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    Alien Situations

    by Simon Robb ...
    Narrated by Simon Robb ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 8 min

    Alien Situations is a story of survival in a time of dystopian violence.Alien Situations follows two women from sharply different social worlds: Donna, a young woman living on the margins, and Anita, a middle-aged woman whose outwardly stable life masks grief and desperation. When a supernatural figure disrupts Donna's fragile reality, and a psychotic man from Anita's past re-appears, both women ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Haunting the Knowledge Economy

    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more.It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Parisians

    An Adventure History of Paris

    by Graham Robb ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction.A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes its course. Later that night, Napoleon Bonaparte writes a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Restoration London

    Everyday Life in the 1660s

    by Liza Picard ...
    Narrated by Sean Barrett ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Life of London

    Abridged

    6 hours 29 min

    Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Elizabeth's London

    Everyday Life in Elizabethan London

    by Liza Picard ...
    Narrated by Liza Picard ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Life of London

    Abridged

    7 hours 24 min

    Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, thisfascinating evocation of Elizabethan London is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of everyday life and the conditions in which most people lived, which most history books ignore: the streets, houses and gardens; cooking, housework and shopping; clothes, jewellery and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Fourth Revolution

    The Global Race to Reinvent the State

    From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-stateDysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited ... Read more

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  • Spain

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®, a timely addition to Oxford's acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know® series, veteran journalist William Chislett provides much-needed political and historical context ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Lost Continent

    The BBC's Europe Editor on Europe's Darkest Hour Since World War Two

    by Gavin Hewitt ...
    In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous, and which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two - a crisis for which it was totally unprepared.A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared currency, and with it came easy money, seducing some countries into a wild spending binge. After the ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The World Trade Organization

    A Beginner's Guide

    Series series Beginner's Guides
    One of the most important yet least understood organizations in the world, the WTO is a lynchpin of globalization, allowing us to enjoy products and services from around the globe. However, it also lays bare the frailty of many industries, leading some to claim that it stokes unemployment and harms the developing world.In this engaging introduction, David Collins examines the goals of the WTO and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Cracking Economics

    Crack the world of money and understand the economic theory that has shaped nations and influenced the way you live now.From Keynesian models to how inflation affects interest rates, Cracking Economics will make the seemingly complex world of global finance easily understood.Subjects covered include:-Macro- and micro-economics-Inflation-Recession-Economic forecasting-How stock markets work ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • After Piketty

    Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Introducing Keynes

    A Graphic Guide

    by Peter Pugh ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    As we find ourselves at the cusp of an economic downturn, there has been a clear reinvigoration of Keynesian economics as governments are attempting to stimulate the market through public funds. Forming his economic theories in the wake of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes argued that a healthy economy depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors and, most importantly, ... Read more

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