John Kenneth Galbraiths now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse The Great Crash" remains the definitive book on the most disastrous cycle of boom & bust in modern times. " The Great Crash 1929" examines the causes effects aftermath & long-term consequences of Americas infamous financial meltdown showing how rampant speculation & blind optimism sustained a market mania & led to its terrible downward spiral. Galbraith also describes the people & the corporations at the heart of the financial community & how they were affected by the disaster. With its depiction of the gold-rush fantasy ingrained in Americas psychology this penetrating study of human greed & folly contains lessons that are still vital today
- & are now more relevant than ever. " Lively & highly readable". (" Financial Times"). " Galbraith is a considerable writer
- admonitory ironic patrician funny". (" Guardian"). " The definitive work on the subject". (" Daily Mail"). "A book you will read at a single sitting". (" Prospect"). " One of the most engrossing books I have ever read". (" Daily Telegraph"). John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a Canadian-American economist. A Keynesian & an institutionalist Galbraith was a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism & progressivism. Galbraith was the author of 30 books including " The Economics of Innocent Fraud" " The Great Crash: 1929" & "A History of Economics"."

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A thrilling tale of intrigue & danger filled with tension excitement & romance New South Wales 1947. When Shelly Wareings husband Cole vanishes into the night leaving only a note to say that he will come back no matter how long it takes Shelly is bewildered. What could be the reason for his sudden disappearance? Searching for clues Shelly discovers a box containing Nazi medals an SS ring & a photo of a radiantly beautiful woman signed for her husb&. Determined to uncover the truth she sets out to track down Laetitia de Witt the woman pictured in the photograph. Meanwhile halfway across the world Cole is on his own mission for the truth
- while his enemies who believe him to be a traitor are in close pursuit...
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A thrilling tale of intrigue & danger filled with tension excitement & romance New South Wales 1947. When Shelly Wareing's husband Cole vanishes into the night leaving only a note to say that he will come back no matter how long it takes Shelly is bewildered. What could be the reason for his sudden disappearance? Searching for clues Shelly discovers a box containing Nazi medals an SS ring & a photo of a radiantly beautiful woman signed for her husb&. Determined to uncover the truth she sets out to track down Laetitia de Witt the woman pictured in the photograph. Meanwhile halfway across the world Cole is on his own mission for the truth
- while his enemies who believe him to be a traitor are in close pursuit...
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The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today it seems: slowing growth crushing debts aging populations anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer Niall Ferguson argues is that our institutions
- the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail
- are degenerating. Representative government the free market the rule of law & civil society: these were once the four pillars of West European & North American societies. It was these institutions rather than any geographical or climatic advantages that set the West on the path to global dominance after around 1500. In our time however these institutions have deteriorated in disturbing ways. Our democracies have broken the contract between the generations by heaping IOUs on our children & grandchildren. Our markets are increasingly distorted by over-complex regulations that are in fact the disease of which they purport to be the cure. The rule of law has metamorphosed into the rule of lawyers. & civil society has degenerated into uncivil society where we lazily expect all our problems to be solved by the state. The Degeneration of the West" a powerful
- & in places polemical
- indictment of an era of negligence & complacency. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy & while China struggles to move from economic liberalization to the rule of law Europeans & Americans alike are frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries. To arrest the degeneration of the Wests once dominant civilization Ferguson warns will take heroic leadership & radical reform. This book is based on Niall Fergusons 2012 BBC Reith Lectures which were broadcast under the title " The Rule of Law & Its Enemies"."



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Fat unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her fathers headless corpse wearing her best dress & with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: I did it. & I am not sorry & she refuses to say more. Inspector Thomas Lynley & DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. & as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals & appalling crimes they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the facade of the peaceful Yorkshire village. ...

In 15 000 B.C. early humankind who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before & spread out to populate the Earth arrived in Siberia during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets several miles thick the levels of the worlds oceans were much lower than they are today & early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait then a land bridge without getting their feet wet & enter the Americas. Then the Ice Age came to an end the Bering Strait re-filled with water & humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division
- with two great populations on Earth each oblivious of the other
- continued until Christopher Columbus discovered America just before 1500 A.D. This is the fascinating subject of THE GREAT DIVIDE which compares & contrasts the development of humankind in the Old World & the New between 15 000 B.C. & 1500 A.D. This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that when these factors are taken together they offer a uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. THE GREAT DIVIDE offers a masterly & totally original synthesis of archaeology anthropology geology meteorology cosmology & mythology to give a new shape
- & a new understanding
- to human history.



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In 15 000 B.C. early humankind who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before & spread out to populate the Earth arrived in Siberia during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets several miles thick the levels of the worlds oceans were much lower than they are today & early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait then a land bridge without getting their feet wet & enter the Americas. Then the Ice Age came to an end the Bering Strait refilled with water & humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division
- with two great populations on Earth each oblivious of the other
- continued until Christopher Columbus discovered America just before 1500 A.D. This is the fascinating subject of THE GREAT DIVIDE which compares & contrasts the development of humankind in the Old World & the New between 15 000 B.C. & 1500 A.D. This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that when these factors are taken together they offer a uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. THE GREAT DIVIDE offers a masterly & totally original synthesis of archaeology anthropology geology meteorology cosmology & mythology to give a new shape
- & a new understanding
- to human history.



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C.S. Lewis's dazzling allegory about heaven & hell
- & the chasm fixed between them
- is one of his most brilliantly imaginative

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Every woman holds the power to enchant or to destroy. In New Orleans three women from completely different backgrounds face a turning point in their lives. Ellen a vet at a New Orleans zoo is trying to contain an infectious disease that threatens the zoos animals. At the same time she must come to terms with her crumbling marriage. Alongside her works Camille an enigmatic & disturbed young woman whose terrifying fantasies threaten to overwhelm her. Finally there is Elisabeth The Catwoman of St Francisville who was hanged in 1845 for murdering her bullying husband in horrific circumstances. In a compelling tale that bristles with energy & a sense of foreboding their stories converge to reveal the secrets behind the untamed aspects of human nature. ...

The day has arrived for the Dogs' Summer Ball. It's so high class that each dog must remove their bottom before they are allowed inside the hall. But in the middle of all the frivolity something unexpected happens & the dogs have to make a hasty exit...with or without the correct bottom! ...