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  • Separating Fools from Their Money

    A History of American Financial Scandals

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Series series Separating Fools from Their Money
    What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? (Answer: Tough call, but either Michael Milken's Predators Ball in 1985, or Dennis Kozlowski's Sardinian birthday bash in 2001, with its vodka-spouting sculpture.) Which ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean

    Economic Statecraft, China and Strategic Realignments

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the slide into a new Cold War in the Caribbean. The primary argument is that the Caribbean’s geopolitics have shifted from a period of relative great power disinterest in the aftermath of the Cold War to a gradual movement into a new Cold War in which a global rivalry between the U.S. and China is acted out regionally. The result of this is a gradual polarization of countries in ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Separating Fools from Their Money

    A History of American Financial Scandals

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Series series Separating Fools from Their Money
    What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? Which US war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street?These questions and more are discussed in Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • European Destiny, Atlantic Transformations

    Portuguese Foreign Policy Under the Second Republic, 1979-1992

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    With the fall of its centuries-old empire in 1974-1975, Portugal embarked on a transitional period that reconciled a long tradition of acting out national interests overseas with the need to integrate itself into Western Europe. The result has been a deemphasis on various Atlantic and colonial linkages and the forging of a new and highly successful European identity within the framework of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Fast Forward

    Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Latin America is developing rapidly. As the authors see the region, a small group of countries has found a fast-forward button. In these countries change is exciting, occurring at such a rapid pace that a major breakthrough hi economic growth appears within grasp. After an almost decade-long period of recession and stagnation, many Latin American economies now have elected governments. With a few ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A History of Credit and Power in the Western World

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    The end of the Cold War put the planet on a new track, abruptly replacing the familiar world of bipolarity, red phones, and intercontinental ballistic missiles with the strange new world of the Internet, e-commerce, and Palm Pilots. The "New World Order" was defined by a U.S.-led war against Iraq, bloody ethnic strife in Bosnia and Rwanda, and religious turmoil in Central Asia. This evolving ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • State Capitalism's Uncertain Future

    by Scott B. MacDonald, Jonathan Lemco ...
    A provocative and timely look at the current state of global economics, particularly how the state-owned companies of Russia, China, Latin America, and other emerging markets are influencing how people work, how they consume, and how they prosper.The global economy is changing: experts are noting slow growth in the advanced economies, greater volatility in international markets, and the emergence ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • When Small Countries Crash

    by Scott B. MacDonald, Andrew Novo ...
    The public is fascinated with financial crashes. Historians portray the roar of an angry mob toppling presidents or prime ministers and destroying the property of those who are regarded as malefactors. And certainly, financial crisis is often a factor in political change. It is often overlooked, but nonetheless significant that one of the major causes for the French Revolution was the poor state ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Why Doesn't God Answer My Prayers?

    A Biblical Guide to God's Hidden Purposes

    by Erwin W Lutzer, Scott MacDonald ...
    When Heaven seems silent, and God, indifferent . . . bring your disappointment, anger, questions, and broken heart.Life can be disappointing—bitterly disappointing. Especially if you’ve been asking, or begging, for God’s help and your prayers go unanswered. Maybe you were taught that God loves you only to discover that when you really need Him, He’s not there.In Why Doesn’t God Answer My Prayers? ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • JavaScript Cookbook

    Programming the Web

    by Adam D. Scott, Matthew MacDonald, Shelley Powers ...
    Why reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with JavaScript? This cookbook is chock-full of code recipes for common programming tasks, along with techniques for building apps that work in any browser. You'll get adaptable code samples that you can add to almost any project--and you'll learn more about JavaScript in the process.The recipes in this book take advantage of the latest ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Forever Swim

    by Antonio Argüelles ...
    Narrated by Scott MacDonald ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    Plunge into the water, accompany Antonio Argüelles on his Oceans Seven adventure, and, along the way, find out how to achieve your own dreams and goals. On August 3, 2017, Antonio Argüelles swam 35 kilometers from Northern Ireland to Scotland. When he arrived on the Scottish shore after a swim of nearly 14 hours through hypothermic currents wearing only a speedo, cap, and goggles, he became just ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Avant-Doc

    Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema

    by Scott MacDonald ...
    MacDonald explores the cinematic territory between the traditional categories of "documentary" and "avant-garde" film, through candid, in-depth conversations with filmmakers whose work has challenged these categories. Arranged in an imaginative chronology and written to be accessible to any film-interested reader, the interviews in Avant-Doc chart half a century of thinking by inventive filmmakers ... Read more

    $44.99 USD