Modern liberty and the limits on government

"An erudite, sharp-tongued libertarian, eager to do battle with censors, regulators...and sanctimonious busybodies of every stripe."--"New York Times" In this impassioned defense of liberty, renowned Harvard law professor Charles Fried argues that the seemingly unimpeachable goals of equality and community are often the ...

For liberty and glory

Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions

This book tells the story of the French and American Revolutions in a single, thrilling narrative that shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were. Their leaders were often seen as father and son but the relationship of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette ...

Global capitalism

its fall and rise in the Twentieth Century

International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before...Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalisation to be inevitable and irreversible ...

Preemption

a knife that cuts boht ways

Every so often, a startling book emerges that gives voice to a new or previously unexamined societal trend. Alan M. Dershowitz's provocative new work, "Preemption", is just such a book, chronicling a paradigm shift in America's approach to controlling destructive conduct. As he ...

Rome, Inc.

the rise and fall of the first multinational corporation

A history of the Roman Empire as a prototype of the multinational corporation? Likening Rome's development to that of a modern global company, forever seeking new markets and ruthless ways to squeeze out its competitors, Stanley Bing - whose satirical business books are as savagely ...

Darwin

discovering the tree of life

Charles Darwin's ideas resonate deeply in western culture today and his theory still lies at the heart of modern scientific evolutionary research. As other nineteenth-century figures fade, Darwin's theory of evolution still provokes controversy, spilling over into curriculum battles around the world. In ...

Nerve Endings

the discovery of the synapse

Two doctors, the Spaniard Cajal and the Italian Golgi, were racing against each other to find out what brain cells looked like and how they managed to communicate with one another. Both did their most important research in labs set up on their kitchen tables ...

Knowledge and the wealth of nations

a story of economic discovery

In 1980, the twenty-four-year-old graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later he solved it. This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith more ...

Bubble man

Alan Greenspan and the missing 7 trillion dollars

In this eye-opening account, Peter Hartcher re-examines the achievements of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve who presided over the 1990s stock-market bubble - perhaps the biggest speculative frenzy in history - and walked away when it came crashing down, with his reputation apparently unscathed ...

Analyzing elections

This undergraduate text uses a formal model to show how and why elections rule American politics. The text also highlights empirical research from the 1980s and 1990s on the impact of voters, candidates, political parties and interest groups on the electoral process and policy outcomes ...

The authentic Adam Smith

his life and ideas

In this book, James Buchan refutes much of what we think we know about Adam Smith and shows that, in fact, Smith transcends modern political categories. Along the way, we see Smith the man - his sometimes troubled friendship with David Hume, his urbanity, his hypochondria ...

The Shia Revival

how conflicts within Islam will shape the future

To most Western eyes, all Islamic movements look alike, and the central conflict in the Middle East is one between religion and secularism. Shockingly little has been written about the bitter divide between Shia and Sunni. Yet without understanding their ancient conflict - and its modern ...

Rediscovering Homer

inside the origins of the epic

Scholar Andrew Dalby delves into the world that first heard the "Odyssey" and the "Iliad", and asks new questions about the poet Homer. Dalby follows the growth of the legend of Troy from its kernel of historical truth and retraces the succession of singers who ...

The many faces of God

science's 400-year quest for images of the divine

A grand work of philosophy and history, "The Many Faces of God" shows how our religious conceptions have been shaped by advances in technology and science. Beginning his narrative in the 1600s and concluding with the fervour of the millennium, Jeremy Campbell shows how Isaac ...

Principles of macroeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics has been thoroughly revised, simplified, and updated for the Fourth Edition. Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the leading monetary economists in the field, Principles of Macroeconomics ...

The money men

capitalism, democracy and the Hundred Years' War over the american dollar

From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money. On one side were the democrats, who wanted cheap money and feared the concentration of financial interests in the hands of a few. On the other were the capitalists who sought the ...

Modern Liberty

and the limits of government

In asking how the modern welfare state has redefined our notion of individual liberty and whether we are free to express ourselves in speech, at work or through sex, one of America's most esteemed legal scholars gives an impassioned defence of liberty. Arguing that ...

Fear's empire

war, terrorism, and democracy

This hard-hitting but pragmatic critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy exposes the folly of its agenda of preventive war, its support of dictatorship and its imposition of democracy on vanquished enemies. "The fear of terrorism instilled in Americans after September 11, [Benjamin Barber ...

The Shia revival

how conflicts within islam will shape the future

To most Western eyes, all Islamic movements look alike, and the central conflict in the Middle East is one between religion and secularism. Shockingly little has been written about the bitter divide between Shia and Sunni. Yet without understanding their ancient conflict - and its modern ...

Micromotives and Macrobehavior

Originally published over twenty-five years ago, "Micromotives and Macrobehavior" still feels fresh today. And the subject of these stories - how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group - is more important than ever. In ...