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A fascinating character study of the most complex and cosmopolitan city in the UK. Aneight hundred page work which uncovers many hitherto hidden gems. It takes on such varied themes as drinking, sex, childhood, poverty, crime and punishment, sewage, food, pestilence and fire, immigration, maps, theatre, war. We learn that gin was "the demon of London for half a century", and that "it has been estimated that in the 1740s and 1750s there were 17,000 gin-houses". Fleet Street was an area known for its "violent delights" where "a fourteen-year-old boy, only eighteen inches high, was to be seen in 1702 at a grocer's shop called the Eagle and Child by Shoe Lane". By the mid 19th-century "London had become known as the greatest city on earth". By 1939 "1 in 5 of the British population was a Londoner".

A radical and sometimes cynical view of what the internet ia actually achieving in terms of global commerce. Is the internet, in fact, a tool which will simply make global corporations more powerful and widen the gaps between the World's social and commercial classes?

Dan Schiller is Professor of Communication at the University of California in San Diego and recognised as an expert in the field of global comunications.

Probably the best known investor of the day explains his ideas and strategies as well as giving an insight into the man himself.