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We think we know what's coming. But is it already too late? This title explores how the 'first world' has its wasted…

Nintendo has continually set the standard for video game innovation in America, and the saga of Mario, the portly plumber…

How can we help poorer countries become richer without harming the planet? Is there a way of reconciling prosperity with…

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This fascinating memoir charts Dame Stephanie's life from her time as a child in Germany and arrival in England as an…

A critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. It satirizes practices such as 'conspicuous consumption', a pattern of…

In today's financial climate, we are all, naturally, obsessed by debt. In this title, the author examines the flawed…

Why do oil and diamonds lead to economic disaster more often than boom? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Why might believing…

For the author, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady…

Why worship work and productivity if many of the goods we produce are superfluous - artificial 'needs' created by…

Shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. This title describes that most people want more income and yet as…

Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800.…

All questions about the nature of materials are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. Using both…

When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? This title shows how the great economist's ideas not only…

How did we get to where we are? This title shows that the roots of our financial failure lie not with individuals, but with…

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Unravels the truth about markets, from Wall Street to Switzerland, from Russia to Mumbai, examining why some nations are…

Explains the history of economics including various theories.…

The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese economic miracle failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this…

The only child of divorced parents, the author was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years…

Shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From…