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Author | : Zachary Shore |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1608192547 |
For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder reveals how understanding seven simple traps-Exposure Anxiety, Causefusion, Flat View, Cure-Allism, Infomania, Mirror Imaging, Static Cling-can make us all less apt to err in our daily lives.
Author | : Dean Baker |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2009-01-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 160994478X |
For the second time this decade, the U.S. economy id sinking into a recession due to the collapse of a financial bubble. The most recent calamity will lead to a downturn deeper and longer than the stock market crash of 2001. Dean Baker's Plunder and Blunder chronicles the growth and collapse of the stock and housing bubbles and explains how policy blunders and greed led to the catastrophic --but completely predictable --market meltdowns. An expert guide to recent economic history, Baker offers policy prescriptions to help prevent similar financial disasters.
Author | : Mario Livio |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439192375 |
"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1780746180 |
With unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony, distinguished political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe open our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the British political system is quite so prone to appalling mistakes.
Author | : Brent P. Kelley |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780810830493 |
The 'bonus rule' of 1953-1957 required baseball players who signed a contract for more than $4,000 to remain on the major league roster for two full seasons. Kelley tells the stories of the 'bonus babies' who reaped the benefits, and the others whose careers were destroyed by the rule.
Author | : J. P. Dalvi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788181581457 |
The Indian military setback against the Chinese attack in 1962 was high time for an honest soul-searching. Quite a few books written by Army officers have tried to tell their version of the untold story. Brig. Dalvi's account of the Sino-Indian War is by far the most remarkable and authentic. He was present in the theatre of war throughout, commanded a brigade and was held captive by the Chinese for seven months. In discussing the day-to-day events from 8 September to 20 October 1962 the author graphically tells the truth which only an actual participant could experience and know. The background of the war is drawn from his first-hand information as a high-ranking commander.
Author | : Tom Agoston |
Publisher | : Dodd Mead |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Roy W. Spencer |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1594036020 |
"The Great Global Warming Blunder provides a simple explanation for why forecasts of a global warming Armageddon constitute a major scientific faux pas: climate researchers have mixed up cause and effect when they have analyzed cloud behavior. Combining illustrations from everyday experience with state-of-the-art satellite measurements, Roy W. Spencer reveals how these scientists have been fooled by Mother Nature into believing that the Earth's climate system is very sensitive to humanity's production of carbon dioxide through the use of fossil fuels. He presents evidence that recent warming, rather than being the fault of humans, is a result of chaotic, internal natural cycles that have been causing periods of warming and cooling for thousands of years" --Cover, p. 2.
Author | : Mutt-Lon |
Publisher | : AmazonCrossing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781542037877 |
From a bold voice in African fiction comes a satirical and unputdownable reimagining of an overlooked episode in Cameroon's colonial past. Cameroon, 1929. As colonial powers fight for influence in Africa, French military surgeon Eugène Jamot is dispatched to Cameroon to lead the fight against sleeping sickness there. But despite his humanitarian intentions, the worst comes to pass: seven hundred local villagers are left blind as a result of medical malpractice by a doctor under Jamot's watch. Damienne Bourdin, a young white woman, ventures to Cameroon to assist in the treatment effort. Reeling from the loss of her child, she's desperate to redeem herself and save her reputation. But the tides of rebellion are churning in Cameroon, and soon after Damienne's arrival, she is enlisted in a wild plot to staunch the damage caused by the blunder and forestall tribal warfare. Together with Ndongo, a Pygmy guide, she must cross the country on foot in search of Edoa, a Cameroonian princess and nurse who has gone missing since the medical blunder was discovered. As Damienne races through the Cameroonian forest on a farcical adventure that unsettles her sense of France's "civilizing mission," she begins to question her initial sense of who needed saving and who would save the day.
Author | : R. M. Youngson |
Publisher | : Carroll & Graf Pub |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780786705948 |
Covers the flat earth theory, the Piltdown Man, the Tay bridge collapse, Chernobyl, cold fusion, and the Hubble space telescope mistake.