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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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The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning
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James Lovelock
A preeminent environmental scientist contends that it’s too late to reverse global warming—and argues that mankind must prepare to adapt to a very hot future
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The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
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Robert Frank
The New York Times columnist and author of The Economic Naturalist, Robert Frank returns to show how behavioral economics can illuminate some of the most important issues of our times
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Masters of Sex
The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
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Thomas Maier
The definitive biography of the famous sex research team who dramatically transformed American sexuality yet whose private relationship was just as complex and dysfunctional as any of their patients
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The Secret Lives of Boys
Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens
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Malina Saval
An edgy and revealing examination of the lives, dreams, and goals of teenage boys today
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The Enemy at the Gate
Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
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Andrew Wheatcroft
A master historian offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations
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Catching Fire
How Cooking Made Us Human
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Richard Wrangham
A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species
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