The Great Rebalancing
The Great Rebalancing

Author: Michael Pettis

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-10-26

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0691163626

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How trade imbalances spurred on the global financial crisis and why we aren't out of trouble yet China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world economies. Debunking popular misconceptions, Pettis shows that severe trade imbalances spurred on the recent financial crisis and were the result of unfortunate policies that distorted the savings and consumption patterns of certain nations. Pettis examines the reasons behind these destabilizing policies, and he predicts severe economic dislocations that will have long-lasting effects. Demonstrating how economic policies can carry negative repercussions the world over, The Great Rebalancing sheds urgent light on our globally linked economic future.

The Perilous Gard
The Perilous Gard

Author: Elizabeth Marie Pope

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780618150731

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In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.

The Perilous Road To Her
The Perilous Road To Her

Author: N. L. Blandford

Publisher: N.L. Blandford

Published: 2021-04-10

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1777660114

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A gripping tale of fear, longing and determination as one woman tries to survive the world of those who also kidnapped her sister. In The Perilous Road to Her, N.L Blandford takes us on a woman’s harrowing journey to find her missing sister. Olivia Beaumont, a Detective in the Toronto Police Service, finds herself dreading calls from her older sister Claire. Olivia’s attempts to help Claire fight her drug addiction have only been met with refusals. Ready to walk away, and let Claire hit ‘rock bottom’, Olivia is drawn back when she learns Claire is missing. Determined to find Claire, Olivia goes on the hunt for those who have taken her. However, the perpetrators have other plans. Suddenly, Olivia feels the prick of a needle in her neck and her world goes black. When she wakes up she has been transported into the underworld of human trafficking. Greed and sex surround her as she is forced to work for the monsters who have built an empire on the desperate and unlucky.

The Perilous Road
The Perilous Road

Author: William O. Steele

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780152052041

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"This is one of Mr. Steele's best books, an engrossing, realistic story of a Tennessee mountain boy who, during the Civil War, comes to realize that war is terrible no matter where one's sympathies lie."--"Publishers Weekly."

Diary of a Mad Playwright
Diary of a Mad Playwright

Author: James Kirkwood

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781557835673

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Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1989.

Rise to Greatness
Rise to Greatness

Author: David Von Drehle

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 080507970X

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"Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a spirited account."N"Publishers Weekly."

Ballpoint
Ballpoint

Author: György Moldova

Publisher: New and Young Europe Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982578117

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The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other. Laszlo Biro's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Biro began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow Hungarian, Andor Goy, also played a vital role in the pen's development--and that, in a tragic twist of shared fate, business pressures and politics ultimately deprived both men of their rights to the ballpoint pen. Taking us from Hitler's Europe in 1938, to Argentina, where Biro settled, and to Communist-era Hungary, where Goy lived out his life, "Ballpoint" is a painstakingly researched, absorbing narrative that reads simultaneously like a work of history and a novel.

The Perilous Road to Rome and beyond
The Perilous Road to Rome and beyond

Author: Edward Grace

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2007-05-17

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1844155609

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The author fought with the 6th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders during the campaigns of 1st Army in Tunisia and in Italy thereafter. As a young platoon commander he and his men were in the thick of the fighting. Wounded during the desperate action at Anzio, he wrote notes of all that had happened in exact detail and the result is a memoir both fresh and authentic. This is one of the most gripping memoirs we have published, on a par with Geoffrey Powell's Men At Arnhem The author also describes the actions of other regiments, particularly the Guards Brigade at Anzio, and US units, alongside whom he fought. In the closing stages of the book he shares his post-conflict experiences and convalescence with the reader in a moving way.