This book showcases the drawings of Ken Adam, the man who has created some of the most iconic and memorable sets in the history of film. Presented chronologically, the book takes us from design sketches for his earliest movies, including "Around the World in Eighty Days", through his Oscar-winning w[...]

Adam Smith har blivit en symbol för såväl liberalismen som för ekonomisk forskning över huvud taget. Han stod vid en knutpunkt i den ekonomiska idéhistorien. Många av de element han byggde sin nationalekonomiska analys på hade redan tidigare formulerats, t ex av fysiokratiska tänkare som Qu[...]

A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.[...]

What you need to know to work your way up the fleet--from the first start to winning the finish "With Cort and Stearns' enthusiasm for the topic and straightforward advice, it's hard not to read this book without picturing yourself rounding the buoys just ahead of the rest of the fleet." --Soundings[...]

This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the[...]

This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as th[...]