Name: Economics for the IB Diploma with CD-ROM (with CD-ROM)
Author: Ellie Tragakes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 27 August 2009
Pages: 504
ISBN: 0521744342

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This book is available for $43 or £22.50

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This book is due to be released soon.

This book is available for £18.99 and is currently available to preorder until November 2009 when it will be available for immediate dispatch.

Name: 20th Century World History Course Companion
Author: Martin Cannon, Richard Jones-Nerzic, David Keys, Alexis Mamaux, Michael Miller, Giles Pope, David Smith, Aidan Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
ISBN: 0199152616

My Review

This book is released this month (May 2009). It is currently available as pre-order and should be available outright in the next few weeks!

The book is available for £19 or $38.

My Review

I am not able to review this book. Please submit your own review for this book if you own the book! All your reviews will help other IB students to find the best book to get them their diploma!

This book is available for around £19 or $38.

My Review

I can not review this book because I do not own it. It is up to you to review this book if you own it! All genuine reviews submitted will be published to help determine the quality of this book.

This is another book published by the Oxford University Press, I would say one of the best publishers of IB books, if not the best because they cover such a wide range of subjects. We’ll know more when others submit reviews!

The book is available for £20 or $36.

My Review

I do not own this book, therefore I will not be able to submit a review for it. However, if you you own the book, please feel free to submit a review using the comments section!

I do own another book in the Study Guide range from the Oxford University Press, Biology, and it is clearly set out and a great revision aid, from what I know of the quality of the Oxford University Press books so far, I can safely say that this is a good book.

The book is available for £17 or $37.

Contents of Study Guide
1 Introduction
Scarcity
The fundamental questions of Economics

2 Microeconomics
The behaviour of consumers
The behaviour of producers
Equilibrium
The question of resource allocation
Elasticity
Price Controls
Indirect taxation and subsidies
Agriculture and agricultural policy
Theory of production
Cost theory
Goals of firms
Market structures
Market failures
IB Questions: Sections 1 and 2

3 Macroeconomics
Measuring overall economic activity
The concept of equilibrium in economics
Introducing aggregate demand and aggregate supply
The trade of business cycle
The components of aggregate demand
A closer examination of aggregate supply
The effects of AD/AS shifts
Demand-side policies
Supply-side policies
Inflation
Unemployment
The Phillips curve
Distribution of income
Inflationary and deflationary gaps: an alternative presentation
Schools of economic though: a brief outline
IB questions: Section 3

4 International Economics
Free trade and welfare
Specialization
Protectionism
Forms of Protectionism
Economic integration and trade liberalization
Exchange rates
The balance of payments
Correcting imbalances
The terms of trade
IB Questions: Section 4

5 Development Economics
Characteristics of developing economies
Measuring economic development
Sources of long-run growth
Barriers to growth and development
Looking beyond growth: sources of development
Foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise
Foreign Aid
Trade and development
Indebtedness
Structuralist models of development
IB Questions: section 5

Glossary of Syllabus Terms
Guidance for Students of Evaluation
Guidance for Students on Diagrams
Review Questions Using Diagrams
Index

My Review

The book contains a lot of useful information for both Standard and Higher. I actually like the diagrams in this book! Everything is clear to understand and easy to replicate into your own note form. Some things may be confusing if you don’t have a solid background and/or your teacher hasn’t covered the topic you are reading from.

The book retails for around £18 or $38.

The book does have, like the other Oxford University Press books, a lack of colour! This book is mostly in blue, which isn’t as bad as orange, but can still get a bit boring after a while!

The above review has been provided by a friend of mine which studies Economics. I don’t own this book personally, but I trust their judgement.

Pros
Great content
Good price
Helpful diagrams
Useful essay questions

Cons
Lack of colour (blue only)

Name: History: The Cold War
Author: Keely Rogers & Jo Thomas
Publisher: Heinemann Baccalaureate (Pearson Baccalaureate)
Published: 2007
ISBN: 043599428X

My Review

This is an amazing book that everybody in my history class loves.

The book contains a huge amount of information for you to use in the exam and a great deal more. The authors have made everything easy for you, with time lines at the start of each chapter and an overall timeline of pretty much everything at the end of the book. This is incredibly helpful for when you want to revise and for getting an overall view of how things happened and in which order they happened.

Another thing the book focuses on heavily is Historiography. For each topic there are views from world famous historians which will, if used in the exam, be sure to score you more marks. The book also includes some extracts from speeches and documents which were influential at the time. This includes Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech and the NSC68 document

This book will become your Cold War Bible. It has everything you need, and is a pleasure to read.

The book is not priced too heavily either, it’s available for £18 or $15.

See for yourself! Download Samples of Chapter One and Chapter Two from Heinemann
Chapter One
Chapter Two

Contents
1. What was the Cold War?
2. Steps to the political, economic and military division of Europe 1
3. Steps to the political, economic and military division of Europe 2
4. Who was responsible for the development of the Cold War?
5. The Cold War goes global: The Korean War and National Security Council Report 68
6. The USA and containment in Asia
7. New leaders, new ideas
8. Why was Germany such a source of tension?
9. Cuba: Could this crisis have led to nuclear war?
10. What was the impact of the arms race on the Cold War?
11. Sino-Soviet relations
12. Sino-American relations
13. Why did détente end in a second Cold War?
14. What was the impact of the Cold War on the United Nations?
15. What was the impact of the non-aligned states on the Cold War?
16. Challenges to Soviet control 1945-1980
17. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War
18. Cold War Review and Consolidation
Theory of Knowledge
Appendix
Further Reading
Glossary
Index

Pros
Fantastic Content
Great Historiography
Easy to read
Cheap

Cons
It is the only history book in the Heinemann Baccalaureate series

The series of ‘Heinemann Baccalaureate’ books has changed names to ‘Pearson Baccalaureate’. This post has been updated accordingly.