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  • A Farewell to Alms

    A Brief Economic History of the World

    by Gregory Clark ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • American Watersheds 1 & 2

    A Magical, Mystical, Musical, and Historical Journey

    by Gregory Clark ...
    American Watersheds combines education and entertainment in a trilogy. This first edition contains both parts 1&2. The series highlights leaders who changed history Politically or culturally in the era in which they lived. This is all done by the author telling personal stories or those of a relative or close personal friend.(Greg is related to 3 Presidents and offers stories of 5 Presidents never ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civic Jazz

    American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along

    by Gregory Clark ...
    Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth Burke's concept of rhetorical communication and jazz music's aesthetic encounters with a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trained Capacities

    John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice

    Edited by Brian Jackson, Gregory Clark ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    A collection examining Dewey's influence on effective communication in a healthy democratic practiceThe essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey's wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture's fundamental conflicts between self and society, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Son Also Rises

    Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

    by Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Yu Hao, Daniel Diaz Vidal ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Rhetorical Landscapes in America

    Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke

    by Gregory Clark ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    A panoramic explanation of "civic tourism" and the shaping of a national identityAt the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's new study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism. Looking specifically at a time when citizens of the United States first took to rail and then highway to become sightseers in their own country, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Rhetorical Education In America

    by William N. Denman, Thomas P. Miller, Jill Swiencicki, Jill Swiencicki, Susan Kates, S. Michael Halloran, Gregory Clark, Sherry Booth, Susan Frisbie0, Laura J. Gurak1, Professor Shirley Wilson Logan5, Dr. Rich Lane6, Professor Nan Johnson7 ...
    A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction.From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic action and social responsibility. Yet, questions of who should receive rhetorical education, in what form, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Security Intelligence

    A Practitioner's Guide to Solving Enterprise Security Challenges

    by Qing Li, Gregory Clark ...
    Similar to unraveling a math word problem, Security Intelligence: A Practitioner's Guide to Solving Enterprise Security Challenges guides you through a deciphering process that translates each security goal into a set of security variables, substitutes each variable with a specific security technology domain, formulates the equation that is the deployment strategy, then verifies the solution ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

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  • Power and Plenty

    Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium

    by Kevin H. O'Rourke, Ronald Findlay ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium.Ronald Findlay and Kevin ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Fragile by Design

    The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit

    by Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen Haber ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Why stable banking systems are so rareWhy are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households.Analyzing the political and banking ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Fault Lines

    How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (New in Paper)

    by Raghuram G. Rajan ...
    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The 10,000 Year Explosion

    How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

    by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending ...
    Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly original account of our evolutionary history, top ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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