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A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Whittle) (Paperback)

by John Kenneth Galbraith (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 128 pages
* Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (July 1, 1994)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0140238565
* ISBN-13: 978-0140238563
* Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces
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Textbook Description
World-renowned economist Galbraith, the bestselling author of The Affluent Society, reviews great speculative booms of the last three centuries, including the junk-bond follies of the 1980s. With wisdom and wit, he shows how the lessons of history can help us avoid financial calamity. “Entertaining in its instructiveness.”

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Hardcover)

by Annette Gordon-Reed (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 800 pages
* Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; 1 edition (September 17, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0393064778
* ISBN-13: 978-0393064773
* Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.8 inches
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This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently.

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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)

by Thomas L. Friedman (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 672 pages
* Publisher: Picador (July 24, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0312425074
* ISBN-13: 978-0312425074
* Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
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“One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal,” the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Paperback)

by Amity Shlaes (Author)

Textbook Details
* Paperback: 512 pages
* Publisher: Harper Perennial (May 27, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0060936428
* ISBN-13: 978-0060936426
* Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
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