Summary: Why are some nations rich and others poor? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of the right policies? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lac
Summary: "Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers through Einstein and Watson and Crick to
Subject(s): United States -- Economic conditions
Summary: "What's The Economy For, Anyway? is a thought-provoking, funny, readable, anti-ideological book based on the cult hit film of the same name. Here, scholars John de Graaf (author of Affluenza) and David Batker tackle thirteen touchstone economic issues and challenge readers to con
Subject(s): Women authors -- Fiction
Summary: "Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her fath
Contents:What's past is prologue -- Part I. The facts of a renaissance age -- The new world -- New tangles -- Vitruvian man -- Part II. Flourishing genius -- Copernican revolutions -- Cathedrals, believers and doubt -- Part III. Flourishing risk -- The pox is spreading, Venice is sinking -- Bonfires and belonging -- Part IV. The conte
Subject(s): Princes -- Biography -- Great Britain
Contents:His life in a day -- Mother load -- A prince among men -- The knave of hearts -- Wolf Hall -- Helping and hindering -- Harmonies and disharmonies -- A foreign asset -- Happy and notorious -- Kings to come.
Holdings:
,Book - Reference,Gombak Campus Library,Dzulkifli Abdul Ra
Subject(s): Easter Island -- History
Holdings:
,Book - Reference,Gombak Campus Library,Dzulkifli Abdul Razak Collection,Rector's Collection Shelf,sdr GN 875 E17 E26U 2013,Not for loan,11100407864
