European Union

Discover how disease, disaster, politics, and invention ensured Europe's development into Modern times. Humankind's thirst for knowledge, the sacrifice of the masses, and the lives and inventions of exceptional people drove the development of Modern Europe. Europe: European History: The Most Important Leaders, Events, & People through European History That Shaped Europe and Eventually Became the European Union delivers a quick glimpse at the tragedies and fortunes that made Europe what it is today. You'll learn why the Renaissance was different, how the black plague drove the evolution of art and diminished the strength of the Catholic Church, and the political and social consequences of the Reformation and the industrialization of Europe.

When Alex learns that Britain has decided to leave the European Union, he's shocked by just how normal everything seems. But the calm doesn't last as Alex is suddenly accosted by a giant living coin from the not so distant future. In this horrific future where Britain has left the EU, four story busses lie strewn about the streets of London after a failed plan to cut costs, the Queen's Guard have been replaced by flying reptiles with machine guns, and the River Thames runs red with molten lava.

In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly 60 years later the rebuke rings true again. Britain's postwar search for its place in the world has vexed prime ministers and government since the nation's great victory in 1945: the cost of winning the war was giving up the empire. After the humiliation of Anthony Eden's Suez expedition, Britain seemed for a time to have found an answer.

Buck Trungle is in serious trouble. Struggling to find the inspiration for a follow up to his critically acclaimed short Pounded by the Pound: Turned Gay by the Socioeconomic Implications of Britain Leaving the European Union, the erotica author finds himself desperate to stay relevant in the ever quickening press cycle. But when Buck receives a love letter from the physical manifestation of his own book's press coverage, he jumps at the chance to turn their short fling into something even more thrilling...something real.

If Europe is to return to an innovative and dynamic economy - and if there is to be shared prosperity, social solidarity, and justice - then EU countries need to break with their current, destructive trajectory. This volume offers concrete strategies for renewal that would also reinvigorate the project of European integration, with fresh ideas in the areas of both macroeconomics and microeconomics, including central banking, public investment, corporate governance and competition policy, social policy, and international trade.