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Издател: European Central Bank

On 1 January 1999, upon the successful completion of substantial preparatory work, Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) started, and the European Central Bank (ECB) assumed responsibility for the single monetary policy in the euro area. This date marked the culmination of years of effort to create a durable framework for monetary

Robin S. Sharma

Издател: HarperCollins Publishers

Everyone loves a good fable, and this is certainly one. The protagonist is Julian Mantle, a high-profile attorney with a whacked-out schedule and a shameful set of spiritual priorities. Of course it takes a crisis (heart attack) to give Mantle pause. And pause he does--suddenly selling all his beloved possessions to trek India in pursuit of a

William Rosen

Издател: Jonathan Cape

If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress. In The Most Powerful Idea in the World,

Scott Berkun

Издател: O'Reilly Media

In this new edition of the classic bestseller, the author Scott Berkun will show you how to transcend the false stories that many business experts, scientists, and much of pop culture use to guide their thinking about how ideas change the world. Since its initial publication, this classic bestseller has been discussed on NPR, MSNBC, CNBC, and at

W. Brian Arthur

Издател: Penguin Books

What is technology in its nature, in its deepest essence? Where does it come from? How does it evolve? With contagious enthusiasm, Arthur, an economics professor and a pioneer of complexity theory, tries to answer these and other questions in a style that is by turns sparkling and flat. Technology is self-creating, though it requires human agency