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Publisher
Krause Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Warman's Depression Glass Handbook is an easy-to-use reference featuring a one-of-a-kind thumbnail pattern guide for quick identification and discovery of this popular and delightful glass. Featuring 170 Depression glass patterns, detailed pattern drawings, values, a shape guide and glorious color pictures throughout, the handbook is the most extensive portable guide on the market."--Back cover.
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Series
Publisher
Whitman Publishing, LLC
Description
"Collectors around the country love the book's grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. How rare are your coins? How much are they worth? The Red Book tells you, covering everything from early colonial copper tokens to hefty Old West silver dollars and dazzling gold coins. You'll find 32,500+ prices for more than 7,600 coins, tokens, medals, sets,...
7) Food, Inc
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Description
"Robert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2000 Commonfund Prize for the Best Contribution to Endowment Management Research" Robert J. Shiller, the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics, is a bestselling author, a regular contributor to the Economic View column of the New York Times, and a professor of economics at Yale University. For more information, please go to www.irrationalexuberance.com.
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Author
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.
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Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Aswath Damodaran is "the Dean of Valuation". He has been regarded as a definitive source on the best valuation techniques that investors can deploy to value companies and stocks precisely and wisely. Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is buy, sell or hold. Here he explains the techniques in language that even individual investors can understand, so they can make better investment decisions when reviewing fundamental...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Underwater is a fresh perspective on the financial crisis that shows how it is still reverberating more than a decade later, casting doubt on the notion that homeownership is crucial to the American dream and inspiring a massive bet by the country's richest real-estate investors that it's not. In a dispassionate, yet deeply personal story that zips between Wall Street and Main Street-or, to be more precise, Audubon Drive in Alabama-Ryan Dezember...
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Description
"Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to agricultural product markets. The new fifth edition uses up-to-date information and models to explain the behavior of agricultural product prices. Topics include price...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But what does a fair-trade label signify? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. Based on extensive research in Zapotec Indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Brewing Justice follows the members of the...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"In his new book, investment expert Jim Jubak explores the "new normal" of market volatility. With remarkable insights into the zeitgeist of financial markets and the economy, Jubak combines the big macro trends with the more mundane aspects of life to depict why volatility is here to stay, why things are not going to get any calmer soon, and how you can make investing decisions to profit off this new reality. He presents a unified picture that extends...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Great real estate deals are like worms. To find the really prize ones, you should be prepared to get your hands dirty. You usually cannot see them until you do some digging, but often, once you start, several will appear. On most uncommon deals, the seller found out about them through local information and chatting up the right people not from sitting home surfing listings on the Internet. This book explains how to find uncommon deals in today's market,...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
In 1988 Geraldine Weiss wrote the classic Dividends Don't Lie, which focuses on the Dividend Yield Theory as a method of producing consistent gains in the stock market. After the market crash of the late 1980's, the book was a large success. Investors were looking for safety and transparency, and dividends offered the yields investors desired. Despite the advent of new technologies and the ability of investors to access information on an unprecedented...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Description
"A groundbreaking, in-depth, and authoritative twenty-year history of the hunt and speculation for our most vital natural resource...The story of oil is a story of high stakes and extreme risk. It is the story of the crushing rivalries between men and women exploring for oil five miles beneath the sea, battling for control of the world's biggest corporations, and gambling billions of dollars twenty-four hours every day on oil's prices. It is the story...