Traces the development of financial relations between Japan and the United Kingdom since 1859. It also examines the re-emergence of London as a major financial centre in 1946, and the emergence of …
Warburton examines the economic time bomb created by unchecked credit expansion, in this book. The potential havoc it could wreak in the global economies and our personal finances is described here…
The use of violence to achieve political goals stretches all the way back to biblical times, and Walter Laqueur outlines its long practice in these pages. Yet his main concern is with the 21st-cent…
Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he brings to a climax the ideas set forth in his previous works to offer a st…
Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.
Indonesia enters the new millennium at a time of transition. It has experienced several crises--in particular the economic crisis of 1997-98, a severe intensification of its environmental degradati…
A lively, informative and entertaining read, this book presents the history of American elections from George Washington to George W. Bush with wit and spirit, examining the silly and the scurrilou…
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted…
In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posne…
The contents of the book are Introduction by Oliver E. Williamson CHAPTER 1: Chester I. Barnard and the Intelligence of Learning by Barbara Levitt and James G. March CHAPTER 2: Symbols and Organ…