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Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
ISBN 10: 0393051897ISBN 13: 9780393051896
Seller: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
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Published by Pantheon Books, 1996
ISBN 10: 0679426337ISBN 13: 9780679426332
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.75.
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Published by North Point Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 086547544XISBN 13: 9780865475441
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.55.
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Published by North Point Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0865475903ISBN 13: 9780865475908
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.
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Published by Basic Books; Perseus, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 0465060676ISBN 13: 9780465060672
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 418 pages, illustration; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In Universal Man, noted biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the twentieth century's most charismatic and revolutionary economist. Keynes helped FDR launch the New Deal, saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western nations on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment, and social dissolution. Isaiah Berlin called Keynes 'the cleverest man I ever knew'--both 'superior and intellectually awe-inspiring.' Eric Hobsbawm, the twentieth century's preeminent historian, considered him as influential as Lenin, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi, and Mao. Keynes was nothing less than the Adam Smith of his time: his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936, became the most important economics book of the twentieth century, as important as Smith's Wealth of Nations in inaugurating an economic era. Keynes's brilliant ideas made possible 35 years of prosperity after the Second World War, the most sustained period of rapid expansion in history. And now, and in the wake of the 2008 global economic collapse, he is once again shaping our world. Every day, we are likely to hear about 'Keynesian economics' or the 'Keynesian Revolution,' terms that testify to his continuing influence on both economic theory and government policies. Indeed, with the thorough discrediting of his opponents--Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and other supporters of the notion that capitalism is self-regulating, and needs no government intervention--nations across the world are turning to Keynes's signature innovations: above all that governments must involve themselves in their economies to stave off financial collapse. Previous biographies have explored Keynes economic thought at great length and often in the jargon of the discipline. Universal Man is the first accessible biography of Keynes, and reveals Keynes as much more than an economist. Like many Englishmen of his class and era, Keynes compartmentalized his life. Accordingly, Davenport-Hines views Keynes through multiple windows, as a youthful prodigy, a powerful government official, an influential public man, a bisexual living in the shadow of Oscar Wilde's persecution, a devotee of the arts, and an international statesman of great renown. Delving into Keynes's experiences and thought, Davenport-Hines shows us a man who was equally at ease socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was persuading heads of state to adopt his policies. Exploring the desires and experiences that compelled Keynes to innovate, Davenport-Hines is the first to argue that Keynesian economics has an aesthetic basis. In this book we come to understand not just the most enduringly influential economist of the modern era, but one of the most gifted and vital men of our times: a disciplined logician with a capacity for glee who persuaded people, seduced them, subverted old ideas, and installed new ones; a man whose high brilliance did not give people vertigo, but clarified and lengthened their perspectives. Engaging, learned, and sparkling with wit and insight, Universal Man is the perfect match for its subject. / Richard Davenport-Hines is the award-winning author of Dudley Docker and acclaimed biographies of W. H. Auden and Marcel Proust. He is an adviser to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and a regular reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Published by London : HarperPress, 2013
ISBN 10: 0007435843ISBN 13: 9780007435845
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 400 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Prime Minister -- War minister -- Lord -- Doctor -- Good-time girls -- Landlords -- Hacks -- Spies -- Acting up -- Show trials -- Safety curtain. Subjects; Profumo, John D. Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine. Great Britain. Prime Minister (1957-1963 : Macmillan) Political corruption Great Britain History 20th century. Scandals Great Britain History 20th century. Political corruption. Politics and government. 1 Kg.
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Published by London ; Totowa, N.J. : F. Cass, 1988
ISBN 10: 0714633488ISBN 13: 9780714633480
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 118 pages; 18cm; illus with graphs. Notes: Includes index. Contents: chapter FAILINGS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: SOME BRITISH BUSINESSES, 1910-80 -- chapter BRITISH BUSINESS AND THE TRANSITION TO A CORPORATE ECONOMY: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES -- chapter MODELLING THE GROWTH STRATEGIES OF BRITISH FIRMS -- chapter CONSUMER MARKETING IN BRITAIN 1914-60 -- chapter SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN BRITISH BUSINESS HISTORY -- chapter PRIVATISATION:THE TRIUMPH OF PAST PRACTICE OVER CURRENT REQUIREMENTS. Subjects: Industrial management Great Britain History 20th century. Business enterprises Great Britain History 20th century.Technological innovations Economic aspects Great Britain History 20th century. Industrial management Great Britain History. Business enterprises Great Britain History. Technological innovations Economic aspects Great Britain. Industrial management Great Britain History 20th century. Business enterprises Great Britain History 20th century.Technological innovations Economic aspects Great Britain History 20th century. Business. 20th Century. Marketing. Privatisation. History. Entrepreneurship. Organisational Structures. Great Britain. Great Britain Business enterprise 1914-1960 1 Kg.
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Published by London : Fontana, 1991
ISBN 10: 0006862195ISBN 13: 9780006862192
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First Edition in this form. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 439p., ill., plates ; 20cm. Subjects: Sexual ethics -- Great Britain -- History. 1 Kg.
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Published by William Collins, 2013
ISBN 10: 0007435851ISBN 13: 9780007435852
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 400 pages. A dazzling reconstruction of the Profumo Affair wh ich brings to life Sixties England and uncovers the shocking trut h behind the scandal. Britain in the early 1960s was dominated by the legacy of two world wars. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, the Edwardian stalwart, led a Conservative government dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned morality. B ut the tide was changing. A breakdown of social boundaries saw ni ghtclub hostesses mixing with aristocrats, and middle-class profe ssionals dabbling in criminality. Meanwhile, Cold War paranoia gr ipped the public imagination. The Profumo Affair was a perfect storm, and when it broke it rocked the Establishment. In 'An Engl ish Affair', Richard Davenport-Hines, author of the critically ac claimed 'Titainic Lives', introduces us to the key players and br ings seedily glamorous Swinging London to life. The cast list inc ludes familiar names such as louche society doctor Stephen Ward, good-time girls Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, and Secre tary for War John Profumo himself. But here for the first time we also encounter the full complement of tabloid hacks, property de velopers and hangers-on whose roles have, until now, never been f ully revealed. As the drama builds to its deadly climax, Davenpor t-Hines exposes the hypocrisy and prejudice of a country undergoi ng extraordinary change. Sex, drugs, class, race, chequebook jo urnalism and the criminal underworld - the Profumo Affair had it all. This is the story of how Sixties England cast off respectabi lity and fell in love with scandal.
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
Seller: The Book Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
23.5x16 cm. XVI+299 pages. Gilt hardcover in dust jacket. In good condition. The book is in : English.
Published by London: HarperPress, 2013
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 400 p. [plates] 24 cm. Subjects: Profumo, John D. Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine Sexual behavior. Political corruption Great Britain History 20th century. Scandals Great Britain History 20th century. Political corruption. Politics and government 1 Kg.
Published by London : Cass, 1987
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 150 pp. Subjects; Business enterprises Great Britain History 18th century. Enlightenment Great Britain. Commerce. 1 Kg.
Published by GRASSET ET FASQUELLE, 2008
ISBN 10: 2246724716ISBN 13: 9782246724711
Seller: Chapitre.com : livres et presse ancienne, LAMNAY, France
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Paperback. Condition: NEUF. 18 mai 1922, salons de l'hôtel Majestic à Paris. Les mécènes Sydney et Violet Schiff réunissent les plus grands artistes de l'époque en l'honneur d'Igor Stravinsky, dont les Ballets russes viennent de représenter l'opéra-ballet Renard. Entrent les uns après les autres autant d'hommes qui, chacun à sa façon, marqueront leur temps. Stravinsky lui-même, suivi de Diaghilev, l'impresario des Ballets russes ; Picasso, animal, délicieux, séduisant ; Joyce, ivre, mal habillé et laconique ; enfin, à deux heures du matin, dans une houppelande noire et ganté de chevreau, pâle et tout auréolé du triomphe de son dernier roman, Marcel Proust. Le récit de ce dîner mythique est pour Richard Davenport-Hines l'occasion de retracer la vie, la carrière et les amours d'un des plus grands romanciers du XXe siècle. - Nombre de page(s) : 1 vol. (387 p.) - Poids : 364g - Langue : fre - Genre : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne.
Published by London: HarperPress, 2013
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 400 p. [plates] 24 cm. Subjects: Profumo, John D. Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine Sexual behavior. Political corruption Great Britain History 20th century. Scandals Great Britain History 20th century. Political corruption. Politics and government 1 Kg.
Published by London : Cass, 1987
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 150 pp. Subjects; Business enterprises Great Britain History 18th century. Enlightenment Great Britain. Commerce. 1 Kg.