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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Chrystia Freeland

Bringing this dream to life required the robber barons: “To be made real, it required use of the talents of men of tremendous will, and tremendous ambition, since by no ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

SCHELLING’S CHESSBOARD MODEL suggests that transformations such as Fifteenth Street’s should be impossible: Things always fall apart, people always give in to their prejudices, and small anxieties lead to big ...
( Category: Statistics March 25,2014 )
Third World America by Arianna Huffington
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Arianna Huffington

“WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?” Three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP finally released underwater video showing a massive column of oil gushing out ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett

Bigger differences in material wealth make status differences more important, and in more unequal societies the weight of downward prejudice is bound to be heavier; there is more social distance ...
( Category: Social Policy March 25,2014 )
The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Jessica Mitford

The scene now shifts to Washington. Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh told Robert Kennedy that the solid bronze casket had been badly damaged in transit: “It’s really shabby. One handle is ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Bruce Schneier

In 2011, the pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith-Kline was fined $750 million for marketing drugs manufactured in a Puerto Rican plant whose managers ignored numerous FDA letters warning that products were ...
( Category: Sociology March 25,2014 )
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Liaquat Ahamed

PART FOUR REAPING ANOTHER WHIRLWIND 1928-33 16. INTO THE VORTEX 1928-29 At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money. . . . ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

3. Dershaw picked up a new X-ray and put it on the light box. It belonged to a forty-eight-year-old woman. Mammograms indicate density in the breast: the denser the tissue ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub | | 2001-06-11 | Author:Bill Bryson

WHAT HE HAD FOR US THE NEXT DAY was a place called Alpine National Park, and in fact it was even better. Covering 2,500 square miles of eastern Victoria, it ...
( Category: Australian March 25,2014 )
Hell's Angels: a strange and terrible saga by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Willow Cove was a natural Dunkirk. I watched the two remaining deputies; the moment they left, I was leaving too. . . their departure could only mean that things had ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 25,2014 )
Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Mark Stevens

Escape from Broadmoor ‘Escape from Broadmoor’ is actually the title of a post-war British short, starring John Le Mesurier as the patient on the run. The film has nothing to ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
The Riverman by Keppel Robert
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Keppel, Robert [Keppel, Robert]

11 “Some Murders Are Okay!” Someday, Gary Ridgway, the self-described Green Riverman, may write me a letter, just as Ted Bundy did, because he will want to talk about his ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 25,2014 )
The Savage City by T. J. English
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:T. J. English

THE BUREAU OF Special Services (BOSS) was a clandestine branch of the police department’s Intelligence Division. It had originally been set up in the halcyon days of the cold war ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Timothy Egan

14. A Stirring AT HOME in his daughter’s rambler, Dan Mangan sometimes would open the photo album, looking for back-door relief from the pain that accompanied the last days of ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun by Erik Larson
mobi |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Erik Larson

Soon after the poem was published, police at last caught up with Bonnie and Clyde and killed them both. One result of all this mayhem was a host of gangster ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 25,2014 )

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