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The Law The Law

Frédéric Bastiat

Издател: Simon & Brown

The Law, original French title La Loi, is a 1850 book by Frederic Bastiat. It was written at Mugron two years after the third French Revolution of 1848 and a few months before his death of tuberculosis at age 49. The essay was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Governmentand in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. It

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The German Genius The German Genius

Peter Watson

Издател: Simon and Schuster

Peter Watson's virtuoso sweep through modern German thought and culture, from 1750 to the present day, will challenge and confound both the stereotypes the world has of Germany and those that Germany has of itself. From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation

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The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 The Age of Empire: 1875-1914

Eric Hobsbawm

Издател: Abacus

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.

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The Age of Capital, 1848-75 The Age of Capital, 1848-75

Eric Hobsbawm

Издател: Abacus

A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism through the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism". The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which

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The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

Издател: Abacus

Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant analytical clarity the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established

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Buffettology Buffettology

Mary Buffett , David Clark

Издател: Simon and Schuster

In the world of investing, the name Warren Buffett is synonymous with success and prosperity. Building from the ground up, Buffett chose wisely and picked his stocks with care, in turn amassing the huge fortune for which he is now famous. Mary Buffett, former daughter-in-law of this legendary financial genius and a successful businesswoman in her

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Civilization: The West and the Rest Civilization: The West and the Rest

Niall Ferguson

Издател: Allen Lane

What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether

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Networks: An Introduction Networks: An Introduction

M. E. J. Newman

Издател: Oxford University Press

The study of networks, including computer networks, social networks, and biological networks, has attracted an enormous amount of interest in the last few years. The rise of the Internet and the wide availability of inexpensive computers have made it possible to gather and analyze network data on an unprecedented scale, and the development of new

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Connected Connected

Nicholas Christakis, James Fowler

Издател: Hachette Book Group

Renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another's tastes, health, wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social networks form and how they operate. In Connected, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get

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The Road to Serfdom The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich von Hayek

Издател: Routledge

The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be

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