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Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware
'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
Capital
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each...
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware
'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen-and how we can do it again.The American economy glitters on the outside, but...
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons
2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Hank Paulson...
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The surprising story of [...]
'Here's the history that really matters' Financial TimesThe UK is, at the same time, both one of the world's most successful economies and one of Europe's laggards. The country contains...
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism-the...
The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the [...]
The startling picture of how China s revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.The future of finance the way...
Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and [...]
When President Biden announced Janet Yellen as his choice for secretary of the treasury, it was the peak moment of a remarkable life. Not only the first woman in the...
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics
Latin America has been central to the main debates on development economics, ranging from the relationships between income inequality and economic growth, and the importance of geography versus institutions in...
New Perspectives on Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On...
Left and Right in Global Politics
Few notions are as universal as the idea of a left-right divide in politics. Despite its death being frequently foretold, the left-right metaphor remains the most common lens through which...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...
Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course
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...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like...
How The World Ran Out Of Everything
By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your...
Complexity and Evolution: Toward a New Synthesis for Economics: Volume 19
An exploration of how approaches that draw on evolutionary theory and complexity science can advance our understanding of economics.Two widely heralded yet contested approaches to economics have emerged in recent...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
General Equilibrium Theory of Value
Author: Yves BalaskoFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 235mm, 567g, 192 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2011The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the...
Share Power: Why the financial system should work for everyone: and how YOU have the power to change it
Author: Merryn Somerset Webb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Lively, intelligent and packed with revelations, Share Power explains how even the smallest of investors can make themselves heard. A...
Property: The myth that built the world
Author: Rowan Moore (Architecture Critic) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also...
It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth: How the Economics of Race Really Work
'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the world's racial and...
More. Numbers. Every. Day.: How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives - And Why It's Time to Set Ourselves Free
Author: Micael Dahlen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How many steps have you done today? How many emails answered? How much money have you spent this week And how...
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'STAND BY FOR FIREWORKS AS IT HITS THE SHELVES' SUNDAY TIMES 'IF ORWELL WERE WITH US TODAY, HE'D BE WRITING BOOKS...
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'STAND BY FOR FIREWORKS AS IT HITS THE SHELVES' SUNDAY TIMES 'IF ORWELL WERE WITH US TODAY, HE'D BE WRITING BOOKS...
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
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Author: Daniel Coyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A ground-breaking exploration of how successful groups operate - whether in sport, business or society as a whole - and what...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals
Author: Oliver Bullough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 With a new introduction on the Ukraine crisis LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 A TIMES...
Unshakeable: Your Guide to Financial Freedom
Author: Tony Robbins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Tony Robbins, arguably the most recognizable life and business strategist and guru, is back...
The Map and the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
Author: Alan Greenspan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some...
All In: How we build a country that works
'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows how...
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Author: Matt Ridley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder,...
Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
Author: Marissa Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 More than fifty years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the wage gap still hovers at 80 percent. Half...
Overcome Your Villains: Mastering Your Beliefs, Actions, and Knowledge to Conquer Any Adversity
Author: Heather Monahan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Whether you're facing the glass ceiling, a toxic work environment, or anything in between, limit-breaking female founder Heather Monahan's 3-Step BAK...
The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Author: Peter Zeihan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times Bestseller! 2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting...
The Great Crash: How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World into Depression
Author: Selwyn Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and set...
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never...
Them and Us: How immigrants and locals can thrive together
Author: Philippe Legrain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What do we really know about immigration? The defining issue in the world right now is immigration. Taking back control. Building...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' *...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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Author: Shoshana Zuboff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance...
Free Market: The History of an Idea
Author: Jacob Soll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal....
The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Adam Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An indispensable roadmap and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future: Award-winning New Yorker staff writer and brilliant creator of...
The Number Bias: How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix
Author: Sanne Blauw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 NOW WITH NEW PROLOGUE ABOUT DEMYSTIFYING CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS, DONALD TRUMP AND WHY STATISTICS MATTER MORE THAN EVER 'The Number Bias combines...
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States
Author: Financial Commission Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Official Government Edition The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown- and who was responsible The financial and economic crisis...