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The Great Unravelling: From Boom to Bust in Three Scandalous Years
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The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism
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Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of...
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've...
Hopes and Prospects
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Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid Thoughts on Public Values
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The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher
In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher...
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...
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas
A searing analysis of the disturbing trends in universities and a must read for parents everywhere. Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence...
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition. A rousing call to arms whose influence is still...
Humankind: A Hopeful History - from the presenter of the 2025 BBC
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - FROM THE 2025 BBC REITH LECTURER A Guardian , Daily Telegraph , New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended'...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 928 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic...
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy: An Observer Graphic Novel of the
A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of the masterpiece from the late, great Paul Auster. It was a wrong number that started it . . . From its iconic opening, The...
The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life
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The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' ObserverIn...
Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five
An illustrated tour through New York's five boroughs and the past 100 years of its modern architecture, told through the charming yet bold drawings of Lukas Novotny. Modern New York:...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach...
William Macmahon Ball: The Public Life Of A Political Scientist
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Author: Ai KobayashiBinding: HardbackPublished: School of Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2009Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Biographical thesis....
Fulvio Roiter (Bilingual edition): High-Rise New York
Published to mark the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York celebrates the city and people of New York. Consisting of over 60 colour photographs taken...
The Lectures Of Professor T. G. Masaryk At The University Of Chicago: Summer 1902
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1902, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and future founding president of Czechoslovakia — delivered a remarkable series of lectures...
Capital: Volume III
Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the...
The Unconscious Civilization
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University Choice
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor every school-leaver standing at the crossroads of their academic future, University Choice is the indispensable compass for...
The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson
Author: Ian Buruma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Rich and rewarding' - Wall Street Journal It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history...
Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of the University of Western Australia
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Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm
Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
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The Promise of the City: Adventures in learning cities and higher
... We had become radicalised during the rise of urban policy in Labor's opposition program, and now we were working for them in government ... As a technocrat in the...
Capital: Volume II
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories. The \"forgotten\" second volume of...
Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America
Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international...
Off Course: From Public Place to Market Place at Melbourne University
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Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic
Power Systems is a searing collection of new insights from the mind of Noam Chomsky, the world's most prolific public intellectual and author of the best-selling Failed States , Hopes...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture
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In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker ), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four...
Cowardly Capitalism: The Myth of the Global Financial Casino
A bold challenge to accepted ideas about the need for regulation of world financial markets In a controversial new book sure to spark debate throughout the world financial community, British...
Dustin Pitman Walk Wild Side
Dustin Pittman amassed an archive of 100,000 photographs chronicling the untamed corners of New York City's after-hours nightlife, from shadowy underground haunts to prestigious galleries and clubs. This "wish I...
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of
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In his acclaimed book "American Theocracy," Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving...
Little Book of New York Style: The Fashion History of the Iconic City
From Carrie Bradshaw to Grace Jones, and from Nicki Minaj to Blair Waldorf, New York is the fashion 'it girl' capital of the world.Home of both laid-back street style and...
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Author: Craig Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Terror Blackout Hurricane Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from...