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Memoirs by David Rockefeller 9780812969733
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969733Author David RockefellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint -
Ad Usum: To be Used by Jose Luis Falconi 9780674025158
RRP: $56.21Booksplease Price: $47.86For more than a decade the Mexico City-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes has been turning existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through... -
Mr. Rockefeller's Roads: The Story Behind Acadia's Carriage Roads by Ann Rockefeller Roberts 9781608931750
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $37.06The beautiful carriage roads of Mount Desert Island fit so perfectly into the land it seems as though they have always been there. Actually, they are the result of decades of planning and painstaking... -
All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.72Who rules America? All the Presidents' Bankers is a ground-breaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and... -
From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth by Darren Walker
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.26Andrew Carnegie wrote his original "Gospel of Wealth" in 1889, during the height of the gilded age, when the country's 4,000 richest families held almost as much wealth as the other 11.6 million... -
Marcel Duchamp by Calvin Tomkins 9780847846870
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $65.39A catalog documenting an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp's editioned readymades at Gagosian Gallery, New York, replicating his American debut at Cordier and Ekstrom in the same building in 1965 and... -
World Trade Center Through Time by Kenneth Womack 9781635000450
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $20.60The World Trade Center Through Time addresses the fascinating architectural and cultural history behind the evolution and construction of the Twin Towers. Adorned with period illustrations, the book... -
The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar by Claudio Orrego Vicuna 9781589662186
Booksplease Price: $21.76A parable rich in imagery and meaning, "The Surprising Adventures of Balthazar" provides readers of all ages with profound insights into the nature of authority, power, and freedom. The tale begins... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky 9780691223582
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $24.88Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the... -
Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa De Cuauhtinchan No. 2 by David Carrasco 9780826342836
RRP: $131.32Booksplease Price: $108.74Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest is the culmination of an international research project and series of conferences, organized by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, focused on the sixteenth-century pictorial... -
Brazilian Socio-Economic Dynamics: Contexts and Contemporary Realities by Gilmar Masiero 9783031876844
Booksplease Price: $149.50This book presents a detailed study of Brazil's structural problems and offers suggestions for managing them. It is organized into two parts. The first part provides a foundation in Brazilian... -
Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity by June Carolyn Erlick 9780367265915
RRP: $56.27Booksplease Price: $53.18Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities and the... -
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter by Shannon K O'Neil 9780300274110
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as... -
Remaking the Readymade: Duchamp, Man Ray, and the Conundrum of the Replica by Adina Kamien-Kazhdan 9780367516161
RRP: $61.63Booksplease Price: $58.13Replication and originality are central concepts in the artistic oeuvres of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Remaking the Readymade reveals the underlying and previously unexplored processes and... -
A Gringa in Bogota: Living Colombia's Invisible War by June Carolyn Erlick
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogota, it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of... -
The Bilderbergers - Puppet-Masters of Power?: An Investigation into Claims of Conspiracy at the Heart of Politics, Business and the Media by Gerhard Wisnewski 9781905570751
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Since 1954, a discrete and select group of wealthy and powerful individuals have attended a private, yearly conference to discuss matters of their choosing. This group represents European and North... -
Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy by Justin Gest 9781009726917
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $35.22Democratic Drain links two of the most compelling topics of our time: immigration and democracy. With a blend of in-depth interviews and data analysis across 149 countries, Justin Gest explores how... -
Why the Museum Matters by Daniel H. Weiss 9780300276855
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future Art museums have played a vital role in... -
The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil by Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour 9781107186101
Booksplease Price: $105.54This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a... -
The Coup Trap in Latin America by Fabrice Lehoucq 9781009750035
Booksplease Price: $121.36Why do governments get overthrown? Why are many political systems chronically unstable? The Coup Trap in Latin America answers these questions by looking to the origins and dynamics of the military... -
The Coup Trap in Latin America by Fabrice Lehoucq 9781009750004
Booksplease Price: $39.61Why do governments get overthrown? Why are many political systems chronically unstable? The Coup Trap in Latin America answers these questions by looking to the origins and dynamics of the military... -
How to Invest by David M Rubenstein
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17A master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest names in finance, from the legendary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenstein.What do the most successful investors... -
The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Transformations on the Ground by Armin von Bogdandy 9780197744161
RRP: $150.75Booksplease Price: $146.66The Inter-American System of Human Rights (IASHR) is certainly a source of innovation in human rights law and policy. However, uncertainty reigns over its true legal, political, and social effects as... -
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency by David M Rubenstein 9781668067628
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein-David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top... -
Democracy in Hard Places by Scott Mainwaring 9780197598757
RRP: $131.32Booksplease Price: $125.57The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland, Brazil, and even the United States--have been threatened by the... -
The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by David M. Rubenstein
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.35Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with... -
Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade by Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson 9780674251830
RRP: $40.13Booksplease Price: $36.18The surprising story of how Cold War foes found common cause in transforming China's economy into a source of cheap labor, creating the economic interdependence that characterizes our world today.For...