This authoritative A–Z provides a wealth of up-to-date information on every country in the world, including dependent territories. Each entry provides a brief history of the country and outlines its political, economic, and social issues. A quick-reference fact box provides comparative information on land area, people, language, religion, life expectancy, GDP, gender equality, and environmental performance. Supplementary material includes detailed indicator tables showing income and povert...

Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab. How have we made such a mess of our money system?

Professor and writer Peter Stalker McKenzie recounts experiences with a licensing board that denied due process of law and equality of the law in this tantalizing novel based on a true story. During this difficult personal trial, political and defiant forces combined to assure that their agenda would succeed without opposition. While there are always various sides to every story; find out which one is based upon truth and not on lost truth. When Truth Is Lost represents a personal...

Meltdown, crisis, downturn, and the dreaded R-word: recession. These words have migrated from business sections to headline news.From barter to coins, from the origins of banking to todays credit crunch, this highly topical book explores cash, borrowing, and lending, and delves into the dark side of the global financial system.But as we teeter on the brink of a global depression, space develops for new thinking. From doing away with tax havens, putting teeth into r...

Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally. Yet most rich countries are short of workers, have shrinking populations, and need more immigrants.The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration is a timely primer to a major issue that is never far from the headlines.

The intelligence agency’s resource with information on every nation: people, government, economy, geography, communications, military, and more.This comprehensive guide is packed with detailed information on the politics, populations, military expenditures, and economics of 2012. For each country, The CIA World Factbook 2012 includes:Detailed maps with new geopolitical dataStatistics on the population of each country, with details o...

The New York Times Bestseller“Deeply satisfying. . . I have waited my whole life for someone to write a book like Bright-sided.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the critically-acclaimed author of Nickel and Dimed comes the bestseller Bright-sided, a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism.

Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop itWhen the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed. All previous constraints on money and credit creation were removed and a new economic paradigm took shape. Economic growth ceased to be driven by capital accumulation and investment as it had been since before the Industrial Revolution. Instead, credit creation and consumptio...

When you imagine what it would take for your life to be truly great—for you to become your best, most fulfilled self—do you dream of something more than what you have now? More money . . . more attention . . . more significance? What you may be missing is the one thing that actually gives your life ultimate value, meaning, and purpose.Your Best Destiny helps you find it through a highly insightful personal assessment tool that will reveal eight keys God has placed deep wit...

The United States has a problem – a big problem. Due to costs associated with the massive bailout of financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," on-going armed conflicts, and a move towards socialism, another even bigger bubble is about to burst – the debt bubble. The Great Super Cycle: Profit from the Coming Inflation Tidal Wave and Dollar Devaluation is an intriguing look at the relationship between Washington and Wall Street; the history of political shifts in power and ho...

"America's debt is a powder keg about to blow, and the fuse was lit by the rush of bailouts and stimulus spending."Is your money inflation-proof? It had better be. On the heels of the most recent economic crisis, America is headed toward another: high inflation and dollar devaluation.Charles Goyette reveals the governmental errors that led to the current economic crisis and the bumpy road ahead. The signs are clear: Federal debt is compounding while growth ...

China's Silent Army is a revealing and gripping piece of investigative journalism into the unknown extent of China's global power, from China-based reporters Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto AraújoThis book stems from the remarkable, determined work of these two China-based journalists who, frustrated by the facile, pro-business commentary of so much writing on China and the evasions of Beijing's official pronouncements, took a drastic decision: to see fo...