| 1. |  | China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America (Edition 001)
from Mariner Books
Price: $9.49
Customer Review:
If you read only one book in 2009, James Kynge's China Shakes the World is the one to read. This is so first of all because the impact of China on the world and your life is something you need to understand, no matter who you are. Secondly, Kynge has lived in China since 1982, is fluent in Mandarin... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Planet of Slums
from Verso
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
Genius. As important as an Uncle Tom's Cabin was in its time. This is a wake up call to a dire humanitarian disaster. If you cross this text with concerns stated by Paul and Anne Ehrlich in One With Nineveh for example then our future is a rough ride no joke. We have to reverse the trends discussed... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The End of Food
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $17.16
Customer Review:
This is one of those very alarming books in which an investigator brings together information on many different problems that most knowledgeable observers probably understand to a certain degree, but have no idea of the sheer systemic enormity of the problem. Here Paul Roberts, author of the... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | International Economics
from McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Price: $133.40
Customer Review:
Pugel is a very smart man, but like most "genius" professors, he lacks the ability to actually translate his genius to text.
there are not enough graphs/figures to explain points in the book and there are just too many complicated things that are hard to comprehend without visual... more info | 3.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Health Economics and Policy with Economic Applications
from South-Western College Pub
Price: $150.36
Customer Review:
The text is quite dated for a 2005 edition. All of the citations are over 5 years old. The material is written at highly advanced economics level and may not be appropriate as a multi-disciplinary text. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
from Jameson Books
Customer Review:
...the review titled "The Greatest Book on Economics of All Time" was written by me. It was originally published under my own name, bur for some reason that I cannot fathom my name has since disappeared.
A slightly enlarged version of the review can be found here:
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| 7. |  | Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America
from Thomas Dunne Books
Price: $11.48
Customer Review:
I know Senator Byron Dorgan, and he is as honest as anyone I have ever known. This book is an eye-opening look into the Legislative Branch of our government. It should be required reading for every Senator and for you and I that Vote. It has silly legislation on almost every page that will get you... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Agricultural and Food Policy (6th Edition)
from Prentice Hall
Price: $37.92
Customer Review:
It's a shame that these respected Agricultural Economists would allow such a poor example of a textbook to be published under their names. While there may be some meagre updates, the book is so watered down that it is probably more appropriate to a high school class than college. In addition, at 54... more info | 1.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory
from South End Press
Price: $17.10
Customer Review:
I teach a course on Women and Work and Miriam Ching Louie's Sweatshop Warriors is the first book I have found that really describes sweatshops from the workers' perspectives, as agents rather than victims. The students really got it. I plan to use the book in this course from now on. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Politics after Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
from Cambridge University Press
Price: $26.99
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