Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China's vast labor market, Ingleson shows how not just Chinese reform but also US deindustrialization fueled a dramatic, unanticipated shift in global capitalism.
'Seven a.m. What the hell is going on? The ringing turns into pounding. Halfway to the door, he hesitates, moves to the window, peers out. His stomach drops. Tesla has found him.'
Money in One Lesson offers an accessible guide to economics and why it often doesn't work the way we think it does, from Economics correspondent Gavin Jackson.
Leaders of today must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting. Yet, they must also be empathic and therefore embodied; grounded and therefore intuitive; present and therefore awake. Nicholas Janni presents this new and necessary leadership style as the Leader as Healer.
A lavishly illustrated exploration of the history of the lime trade in the Irish Sea. David Johnson has spent years researching it in the field and in archive centres and been amazed by its scale and geographical extent.