economic conditions

Explores the causes of the 2008 financial recession and describes how recession has led to a new kind of poverty in the United States.

Explores the history of smuggling in the United States, and its role in the country's birth, westward expansion, economic development, and increasing federal government policing powers.

Provides a profile of Belle Glade, Florida, and its high school football program which has sent thirty players to the NFL since 1985. Explores the town's obsession with winning in spite of the poverty that plagues both the townfolk and the high school itself and profiles several individuals who are influenced by this football program and have a will to succeed in spite of the odds.

Argues that the Ch?vez government is neither dictatorial nor revolutionary, but instead a populist regime that has been subservient to the United States and multinational corporations, and discusses how Venezuela's social, labor, and environmental movements are democratic, revolutionary alternatives to the Ch?vez regime.

In Predator Nation, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence?in all recent administrations, including Obama's?that prepared the path to conquest. He reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers have become mere courtiers to the elite. And based on many newly released court filings, he details the extent of the crimes?there is no other word?committed in the frenzied chase for storied wealth that marked the 2000s. And, finally, he lays out a brief plan of action for how we might take it back.

The author tells about the places he visited and the people he met while on a seven-thousand-mile motorcycle trek throughout Cuba.

A history of the tulip, from its origins in central Asia, to its place as the most coveted commodity in Europe; telling the story of the flower and some of the colorful characters whose lives were entwined with it.

Richard McKenzie uses clear economic reasoning to explain the hidden agendas, misleading methods, and underhanded strategies behind pricing in the United States.