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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
In its hubris, the financial sector has hijacked the American economy and put our very global future at risk. “Bad money” refers not just to the depreciated dollar but to the dangerous attitudes and flawed products of wayward megafinance. Also “bad” are the risk miscalculations and strategic abuses of new multitrillion-dollar products and vehicles like CDOs and SIVs. Phillips lashes out at the “bad money” practices...
6) Bibliolepsy
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"For Sanders, things didn't end with the election of Donald Trump; they're just getting started. The U.S. Senator from Vermont follows up his New York Times best-selling Our Revolution with further directives on pursuing a progressive agenda today"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Capstone conspiracy volume 2
Publisher
Laughing Rain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Book two of the CapStone Conspiracy, delves deeper into the intrigue and uncovers treachery everywhere. The candidate is no longer running for office, but he is still running, this time from unimaginable danger. What if the President of the United States was powerless? What if he could trust no one? What if the only escape was death? Hudson Pound thought he could change the world. Then he discovered the world didn’t operate like anything he believed....
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken. It is essential that Westerners...
10) The world according to Monsanto: pollution, corruption, and the control of the world's food supply
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Publisher
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
""As this powerful book makes clear, Monsanto's innovations create more problems than they solve-above all by helping to concentrate the food system in ever fewer hands, with baleful consequences for the world's small-scale farmers. It's the kind of reporting we need more of, and one hopes it will be at least a partial antidote to all the slick commercials with smiling peasants." --Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy" ""We are what we eat, and what...
Author
Publisher
CQ Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
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This book presents an in-depth, engrossing look at the African American political experience and the history of African American legislators in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This unique resource combines original narrative with more than 160 primary source documents, from the first steps toward enfranchisement through modern lawmakers visions for the United States.
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