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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
Thomas Piketty · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 212
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Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies... |
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze · Viking; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York.... |
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Translation Nation: American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
Hector Tobar · Riverhead Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar takes us on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States-a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and unexpected ways. The year 2005 will mark... |
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Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
P. J. O'Rourke · Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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In his classic best-sellers, O'Rourke has reported from the front lines of world history, braving the bad traffic, weak drinks, and less than stellar golfing of countless hot spots of war, poverty, and repression. Now with his latest collection, Peace Kills, P.J. casts his ever-shrewd... |
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