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Author: Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765382202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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"A new science fiction novel from ... [the] author"--Jacket.

Author: Herman M. Schwartz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145803X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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In his exceedingly timely and innovative look at the ramifications of the collapse of the U.S. housing market, Herman M. Schwartz makes the case that worldwide, U.S. growth and power over the last twenty years has depended in large part on domestic housing markets. Mortgage-based securities attracted a cascade of overseas capital into the U.S. economy. High levels of private home ownership, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom, have helped pull in a disproportionately large share of world capital flows.As events since mid-2008 have made clear, mortgage lenders became ever more eager to extend housing loans, for the more mortgage packages they securitized, the higher their profits. As a result, they were dangerously inventive in creating new mortgage products, notably adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages, to attract new, mainly first-time, buyers into the housing market. However, mortgage-based instruments work only when confidence in the mortgage system is maintained. Regulatory failures in the American S&L sector, the accounting crisis that led to the extinction of Arthur Andersen, and the subprime crisis that destroyed Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and damaged many other big financial institutions have jeopardized a significant engine of economic growth. Schwartz concentrates on the impact of U.S. regulatory failure on the international economy. He argues that the "local" problem of the housing crisis carries substantial and ongoing risks for U.S. economic health, the continuing primacy of the U.S. dollar in international financial circles, and U.S. hegemony in the world system.

Author: István Hargittai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195365569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Hargittai tells the story of five remarkable Hungarians: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve difficult problems in his head and developed the modern computer for more complex problems; von Kármán became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing the scientific basis for the U.S. Air Force; and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial "Star Wars" initiative of the 1980s.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1500

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Author: Elizabeth Bear
Publisher: Solaris
ISBN: 1786180855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250815851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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An Easy Job is a short story from Carrie Vaughn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty Norville series. Graff's official role is muscle for the Visigoth--but his personal mission is internally cataloguing all of his experiences to relay to the other beings from his home planet when they cross paths. His professional life rarely clashes with his identity, but when he realizes his newest mission is to take down one of his kind, everything becomes a bit less simple. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250247837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirate-hunting starship. He expected to die before they ever discovered what he really is. But he's not dead, and now he has to explain. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250869579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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For over 35 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. In Carrie Vaughn’s “Grow”, ace Maryam Shahidi makes a big splash in the news after one of her "experiments" goes awry. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250216133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. "Long is the Way" by Carrie Vaughn and Sage Walker sheds light on what people will do to escape the sins of their past, and whether anyone can find redemption. Zoe Harris is a marked woman: in hiding for decades because of her connection to a terrorist attack on Jerusalem almost twenty years ago. One determined reporter, Jonathan Hive, stumbles upon a lead that takes him to the south of France to discover the truth. What he finds out is a lesson in how life can bring about the most unexpected miracles. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250875625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Graff isn't quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories and experiences, recording their lives and passing them on. Then, one day, he breaks: he discovers a chunk of his memory is missing. This should be impossible—he's never forgotten a moment in his life. Now, he has to learn to forget, and to remember, and this has consequences for all his people, his culture, and his whole world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.