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The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . an by Dunbar Nicholas
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Dunbar, Nicholas [Dunbar, Nicholas]

Fed Up with the Fed The Federal Reserve may have been at the top of the U.S. regulatory pecking order, but within the Fed itself, the New York branch was ...
( Category: United States June 16,2015 )
Howard Zinn on Race by Howard Zinn
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

THE ABOLITIONISTS There is no denying the anger, the bitterness, the irascibility of the abolitionists. William Lloyd Garrison, dean of them all, wrote in blood in the columns of the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 16,2015 )
Fish on Friday by Brian Fagan
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Brian Fagan

Lenten Fish Pie Pastry for a 10-inch/25-cm deep-dish double-crust pie 2 lb/1 kg flaked cooked white fish fillet. (We used tuna, poached with the skin on in roasted vegetable stock, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries June 16,2015 )
The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 16,2015 )
Howard Zinn on War by Howard Zinn
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

Our general diplomatic and strategic position would be considerably weakened—by our loss of Chinese, Indian and South Seas markets (and by our loss of much of the Japanese market for ...
( Category: History & Theory June 16,2015 )
Terrorism and War (Open Media Series) by Howard Zinn
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

The Freedom of Information Act was one of the remarkable gains that came out of the 1960s. It has been tremendously useful for scholars and for citizens who want to ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 16,2015 )
Stayin' Alive by Jefferson R. Cowie
epub |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Jefferson R. Cowie

III Class, always a fragile concept in American civic life, died the death of a thousand cuts in the 1970s, but few problems sliced as deeply as how race and ...
( Category: Class June 14,2015 )
The Payoff by Jeff Connaughton
epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Connaughton [Connaughton, Jeff]

10: THE BLOB A KING HAS HIS RETINUE, a celebrity his entourage, and Pig-Pen his cloud of dirt. Washington has The Blob. The Blob (it’s really called that) refers to ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 14,2015 )
America's Prophet by Bruce Feiler
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Bruce Feiler

ON A GRAY approach from Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty doesn’t quite stir the soul as the postcard images would suggest. Her mint color seems more chilly than star-spangled. She ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
The King of Madison Avenue by Roman Kenneth
mobi |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Roman, Kenneth [Roman, Kenneth]

Having set a vast expansion in motion, Ogilvy was not entirely happy with the consequences. The principles traveled well, but the founder did not. He was terrified of flying and ...
( Category: State & Local June 14,2015 )
Don't Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey From the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench by Mark Titus
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Mark Titus

TWENTY-TWO I like to think that the founding of my blog was a lot like the founding of Facebook, or at least how the founding of Facebook was portrayed in ...
( Category: State & Local June 14,2015 )
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Manjoo Farhad
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Manjoo, Farhad [Manjoo, Farhad]

In his report, Mitofsky suggested a complex mechanism for his theory about why the poll had predicted a Kerry win—his idea that Kerry voters were slightly overrepresented among respondents. Exit ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan
mobi |eng | 2007-08-25 | Author:May Kellogg Sullivan

These children did little quarreling. I cannot remember seeing Eskimo boys angry or fighting, a thing quite noticeable among them, for nowhere in the world, perhaps, could the same number ...
( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
Niagara by Pierre Berton
epub |eng | 1992-06-12 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

Chapter Eight 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly 2 The ice bridge 3 Annie 4 Fame and fortune or instant death 5 Aftermath 1 Arthur Midleigh’s folly In the dying days of ...
( Category: Niagara Falls June 13,2015 )
The Northwest Nature Guide by James Luther Davis
epub |eng | 2009-06-12 | Author:James Luther Davis

Intertidal Etiquette Intertidal habitats may well be the most sensitive areas visited in this book, and naturalists, resource managers, and marine biologists throughout our region are extremely concerned about the ...
( Category: Pacific June 13,2015 )

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