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The Gardner Heist

Fri, 5 Oct 2012 1:27:34 PST

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Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a $5 million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, th ...

Codes of the Underworld

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:39:29 PST

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How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems of whom to trust, how to make themselves trusted, and how to handle information without being detecte ...

Thin Paths

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:39:03 PST

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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people of the village and they began to tell her their stories. Of how their village had been trapped in an archaic fe ...

Fake?

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:37:59 PST

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Caveat Emptor

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:37:00 PST

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Ten years after the case was closed by the FBI, an artist with an uncanny ability to mimic the work of the old masters confesses and describes his 30-year career as a professional art forger. 15,000 first printing.

Provenance

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:35:22 PST

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Recounts the activities of John Drewe, who manipulated struggling artist John Myatt and other unwitting accomplices to become prolific art forgers whose works ...

Hot Art

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:34:54 PST

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"Hot Art traces Joshua Knelman's five-year immersion in the shadowy world of art theft, which takes him from Egypt to Los Angeles, New York to London, and back again, through a web of deceit, violence, and corruption.

Priceless

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:34:25 PST

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In "Priceless," readers learn about the greatest unsolved art heist of the 20th century.

Blue-Water Empire

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:26:50 PST

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"Blue-Water Empire" is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger. Britain has been a major presence in the Mediterranean from the Battle of the Nile to the end of empire, as both a military and a colonising force on the islands and coastlines of the sea. Robert Holland trac ...

City of London

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:25:25 PST

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The 'Square Mile', London's financial powerhouse, rose to prominence with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. David Kynaston's vibrant history brings this world to life, taking us from the railway boom of the 1830s to the 'Golden Age', when the legendary gold standard reigned supreme. Between the two World Wars the City was affected by the Wall Street Crash, pressured by politicians, trade unions and ...

London in the 19th Century

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 7:24:58 PST

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This dazzling new book explores London’s history in the Nineteenth century, from the destruction of old London and the unparalled suburban expansion, to its absorption of people from all over the world. From the Hardcover edition.

Paper Promises

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 7:21:36 PST

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The world is drowning in debt, in paper promises. Can we stay afloat? In his masterful new book, Philip Coggan shows how the current financial crisis has very deep roots indeed - in the very nature of money itself. Societies from ancient Greece to revolutionary France have experimented with all kinds of money, from seashells to tobacco, before finally settling on the paper version we have come to ...

Facing the Torturer

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 7:11:35 PST

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In 1971, Francois Bizot was kept prisoner for three months in the Cambodian jungle, accused of being a CIA spy. His Khymer Rouge captor, Comrade Duch, eventually had him freed and it took Bizot decades to realize he owed his life to a man who, later in the Killing Fields regime, was to become one of Pol Pot's most infamous henchmen. As the head of the Tuol Sleng S-21 jail, Duch personally oversaw ...

Predator Nation

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 6:38:20 PST

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A continuation of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, No End in Sight, draws on new interviews to present controversial arguments that the financial crisis occurred because of decades of deregulation that enabled the financial sector ...

The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 6:36:47 PST

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Innumeracy

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 6:33:31 PST

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Dozens of examples in innumeracy show us how it affects not only personal economics and travel plans, but explains mischosen mates, inappropriate drug-testing, and the allure of psuedo-science.

The Money Machine

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 6:30:10 PST

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What happens in the City has never affected us more. In this excellent guide, now fully revised and updated, leading financial journalist Philip Coggan cuts through the headlines, the scandals and the jargon to explain the nuts and bolts of the financial system. What causes the pound to rise or interest rates to fall? Which are the institutions that really matter? Why is it we need the Money Mach ...

Close Encounters

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 6:23:44 PST

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Archaeology and Colonialism

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 6:23:06 PST

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Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states. In this innovative study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. Defining colonialism as, crucially, a relationship with ...

The Archaeology of Colonialism

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 6:22:39 PST

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Few human communities have remained untouched by outsiders, in antiquity as in the present. Whether by intent or outcome, colonialist mentalities have significantly shaped the practices of archaeology, anthropology, and history. This book examines the material consequences of colonialism in nine essays by archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and historians. Applying current comparativ ...

Swiss Connection

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:44:31 PST

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Global Secret Service and Intelligence Service, Vol. 1

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:43:11 PST

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Gangs in the Global City

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:41:39 PST

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Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed worldwide gangs in terms of the other changes associated with globalization. John M. Hagedorn aims to correct this oversight by incorporating important theoretical advances in urban political economy and unde ...

SECRET CHANNEL TO BERLIN

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:39:34 PST

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Masson's extraordinary secret channel to Berlin was not, of course, the only Swiss intelligence operation during the war. Braunschweig outlines in detail the gradual build-up, tasks and functions of Swiss Intelligence during World War II. Furthermore, he describes conflicts between Swiss Intelligence and the Federal government in Bern and within the Intelligence service itself. During World War I ...

Vendetta

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:28:30 PST

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An Introduction to Political Geography

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:24:53 PST

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Addiction, Crime and Insurgency

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:00:59 PST

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How Much Money Did You Make on the War, Daddy?

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:37:28 PST

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Leaving Dirty Jersey

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:24:24 PST

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With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy. At the age of eighteen, after one too many run-ins with the cops for drug possession, he left his upper-middle-class home in Princeton, New Jersey, for a stint at a rehab facility in Riverside, California. Instead of getting clean, he spent his year there shooting ...

Gone from the promised land

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:22:21 PST

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The book begins by examining the cultural origins of Jonestown: Who was Jim Jones? Where did he get his ideas and followers?

Contemporary Iran

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:05:11 PST

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Iran's geographical location, its oil, its nuclear program, its volatile political landscape, its espousal of militant Islam, all combine to make it a key player in some of the most crucial issues of our time. But because of its relative isolation, there is a shortage of hard information about today's Iran. In this volume, an imposing roster of both internationally renowned Iranian scholars and r ...

Alive And Kicking

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:02:57 PST

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From running with the infamous Calton Tongs to running Calton Athletic, David Bryce's life story is a remarkable account of crime, violence, alcoholism and drug addiction in Glasgow's gangland. A respected 'hard man', Bryce worked his way through most of HM's prisons in Scotland before an epiphany in 1977 made him realise that he was a hopeless alcoholic who needed help. A five-year battle follow ...

Searching for Hassan

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:42:20 PST

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The unique culture of Iran and the sweep of its history are revealed in this evocative travelogue of an American family searching for a lost friend in the country of their youth. Growing up in Tehran in the 1960s, Terence Ward and his brothers were watched over by Hassan, the family’s cook, housekeeper, and cultural guide. After an absence of forty years, Ward embarked on a pilgrimage with his ...

In Search of Zarathustra

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:39:37 PST

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Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the Apocalypse. His name was Zarathustra, and his teachings eventually held sway from the Indus to the Nile and spread as far as Britain. Following Zarathustra’s elusive trail back thr ...

Neither East Nor West

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:38:56 PST

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Here is the Islamic Republic of Iran today, in all its beauty, ferocity, and contradiction -- from the modern bustling capital of Tehran to the medieval holy city of Qom. A fusion of eloquent travelogue, historical inquiry, unforgettable portraits of people, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, Neither East Nor West is a landmark contribution to both travel writing and cultural s ...

The reign of the ayatollahs

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:24:43 PST

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To Khomaini, sovereignty belongs collectively to the religious leaders, or individually to the outstanding jurist of his time, as heirs to the mantle of the ...

Journey into Cyprus

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:22:12 PST

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This is an account of a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island`s peace. The author intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote with descriptions of characters, places, architecture and landscape and traces the island's survival through centuries of invasion.

Mirror to Damascus

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:16:34 PST

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Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', "Mirror to Damascus" provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemoriable layers of culture and tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, a ...

The Hills of Adonis

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:16:01 PST

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Ostensibly this is a book about Lebanon, finely written and deeply felt - not the Lebanon which a Beirut businessman would recognize, but a coastline of small historic ports and a littoral of beautiful mountains. In this country, the ruins of Phoenician, Greek and Roman are among the most impressive in the world. Crusader castles and Arab palaces stand together in the hills, and the people are a ...

In Siberia

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:15:12 PST

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In the early 80s Colin Thubron wrote a bestselling book about his travels around the Soviet Union in an old Morris Minor. In the late 90s, post Soviet Union, he decided to explore Siberia - this time by truck, by bus, by boat. The result is a wonderfully readable and evocative account of an extraordinary region. He travels through exotic cities and deserted villages, meets nostalgic old Stalinist ...

Among the Russians

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:14:02 PST

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"Among the Russians" is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically lyrical style. This is an enthralling and revealing account of the habits and idiosyncrasies of ...

With Billie

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:13:22 PST

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Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie best: piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who — contrary to myth — knew what she want ...

The Lost Heart of Asia

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:12:24 PST

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Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change. An inspirational writer, intrepid traveller and insightful observer, Thubron's "The Lost Heart of Asia" is an outstanding guide to the history, people and culture of a vast region resonating with history and politics.

Thin Paths

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:11:36 PST

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You come across the shell of a ruined house. It could be anywhere in southern Europe where people once lived and then moved away because there was no work to hold them there. You might find things scattered in the empty rooms: a bread oven, a broken spade, earthenware jars that still hold the pungent scent of olive oil; even clothes left hanging in a cupboard, a silent clock on a shelf, a picture ...

To a Mountain in Tibet

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:07:04 PST

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TOP TEN BESTSELLER Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes ben ...

Behind the Wall

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:03:35 PST

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Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through the wind-swept wastes of the Gobi desert and finished at the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals is an astonishing diversity, a land whose still unmeasured resources strain to meet an awesome demand, and an ...

The Sculptor's Daughter

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:56:40 PST

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Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 7:41:20 PST

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The nature of traditional societies in Mediterranean countries and the effect on those societies brought about in the twentieth century, have long been debated; but in general these debates has started from an assumption of the relatively homogenous nature of traditional peasant society. In this book Pino Arlacchi demolishes that assumption by demonstrating that within the Italian region of Calab ...

Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:57:15 PST

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The U.S. ability to "read" the Iranian regime and formulate appropriate policies has been weakened by lack of access to the country and by the opacity of decisionmaking in Tehran. To improve understanding of Iran's political system, the authors describe Iranian strategic culture; investigate Iran's informal networks, formal government institutions, and personalities; assess the impact of elite be ...

Currency Wars

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:04:08 PST

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Life After Death

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 9:35:13 PST

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This is Damien Echols' story in full: from abuses by prison guards and wardens, to descriptions of inmates and deplorable living conditions, to the incredible reserves of patience, spirituality, and perseverance that kept him alive and sane ...

Forest in the LIfe of Khasis

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 2:51:43 PST

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Gharbzadegi

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 2:50:45 PST

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Revenue Management and Pricing

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:54:23 PST

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Companies that are better at fulfilling customer needs make better returns. In the current state of the world economy and cutthroat competition, the essence for survival is to create more customer value as percieved by your customers relative to your competitors. From the foreword by EJ Kreiken, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Revenue Management & Pricing treats revenue management and pricing as a pra ...

Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:50:33 PST

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"The Blue Mountains have become the Blade Runner scenario for the public lands, synechdoche for what might have, and has, gone horribly wrong. This is a book that argues powerfully for the complexity of nature, and demonstrates the need for equally complex explanations. A book of fundamental importance to both western and environmental history."--Stephen J. Pyne, author of "World Fire"Across the ...

The strangling of Persia

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 8:35:04 PST

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"The Strangling of Persia offers keen insights into the timeless methods used by powerful nations to achieve their own ends.

Art of Iran

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:02:09 PST

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Tapestry

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:00:06 PST

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The English Amongst the Persians

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:59:50 PST

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Against a background of intrigue and manipulation on both sides, the author charts the experiences and impact of those who helped to define the relationship between Britain and Iran from the end of the 18th century to the early 20th century. We meet the diplomats, soldiers, spies, traders, travellers, missionaries, engineers and doctors who all in their often colourful, different ways contributed ...

Masterpieces of Persian Art

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:59:03 PST

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A Year Amongst the Persians

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:57:51 PST

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First published in 1893, this is one of the great classics of travel. Going far beyond the record of a journey, it gives lively and entrancing descriptions of Persia and its people and is an infallible guide to modern Persian literature and thought. Written with tremendous enthusiasm by the greatest exponent of Persian life and letters of his day, it is a fascinating and instructive work.

Joseph Anton

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:27:48 PST

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On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called "The Satanic Verses", which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forc ...

Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:13:34 PST

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Whenever Hajji Baba traveled with the English, he observed them record their observations in books; and when they return home, thus make their fellow countrymen acquainted with the most distant regions of the globe. As a Persian, Hajji Baba followed their example; and during the period of his residence at Constantinople, he passed his time writing a detailed history of his life, which, although t ...

The book of Iran

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:07:01 PST

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Engineering in the Ancient World

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:47:58 PST

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Explores in detail how the ancient Greeks and Romans developed and constructed their machines, and considers how the same principles are used in modern-day engineering.

Spies Against Armageddon

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:02:42 PST

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Impact Report

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:58:26 PST

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Corporate and white-collar crime

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:11:54 PST

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"This is an innovative and multidisciplinary analysis of corporate and white collarcrime that is both theoretically and empirically rich.

Untapped

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:06:40 PST

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Poisoned Wells

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:06:17 PST

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Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development, but is instead causing violence, poverty, and stagnation. It is also generating vast corruption that reaches deep into American and European ...

A Swamp Full of Dollars

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:04:25 PST

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Examines the battle for Nigeria's oil supply, discussing how the oil industry has led to chaos among local groups, caused widespread corruption, and will ...

Spies in the Vatican

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:55:48 PST

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The Truth About the Irish

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:51:22 PST

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If you're looking for a field guide to leprechauns, The Truth About The Irish is not the book for you. But if you can handle a frank and funny look into the minds and hearts of the Irish people, you've been touched by that fabled Irish luck. Covering all things Irish from Blarney to Yeats, renowned literary and cultural critic Terry Eagleton separates the myths from the reality with his priceless ...

The Assassins' Gate

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:46:52 PST

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Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East an ...

Ill-Gotten Money and the Economy

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:58:16 PST

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Considering the Consequences

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:50:07 PST

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What have been the consequences of recent regulatory initiatives on international financial centres in small countries? This study of three small Commonwealth countries - Barbados, Mauritius and Vanuatu - suggests that the costs of implementing these new standards have exceeded any identifiable benefits for the countries concerned. Moreover the main factor explaining the adoption of the new stand ...

Debating Globalization

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:00:10 PST

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Debating Globalization is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the field. Published by Polity in association with openDemocracy, the book is notable not just for focusing on the pressing difficulties facing our world, but also on solutions. Rich and positive suggestions are made for reshaping globalization into a forc ...

The Company of Strangers

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:54:25 PST

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"No one, economist or civilian, could turn the pages of this book without spotting, time and again, some unexpected and arresting idea that really wants to be ...

Perfectly Legal

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:51:48 PST

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One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest people within the top 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of The New York Times for nine years, work for which one business school professor calls him ìthe ...

Free lunch

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:50:13 PST

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The author of the best-selling Perfectly Legal identifies inequalities in America's tax system that are placing a large percentage of citizens in financial ...

International White Collar Crime

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:42:46 PST

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Contemporary transnational criminals take advantage of globalization, trade liberalization, and emerging new technologies to commit a diverse range of crimes, and to move money, goods, services, and people instantaneously for purposes of pure economic gain and/or political violence. This book captures the importance of transnational business crime and international relations by examining the rise ...

Maonomics

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:52:06 PST

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Makes controversial predictions about the end of capitalism and the emergence of a profit-minded form of communism, documenting China's significant and peaceful rise while challenging Western-world perceptions about the dangers of a ...

Italian Politics since 1945

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:49:51 PST

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This wide-ranging book seeks to unravel the complexities of post-1992 Italian democracy. It takes as its point of departure the dramatic political tensions of the early 1990s and evaluates these against the background of an analysis of the `First Republic' that predates these changes.Martin Bull and James Newell, renowned scholars of Italian Politics, argue that the early 1990s revolution in Ital ...

Ignazio Silone

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:45:38 PST

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Throughout his life, the internationally known novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) struggled indomitably for social justice. In this book, Maria Nicolai Paynter discusses the many controversial issues surrounding Silone and his writing, analysing in detail his intellectual and political convictions and assesses the artistic achievement and stylistic developmen ...

Exit Wounds

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:27:56 PST

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Stayin' Alive

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:06:13 PST

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Jefferson Cowie’s edgy and incisive book—part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American musical, film, and TV lore—makes new ...

White Flight

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:03:56 PST

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During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explai ...

Anatomy of Greed

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:58:02 PST

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Young, brash, sporting a shiny new MBA, and obscenely overpaid, Brian Cruver epitomized the Enron employee when he first entered the company's Houston office; and from day one he found himself a cog in the wheel of a venal greed machine. For the next nine months, he would witness firsthand the now-infamous corporate tragedy that he relates in these ruthlessly honest, often hilarious, and frequent ...

Conspiracy of Fools

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:57:22 PST

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From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever . . .

Final Accounting

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:56:05 PST

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A withering exposé of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm. Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm. Until recently, the venerable firm had been regarded as the accounting profession's conscience. In Final Accounting, Barb ...

Inside Arthur Andersen

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:55:36 PST

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The authors of Arthur Andersen bring their unique insights to a close-range observation of Andersen's culture that has continued for more than 15 years. They set the stage by reviewing Andersen's unique history and role; its traditionally careful attention to "enculturing" new employees; and its social structure characterized by personal, "familial" relationships. Next, they narrate two decades o ...

House with wisteria

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:53:10 PST

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"This edition of Halide Edib's Memoirs, prefaced with Sibel Erol's excellent introduction, is important and timely. When stereotypes of women in the Muslim ...

Joseph Anton

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:38:32 PST

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On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, the author was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? This title tells the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.

City Within a State

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:57:13 PST

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Full Service Bank

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:19:17 PST

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City

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:14:34 PST

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Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.

Occupation Diaries

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 9:30:55 PST

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This title deals with life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, from the Orwell Prize winning author, Raja Shehadeh. It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be eno ...

The Retreat to Unfreedom

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:16:14 PST

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Whatever Happened to Imperialism and Other Essays

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:13:29 PST

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The essays in this volume are grouped around three main themes. The genesis of underdevelopment and the mechanism of its spontaneous reproduction, the contradiction of state-promoted development process after decolonization and the political economy underlying the process of economic liberalization.

The Value of Money

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 7:04:10 PST

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Why is money more valuable than the paper on which it is printed? Monetarists link the value of money to its supply and demand, believing the latter depends on the total value of the commodities it circulates. According to Prabhat Patnaik, this logic is flawed. In his view, in any nonbarter economy, the value we assign to money is determined independently of its supply and demand. Through an ori ...