#15 Agent Mongoose and the Attack of the Giant Insects (Twisted Journeys) Review
50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning from Spiritual Giants of the Faith Review
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Giant Rat of Sumatra Review
Mary Ellen's Giant Book of Helpful Hints: Three Books in One Review
Thor & Loki: In the Land of Giants: A Norse Myth (Graphic Myths and Legends) Review
The Wealth of Nations Part 1 (Giants of Political Thought) Review
This program examines the basic problems addressed by Adam Smith in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment. It discusses Adam Smith’s general approach to philosophy and how The Wealth of Nations fits into that approach. It then goes on to cover some major themes in The Wealth of Nations, a lengthy and complex book. Some of these include the division of labor, the idea of an unplanned social order, and Smith’s defense of free trade. Smith’s sometimes difficult arguments are given with the background necessary for comprehension.
Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India Review
The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and India's market reforms and high growth have been tendentious, exaggerated, or oversimplified. Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay scrutinizes the phenomenal rise of both nations, and demolishes the myths that have accumulated around the economic achievements of these two giants in the last quarter century. Exploring the challenges that both countries must overcome to become true leaders in the international economy, Pranab Bardhan looks beyond short-run macroeconomic issues to examine and compare China and India's major policy changes, political and economic structures, and current general performance.
Bardhan investigates the two countries' economic reforms, each nation's pattern and composition of growth, and the problems afflicting their agricultural, industrial, infrastructural, and financial sectors. He considers how these factors affect China and India's poverty, inequality, and environment, how political factors shape each country's pattern of burgeoning capitalism, and how significant poverty reduction in both countries is mainly due to domestic factors--not global integration, as most would believe. He shows how authoritarianism has distorted Chinese development while democratic governance in India has been marred by severe accountability failures.
Full of valuable insights, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay provides a nuanced picture of China and India's complex political economy at a time of startling global reconfiguration and change.
A Guide to Great Orchestral Music (A Modern Library Giant #G61) Review
Tales from the San Francisco Giants Dugout Review
Conquering Your Giants Review
One Giant Leap for Man and Decades of Neglect: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the Saturn Rocket Review
The Saturn V rocket carried men to the moon, and its history reflects the U.S. space program's rise, success, and demise. In 1961, John F. Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon and win the space race. Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1969, a little over a decade later, the Saturn rocket was tossed aside to rot in a field near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket's carcass became home to flora and fauna. Like the space program itself, the rocket was forgotten. Finally in the mid 1990s, supported by the Smithsonian Institute, the Saturn V was brought back to life. Leading the restoration was Paul Thomarios, the son of Greek immigrants. The reconditioning of the rocket is part of the story, but the story is also that of Thomarios. This book details both, showing how pride and dedication made the Saturn rocket and Paul Thomarios.
Paco and the Giant Chile Plant Review
I Kill Giants Review
Giant Print Center-Column Reference Bible Indexed, NKJV Review
The popular Bible that provides a complete cross-reference system without sacrificing readability is now available in a fashionable binding. Now there is a New King James Version® reference Bible available in giant print. With center-column references, self-pronouncing text, topical running heads, messianic prophecies with stars, 8 pages of maps, and concordance, this is a true reference Bible.
Features include:
Type size: 13 point
The Little Giants: U.S. Escort Carriers Against Japan (Bluejacket Books) Review
Ordeal (Wilderness Giant Special) Review
Sindbad in the Land of Giants Review
