Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing, Paperback - Roger Lowenstein

Reducere. With his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenstein lays bare the labyrinthine events of ...

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The origins of the fez, also known as "tarboosh" are in dispute. Some claim that its origins are ancient Greece. Others claim it comes from the Bal...

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A highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed itPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Selwy...

An insightful and informative overview of how, in the time leading up to the founding of The Christian Community nearly one hundred years ago, Rudo...

Reducere. Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s ...

Reducere. DescriptionTrade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action whi...

DescriptionThis book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern ...

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Reducere. The history of the Sabbath is fascinating: beginning with its origins in the Biblical Old Testament, we are taken through millennia of changing tra...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Hamish McRaeNumber of pages: 120Collection: Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Politics of Oil...

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Examines tea's origins and development from the eighth century to the Heian and medieval eras. This volume illustrates that modes of thinking and p...

DescriptionThe battle of the Atlantic fought by the Allies to maintain lines of communication and vital trade routes for armaments men and basic su...

Reducere. From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic me...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Gerald E. (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) SchneiderIllustration(s): 243 color illus., 127 b&w...

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Tracing the myths surrounding plants used as medicine within the very temples where worship of the god Asclepius took place.Publisher: John Hunt Pu...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Jade KellyNumber of pages: 290Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 205 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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362The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to immediate e...