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The Reckoning the fetch phillips novelsA brilliant (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empires Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism

has chosen passages that express the essence of Churchill's thoughts and describe-in his own inimitable words-the main adventures of his life and the main crises of his career

social psychologist Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines philosophical wisdom and scientific research to explore ten “Great Ideas” that have been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations

Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for her investment in the Rawlings

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revealing a magical world that may be closer to our own than we think

it's her only way home after getting stranded on the Pirate Stream

the sadistic mind games of Wall Street (which reportedly led one job seeker to smash a forty-third-story window)

Descartes to Nietzsche

World War Two is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the twentieth century and its defining struggle

Fuhrman's patients consume

and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers

Cleopatra is a magnificent biography of a most extraordinary queen