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  • The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

    • UPC: 787721938170
    • ASIN: 091298645X
    • ISBN: 091298645X
    • Brand: American Media
    • Manufacturer: American Media

    Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story - which it re... [Read More]

  • Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too

    • ASIN: 0062674676
    • ISBN: 0062674676
    • Manufacturer: HarperBusiness

    Four-time New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary personal brands.In his 2009 international bestseller Crus... [Read More]

  • Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy

    • ASIN: 3981484282
    • ISBN: 3981484282
    • Manufacturer: ISLET

    How financial parasites and debt destroy the global economy. Professor Hudson continues the discussion on the financialization of capital and its global effects. KILLING THE HOST exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have gained control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments. The FI... [Read More]

  • Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

    • ASIN: 0156334607
    • ISBN: 9780156334600
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index.

  • Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

    • ASIN: 0307339378
    • ISBN: 0307339378
    • Brand: Bageant, Joe
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understandin... [Read More]

  • Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

    • ASIN: 0143116800
    • ISBN: 0143116800
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now."—The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed rev... [Read More]

  • The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

    • ASIN: 0374534608
    • ISBN: 9780374534608
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    The 2013 National Book Award WinnerA New York Times BestsellerSelected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book of 2013A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Washington Post Best Political Book of 2013An NPR Best Book of 2013A New Republic Best Book of 2013One of Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013A Kirkus Reviews Be... [Read More]

  • The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)

    • ASIN: 0226320669
    • ISBN: 0226320669
    • Brand: Hayek, Friedrich A. Von
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were... [Read More]

  • Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It (Basic Books Classics)

    • ASIN: 0465007856
    • ISBN: 0465007856
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the US Army, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, and the Social Security Ad... [Read More]

  • The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Essential Histories Series)

    • ASIN: 1403980810
    • ISBN: 1403980810
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    This narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages. The first third of the book moves from the Americas before Columbus to the wars for independence in the early nineteenth century. The construction of new nations and peoples in the nineteenth century forms the middle third, and the final section analyzes... [Read More]

  • Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

    • ASIN: 0674005392
    • ISBN: 0674005392
    • Brand: Brand: Harvard University Press
    • Manufacturer: Harvard University Press

    Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms ... [Read More]

  • The World (Lonely Planet)

    • ASIN: 1786576538
    • ISBN: 1786576538
    • Brand: LONELY PLANET
    • Manufacturer: Lonely Planet

    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet's The World. A Traveller's Guide to the Planet. We've taken the highlights from the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 900+ page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavo... [Read More]

  • The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates (Religion in America)

    • ASIN: 0195086740
    • ISBN: 0195086740
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    This extensive reference work, hailed by the Journal of Religion as "a book long needed by historians of American religion", offers "a unique contribution to this often-told story by providing an in-depth analysis of seven persons intimately involved in the controversy" (Theology Today). 13 halftone illustrations.

  • Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems

    • ASIN: 1559638575
    • ISBN: 1559638575
    • Brand: Brand: Island Press
    • Manufacturer: Island Press

    Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the most important task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integrating the various disciplines in a way that gives adequate representati... [Read More]

  • Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877

    • ASIN: 0521398177
    • ISBN: 0521398177
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-o... [Read More]

  • Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg Through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow, June-December 1941

    • ASIN: 0764343769
    • ISBN: 0764343769
    • Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing

    This book examines in unprecedented detail the advance of Germany's Army Group Center through central Russia, toward Moscow, in the summer of 1941, followed by brief accounts of the Battle of Moscow and subsequent winter battles into early 1942. Based on hundreds of veterans' accounts, archival documents, and exhaustive study of the pertinent prima... [Read More]

  • Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

    • ASIN: 1843310279
    • ISBN: 1843310279
    • Brand: Chang, Ha-Joon
    • Manufacturer: Anthem Press

    How did the rich countries really become rich?  In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are... [Read More]

  • Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback

    • ASIN: 1546077065
    • ISBN: 1546077065
    • Brand: FaithWords/Hachette Book Group
    • Manufacturer: Center Street

    No one understands the "Make America Great Again" effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America Great Again" in 1980. He authored the Contract with America and spearheaded the 1994 Republican Revolution that brought the House of Representatives unde... [Read More]

  • Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Second Edition

    • ASIN: 0300163681
    • ISBN: 9780300163681
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the world’s most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. Rashid offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English-language readers, explaining the Taliban’s rise to power, its impact on Afghanista... [Read More]

  • The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

    • UPC: 884220891569
    • ASIN: 1591846706
    • ISBN: 1591846706
    • Brand: James Rickards
    • Size: 7 Ounces
    • Manufacturer: Portfolio

    “The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.”The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each... [Read More]

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