Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism, Paperback - Paul Klebnikov

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul KlebnikovFrom nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regi...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

Reducere. Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the gradual emergence o...

Reducere. This is a story about two main characters. The first, a man who according to the FBI and New York's Organized Crime Task Force, is a leading member...

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

The architectural implications of the intangible guidelines of happiness indexes, the new marketplace of emotions. and the relentless ideology of p...

The position of data in reshaping the market so that big firms are no longer dominant is considered by Economist writer Ramge and Big Data co-autho...

The practical plan to help reverse Alzheimer's and prevent cognitive decline from the international bestselling author of The End of Alzheimer's.

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines ...

Reducere. The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian "families" in America to similarly sinister grou...

The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Philip JonesNumber of pages: 144Publicatio...

Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our historical m...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): John SweeneyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 35Cover type: Hardback...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): John SweeneyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 28Cover type: Paperbac...

Not Made by Slaves describes the efforts of early-nineteenth-century businesses to end plantation slavery by promoting commerce in "legitimate" goo...

Reducere. The revolution of Catalonia in 1640 was a signal event in seventeenth-century Europe. Its causes and antecedents - essential for an understanding o...

Mike Roberts reveals how Alexander the Great's Macedonian homeland benefitted so little from the remarkable empire he built and explains its remark...

Reducere. DescriptionA House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's...

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen's illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of...

DescriptionFrom world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for ho...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work--and how they fail. The...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

Asks what political art look like today, and how art can act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and f...

DescriptionHalf a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emer...

A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century BritainPublisher: Yale Univers...

Publisher: Beacon BooksAuthor(s): Munyaradzi Felix MuroveNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback ...

A compact and complete guide to the scope and practice of the psychiatry of old age, fully revised to cover recent developments in imaging, pharmac...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "The most provocative and useful book I've read in years." -Robert Sutton, New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole RuleHow do we turn o...

An Authoritative study which explores how after years of fighting each other for South Asia, Russia and Britain started to lose their influence in ...

DescriptionIn this controversial essay, Carlos El as addresses the worldwide phenomenon that is threatening the scientific and economic progress of...

Reducere. Vast fortunes grew out of the party system during the Gilded Age. In New York, party leaders experimented with novel ways to accumulate capital for...

Reducere. Author and industry insider Paul Morley explores the musical and cultural legacies left behind by "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Respected arts comme...

This gripping diary, written from the perspective of the young Alfred (with the help of his scribe Godric), will take readers through the major eve...