‘Economy’ Tag




An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf— written in 1942 during wartime shortages—An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating. Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks. In chapters ...

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Friday, November 11th, 2011

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse ...

Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

Friday, October 14th, 2011

International BestsellerAll places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who’s Your City? provides ...

The American Frugal Housewife 12th Edition 1833: Dedicated to Those who are not Ashamed of Economy

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up of all the fragments, so that nothing is lost. I mean fragments of time, as well as materials. Nothing should be thrown away so long as it is possible to make use of it, however trifling ...

Basic Economics, Fourth Edition: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

A fully revised (4th) edition of the classic introduction to economics from Thomas Sowell, one of America's leading economists. The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of economics itself has been added, and the implications of that history examined. ...

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

ISBN13: 9780691146836Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the ...

City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America (5th Edition)

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Praised for its narrative style, strong research base, and distinctive theme–that urban politics in the U.S. has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power and private purposes–the Fifth Edition of this text focuses more explicitly on tracing the three distinct periods in the nation’s urban development: the industrial era, ...

The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World (Little Books. Big Profits)

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

ISBN13: 9780470621660Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed One positive side-effect of the recent financial market meltdown that toppled giant, century-old institutions and cost millions their jobs is that ...