This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key British think tanks such as the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy Studies, and important political figures of the Thatcher and New Labour governments shared a similar conception of the consumer. For neoliberals, the idea that consumers were weak in the face of businesses and...
This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial cr...
From a quarantine hospital to a juvenile drug treatment center to an uninhabited island of ruins--this magnificent photographic survey that brings North Brother Island to life. Few people today have ever heard of North Brother Island, though a hundred years ago it was place known to--and often feared by--nearly everyone in New York City. The island, a small dot in the East River, twenty acres slotted between today's gritty industrial shores of the Bronx and Queens, was a minor piece of the New York archipelago until the late 19th century, when calls for social and...
From a quarantine hospital to a juvenile drug treatment center to an uninhabited island of ruins--this magnificent photographic survey that br...
"Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity." "The New Yorker" "" Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited into Unit 701: a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code-breaking. As China's greatest cryptographer, Rong discovers that the mastermind behind the maddeningly difficult Purple Code is his former teacher and best friend, who is now working for China's enemy but this is only the first of many...
"Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity." "The New Yorker" "" Rong Jinzhen, an autist...
Come along with Parker Preston on his exciting adventure across the world -- from his South Pole home through new and different places -- and join him as he makes friends and has fun times on his way to the North Pole to finally meet the most generous man the world has ever known: Santa Claus
Come along with Parker Preston on his exciting adventure across the world -- from his South Pole home through new and different places -- and join him...
