Product Description: Money, in whatever form you care to imagine it— silver, gold, paper, or Bitcoin—remains as it always has been, the basic underpinning of national power, as well as the crucial determinant of military success. Throughout history, power has not so much flowed out of the barrel of a gun, as Mao famously claimed, as it has derived from a nation’s ability to amass sufficient funds to prosecute a conflict...read more

Product Description: Reveals the meaning to colourful words and phrases encountered in daily life, including "cold shoulder", "free loaders", "hunky-dory" and "go to pot".

Describes the origins of popular Americanisms and such commonly used slang expressions as top dog, flimflam, hunky-dory, breaking the ice, and eating humble pie