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Originally published in 2006 by Xlibris with the subtitle: Paul Cabot and the Boston mutual fund.

Originally published: London: The British Museum Press, 2013.

There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17, 000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong¿these weapons, possessed by states large and small, stable and unstable, remain an ongoing nightmare. Joseph Cirincione surveys the best thinking and worst fears of experts speciali...

Presents 10 real-world examples of managers who have creatively solved organisational problems.

Thailand¿s capital has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers: from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers and lethal marauders leftover from the Vietnam War. Moving a shipment of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most co...

In this sweeping, incisive study, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Dividing journalism into two competing approaches¿access reporting and accountability reporting¿he connects the financial collapse to what happens when the former overwhelms the latter and reporters lose sight of their public role. Starkman travels back to t...

Chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in this anthology include National Magazine Award--winning works of public interest, reporting, feature writing, and fiction. This year's selections include Pamela Colloff ( Texas Monthly) on the agonizing, decades-long struggle by a convicted murderer to prove his innocence, Dexter Filkins ( The New Yorker) on the emotional effort by an Iraq War veteran to make amends for the rol...

¿Multiverse¿ cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis¿with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum mechanics, and string theory. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunner...

In Smart Machines, John E. Kelly III, director of IBM Research, and Steve Hamm, a writer at IBM and a former business and technology journalist, introduce the fascinating world of "cognitive systems" to general audiences and provide a window into the future of computing. Cognitive systems promise to penetrate complexity and assist people and organizations in better decision making. They can help doctors evaluate and treat patients, augment the...

Acknowledged as perhaps "the" masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.

Mary Wollstonecraft is widely recognized as a social and political thinker of major significance and as one of the most important and influential of the early feminists. Some of her works, such as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, have become central texts of feminist thought. Written in the eighteenth century, her social commentary challenged the other eminent thinkers of the day, including Edmund Burke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and conf...

This little book of reflections is compiled by Fr Michael Collins to help us reflect on and make sense of what happened on Good Friday.

This book pairs images of abandoned farm places with the plain-spoken recollections of the people who still live in nearby communities.

For more than sixty years, Partisan Review has been the most influential literary and cultural journal in America, home to some of this century's finest writers. A Partisan Century now collects the journal's greatest political essays from the 1930s to the present.The list of writers collected here is a virtual who's who of American and European intellectual culture in the past half century. Leon Trotsky, James T. Farrell, Irving Howe, Hannah A...

Collects some of the greatest political essays published in "Partisan Review" since its founding in 1934.

From the triumphs of nationalism and political and cultural independence to the continuing problems of internal strife and poverty, postcolonial nations have grappled with a range of political, intellectual, and economic issues. This comprehensive volume introduces the major events, figures, and movements that have shaped the postcolonial history of the Anglophone world. With entries from more than fifty leading scholars arranged alphabeticall...

The first sourcebook on women in Europe, The European Women's Almanac is a handy and easy-to-use compilation of information on women's rights and status and how they live in a continent that stretches from Iceland in the north to Malta in the south, from Portugal in the west to Bulgaria in the east. A central aim of this essential guide is to present not the promises of where women ought to be but the facts of where they are. How do women in t...

Charting a careful course through the bewildering profusion of material on Wuthering Heights, this Guide offers synopses of and excerpts from critical responses to the novel from the time of publication to the present day, supplemented by the most comprehensive bibliography currently available. Opening with a chapter on how Emily Brontë's masterpiece was received in the nineteenth century, the Guide links together a selection of extracts that ...

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What part does racial difference play in psychoanalysis? What can be learned when considering this question from a postcolonial perspective? In this subtle and commanding analysis, Celia Brickman explores how the colonialist racial discourse of late-nineteenth-century anthropology found its way into Freud's work, where it came to play a covert but crucial role in his notions of subjectivity. Brickman argues that the common psychoanalytic conce...