Samtidigt som Wall Street var sysselsatta med att skapa historiens största kreditbubbla anade ett antal outsiderinvesterare att den snart skulle explodera De satsade allt mot banksystemet och tjänade en förmögenhet.


Den hyllade ekonomiskribenten Michael Lewis berättar i Värstin[...]

This text gives a thorough revision that clearly describes and illustrates the practice of community counseling by discussing the most current issues and practices for community work in the 21st century.[...]

""These are wicked little guys who'll pick your pocket as they steal your heart.""-Ted Koppel, host of ABC's "Nightline"Suburbanites treasure their sameness, safety, and security, little knowing what lurks just "Over the Hedge." There, in a strikingly successful comic strip created by writer Michael[...]

Helps you to learn all the essential anesthesia procedures. This title offers step-by-step instruction on the entire spectrum of perioperative, ambulatory, regional, and general procedures. It provides coverage of all relevant anesthesia procedures, from the IV and laryngoscopy, to the combined spin[...]

Of the People: A History of the United States not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to[...]

Brewing is designed for those involved in the malting, brewing, and allied industries who have little or no formal training in brewing science. While some elementary knowledge of chemistry and biology is necessary, the book clearly presents the essentials of brewing science and its relationship to b[...]

In the 20 years that have passed since the publication of the first edition, both Poison Control Centers and Emergency Departments have witnessed an expansion in the number and variety of poisonings caused by toxic plants. At the same time, there is a proliferation in the diversity of plants in our [...]

"It Can't Happen Here" is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of "Main Street, ""Babbitt," and "Arrowsmith." A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great De[...]

The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious and polarizing political events in American history.In an attempt to understand what happened during these historic elections, "The American Voter Revisited" recreates the outstanding classic from 1960, "Th[...]

This book will help organizations evolve into a fully collaborative social business. It serves as a step by step playbook to achieve organizational change, process efficiencies and technology acumen: * Proven solutions for the real people, process, and technology obstacles businesses face in using [...]

Applied regression allows social scientists who are not specialists in quantitative techniques to arrive at clear verbal explanations of their numerical results. Provides a lucid discussion of more specialized subjects: analysis of residuals, interaction effects, specification error, multicollineari[...]

Not even half a century ago America was segregated, when everything depended on teh color of one's skin. Access to schools, restaurants, parks, buses or even water fountains was segregated. And born into this segregated world was Martin Luther King Jr..
The son of a black preacher, King was taug[...]