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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and puts forward bold measures to solve it. He calls for an aggressive response--a restructuring of the institutional foundations of the financial system that will not only allow people once again to buy and sell homes with confidence, but will create the conditions for greater prosperity in America and throughout the deeply interconnected world economy. Shiller blames the subprime crisis on the irrational exuberance that drove the economy's two most recent bubbles--in stocks in the 1990s and in housing between 2000 and 2007. He shows how these bubbles led to the dangerous overextension of credit now resulting in foreclosures, bankruptcies, and write-offs, as well as a global credit crunch. To restore confidence in the markets, Shiller argues, bailouts are needed in the short run. But he insists that these bailouts must be targeted at low-income victims of subprime deals. In the longer term, the subprime solution will require leaders to revamp the financial framework by deploying an ambitious package of initiatives to inhibit the formation of bubbles and limit risks, including better financial information; simplified legal contracts and regulations; expanded markets for managing risks; home equity insurance policies; income-linked home loans; and new measures to protect consumers against hidden inflationary effects. This powerful book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got into the subprime mess--and how we can get out. In a new preface to this powerful book, Shiller discusses the development of the crisis in relation to the ideas presented in The Subprime Solution. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to dustjacket. 272 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Hardcover, white cloth in publisher's dust-jacket. 177 pages. Bibliographic References and Notes, Index. First edition. A revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket quite soiled, albeit book is clean and unmarked. with white cloth unblemished and interior unmarked. Very good in a poor dust-jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Light bumps and shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Some light rubbing, discoloration and edgewear, a few very minor tears. Text has some discoloration on front and back end and free papers, but is otherwise clean and tight in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations. Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 169 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A former library book in excellent condition-plastic over dust jacket with tape holding it in place. Library stickers on title page and last page. A collection of essays on American liberalism, featuring Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bound in original white illustrated wrappers. Normal to light reading wear with a touch of curl to the fore-edge of the front cover and rounded fore edge corners on the front cover. The spine is uncreased.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy's long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world. In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, 1st priting (2010). Former library book; otherwise, Fine or Very Good+ condition. The covers are in great shape. The binding is square and tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Stated eight printing, 1967. Clean, tight and bright. Mild edge wear mostly along spine. No highlighting. No price listed. No remaindered or library withdrawn. Shipped padded in a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips. This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. He makes the case that society can achieve deeper understanding and practical progress today and tomorrow only by truly valuing and substantially funding the curiosity-driven "pursuit of useless knowledge" in both the sciences and the humanities. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. SECOND PRINTING. Not remaindered or library withdrawn. Mylar-protected dust jacket. Clean, tight & bright. Very mild dust jacket wear. No creases, tears or stains. Very small corner bump to lower back board. No highlighting. Shipped padded in a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover -- VG/VG -- Ex-Library -- Book and dust jacket show only light wear -- 233 pages with index -- First Edition w/full # string. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Porter, Amy Jean (illustrator). "This little book is big fun."Michael Pollan An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings Fungipedia presents a delightful AZ treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entrieson topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut blight, medicinal mushrooms, poisonings, Santa Claus, and waxy capsthis collection will transport both general readers and specialists into the remarkable universe of fungi. Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are much more closely related to humans than to plants, how they engage in sex, how insects farm them, and how certain species happily dine on leftover radiation, cockroach antennae, and dung. He explores the lives of individuals like African American scientist George Washington Carver, who specialized in crop diseases caused by fungi; Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, who was prevented from becoming a professional mycologist because she was a woman; and Gordon Wasson, a J. P. Morgan vice-president who almost single-handedly introduced the world to magic mushrooms. Millman considers why fungi are among the most significant organisms on our planet and how they are currently being affected by destructive human behavior, including climate change. With charming drawings by artist and illustrator Amy Jean Porter, Fungipedia offers a treasure trove of scientific and cultural information. The world of mushrooms lies right at your doorbe amazed! Features a cloth cover with an elaborate foil-stamped design. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy's long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world. In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Trade Paperback -- FINE -- Clean and bright with only slightest of shelf wear -- 227 pages with index and illustrations throughout.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BC1 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and white photo illustrated brown wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. The author is a winner of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Tolerance Book Award. By the author of "The Moral Dimension," "The Limits of Privacy," and "The New Golden Rule." Endnotes, indexed, 309p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Edition Or Printing Stated. Includes Index. No Reading Creases To The Spine. Underlining Throughout. Name Printed On The Inside Of The Front Cover. Lightly Sunned Spine. Square And Tight Copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political wisdom, from the importance of promising everything to everybody and reminding voters about the sexual scandals of your opponents to being a chameleon, putting on a good show for the masses, and constantly surrounding yourself with rabid supporters. Presented here in a lively and colorful new translation, with the Latin text on facing pages, this unashamedly pragmatic primer on the humble art of personal politicking is dead-on (Cicero won)--and as relevant today as when it was written. A little-known classic in the spirit of Machiavelli's Prince, How to Win an Election is required reading for politicians and everyone who enjoys watching them try to manipulate their way into office. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Seventh Printing. 233pp. Edgewear, gentle creasing to rear cover, and bumping to head and tail of spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In this updated paperback edition, Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori explore how the politics of Islam play out in the lives of Muslims throughout the world. They discuss how recent events such as September 11 and the 2003 war in Iraq have contributed to reshaping the political and religious landscape of Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities elsewhere. As they examine the role of women in public life and Islamic perspectives on modernization and free speech, the authors probe the diversity of the contemporary Islamic experience, suggesting general trends and challenging popular Western notions of Islam as a monolithic movement. In so doing, they clarify concepts such as tradition, authority, ethnicity, pro-test, and symbolic space, notions that are crucial to an in-depth understanding of ongoing political events. This book poses questions about ideological politics in a variety of transnational and regional settings throughout the Muslim world. Europe and North America, for example, have become active Muslim centers, profoundly influencing trends in the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia. The authors examine the long-term cultural and political implications of this transnational shift as an emerging generation of Muslims, often the products of secular schooling, begin to reshape politics and society--sometimes in defiance of state authorities. Scholars, mothers, government leaders, and musicians are a few of the protagonists who, invoking shared Islamic symbols, try to reconfigure the boundaries of civic debate and public life. These symbolic politics explain why political actions are recognizably Muslim, and why "Islam" makes a difference in determining the politics of a broad swath of the world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Underlining to text; binding sound; minor wear to covers. 235 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Text clean & bright; binding tight; store sticker on back cover, else minor wear to covers. 179 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second print. Mylar protected dust jacket is clean with mild shelf wear and closed tear to upper edge near spine. Boards are clean, spine is tight and corners square. Previous owner's raised stamp on title page. No highlighting. No price listed. Not remaindered or library withdrawn. Tracking number provided on domestic shipping.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. xviii, 182pp [some fading around spine] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BC2 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and white reproduction illustrated black and burgandy paper wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A book that examines the creation and management of Russian foundling care programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The author examines the efforts of these institutions to deal with abandonment and infanticide and act as contact points between educated society and the village as well as artisans and craftspeople. Bibliography, indexed, 330p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. AE - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has half inch tear on the back top right corner, book has light foxing on the top page edges, dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.75", 398 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter inch tear and minor edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket; otherwise, as-new copy.