The triumphant rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte over his Republican opponents has been the central theme of most narrative accounts of mid-nineteenth-century France, while resistance to the coup d'etat generally has been neglected.
Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby mega-store hikes its prices the night of an earthquake.
Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas.
BUILD GENERATIONAL WEALTH WITH CLEAR AND ACTIONABLE INVESTMENT STRATEGIESCassandra Cummings, leading financial expert, and founder of The Stocks & Stilettos Society, shows women how to crush their financial goals, overcome their fears, and grow their wealth through the power of investing.
MASTER YOUR ROLE AS AN EFFECTIVE MANAGERAn accessible and practical quick-guide that will help you develop your skills as a manager from Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have With Your Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert.
LEARN TO HANDLE EMPLOYEE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS LEAGALLY AND ETHICALLYA quick guide to legally and ethically mastering progressive discipline and structured termination, from the leading voice in HR expertise.
Real-life ';wildpreneur' Tamara Jacobi shares her insights on what it takes to successfully make the leap from a safe yet soul-crushing day job to chasing your dreams.
Bridget Brennan, CEO of Female Factor, shows readers how to win sales and grow market share by creating a customer experience that appeals to the most powerful consumers: women.
MASTER EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE REVIEWSReady-to-use quick-guide to streamline employee reviews, create effective career development plans, and monitor year-round employee performance.
PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN PLACE THE FIRST TIME with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise.
LEARN TO NAVIGATE COMPLEX EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT ETHICAL CHALLENGESPaul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees, teaches you the leadership principles that cultivate an ethical workplace and legally protect your company.
GOLD MEMBER WINNER LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP and eLIT BOOK AWARD: BUSINESS AUDIOBOOKA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.
Clear, actionable steps for you to build new values, experiences, and perspectives into your organizational culture, infusing it with the diversity, inclusion, and belonging employees need to feel accepted, be their best selves, and do their best work.
Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing Officer of Mastercard, shares breakthrough, frontier strategies to navigate the challenges that result from today's unprecedented disruption.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEARA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Brilliantly conceived and enlightening at every turn' Lawrence WrightWe have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissatisfied.
An in-depth look at the history, leadership, and structure of the Federal Reserve BankThe independence of the Federal Reserve is considered a cornerstone of its identity, crucial for keeping monetary policy decisions free of electoral politics.
A GUARDIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'Insightful and revealing: a brilliant exploration of how ideas currently on the edge of politics could move into the mainstream' Danny Dorling, author of SLOWDOWNAn ambitious, thrilling manifesto, setting out a new relationship between the individual and the state and how we can get thereCan we reverse the mental health crisis by getting rid of Mondays?
Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author of Principles -whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide -shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well.
The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy.
The main objective of this book is to offer an overview and a critical assessment of current connectivity issues in Asia and Europe, seen from an industrial perspective.
How to adapt your firm s competitive strategy to the modern reality of Chinese enterprise Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success delivers a roadmap for business executives competing in and with China.
How to adapt your firm s competitive strategy to the modern reality of Chinese enterprise Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success delivers a roadmap for business executives competing in and with China.
Con sus propuestas de políticas económicas expansivas y de intervención del Estado en los asuntos económicos, John Maynard Keynes se convirtió en el economista más influyente del siglo XX, capaz de captar en tiempo real las transformaciones profundas que atravesaba el capitalismo en su época.
Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international scholars to initiate an important dialogue between labour process analysis and scholarship on work in the Global South.
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day.
Why America's public-private mortgage giants threaten the world economy-and what to do about itThe financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in history.
How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics.
Today, information and the technologies that store and disseminate it are producing deep-rooted and widespread changes in society - changes of the same magnitude as those that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.
Today, information and the technologies that store and disseminate it are producing deep-rooted and widespread changes in society - changes of the same magnitude as those that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.
Since the 1980s, there has been explosive growth in the use of experimental methods in economics, leading to exciting developments in economic theory and policy.
How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditionsContrary to conventional wisdom, countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions for development, such as good infrastructure and institutions.
