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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Seventh Printing. 233pp. Edgewear, gentle creasing to rear cover, and bumping to head and tail of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter inch tear and minor edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket; otherwise, as-new copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and puts forward bold measures to solve it. He calls for an aggressive response--a restructuring of the institutional foundations of the financial system that will not only allow people once again to buy and sell homes with confidence, but will create the conditions for greater prosperity in America and throughout the deeply interconnected world economy. Shiller blames the subprime crisis on the irrational exuberance that drove the economy's two most recent bubbles--in stocks in the 1990s and in housing between 2000 and 2007. He shows how these bubbles led to the dangerous overextension of credit now resulting in foreclosures, bankruptcies, and write-offs, as well as a global credit crunch. To restore confidence in the markets, Shiller argues, bailouts are needed in the short run. But he insists that these bailouts must be targeted at low-income victims of subprime deals. In the longer term, the subprime solution will require leaders to revamp the financial framework by deploying an ambitious package of initiatives to inhibit the formation of bubbles and limit risks, including better financial information; simplified legal contracts and regulations; expanded markets for managing risks; home equity insurance policies; income-linked home loans; and new measures to protect consumers against hidden inflationary effects. This powerful book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got into the subprime mess--and how we can get out. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BC1 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and white photo illustrated brown wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. The author is a winner of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Tolerance Book Award. By the author of "The Moral Dimension," "The Limits of Privacy," and "The New Golden Rule." Endnotes, indexed, 309p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. AIDS is not caused by HIV. Coal and oil are not fossil fuels. Radiation exposure is good for you. Distributing more guns reduces crime. These ideas make headlines, but most educated people scoff at them. Yet some of science's most important concepts-from gravity to evolution-have surfaced from the pool of crazy ideas. In fact, a good part of science is distinguishing between useful crazy ideas and those that are just plain nutty. In this book, a well-known physicist with an affinity for odd ideas applies his open mind to nine controversial propositions on topical subjects. Some, it turns out, are considerably lower on the cuckoo scale than others. Robert Ehrlich evaluates, for the general reader or student, nine seemingly far-out propositions culled from physics, biology, and social science. In the process, he demonstrates in easy-to-understand terms how to weigh an argument, judge someone's use of statistics, identify underlying assumptions, and ferret out secret agendas. His conclusions are sometimes surprising. For instance, he finds that while HIV does cause AIDS and the universe almost certainly started with a big bang, our solar system could have two suns, faster-than-light particles might exist, and time travel can't be ruled out as mere science fiction. Anyone interested in unorthodox ideas will get a kick out of this book. And, as a fun way of learning how to think like a scientist, it has enormous educational value. Of course, only time will tell whether any of these nine ideas will be the next continental drift--the now orthodox account of the Earth's geology that was for years just a crazy idea. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped Darwin, and stickers proclaiming Jesus Loves You are countered by Darwin Loves You. The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that Darwin Loves You may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight. Darwin, Levine shows, saw a world from which his theory had banished transcendence as still lovable and enchanted, and we can see it like that too--if we look at his writings and life in a new way. Although Darwin could find sublimity even in ants or worms, the word Darwinian has largely been taken to signify a disenchanted world driven by chance and heartless competition. Countering the pervasive view that the facts of Darwin's world must lead to a disenchanting vision of it, Levine shows that Darwin's ideas and the language of his books offer an alternative form of enchantment, a world rich with meaning and value, and more wonderful and beautiful than ever before. Without minimizing or sentimentalizing the harsh qualities of life governed by natural selection, and without deifying Darwin, Levine makes a moving case for an enchanted secularism--a commitment to the value of the natural world and the human striving to understand it. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Marshalling historical materials to make a descriptive argument in social theory, this wide-ranging book compares the liberal revolution in France to the liberal revolutions in England and America and argues that the causes and outcomes of these upheavals were decisive in shaping later patterns of politics. Conflict is the stuff of politics, writes Anne Sa'adah, and liberal politics, because of its emphasis on the individual and its legitimation of self-interest, complicates the task of creating political community in a particularly interesting way. In England and America, the tension between conflict and community was resolved in a manner consistent with political stability. In France, the tension produced an instability that has surfaced periodically throughout subsequent French history. Why this is so is the subject of a work that treats the making of the modern political world in an unusually systematic way. In France, England, and America, the relationship of the state to society under the prerevolutionary regime limited revolutionary options. Sa'adah focuses on how this relationship created a politics of exclusion in France, while allowing a politics of transaction in England and America. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 171 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. AE - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has half inch tear on the back top right corner, book has light foxing on the top page edges, dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.75", 398 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. 317pp. Edgewear, creasing and curling to covers, and water stain to top fore-edge. Out of print.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Revised. AK3 - An ex-library hardcover book in good condition that has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), some bumped corners, worn top spine and corners, residue and peeling on the front fixed end paper and first page, most of the first page is missing/detached, some loose hinge, discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Good book with ink underlining, margin marks, and notes on about 110 of 295 pages; and short ink note on rear pastedown endpaper. In VG DJ with light rubbing and sunned spine; DJ in mylar cover.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BC2 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and white reproduction illustrated black and burgandy paper wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A book that examines the creation and management of Russian foundling care programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The author examines the efforts of these institutions to deal with abandonment and infanticide and act as contact points between educated society and the village as well as artisans and craftspeople. Bibliography, indexed, 330p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Some light rubbing, discoloration and edgewear, a few very minor tears. Text has some discoloration on front and back end and free papers, but is otherwise clean and tight in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Near Fine in stiff wraps. 1st pb Edition. ISBN: 0691000603 1st pb Edition Near Fine in stiff wraps. ISBN: 0691000603.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine book in price-clipped DJ with price-sticker residue on front panel and small scuff mark near foot of spine; DJ protected by mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards show light shelf wear, previous owner's name is on front paste down, light soiling to boards. Tight copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Trade Paperback -- FINE -- Clean and bright with only slightest of shelf wear -- 227 pages with index and illustrations throughout.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover -- VG/VG -- Ex-Library -- Book and dust jacket show only light wear -- 233 pages with index -- First Edition w/full # string. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Fifth Princeton University Press Printing 1974.Used trade paperback with very light reading wear. Binding is tight with no creases to the spine. The ffep has been removed. This book has light glossing and underlining. Minor rubbing wear to the edges of the wrappers. 278 pp.

charts, graphs, figures. (illustrator). First Edition. ISBN: 0691059470 First Edition. charts, graphs, figures. Good, one tip slightly bumped and puncture affecting a few pgs. ISBN: 0691059470 Good, one tip slightly bumped and puncture affecting a few pgs.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth hardback with gold print on spine. Sun fading to spine; bumping and scuffing, minor shelf wear to boards. Store stamp on bottom of inside front cover. Paste down paper torn off along top edge of inside front cover. Appears something had been glued to inside back cover and has been removed leaving residue. Interior tight and clean. 200 pages. In glycine cover. No DJ. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good book with date stamp on final page (text is unmarked), small area of price-sticker residue on front paste-down endpaper, and tiny tear in cloth at head of spine; in spine-sunned DJ with liht wear to head and foot of spine.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. xviii, 182pp [some fading around spine] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Color plates, b&w illustrations (illustrator). Fourth printing thus. [xviii], 284pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. 356 pages, indexed. Paperback in black wrappers. There is light wear and rubbing to the binding. The text is clean and sound with no markings. Contains sixteen pages of illustrations.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bound in original white illustrated wrappers. Normal to light reading wear with a touch of curl to the fore-edge of the front cover and rounded fore edge corners on the front cover. The spine is uncreased.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage. Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit. Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values. He discusses the dangers posed by increased secrecy in corporate-funded research, for-profit Internet companies funded by venture capitalists, industry-subsidized educational programs for physicians, conflicts of interest in research on human subjects, and other questionable activities. While entrepreneurial universities may occasionally succeed in the short term, reasons Bok, only those institutions that vigorously uphold academic values, even at the cost of a few lucrative ventures, will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students. Candid, evenhanded, and eminently readable, Universities in the Marketplace will be widely debated by all those concerned with the future of higher education in America and beyond. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hard Cover in Very Good condition. Clean, Strong binding and unmarked pages. No underlining or notes in the margins. Minor scuffing of the covers .Dust Jacket in GOOD condition with small rips and tears. CAREFULLY PACKED in a sturdy BOX. All USA orders ship with tracking number and email confirmation. Because of the expensive cost of international shipping, INTERNATIONAL buyers MUST contact me first to arrange a shipping quote to your country.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A former library book in excellent condition-plastic over dust jacket with tape holding it in place. Library stickers on title page and last page. A collection of essays on American liberalism, featuring Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.