Perseus publishing 2000 (14 résultats)

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. No Printing Stated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. No Printing Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In seeking the answers to such questions as "Where did we come from?," "Did life arise on earth or another planet?," and "What did the earliest primitive organisms look like?," the authors take us on a mind-expanding journey -- back in time, across the globe and through the solar system in search of extraterrestrial life. 291 pages including index. B&W and color photos. Super nice copy.…

grey & black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. black ink remainder mark on bottom edge. contents free of all markings. dustwr. fine cond., not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition. first printing so stated ( & # 1 in # line). other than remainder mark, book in like new condition.xviii+284p. biblio. notes. index. glossy b&w illustrations. biography. american history. politics. economics. federal reserve bank. world economy. ayn rand. history of jazz. keynesian theory. crash of '87. asian contagion. kissinger. gerald ford. bill clinton. milton friedman.…

HARDCOVER. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine dj. First Edition. xx. + 228 pages. Appendices, Source Notes, Index. White boards & silver lettered blue board back. Many of the NGO and Non Profit organizations listings may be outdated. First Edition. 3rd (THIRD) PRINTING per print number line. REMAINDER MARK in ink along bottom outer edge, Near Fine/Near Fine dj. REMAINDER mark. Covers & text clean/tight/crisp. NO names or writings. Jacket complete/clean/crisp.…

Hb. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st. Hb. Fine/Fine. 1st. 198pp. Index, Illus.

Hb. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG+. 1st. Hb. VG+/VG+. 1st. 281pp. Index. Light soiling, DJ: rubbing, light soiling.

paperback. Etat : Good. Contains highlighting and/or writing and may be missing online resources or CD. Ships promptly.

Trade Paperback. No Statement Of Later Printing On Copyright Page. Very Good Condition. Tight Bright Attractive Copy With No Markings To The Book. ISBN 0-7382-0329-7.

Hardback. Second Printing. Near Fine Condition in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. Tight Bright Attractive Copy With No Markings To The Book. $23.00 Original Price is Present and Unclipped on the Front Dustjacket Flap. ISBN 0-7382-0290-8. Copy One.

Hardback. Second Printing. Near Fine Condition in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. Tight Bright Attractive Copy With No Markings To The Book. $23.00 Original Price is Present and Unclipped on the Front Dustjacket Flap. ISBN 0-7382-0290-8. Copy Two.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xii,336pp, text clean and tight, signed by the author on half-title, inscribed for Ellen', Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0738202584.

ISBN 0-7382-0265-7. Hardback. No dustjacket, probably as issued. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

ISBN 0-7382-0265-7. Hardback. First Printing. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Hbk various paginations no dj as issued decorated laminated boards an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xxix, [1], 400 pages. Pencil marks and underlining noted. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Epilogue, Notes, and Index. Topics covered include Out-of-Control Capitalism; Reclaiming Global Leadership; The Path from Here to There; and Share Our Wealth 2000. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: To Jim Wolfensohn--With best regards, Jeff Gates. James David Wolfensohn, KBE, AO (born 1 December 1933) is an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995-2005). When Wolfensohn took over at the World Bank in 1995, he viewed himself as a spiritual successor to a former World Bank chief, Robert McNamara. He was born in Sydney, Australia, and is a graduate of the University of Sydney and Harvard Business School; he was also an Olympic fencer. He worked for various companies in Britain and the United States before forming his own investment firm. Wolfensohn became an American citizen in 1980, requiring him to renounce his Australian citizenship although he eventually regained it in 2010. He served two terms as President of the World Bank on the nomination of U.S. President Bill Clinton, and has since held various positions with charitable organizations. Drawing from his own experience on the front lines (as a pioneer of employee stock ownership legislation and a lifetime in national politics and corporate finance), and citing startling statistics of the growing disparities in wealth and income, the author paints a compelling picture of how political and business interests have long conspired to concentrate power and influence. The effects are manifested in a variety of increasingly disturbing conditions that reflect a penchant for short-term returns over long-term solutions--from voter apathy to ecological devastation to an educational system in crisis. The author offers politically practical and financially feasible ways toward a broad-based prosperity around the world. Citing cherry-picked statistics, Jeff Gates argues that the economic boom was largely a mirage, buoyed by policies that continue to reward the wealthy and ignore the poor. With equal measures of passion and sophistic reasoning, he proposes a program of financial, political, and economic change. Derived from a Publisher's Weekly review: Gates is enthusiastic about both capitalism and democracy--but he's a little concerned that one (capitalism) is advancing at the expense of the other, and that today's profit-or-perish economy endangers the viability of community. "My goal," he writes, "is to smarten up free enterprise." So, in this well-meaning populist primer, Gates--former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance--maps out a plan for a more "democratic capitalism" that would make the world safe from the ravages of global financial markets that benefit the few at the expense of the many. Among other things, he proposes a "freeloader's levy" that would take money from the $8 trillion now stashed in the world's tax havens and redistribute it to humanitarian projects in the developing world, and he imagines a scheme for reinvesting retirement assets to assist self-reliant pensioners. Most compellingly, he proposes a series of strategies (based in part on his 1998 book The Ownership Solution) for "peoplizing ownership"--expanding the edges of corporations through various customer, employee and citizen stock-ownership plans. Gates is at his best when analyzing specific tactics to back up his rhetorical salvos. But a number of his critiques lose their focus as he barrels pell-mell through an onslaught of subject matter--foreign relations, monetary policy, bioterrorism, Gandhi, perceived misdeeds of Wal-Mart, and cybernetics. Still, even if the answers Gates turns up don't always hit the mark, at least he's raising an important set of questions.…