Every day economic decisions are made, in both public and private sectors, based on limited information and analysis. The analysis and information needed for successful public policy has changed rapidly with the growth of the global economy...
The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman describes a group of highly placed intellectuals who, w...
Though she knows nothing about gardening, the day Aoife spots a neglected walled garden it casts a spell over her. She persuades its reluctant owner to let her take it over and advertises for helpers. Just two turn up: Uri, a retired tailor...
Pertinent, scholarly, and irreverent--a uniquely ambitious and enthralling insight into the making of the world's most fraught arena. The seeds of conflict in the Middle East were sown in the first sixty years of the twentieth century. It w...