Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: world, history, financial, money, ascent
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-11-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1594201927
ISBN-13: 9781594201929

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backs

Author: Alan Greenspan
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: world, new, adventures, turbulence
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1594201315
ISBN-13: 9781594201318

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d horizon of the global economy. The distillation of a life s worth of wisdom and insight into an ele

Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: manifesto, eater, food, defense
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1594201455
ISBN-13: 9781594201455

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much t

Author: Lawrence Lessig
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: hybrid, economy, thrive, commerce, making, art, remix
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-10-16
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594201722
ISBN-13: 9781594201721

The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our children and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form with a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a collaborative yet profitable hybrid economy . Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war a war waged against our kids and others who create and consume art. America s copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting

Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: christianities, american, heart, head
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1594201463
ISBN-13: 9781594201462

A landmark examination of Christianity’s place in American life across the broad sweep of this country’s history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush. The struggle within American Christianity, Garry Wills argues, now and throughout our country’s history, is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. Why has this been so? How has the tension between the two poles played out, and with what consequences, over the past 400 years? How "Christian" is America, after all? Garry Wills brings a lifeti

Author: Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: military, adventure, iraq, american, petraeus, general, david, gamble
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1594201978
ISBN-13: 9781594201974

Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq The Gamble is the next news breaking installmentThomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began.Since early 2007 a new military order has directed American strategy. Some top U.S. official

Author: Tony Judt
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: europe, history, postwar
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1594200653
ISBN-13: 9781594200656

Tony Judt’s Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word "groundbreaking." It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to create a fully rounded, deep account of the continent’s recent past. The book integrates international relations, domestic po