books by PublicAffairs     books:       The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America David A. Stockman PublicAffairs, 2013 A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state—especially the Federal Reserve—has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These ...             A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China Pin Ho, Wenguang Huang PublicAffairs, 2013 The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China’s new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family—the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo’s secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo’s supporters; the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu ...             To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov PublicAffairs, 2013 In the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial ...             The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paul Collins PublicAffairs, 2013 The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne’s empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture’s birth, of the emergence of our ...             The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption Kathryn Joyce PublicAffairs, 2013 When Jessie Hawkins’ adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn’t, at first, know what to think. She’d wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like she’d done something wrong. Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of reproductive rights, pitched as a “win-win” compromise in the never-ending ...             Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas Erica Grieder PublicAffairs, 2013 Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state’s politics and attitude. And yet, according to journalist (and Texan) Erica Grieder, the United States has a great deal to learn from Texas. In Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right , Grieder traces the ...             Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing ... Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya PublicAffairs, 2013 In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru’s pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India’s, and by extension the world’s, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty? Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will ...             Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo PublicAffairs, 2012 Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics , Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called “marvelous, rewarding,” the authors tell how the stress of living on less than 99 cents per day encourages the poor to ...             How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick Letty Cottin Pogrebin PublicAffairs, 2013 Everyone knows someone who’s sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope. Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends’ and family’s diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began ...             The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made ... Edward Achorn PublicAffairs, 2013 Chris Von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the St. Louis Browns, the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important—and funniest—figures in the game’s history. Von der Ahe picked up the team for one reason—to sell more beer. Then he helped gather a group of ragtag clubs into a maverick new league ...             Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes Tamim Ansary PublicAffairs, 2010 We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted , Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when ...             Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization K. Eric Drexler PublicAffairs, 2013 K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance , he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy and environment. Already, scientists have ...             Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War Dale Maharidge PublicAffairs, 2013 Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. The only evidence that he’d served in the Marines was a photograph of himself and a buddy tacked to the basement wall. On one terrifyingly memorable occasion his teenage son, Dale, witnessed Steve screaming at the photograph: “They said I killed him! But I didn’t kill him! It wasn’t my fault!” After Steve died, Dale Maharidge began a twelve-year quest to face down his ...             When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany Adam Fergusson PublicAffairs, 2010 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 republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of ...             1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War Charles Emmerson PublicAffairs, 2013 Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features—last summers in grand aristocratic residences—or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of ...             The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World Kishore Mahbubani PublicAffairs, 2013 The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the most perceptive global commentators, also warns ...             Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs, 2008 Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans ...             The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed David Stockman PublicAffairs, 2013 As Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s, David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution—a bold plan to cut taxes and reduce the scope and cost of government. The Triumph of Politics was Stockman’s frontline report of the miscalculations, manipulations, and political intrigues that led to its failure. A major publishing event and New York Times bestseller in its day, The Triumph of Politics is ...             They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng, ... PublicAffairs, 2006 Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages. Amid the chaos, screams, conflagration, and gunfire, five-year-old ...             A Place at the Table: The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It Participant Media PublicAffairs, 2013 Forty-nine million people—including one in four children—go hungry in the U.S. every day, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table , this companion book offers powerful insights from those at the front lines of solving hunger in America, including: Jeff Bridges , Academy Award–winning actor, cofounder of the End Hunger Network, and spokesperson ...              search for books abundance, adoption, americans, barkeeps, baseball, capitalism, catchers, civilization, convergence, corruption, countries, deformation, devaluation, developing, disrupted, economics, everything, hyperinflation, immigrants, micro-lending, mulligan, nanotechnology, nightmare, politics, rethinking, revolution, solutionism, struggle, technological, trafficking books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Literary Filmography: 6,200 Adaptations of Books, Short Stories And ... home  impressum - about us