David Wiedemer

Robert A. Wiedemer

Cindy S. Spitzer

Secure your financial future before the next big bubble bursts

Aftershock provides a definitive look at the economic climate still ahead in 2015―and beyond―and details the steps you can take now to secure your financial future. Written by the authors who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, this book serves as both a warning and a game plan for investors looking to avoid catastrophic loss. This updated fourth edition has been expanded with new actionable insights about protection and profits in an increasingly confusing investment environment, and includes the latest data, updated charts and tables, and brand new coverage of monetary stimulus. With a look back at the domino fall of the conjoined real estate, stock, and private debt bubbles that triggered the last major crisis, this book paints a vivid picture of what to expect the next time the world's economy pops. You'll learn how to protect your assets before and during the coming fall, and how to capitalize on the opportunities everyone else is missing.

The housing bubble has popped, toppling banks and sending shockwaves of stock market misery around the world. It may seem like the worst is over. It's not. This book shows you what's still to come, and how to ride the crest instead of being sucked under.

Learn when, why, and how the global bubble will burst

Understand the repercussions that will reach into your accounts

Get up to date on the data, with expert analysis and insight

Start protecting yourself now with a few smart investment moves

The stock market, real estate, consumer spending, private debt, dollar, and government debt bubbles will burst, driving up unemployment, devaluing the dollar, and causing deep global recession. Aftershock helps you fortify your assets before the wave so you can enjoy clear skies after the storm.



Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown

A practical guide to preparing for the next phase of the financial meltdown From the authors who were the first to predict Phase I of our current economic downturn-in their landmark 2006 book, America's Bubble Economy-comes their insightful sequel discussing their predictions for the next phase of the Bubble Economy. It may seem like the worst has come and gone, but it hasn't. With their proven track record of accurate predictions-which most financial professionals and economists missed-the authors explain how and why the next phase of the financial meltdown is about to hit. Things are not going back to how they were before. Instead, we are moving through uncharted territory, with new challenges and opportunities that few people can anticipate. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Aftershock shows readers how to seek safety and profits in these dynamic economic conditions. Discusses how to protect assets, businesses, and jobs before and during the second wave of financial meltdown Provides clear and accurate advice on how to profit from the collapsing bubbles Offer focused guidance regarding real estate, which will continue to be a pressing concern for many The authors' first book was chosen by Kiplinger's as one of the 30 Best Business Books of 2006, and its accuracy has been hailed by Paul Farrell of Dow Jones MarketWatch when he said "America's Bubble Economy's Predictions, though ignored, were accurate." Don't miss out on these time tested author's proven advice for how to mange your money during the coming financial meltdown.

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

A Novel

Refuge charts the deeply moving lifetime relationship between a Iranian and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration. Beautifully written, full of insight, charm, and humour, the novel subtly exposes the parts of ourselves that get left behind in the wake of diaspora and ultimately asks: Must home always be a physical place, or can we find it in another person?

Refuge

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Melinda Gates

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

How Empowering Women Changes the World

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift society up, you need to stop keeping women down. In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she’s learned from the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, “That is why I had to write this book—to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live.” Melinda’s unforgettable narrative is backed by startling data as she presents the issues that most need our attention—from child marriage to lack of access to contraceptives to gender inequity in the workplace. And, for the first time, she writes about her personal life and the road to equality in her own marriage. Throughout, she shows how there has never been more opportunity to change the world—and ourselves. Writing with emotion, candor, and grace, she introduces us to remarkable women and shows the power of connecting with one another. When we lift others up, they lift us up, too.

The Moment of Lift

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Ann Sutton

Myron Sutton

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

Lavishly illustrated text depicts the forest animals and plant life of the world's forest and describes their environment.

Wildlife of the Forests

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James Rollins

West Virginia

A Thriller

From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, the latest riveting, deeply imaginative thriller in the Sigma Force series, told with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action. It begins in Africa . . . A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle -- known to locals as the Kingdom of Bones --and sweeping across Africa, threatening the rest of the world. What has made the biosphere run amok? Is it a natural event? Or more terrifyingly, did someone engineer it? Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force are prepared for the extraordinary and have kept the world safe, vigilance for which they have paid a tragic personal price. Yet, even these brilliant and seasoned scientific warriors do not understand what is behind this frightening development--or know how to stop it. As they race to find answers, the members of Sigma quickly realize they have become the prey. To head off global catastrophe, Sigma Force must risk their lives to uncover the shattering secret at the heart of the African continent--a truth that will illuminate who we are as a species and where we may be headed . . . sooner than we know. Mother Nature--red in tooth and claw--is turning against humankind, propelling the entire world into the Kingdom of Bones.

Kingdom of Bones

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Russell Jacoby

Nevada

The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era

It could be argued—and esteemed historian of ideas Russell Jacoby does so here—that the less diversity there is, the more we talk about it. But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do we square our recognition of the importance of diversity with the fact that the world is becoming more and more, well, homogeneous? In fine prose and lucid argument, Jacoby puts our volatile present into historical context. Examining diversity (or lack thereof) in language, fashion, childhood experience, political structure, and the history of ideas, Jacoby offers a surprising and penetrating analysis of our cultural moment, and invites his readers to participate in the most dangerous and liberating act: to stop and think.

On Diversity

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New York

World History (Minipedias)

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From the authors who predicted with unmatched precision the domino impacts of the real estate, stock market, and other bubbles that led to 2008's market meltdown comes the definitive look at what is still to come and what investors can do to protect themselves Just as many are wrongly forecasting a full recovery ahead, Aftershock, now updated and revised, warns of a very different economic future. Home prices and stocks will continue to fall, inflation and unemployment will rise, and the current recession will not automatically cycle back to recovery. Unlike most books, Aftershock goes beyond the outdated notion of "market cycles" to help readers clearly recognize and quickly respond to the rapidly evolving economy. Instead of going back to how things were before, we are moving forward through uncharted territory, with new challenges and opportunities few people anticipate. The book shows you how to: Protect assets before and during the second wave of the financial meltdown Make wise investment decisions regarding stocks, bonds, real estate, and more Know which jobs, careers, and businesses will fare the best Profit from the collapsing bubbles Other titles by Wiedemer, Wiedemer, and Spitzer: America's Bubble Economy Aftershock is easy-to-read, entertaining, and practical book guides readers to seek safety and profits in these evolving economic conditions.

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Brian D. McLaren

Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope

"What do the life and teaching of Jesus have to say about the most critical global problems in our world today?"--Provided by publisher.

Everything Must Change

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#paperback #shortstories #childrensliterature #world #global #ela #English #teaching #education

And Other Stories to Tell

A collection of stories intended to be told, drawn from a variety of traditions including European, African, and contemporary American. Includes tips on such aspects of storytelling as voice patterns, body expression, and audience participation.

Piece of the Wind

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A truly global, multicultural, and cross-cultural reader, One World, Many Cultures features 60 selections by major authors from 31 countries.

The readings explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender, region, and nation, challenging students to compare their experiences with the experiences of others in radically different cultural circumstances. Eight thematic chapters explore cultural perspectives on human experiences around the globe: family life, adolescent relationships, gender roles, work, conflicts of class and race, the struggles of individuals against governments, the immigrant experience, and a new chapter on social customs, rituals, and sports.

One World, Many Cultures

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Full-color photos. From the splendor of the pharaoh's court to the everyday
life of ordinary people, the great civilization of the Nile valley is revealed
in page after page of dramatic photos of the objects they left behind: human
and animal mummies, reed brushes, children's pull-toys, and more.
Stunning.-- School Library Journal.


Ancient Egypt

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Jane Glicksman

Ruta Daugavietis

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Describes people and places throughout the world.

Cool Geography

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Geography

Packed with information on nearly 200 countries - organized by continent - and illustrated with all new state-of-the-art relief maps, this conveniently-sized paperback atlas is an essential resource for understanding the world today. Its extensive coverage includes information on the geography, history, and economy of each country, as well as culture, language, and religion. Environmental concerns are also addressed with information on plants and animals, endangered species, and conservation. Continental regional locator globes further aid curious young geographers, as do supplemental articles on global issues such as the world's changing climate, the preservation of natural resources, and population distribution. An informative map and map-making section discusses innovations in cartography.

The Kingfisher Young People's Pocket Atlas

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Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Daniel's Story 1st copy 

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Barnabas Kindersley

Anabel Kindersley

Susan E. Copsey

Harry Belafonte

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THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU - THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. As Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), I have traveled across the globe and met children and their families living in remarkably ditterent communities. Some of you live in rural villages, others in crowded cities. You live in rain forests, deserts, mountains, on islands, and some of you brave the cold of the Arctic tundra.
Your foods are different, your dress, your homes, your games, and your beliefs. You should be proud of these differences and celebrate your individual and unique cultures.
Yet as I travel, it is not the differences that strike me, but rather the magnificent similarities that make you all very much alike. You all have curiosity, fears, hopes, and dreams - as well as an extraordinary gift to open your hearts to others.
Wherever you live, you are entitled to protection and support by adults like me. These are your rights, and they are clearly outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a legal document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, signed and ratified by nearly every country in the world. It details your rights - to health care; food, education, play, shelter, and above all, to protection against violence, discrimination, and exploitation. This is your "constitution," and it belongs to you. It is written so that your voices are heard and that you really do come first.
In 1996, UNICEF celebrates 50 years of work for you - the children of the world. Mostly, it will be a celebration to honor you - all of you - and to pledge our support at UNICEF for the next 50 years to protecting your dreams and your future.
HARRY BELAFONTE, GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR UNICEF

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Washington

Children Just Like Me is a celebration of children around the world, published to coincide with UNICEF's 50th anniversary. For the past two years, a photographer and teacher have traveled to five continents to meet and talk to children from many different walks of like. Children will enjoy reading about the dreams and beliefs, hopes and fears, and day-to-day events of other children's lives, understanding not just the obvious differences between one another, but discovering the extraordinary similarities. Children are encouraged to participate in a special pen pal arrangement, so that they may share their own experiences with children in other countries.

Children Just Like Me

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Barbara Kerley

Juxtaposes photographs from around the world with a simple message about our responsibilities for making and keeping peace on the planet.

A Little Peace

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Thom Hartmann

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Neale Donald Walsch

A call to consciousness combining spiritually and ecology that offers hope for the future.

Waking up to Personal and Global Transformation

Sunlight makes life on earth possible. As humankind evolved from hunter-gatherers, we've learned how to use more and more sunlight, which is stored in the form of fossil fuel. Now we're drawing deeply from the last great reserves, while our numbers keep growing. How can we avoid disaster? In this passionate yet clear-eyed call to consciousness which combines spirituality and ecology, Hartmann explores the pervasive cultural insanity that threatens our planet, and suggests ways we as individuals can find the path to survival.

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

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Augustine Sedgewick

Massachusetts

One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester, England, founded one of the world’s great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history—a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland,” but for starkly different reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present. Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism.

Coffeeland

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A great, compact, resource for the busy executive. Lessons learned provides instant access to the wisdom of those considered to be the worlds greatest business leaders. 

Straight Talk From The World’s Top Business Leaders

Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in business, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced. The contributors share surprisingly personal anecdotes and offer authoritative and practical advice drawn from their years of hard-earned experience.

The series launches with three volumes, each of which centers on a timely topic:
· Leading by Example: Discover the secrets to leading effectively--from top executives at KPMG Worldwide, Quest Diagnostics, Virgin Galactic, and other giants.
· Managing Your Career: Find out how to identify and achieve the career you want--from exceptional leaders at McKinsey & Company, Lloyds TSB Group, Heidrick & Struggles, among others.
· Managing Change: Learn how to lead major transformation efforts--from successful change champions at Philips Lighting, JPMorgan Chase, Coca Cola Company, and other top firms.

A crucial resource for today's busy executive, Lessons Learned gives you instant access to the wisdom and expertise of the world's most talented leaders.


Leading by Example

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Katharine Scholes

Sierra Club Books

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Explains, in simple terms, the concept of peace, why conflicts occur, how they can be resolved in positive ways, and how to protect peace.

Peace Begins with You

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William D. Turner

Florida

A History of UPCI Global Missions: Asia, Europe/MiddleEast, Central America/Caribbean

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Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters--career soldier, controversial strategist, prize-winning, best-selling novelist, erstwhile rock musician, popular columnist, and old-fashioned adventurer--has always been good for a surprise. Now, for the first time, Peters recounts the personal experiences that shaped his views of the world, from the collapsing Soviet Union to the drug wars of the Andean Ridge, from quiet forays into Burma and Laos to military missions to Pakistan and the Caucasus--and on to the Southwest border of the United States and the meanest streets of Los Angeles. As the U.S. Army's chosen troubleshooter before he took off his uniform to write, Peters saw the greatest international dramas of our times and the personal tragedies they created from a truly unique perspective--and took advantage of every moment "outside of the wire." The result is the liveliest adventure memoir by an American in decades, a perfect balance of high drama and laugh-out-loud hilarity. Readers--among them his many devoted fans--will meet a faded beauty and former favorite singer of Josef Stalin's, now in her nineties and still a hopeless coquette; KGB officers who refuse to let go of the past in Moscow's back streets; a winsome princess adrift in a dying world; the corrupt Thai police general whose hobby was imitating Elvis to karaoke machines in rural bordellos; sentimental Caucasian gangsters; oblivious diplomats; wary Burmese colonels; doomed Mexican drug cops; Mennonite marijuana farmers; lonesome Nazi widows in Bolivia--and their Jewish friends; Muslim fundamentalists who write love poetry to imagined sweethearts . . . and, above all, the author's two loyal brothers-in-arms who sometimes shared the dangers and the wonder at the "back of beyond" and whose remarkable personal backgrounds, dashingly eccentric personalities, and appetite for adventure explode every cliché about military officers. Beautifully written and hauntingly told, Looking for Trouble is simply the book Ralph Peters was born to write. We can all be glad that he came back alive to write it.

Adventures in a Broken World

Ralph Peters--career soldier, controversial strategist, prize-winning, best-selling novelist, erstwhile rock musician, popular columnist, and old-fashioned adventurer--has always been good for a surprise. Now, for the first time, Peters recounts the personal experiences that shaped his views of the world, from the collapsing Soviet Union to the drug wars of the Andean Ridge, from quiet forays into Burma and Laos to military missions to Pakistan and the Caucasus--and on to the Southwest border of the United States and the meanest streets of Los Angeles. As the U.S. Army's chosen troubleshooter before he took off his uniform to write, Peters saw the greatest international dramas of our times and the personal tragedies they created from a truly unique perspective--and took advantage of every moment "outside of the wire."

The result is startling: the liveliest adventure memoir by an American in decades, a perfect balance of high drama and laugh-out-loud hilarity. Readers--among them his many devoted fans--will meet a faded beauty and former favorite singer of Josef Stalin's, now in her nineties and still a hopeless coquette; KGB officers who refuse to let go of the past in Moscow's back streets; a winsome princess adrift in a dying world; the corrupt Thai police general whose hobby was imitating Elvis to karaoke machines in rural bordellos; sentimental Caucasian gangsters; oblivious diplomats; wary Burmese colonels; doomed Mexican drug cops; Mennonite marijuana farmers; lonesome Nazi widows in Bolivia--and their Jewish friends; Muslim fundamentalists who write love poetry to imagined sweethearts . . . and, above all, the author's two loyal brothers-in-arms who sometimes shared the dangers and the wonder at the "back of beyond" and whose remarkable personal backgrounds, dashingly eccentric personalities, and appetite for adventure explode every clich#65533; about military officers.

Beautifully written and hauntingly told, Looking for Trouble is simply the book Ralph Peters was born to write. We can all be glad that he came back alive to write it.

Looking for Trouble

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In the no-holds-barred tradition that has won him so many fans across the nation and around the world, best-selling author and strategist Ralph Peters confronts the crucial security issues of our time and the troubled times to come. With his trademark clarity and force, Peters argues that we have left behind the age of Ideologies to enter a violent period in which ethnicity and religion blood and faith will continue to be the source of ferocious rebellions, genocide and global terrorism. His compelling vision spares neither our foreign policy nor our domestic follies as the author ruthlessly outlines what it will take to protect our country against this new breed of enemies.

Drawing on the author's global experiences from Iraq to Africa, this book attacks crucial international issues.

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David Wiedemer; Robert A. Wiedemer; Cindy S. Spitzer

Aftershock

Dina Nayeri

Refuge

Melinda Gates

The Moment of Lift

Ann Sutton; Myron Sutton

Wildlife of the Forests

James Rollins

Kingdom of Bones

Russell Jacoby

On Diversity

Jeremy Black

World History (Minipedias)

David Wiedemer; Cindy S. Spitzer; Robert A. Wiedemer

Aftershock

Brian D. McLaren

Everything Must Change

Patricia C. McKissack; Ruthhilde Kronberg

Piece of the Wind

Stuart Hirschberg; Terry Hirschberg

One World, Many Cultures

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff (Editor); Time-Life Books Editors

Ancient Egypt

Jane Glicksman; Ruta Daugavietis

Cool Geography

Jim Miles (Editor); Linda Sonntag

The Kingfisher Young People's Pocket Atlas

Carol Matas; Carol Matas

Daniel's Story 1st copy

Barnabas Kindersley; Anabel Kindersley; Susan E. Copsey; Harry Belafonte

Children Just Like Me

Barbara Kerley

A Little Peace

Thom Hartmann; Joseph Chilton Pearce; Neale Donald Walsch

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

Augustine Sedgewick

Coffeeland

Fifty Lessons (Compiled by) Harvard Business School Press

Leading by Example

Katharine Scholes; Sierra Club Books

Peace Begins with You

William D. Turner

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Looking for Trouble

Ralph Peters

Never Quit the Fight