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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World - Paperback

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by Jason Hickel (Author)______________________'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics Featured in FT Best Books of the Year 2020______________________The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world...

Walking Silverton: History, Sights and Stories - Paperback

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by Beverly Rich (Author), Casey Carroll (Photographer)For such a small town, there's a lot to see in Silverton, Colorado. Walking Silverton will help you explore the town and learn a bit about the people, places, and events that are part of its rich history. Think of this tour as a scavenger hunt through time and events. At designated stops, you'll have a clue photo to guide you to interesting buildings and landmarks. Turn the page, and you'll find a collection of photos and stories that will...

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany - Paperback

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by Adam Fergusson (Author)When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery.In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal; and a bottle of paraff...

The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Leonhard (Author)Leonhard exposes as folly our view of war as an attritional phenomenon, measuring success in body counts and tons of explosives spent.Author BiographyRobert Leonhard is an active duty army officer currently serving as Professor of Military Science at West Virginia University. He is the author of The Principles of War for the Information Age, The Art of Maneuver, and Fighting by Minutes. He lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. ...

Culture of Control: Farming With the Shackles of the Canadian Wheat Board

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Motiuk (Author)In 1935 the Canadian Wheat Board was established to oversee the marketing, handling, and transportation of Western Canadian grain. Under the CWB's increasingly rigid regulations, farmers in the West were prohibited from responding to free market conditions by setting their own prices and selling their grain when and where they chose. By the 1970s, the "single-desk" system was completely controlled by federal government agencies and had become...

Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft - Paperback

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by Paul Boyer (Author), Stephen Nissenbaum (Author)Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. Fr...

Ronald Reagan: A Little Golden Book Biography - Hardcover

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by Lisa Rogers (Author), Catherine Pape (Illustrator)Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biographyabout actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan! The perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden Book about Ronald Reagan--the 40th president of the United States who loved horses and jellybeans--is an inspiring read-aloud for young girls and boys. Look for more Little Golden Book biographies: - George W. Bush - John McCai...

The Tribe Of Ishmael: A Study In Social Degradation (1891) - Paperback

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by Oscar Carleton McCulloch (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 1...

Irish Emigration During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries (1899) - Paperback

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by Thomas Addis Emmet (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x 8....

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans - Paperback

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by Lawrence N. Powell (Author)This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossr...

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor - Paperback

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by Yossi Klein Halevi (Author)New York Times bestseller Now with a new Epilogue, containing letters of response from Palestinian readers."A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street JournalAttempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian sufferi...

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by Riane Eisler (Author)Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book. "May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes." - LA WeeklyThe Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible--and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of ...

Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War: A Transnational History

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Report copyright infringementby Wolfgang Mueller (Editor), Peter Svik (Editor)This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization. Author BiographyWolfgang Mueller is professor of Russian history at the University of Vienna.Peter Svik is Schr?dinger fellow at the University of Vienna and Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva. Number of Pages: 250 Dimensions: 0.57 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN P...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas E. Haynes (Author), Janaki Nair (Editor), Mrinalini Sinha (Editor)This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a 'brand-name capitalism' among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a profession and underwent critical tran...

The Wonder of Woolies: Memories from both sides of the counter of Britain's best-loved store

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Phillips (Author)Do you remember Melba chocolate, spud guns, Embassy records, pick 'n' mix, broken biscuits, Homemaker china, Californian Poppy perfume, and Ladybird children's clothes? Then you will love the book that brings these, and many other memories, flooding back. The Wonder of Woolies is a celebration of that great British store - Woolworth's - in the words of people who worked and shopped there. In addition to memories from every corner of Brita...

The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929 1939

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Andre Bernstein (Author), Louis Galambos (Editor), Robert Gallmam (Editor)By examining the uneven fate of manufacturing industries during the 1930s, Michael Bernstein presents a powerful new interpretation of the Great Depression. The depth and persistence of the slump, he argues, cannot be explained by cyclical theories alone, but by the conjunction of a crisis in financial markets with a long-run transformation in the kinds of goods and services requi...

World Prosperity as Sought Through the Economic Work of the League of Nations

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Report copyright infringementby Wallace McClure (Author), Arthur Salter (Foreword by)""World Prosperity As Sought Through The Economic Work Of The League Of Nations"" is a book written by Wallace McClure that explores the economic efforts of the League of Nations towards achieving global prosperity. The League of Nations was a precursor to the United Nations and was formed after World War I to promote international cooperation and prevent future conflicts. The book delves into the League's ec...

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Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India

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Report copyright infringementby Shankar Ramaswami (Author)How migrant workers in contemporary India strive toward, and at times realize, elements of a good life The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming families confront an agrarian crisis, with rising costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides; low prices for crops in the face of grave indeb...

The Unfinished History of the Indebted Nation-State

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Hall (Author)This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism. Even prior to the emergence of the capitalist mode of production, the ruling class of feudal landowners in the West were dependent on credit, and had to repay the loans provided by their international creditors. Those monetary loans were unavoidable, both for the defence of the emerge...

Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War

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Report copyright infringementby Madelyn Shaw (Author), Trish Fitzsimons (Author)Nothing about wool is warm and fuzzy. The history of wool is intertwined with the history of war. Fleeced explains how competition for wool in wartime helped create our current unsustainable and environmentally disastrous reliance on petrochemical fibers.Author BiographyMadelyn Shaw is curator and author specializing in the exploration of American culture and history, and its international connections, through tex...

Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany

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Report copyright infringementby Jake Dyble (Author)Draws on the rich surviving archives of the Tuscan port of Livorno to explore how General Average worked. Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still undergird the global economy today. A key institution of early modern risk management was General Average, a procedure used to redistribute extraordinary costs arising from a maritime venture betwe...

If You're a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist - Hardcover

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by Gavin Grimm (Author), J. Yang (Illustrator), Kyle Lukoff (Author)A celebratory and empowering story from young trans activist Gavin Grimm, two-time Stonewall Award-winning and Newbery Honor-winning author Kyle Lukoff, and illustrator J Yang follows the true story of how a young boy stood up for himself--and made history along the way. A Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Best Book of the Year!When you're a kid like Gavin Grimm, you know yourself best. And Gavin knew that he was a boy--even if ot...

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization - Paperback

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by Richard Miles (Author)The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist ) Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental work charts the entirety of Carthage's history, from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as a Mediterranean empi...

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Report copyright infringementby H. Hughes 1903- Wagner (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert S. Klein (Author), Francisco Vidal Luna (Author) Number of Pages: 392 Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 02, 2023

As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

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Report copyright infringementby Guido Alfani (Author)"In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!"--Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century A sweeping narrative that shows how the rich historically justified themselves by helping their societies in times of crisis, why they no longer do, and what that may mean for social stability The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic w...

Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Hughes (Author)A revelatory and unexpected history of the rise of American capitalism--and an argument that entrepreneurial leaders in government, not the mythical "free market," created the most dynamic economy the world has ever known. For many decades, a sacred myth has ruled the minds of policymakers and business leaders: free markets, untouched by the soiled hands of government, bring us prosperity and stability. But it's wrong. American policy maker...

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Report copyright infringementby Wilma a. Dunaway (Author)In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first s...

The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush

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Report copyright infringementby Steven G. Calabresi (Author), Christopher S. Yoo (Author)This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory-that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and control all policy-making subordinates in the executive branch-has been the subject of heated debate since the Reagan years. To determine whether the Constitution creates a strongly unita...

Color Me in Boston: A Coloring Book for All Ages - Paperback

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by Martha Day Zschock (Author)Color your way through Boston! Best-selling author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock introduces young readers to the beautiful and exciting city of Boston. Young travelers and locals alike can color the boats in the harbor, visit the duckling statues and Swan Boats in Boston's parks, and explore museums. Color in ice cream and lobster and historic sites as you celebrate all that Boston has to offer Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.24 x 10.83 x 8.4 IN Publication Da...

My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Braunstein (Author)When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance In My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: antigovernment tax defiers who challenge the legitimacy of the tax system, antiwar activists who resist the use of their taxes to fund war, antiabo...