Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum (Walras-Pareto Lectures) (9780262640589): Joseph P. Newhouse. Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History (9780374211974): Rachel Polonsky. Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed (9780380703111): David Alan Stockman. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (9781594202841): Amy Chua. The Economic Ideas of Ordinary People (Routledge Revivals): From preferences to trade (9780415614399): David Levy. Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969 (9781439190906): David Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies (9781400042654): Alan Taylor. Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960 (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) (9780521562669): Robert Leonard. The Half-Made World (9780765325525): Felix Gilman. 1939: Countdown to War (9780670022090): Richard Overy. What Technology Wants (9780670022151): Kevin Kelly. Marginal Revolution: What I might be reading more of, or not. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (9780674707580): Timur Kuran.
Helen Rappaport's top 10 books on Lenin. Helen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with a specialism in the Victorians and revolutionary Russia. Her books include Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs and No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War. She lives in Oxford. She has a website at www.helenrappaport.com. Her latest book, Conspirator, reconstructs Lenin's years in exile, moving from city to city across Europe fomenting revolution, and is published by Hutchinson this week. Buy Helen Rappaport books at the Guardian bookshop "Finding 10 readable and – more importantly – revealing monographs on Lenin is quite a tough call. 1. Valentinov escaped exile in Russia to join Lenin in exile in Geneva in 1904 as an eager young underground activist. 2. The best post-Soviet book by a Russian available in English. 3. This, like it or not and despite its limitations, is the holy grail. 4. 5. 6.
An interesting curiosity, written by a Russian émigré and translated from French. 7. 8. 9. 10. City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, 1900 - present (9781591024576): Mark Goldman:… Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (9780674031968): Christopher Clark. Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1) (9780875580708): Gene Sharp. Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing: Tim Shorrock. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (9780691146836): Raghuram G. Rajan.