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Ashgate Publishing Limited, UK. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 220 pages. Available Now. Book Description: This study on tax reform, cost of capital, and capital accumulation inspires and guides policy-makers who share the goal of making the capital accumulation more efficient. This volume presents both theoretical and empirical works that have altered professional debates over investment and capital accumulation as sources of economic growth. The systematic treatment of tax policy, investment and economic growth takes into account the whole range of modern developments: cost of capital and effective tax rate, international perspective tax reform, estimates of capital stock, and a q model of investment. This analytical approach traces the economic growth in Korea, and discovers empirical evidences. Size: 2.5 x 16.5 x 23.5 cm. 220 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Miscellaneous; Hardbacks; ISBN: 1859725813. ISBN/EAN: 9781859725818. Inventory No: B193-1031.. 9781859725818, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 228 pages. Available Now. Missing Dustcover. Book Description: This book provides an analysis of the development and deployment of chemical weapons from 700 BC to the present day. The First World War is examined in detail since it remains the most significant experience of the chemical threat, but the Second World War and post-war conflicts are also evaluated. Additionally, protocols attempting to control the proliferation and use of chemical weapons are assessed. Finally, the book examines the threat (real and imagined) from a chemical warfare attack today by rationally assessing to what extent terrorist groups around the world are capable of making and using such weapons. : Review: 'At a time when the threat of chemical warfare looms ever larger this timely book makes an invaluable contribution, combining historical and contemporary perspectives to show how indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction have been developed and deployed.' - Professor Andrew Lambert, King's College, University of London: 'Her excellent synthesis from Antiquity to the present day renders the causes and evils of chemical warfare, and the difficulties of chemical disarmament, comprehensible to everyone.' - Rolf Petri, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Venice: 'A well-researched and clearly written history of chemical warfare, with many fascinating details, which is much needed and deserves to be read.' - Dr Peter Morris, The National Museum of Science and Industry: 'an excellent historical perspective.' - Dr Tom Inch, OBE, former Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry : About the Author: KIM COLEMAN gained her PhD from London University before lecturing in Modern European History at the University of Essex until 2004. She has acted as a consultant on educational books and for the BBC, dealing with nuclear and chemical warfare in the Twentieth Century and is currently researching her next book, a comparative history of the Battle of Arnhem in 1944. She lives in London with her three children. Size: 14 x 1.8 x 21.6 cm. 228 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Hardbacks; ISBN: 1403934592. ISBN/EAN: 9781403934598. Inventory No: F203-1077.. 9781403934598, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 228 Pages. This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political thinker without attempting to apologize for his shortcomings. Through an alternative reading of Weber's religious, epistemological and political writings, the book shows Weber's concern with public citizenship in a modern mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground. Kim argues Weber's political thought, thus recast, was deeply informed by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and other German political thinkers and also reveals an affinity to the liberal-republican tradition best represented by Mill and Tocqueville. Kim has effectively resuscitated Weber as a political thinker for our time in which civic virtues and civil society have once again become one of the dominant issues. Book Description: This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber's ideas from the perspective of modern political thought, rather than the modern social sciences; on the other, it offers a liberal assessment of this complex political thinker without attempting to apologize for his shortcomings. Through an alternative reading of Weber's religious, epistemological and political writings, the book shows Weber's concern with public citizenship in a modern mass democracy and civil society as its cultivating ground. Kim argues Weber's political thought, thus recast, was deeply informed by Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and other German political thinkers and also reveals an affinity to the liberal-republican tradition best represented by Mill and Tocqueville. Kim has effectively resuscitated Weber as a political thinker for our time in which civic virtues and civil society have once again become one of the dominant issues. : Review: Kim's book is an erudite, thoroughly researched, and insightful rereading of Weber. It is also highly relevant to contemporary democratic theory. Perspectives on Political Theory: Sung Ho Kim has produced an outstanding revision of Max Weber's political thought within the context of Weber's work on the sociology of religion. : Leonard Seabrooke, The Review of Politics : Book Description: Kim's interpretation effectively highlights the relevance of Weber's political thought for our time, in which civil society has once again become the dominant issue for a robust liberal democratic regime. Size: 15.2 x 1.7 x 22.8 cm. 228 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Hardbacks; ISBN: 052182057X. ISBN/EAN: 9780521820578. Inventory No: X102-1254.. 9780521820578, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Ashgate Publishing Limited, UK, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 220 Pages. This study on tax reform, cost of capital, and capital accumulation inspires and guides policy-makers who share the goal of making the capital accumulation more efficient. This volume presents both theoretical and empirical works that have altered professional debates over investment and capital accumulation as sources of economic growth. The systematic treatment of tax policy, investment and economic growth takes into account the whole range of modern developments: cost of capital and effective tax rate, international perspective tax reform, estimates of capital stock, and a q model of investment. This analytical approach traces the economic growth in Korea, and discovers empirical evidences. Book Description: This study on tax reform, cost of capital, and capital accumulation inspires and guides policy-makers who share the goal of making the capital accumulation more efficient. This volume presents both theoretical and empirical works that have altered professional debates over investment and capital accumulation as sources of economic growth. The systematic treatment of tax policy, investment and economic growth takes into account the whole range of modern developments: cost of capital and effective tax rate, international perspective tax reform, estimates of capital stock, and a q model of investment. This analytical approach traces the economic growth in Korea, and discovers empirical evidences. Size: 15.6 x 1.5 x 23.4 cm. 220 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Hardbacks; ISBN: 1859725813. ISBN/EAN: 9781859725818. Inventory No: X120-1184.. 9781859725818, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002, Good. Used book in good condition. Has wear to the cover and pages. Contains some markings such as highlighting and writing. Ex-library with the usual stamps. 100% guaranteed. 123118, Macmillan, Great Britain, 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. This is the first UK edition. 719 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures – Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the heart of the book are the individual stories of the soldiers on the front lines who were left to deal with the consequences of the dangerous misjudgements and competing agendas of powerful men. We meet them, follow them, and see some of the most dreadful battles in history through their eyes. As ever, Halberstam was concerned with the extraordinary courage and resolve of people asked to bear an extraordinary burden. Contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, The Coldest Winter provides crucial perspective on the Vietnam War and the events of today. Quantity Available: 9. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN/EAN: 9780230736191. Inventory No: 10060458.. 9780230736191, Macmillan, 2008, International Publishers. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside., International Publishers, Penguin Aus., 2011. Paperback. New. Parrot and Olivier in America is a dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia's most internationally acclaimed novelist. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. They are an unlikely pair, but where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new democratic experiment, America? And who better than Carey to show what Americans do not always wish to see: that their earliest observers included some who foresaw disastrous consequences for that experiment, well before they became headlines around the world. A dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Olivier in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New. Above all, it is a wildly funny, tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art. 'If envy is any writer's sincerest form of admiration, then I was sick with admiration on every page of this vigorous, lyrical masterpiece. The dramatic situations are struck off with hallucinatory force, the characters are coddled with tenderness and humor - and the distant past is made as present as a slap in the face. Peter Carey has long been one of the best writers in English; now he is even better.' Edmund White 'This is Peter Carey at his best: playful, extravagant ? fully in control ? a tour de force, a wonderfully dizzying succession of adventures ? executed with great panache.' Andrew Riemer, Sydney Morning Herald 'Once this novel grabs you, it holds you. Heart as well as brain. It's the story of a long and improbable friendship, a romance, and a cracking adventure. A study of class and a sharp argument about democracy. A tragicomic tale of how losers can become winners, and winners can blow their chances.' Jennifer Byrne, The Age 'A lavishly staged, densely textured, entirely beguiling adventure ... The story strolls, spreads and sprawls at the same time as Carey's language sparkles and glitters.' Mark Thomas, Canberra Times 'Carey is at the peak of his powers.' Bookseller & Publisher 'Anyone who as followed his work over the years knows that Peter Carey is a wily seducer, a mental acrobat who can bound across continents and centuries and make us believe in whatever world he has discovered and imagined. Parrot and Olivier transports us to the rough-and-tumble America of 1830, and it's possibly the most charming and engaging novel this demon of a storyteller has yet written. His prose has never been more buoyant, more vigorous, more musical. Open this book and listen to Peter Carey sing. ' Paul Auster 'Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's transfixing novels are at once sharply funny and profoundly resonant ? In his latest imaginative and commanding tale, Carey presents a brilliant and sly variation on the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville ? Remarkably fluent in history, Carey is ? empowered to create a thrillingly fresh and incisive drama of extraordinary personalities set during a time of world-altering vision and action.' Donna Seaman, Booklist 'I have been reading with astonishment and envy Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America ... Carey is a writer I prize not only for his remarkable Dickensian plots but also for the brilliance of his style. He is a great mimic of very different voices. He has an admirable grasp of the period. He creates one memorable tableau after another, striking visual images that burn themselves into the cortex. He is the most exuberant stylist at work in English today.' Edmund White, Daily Telegraph 'Carey is a fabulous fabulist of epic intent ? high-spirited and mischievous, provocative and wily ? vastly entertaining ? A picaresque opus of the magnum variety ? This is a showcase novel of life and love and loss ? an inventive tale of great exuberance.' Murray Waldren, Australian Book Review 'The characters are magnificent ? Mystery, mayhem, women, wine and writing in the rambunctious world of the Americas. It is funny, tough and adventurous ? and a tender portrayal of how two men from wildly different backgrounds can come to be friends.' Ian Nichols, West Australian 'A book to stand beside the quintessentially Australian Illywhacker.' Adelaide Advertiser 'Instantly compelling and with a bone-dry wit ? The slow, subtle transformation of the deeply complicated relationship between master and servant is utterly bewitching. As indeed are all of the relationships of Carey's incredible cast of characters.' Helen Dargan, Courier Mail 'Marvellous ? A grand, magisterial story, full of great characters and stories. Above all, it is one of his most important books.' Mark Rubbo, [Url removed] 'The achievement of Parrot and Olivier in America lies ? in the mingling of hope and pain, loss and rebirth ? Sing[s] with passion and fury.' James Bradley, Weekend Australian 'To fans of Carey's writing I say 'hurrah', for those who haven't read his work, you're missing out on some of the most masterful prose and finely crafted writing of our times. Carey is to Australian fiction what Orson Welles was to theatre.' Riverbend Book 'Springy, rangy, alert, fertile, combining without strain contemporary and period tones ? And there is the restless inventiveness, and the humour.' Owen Richardson, Sunday Age 'The most sophisticated of his books to date, cosmopolitan and tonally impeccable.' Weekend Australian 'Richly atmospheric, this wonderful novel is picaresque and Dickensian, with humor and insight injected into an accurately rendered period of French and American history.' Publishers Weekly 'Worth an early punt for the Booker 2010 shortlist.' Alex Bilmes, GQ 'Carey has already won two Bookers: this evocative and often very funny novel could well be another contender.' Sunday Times 'Peter Carey is a master literary ventriloquist ? [He] offers us an exuberant work of fiction full of verve and vivid minor characters ? A delightful comedy of manners ? A rollercoaster journey across France, England and America ... never less than entertaining. Be prepared for a rollicking ride.' Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler 'A delightful and dazzling study of democracy.' Bookseller , UK 'A wonderful, witty and profound insight into what happens when a tired and deflated Old World collides with the rambunctious and expansive New ? This is a complex yet readable novel, told by a master of the craft. Having twice won the Man Booker Prize, Carey is a strong contender for a third with Parrot and Oliver in America .' Alan Gold, Good Reading 'The guvnor of Australian literature has awesome technique ? Engrossing' Lucy Sussex, Sunday Age 'Carey dazzles his readers with his literary powers ? wakens all the senses.' Blanche Clark, Herald Sun 'A comedic and insightful journey to a new world ? This is a big book about big ideas ? a very funny book.' Sunday Tasmanian 'These are intricate, tragic characters, lively and memorable, quirky and stamped hard with a particular kind of individuality ? There is much to enjoy here.' Michelle Thomas, South Coast Register ' Parrot and Olivier is so well written. Parrot's voice exults in a sort of demotic poetry.' Philip Hensher, The Monthly 'Carey does it again ... The story of an improbably friendship written with tenderness and great humour.' Philip Bray, Brays Books 'Irrepressibly funny ... all the richness and surprise of characterisation, story and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.' Pilbara News ' Examines the roots of class relations in America as told by the voices of an eighteenth-century DeTocqueville-like French aristocrat and his English servant. The chapters alternate between the two voices, and the contrast creates one of those comic masterpieces that seems effortless while making you realize that Carey writes some of the best sentences in English.' Tom Sleigh, The New Yorker 'Carey's prose seems to inhabit his characters, fleshing them out and opening up a world. The richness of narrative is Dickensian.' Hamish McDougall, GQ Australia 'A dazzlingly inventive and often wildly funny reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey in this very different latest novel by Peter Carey.' Pittwater Life 'A brilliantly written ripsnorter of a yarn.' Peter Murphy, Irish Times 'A wily and supremely confident storyteller on a grand scale ? Within the covers is a complex discussion of the philosophy of democracy, and yet Olivier and Parrot is most strikingly beautiful at its most elemental.' Russell Celyn Jones, The Times 'There's nothing timid about Carey. You get the whole orchestra blowing the roof off ? Wonderfully funny ? One hell of a ride.' Sunday Telegraph 'His most expansive fictional journeying yet ? Exhilarating tour de force.' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'The leading characters are beautifully drawn ?The result is a gripping portrait of Jacksonian America in all its wild variety, from its model farms to its grungy boarding-houses, from its Fourth of July parades to its filthy streets full of copulating pigs. A wonderful tribute to Tocqueville's great book. But it is more than that: it is also a counterblast.' Daniel Pudles, The Economist 'I finished it with unabated enjoyment ? A dazzling, entertaining novel.' Ursula K LeGuin, Guardian 'All Carey's traditional strengths are here in abundance: rich and meticulously researched detail, a soaring imagination, wonderfully inventive imagery and, most welcome of all, a caustic wit.' Tom Leonard, Telegraph 'Ranks among his best, on a par with Illywhacker, his darkly humorous early masterpiece, or True History of the Kelly Gang ? A sprawling, energetic novel in the tradition of Don Quixote.' Jay Parini, Literary Review '[A] marvel of a novel ... The richest pleasure of Parrot and Olivier in America is the clever and seamless way that Carey manages to illuminate ... the differences between New World and Old, the rule of the mob ... even the effect of democracy on the theater.' Sarah Corteau, Bookforum (US) 'Outrageous and witty ? Another feat of acrobatic ventriloquism, joining Carey's masterpieces, Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang .' Ron Charles, Washington Post 'A brass-band burlesque of literature and history ? Carey's writing remains matchlessly robust.' Thomas Mallon, New York Times Book Review 'Carey re-imagines Tocqueville's American journey with a verve that is nothing short of captivating ? A rollicking debate about America and its opportunities.' Robin Vidimos, Denver Post 'A riot of unexpected plot twists and pleasures ? An utter tour de force.' Ellen Kanner, Miami Herald 'Amusing and wise and graceful.' Laura Miller, [Url removed] 'One of those comic masterpieces that seems effortless while making you realize that Carey writes some of the best sentences in English.' Tom Sleigh, [Url removed] 'A delicious, sprockety contraption, a comic historical picaresque ? An eighteenth-century robustness, a nineteenth-century lexicon, and a modern liberality. There are few contemporary writers with such a sure sense of narrative pungency and immediacy ? [A] blooming Australian-New English-New American novel.' James Wood, The New Yorker 'Carey braids his story carefully, lovingly. It has all his telltale favorite elements - lawlessness, revolution, hope for the future, men driven by passion.' Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times 'Carey is as various, often as brilliant, and always as irreverent as they come.' Richard Eder, Boston Globe 'An exuberant, entertaining, incisive novel, full of attitude and incident.' Robert Cremins, Dallas Morning News 'A wickedly brilliant novel of events ? The electricity and pace is exhilarating.' J illian Quint, Bookpage 'This masterful novel manages to be focused and intimate ? One of Carey's best.' Scott Indrisek, Time Out New York 'Hums with comic adventure.' Boris Kachka, New York magazine 'A brilliant new work ? What a novel! ? Funny, bawdy, brainy and moving, Parrot and Olivier in America is an utter delight.' Annabel Lyon, Globe & Mail (Toronto) 'Deliciously funny, sly and - best of all - beautifully composed ? Provides myriad perspectives from which to assess how truly revolutionary - and grotesque - the first blotchy blueprints of modern democracy must have been.' Times of India 'Comic, well-observed and meticulously crafted.' Ed Taylor, Buffalo News 'A big, trippy, often strangely beautiful novel of observations ? Vibrant and accessible, funny and often quite stirring.' Donna Rifkind, barnesandnoblereview.com 'Peter Carey is a lyrebird of stunning prowess, a mimic par excellence.' Robert Epstein, Independent on Sunday 'Wonderfully witty and visual prose, which springs surprise after surprise on the reader.' Andrew Taylor, Independent 'Every scene ? smacks the senses.' Helen Brown, Daily Mail 'Extraordinarily allusive and joyously inventive ? Spiced with his gutsy carnality, so that intellectual points become visceral moments.' Lucy Daniel, Daily Telegraph 'Energetic and expansive ? Written with warmth and intelligence.' Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times 'What [Carey] does with words: the power and delicacy, the complex orchestration of colour and theme, seems impossible - more like music than language ? Glorious supple prose propelling a narrative whose powerful intelligence lends it the strange, inevitable quality of myth.' Jane Shilling, Evening Standard 'A triumph ? Fiction that is reminiscent - in inventiveness if not in style and tone - of Henry James's novels that are concerned with the experience of expatriate Americans in Europe.' Alan Taylor, Herald (Scotland) 'An animated display of cacophonous literary ventriloquism ? Carey's imagination feels as freshly minted and limitless as ever ? His ebullient powers of storytelling ring loud and clear.' Claire, Penguin Aus., 2011, Cambridge University Press, 2006-03-20. Paperback. Good., Cambridge University Press, 2006-03-20, Good. Used book in good condition. Has wear to the cover and pages. Contains some markings such as highlighting and writing. Ex-library with the usual stamps. 100% guaranteed. 122318, International Publishers, 1970. First Edition . Paperback. Very Good. International Publishers, 1970. 1st edition Very good. , Paperback, Clean and tight. Minor cover wear. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care., International Publishers, 1970, University of Michigan, 1990. Softcover. Very Good. University of Michigan, 1990. Very good. , Softbound, Clean, tight, text bright. 129 pages. Center for Chinese Studies. Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History #4. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care., University of Michigan, 1990<

ISBN: 9780399135217

Penguin Group. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex libr… Mehr…

Penguin Group. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, thatll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Penguin Group<

1990, ISBN: 9780399135217

Hardcover book. 304 pages. Published by Penguin Publishing Group (1990) Media > Book, [PU: G. P. Putnam's Sons]

ISBN: 9780399135217

Hardcover book. 304 pages. Published by Putnam Publishing Group Media > Book, [PU: G. P. Putnam's Sons]