Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy's long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity.

There are no more respected voices in the environmental movement than Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold worldwide, they have set the agenda for rational, ecologically sound industrial development.

In this inspiring book they define a superior and sustainable form of capitalism based on a system that radically raises the productivity of nature's dwindling resources. Natural Capitalism shows how cutting-edge businesses are increasing their earnings, boosting growth, reducing costs, enhancing competitiveness, and restoring the earth by harnessing a new design mentality. The authors offer dozens of examples of businesses that are making fourfold or even tenfold gains in efficiency, from self-heating and self-cooling buildings to 200-miles-per-gallon cars, while ensuring that workers aren't downsized out of their jobs.

This practical blueprint shows how making resources more productive will create the next industrial revolution.

In this groundbreaking history of the Armenian Genocide, the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Black Dog of Fate brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Peter Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Young Turk government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he also resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history.

During the United States' ascension in the global arena at the turn of the twentieth century, America's humanitarian movement for Armenia was an important part of the rising nation's first epoch of internationalism. Intellectuals, politicians, diplomats, religious leaders, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save the Armenians. The Burning Tigris reconstructs this landmark American cause that was spearheaded by the passionate commitments and commentaries of a remarkable cast of public figures, including Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Stone Blackwell, Stephen Crane, and Ezra Pound, as well as courageous missionaries, diplomats, and relief workers who recorded their eyewitness accounts and often risked their lives in the killing fields of Armenia.

Autobiografisch relaas van de relaties van een jonge Nederlandse vrouw in Rome met een schrijver (Moravia) en een filmer (Fellini).

Portretten van befaamde spionageschrijvers, waarin de vruchtbare wederzijdse beïnvloeding tussen hun schrijverschap en hun spionagewerk belicht wordt. O.a. Graham Greene en Sommerset Maugham.

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Teksten met betrekking tot het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam, waarvan de auteur directeur was.

Facsimile-uitgave met vertaling van het manuscript van de laatste, onvoltooide roman van de Russisch-Amerikaanse schrijver (1899-1977).

Doeschka Meijsing was niet alleen een fervent lezer, ze ging vanaf haar puberjaren ook bijna wekelijks naar de film, een concert, een museum of het theater. Van wat ze zag en hoorde deed ze aanvankelijk alleen verslag in de dagboeken die ze decennialang bijhield, later publiceerde ze erover in onder meer 'Vrij Nederland', 'Elsevier' en 'De Groene Amsterdammer'. Ze legde zichzelf geen enkele beperking op en schreef over werkelijk alles wat ze mooi vond: van William Shakespeare tot Rudy Kousbroek, van de Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe tot Kuifje en van Marcello Mastroianni tot Sophia Loren. Xandra Schutte, Doeschka Meijsings partner en hoofdredacteur van 'De Groene Amsterdammer', selecteerde de beste beschouwingen en leidde ze in.

Creative techniques step-by-step. This book offers the reader an opportunity to watch one of our foremost contemporary sculptors at work, to see not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end. In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation, Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of roughing in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, so that the reader can see exactly how he positions and models every detail.

Enameling is one of the oldest techniques of coloring and decorating metals, and exquisite examples of the art have survived from ancient cultures throughout the world. Enameling on Precious Metals explores the many techniques of enameling, such as cloisonné, champlêvé, and plique â jour, as well as variations of these methods. In addition to examining the various traditional techniques of enameling on precious metals, the book also looks at contemporary developments and innovative new materials. Complete with 185 color photos, this book is a look at the exciting work being created within the field today.