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THE NEW PARADIGM FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS THE NEW PARADIGM FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
George Soros


"In his latest book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, published on April 3rd, he sets out to illuminate the credit crunch through the prism of “reflexivity"... His prognosis is grim."
—Economist.com
 

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THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN
Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Charles R. Morris


In his brief but brilliant book, Morris describes how we got into the mess we are in... Few writers are as good as Morris at making financial arcana understandable and even fascinating."—Floyd Norris, The New York Times Book Review

 

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    WELCOME TO SHIRLEY
A Memoir from an Atomic Town
Kelly McMasters

“McMasters tells the story…with passion and clarity. She also pulls off a small miracle in the telling, making rundown, unbeautiful Shirley a place of dignity, a place of heroic people and stubborn fighters, a place you’d be proud to call home.”—O, The Oprah Magazine


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    THIS MOMENT ON EARTH
Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry

"John Kerry and Teresa Heinz have written a book that is a profound challenge to all of us but contains, in the examples of the men and women who are fighting the great fight for a better future for our environment, the clear hope that if we can embrace their resourcefulness, determination and essential patriotism we will prevail."—Al Gore

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    A CHOICE OF ENEMIES
Lawrence Freedman

A renowned historian and security analyst sheds new light on America's quintessential foreign policy dilemma: our recent engagement in the Middle East
 

 

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    DEFENDING IDENTITY
Natan Sharansky

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Case for Democracy, a piercing examination of the dominant force that shapes political interactions
 

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