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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves Viking Adult ISBN13 9780670021253 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter / R R Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea and the corridors of Washington Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure ego and greed and ultimately the fate of the world s economy R R We ve got to get some foam down on the runway a sleepless Timothy Geithner the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York would tell Henry M Paulson the Treasury secretary about the catastrophic crash the world s financial system would experience R R Through unprecedented access to the players involved Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil revealing never disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle This true story is not just a look at banks that were too big to fail it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) Harper Perennial ISBN13 9780060731335 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a lockquote Which is more dangerous a gun or a swimming pool / What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common / How much do parents really matter / / lockquote These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask But Steven D Levitt is not a typical economist He studies the riddles of everyday life from cheating and crime to parenting and sports and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J Dubner an award-winning author and journalist They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang the truth about real estate agents the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan and much more Through forceful storytelling and wry insight they show that economics is at root the study of incentives how people get what they want or need especially when other people want or need the same thing / Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace literature or physics But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull or that economists are concerned only with finance itself Steven D Levitt will change some minds In Freakonomics written with Stephen J Dubner Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life dont need to be so mysterious they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections For example Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and digging further to the Roe v Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship Elsewhere by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonalds where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents Levitt argues that parenting methods dont really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubners 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine which led to the book being written In a book filled with bold logic such back-patting veers Freakonomics however briefly away from what Levitt actually has to say Although maybe theres a good economic reason for that too and were just not getting it yet --John Moe The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System HarperBusiness lockquote The definitive account of Wall Streets stunning collapse / / lockquote From critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC personality Charles Gasparino comes a sweeping examination of the most recent volatile anxiety-ridden era in our nations socioeconomic history The Sellout traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks It shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise Gasparino walks readers through Wall Streets three-decades love affair with risk revealing a trail of culpability from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back to the homeowners who became convinced they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions our government and even average citizens abdicated their collective responsibilities eventually selling out investors and selling off the American Dream itself / In the spirit of classics such as Barbarians at the Gate and Liars Poker this page-turning narrative captures how avarice arrogance and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Streets dominance and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of middle-class Americans Eye-opening and engrossing The Sellout provides the most thorough investigation to date of this latest gilded era / Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Penguin Books ISBN13 9780143038252 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The astonishing uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban s backyard / Anyone who despairs of the individual s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson a homeless mountaineer who following a 1993 climb of Pakistan s treacherous K2 was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools especially for girls that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth As it chronicles Mortenson s quest which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Princeton University Press ISBN13 9780691142166 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Throughout history rich and poor countries alike have been lending borrowing crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises Each time the experts have chimed this time is different --claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters This book proves that premise wrong Covering sixty-six countries across five continents This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults banking panics and inflationary spikes--from medieval currency debasements to todays subprime catastrophe Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much--or how little--we have learned / Using clear sharp analysis and comprehensive data Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency duration and ferocity They examine the patterns of currency crashes high and hyperinflation and government defaults on international and domestic debts--as well as the cycles in housing and equity prices capital flows unemployment and government revenues around these crises While countries do weather their financial storms Reinhart and Rogoff prove that short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur / An important book that will affect policy discussions for a long time to come This Time Is Different exposes centuries of financial missteps / The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Back Bay Books ISBN13 9780316346627 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers or the rise of teenage smoking or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life writes Malcolm Gladwell is to think of them as epidemics Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept Gladwells The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject For example Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a Connector he knew just about everybody particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through But Revere wasnt just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston he was also a Maven who gathered extensive information about the British He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often youve received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you Gladwell develops these and other concepts such as the stickiness of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal through simple clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blues Clues or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly and Gladwells closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy even chilling The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages It seems inevitable that tipping point like future shock or chaos theory will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name --Ron Hogan The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Free Press ISBN13 9781416594789 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a In 2008 a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10 000 years In a Pew Forum poll in the same year 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time / In 1859 Charles Darwins masterpiece On the Origin of Species shook society to its core Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians yet millions of people continue to question its veracity Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of Intelligent Design explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist argument Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos from plate tectonics to molecular genetics Combining these elements and many more he makes the airtight case that we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before In American schools and in schools around the world insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader nothing less than a masters vision of life in all its splendor The Oz Principle: Getting Results through Individual and Organizational Accountability Portfolio Hardcover ISBN13 9781591840244 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A decade ago The Oz Principle took the business world by storm At its root the principle works like this Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz most businesspeople have the tools to succeed but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results Once individuals learn to accept responsibility they can use the Oz Principle to become better leaders Now with corporate scandals in the headlines and the culture of victimization running rampant at every level of the business world Roger Connors Tom Smith and Craig Hickman return with a new edition of The Oz Principle Fully revised this edition will update the statistics concepts and relevant companies through fresh timely anecdotes and stories Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Rodale Books ISBN13 9781594867347 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis The only missing ingredient is collective will / / Properly understood the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of suffering and misery that have long been neglected and to transform the prospects of future generations giving them a chance to live healthier more prosperous lives as they continue their pursuit of happiness / / Our Choice gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that together will solve this crisis It is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action not only on an individual basis but as participants in the political processes by which every country and the world as a whole makes the choice that now confronts us / / There is an old African proverb that says If you want to go quickly go alone if you want to go far go together / / We have to go far quickly / / We can solve the climate crisis It will be hard to be sure but if we can make the choice to solve it I have no doubt whatsoever that we can and will succeed / AL GORE from the introduction / StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths Gallup Press ISBN13 9781595620156 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY R R Chances are you dont All too often our natural talents go untapped From the cradle to the cubicle we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths R R To help people uncover their talents Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book Now Discover Your Strengths The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation while StrengthsFinder helped millions to discover their top five talents R R In its latest national bestseller StrengthsFinder 2 0 Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment language of 34 themes and much more see below for details While you can read this book in one sitting youll use it as a reference for decades R R Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself -- and the world around you -- forever R R AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NEW UPGRADED EDITION OF STRENGTHSFINDER 2 0 R using the unique access code included with each book R R A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment R R A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week month and year R R A more customized version of your top five theme report R R 50 Ideas for Action 10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes R R The more user-friendly StrengthsFinder 2 0 companion website with a strengths community area library of downloadable discussion guides and activities a strengths screensaver and a program for creating display cards of your top five themes-- /