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  • 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 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

    $11.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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    The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

    by Jeff Madrick ...
    **A vivid history of the recent economics of greed in the United States. This book explores how the pursuit of immense personal wealth has led to economic inequity and instability in the country.“A fascinating and deeply disturbing tale of hypocrisy, corruption, and insatiable greed. . . . A much-needed reminder of just how we got into the mess we’re in.”—The New York Review of Books**Age of Greed ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Free Lunch

    How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

    The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposéHow does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing how today's government policies and spending reach deep into the wallets of the many for the benefit of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dear Chairman

    Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism

    by Jeff Gramm ...
    An "engaging and informative" history of one of capitalism's longest-running tensions—the high-stakes battles between management and shareholders ( The New Yorker).Recent disputes between shareholders and major corporations, including Apple and DuPont, have made headlines. But the struggle between management and those who own stock has been going on for nearly a century. Mixing never-before ... Read more

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  • The Fine Print

    How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind

    “No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge customers, shortchange workers, and erect barriers to fair play. A big reason is that so little of the news . . . addresses the private, government-approved mechanisms by which price gouging is employed to redistribute income upward.”You are being systematically exploited by powerful corporations every day. ... Read more

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  • The Watchdog That Didn't Bark

    The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

    by Dean Starkman ...
    Series series Columbia Journalism Review
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details " how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years" (Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation ).In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wall Street

    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

    $12.99 USD