Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia, Hardcover

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From the author of the acclaimed biography of Turner comes a major new work that explores the relationship between art and business in nineteenth-c...

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Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the masquerade culture of Calabar, the ...

Why have we failed so badly to address the crisis of hunger in the 21st century?Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): David RieffNumber of pages: 432Pub...

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It offers an original and powerful argument about Russian power and introduces and discusses the term 'mobilisation' as a central element of the Ru...

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A fascinating exploration of structures of government and rule around the world

Resurgenta ideologiilor nedemocratice in Romania contemporana: volum dedicat profesorului Michael Shafir la implinirea varstei de 75 de ani Exigent...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 19 Illustrations, colorCollection: FringePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 233 x 155 x 27Cover type: Paperback...

Resurgenta ideologiilor nedemocratice in Romania contemporana - Emanuel Copilas

Ride the $40 trillion wave of "clean money" changing the face of investment, business, and the world for good.By 2050, $40 trillion will change han...

Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary...

At the Tour de France, the biggest winner at the bank is not the cyclist who makes it to Paris in the yellow jersey - it's the secretive family tha...

A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and...

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The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's...

Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance - Alena V. Ledeneva

DescriptionCan one of the richest men in the world be a good person? The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is not ju...

The book explores how political power, elections, legal institutions, reputational concerns, and social norms shape economic conflicts from hostile...

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Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Valery KonyshevNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 215 x...

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Half fable, half manifesto, this brilliant new take on the ancient concept of cash lays bare its unparalleled capacity to empower and enthrall us. ...

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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 ...

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A panoramic account of the Russian empire through the revolution and civil war to the crash industrialisation under Stalin in the late 1920s. A cen...

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Subtitled, }How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World{. Cohan has gained unprecedented access to Goldman's inner circle, and this is an astonishing ...

Mirrorlands is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Chartin...

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This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David...

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Out of the frying pan, into the firefight For Natasha Orlov, getting captured while staging a rescue mission is the supernova ending to a black hol...