power (social sciences)

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power (social sciences)

Money & power

the history of business
2001
A companion book to CNBC's documentary "Money and Power" that chronicles one thousand years of business, describing the origins of commerce and examining such key figures and developments as Saint Godric, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and the Transcontinental Railroad.

The wisdom of crowds

why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations
2004
Argues that large groups of people are wiser, more innovative, better at problem solving, and better at predicting than their most intelligent individual members, and draws from such fields as psychology, military history, ant biology, and economic behaviorism to apply this theory to business and everyday life.

Party games

getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics
2004
Presents an examination of American politics in the late-nineteenth century.

Political history of America's wars

2007
Traces more than two hundred years of America's involvement in major wars, rebellions, and insurrections around the world, drawing on primary source documents, biographies, and narrative history to explore the political antecdents, events, and consequences of each conflict.

Wizard of the crow

2007
In the fictional Republic of Aburiria, a grandiose Ruler and his cabinet plan to reach the heavens by building their own Tower of Babel, using all of the republic's resources and people in their misguided effort, until a modern-day shaman shows the ruler his faults.

Are America's wealthy too powerful?

2006
Presents a collection of articles that provide various points of view related to the issue of the American economic system, debating whether the wealthy maintain too much power.

Resurrection blues

a prologue and two acts
2006
Presents the script of the Arthur Miller play in which Latin American general Felix Barriaux, having captured a rebel leader who is reputed to have performed miracles, makes plans to crucify the mysterious man and sell the television rights to an American network.

The march of folly

from Troy to Vietnam
1984
Traces and explores the recurring pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

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