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by Cynthia O'Brien (Author)American Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged for kids and students. More than 160 tribes are featured in this outstanding new encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of the history of North America's Native peoples. From the Apache to the Zuni, readers will learn about each tribe's history, traditions, and culture, including the impact of European expansion acro...

Coastal California: The Pacific Coast Highway and Beyond - Hardcover

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by Jake Rajs (Author), Edmund G. Brown Jr (Foreword by)An unprecedented book showcasing the California coast via the Pacific Coast Highway and beyond. As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America--a shining promise of endless possibility. California is both dream and reality. Coastal California is for anyone who has felt the lure of a Pacific sunset. From the physical beauty of Monterey to the grandeur of Southern California, photographer Jake Rajs displays his ...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses - Hardcover

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by Alan Weintraub (Photographer), Alan Hess (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Kenneth Frampton (Contribution by)Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house...

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present - Paperback

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by Ronald Hutton (Author)Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history "Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history."--Los Angeles Times The witch came to prominence--and often a painful death--in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landma...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Paperback

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by Edward Gibbon (Author), David Womersley (Abridged by), David Womersley (Introduction by)Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes three and four, Gibbon vividly recounts the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederic Bastiat (Author)Originally published in French in 1848, Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat is a collection of essays in which Bastiat addresses several controversial economic and political principles, such as the free market, the role of government, taxes, and capital and interest, among others. Bastiat was an advocate of the free market and limited government that defended an individual's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happine...

Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

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Report copyright infringementby Roberta J. Newman (Author), Joel Nathan Rosen (Author), Monte Irvin (Contribution by)Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black base...

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. X (in 51 Volumes)

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Smith (Author), Charles W. Eliot (Editor), C. J. Bullock (Editor)Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Bagehot (Author)Walter Bagehot's Economic Studies is a detailed discussion of English political economy as it was influenced by economists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As former editor-in-chief of The Economist, Bagehot reveals an intimate knowledge of the factors that define England's economy. He explores the ideas of economists like Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo; he then applies many different approaches to economi...

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Report copyright infringementby W. E. Lingelbach (Author)Chartered by the crown in 1474, the Merchant Adventurers was England's preeminent regulated international trading company until the early nineteenth century. It functioned as a guild, with members who were the only merchants entitled to export finished cloth from the growing English woolen industry, which gave them an unchallenged monopoly. It was the only company entitled to export cloth from England to other countries. The organizatio...

A Practical Plan for Assimilating the English and American Money, as a Step Towards a Universal Money

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Bagehot (Author)Walter Bagehot addresses the issue of a universal currency in A Practical Plan for Assimilating the English and American Money, as a Step Towards a Universal Money. He presents the issue of differing currency among trading nations, which allows for dishonest exchanges. As an editor of The Economist, Bagehot presents an intellectual argument for an international coinage by citing the issues it would solve, while including its limitations a...

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Report copyright infringementby David Ricardo (Author)Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus 1810-1823 is Ricardo's correspondence with his friend and fellow classical economist, Malthus. The eighty-eight letters cover a range of subjects affecting economy including: currency, trade, rent, wages, and the cost of corn. Ricardo's letters suggest numerous disagreements on many subjects, which provide a dynamic glimpse into political economics of nineteenth century England. Friend to, ...

The Struggle for America's Promise: Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital

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Report copyright infringementby Claire Goldstene (Author)In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents of equal opportunity seek to promote upward financial mobility by permitting more people to participate in the economic sphere thereby rewarding meri...

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Corey (Author)Originally published in 1934 at the height of the Great Depression, Corey's The Decline of American Capitalism is an in-depth critique of the American government. The "Fall in the Rate of Profit," unemployment, and class disparities are a basis for a "New American Revolution," a shift from the current capitalist Democracy toward a new Socialist America. LEWIS COREY (1892-1953), originally Louis Fraina, was an Italian-born left-wing American ...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Dunning MacLeod (Author)Though not as well remembered as other economists of the period, Scottish economist HENRY DUNNING MACLEOD (1821-1902) was the first to fully explore theories of credit, developing a theory of money that flowed from a theory of credit (the standard was to do the other way around), and is considered to have coined the term "Gresham's law" to describe the results of the under- and overvaluation of money. Here, in his 1858 classic, Mac...

View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe Since the Sixteenth Century: A Course of Lectures

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Report copyright infringementby Travers Twiss (Author)Over the course of nine lectures, Travers Triss educates on the evolution of the political economy and how the decisions and actions of previous and current leaders have shaped the most influential countries in Europe. Borrowing from popular publications like Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Adolphe Blanqui's L'Histore de l'Economie Politique in Europe, Triss summarizes and analyzes the effects of each country's political and economi...

Commerce, Christianity and Civilization Versus British Free Trade: Letters in Reply to the London Times

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Charles Carey (Author)Early in the free-trade crusade it was announced in Parliament that the smuggler was to be regarded as "the great reformer of the age," and from that hour to the present all the aid in the power of that body to give him has been rendered; Gibraltar, Malta, Nova Scotia, Canada, and other possessions, having been chiefly valued for the facilities they have afforded for setting at defiance the laws of nations with which Britain has prof...

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Report copyright infringementby James Mill (Author)An instant classic when it was first published in 1821, The Elements of Political Economy, by Scottish historian, economist, and philosopher JAMES MILL (1773-1836), remains required reading for anyone wishing to understand the development of industrial economies across the globe in recent centuries. Mill discusses: . rent, wages, and profits . the interchange of commodities . the advantages and disadvantages of paper money . productive and un...

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Report copyright infringementby Arnold Bennett (Author)Since the invention of the clock, humans have become keenly aware of time-both how much they have and how quickly it slips away. In this classic book on time management, Bennett instructs his readers on how to live life to the fullest, given that there are twenty-four hours in a day and always so much to accomplish. Managing time, not money, is the true route to happiness. You can get more money. But time is parceled out at the same rate ...

The African Union and New Strategies for Development in Africa

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Report copyright infringementby Said Adejumobi (Editor), Adebayo Olukoshi (Editor)The early twenty-first century witnessed remarkable attempts by Africa's political leadership to promote regional integration as a means of fast-tracking economic progress, facilitating peace and security, consolidating democratic gains, and promoting the general welfare of the African people. The transition of the Organization of Unity (OAU) to the African Union (AU), as well as the foisting of a new economic b...

The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy

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Report copyright infringementby John Elliott Cairnes (Author)This 1857 discussion of economics is, at its heart, both a scientific and a philosophical inquiry. Modern readers may find it striking that unlike current textbooks on the subject, The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy does not deal heavily with mathematical models and formulas. It does not, in fact, deal with them at all. Cairnes believed that while mathematics could have a place in demonstrating economic truths, it...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank William Taussig (Author)Economics is more than simply the cost of a gallon of milk. Economics is also the science of society, the basis upon which a civilization functions at its most basic level. Productivity, commerce, and value all are essential elements that define and affect a community deeply. Eminent economist Frank W. Taussig brings the complex and sometimes intimidating subject to light in Principles of Economics (first published in 1911) by writ...

Fallacies of Protection, Being the Sophismes Economiques of Frederic Bastiat

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Report copyright infringementby Frederic Bastiat (Author)Considered a classic of economic theory on a par with Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, this 19th-century book-by French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT (1801-1850)-is a masterwork of anti-"big government" philosophies, espousing what are now seen as cardinal doctrines of free trade. In this 1909 English translation, Bastiat explains why tariffs are counterproductive and how obstacles in the way of capital ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Maynard Keynes (Author)Published in 1913, this is the first book from the renowned economist, and demonstrates the beginnings of the philosophies of macroeconomics and government intervention into economic matters that would characterize his later work. Here, Keynes discusses... . how changing from a silver to a gold standard impacted the Indian economy . a brief history of the gold standard . some surprising differences between coins and paper currency . ...

The Postulates of the English Political Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Bagehot (Author)Perhaps there never was anyone better fitted to show the real bearing of Ricardian modes of reasoning on the practical problems of life, or to bring out the fundamental unity which, in spite of minor differences, connects all the true work of the present with that of the earlier generation of economists. And in reading these essays we must remember that they deal almost exclusively with one side of what he had to say. Here he has explaine...

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Report copyright infringementby Irving Fisher (Author)From America's first celebrated economist comes this 1912 textbook with a succinct yet highly informative introduction to economics as it was understood and practiced in the early 20th century. Fisher provides in-depth discussions of basic topics including: . wealth, property, and income . credit and debt . currency, prices, and monetary systems . supply and demand, capital and labor . poverty . and more. American economist IRVING FISHER (...

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Report copyright infringementby Orison Swett Marden (Author)Never forget that, when honestly made, the money which comes to you in the pursuit of your legitimate vocation, is... the measure of your worth in the community you serve. -from "How Riches Take Wings" In these uncertain economic times, the wisdom of self-help pioneer Orison Swett Marden is just as vital today as it was a century ago. A forerunner of Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale, Stephen R. Covey and Anthony Robbins, and on...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry George (Author)Economist HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was, at the height of his popularity in the 1880s and 1890s, considered the third most famous American, behind Mark Twain and Thomas Edison, and his liberal philosophies on taxation, copyrights, poverty issues, and more continue to influence progressive movements today. This is George's grand overview of the science and philosophy of economics, from the largest question-what do we mean by "civilization"?-t...

Development in Asia: Interdisciplinary, Post-neoliberal, and Transnational Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Derrick M. Nault (Editor)"Development" is one of the most ubiquitous yet least understood concepts of our age. It is something all governments claim to be engaged in and is considered desirable by scholars, activists, policymakers, and laypeople alike. Yet it is also a highly contested term. For some, development is simply a matter of economic growth. Others maintain that it must entail improving life expectancy, literacy, education levels, and access to resour...

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Report copyright infringementby Hugo Mnsterberg (Author), Hugo Munsterberg (Author), Edwin B. Holt (Translator)As a psychologist and an innovator of experimental psychology, Hugo Münsterberg was a powerful influence on thinking in both the medical and social arenas at the turn of the 20th century, developing practical applications of psychology to industry, medicine, education, the arts, and criminal investigation. The Americans was written for German readers "to interpret systematically the ...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Calhoun (Author)If you can avoid it, do not loan your name to every needy friend that comes along. Your neighbors question your good judgment every time you have to meet a note which you were coaxed into endorsing. You would have saved yourself by loaning the money outright. -from "Chapter XXIV: Things to Remember" If you're doing business in the year 1910, there's no better source for helpful advice than Business Hints for Men and Women. This handy littl...

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Joanna Lamb (Author)Wall Street is more than just the crossroads of money and power. It is also the location of a long and interesting history of revolutionary decisions, political events, and financial growth. Historian Martha Lamb looks at Wall Street "in all its primitive, picturesque, political, social, and monetary aspects." She begins with the development of the site by Manhattan settlers, a site she describes as a "tangle of underbrush, wild grape...