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  • Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes

    Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes

    by Bruce I. Jacobs ...
    How investment strategies designed to reduce risk can increase risk for everyone—and can crash markets and economiesFinancial crises are often blamed on unforeseeable events, the unforgiving nature of capital markets, or just plain bad luck. Too Smart for Our Own Good argues that these crises are caused by certain alluring investment strategies that promise both high returns and safety of capital. ... Read more

    $51.69 CAD

  • The Gideon Case

    Inside the Supreme Court's Historic Right to Counsel Decision

    by Bruce R. Jacob ...
    The complete history of the pivotal legal battle before the Supreme Court that established the right to a public defender and reshaped the American justice system, written by a lawyer closely involved in the caseThe “Gideon” Case offers an unparalleled inside view of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, written by Bruce Jacob, the assistant attorney general who argued the case for the state of ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

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    Too Smart for Our Own Good

    Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes

    by Bruce I. Jacobs ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 11 min

    How investment strategies designed to reduce risk can increase risk for everyone-and can crash markets and economiesFinancial crises are often blamed on unforeseeable events, the unforgiving nature of capital markets, or just plain bad luck. Too Smart for Our Own Good argues that these crises are caused by certain alluring investment strategies that promise both high returns and safety of capital. ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God, Guns, and Sedition

    Far-Right Terrorism in America

    by Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    Winner, 2025 Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize, Airey Neave TrustShocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither novel nor unprecedented. They are the latest flashpoints in a process that ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • Soundings in the Religion of Jesus

    Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship

    Edited by Bruce Chilton, Anthony LeDonne, Jacob Neusner ...
    Series series Soundings
    Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out its weighty and often complex consequences for contemporary Jewish-Christian dialogue. Soundings in the Religion of Jesus contextualizes Jesus and the writings about him that set the stage for Jewish-Christian relations for the next 2000 years. Of equal ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robbing Drug Dealers

    Violence beyond the Law

    by Bruce Jacobs ...
    Series series Modern Applications of Social Work Series
    This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both widely held and inaccurate. The disproportionate share of victims of crime are, in reality, themselves involved in crime. Yet existing scholarship ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Race Manners

    Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans

    by Bruce A. Jacobs ...
    On a plane, a black passenger nervously scrutinizes an Arab–American passenger. In front of a store, a white woman clutches her purse as a black man walks by. In conversation, the topic of race comes up and both people wonder what they are willing to say—and what they are not. Each scenario reveals that how we act and react to each other on a daily basis stems from racial assumptions, biases, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Secret Girl

    A Memoir

    by Molly Bruce Jacobs ...
    For decades, a well-to-do Baltimore family guarded a secret too painful to reveal, much less speak of among themselves. For one daughter, that secret would haunt her for years but ultimately compel her to take surprising risks and reap unbelievable rewards--the story of which forms the stunning narrative of this remarkable memoir.When Molly Bruce Jacobs, the family's eldest daughter, finds herself ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Zeke Zooter and the Eye of Balor

    An Irish Fantasy for Young Readers

    by Bruce Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Bruce Jacobs ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    The Eye of Balor is pure, evil power.She can’t wait to use it.With this magic weapon, Ireland’s Phantom Queen—the Morrigan—will overthrow the Emerald Isle and claim it for her legion of evil fairies. But first, she has a grudge to settle and a prophecy to thwart.Zeke Zooter is the fourth-great grandson of the Morrigan’s nemesis, the Irish cobbler Riley Brogan. Through Riley’s line, Zeke has ... Read more

    $13.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Equity Management: The Art and Science of Modern Quantitative Investing, Second Edition

    by Kenneth N. Levy, Bruce I. Jacobs ...
    The classic guide to quantitative investing—expanded and updated for today’s increasingly complex marketsFrom Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy—two pioneers of quantitative equity management—the go-to guide to stock selection has been substantially updated to help you build portfolios in today’s transformed investing landscape.A powerful combination of in-depth research and expert insights gained from ... Read more

    $74.29 CAD

  • Lung Injury

    Mechanisms, Pathophysiology, and Therapy

    Edited by Robert H. Notter, Jacob Finkelstein, Bruce Holm ...
    Series series Lung Biology in Health and Disease
    Progressing from general scientific principles and concepts to in-depth topical discussions of current research and treatment methods, this comprehensive reference defines the cellular and molecular mechanisms contributing to inflammatory lung injury and repair. Extensive coverage is provided on key mediators and pathways important in acute and chr ... Read more

    $426.00 CAD

  • The SAGES Manual of Hernia Repair

    Edited by Brian P. Jacob, Bruce Ramshaw ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The SAGES Manual of Hernia Repair will serve as a state-of-the-art resource for hernia surgeons and residents alike who are interested in the rapidly evolving area of abdominal wall hernia repair. This manual captures and summarizes the current trends in the field, as well as describing the new ideas, programs, and strategies regarding hernia repair. Through a unique section called Current Debates ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD