After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie "Wall Street Journal" reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pulled int[...]

Casino Capitalism has finally and deservedly found its way back into print. Susan Strange's critical commentary on the weaknesses of the international financial system as they developed in the 1970s and early 1980s is as timely today as when it first appeared in 1986. The re-issue will be of undimin[...]

In the first James Bond novel, 007 takes on Le Chiffre, a French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH, as the suave agent becomes involved in a high-stakes game of baccarat, enjoys a fiery love affair with a sexy female spy, and endures torture at the hands of a master sa[...]

While there has been an unprecedented explosion of legalized gambling in Canada - particularly in the form of casinos and electronic games - the public has become increasingly aware of addictions to gambling. Casino State is a timely collection that examines the controversial role of the state as a [...]

Observera att förlaget som ger ut denna produkt baserar innehållet i sina produkter på fria källor som Wikipedia. Boken är med stor sannolikhet endast ett utdrag ur dessa informationskällor, alltså inte en vanlig bok i den bemärkelsen.[...]

Introducing the debates that inform current social geographic research and theory and interrogating the historical development of social geography, Social Geography: A Critical Introduction explores how urban and rural spaces are organized in ways that construct and maintain social inequality. * Put[...]

(Piano Solo Songbook). 11 beautiful piano solo arrangements from the David Arnold soundtrack, including: African Rundown * Aston Montenegro * City of Lovers * Dinner Jackets * James Bond Theme * Miami International * Nothing Sinister * Solange * The Switch * Trip Aces * Vesper.[...]

In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the pol[...]

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmen[...]