Featuring interviews with the MPs, journalists and officials close to the centre of Britain's biggest political crisis since the Profumo Affair, this is the story of what really happened during the expenses scandal of 2009.
Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.
The financial crisis of 2007-08 and the Great Recession caused more widespread economic trauma than any event since the Great Depression. This title maintains that while each part of the financial services industry can play a useful role in revving up the US economic engine to full capacity.
