An informative and entertaining look at the mysterious subterranean realm beneath twelve of the world's largest cities is brimming with fascinating details about the labyrinth of infrastructures, featuring photographs, maps, and diagrams.

Product Description: "It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre."Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history...read more

Product Description: Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the questions that Alex Marshall tackles in this hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An insider's guide to Missouri, featuring in-depth profiles on lodging, specialty shops, attractions, restaurants, resorts, bed and breakfasts, museums, and historical sites. Also includes state, regional, and community profiles, state-related short stories, and much more.

Product Description: A 652-page insider's guide to the badger state. Over 1,000 businesses, attractions and cities are featured, making it easy to plan ahead and choose the "must" places to visit. The region-by-region maps and in-depth profiles invites you to discover new travel destinations and make the most of your leisure time...read more

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The "free market" has been a hot topic of debate for decades. Proponents tout it as a cure-all for just about everything that ails modern society, while opponents blame it for the very same ills. But the heated rhetoric obscures one very important, indeed fundamental, fact—markets don't just run themselves; we create them.Starting from this surprisingly simple, yet often ignored or misunderstood fact, Alex Marshall takes us on a fascinating tour of the fundamentals that shape markets and, through them, our daily economic lives. He debunks the myth of the "free market," showing how markets could not exist without governments to create the structures through which we assert ownership of property, real and intellectual, and conduct business of all kinds. Marshall also takes a wide-ranging look at many other structures that make markets possible, including physical infrastructure ranging from roads and railroads to water systems and power lines; mental and cultural structures such as common languages and bodies of knowledge; and the international structures that allow goods, services, cash, bytes, and bits to flow freely around the globe.Sure to stimulate a lively public conversation about the design of markets, this broadly accessible overview of how a market economy is constructed will help us create markets that are fairer, more prosperous, more creative, and more beautiful.

Product Description: In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. Urbanizationthe increase in the urban share of total populationis inevitable, but it can also be positive...read more