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Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets: The New Economic Rules of Engagement in a Wireless World

Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets: The New Economic Rules of Engagement in a Wireless World

by Walter B. Wriston

This follow-up to the author's "Twilight of Sovereignty" explores the consequences of the changes produced by the new economy of the Internet, defining the new rules and examining some of the promising initiatives under way to create a system of measuring and valuing assets that reflects our new economic realities. Wriston shows that, in today's economy, intellectual capital is more important than physical... (more)

Thinking about America: The United States in the 1990s (Hoover Press Publication)Annelise Graebner Anderson

Thinking about America: The United States in the 1990s (Hoover Press Publication)

by Annelise Graebner Anderson

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Addison's Essays from the Spectator

by Joseph Addison

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1870 edition by William Tegg, London.

Big Boys: Power and Position in American BusinessRalph Taylor, William Nader

Big Boys: Power and Position in American Business

by Ralph Taylor, William Nader

Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy

by Peter Gottschalk

In the spirit of Edward Said's Orientalism, this book graphically shows how political cartoons-the print medium with the most immediate impact-dramatically reveal Americans demonizing and demeaning Muslims and Islam. It also reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the Muslim world in general and issues a wake-up call to the American people.

Alexander HamiltonNathan Schachner

Alexander Hamilton

by Nathan Schachner

Persian Letters Volume 1 of 2 [EasyRead Large Edition]

Persian Letters Volume 1 of 2 [EasyRead Large Edition]

by Charles D. Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country - the modern Iran - to journey to Europe in search of wisdom. As they travel, they write home to wives and eunuchs in the harem and to friends in France and elsewhere. Their colourful observations on the culture differences between West and East culture conjure up Eastern sensuality, repression and cruelty in... (more)

Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq

Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq

by Jonathan Steele

As the dreadful reality of the coalition's defeat in Iraq begins to sink in, one question dominates Washington and London: Why? In this controversial new book, Jonathan Steele provides a stark and arresting answer: Bush and Blair were defeated from the day they decided to occupy the country. Steele describes the centuries of humiliation that have scarred the Iraqi national psyche, creating a powerful and deeply... (more)

The Levellers in the English Revolution (Documents of Revolution Ser)G. E. Aylmer

The Levellers in the English Revolution (Documents of Revolution Ser)

by G. E. Aylmer

Penser l'Europe

by Edgar Morin

Text: French

Hitler's Empire

by Mark Mazower

Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war . Germany’s forces achieved, in just a few years, the astounding domination of a landmass and population larger than that of the United States. Control of this vast territory was meant... (more)

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky

A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. A midwestern... (more)

The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie

The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie

by Deirdre N. McCloskey

The 'vices' are three bad habits into which economists have fallen over the past fifty years: bad statistics, bad theory, and bad applications of statistics and theory to public affairs. This book details the vices, tracing them to the influence of three giants of the 1940s and 1950s in economics, the Americans Lawrence Klein and Paul Samuelson, and the Dutchman Jan Tinbergen. McCloskey recommends a 'bourgeois',... (more)

McCain: The Myth of a Maverick

by Matt Welch

John McCain is one of the most familiar, sympathetic, and overexposed figures in American politics, yet his concrete governing philosophy and actual track record have been left curiously unexamined, mostly because of the massive distractions in his official biography, but also because of his ingenious strategy of talking ad infinitum to each and every access-craving media person who happens by. The more he has... (more)

War Child

by Karin Lowachee

When Jos' parents were killed in an attack on their trading ship, the boy is kidnapped by his attackers and then escapes-only to fall into the alien hands of humanity's greatest enemies. As he grows into a young man, Jos is brainwashed into becoming a spy against the human race. At every step, his choices are made for him-until the climactic moment when he takes his life into his own hands.

Beyond Left and Right: Helping Christians Make Sense of American Politics

Beyond Left and Right: Helping Christians Make Sense of American Politics

by Amy E. Black

The 2008 U.S. presidential election is already heating up, fueled by debates about religion and politics, and dividing people of faith. Many Christians want to engage in politics but feel underequipped and overwhelmed. Wheaton College political scientist Amy E. Black believes Christians must become politically educated, not stereotyped and polarized. Beyond Left and Right offers a complete guide to the inner... (more)

Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan EraDaniel Moynihan

Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan Era

by Daniel P. Moynihan

A quarter-century of failed presidencies signifies that the institution itself is in a period of protracted crisis, asserts Moynihan, outspoken senator from New York. He further contends that, since 1981, the crisis has been aggravated by the Reagan administration's deliberate creation of a huge deficit designed to bring about the dismantling of big government and the welfare system. Moynihan's stimulating,... (more)

The Emerging British Underclass (Choice in Welfare)Charles Murray, etc., Institute of Economic Affairs

The Emerging British Underclass (Choice in Welfare)

by Charles Murray, etc., Institute of Economic Affairs

Policy Game (Wiley management series on problem solving, decision making, and strategic thinking)Peter Navarro

Policy Game (Wiley management series on problem solving, decision making, and strategic thinking)

by Peter Navarro

Voodoo DeficitsRobert Ortner

Voodoo Deficits

by Robert Ortner

In this chatty, arguable, wide-ranging economic survey, former Reagan Commerce Department undersecretary Ortner scorns "doomsaying" critics of the $22 trillion U.S. national debt. "We owe it to ourselves," he claims, referring to Treasury bonds and notes whose interest payments contribute massively to personal and institutional income. Elsewhere, however, he writes that reducing federal programs could "raise"... (more)

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