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Allen Lane
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"In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations rec[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-241-00343-5 Article on page: IX, 500 p. Class number: 303.48409 Tags: Social history--Case studies ; Social change--Case studies ; Crisis management--Case studies ; Civilization--History ; Disasters--Forecasting ; Disasters--Political aspects ; Social change--History Languages: English Books
"Everyone has heard the claim, "Correlation does not imply causation." What might sound like a reasonable dictum metastasized in the twentieth century into one of science's biggest obstacles, as a legion of researchers became unwilling to make t[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-241-24263-6 Article on page: X, 418 p. Class number: 501 Tags: Causation ; Inference Languages: English Books
Henry Kissinger has traveled the world, advised presidents, and been a close observer and participant in the central foreign policy events of our era. Now he offers his analysis of the twenty first century’s ultimate challenge: how to build a sh[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-241-00426-5 Article on page: 420 p. Descriptors: Class number: 327 Tags: International organization ; Geopolitics Languages: English Books
Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in "The Big Short", Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how brok[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84614-484-4 Article on page: xxi, 213 Descriptors: Class number: 330 (Economie) Tags: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Iceland--Economy ; Greece ; Ireland--Economy ; Germany--Economic conditions ; United States--Economic conditions ; United States--International economic relations--Europe ; Europe--International economic relations--United States ; Europe--Economic conditions--Forecasting Languages: English Books
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2010 Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment , account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From insi[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84614-238-3 Article on page: 1 vol. (XX, 600 p.) Descriptors: Class number: 330.905 11 Tags: Financial crises--United States--History--21st century ; United States--Economic conditions--2001- ; Securities industry--United States ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-7139-1076-6 Article on page: 219 Class number: 309.11812 Languages: English Books
Article on page: 235 Descriptors: Class number: 940.540 4 Tags: World War, 1939-1945--Europe ; World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements Languages: English