Author: Christopher Heathcote
Publisher: Macmillan Education/Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: years, abstract, painting, fifty, view, johnson, world, george
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-12-31
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1876832819
ISBN-13: 9781876832810

George Johnson arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1952 and in 1956 held his first exhibition of abstract painting in Melbourne. This book marks the artist’s 80th birthday and fifty years of singular dedication to philosophy-based abstract imagery. Johnson’s work is uniquely consistent - rarely straying from compositions based on primary shapes and a limited range of colour preferences, but demonstrating how these minimal means can, in combination, serve as surrogates for complex ideas. Additional contributors to the next include the artist’s brother, renowned New Zealan

Author: Ravi Batra
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: global, economy, undermined, policies, fraud, decades, greenspan
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-05-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1403968594
ISBN-13: 9781403968593

An explosive critique of Alan Greenspan’s economic policies by New York Times bestselling author Ravi Batra F or two decades Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has held reign over economic policy, outlasting three presidents. His long tenure has had a profound effect on global economics and on individuals. In this hard-hitting expos, international bestselling author Ravi Batra takes sharp aim at Greenspan’s policies since he came into power. Greenomics, Batra argues, has extracted trillions of dollars from the American middle class and sharply benefited the rich, while protec

Author: Erik Banks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: street, wall, life, need, working
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-02-07
List price: $31.32
ISBN-10: 1403963770
ISBN-13: 9781403963772

Written by a former Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, Working the Street is the resource for readers hoping to build a successful career on Wall Street. It is not a "how-to" career book or a job guide. It doesn’t tell the reader who to contact for a job or what classes to take to prepare for a career in banking, and it is not a book about the technical "nuts and bolts" of Wall Street. What this book does tell the reader is about some of the "ins and outs" of Wall Street; about how things really work in the banking world; about some of the speed bumps to watch out for and some of the "

Author: Arthur Benavie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: needs, pension, reform, citizen, informed, security, gun, social
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1403961220
ISBN-13: 9781403961228

The US public has been led to believe that Social Security is going bankrupt and that our children will be burdened with supporting the elderly unless it is reformed. Benavie will refute these arguments. While it is true that our public pension system can be improved, this book will separate the widely accepted economic facts of the issue from personal value judgements. This book is an invaluable guide to understanding and making informed decisions about one of our most important social welfare systems.

Author: Edward Lucas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: threat, west, russia, putin, cold, war, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-02-19
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0230606121
ISBN-13: 9780230606128

In late 1999 when Vladimir Putin was named Prime Minister, Russia was a budding democracy. Multiple parties campaigned for seats in the Duma, the nation’s parliament. The media criticized the government freely. Eight years later as Putin completes his second term as president of Russia and announces his bid for prime minister, the country is under a repressive regime. Human rights abuses are widespread. The Kremlin is openly hostile to the West. Yet the United States and Europe have been slow to confront the new reality, in effect, helping Russia win what experts are now calling the New

Author: Fred Moseley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: appraisals, modern, money, theory, marx
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-03-02
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1403936412
ISBN-13: 9781403936417

This book provides a contemporary assessment of Marx’s theory of money. This theory is often praised as one of Marx’s greatest achievements, especially when compared with either classical or neoclassical economics. On the other hand, Marx’s theory of money has also been severely criticized, especially that is seems to require that money be a produced commodity. The contributors to the volume provide a wide-ranging and in-depth appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of Marx’s theory of money, compared to other theories of money.This book provides a contemporary assess

Author: Jonathan Manthorpe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: taiwan, history, nation, forbidden
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1403969817
ISBN-13: 9781403969811

For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan’s story is the curse of geography that placed the island on the strategic cusp between the Far East and Southeast Asia and made it the guardian of some of the world’s most lucrative trade routes. It is the story of the dogged determination of a courageous people to overcome every obstacle thrown in their path. Forbidden Nation tells the dramatic story of the island, its people, and what brought them to