ProfitSpring | B2B PPC Agency

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? - Hans Fallada - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''It was what we call in the trade a potato...'' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

DKK 72.00

1

Quartet - Jean Rhys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jean Rhys''s first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in ParisSet in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, Quartet is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions.

DKK 117.00

1

Magic Bus - Rory Maclean - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the ''hippie trail'' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap dope.Since the Summer of Love, the countries that offered so much to these dreamers have confronted the full force of modernity and transformed from worlds of Western fantasy to political minefields.Through a landscape of breathtaking beauty Rory MacLean retraces the path of the once well-worn ''hippie trail'' from Turkey to Iran, Afghanistan to Pakistan, India to Nepal, meeting trail veterans and locals on his way, and relives wide-eyed adventures as he witnesses a world of extraordinary and terrifying transformation.

DKK 120.00

1

The Collected Short Stories - Jean Rhys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys''s most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafés; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea . This volume includes all the stories from her three collections, The Left Bank (1927), Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) and Sleep It Off, Lady (1976).

DKK 119.00

1

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader''s card to distinguish him from the city''s untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in German, the semi-autobiographical Notebooks is an uneasy, compelling and poetic book that anticipated Sartre and is full of passages of lyrical brilliance.Michael Hulse''s new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke''s life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks . This edition also includes suggested further reading, a chronology and notes.

DKK 119.00

1

Britain's War Machine - David Edgerton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton''s bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global production system.The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat by less well equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Britain''s War Machine , by putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, demolishes some of the most cherished myths about wartime Britain and gives us a very different and often unsettling picture of a great power in action

DKK 141.00

1

The Greatest Love Story of All Time - Lucy Robinson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The new Marian Keyes . . . romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious'' Cosmopolitan Fran''s turning 30 and life is good. She''s somehow bagged herself a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is taking her to the Ritz, with something that looks suspiciously like a ring box in his pocket. But by the end of the evening Fran is sobbing in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael''s old socks. EVERYTHING has gone wrong and she doesn''t know what to do. But then her friends come up with a plan, and so begins the greatest love story of all time . . . Fans of Sophie Kinsella, Rosie Walsh and Mhairi McFarlane will love this heartwarming, romantic and funny novel filled with twists and turns. ''An absolute must-read'' Huffington Post ''Refreshingly playful'' Red ''Many novels claim to be laugh-out-loud funny, but this debut actually is . . . Prepare for public-transport belly laughs'' Glamour

DKK 168.00

1

Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jean Rhys''s Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde. Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young women. In Good Morning, Midnight Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation. With an introduction by A.L. Kennedy ''Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling, cynical, and surprisingly moving''A.L. Kennedy

DKK 120.00

1

How to Survive The End Of The World As We Know It - James Wesley Rawles - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

WOULD YOU SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE? INTRODUCING THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR PREPPERS AND SURVIVALISTS. ''Save those wine corks. Burned cork makes quick and cheap face camouflage.'' Financial crash. Terrorist attack. Flu pandemic. Just ONE unthinkable event could disrupt our way of life - and force us to fend for ourselves. Where would you get water? How would you communicate? What would you use for fuel?Survivalist expert and former US Army Intelligence officer James Wesley, Rawles shares the essential tools and skills you will need to survive. SURVIVAL: Know what to do should the worst happen FOOD AND WATER: Store food, rear animals and find drinkable water SHELTER: Discover how to find and build yourself a retreat HEALTH & SAFETY Learn how to perform minor surgeries and defend yourself COMMUNICATIONS: The best ways to stay in touch with loved ones How to Survive the End of the World As We Know it is a MUST-HAVE for these unsettling times.

DKK 127.00

1

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - Georges Simenon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''One of his most erotic and emotionally charged stories'' The Times Two people who didn''t know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to each other, as if already they felt a chilly solitude settling in. A divorced actor and a lonely woman, both adrift in New York, meet by chance in an all-night diner. It is the start of something, though neither is sure what. As they move through neon-lit streets, bars, rented rooms and cheap motels, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, in spite of themselves, inexorably together.''Simenon casts his characteristic spell from the opening lines. There is an evanescent, hallucinatory, almost dreamlike quality throughout'' Daily Telegraph '' Three Bedrooms in Manhattan is about how we resist love, how we get dragged into it, spat out, dragged back in against our will'' Los Angeles Times

DKK 113.00

1

War Dogs - Guy Lawson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Guy Lawson''s Arms and the Dudes is the page-turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders - and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, they bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The dudes then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul-until they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of The New York Times .That''s the ''official'' story. The truth is far more explosive. It''s a trip that goes from a dive apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a story you were never meant to read. ''Like page-turning fiction, but 100% true'' - CNBC

DKK 161.00

1

Not On the Label - Felicity Lawrence - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT SHOWED US WHAT WAS REALLY IN OUR FOOD In 2004 Felicity Lawrence published her ground-breaking book, Not on the Label , where, in a series of undercover investigations she provided a shocking account of what really goes into the food we eat. She discovered why beef waste ends up in chicken, why a single lettuce might be sprayed six times with chemicals before it ends up in our salad, why bread is full of water.And she showed how obesity, the appalling conditions of migrant workers, ravaged fields in Europe and the supermarket on our high street are all intimately connected. And, when the horsemeat scandal hit the headlines in 2013, she uncovered how the great British public ended up eating horses. Her discoveries would change the way we thought about the UK food industry for ever. ***** ''A brave examination of the calamities caused by a policy laughingly called one of ''cheap food'''' Jeremy Paxman, Observer '' Book of the Year''''Challenges each and every one of us to think again about what we buy and eat. It''s almost like uncovering a secret state within the state '' Andrew Marr, BBC Radio 4''s Start The Week ''A thorough, complex and shocking insight into the food we eat in the twenty-first century . . . Perhaps this should be sold as the most effective diet book ever written '' Daily Mail

DKK 161.00

1

A Girl Called Jack - Jack Monroe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

100 simple, budge and basic-ingredient recipes from the bestselling and award-winning food writer and anti-poverty campaigner behind TIN CAN COOK ''A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget'' Sunday Times ______ Learn how to utilise cupboard staples and fresh ingredients in this accessible collection of low-budget, delicious family recipes. When Jack found themselves with a shopping budget of just £10 a week to feed themselves and their young son, they addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness and creativity by embracing their local supermarket''s ''basics'' range.They created recipe after recipe of delicious, simple and upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap, including: · Vegetable Masala Curry for 30p a portion · Jam Sponge reminiscent of school days for 23p a portion · Onion Pasta with Parsley and Red Wine - an easy way to get some veg in you · Carrot, Cumin and Kidney Bean Soup - tasty protein-packed goodness In A Girl Called Jack , learn how to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful and creating inexpensive, tasty food. ______ Praise for Jack Monroe: ''Jack''s recipes have come like a breath of fresh air in the cookery world'' NIGEL SLATER ''A terrific resource for anyone trying to cook nutritious and tasty food on a tight budget'' Sunday Times ''A plain-speaking, practical austerity cooking guide - healthy, tasty and varied'' Guardian ''A powerful new voice in British food'' Observer ''Packed with inexpensive, delicious ideas to feed a family for less'' Woman and Home

DKK 152.00

1

South From Granada - Gerald Brenan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan''s South from Granada includes an introduction by Chris Stewart, author of the bestselling Driving Over Lemons , in Penguin Modern Classics.Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and characters. Fascinating details emerge, from cheap brothels to archaeological remains, along with visits from Brenan''s friends from the Bloomsbury group - Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf among them. Knowledgeable, elegant and sympathetic, this is a rich account of Spain''s vanished past.Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) was an English writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth , a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War and for South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village . He was awarded a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in SpainIf you enjoyed South from Granada , you might like Orwell''s Homage to Catalonia, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''The best of Brenan''s books: he has a true and proper knowledge of the culture he describes'' Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times ''A brilliant interpreter of Spain to the rest of the world'' The Times

DKK 120.00

1

The Age of Oversupply - Daniel Alpert - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Age of Oversupply looks at why Western capitalism is broken and how the US can recover its global economic leadership status The invisible hand of capitalism is broken. Economic and political forces are preventing markets from correcting themselves. Governments and central banks across the developed world have tried every tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish. How did we get here, and how can advanced nations prosper once more?In this bold call to arms, economic policy expert Daniel Alpert argues that oceans of cheap global labour and capital have shackled the economies of the West. Distracted by a technology boom and debt bubble, they failed to respond to the challenges unleashed by the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and beyond.Global oversupply and the lack of domestic growth are intertwined, Alpert shows. We cannot understand the housing bubble and the financial crisis without appreciating how the rise of emerging nations distorted the economies of rich countries. And we can''t chart a path for growth without recognizing that many of these forces are still at work. The Age of Oversupply offers a bold, fresh approach to fixing the West''s economic woes. It also delivers a vigorous challenge to proponents of austerity economics.''An elegantly argued explanation of the anemic stagnation that has followed the recent financial crisis'' -Nouriel Roubini, author of Crisis Economics Daniel Alpert is a founding managing partner of investment bank Westwood Capital, LLC. He is widely quoted in the business media and was featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job. Alpert is also a fellow of the Century Foundation, the United States'' oldest policy think tank. He lives in New York.

DKK 161.00

1

Quantum Supremacy - Michio Kaku - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicist The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity of the atomic realm, and may be useful in solving humanity''s greatest challenges from climate change, to global starvation, to incurable diseases. Humanity''s next great technological achievement already promises to be every bit as revolutionary as the transistor and microchip once were. Its unprecedented gains in computing power and unique ability to simulate the physical universe herald advances that could change every aspect of our lives.Corporations and whole nations are betting on quantum computing, hoping to exploit its power to design more efficient vehicles, create life-saving new drugs and streamline industries to revolutionize the economy. But this is only the beginning. Quantum computers could allow us to finally create nuclear fusion reactors that produce clean, renewable energy without radioactive waste or threats of meltdown. They could help us crack the biological processes that generate natural, cheap fertilizer and enable us to feed the world''s growing populations. And they could unravel the fiendishly difficult protein folding that lies at the heart of previously incurable diseases such as Alzheimer''s, motor neurone disease and Parkinson''s, helping us to live longer, healthier lives. Told with Kaku''s signature clarity and enthusiasm, Quantum Supremacy is the story of this exciting frontier and the race to claim humanity''s future.

DKK 127.00

1

Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction - Alison Macleod - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction is Alison MacLeod''s collection of highly charged short stories. Sexy, tender, funny and haunting by turns, the stories in Alison MacLeod''s daring collection are tales of lovers, would-be lovers and lovers gone wrong. Here we discover ECT patient Gloria, who falls for her anaesthetist, ''Dr Numb''; the cerebral Nick, who chases after the heavily pregnant Katie at an Ikea sale; and the legendary lovers Heloise and Abelard re-imagined for the twenty-first century. With settings that range from a cheap Paris café to London''s Hayward Gallery, and from the Brighton seafront to the Nova Scotia coast, these stories are at times magical, at times grittily real, but always affecting.''Alison MacLeod is a strikingly original voice. Her stories create intimate worlds and make the reader live in them with an intensity which is haunting, disturbing and above all beguiling'' Helen Dunmore''Alison MacLeod''s collection of stories is a baker''s dozen of excellence book-ended by brilliance'' Time Out ''Fragmentary evocations of desire and its mysteries, passing glimpses into minds and hearts: tender; pierced; translucent'' Guardian ''Beautifully crafted, they range from brilliantly observed humour to the haunting and heart-rending. Immensely readable'' Big Issue Alison MacLeod was raised in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of three novels, The Changeling , The Wave Theory of Angels and Unexploded , and of a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction . Unexploded was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013. Alison MacLeod is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Chichester University and lives in Brighton.

DKK 161.00

1

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Now the subject of a film by Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser''s explosive bestseller Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World tells the story of our love affair with fast food. Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it''s cheap. But the real cost never appears on the menu. Eric Schlosser visits the lab that re-creates the smell of strawberries; examines the safety records of abattoirs; reveals why the fries really taste so good and what lurks between the sesame buns - and shows how fast food is transforming not only our diets but our world. '' Fast Food Nation has lifted the polystyrene lid on the global fast food industry ... and sparked a storm'' Observer ''Has wiped that smirk off the Happy Meal ... Thanks to this man, you''ll never eat a burger again'' Evening Standard ''Startling ... Junk food, we learn, is just that ... left this reader vowing never to set foot in one of those outlets again'' Daily Mail ''This book tells you more than you really want to know when you''re chomping on that hamburger ... Have a nice day? Listen - you should live so long'' The Times Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His first book, Fast Food Nation , was a major international bestseller. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone and the Guardian. He has received a number of journalistic honours, including a National Magazine Award for an Atlantic Review article on the drug trade, which was later adapted into the book Reefer Madness .

DKK 127.00

1

Miss Gomez and the Brethren - William Trevor - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Miss Gomez and the Brethren by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world''s greatest writers''Like Rembrandt, Trevor looks long but charitably upon his creations . . . his understanding of human nature is acute'' Sunday Times Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett''s Petstore are among the street''s dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss Gomez, on the run from her tragic childhood in Jamaica, now lives for her postal correspondence with the Church of the Brethren of the Way back on the island. No one will believe Miss Gomez when she announces her revelation of a hideous sex crime soon to be committed in Crow Street. That is, until young Prudence Tuke disappears, the police arrive, and the newspapers herald a ''Sex Crime Prophecy''...''The genius of William Trevor is that he can entice you into his fictional terrain in a handful of pages'' Literary Review William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lived in England for many years. The author of numerous acclaimed collections of short stories and novels, he has won many awards including the Whitbread Book of the Year, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize: in 1976 with his novel The Children of Dynmouth , in 1991 with Reading Turgenev and in 2002 with The Story of Lucy Gault . He received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime''s literary achievement, and has been knighted for his services to literature.

DKK 141.00

1

The Sinner and the Saint - Kevin Birmingham - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky''s Crime and Punishment ''A dazzling literary detective story'' Guardian In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until he''d paid the bill. Having lost the last of his money at the roulette table, his debts hung heavy over his head, his epileptic seizures were worsening, and his wife and beloved brother were dead. Desperate, a story came to him, a way to write himself out of his predicament: the murderer Raskolnikov, the hot, disorienting swirl of St Petersburg, the axe, the terrible crime, and the murderer''s paranoia. The book was Crime and Punishment , and from the moment it was published it was a sensation. But how did this haunting tale of guilt come to be, and why does it still hold such a sway over us all these years later? The Sinner and the Saint gives us the story of the creation of a work of literature that has bewitched readers for over a century, and of the two men so central to it: Dostoevsky himself, and Pierre François Lacenaire, a notorious murderer and glamorous egoist who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s and whose sensational story provided the germ of the novel. As reports of his trial tore through Europe, readers asked themselves: could the instincts of nihilism, the philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries, also drive a man to murder? Showing how both men''s lives were directed by the intoxicating new ideas swirling around Europe in the nineteenth century, The Sinner and the Saint also reveals why they still appal and entice us today. Thrilling and definitive, this is the story of a masterpiece.

DKK 127.00

1

The Family Arsenal - Paul Theroux - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bedmate, has just made a political statement - stealing a Flemish painting and negotiating publicity over this act with The Times . Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red, scrawling ''Arsenal Rule'' across half the city''s walls, whilst his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Brodie, bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion.A novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people.''A pleasure. . . with Theroux the thrills are never cheap and obvious'' Guardian ''One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene. . . London has rarely looked dingier or more sinister...an assured success'' The New York Times ''Brilliant and haunting. . . the ingenious of the plot, the London setting. . . the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force'' Observer American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life , The Collected Stories , My Secret History , The Lower River , The Stranger at the Palazzo d''Oro , A Dead Hand , Millroy the Magician , The Elephanta Suite , Saint Jack , The Consul''s File , The Mosquito Coast , and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.

DKK 161.00

1

A Richer Life - Philip Roscoe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel by Philip Roscoe is a radical, inspiring, agenda-setting critique that shows how economics invades our most intimate decisions, and what the real alternatives might be. ''A brilliant critique'' Robert Skidelsky , prize-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes ''Impressive . . . important . . . very thoughtful and thought-provoking'' Ha-Joon Chang , author of 23 Things They Don''t Tell You About Capitalism ''A splendid denunciation of the dismal science . . . a fine book, on the side of the angels'' Guardian ''A powerful description of the many ways we have lost our bearings as a society . . . makes the case that economics has left us impoverished as human beings . . . a powerful and engaging read'' Sunday Times ''Very readable and entertaining'' Independent Is a promotion at work worth more than time with family? Does the price of cheap socks compensate for their being made by children? Might a new lover be better than the one you have? How do we choose when what we want is bad for someone else? In fact, in a world as complicated as ours, how do we choose at all?Over the course of the 20th century economics has become our most trusted science of decision-making. From government policies to personal decisions - such as buying a house, educating our children, caring for our sick or even meeting a spouse - economic principles govern both our range of choices and how we choose between them. But economics is not a perfect science. It is political and far from impartial, and yet its values - ownership, efficiency, cost benefit and self-interest - now threaten to usurp all others. At a time when the most urgent problems require collective action, economics is perhaps our greatest obstacle to change.Written with humour, wisdom and compassion, and investigating the worlds of work, shopping, healthcare, house-buying, online dating, politics and daily life, this brilliant and timely book exposes the true cost of economic thinking, points the way to some compelling alternatives - co-operatives, local currencies, non-Western finance, community - and draws attention to some other, timeless values that few of us have yet forgotten. A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel was originally published in hardback as I Spend, Therefore I Am .

DKK 161.00

1

Mærke

Butik

Pris (EUR)

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? - Hans Fallada - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Quartet - Jean Rhys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Magic Bus - Rory Maclean - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Collected Short Stories - Jean Rhys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Britain's War Machine - David Edgerton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Greatest Love Story of All Time - Lucy Robinson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How to Survive The End Of The World As We Know It - James Wesley Rawles - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - Georges Simenon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

War Dogs - Guy Lawson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Not On the Label - Felicity Lawrence - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Girl Called Jack - Jack Monroe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

South From Granada - Gerald Brenan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Age of Oversupply - Daniel Alpert - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Quantum Supremacy - Michio Kaku - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction - Alison Macleod - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Miss Gomez and the Brethren - William Trevor - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Sinner and the Saint - Kevin Birmingham - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Family Arsenal - Paul Theroux - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Richer Life - Philip Roscoe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Powered by Cobiro