false 89024 0 1 David Boyle is the author of Blondel’s Song: The capture, imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart, and a series of books about history, social change and the future. His book Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life helped put the search for authenticity on the agenda as a social phenomenon. The Tyranny of Numbers and The Sum of Our Discontent predicted the backlash against the government’s target culture. Funny Money launched the time banks movement in the UK.

David is an associate of the new economics foundation, the pioneering think-tank in London, and has been at the heart of the effort to introduce time banks to Britain as a critical element of public service reform - since when the movement has grown to more than 100 projects in the UK.

He is also the founder of the London Time Bank network and co-founder of Time Banks UK. He writes about the future of volunteering, cities and business.

His work on the future of money has also been covered in books and pamphlets like Why London Needs its own Currency (nef, 2000), Virtual Currencies (Financial Times, 2000), The Money Changers: Currency reform from Aristotle to e-cash (Earthscan, 2002) and The Little Money Book (Alastair Sawday, 2003).

He has written for many national newspapers and magazines, and edited a range of magazines including Town & Country Planning and Liberal Democrat News. He is the editor of Radical Economics.

He lives in Crystal Palace, in south London, with Sarah and Robin (two years old). He is a member of the Federal Policy Committee of the Liberal Democrats and he stood for Parliament in Regents Park and Kensington North in 2001.]]> male 393077 0802714595 9780802714596 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174407549m/393077.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174407549s/393077.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393077.The_Troubadour_s_Song_The_Capture_and_Ransom_of_Richard_the_Lionheart 3.50 10 David Boyle recreates the drama of the Third Crusade and the dynamic power politics and personalities of the late 12th century in Europe, as well as the growing fascination with romance and chivalry embodied in the troubadour culture. An evocation of a pivotal era, The Troubadour’s Song is narrative history at its finest.
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Recent years have seen an increasingly powerful resurgence of interest in fundamentally changing national and global systems of currency and in controlling the monetary trends -- the booms and busts of the globalized economy -- that affect all aspects of our lives. Yet few realize that these objections have deep roots and a rich tradition.

"The Money Changers" is a unique collection of historical and contemporary thought on the nature of money, combining the political and polemical, the analytical and the visionary. It draws on a wealth of expertise and experience, from the impassioned treatises of reformers such as William Morris, via the mainstream economics of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, to the entrepreneurial insight of social activists such as Edgar Cahn and George Soros.

This book is a timely guide to the key ideas and ideologues in a fast-moving debate on our economic and social future and will prove informative, enlightening and entertaining for academics and general readers alike.]]> 89024 3.66 44 14 2003 7041040 184407675X 9781844076758 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7041040-the-new-economics 4.00 1 89024 3.66 44 14 383488 3.47 32 7 2009 154047 0764128388 9780764128387 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172254312m/154047.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172254312s/154047.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154047.The_Communist_Manifesto 4.00 1 The Manifesto Series surveys some of those documents, presents an account of each manifesto's immediate impact, then explains how and why its influence spread to a wider audience. Brief and concisely written, each title in this series makes engrossing reading and provides readers with insights into the dynamics of modern history. Each title in this series is enhanced with approximately 70 color illustrations. In 1848, The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, proclaimed: “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.” Thus began a worldwide social sea-change marked by protests and revolutions. The Communist Manifesto presented in its entirety in this book and supplemented with extensive commentary and analysis, brought about many needed social and economic reforms while also fomenting political abuses of historic proportions. The most infamous of the latter was the Soviet dictatorship that dominated Russia in the name of communism throughout most of the twentieth century. The document's full text is included in this book. ]]> 89024 3.66 44 14 2004