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Dangerous Business
Written by Pat Choate
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $15.99
From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks... Read more >
Written by Pat Choate
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $15.99
From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks... Read more >
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Obamanomics
How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
Written by John R. Talbott
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $16.95
Bestselling author John R. Talbott, who predicted the housing and mortgage crisis, pictures in Obamanomics--written well in advance of the historic 2008 elections--a Barack Obama presidency based on justice and cooperation—principles that have not held sway in Washington, DC, for quite some time. Talbott's powerful grasp of finance allows him to... Read more >
How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
Written by John R. Talbott
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2008
Price: $16.95
Bestselling author John R. Talbott, who predicted the housing and mortgage crisis, pictures in Obamanomics--written well in advance of the historic 2008 elections--a Barack Obama presidency based on justice and cooperation—principles that have not held sway in Washington, DC, for quite some time. Talbott's powerful grasp of finance allows him to... Read more >
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China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $17.00
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $17.00
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
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Rogue Economics
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $24.95
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops... Read more >
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $24.95
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops... Read more >
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Biography of the Dollar
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Written by Craig Karmin
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $25.95
Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history of the world?
For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s only superpower, it’s accepted... Read more >
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Written by Craig Karmin
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $25.95
Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history of the world?
For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s only superpower, it’s accepted... Read more >
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Biography of the Dollar
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Written by Craig Karmin
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $11.99
Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history of the world?
For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s only superpower, it’s accepted... Read more >
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Written by Craig Karmin
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $11.99
Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history of the world?
For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s only superpower, it’s accepted... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Dark Age Ahead
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five... Read more >
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five... Read more >
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The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Written by Jerry Z. Muller
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has... Read more >
Capitalism in Western Thought
Written by Jerry Z. Muller
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has... Read more >
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Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Written by Paul Ormerod
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.99
With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the “Iron Law of Failure” as it applies to business and government–and explains what can be done about it.
“Failure is all around us,” asserts Ormerod. For every General Electric–still going strong after more than... Read more >
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Written by Paul Ormerod
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.99
With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the “Iron Law of Failure” as it applies to business and government–and explains what can be done about it.
“Failure is all around us,” asserts Ormerod. For every General Electric–still going strong after more than... Read more >
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Big-Box Swindle
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Written by Stacy Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $18.00
A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight
With a New Afterword
In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising... Read more >
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Written by Stacy Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $18.00
A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight
With a New Afterword
In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $26.95
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $26.95
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $16.99
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $16.99
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Remembering Tomorrow
From SDS to Life After Capitalism: A Memoir
Written by Michael Albert
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $22.95
In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles against the Vietnam War, those waged on... Read more >
From SDS to Life After Capitalism: A Memoir
Written by Michael Albert
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $22.95
In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles against the Vietnam War, those waged on... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Big-Box Swindle
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Written by Stacy Mitchell
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $20.00
Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising water pollution and diminished civic... Read more >
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Written by Stacy Mitchell
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $20.00
Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising water pollution and diminished civic... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Political Ideals
Written by Bertrand Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 90 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2005
Price: $13.99
Originally published in 1917, this early work by Bertrand Russell still offers much thought-provoking material on the subject of political philosophy. Russell criticizes both capitalism and socialism based on his strong conviction that everything of value comes ultimately from the individual. The only true aim of politics, he says, is to... Read more >
Written by Bertrand Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 90 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2005
Price: $13.99
Originally published in 1917, this early work by Bertrand Russell still offers much thought-provoking material on the subject of political philosophy. Russell criticizes both capitalism and socialism based on his strong conviction that everything of value comes ultimately from the individual. The only true aim of politics, he says, is to... Read more >
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Dark Age Ahead
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2005
Price: $15.00
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five... Read more >
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2005
Price: $15.00
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Terror Incorporated
Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Foreword by Greg Palast
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $17.95
In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the Far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the... Read more >
Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Foreword by Greg Palast
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $17.95
In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the Far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the... Read more >
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The End of Laissez-Faire
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Written by John Maynard Keynes
Format: Trade Paperback, 298 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2004
Price: $17.99
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the most influential economist of the first half of the twentieth century. During both world wars he was an adviser to the British treasury, and his theory of government stimulation of the economy through deficit spending influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" administration. The mass unemployment... Read more >
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Written by John Maynard Keynes
Format: Trade Paperback, 298 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2004
Price: $17.99
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the most influential economist of the first half of the twentieth century. During both world wars he was an adviser to the British treasury, and his theory of government stimulation of the economy through deficit spending influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" administration. The mass unemployment... Read more >
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Iraq, Inc.
A Profitable Occupation
Written by Pratap Chatterjee
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $11.95
More than one year after the "fall of Baghdad," the reconstruction of Iraq was failing terribly. Ordinary Iraqis waited in line for basic necessities like clean water and fuel, while the number of civilians and soldiers killed escalated in tandem with the billions of U.S. tax dollars spent. In Iraq, Inc.... Read more >
A Profitable Occupation
Written by Pratap Chatterjee
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $11.95
More than one year after the "fall of Baghdad," the reconstruction of Iraq was failing terribly. Ordinary Iraqis waited in line for basic necessities like clean water and fuel, while the number of civilians and soldiers killed escalated in tandem with the billions of U.S. tax dollars spent. In Iraq, Inc.... Read more >
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eBook.
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Principles of Political Economy
Written by John Stuart Mill
Format: Trade Paperback, 710 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2004
Price: $21.99
The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors’ ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also taking ideas from Adam Smith and Thomas... Read more >
Written by John Stuart Mill
Format: Trade Paperback, 710 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2004
Price: $21.99
The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors’ ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also taking ideas from Adam Smith and Thomas... Read more >
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While Canada Slept
How We Lost Our Place in the World
Written by Andrew Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $15.95
For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride?
With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect... Read more >
How We Lost Our Place in the World
Written by Andrew Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $15.95
For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride?
With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Sports, Inc.
100 Years of Sports Business
Written by Phil Schaaf
Format: Hardcover, 394 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2003
Price: $26.99
It’s not just a game anymore. Sports today, at both the amateur and professional level, is big business, and more and more people are becoming involved in the exciting careers and financial opportunities that sports entertainment offers.
In this comprehensive overview of the sports industry Phil Schaaf traces the global evolution of... Read more >
100 Years of Sports Business
Written by Phil Schaaf
Format: Hardcover, 394 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2003
Price: $26.99
It’s not just a game anymore. Sports today, at both the amateur and professional level, is big business, and more and more people are becoming involved in the exciting careers and financial opportunities that sports entertainment offers.
In this comprehensive overview of the sports industry Phil Schaaf traces the global evolution of... Read more >
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The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Written by Jerry Z. Muller
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has... Read more >
Capitalism in Western Thought
Written by Jerry Z. Muller
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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India Divided
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $12.95
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war... Read more >
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $12.95
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
