The future of power

One of America's leading policy intellectuals, who coined the term soft power, looks at what has happened to American power from the time of Kennedy in the 60's through the present day. In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power in the US ...

Poor economics

a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

This title comes from the award-winning founders of the unique and remarkable Abdul Latfi Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory at MIT, a transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor, their lives, desires and frustrations. Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and ...

The irrational economist

making decisions in a dangerous world

The world's most distinguished behavioral economists address the economic implications of catastrophe - how we must reconcile our instincts with a world full of natural disasters, global climate upheaval, financial storms and terrorist threats. We live in a risky world, one that requires us sometimes ...

Eclipse of the Sunnis

Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East

Two million Sunni Muslims displaced or exiled by the conflict in Iraq have spread across the Middle East, unbalancing that sensitive region. This title illuminates the flip-side of the Shia revival, the profound dislocation and destabilization of the Sunni Muslims and its impact on the ...

Power hungry

the myths of "green" energy and the real fuels of the future

In this title, the author of "Gusher of Lies" examines the hard facts of supply and demand to underscore the vast quantities of power we need, and how little of that horsepower can come from 'renewable' sources - and then shows that the US has vast ...

Building social business

the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus looks more deeply into the concept of social business, an alternative to unfettered capitalism that channels the best energies of capitalism while addressing pressing human needs, by showing how the theory and practice of this idea is growing in the business ...

A global life

my journey among rich and poor, from Sydney to Wall Street to the World Bank

This is the autobiography of the larger-than-life, visionary financier and philanthropist who led the World Bank through one of its most intense and tumultuous decades in the struggle against global poverty. As President of the World Bank for a decade, James Wolfensohn tackled global poverty ...

The Great Depression

a diary

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those ...

When money dies

the nightmare of deficit spending, devaluation, and hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation#s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German ...

The two trillion dollar meltdown

easy money, high rollers, and the great credit crash

Now fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the ...

Creating a world without poverty

social business and the future of capitalism

Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one- ...

The Crash of 2008 and what it means

the new paradigm for financial markets

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future.George Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivalled, places the current crisis in ...

Tha sages

Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the maelstrom of markets

A bestselling author examines the perspectives and principles of the three pillars of the financial world, as well as their judgements on the current crisis and the path to recovery. Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out ...

Enough

why the world's poorest starve in an Age of Plenty

This is a powerful indictment of the economic, political and social dynamics that perpetuate famine - and a powerful call for change - by a renowned "Wall Street Journal" team. For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger ...

Destiny disrupted

a history of the world through islamic eyes

This sweeping history illuminates how Muslims must have seen the history of the world - and what western world history leaves out. We in the West share a common narrative of world history - that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia, through Greece and Rome and ...

The new Asian hemisphere

the irresistible shift of global power to the East

One of Asia's leading intellectuals illuminates what will be on the agenda as Western domination ends and the Asian renaissance impacts world politics, markets and history. For centuries the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now, they are ...

Gusher of lies

the dangerous delusions og "energy independence"

'Energy independence' might sound appealing, but as veteran energy reporter Robert Bryce shows in this smart and surprising book, it's neither achievable nor desirable. For more than three decades, politicians have been promising to make America energy independent, a self-sufficient. They reason that energy ...

The foundation

a great american secret. How private wealth is changing the world

How private wealth is changing the world. In 2004, one sector of the US economy gave away $32.2 billion dollars, almost 10 per cent of their GDP, largely because it had to. Neither from government nor corporations, the money came from America's unique ...

The new paradigm for financial markets

the credit crisis of 2007 and what it means

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the ...

The trillion dollar meltdown

easy money, high rollers, and the great credit crash

The sub-prime mortgage crisis is only the beginning: A more profound economic and political restructuring is on its way.We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions.According to ...