Strategy

an introduction to game theory

In "Strategy", Joel Watson has applied his strengths as both a leading researcher and an outstanding teacher and communicator to produce this winning textbook. Aimed towards advanced students in game theory, "Strategy" is rigorous and sophisticated in its approach. However the author presents material according ...

Main Currents of Marxism

The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown

The Three Trillion Dollar War

The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion--and counting--rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E ...

God's crucible

Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215

In the autumn of 732, two great armies, one Christian and one Muslim, faced off on the central plains of France in an epic battle that would define European history. According to what we've always been told, Charles Martel, the leader of the Franks ...

Global financial warriors

the untold story of international finance in the post-9/11 world

Sworn in as the head of the US Treasury Department's international finance division just before 9/11, John Taylor soon found himself at the centre of the war on terror. 'Taylor's story of a pivotal time in international finance - from reforming the IMF ...

Macroeconomics

"Macroeconomics" is arranged in three key sections: the long-run, the short-run and applications. The long-run section includes a modern presentation of economic growth. The short-run section emphasises central banks that set interest rates and develops an intuitive Aggregate Supply/Aggregate Demand framework with inflation rather ...

The associates

four capitalists who created California

One hundred forty years ago, four shopkeepers in Sacramento, California, rose to become the force behind the American transcontinental railroad, achieving along the way wealth beyond measure. To build influence and maintain power, they lied, bribed, and, when necessary, arranged for obstacles, both human and ...

Consumed

how markets corrupt children, infantilize, and swallow citizens whole

"Consumed" offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specialises today in the manufacture not ...

Law and economics

Mirror of the Arab world

Lebanon in conflict

Like many Arab countries, Lebanon's population possesses no common identity strong enough to resolve internal struggles pitting tribe against tribe, religion against religion, sect against sect, or region against region. Nor have Lebanon's hollow central governments been able to prevent foreign powers from ...

Inventing Human Rights

a history

Human rights is a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared "all men are created equal" and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were bringing a new guarantee into ...

Earth

the sequel. THe race to reinvent energy and stop global warming

How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a ...

Putting our house in order

A guide to social security and health care reform

Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America#s largest entitlement programs#Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid#loom with gathering intensity. Government revenues alone cannot solve the problem, but a solution must be found. In ...

Taking on the trust

the epic battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller

How a female investigative journalist brought down the world#s greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly. Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted ...

The board book

an insider's guide for directors and trustees

Former Mellon Foundation and Princeton University president William G. Bowen has served on the boards of some of the United States's biggest corporations and nonprofits, including American Express, Merck, the Smithsonian, and TIAA-CREF. In The Board Book he brings his immense experience, along with ...

Barbarians to angels

the dark ages reconsidered

The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it. For the next four centuries, the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only constants of life. This is the picture ...

Kingmakers

the invention of the modern middle east

Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten ...

The elephant and the dragon

the rise of India and China and what it means for all of us

"A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers."-- Noam Lupu, "San Francisco Chronicle" "The Elephant and the Dragon" is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. With labor now unbound from geographic borders, we're seeing startling ...

Everyday survival

why smart people do stupid things

In his new book, the author of "Deep Survival" (ISBN 9780393326154) - 'the best book on management, leadership and employment I have read this year' ("Financial Times") - shows how modern society has made us lazy and susceptible to previously unknown threats.Laurence Gonzales turns his talent ...

The art of strategy

a game theorist's guide to success in business and life

'Brilliantly demonstrated in "Thinking Strategically" [ISBN 9780393310351], game theory is bursting with lessons for us all' - "The Observer". Here the authors provide the long-awaited sequel.Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It's the art of anticipating your opponent's next moves, knowing that your ...