epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Meltzer, Allan H.

Foreign and Military Commitments In the years just after World War II, the United States gradually accepted responsibility for maintaining world political stability and countering the perceived threat from the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Michael Seidman

As had their nineteenth-century predecessors, chaplains offered religious medallions (detentes) to their men to ward off death and injury. The detentes proved extremely popular with Spanish and even Moorish soldiers, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Levi, Michael, Economy, Elizabeth [Levi, Michael, Economy, Elizabeth]

Law to the Rescue? Many hope that international law will impose a resolution to the conflicts over resource ownership. This would, however, be a strong departure from historical precedent. (Moreover, ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Andreas, Peter [Andreas, Peter]

If I wished to defend myself, I have precedent right out of American history for my rum running enterprises. Americans, since the beginning of this nation, have always kicked holes ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Martin, Iain [Martin, Iain]

10 Safe as Houses ‘US house prices are not going to fall by 30 per cent. They just aren’t.’ Fred Goodwin Thirty miles to the north-east of Manhattan, up the ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Harry S. Dent Jr. [Dent, Harry S. Jr.]

Visit bit.ly/1cIj2Q2 for a larger version of this graph. Visit bit.ly/1bcGO9Z for a larger version of this graph. China’s exports to EMs have grown from 38 percent in 2001 to ...

mobi |eng | 2014-03-02 | Author:Andre Gunder Frank

In 1776, Adam Smith (1937: 637–8,) compared Chinese and Indian canal and fluvial low-cost transport with that in Europe and declared the former superior. Asian use of substantial human labor ...

epub |eng | | Author:George Packer

TAMMY THOMAS In early 2008, a little over a year after Tammy lost her job at the factory, a man named Kirk Noden asked her to meet him for coffee. ...

mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-02-18 | Author:Michael Lewis

Chapter Seven The Salomon Diet 1986-1988 HE BOND MARKET and the people market sought their respective equilibriums, and in the two years following the dinner at Le Perigord the mortgage ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Seabright, Paul [Seabright, Paul]

The Signaling Trap The modern office is an environment in which mutual signaling and maneuvering are as essential to survival as they were on the African woodland savanna where we ...

epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil

FIGURE 4.17. The first two drawings of George Devol’s patent (U.S. Patent 2,988,237 granted in 1961, filed in 1954) for programmed article transfer, the automatic operation of machinery for materials ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Hedrick Smith [Smith, Hedrick]

“Sometimes People Don’t Realize They Are Training Their Own Replacement” Inside IBM, longtime employees watched for clues. Tom Midgley, a $75,000-a-year IT systems administrator at the large IBM operation in ...

mobi, epub |pt | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jeff Madrick

15 George Soros and John Meriwether FABULOUS WEALTH AND CONTROVERSIAL POWER Until the mid-1980s, the takeover movement was the way to make the most money on Wall Street. Men like ...