Author: John Blundell
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: lady, portrait, thatcher, margaret
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-09-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0875866301
ISBN-13: 9780875866307

This biography of Lady Thatcher relates in warm detail the life of Margaret Thatcher, her achievements as British Prime Minister, and her life since retirement. Written in a vigorous, no-nonsense style, Lady Thatcher provides a succinct portrait of the Iron Lady, illustrating what the terms Thatcherite and Thatcherism really mean. Blundell shows why Thatcher was such an outstanding world leader and such an inspiration for women leaders in particular.The book begins with contrasting scenes the desolation of Britain in the 1978-9 Winter of Discontent prior to Thatcher’s premiership, and th

Author: Bong Lee
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: korea, war, unfinished
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-05
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0875862187
ISBN-13: 9780875862187

The Unfinished War: Korea is a time-sensitive manuscript concerned with the Korea War and current North-South issues including the North Korea’s nuclear weapons. The author: ? lays out the history of American involvement in Korea before, during, and after the war; ? provides cross-cultural perspectives and an account of the war unparalleled for its breadth and depth based on recently declassified documents, interviews, and other references; ? discusses new developments, including South Korea’s so-called "economic miracle," President Bush’s inclusion of North Korea in the "axi

Authors:Mark Kretovics, Steve O. Michael,
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: market, global, education, higher, financing
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-10-30
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0875863175
ISBN-13: 9780875863177

This academic work for college administrators and others discusses how Higher Education is financed in a variety of countries, from the US to Thailand, and analyzes the effects of different funding policies.

Author: Wilber W. Caldwell
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: superiority, national, myth, narcissism, american
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0875864678
ISBN-13: 9780875864679

Nationalism is not unique to America: it was invented with the birth of modern nations. But nationalism is unique in America. Americans conceive themselves and their nation to be incontrovertibly superior to the other peoples and nations of the earth. When does national pride cross the invisible boundary that separates benign patriotism and malignant nationalism?Americans have much to be proud of, but national pride can cross the invisible boundary that separates benign patriotism and malignant nationalism. The author surveys the evolution of Americans grandiose view of themselves and the c

Author: Carlos Sabillon
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: history, lessons, growth, economic, causes
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0875865895
ISBN-13: 9780875865898

In a sweeping review of economic history, the author presents the salient facts of booms and slowdowns in the major economies of the world, in 50-year intervals and demonstrates the weakness of orthodox theories. The only factor that consistently causes growth, he shows, is centralized support for manufacturing, which spurs the creation of new technologies, which lead to wealth creation.Since the earliest of times, human beings have endeavored to uncover the causes of prosperity. Step by step, Sabillon tests the principal theories on the causes of economic growth against the facts of history.

Authors:You-Li Sun, Dan Ling,
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: man’s, story, one, china, communist, engineering
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2003-08
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0875862411
ISBN-13: 9780875862415

Dan Ling, a patriotic young engineer eager to help build a new China, falls afoul of the authorities and spends 17 years as a political prisoner. Rehabilitated after Deng Xiaoping came to power, Dan returns to work with unflagging determination to help provide a good life for himself and his people after enduring prison, work camps and work farms, and the primitive lif e of the social outcast breaking new ground on the frozen northern frontier. Youli Sun is Director of American University’s Beijing Program. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and did post-doctoral studies at Wa

Author: Pablo Rafael Gonzalez
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: economic, paradigm, change, shortages, global, running
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-08-07
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0875865127
ISBN-13: 9780875865126

The numbers speak for themselves. A disastrous worldwide trend over the last 100 years is illustrated in tables, graphs and analyses of natural resource reserves vs. production and consumption. The effects of world income distribution, objective limits to economic growth on a finite planet, the impossibility of providing full employment on a global scale and the role allotted to the Third World are laid out in black on white.Updated tables and a new, compact format bring this volume of essential statistics to today’s increasingly tense debate. The figures add up to an urgent call for a g