Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, america, democracy
Number of Pages: 992
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0140447601
ISBN-13: 9780140447606

In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority on dem

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, lawrence, cambridge, chatterley, lover, lady
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-11-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0141441496
ISBN-13: 9780141441498

The great philosopher s final writings on the real and the idealIn Timaeus and Critias, Plato presents his ultimate view on the composition of the universe. Taking the form of dialogues among Socrates, Timaeus, Critias, and Hermocrates, these two works explore the origins of the universe, life, and humanity, and have remained a paradigm of science for two thousand years. Desmond Lee s translation preserves the lucidity of the original, and his appendix on Atlantis is an invaluable source of information on this perennial myth. Timaeus and Critias is an essential text for students of philosophy

Authors:Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fishe
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: matters, discuss, conversations, difficult
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2000-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014028852X
ISBN-13: 9780140288520

Members of the Harvard Negotiation Project--which brought you the mega-bestseller Getting to YES--show you how to handle your most difficult conversations with confidence and skill. Whether you’re dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I’m sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day. Based on fifteen years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project, Difficult Conversations walks you through a step-by-step proven approac

Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: wall, street, wreckage, rising, poker, liar
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1990-10-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140143459
ISBN-13: 9780140143454

In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar’s Poker--the fascinating insider’s account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street’s heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper. First serial to Manhattan Inc.

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, economy, political, foundations, critique, grundrisse
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 1993-11-07
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0140445757
ISBN-13: 9780140445756

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital". Here, for the first time, Marx set out his own version of Hegel’s dialectics and developed his mature views on labour, surplus value and profit, offering many fresh insights into alienation, automation and the dangers of capitalist society.

Author: Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: crisis, american, capitalism, global, politics, reckless, finance, failed, money
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143114808
ISBN-13: 9780143114802

In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips takes the full measure of this crisis. They are a part of what he calls bad money not just the depreciated dollar, but also the dangerous attitudes and the flawed products of wayward mega-finance. His devastating conclusion: In its hubris, the financial sector has hijacked the American economy and put our

Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, emma
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-05-06
List price: $8.00
ISBN-10: 0141439580
ISBN-13: 9780141439587

New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner’s original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction and notes by Flora Stafford.