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The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown

by James Barth ...

The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about it now?In The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets, renowned finance expert James Barth ... Read more

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The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about it now?In The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets, renowned finance expert James Barth
... Read more
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Having It All

A Naked Men Novel, Book Five

by Christi Barth ...

Narrated by Victoria Mei, Tristan James ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Naked Men
Unabridged

4 hours 3 min

Josh Hardwick’s life looks great. He lives with his best friends, runs a gourmet food truck, and spends his nights hooking up with every eligible woman in D.C.. But he hides his daily struggle with dyslexia--which holds him back from expanding his business.The last complication he needs is a relationship. Especially not with an off-limits friend who is dangerously hot...Annabeth Vasquez wears ... Read more

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Josh Hardwick’s life looks great. He lives with his best friends, runs a gourmet food truck, and spends his nights hooking up with every eligible woman in D.C.. But he hides his daily struggle with dyslexia--which holds him back from expanding his business.The last complication he needs is a relationship. Especially not with an off-limits friend who is dangerously hot...Annabeth Vasquez wears
... Read more
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

Edited by Rowena Fong, James Lubben, Richard P. Barth ...

The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI was ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI was
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First Great Financial Crisis Of The 21st Century, The: A Retrospective

by James R Barth, George G Kaufman ...

Series Book 9 - World Scientific-now Publishers Series In Business
Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental policy responses were decided upon and actually implemented. This book aims to fill these voids ... Read more

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Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental policy responses were decided upon and actually implemented. This book aims to fill these voids
... Read more
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Giving It All

A Naked Men Novel, Book 3

by Christi Barth ...

Narrated by Victoria Mei, Tristan James ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Naked Men
Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

Christi Barth’s smoking-hot contemporary romance series continues as the five best friends who survived a tragedy as teenagers take to their Naked Men podcast to open up about women. In Giving It All, the group’s globe-trotting hunk discovers that you need to go home to find love.Logan Marsh never stays in one place for long. Through his family’s foundation, Logan spends his days traveling to the ... Read more

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Christi Barth’s smoking-hot contemporary romance series continues as the five best friends who survived a tragedy as teenagers take to their Naked Men podcast to open up about women. In Giving It All, the group’s globe-trotting hunk discovers that you need to go home to find love.Logan Marsh never stays in one place for long. Through his family’s foundation, Logan spends his days traveling to the
... Read more
Guardians of Finance

Making Regulators Work for Us

by James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Ross Levine ...

How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system.The recent financial crisis was an accident, a “perfect storm” fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries ... Read more

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How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system.The recent financial crisis was an accident, a “perfect storm” fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries
... Read more
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Risking It All

A Naked Men Novel (Book 1)

by Christi Barth ...

Narrated by Victoria Mei, Tristan James ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Naked Men
Unabridged

8 hours 59 min

Who doesn’t love Naked Men? In Christi Barth’s irresistible series, a group of close-knit friends talk out their problems with naked honesty on a popular blog. Bonded by a high-school tragedy, they’re moving on from the past—and fighting for the future with strong and sassy women.Griffin Montgomery helps people. As a teenager, he kept his best friends alive after their soccer team’s bus crashed in ... Read more

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Who doesn’t love Naked Men? In Christi Barth’s irresistible series, a group of close-knit friends talk out their problems with naked honesty on a popular blog. Bonded by a high-school tragedy, they’re moving on from the past—and fighting for the future with strong and sassy women.Griffin Montgomery helps people. As a teenager, he kept his best friends alive after their soccer team’s bus crashed in
... Read more
The Future of American Banking

by James R. Barth, Robert E. Litan, R.Dan Brumbaugh ...

The future of American banking is in doubt and the industry and the federal insurance fund that helps support it are in turmoil. The ingredients of the turmoil have been simmering in public view since at least the early 1980s when commercial bank loans to lesser developed countries (LDCs) began to default. The difficulties began to boil at the end of the decade when the prospect first arose that ... Read more

$79.69 CAD

The future of American banking is in doubt and the industry and the federal insurance fund that helps support it are in turmoil. The ingredients of the turmoil have been simmering in public view since at least the early 1980s when commercial bank loans to lesser developed countries (LDCs) began to default. The difficulties began to boil at the end of the decade when the prospect first arose that
... Read more
Audiobook

Trying It All

A Naked Men Novel, Book 4

by Christi Barth ...

Narrated by Victoria Mei, Tristan James ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Naked Men
Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

The Naked Men don’t have anything to hide. Now the sexy control freak in this “purely delightful group of buddies” (Publishers Weekly, starred review of Wanting It All) meets his match: a free spirit who’s as beautiful as she is reckless.Order. Attention to detail. Never leaving anything to chance. These are the qualities that make Riley Ness such a terrific federal agent . . . and a pain in the ... Read more

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The Naked Men don’t have anything to hide. Now the sexy control freak in this “purely delightful group of buddies” (Publishers Weekly, starred review of Wanting It All) meets his match: a free spirit who’s as beautiful as she is reckless.Order. Attention to detail. Never leaving anything to chance. These are the qualities that make Riley Ness such a terrific federal agent . . . and a pain in the
... Read more
Audiobook

Wanting It All

A Naked Men Novel, Book 2

by Christi Barth ...

Narrated by Victoria Mei, Tristan James ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Naked Men
Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

In the follow-up to Risking It All, hailed by Lauren Layne as “the perfect escapist read,” the heartthrobs of the Naked Men blog and podcast get a little too real about friendship, love, and sex. For one wealthy bachelor, the trouble starts when all three collide. . . .After narrowly surviving a bus crash in high school with his best friends, science geek Knox Davis resolved to become so ... Read more

$22.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In the follow-up to Risking It All, hailed by Lauren Layne as “the perfect escapist read,” the heartthrobs of the Naked Men blog and podcast get a little too real about friendship, love, and sex. For one wealthy bachelor, the trouble starts when all three collide. . . .After narrowly surviving a bus crash in high school with his best friends, science geek Knox Davis resolved to become so
... Read more
Audiobook

Tempting the Prince

Sexy Misadventures of Royals, Book Three

by Christi Barth ...

Narrated by James Brandon, Samantha Summers ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Sexy Misadventures of Royals
Unabridged

11 hours 2 min

What happens when you mix an average American woman with a decidedly not average future King?I can tell you from experience—a whole lot of complications.You see, four months ago, my all-American sister, Kelsey, found out that she’s not actually my sister—she’s a princess of a country we’d never heard of. She begged me to come along when she was whisked off to her new palace, so here I am. An ... Read more

$22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

What happens when you mix an average American woman with a decidedly not average future King?I can tell you from experience—a whole lot of complications.You see, four months ago, my all-American sister, Kelsey, found out that she’s not actually my sister—she’s a princess of a country we’d never heard of. She begged me to come along when she was whisked off to her new palace, so here I am. An
... Read more
China's Emerging Financial Markets

Challenges and Opportunities

Edited by James R. Barth, John A. Tatom, Glenn Yago ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
China’s emerging financial markets reflect the usual contrast between the country’s measured approach toward policy, regulatory, and market reform, and the dynamic pace of rapid economic growth and development. But they also offer unusual challenges and opportunities. In the past five years, the pace of opening and reform has accelerated sharply. Recapitalization and partial privatization of the ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

China’s emerging financial markets reflect the usual contrast between the country’s measured approach toward policy, regulatory, and market reform, and the dynamic pace of rapid economic growth and development. But they also offer unusual challenges and opportunities. In the past five years, the pace of opening and reform has accelerated sharply. Recapitalization and partial privatization of the
... Read more

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