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The Global Financial Crisis is the most serious economic crisis since the Great        Depression, and although many have explored its causes, relatively few have focused        on its consequences. Unlike earlier crises, no new paradigm seems yet to have come        forward to challenge existing ways of thinking and neo-liberalism has...

G. Edward White, a leading legal historian, presents Law in American History, a two-volume, comprehensive narrative history of American law from the colonial period to the present. In this first volume, White explores the key turning points in roughly the first half of the American legal system, from the development of order in the colonies, to the...

What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and        passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? The spectacular Josephine Baker emerges        in this fascinating untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the        making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as...

Late Roman Warlords reconstructs the lives of some of the men who shaped events in the final controversial years of the Western Roman Empire during the fifth century AD. Ranging from the Balkans and Italy to northern France, this study uses a wide range of historical evidence, folklore, letters, poems, sermons, archaeology, and coins. Recent...

INcome Distribution was written primarily as a textbook intended for undergraduate economics majors. The material however, is treated with sufficient rigour to meet the needs of first year graduate students also. The book may also serve the needs of sociologists and political scientists who are primarily interested in the related social injustice...

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