Completed Shelf: Recently Added

Tubahakko
Recent Activity
"Buying and selling life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of the asset manager business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but the pursuit of quick profits for themselves and their investors. In asset manager...
Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience is being overlaid and interrupted by startling new technologies. Today, we depend on the smartphone as an interface to an urban environment we share with autonomous drones and self-driving cars, even as...
Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all, by governments. Thus "marketcraft" represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft and requires...
Examines the life and career of Deng Xiaoping, leader of the communist party in China, and the pivotal role he played in the transformation of the country in the twentieth century.
Whether we blink an eye, lift a finger, throw a spear or a ball, walk, run or merely breathe, we are using muscle. Although muscles differ little in appearance and performance across the animal kingdom, they accomplish tasks as diverse as making...