Author: U.S. Senate
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Keywords: wall, street, crash, causes, practices, investigation, stock, exchange, pecora
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2010-09-01
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 1616402806
ISBN-13: 9781616402808

by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency It reads like a news report from 2009, not 1929: investment practices that favored rich insiders, collusion between Wall Street and Washington DC, the repackaging of bad loans to get them off the books of offending banks, and numerous other financial crimes the impacts of which reverberated through the world economy. Between 1932 and 1934, Ferdinand J. Pecora (1882-1971), an American lawyer, served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency as it interrogated those responsible for the stock market cr

Author: Melissa Senate
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Keywords: ink, dress, red, marrying, questions
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0373895607
ISBN-13: 9780373895601

Ruby Miller and her fiancé, Tom Truby, have questions 1 to 14 almost covered. It’s question 15 that has the Maine schoolteacher stumped: Is their relationship strong enough to withstand challenges?Challenges like…Ruby’s twin sister, Stella. The professional muse, flirt and face reader thinks Ruby is playing it safe. And that the future Mrs. Ruby Truby will die of boredom before her first anniversary or her thirtieth birthday, whichever comes first.Challenges like…sexy maverick teacher Nick McDermott, Ruby’s secret longtime crush, who confesses his feelings for her at her

Author: Melissa Senate
Publisher: Downtown Press
Keywords: joy, secret
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-11-17
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1439107173
ISBN-13: 9781439107171

IS THE HALF SISTER THAT REBECCA STRANDHAS NEVER MET SHORT? TALL? RICH? POOR? PRETTY?FUNNY? MARRIED? LONELY? HAPPY?...Rebecca is about to find out. The New York City paralegal thought nothing could shake her life off its fast track -- which includes her handsome lawyer boyfriend and their extravagant condo. The shocking revelation that she even has a half sister comes from her dying father, in a hospital bed confession of a long-past summer affair...and now the dad she adores has one last wish: would Rebecca deliver a cache of letters he never sent to his other daughter, Joy Jayhawk, in a tiny

Authors:Barack Obama, U.S. Senate,
Publisher: Arc Manor
Keywords: works, own, believes, obama, barack
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1604501170
ISBN-13: 9781604501179

We are all familiar with the phenomenon known as Barack Obama. However, many of us don’t know what he has worked for while in the Senate-what sort of legislation has he, himself, sponsored or co-sponsored. This book provides an invaluable glimpse of what the Senator feels passionately about, listing and detailing all of the Senate Bills and Resolutions that Senator Barack Obama sponsored or co-sponsored during 2007, the first term of the 110th Congress.*****It also lists all the co-sponsors of these bills so you can see who he has worked with-which Democratic and Republican Senators he h

Author: Senate Select Committee
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: report, initiated, president, committee, historic, watergate, senate, ervin
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2005-07-26
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0786717092
ISBN-13: 9780786717095

At the moment when the long-concealed identity of the Watergate scandal’s most famous source, Deep Throat, has finally been revealed as former FBI deputy director Mark Felt, it is only appropriate that the historic Senate Select Committee report that helped trigger the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974 should be made available to a new generation. Here it all is: the break-in and cover-up, the wire taps, the dirty campaign tricks, the attempts to improperly influence government agencies, and the ensuing trail of lies and deceptions all laid out in painstaking detail.

Author: Senate Commission on Food Safety SKLM
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: risks, forschungsberichte, dfg, benefits, health, processing, food, potential, thermal
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2007-04-24
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 3527319093
ISBN-13: 9783527319091

This is the latest and most authoritative documentation of current scientific knowledge regarding the health effects of thermal food processing. Authors from all over Europe and the USA provide an international perspective, weighing up the risks and benefits. In addition, the contributors outline those areas where further research is necessary.