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Governing the World The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present A history of the project of world government, from the first post-napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of

A prodigious work: a master historian s reconstruction of how individuals and nations since 1815 have sought to promote national interests in ever more complicated international settings.

00 A Financial Times Best Book Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else An acclaimed business journalist presents a groundbreaking examination of wealth

Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University [Freeland] explains why the elites dominance, even when it appears benign, is a challenge to our institutions and gives us clues about how we can overcome it.

00 Academic Marketing Department CHRYSTIA FREELAND JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE The Fourth Revolution W W W. PE NG UI N.

reform. Brings history alive for the reader with a dazzling knowledge.peerless.

1 Governing the World The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present A history of the project of world government, from the first post-napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global finance. A prodigious work: a master historian s reconstruction of how individuals and nations since 1815 have sought to promote national interests in ever more complicated international settings. Fritz Stern Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 MARK MAZOWER PAID Presort Std U.S. Postage ALAN S. BLDER PENGU PAPERBACK 496 PP $18.00 A Financial Times Best Book Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else An acclaimed business journalist presents a groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite. Provides us with a glimpse of the lives of America's elites and a disquieting look at the society that produces them. Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University [Freeland] explains why the elites dominance, even when it appears benign, is a challenge to our institutions and gives us clues about how we can overcome it. Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PENGU PAPERBACK 352 PP $17.00 Academic Marketing Department CHRYSTIA FREELAND JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE The Fourth Revolution W W W. PE NG UI N. COM/FACF O For complimentary examination copies and personalized assistance in selecting titles for your courses, sign up for our College Faculty Information Service (CFIS) at: PENGU PRESS HARDCOVER 192 PP $26.95 The acclaimed historian presents a taut and potent volume targeted at perhaps our most pressing social question what parts of our society limit our progress, and what aspects empower us to enduring and deepening success. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform. Brings history alive for the reader with a dazzling knowledge.peerless. The Independent on Sunday (UK) How Institutions Decay and Economies Die The Great Degeneration PENGU PRESS HARDCOVER 320 PP $27.95 A visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Micklethwait and Wooldridge argue that there have been three great revolutions in government in the history of the modern world. The West has led these revolutions, but now we are in the midst of a fourth revolution, and it is Western government that is in danger of being left behind. The Global Race to Reinvent the State After the Music Stopped The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons. The best comprehensive history of the episode...a riveting tale. Financial Times If you want to understand every aspect of our economic crisis how we got into it, how we escaped a depression, why we haven t fully recovered, and what we have to do now read this book. It s a masterpiece simple, straightforward and wise. President William J. Clinton PENGU PAPERBACK 496 PP $17.00 NEIL IRW The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire The Washington Post s lead economics correspondent and Federal Reserve reporter draws on extraordinary access to tell the story of the global financial crisis from the perspective of the world s four most powerful central bankers. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the global reach of the financial crisis through which we are still living. The international perspective brings a fascinating and wholly new dimension to the story, one that has until now not been adequately told. Liaquat Ahamed, author of PENGU PAPERBACK 448 PP $18.00 ERNEST FREEBERG The Age of Edison Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. A vivid social history with parallels for today's technology innovators and for those who wish to increase their number. It underscores the point that the work of Edison and other pioneers of light took place in an unusual setting, a period in which American invention was remarkably active and fertile. The Wall Street Journal PENGU PAPERBACK 368 PP $17.00 PETER CHAPMAN The Last of the Imperious Rich Lehman Brothers, Chapman examines the history of Lehman from its humble beginnings to its dramatic exit, and paints an intimate portrait of the people who ran it, including Bobbie Lehman, who in the 1920s led the company into the world of radio, motion pictures, and air travel. Chapman shows that, despite its inglorious end, Lehman not only helped shape the face of American finance, but also American life. The historical parallels that the author provides are often thought-provoking and illuminating. The New York Times PORTFOLIO PAPERBACK 320 PP $16.00

2 Governing the World The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present A history of the project of world government, from the first post-napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global finance. A prodigious work: a master historian s reconstruction of how individuals and nations since 1815 have sought to promote national interests in ever more complicated international settings. Fritz Stern Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 MARK MAZOWER PAID Presort Std U.S. Postage ALAN S. BLDER PENGU PAPERBACK 496 PP $18.00 A Financial Times Best Book Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else An acclaimed business journalist presents a groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite. Provides us with a glimpse of the lives of America's elites and a disquieting look at the society that produces them. Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University [Freeland] explains why the elites dominance, even when it appears benign, is a challenge to our institutions and gives us clues about how we can overcome it. Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PENGU PAPERBACK 352 PP $17.00 Academic Marketing Department CHRYSTIA FREELAND JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE The Fourth Revolution W W W. PE NG UI N. COM/FACF O For complimentary examination copies and personalized assistance in selecting titles for your courses, sign up for our College Faculty Information Service (CFIS) at: PENGU PRESS HARDCOVER 192 PP $26.95 The acclaimed historian presents a taut and potent volume targeted at perhaps our most pressing social question what parts of our society limit our progress, and what aspects empower us to enduring and deepening success. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform. Brings history alive for the reader with a dazzling knowledge.peerless. The Independent on Sunday (UK) How Institutions Decay and Economies Die The Great Degeneration PENGU PRESS HARDCOVER 320 PP $27.95 A visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Micklethwait and Wooldridge argue that there have been three great revolutions in government in the history of the modern world. The West has led these revolutions, but now we are in the midst of a fourth revolution, and it is Western government that is in danger of being left behind. The Global Race to Reinvent the State After the Music Stopped The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons. The best comprehensive history of the episode...a riveting tale. Financial Times If you want to understand every aspect of our economic crisis how we got into it, how we escaped a depression, why we haven t fully recovered, and what we have to do now read this book. It s a masterpiece simple, straightforward and wise. President William J. Clinton PENGU PAPERBACK 496 PP $17.00 NEIL IRW The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire The Washington Post s lead economics correspondent and Federal Reserve reporter draws on extraordinary access to tell the story of the global financial crisis from the perspective of the world s four most powerful central bankers. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the global reach of the financial crisis through which we are still living. The international perspective brings a fascinating and wholly new dimension to the story, one that has until now not been adequately told. Liaquat Ahamed, author of PENGU PAPERBACK 448 PP $18.00 ERNEST FREEBERG The Age of Edison Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. A vivid social history with parallels for today's technology innovators and for those who wish to increase their number. It underscores the point that the work of Edison and other pioneers of light took place in an unusual setting, a period in which American invention was remarkably active and fertile. The Wall Street Journal PENGU PAPERBACK 368 PP $17.00 PETER CHAPMAN The Last of the Imperious Rich Lehman Brothers, Chapman examines the history of Lehman from its humble beginnings to its dramatic exit, and paints an intimate portrait of the people who ran it, including Bobbie Lehman, who in the 1920s led the company into the world of radio, motion pictures, and air travel. Chapman shows that, despite its inglorious end, Lehman not only helped shape the face of American finance, but also American life. The historical parallels that the author provides are often thought-provoking and illuminating. The New York Times PORTFOLIO PAPERBACK 320 PP $16.00

3 Governing the World The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present A history of the project of world government, from the first post-napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global finance. A prodigious work: a master historian s reconstruction of how individuals and nations since 1815 have sought to promote national interests in ever more complicated international settings. Fritz Stern Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 MARK MAZOWER PAID Presort Std U.S. Postage ALAN S. BLDER PENGU PAPERBACK 496 PP $18.00 A Financial Times Best Book Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else An acclaimed business journalist presents a groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite. Provides us with a glimpse of the lives of America's elites and a disquieting look at the society that produces them. Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University [Freeland] explains why the elites dominance, even when it appears benign, is a challenge to our institutions and gives us clues about how we can overcome it. Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PENGU PAPERBACK 352 PP $17.00 Academic Marketing Department CHRYSTIA FREELAND JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE The Fourth Revolution W W W. PE NG UI N. COM/FACF O For complimentary examination copies and personalized assistance in selecting titles for your courses, sign up for our College Faculty Information Service (CFIS) at: PENGU PRESS HARDCOVER 192 PP $26.95 The acclaimed historian presents a taut and potent volume targeted at perhaps our most pressing social question what parts of our society limit our progress, and what aspects empower us to enduring and deepening success. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform. Brings history alive for the reader with a dazzling knowledge.peerless. The Independent on Sunday (UK) How Institutions Decay and Economies Die The Great Degeneration PENGU PRESS HARDCOVER 320 PP $27.95 A visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Micklethwait and Wooldridge argue that there have been three great revolutions in government in the history of the modern world. The West has led these revolutions, but now we are in the midst of a fourth revolution, and it is Western government that is in danger of being left behind. The Global Race to Reinvent the State After the Music Stopped The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons. The best comprehensive history of the episode...a riveting tale. Financial Times If you want to understand every aspect of our economic crisis how we got into it, how we escaped a depression, why we haven t fully recovered, and what we have to do now read this book. It s a masterpiece simple, straightforward and wise. President William J. Clinton PENGU PAPERBACK 496 PP $17.00 NEIL IRW The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire The Washington Post s lead economics correspondent and Federal Reserve reporter draws on extraordinary access to tell the story of the global financial crisis from the perspective of the world s four most powerful central bankers. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the global reach of the financial crisis through which we are still living. The international perspective brings a fascinating and wholly new dimension to the story, one that has until now not been adequately told. Liaquat Ahamed, author of PENGU PAPERBACK 448 PP $18.00 ERNEST FREEBERG The Age of Edison Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. A vivid social history with parallels for today's technology innovators and for those who wish to increase their number. It underscores the point that the work of Edison and other pioneers of light took place in an unusual setting, a period in which American invention was remarkably active and fertile. The Wall Street Journal PENGU PAPERBACK 368 PP $17.00 PETER CHAPMAN The Last of the Imperious Rich Lehman Brothers, Chapman examines the history of Lehman from its humble beginnings to its dramatic exit, and paints an intimate portrait of the people who ran it, including Bobbie Lehman, who in the 1920s led the company into the world of radio, motion pictures, and air travel. Chapman shows that, despite its inglorious end, Lehman not only helped shape the face of American finance, but also American life. The historical parallels that the author provides are often thought-provoking and illuminating. The New York Times PORTFOLIO PAPERBACK 320 PP $16.00

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