Marvin Harris
This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. Harris shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social and economic conditions. In this ... [... more]
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Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992
 Good Overview of European State Formation: Charles Tilly is obviously taking on a big topic. In this book, he covers 1000 years of state formation in Europe. His primary interest is to determine why states have converged from divergent state forms (city [... more]
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Chinese Economic Coercion Against Taiwan: A Tricky ...
Author: Murray Scott Tanner Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 337.51051249 EAN: 9780833039699 ISBN: 0833039695 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2007-05-25 [... more]
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The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 330.94 EAN: 9780521087094 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0521087090 Number Of Pages: 1024 Publication Date: 1987-08-28 [... more]
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Japanese Economic Development: Markets, Norms, Structures
Author: Carl Mosk Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 330.952 EAN: 9780415771580 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0415771587 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2007-12-03 [... more]
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Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Author: Philippe Legrain Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 304.8 EAN: 9780691134314 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0691134316 Number Of Pages: 392 Publication Date: 2007-06-25 [... more]
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The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization
Author: Martin Parker Author: Valerie Fournier Author: Patrick Reedy Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 335.0203 EAN: 9781842773321 ISBN: 1842773321 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2007-08 [... more]
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Japan as Number One Lessons for America
Closer to Fiction than Non-Fiction: This was the book that launched a thousand other efforts in the "Japan Hyping" that marked the Bubble Economy of the 1980s. The very same qualities that Vogel pointed out as key to Japan's success, and [... more]
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market ...
From Amazon.com: After nearly a decade of bull markets, Americans have come to equate free markets with democracy. Never one for mincing words, social critic Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool, challenges this myth. [... more]
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The Local Politics of Global Sustainability
More interesting to theorists than activists: This book is a quick read, essentially an application of Barber's Strong Democracy treatise to the idea of sustainable development. It defines sustainable development as the reorientation of the economic [... more]
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The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and ...
Informative, Engaging, and Timely!: At a time of renewed debate over Medicare and Social Security, this is an important and insightful look at the origins and effects of America¡¯s distinctive public-private system of social welfare. Hacker& [... more]
CDN$28.95
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Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on ...
From Amazon.com: If Michael Lewis (The New New Thing, Liar's Poker) or P.J. O'Rourke (Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores) had spent the 1990s in Moscow, they might have produced a book like Casino Moscow--a dizzying first-person account of the wild [... more]
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