realities
While this book is not futuristic it does attempt to define the concerns, the issues and the controversies that will be realities in years to come. The author contends that...
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875
The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic...
More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
In this fully revised and updated Sunday Times bestseller, Steve Hilton shows that we can create a more local, more accountable, more human way of living that will make us...
Golden State: The Making of California
From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis- and Europe - Can Be Fixed
The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency has brought...
Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet
Global warming has been described as the biggest environmental threat facing humanity. From drought to hurricanes, global warming has various effects on our lives, some positive but most are negative....
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve to the point where we don't think...
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was
"A tour de force...prepare to be amazed." --John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group Why didn't the Florentines invent the steam engines and flying machines that Da...
The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better
The real world is messy, circular and aggressive. It's full of 'wicked problems' that are not easy to solve in the neat, theoretical ways that game theory or chess challenges...
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The"Irish Economic...
Barbarians of Oil: How the World's Oil Addiction Threatens Global
An engaging look at the global oil industry and how to navigate the price volatility and new policies associated with it Oil is a constantly changing industry, and with the...
Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty...
Banksters
1929... On Wall Street, during the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, the word Banksters was coined to describe those ruthless individuals who had gambled away the country...
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but also its...
Age of Greed: the Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970
A vividly told history of how greed bred America's economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. As Jeff Madrick makes clear in...
Wall Street
Fraser brilliantly traces the imaginative history of Wall Street through novels and plays and political polemics, in the great prose of Twain and Wharton, Melville and James and a host...
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
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There are no more respected voices in the environmental movement than Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands...
The British Economy at the Crossroads
"In policy and prospect, Britain has reached a crossroads. She may go forward, she may go back, or she may simply go sideways. Political, economic and business leaders face a...
The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Life
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Despite a half-century of ill-conceived federal policies, John Norquist believes that the American city is on the verge of a renaissanceas long as urban leaders and citizens alike take responsibility...
Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life
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The book titled Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life by the author Independent Scholar Editor Steve Fraser (--). This is a secondhand book. Please...
Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel
*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that...
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and
New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism...
Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family
In "Dynasties", award-winning historian, David Landes scrutinizes powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America to determine what factors can cause a dynasty to flourish or fail. Drawing on his...
The Roaring Nineties: Why We're Paying the Price for the Greediest
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Globalization and Its Discontents comes a corruscating analysis of the boom and bust of the 1990s - how and why it happened, how the...
The Umami Strategy: Stand Out by Mixing Business with Experience
Creating a unique value for your customers is crucial if you want to differentiate in an overcrowded market. To do so, you need to define a powerful strategy that determines...
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship
'Thrilling, meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDS A jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty years told through the many lives of a single ship. At 94...
Wall Street
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The book titled Wall Street by the author Kenneth Lipper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the
The system that governs how money works, with its brokers and middlemen, has stayed roughly the same for centuries. Now there's an alternative, and it puts us on the cusp...
Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data
The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the...
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better
'The best book on rethinking economics that anyone will find right now' Richard Murphy, Political Economist and author of The Joy of Tax The leading thinker and most visible public...
The Truth About Money
The book titled The Truth About Money by the author Ric Edelman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Better Australia: Politics, Public Policy and How to Achieve Lasting
An inside look at effective policy making, realised through hard-won public policy battles What does successful public policy look like, and how has it been achieved in Australia? What strategies...
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
From an 'indispensable voice on China' (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China...
I Want It Now: Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World
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In today's world of mega-stores and shop-til-you-drop mentality, people are spending more money than ever in an attempt to find fulfillment in their lives--and children are no exception. In fact,...
Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a
Barack Obama approaches the US presidency at a critical moment in American history - facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, and healthcare, but most especially in the economy. If...
Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive
This book addresses deregulatory policies that threaten to reduce or destroy the value of private property in network industries without any accompanying payment of just compensation, policies that are termed...
Malinowski in Mexico: Economics of a Mexican Market System
The book titled Malinowski in Mexico: Economics of a Mexican Market System by the author Bronislaw Malinowski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Shortest History of Migration
From our earliest wanderings to the rise of the digital nomad, here is the story of human migration. 'Ian Goldin is one of the great authorities on globalisation' - Gordon...
The Myth of the Asian Century | A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin
It's time to peel away the layers of a cliche that is not just useless, but harmful. The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth...
War and Power: Who Wins Wars - and Why
A bold, revisionist study which challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war, from a Professor of Strategic Studies War and power are two of...
1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, comes a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the most infamous stock market crash in history In 1929, the world watched in shock...
A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition
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The book titled A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition by the author Michael J Ritt, Jr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.