What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of politics to interpret events of the Civil War. Simplifying the sometimes complex intricacies of the subject matter, Thornton and Ekelund have penned a nontechnical primer that is jargon-free and accessible. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation also takes a comprehensive approach to its topic. It...

A mutilated mix of horror that is sure to leave you screaming for more. Meet a vampire mermaid who hates the taste of fish. Take an overnight flight to Hell. Play with a teenage serial killer who has a murderous sweet tooth. Discover the forgotten twisted tale of Christmas Eve. Witness the bizarre consequences of a married couple's cursed wish. Finally, re-imagine 'The Little Drummer Boy' of a twisted kind. Plus many more.

Another collection of tormented tales that twist human conditions into something unbelievable...or not? Ten more tales that take the reader to a nursing home where the residents refuse to die (Mind Over Manor), a society that is obsessed with looking beautiful (Beauty and the Obese), a teenage comic nerd obsessed with a cartoon goes horribly wrong (Haley's Comic), a modern day Romeo and Juliet (The Last Supper), a six-pack of Satan's canines (Zombie Rott) just to name a few. Want more? That's only half of the killer cuisine of carnage and creeps. Volume 2 of these twisted tales will have you...

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At last, and finally, here is the first accurate and beautiful translation of Richard Cantillon's 1755 masterpiece on economics. This treatise is widely credited with being the first to describe the market process as one driven by entrepreneurship. William Stanley Jevons, in the first blush of discovery, proclaimed Cantillon's Essai, "the cradle of political economy." A cradle holds new life; and there can be little doubt that the Essai added new life to the organizing principles of economics. But "political economy" does not accurately...

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The biggest struggle in putting this book together was not in finding enough quotes but in limiting the number. The editor tried to provide a representative list of topics and subjects that Mises is most famous for, such as socialism, bureaucracy, interventionism, money, government, and war. But he also included many subject areas for which Mises is not often quoted, including arts, fate, health, instinct, martyrdom, religion, and youth. Most economists don't write enough memorable material in an entire lifetime to fill 20 pages. But...

You play a teenager dared to steal the cherries from Old Man Gruber's house... the tree is laden with fruit, just visible from the street over the wall of his garden. You might even venture into his house; you might even live to tell the tale. More than 450 game paragraphs and lots of surprises

In his latest vision of literary art, Mark Thornton asks his readers to forget everything that they remember about their grandmother's fairy tales and get ready for the first in a series of LGBT themed tales with a twist. The first book in the series has taken a gallon of Grimm, added a helping of Hans Christian, with a dash of Disney, and blended them all together in a magical place to create a deliciously tasting story filled with sexy maidens, horny wizards, jilted lovers, evil magic, hands-free suspense, hands-on erotica, and satisfying sex. It's all part of the journey to discover the...