The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich Thomas ... Then as now , people don't give up an advantage — those high - interest - rate payments — for nothing .
"Money for Nothing begins with the earliest days of the music video, when Hollywood musicals, experimental animated films, Soundies, and Scopitones fused music and image in ways that would presage...
Money for Nothing
But as McChesney shows, payments to politicians are often made not for political favors, but to avoid political disfavor. He analyzes the patterns of legal extortion underlying the current fabric of interest-group politics.
A P.G. Wodehouse novel The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted.
One of America's best-loved authors returns with a delightfully chilling new stand-alone in the vein of his bestsellers The Ax and The Hook.
Thompson testified that he had usually just “skimmed” the documents Hollinger sent him. The defense attorney grilled him mercilessly: “So skimming doesn't mean you read quickly . . . It means some things you don't see at all .
See Joshua Cohen and Charles Sable , “ Directly Deliberative Polyarchy , " among other essays in Joshua Cohen's Philosophy , Politics , Democracy : Selected Essays ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 2009 ) .
Thomas Levenson’s Money for Nothing tells the unbelievable story of the South Sea Bubble with all the exuberance, folly, and the catastrophe of an event whose impact can still be felt today.
“Jimmy on the Central Line” is about a busker, an idea triggered friend Bob Mazzer's haunting photo, which we used for the cover of my first solo album. Bob is a highly regarded photographer today, capturing gritty and colorful pictures ...