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  • Dangerous Dreamers

    The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken

    by Robert Sobel ...
    In this fast-paced account, Robert Sobel analyzes the causes of the "Junk Decade" against a backdrop of incisive portraits of the perpetrators of some of the most dizzying and daring financial machinations the world has ever seen. Dangerous Dreamers is the story of clever scoundrels and brilliant innovators, such as Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. It is also the story of the big banks, the pension ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Panic on Wall Street

    A History of America's Financial Disasters

    by Robert Sobel ...
    Here is a book dealing with a subject endemic to many Eastern and Western countries - financial panic. Covering 12 of the most harrowing moments in American financial history from 1792 to 1962, it demonstrates that Wall Street and the public are at once the heroes, villains, and victims of past panics. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Great Boom, 1950–2000

    How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society

    by Robert Sobel ...
    Discover the Untold Story of America's Postwar Economic BoomIn The Great Boom, historian Robert Sobel tells the fascinating story of the last 50 years when American entrepreneurs, visionaries, and ordinary citizens transformed our depression and war-exhausted society into an economic powerhouse.As America's G.I.s returned home from World War II, many experts predicted a new depression—yet exactly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Coolidge

    An American Enigma

    by Robert Sobel ...
    In the first full-scale biography of Calvin Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing leader. Sobel instead exposes the real Coolidge, whose legacy as the most Jeffersonian of all twentieth century presidents still reverberates today. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Healing Brain

    Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

    The Healing Brain presents an easy-to-read, amusing, entertaining, and yet highly authoritative account of how our brain "minds" our body - actively guarding and defending our health and wellbeing. Neurologist Robert Ornstein and physician David Sobel highlight the themes most important to understanding this fascinating science. They explain that, contrary to many of our assumptions about the main ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Microencapsulation in the Food Industry

    A Practical Implementation Guide

    Edited by Robert Sobel ...
    Microencapsulation in the Food Industry: A Practical Implementation Guide, Second Edition continues to focus on the development of new microencapsulation techniques for researchers and scientists in the field. This practical reference combines the knowledge of new and novel processing techniques, materials and selection, regulatory aspects and testing and evaluation of materials. It provides ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Microencapsulation in the Food Industry

    A Practical Implementation Guide

    Edited by Robert Sobel ...
    Microencapsulation is being used to deliver everything from improved nutrition to unique consumer sensory experiences. It's rapidly becoming one of the most important opportunities for expanding brand potential. Microencapsulation in the Food Industry: A Practical Implementation Guide is written for those who see the potential benefit of using microencapsulation but need practical insight into ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Narratives of Storytelling across Cultures

    The Complexities of Intercultural Communication

    Narratives of Storytelling Across Cultures demonstrates how meaning found within interpersonal communication is not universal across all cultures. Miscommunication can occur when the foundations of cultural meaning within stories, as told socially and within media, vary among different cultures. Positioned within the communication and media field, this book connects issues of societal tension and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • What's The Catch?, 2nd ed.

    How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated

    Series series All About Me
    The third book in Hoopoe's "All About Me" series, What's the Catch? looks at how people (from our parents to our peers) and media (from TV commercials to the Internet) try to influence us. In many situations, we're influenced to think, feel or behave in ways that we might not otherwise pursue. Sometimes such influence is helpful, but at other times we end up being shortchanged. What's the Catch? ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    And The Sun Stood Still

    Unabridged

    1 hour 50 min

    Dava Sobel’s thoughtful play brings to life the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the center. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened by religious censure, Copernicus resisted the publication of his work until just before his death in 1543. The play follows Copernicus in those final ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis

    Does public opinion matter in international conflict resolution? Does national foreign policy remain independent of public opinion and the media? International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis examines, through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies, how public reaction impacted democratic governments' response to the ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia during the period from 1991-1997. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    A History, Updated Edition

    Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself--from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant--and an engaging economic history of the United ... Read more

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