Extra virginity

the sublime and scandalous world of olive oil

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin ...

Economics of the environment

selected readings

Through five editions, "Economics of the environment" has served as a valuable supplement to environmental economics texts and as a stand-alone book of original readings from the literature. Edited by Robert N. Stavins, the sixth edition promises to do the same. The table of contents ...

Universal Rights down to Earth

Richard Thompson Ford offers a lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities. His analysis of human rights struggles across the globe uncovers the complexities of observing "universal" principles in specific cultures. Ford sketches divergent views on how we ...

Policy paradox

the art of political decision making

Unlike most texts, which treat policy analysis and policy making as different enterprises, Policy Paradox demonstrates that "you can t take politics out of analysis." Through a uniquely rich and comprehensive model, this revised edition continues to show how real-world policy grows out of differing ...

A contest for supremacy

China, America,and the struggle form mastery in Asia

There may be no denying China's growing economic strength but its impact on the global balance of power remains hotly contested. In this examination of the escalating Sino-American struggle for geopolitical predominance, Aaron L. Friedberg argues that America's leaders are failing to act ...

The justice cascade

how human rights prosecutions are changing world politics

Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human rights violations. She shows how, in three decades, state leaders in Latin America, Europe and Africa have lost their immunity from accountability, becoming the subjects of highly publicised ...

Dealmaking

new dealmaking strategies for a competitive marketplace

Informed by meticulous research, field experience, and classroom-tested strategies, Dealmaking offers essential insights for anyone involved in buying or selling everything from cars to corporations. Leading business scholar Guhan Subramanian provides a lively tour of both negotiation and auction theory, then takes an in-depth look ...

Can intervention work?

Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus distil their remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of "nation building". As they delve into the massive, military-driven efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and ...

Sun tzu at gettysburg

ancinet military wiadom in the Modern World

Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg or if Napoleon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in ...

A most dangerous book

Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

This, the riveting story of the Germania, tells of its incarnations and exploitations through the ages. The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a ...

Labor economics

introduction to classic and the new labor economics

Labor Economics has comprehensive coverage, and gives instructors the flexibility to tailor their text precisely to the course that they want to teach. The text stresses problem solving, with several Worked Problems in each chapter, and includes leading-edge pedagogy to help students better understand and ...

THinking in an emergency

For sixty years, modern democratic governments have undermined democracy and increased executive power by invoking the idea of emergency. They have bypassed constitutional provisions concerning presidential succession, the declaration of war, the use of torture, civilian surveillance and the arrangements for nuclear weapons. In the ...

Lost decades

the making of America's debt crisis and the long recovery

Welcome to Argentina: by 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with almost half of its 6.4 trillion dollar federal debt in foreign hands. The proportion of foreign loans to the size of the economy put the United ...

Keynes Hayek

The clash that defined modern economics

As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would ...

Advantage

how american innovation can overcome the asian challenge

The emergence of India and China as economic powers has called into question the ability of the United States to compete and to maintain its technological lead. Advantage sorts out the challenges the US faces and focuses on what drives innovation, what constrains it and ...

The globalization paradox

democracy and the facture of the world economy

From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned these eras#the gold standard, the Bretton Woods regime ...

Cultures of war

Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Embracing Defeat, John W. Dower returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times, presenting a conceptual breakthrough in the ways we think about "culture" in general and "war" in particular. Immediately after ...

The relentless revolution

a history of capitalism

With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism took shape ...

God's Century

resurgent religion and global politics

There has been a surge in the political influence of religion across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalisation and technology. Despite recent claims that religion is exclusively irrational and violent, its political influence is in fact ...

Liar's poker

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions ...