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One of today's pre-eminent financial journalists, and the "Bartleby" columnist for The Economist, reveals strategies and tips for surviving-and making the most out of-the work week. We spend a lot of our time at work and would be depressed with nothing to do. But when it gets to Monday, many of us are already longing for the weekend and the prospect of escape. How did work become so tedious and stressful? And is there anything we can do to mak...

The world of work wasn't always what it is today. Just a few thousand years ago, all the necessities for life could be collected in 15 hours a week, with the rest of the time set aside for leisure. How did we go from hunter-gatherer society to white-collar rat race? Today, many people work in jobs with titles that would have baffled our ancestors: creative director, logistics coordinator or social media curator. Based on his immensely popular ...

The esteemed Bartleby's one-stop guide to surviving the daily grind.

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There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web of enterprise that stretches around the globe.More is the story of how we spun that web. It begins with the earliest glimmerings of long-distance trade - obsidian blades that made their way fr...

A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world, it turns out that historical economies were much more sophisticated that we might imagine, tied together by webs of credit and financial instruments much like our modern economy.Here, Philip Coggan t...

A panoramic history of trade, industry and economic thought, from prehistoric times to the present.

More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now. Taking history in great strides, More illustrates broad changes by examining details from the design of the standard medieval cottage to the stranglehold that Paris's three belt-buckle-making g...

From the "Economist"'s award-winning Buttonwood columnist comes a timely and incisive analysis of debt: the defining feature of our financial era

Burl è un expat australiano, proprietario in Cambogia di un bistrò sul Lungofiume di Phnom Penh. In passato ha avuto qualche problema con la legge, ma ora la sua unica aspirazione è riempire il locale ed evitare di farsi coinvolgere in questioni che non lo riguardano. Tutto cambia quando, nel tentativo di aiutare un amico finito in galera, scopre accidentalmente il cadavere di Maurice, il gestore di uno dei più famosi bar della città. Sospetta...

Beginning with a definition of who the Cambodians are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to the earliest kingdoms before 800 AD, followed by an investigation of the creation of the magnificent city of Angkor and Cambodia's centuries of greatness up to 1400 AD...

A fascinating look at money through the ages, and into our own unstable future. Coggan examines the flawed structure of the global financial systems as they exist today, and asks what's actually at stake. '...A clear explanation of the fresh ideological divisions that have arisen over how to deal with the crisis...the book should be taken very seriously' "Financial Times

Promesas de papel es uno de los mejores libros que se han escrito sobre las causas de la actual crisis económica y sus consecuencias. Para ello, Philip Coggan regresa a las cuestiones fundamentales acerca de lo que es el dinero. Hoy parece perfectamente natural tener deuda: tarjetas de crédito, hipotecas, préstamos, ... Ciudadanos, empresas y estados hemos creado un sistema donde la deuda tiene un papel fundamental. Pero ¿de dónde viene toda e...

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Philip Coggan was a Financial Times journalist for over twenty years, and is now the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist. In 2009 he was named Senior Financial Journalist in the Harold Wincott awards and was voted Best Communicator at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. He is the author of The Money Machine, and Paper Promises, winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs ...

What causes the pound to rise or interest rates to fall? Which are the institutions that really matter? Why is it we need the Money Machine - and what happens when it crashes? The author provides clear and concise answers and shows why we should all be more familiar with a system we so intimately depend upon.

An absorbing study of Cambodian religion and beliefs covering everything from the role of monks in everyday life to beliefs in ghosts, gods and shamans. Belief in the supernatural covers every aspect of a Cambodian's birth, life and death