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The Housing Boom and Bust
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Thomas Sowell
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and the even more "creative" marketing of financial securities based on American mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up - and then suddenly collapsed.
No punches are pulled when discussing politicians of either party, the financial dangers they created, or the distractions they created later to escape their own responsibility for what happened.
What to do, now that we are in the midst of an economic disaster, is yet another story — one whose ending we do not yet know, but one whose outlines and implications are explored to reveal some surprising and sobering lessons ...
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Good books about things that matter.
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Travel as a Political Act
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Rick Steves
One of the world’s most famous travel writer shows how international travel can foster cultural understanding, peace and help individuals tackle their own insecurities and fears
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Food Inc.
A Participant Guide : How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer And What You Can Do About It
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Karl Weber
A whole new kind of movie tie-in—the first in a series—goes behind the scenes and deeper into the issues and ideas raised by a provocative documentary on the contemporary way of eating
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Groundbreaking books. By women. For women.
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Worst Nightmares
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Shane Briant
An extraordinary debut novel in the horrific tradition of Stephen King and Thomas Harris
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Open
Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage
Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a suburban wife and mother for whom married life never felt quite right. She operates from the assumption that most couples who are curious about or engaged
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Entertaining & informative books for the way you live.
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Creative... Engaging... and Lots of Fun.
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Ani's Raw Food Desserts
85 Easy, Delectable Sweets and Treats
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Ani Phyo
From the author of Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen—a full-color, giftable collection of raw sweets and treats recipes, à la Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World
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Skinny Bastard
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Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin
What’s good for the bitch is good for the bastard. Hundreds of thousands of women have been inspired to “use their head” and get real about the food they eat after reading the best-selling manifesto
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Because travel matters.
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Distinguished publisher of college textbooks.
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Rick Steves' Great Britain 2009
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Rick Steves
Take a walk through Shakespeare's hometown, explore the rugged and remote Isle of Skye, or enjoy the hip nightlife in Glasgow—it's all possible with Rick Steves' Great Britain 2009. Rick guides
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Doing Environmental Ethics
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Robert Traer
Builds on a commonsense understanding of doing what is right and being a good person to suggest how we can begin to change our “carbon footprint”
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