Authors:Jake Bernstein, Jacob Bernstei,
Publisher: Bloomberg Pre
Keywords: futures, options, trading, strategies, insights, markets, profit
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1576601188
ISBN-13: 9781576601181

Futures trading, for many years the domain of floor traders and other market professionals, was long considered either too risky or too sophisticated for individual investors. However, due to current technology that capitalizes on formerly inaccessible data and research, this vast trading arena holds great promise for astute investors who seek to hedge their market risk and leverage small investments into substantial profits. Profit in the Futures Markets! provides new and seasoned investors alike with practical tools and techniques for understanding and operating successfully in the world of

Authors:Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chas
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: society, volume, politics, ideas, civilization, western
Number of Pages: 451
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $115.95
ISBN-10: 0547147422
ISBN-13: 9780547147420

WESTERN CIVILIZATION, 9th Edition covers the Western intellectual tradition and the significance of its ideas within a political history chronology. Known for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content including its enhanced focus on religion and philosophy. Updated with more recent scholarship, the Ninth Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines and full-color maps with physical geography essays. New technology resources, including an interactive eBook, make learning

Authors:Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chas
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: society, volume, politics, ideas, civilization, western
Number of Pages: 902
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $115.95
ISBN-10: 0547147465
ISBN-13: 9780547147468

WESTERN CIVILIZATION, 9th Edition covers the Western intellectual tradition and the significance of its ideas within a political history chronology. Known for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content including its enhanced focus on religion and philosophy. Updated with more recent scholarship, the Ninth Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines and full-color maps with physical geography essays. New technology resources, including an interactive eBook, make learning

Authors:Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Keywords: society, politics, ideas, civilization, western
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $153.95
ISBN-10: 0547147015
ISBN-13: 9780547147017

Western Civilization, 9/e covers the Western intellectual tradition and the significance of its ideas within a political history chronology. Known for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content including its enhanced focus on religion and philosophy. Updated with more recent scholarship, the Ninth Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines and full-color maps with physical geography essays. New technology resources, including an interactive eBook and CL HistorySpace wit

Author: R. B. Bernstei
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: jefferson, thomas
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195181301
ISBN-13: 9780195181302

Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder--not as a great political figure, but as leader of "a revolution of ideas that would make the world over again." In Thomas Jefferson, Bernstein offers the definitive short biography of this revered American--the first concise life in six decades. Bernstein deftly synthesizes the massive scholarship

Author: William J. Bernstei
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pre
Keywords: world, shaped, trade, exchange, splendid
Number of Pages: 494
Published: 2008-04-11
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0871139790
ISBN-13: 9780871139795

A sweeping narrative history of world trade--from Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today--that brilliantly explores trade’s colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to

Author: Steven Bernstei
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: environmentalism, liberal, compromise
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10-15
List price: $75.50
ISBN-10: 0231120362
ISBN-13: 9780231120364

Runner-Up, Harold & Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association The most significant shift in environmental governance over the last thirty years has been the convergence of environmental and liberal economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism" -which predicates environmental protection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. Steven Bernstein assesses the reasons for this historical shift, introduces a socio-evolutionary explanation for the selection of international norms, and considers the implications for our ability to address global environment