Bruce Bruce: 4211 books
Foreclosing the Future
The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
World Bank PresidJim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does just the opposite. By funding developmprojects...
Democracy's Dangers & Discontents
The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens...
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who set the standard for the scientific approach to international relations, has returned with a reformulated fifth edition of Principles of International Politics, based on extensive reviewer feedback and newly guided by an emphasis on questions about the causes and consequences...
Slush Pile Essays
Slush Pile Essays, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The Slush Pile is Bruce Anthony’s repository of short reads. The fertile mind of an author is always sprouting opinions, viewpoints, observations, and sometimes simply thoughts of wonderment that are shown to friends who continually ask, “So, what have you written lately?” They are offered here...
Clean Protein
The Revolution that Will Reshape Your Body, Boost Your Energy-and Save Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Join the CLEAN PROTEIN revolution and lose weight, feel stronger, and live longer.
Food and wellness experts Kathy Freston and Bruce Friedrich have spent years researching the future of protein. They've talked to the food pioneers and the nutrition scientists, and now they've distilled what...
Growing-Up Modern
The Western State Builds Third-World Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
The modern state – First and Third Worlds alike – pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools’ effect upon children. First published in 1991, Growing-Up Modern explores why, how, and with what actual effects state actors so vehemently pursue this dual political agenda.
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Central Banking as Global Governance
Constructing Financial Credibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Money is a social convention, but with what social consequences? In this innovative study, Rodney Bruce Hall argues that those who govern the parameters of money's creation, its destruction, and its valuation are responsible for the governance of international finance. The volume is an analysis of...
It Could Happen Here
America on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
In It Could Happen Here, Bruce Judson, author of Go It Alone!, explains why revolution is possible in the United States—and makes the most disturbing case yet for why our economics are leading us inevitably toward a just such a crisis. Underscoring the historically dangerous levels of inequality...
An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing
Practical Skills for Social Science Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing by Bruce Oliver Newsome is an accessible guide that walks readers through the process of completing a social science project. Written specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate research classes, it introduces students to a complete skill set,...
Still Ours to Lead
America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Is the United States still a "superpower"? How are the rising powers establishing themselves in international politics and security? What is the future of global stability?
For over a decade, Bruce Jones has had a front-row seat as the emerging powers-principally China, India, and...
Fixed Income Securities
Tools for Today's Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Fixed income practitioners need to understand the conceptual frameworks of their field; to master its quantitative tool-kit; and to be well-versed in its cash-flow and pricing conventions. Fixed Income Securities, Third Edition by Bruce Tuckman and Angel Serrat is designed to balance these three objectives....
by Kenneth N. Levy, Bruce I. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
The classic guide to quantitative investing—expanded and updated for today’s increasingly complex markets
From Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy—two pioneers of quantitative equity management— the go-to guide to stock selection has been substantially updated to help you build portfolios in...
Serial Innovators
How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers who repeatedly create and deliver breakthrough innovations and new products in large, mature organizations. These employees are organizational powerhouses who solve...
by Bruce Rowse
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Around the world, over 1000 carbon policy measures to reduce carbon emissions have been implemented, with varying degrees of effectiveness. In many cases the level of carbon abatement achieved as a result of a policy is unknown and unquantifiable because it simply has not been measured. The consequence...