Turn Right at Machu Picchu : Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams (2012, Trade Paperback)

Penguin Publishing Group

0452297982

9780452297982

110867853

Turn Right at Machu Picchu : Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

368 Pages

English

2012

Archaeology, Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, South America / Peru

Yes

Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Social Science, Political Science

Mark Adams

Trade Paperback

0.8 in

10.4 Oz

8 in

5.3 in

Trade

22

Quite funny and unpretentiously well informed...The perfect way to acknowledge the lost city's 100th birthday., Praise for Turn Right at Machu Picchu "[An] engaging and sometimes hilarious book."-- The New York Times Book Review "A serious (and seriously funny) travelogue, a smart and tightly written history, and an investigative report into perhaps the greatest archaeological discovery in the last century."--NationalGeographic.com "An engaging, informative guide to all things Inca."-- Entertainment Weekly "Adams deftly weaves together Inca history, Bingham's story, and his own less heroic escapade....Those favoring a quirkier retelling [of Bingham's exploits] will relish Mr. Adam's wry, revealing romp through the Andes."-- The Wall Street Journal "Quite funny and unpretentiously well informed...The perfect way to acknowledge the lost city's one hundredth birthday."-- Christian Science Monitor ("Editor's Choice") "[An] entirely delightful book."-- The Washington Post " With a healthy sense of humor...Adams unearths a fascinating story, transporting his readers back to 1911, when Yale professor Hiram Bingham III hiked the Andes and stumbled upon on of South America's most miraculous and cloistered meccas."--NPR.org, "[An] entirely delightful book." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "Quite funny and unpretentiously well informed . . . The perfect way to acknowledge the lost city's 100th birthday." - Christian Science Monitor (Editor's Choice), "[An] engaging and sometimes hilarious book."-- The New York Times Book Review "A serious (and seriously funny) travelogue, a smart and tightly written history, and an investigative report into perhaps the greatest archaeological discovery in the last century."--NationalGeographic.com "An engaging, informative guide to all things Inca."-- Entertainment Weekly "Adams deftly weaves together Inca history, Bingham's story, and his own less heroic escapade....Those favoring a quirkier retelling [of Bingham's exploits] will relish Mr. Adam's wry, revealing romp through the Andes."-- The Wall Street Journal "Quite funny and unpretentiously well informed...The perfect way to acknowledge the lost city's one hundredth birthday."-- Christian Science Monitor ("Editor's Choice") "[An] entirely delightful book."-- The Washington Post " With a healthy sense of humor...Adams unearths a fascinating story, transporting his readers back to 1911, when Yale professor Hiram Bingham III hiked the Andes and stumbled upon on of South America's most miraculous and cloistered meccas."--NPR.org, "An engaging, informative guide to all things Inca." -- Entertainment Weekly "Quite funny and unpretentiously well informed...The perfect way to acknowledge the lost city's 100th birthday." -- Christian Science Monitor ("Editor's Choice") "[An] entirely delightful book." -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

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Volume One contains a collection of articles by and about Swedish economists. The following articles are reprinted: 1. Introduction: Swedish Economics 1900-1960 ^ IBo Sandelin 2. David Davidson Eli Heckscher 3. Frisch on Wicksell R. Frisch 4. The Production of Cost Agriculture K. Wicksell 5. On Some Sources of Error in the Verification of the Law of Return from the Land K. Wicksell 6. Further Remarks on the Verification of the Law of Return from the Land K. Wicksell 7. The Critical Point K. Wicksell 8. The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices K. Wicksell 9. The Rate of Interest, the Bank Rate and the Stabilization of Prices G. Cassel 10. Keynes' General Theory G. Cassel 11. A Plea for Theory in Economic History Eli Heckscher 12. Transfer Difficulties, Real and Imagined B. Ohlin 13. Some Notes on the Stockholm Theory of Saving and Investment B. Ohlin 14. Alternative Theories of the Rate of Interest B. Ohlin 15. The Concept of Income E. Lindahl 16. On the Concepts and Methods of the Stockholm School T. Palander 17. The End of the Stockholm School C.-H. Siven 18. Annual Survey of Economic Theory: The Setting of the Central Problem J. Akerman 19. Economic Plans and Casual Analysis J. Akerman Volumes Two and Three Lectures on Political Economy, Volumes One and Two K. Wicksell (1901-1906) Volume Four Fundamental Thoughts in Economics G. Cassel (1925) Volume Five Interregional and International Trade B. Ohlin (1933) Volume Six The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory G. Myrdal (1930) Volume Seven Studies in the Theory of Money and Capital E. Lindahl^n (1939) Volume Eight A Study in the Theory of Inflation B. Hansen (1951) Volume Nine Wages Policy Under Full Employment E. Lundberg , R. Meidner , G. Rehn and K. Wickman (1952) Volume Ten Business Cycles and Economic Policy E. Lundberg (1957)

2012