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Game Query: The Mind-Stretching Economist Quiz by Philip Coggan
Category: Languages and Reference
General knowledge quizzes are ten a penny. Trust The Economist, which knows both the price and the value of everything, to do something different. In its first ever quiz book in a 175-year history, the sharp wits of The Economist's own champion quiz team ('Marginal Futility') throw down the gauntlet for ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
Category: History
'A majestic must-read' - Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England. There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest ho ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
Category: History
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now. Taking history in great strides, More illustrates ...Show more
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
Category: Business Finance Management
In today's financial climate, we are all, naturally, obsessed by debt. In almost every aspect of our life we experience it - on our credit cards, mortgages, bank loans and student loans. But where has this debt come from? How does it work? What is any money really worth? And what promises do we need to ...Show more
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
Category: Business Finance Management
Societies from ancient Greece to revolutionary France have experimented with all kinds of money, from seashells to tobacco, before finally settling on the paper version we have come to know so well. What exactly is money? This title shows how the financial crisis has very deep roots indeed - in the very ...Show more
The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy by Philip Coggan
Category: History
Democracy is so much a part of our Western lives that we could be forgiven for thinking it takes care of itself. But can we afford to take it for granted? In The Last Vote, Philip Coggan shows how, amid the turmoil of the financial crisis, high debt levels, and an ever-growing gap between the richest an ...Show more
The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy by Philip Coggan
Category: History
The Last Vote is a wake-up call showing why we cannot afford to take democracy for granted, from Philip Coggan, award-winning author of Paper Promises and The Money Machine. Can we afford to take democracy for granted? It's now so much a part of our lives that we could be forgiven for thinking it mainly ...Show more
The Road to Angkor by Christopher Pym; Philip Coggan (Foreword by)
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
The Road to Angkor describes a journey through Indo-China from the ancient capital of Champa (now south Vietnam) to Angkor, capital of the old Khmer empire in Cambodia. Christopher Pym originally went to Indo-China in 1956. He stayed 20 months and during 1957 made the seven-week journey described in thi ...Show more
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