The New York Times Magazine, January 3, 2010 [cover story: What's a Bailed-Out Banker Worth?] (Single Issue Magazine)

The New York Times Magazine, January 3, 2010 [cover story: What's a Bailed-Out Banker Worth?] (Single Issue Magazine)
By The New York Times

1 used and new from $10.00

First tagged by brainiacbooks
Customer tags: new york times magazine, news magazines, bankers, banking bailout, current affairs, journalism, current events

Review & Description

Cover story: What's a Bailed-Out Banker Worth?, by Steven Brill, re 'Kenneth Feinberg, Washington's pay czar, has grappled more than anyone with the question of how much to pay executives at failed companies'. Contents: Profile: Hitting Bottom, by Chris Norris, re Dr. Drew Pinsky treating addiction on reality TV -- therapy, or tabloid voyeurism? Report: Listening to Braille, by Rachel Aviv, re innovative technologies for literacy for blind people are particularly fraught; much more. Read more

Find out More for the best price at Amazon

WE'RE NOT LEAVING, 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice and Renewal (Kindle Edition)

WE'RE NOT LEAVING, 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice and Renewal (Kindle Edition)
By Benjamin J. Luft M.D.

Buy new: $9.99
196 used and new from $9.72
Customer Rating:

First tagged by Dr. Edythe Denkin
Customer tags: first responders(12), 9-11(12), firefighters(11), world trade center(11), new york city(10), nonfiction(10), wtc(7), flight 93(7), heroes(7), public health(7), wtc responders(7), 911(6)

Review & Description

We’re Not Leaving is a compilation of powerful first-person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade Center disaster workers—police officers, firefighters, construction workers, and other volunteers at the site.

While the effects of 9/11 on these everyday heroes and heroines are indelible, and in some cases have been devastating, at the heart of their deeply personal stories—their harrowing escapes from the falling Towers, the egregious environment they worked in for months, the alarming health effects they continue to deal with—is their witness to their personal strength and renewal in the ten years since.

These stories, shared by ordinary people who responded to disaster and devastation in extraordinary ways, remind us of America’s strength and inspire us to recognize and ultimately believe in our shared values of courage, duty, patriotism, self-sacrifice, and devotion, which guide us in dark times.

The books author, Benjamin Luft, M.D., a Professor of Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of Lyme disease and AIDS-related conditions. As a native New Yorker he was deeply impacted by the 9/11 attacks and was inspired to establish the Long Island World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program, which provides care to more than 6,000 disaster responders and has become an incubator for several important research and treatment programs that emphasize both mental and physical well-being.

We’re Not Leaving is a compilation of powerful first-person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade Center disaster workers—police officers, firefighters, construction workers, and other volunteers at the site.

While the effects of 9/11 on these everyday heroes and heroines are indelible, and in some cases have been devastating, at the heart of their deeply personal stories—their harrowing escapes from the falling Towers, the egregious environment they worked in for months, the alarming health effects they continue to deal with—is their witness to their personal strength and renewal in the ten years since.

These stories, shared by ordinary people who responded to disaster and devastation in extraordinary ways, remind us of America’s strength and inspire us to recognize and ultimately believe in our shared values of courage, duty, patriotism, self-sacrifice, and devotion, which guide us in dark times.

The books author, Benjamin Luft, M.D., a Professor of Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of Lyme disease and AIDS-related conditions. As a native New Yorker he was deeply impacted by the 9/11 attacks and was inspired to establish the Long Island World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program, which provides care to more than 6,000 disaster responders and has become an incubator for several important research and treatment programs that emphasize both mental and physical well-being.

Read more

Find out More for the best price at Amazon

Core of Conviction: My Story (Kindle Edition)

Core of Conviction: My Story (Kindle Edition)
By Michele Bachmann

Buy new: $12.99

First tagged by Arphaxad "model-builder"
Customer tags: lying sack of crap(3), revisionist history(3), corndog queen(3), fake christian(3), unfit for office(3), beard(3), fascist drivel(2), right wing nuts(2), american exceptionalism, anti-choice, center right, anti-obama propaganda

Review & Description

No Description AvailableNo Description Available Read more

Find out More for the best price at Amazon

Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone (Hardcover)

Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone (Hardcover)
By Ralph Richard Banks

Buy new: $15.82
38 used and new from $14.25
Customer Rating:

First tagged by Sara
Customer tags: social science, african american studies, marriage, gender studies, women s studies, mark steyn, current events

Review & Description

During the past half century, African Americans have become the most unmarried people in our nation. More than two out of every three black women are unmarried, and they are more than twice as likely as white women never to marry. The racial gap in marriage extends beyond the poor. Affluent and college educated African Americans are also less likely to marry or stay married than their white counterparts. That harms black children and adults, and imperils the growth and stability of the black middle class.

One reason that marriage has declined is that as black women have advanced economically and educationally, black men have fallen behind. Nearly twice as many black women as black men graduate from college each year.Thus, not only are many college-educated black women unmarried, they are more likely than any other group of women to marry less educated and lower earning men. Half of college-educated black wives are more educated than their husbands.

Yet black women rarely marry men of other races. They are less than half as likely as black men, and only a third as likely as Latinos or Asian Americans, to wed across group lines. Is Marriage for White People? traces the far-reaching consequences of the African American marriage decline. It also explains why black women marry down rather than out. Its provocative conclusion is that black women would benefit both themselves and the black race if they crossed class lines less and race lines more.

As particular as this inquiry may seem, it is also universal. Americans of all races are more unmarried now than ever. And as women surpass men educationally, wives increasingly earn more than their husbands. In illuminating the lives of African Americans, Is Marriage for White People? thus probes cultural and economic trends that implicate everyone, highlighting the extent to which the experience of black women may become that of all women.

This book both informs and entertains. The culmination of a decade of research by a distinguished Stanford law professor, it melds scholarly theory and data with the poignant stories shared by black women throughout the nation. This unforgettable book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the shifting terrain of intimacy in American society. Read more

Find out More for the best price at Amazon

The Whore and her Mother: 9/11, Babylon and the Return of the King (Paperback)

The Whore and her Mother: 9/11, Babylon and the Return of the King (Paperback)
By Raymond McCullough

Click for more info

First tagged by preciousoil
Customer tags: history, end times, judgement, economic collapse, globalisation, market crash, current events, post-apocalyptic, prophecy, last days, israel, messiah

Review & Description

Could the writings of the ancient Hebrew prophets be relevant to events taking place in the world today? Did the Hebrew prophets foretell the events of 9/11? Are they relevant to our world today? 'Mega-Babylon' - where is it? The Hebrew prophets – from Isaiah and Jeremiah, to the apostle John, spoke of a city and nation they referred to by the codename, 'Mega-Babylon'. Have these prophecies been fulfilled already? What about Daniel's 'writing on the wall'? Is Mega-Babylon the Roman Catholic Church? A world super-church? Rebuilt ancient Babylon? Brussels, Jerusalem, or somewhere entirely different? Should this city/nation have a large Jewish population? Why all the talk about merchants, cargoes, commodities, trade? Can we rely on the words of these ancient prophets? If so, what else did they foretell that is still to be fulfilled? Do they refer to other major nations – USA, Russia, China, Europe? What about militant Islam? My background is in lecturing, publishing and radio/TV – but previously I ran a construction business. I still love to know how things are put together - buildings, origins of words, phrases – so I have used a similar approach in exploring, what I believe to be, an extremely important and relevant topic. Read more

Find out More for the best price at Amazon

23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism (Kindle Edition)

23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism (Kindle Edition)
By Ha-Joon Chang

Buy new: $11.06
Customer Rating:

First tagged by
Customer tags: hetrodox economics, economics, capitalism, free enterprise, current events

Review & Description

Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market.

Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.

Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.

Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming,

Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us

about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to

question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the

dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the

freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.

Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans,

is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and

wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and

doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers

a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of

becoming slaves of the market.

Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market.

Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.

Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.

Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming,

Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us

about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to

question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the

dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the

freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.

Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans,

is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and

wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and

doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers

a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of

becoming slaves of the market. Read more

Find out More for the best price at Amazon

Rabbit in the Moon (Kindle Edition)

Rabbit in the Moon (Kindle Edition)
By Deborah Shlian

Buy new: $1.99
197 used and new from $1.59
Customer Rating:

First tagged by Deborah Shlian "author"
Customer tags: nonfiction, china thriller, chinese medicine, current events, medical fiction

Review & Description

San Francisco, 1989: Forty years after Mao and his People's Liberation Army set poised to change China forever, Dr. Lili Quan prepares for a journey that will change her life forever. To honor her mother's dying wish that Lili return home, Lili reluctantly sets out for China.For Lili, a passionate idealist, this will be an extraordinary trip filled with remarkable discoveries - from meeting and falling in love with Chi-Wen Zhou, a victim of the Cutural Revolution and zealous Taoist, to finding Dr. Ni-Fu Cheng, the grandfather Lili believed had died years ago. But Dr. Cheng has made the most remarkable discovery of all: he's discovered the secret to long life.As Dr. Cheng's only relative, Lili's life is in jeopardy. As greedy and unscrupulous men vie for control of the most earth-shattering discovery of the century, Lili Quan could become a pawn in a deadly and dangerous international game.Before Lili can hold the key to the future, she must unlock the deadly secrets of the past.San Francisco, 1989: Forty years after Mao and his People's Liberation Army set poised to change China forever, Dr. Lili Quan prepares for a journey that will change her life forever. To honor her mother's dying wish that Lili return home, Lili reluctantly sets out for China.For Lili, a passionate idealist, this will be an extraordinary trip filled with remarkable discoveries - from meeting and falling in love with Chi-Wen Zhou, a victim of the Cutural Revolution and zealous Taoist, to finding Dr. Ni-Fu Cheng, the grandfather Lili believed had died years ago. But Dr. Cheng has made the most remarkable discovery of all: he's discovered the secret to long life.As Dr. Cheng's only relative, Lili's life is in jeopardy. As greedy and unscrupulous men vie for control of the most earth-shattering discovery of the century, Lili Quan could become a pawn in a deadly and dangerous international game.Before Lili can hold the key to the future, she must unlock the deadly secrets of the past. Read more

Find out More for the best price at Amazon