Perkin G.David Books

Trade enables us to sell domestically produced goods and buy what we lack, enhancing variety and innovation while lowering prices. However, understanding our role in the global trade network is complex, and many workers feel vulnerable to exploitation. Trade often serves as a scapegoat for economic struggles, viewed negatively by many Americans across the political spectrum. Fred P. Hochberg clarifies that trade is more comprehensible than it seems. Through examining NAFTA's contentious reputation and addressing concerns like the infamous $10 banana, he challenges the notion that "trade wars are good and easy to win," revealing they are not. Hochberg explores six everyday products—taco salad, Honda Odyssey, banana, iPhone, college degree, and HBO’s Game of Thrones—each with a unique narrative that illustrates trade's impact on our lives and its potential to foster a better future. This work counters the oversimplified trade jargon often presented to voters, encouraging readers to look deeper. With engaging examples and clear explanations, it dispels common misconceptions and equips readers with a solid understanding of trade fundamentals.

This handy, well-illustrated guide provides information on all aspects of the patient examination. It covers history-taking, examination techniques for each body system, and presenting signs and symptoms for common disorders. Color illustrations and color-coded chapters aid in quickly locating critical guidance.

The 1970s in Britain saw a series of industrial disputes, a referendum on membership in the European Economic Community, conflict about issues of immigration and citizenship, and emergent environmental and feminist movements. It was also a decade of innovation in the novel, and novelists often addressed the state of the nation directly in their works.In Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s Russell Perkin looks at social novels by John Fowles and Margaret Drabble, the Cold War thrillers of John le Carré, Richard Adams's best-selling fable Watership Down, the popular campus novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge, Doris Lessing's dystopian visions, and V.S. Naipaul's explorations of post-colonial displacement. Many of these highly regarded works sold in large numbers and have enjoyed enduring success – a testament to the power of the political novel to explain a nation to itself. Perkin explores the connections between the novel and politics, situating the works it discusses in the rich context of the history and culture of the decade, from party politics to popular television shows.Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s elucidates a period of literary history now fifty years in the past and offers a balanced perspective on the age, revealing that these works not only represented the politics of the time but played a meaningful role in them.