Throughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit. These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those paralyzed by...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
Older, richer and more distinctive than almost any other, India's culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity and diversity. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are...
An Accessible, Authoritative Single-Volume Narrative History Of China, From The Earliest Times To The Present Day, That Will Both Engage The General Reader And Challenge The Horizons Of The China Specialist. Most Histories Of China Appear To Have Been...
The story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of Franceâs greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today.
Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model � unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax � faced a storm...