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Written by the former Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, Sir Douglas Wass, Decline to Fall traces the unusual events of the 1976 IMF crisis which saw the UK government accept a massive loan from the IMF. Using a wealth of documentation, Sir Douglas questions the inevitability of the crisis and the measures taken to resolve it....

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Christopher Bryan examines Mark's Gospel from the standpoint of newer critical methodologies. he has two purposes: to establish what kind of text Mark was seen to have been, by others as well as by Mark himself, when it was written; and to determine if Mark was written to be read aloud. Bryan's conclusions not only show Mark's Gospel in its...

The controversial new thesis of    Faces of Inequality is that a state's racial and ethnic composition, more than any other factor, directs its political processes and policies. Social diversity is therefore central to any understanding of state political cultures. Overturning long-established conventional wisdom, Rodney Hero has developed a...

John Kekes offers a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. He defends a realistic view of the human condition that rejects both facile optimism and gloomy pessimism. While acknowledging that the scheme of things is indifferent to our fortunes, he shows that we do have the resources to improve our lives....