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  • Meltdown Iceland

    Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island

    by Roger Boyes ...
    The economic crisis that emerged in America in 2008 unleashed a veritable epidemic of ill health around the world. However it was Iceland, whose population of three hundred thousand had the world's highest GDP per capita and counted itself the happiest of countries, that caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them.No story from the economic crisis of 2008 is more evocative than I celand's. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • To Prussia With Love

    Misadventures in Rural East Germany

    by Roger Boyes ...
    ‘We-have-a-house-in-the-country?’Lena nodded solemnly.‘Where?’ I almost shouted, briefly rattling the table. ‘No, wait, don’t tell me – it’s Todi in Umbria, right? The old manor house, the one with the lemon groves!’‘Alt-Globnitz.’‘Alt-Globnitz?’ Suddenly I felt cold.‘Alt-Globnitz. It’s a really nice place. You will love it.’In a desperate attempt to save his relationship with girlfriend Lena and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Year in the Scheisse

    Getting to Know the Germans

    by Roger Boyes ...
    ‘It was time, the editor told me, for a more modern approach to Germany… The three of us were the backbone of the British press corps. No cliché about Germany left the country without us having given it our seal of approval.’Laugh-out-loud funny, this is the memorable story of an English journalist’s adventures – including his encounters with women – as he tries to get to grip with the Germans. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Sports Law

    Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Commercial Regulation; ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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    Travels in the New Third World

    by Michael Lewis ...
    As Pogo once said "We have met the enemy and he is us." The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted ... Read more

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  • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

    An engaging introduction to the fundamental elements of an economyHow an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their signature "take no prisoners" logic to expose the ... Read more

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  • Street Smarts

    Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

    by Jim Rogers ...
    Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for ... Read more

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  • The Alchemists

    Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

    by Neil Irwin ...
    When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five ... Read more

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  • Economix

    How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures

    Economix is an essential and accessible guide to understanding the economy and economic practices. This New York Times bestseller is a must-read for every citizen and every voter.With clear, witty writing and quirky, accessible art, this important and timely graphic novel transforms “the dismal science” of economics into a fun, fact-filled story about human nature and our attempts to make the most ... Read more

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  • How To Retire To Thailand

    by Alan Hart ...
    This is the 4th revision - updated Feb 2012The book is written as a guide for those that have never visited Thailand; however it is also an invaluable reference book for the regular Thailand visitor that has decided to jump in with both feet and make the next visit permanent! There is currently a plethora of misleading information available! (Hence the exorbitant fees charged by the Professional ... Read more

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  • There's Always Something to Do

    The Peter Cundill Investment Approach

    Peter Cundill, a philanthropist and investor whose work has been praised by the likes of Warren Buffett, found his life changed forever when he discovered the value investment principles of Benjamin Graham and began to put them into action. There's Always Something to Do tells the story of Cundill's voyage of discovery, with all its ups and downs, as he developed his immensely successful ... Read more

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  • Naked Money

    A Revealing Look at Our Financial System

    Charles Wheelan’s wonderfully whimsical, best-selling Naked series tackles the weird, surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? In the third volume ... Read more

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