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For over 20 years Hal Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics has given students the most current and complete coverage of intermediate microeconomics at an appropriate mathematical level. The Eighth Edition includes contemporary case studies and examples and relevant coverage of the current economic crisis - all in focused, lecture-length chapters....

History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft, crime and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In Machine Made Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes and presents a starkly revisionist portrait, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalised and maligned American immigrants....

n 1703, Peter the Great founded his eponymous capital on a Baltic marsh. Modelled on Amsterdam, he believed it would usher in a modernised, Westernised future. In the nineteenth-century Age of Imperialism, the British rebuilt Bombay as a tropical London, while three Western powers made Shanghai look just like home. In our time, the sheikh of Dubai...

In autumn 2001, a newly-wed professor of English took on a job editing the "women's section" of one of Pakistan's leading Urdu newspapers. She soon transformed pages of celebrity gossip and fashion advice into a vehicle for the investigation of the lives of Pakistani women. News of acid attacks, the trading of girls as currency in tribal disputes...

Over the course of his 101-year life, George F. Kenna - author of the "X" article, father of "containment" and pre-eminent Cold War authority - filled 20,000 diary pages with philosophy, poetry, vivid description, and keen political and moral insights. Now historian Frank Costigliola has selected and annotated the first public collection of...

Therapists have long recognised the role of brain chemistry in mental illness, but new thinking reveals that brain circuitry - its very rhythmic oscillations - plays an equally critical role in determining whether we function from a core position of regulation and emotional stability, or one of dysregulation and volatility. Indeed, how we are...