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History of Greed

Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff

by David E. Y. Sarna ...

The “greater fool” theory of economics states that it’s possible to make money by buying paper (securities), whether overvalued or not, and later, selling it at a profit because there will always be an even greater fool willing to pay the higher price. Many described in this book profited by peddling such worthless junk to foolish investors. But for some people—Bernie Madoff, Norman Hsu, Sholam ... Read more

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The “greater fool” theory of economics states that it’s possible to make money by buying paper (securities), whether overvalued or not, and later, selling it at a profit because there will always be an even greater fool willing to pay the higher price. Many described in this book profited by peddling such worthless junk to foolish investors. But for some people—Bernie Madoff, Norman Hsu, Sholam
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Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications

by David E. Y. Sarna ...

From small start-ups to major corporations, companies of all sizes have embraced cloud computing for the scalability, reliability, and cost benefits it can provide. It has even been said that cloud computing may have a greater effect on our lives than the PC and dot-com revolutions combined.Filled with comparative charts and decision trees, Impleme ... Read more

$119.54 CAD

From small start-ups to major corporations, companies of all sizes have embraced cloud computing for the scalability, reliability, and cost benefits it can provide. It has even been said that cloud computing may have a greater effect on our lives than the PC and dot-com revolutions combined.Filled with comparative charts and decision trees, Impleme
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Jews and American Public Life

Essays on American Jewish History and Politics

by David G. Dalin ...

Series series North American Jewish Studies
Over a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nation’s founding, to presidential appointments of Jews, to lobbying for the welfare of Jews abroad, to Jewish prominence in government, philanthropy, intellectual life, and sports, and their one-time prominence in the Republican Party. His work on the separation of ... Read more

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Over a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nation’s founding, to presidential appointments of Jews, to lobbying for the welfare of Jews abroad, to Jewish prominence in government, philanthropy, intellectual life, and sports, and their one-time prominence in the Republican Party. His work on the separation of
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Unfading Light

The Sustaining Insight and Inspiration of Abraham Lincoln

by Richard Fritzky ...

Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the first place, the attribute or ‘fixed mark’ that sealed their belonging to him, the conversations that they would most have liked to have had with him, the words of his that they were most moved by, and the why and how ... Read more

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Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the first place, the attribute or ‘fixed mark’ that sealed their belonging to him, the conversations that they would most have liked to have had with him, the words of his that they were most moved by, and the why and how
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Imaging Modalities for Biological and Preclinical Research: A Compendium, Volume 2

Preclinical and multimodality imaging

by Matthia Andrea Karreman, Igor Meglinski, Robert Nuster, Guenther Paltauf, Felix Gremse, Stefanie Rosenhain, Mezzanotte Laura, Gaspar Natasa, Jan Grimm, Magdalena Skubal, Benedict Mc Larney, Claire Lefort, Carmel M Moran, Adrian JW Thomson, Teodora-Adriana Perles-Barbacaru, Angele Viola, Thomas Helbich, Viktoria Ehret, Xin Yu, Patricia Pais-Roldán, Kevin Brindle, Arnaud Comment, Felix Kreis, Adam Gaunt, Maria Gomez-Lazaro, Ruslan Hlushchuk, David Haberthür, André Behrends, Anna Bakenecker, Ankit Malhotra, Franz Wegner, Huimin Wei, Jonas Schumacher, Kerstin Lüdtke-Buzug, Ksenija Gräfe, Mandy Ahlborg, Yvonne Blancke Soares, Jan Stelzner, Xin Chen, Alexander Neumann, Thomas Friedrich, Thorsten Buzug, Claudia Kuntner-Hannes, Thomas Wanek, Wolfgang Wadsak, Karla Palma-Alejandro, Paul Verkade, Andreas Stylianou, Adelaide Miranda, Ana Gómez, Pieter De Beule, Catarina Moura, Michal Dykas, Michal Sarna, Wendy McDougald, Adriana Tavares, Christian Vanhove, Joost C Haeck, Sandra T. van Tiel, Monique R. Bernsen, Andreas M. Schmid, Prateek Katiyar, Haider Sami, Alioglu Fatih, Scholda Julia, Singeorzan Karla-Nikita, Prosche Aileen, Manfred Ogris, Tavitian Bertrand, Pérez-Liva Mailyn, Alexandra Pacureanu, Carles Bosch Piñol, Andreas Schaefer, Nataša Sladoje, Joakim Lindblad, Alain Pitiot, Stephan Winkler, Andreas Haghofer, Hannah Janout, Jaromir Gumulec, Tomas Vicar, Noeska Smit, Katja Bühler, Anna Vilanova, Martin Falk, Sérgio Faria, Francisco Cunha, João Parracho, Lucas Thomaz, Pedro Assunção, Arrate Munoz-Baruttia, Martin Jones, Lucy Collinson, Marco Andreana, Angelika Unterhuber ...

Series series IOP ebooks
The relentless pace of innovation in biomedical imaging has provided modern researchers with an unprecedented number of techniques and tools to choose from. While the development of new imaging techniques is vital for ongoing progress in the life sciences, it is challenging for researchers to keep pace. Imaging Modalities for Biological and Preclinical Research is designed to provide a ... Read more

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The relentless pace of innovation in biomedical imaging has provided modern researchers with an unprecedented number of techniques and tools to choose from. While the development of new imaging techniques is vital for ongoing progress in the life sciences, it is challenging for researchers to keep pace. Imaging Modalities for Biological and Preclinical Research is designed to provide a
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Religion and Immigration

Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States

by David O'Brien, Chester Gillis, Randall Balmer, Ana María Díaz-Stevens, Anthony J. Pinn, Johnathan D. Sarna, Alan M. Kraut, Aminah McCloud, M .A. Muqtedar Khan, Ingrid Mattson, Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark R. Rosenzweig, James P.Smith, Rabbi Jacob Neusner ...

Since its inception, the United States has defined itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of religious freedom. But following September 11, 2001 American openness to immigrants and openness to other beliefs have come into question. In a timely manner, Religion and Immigration provides comparative perspectives on Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Jews entering the American scene. Will ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

Since its inception, the United States has defined itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of religious freedom. But following September 11, 2001 American openness to immigrants and openness to other beliefs have come into question. In a timely manner, Religion and Immigration provides comparative perspectives on Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Jews entering the American scene. Will
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Lincoln and the Jews

A History

by Jonathan D. Sarna, Benjamin Shapell ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

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8 hours 26 min

One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides listeners both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews and and the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts.Lincoln's lifetime coincided with the emergence of Jews on the ... Read more

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One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides listeners both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews and and the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts.Lincoln's lifetime coincided with the emergence of Jews on the
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The Gettysburg Gospel

The Lincoln Speech that Nobody Knows

by Gabor Boritt ...

Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

Unabridged

9 hours 48 min

The literature of the Gettysburg Address tends to fall into one of two extremes. At one end are those books that maintain that Lincoln wrote his speech hastily, even on a scrap of paper on the train en route from Washington to Gettysburg. In this version, Lincoln delivered his remarks to an uncomprehending public, which applauded politely, failing to appreciate his genius. Many of the books that ... Read more

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The literature of the Gettysburg Address tends to fall into one of two extremes. At one end are those books that maintain that Lincoln wrote his speech hastily, even on a scrap of paper on the train en route from Washington to Gettysburg. In this version, Lincoln delivered his remarks to an uncomprehending public, which applauded politely, failing to appreciate his genius. Many of the books that
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Mr. Churchill in the White House

The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents

by Robert Schmuhl ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

Unabridged

13 hours 46 min

Well into the twenty-first century, Winston Churchill continues to be the subject of scores of books. Biographers portray him as a soldier, statesman, writer, painter, and even a daredevil, but Robert Schmuhl, the noted author and journalist, may be the first to depict him as a demanding, indeed exhausting White House guest. Drawing on years of research, Schmuhl not only contextualizes the ... Read more

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Well into the twenty-first century, Winston Churchill continues to be the subject of scores of books. Biographers portray him as a soldier, statesman, writer, painter, and even a daredevil, but Robert Schmuhl, the noted author and journalist, may be the first to depict him as a demanding, indeed exhausting White House guest. Drawing on years of research, Schmuhl not only contextualizes the
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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

by Lorri Glover, Daniel Blake Smith ...

Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in 1606, Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a ... Read more

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The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in 1606, Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a
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We Are Your Soldiers

How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World

by Alex Rowell ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Unabridged

12 hours 59 min

Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'état he led in 1952 and his death in 1970, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconic revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime. He was a brutal authoritarian, whose legacy, ... Read more

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Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'état he led in 1952 and his death in 1970, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconic revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime. He was a brutal authoritarian, whose legacy,
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Southern Storm

Sherman's March to the Sea

by Noah Andre Trudeau ...

Narrated by Eric Conger ...

Abridged

11 hours 23 min

Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, allowed Sherman to ... Read more

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Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, allowed Sherman to
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