books about: catastrophe     books:     Catastrophe      Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes, Revised and Updated Edition Michael J. Panzner Kaplan Publishing, 2008 Credit Default swaps make up the fastest growing segment of the $415 trillion derivatives market 1. Hedge funds are structured around a performance-based compensation system. Hedge fund advisors are paid an incentive fee based on how well they do. Hedge fund advisors get a 20 percent cut above a preset benchmark, in addition to a 2 percent fee, of the total funds ...             Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen Mark Buchanan Three Rivers Press, 2002 One of the best This is the book that I would like to have written. Although being a popular account, it is scientifically accurate and carefull in its suggestions, always informing the reader what is consolidated science and what is scientific speculation. In contrast to a previous ...             Christmas Catastrophe (Geronimo Stilton) Geronimo Stilton Scholastic Paperbacks, 2007 Offers recipes, jokes, interesting hospital information, skiing rules and games Geronimo cannot resist his nephew, Benjamin, when he pleads to be taken skiing. The moment Geronimo offers to treat, a pack of friends and relatives decides to go skiing with them. Before you can say "Swiss Cheese," Geronimo is paying huge bills for a nice lodge on ...             Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness Jon Kabat-Zinn Delta, 1990 Healing for the Heart and Head I bought this book in the middle of a year-long battle with insomnia--not the typical life-changing trauma that brings many others to this book, but insomnia destroyed me both physically and emotionally. My doctor suggested anti-depressants, and a friend suggested Full ...             Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change Elizabeth Kolbert Bloomsbury USA, 2006 I was not an environmentalist. Now I am. This book will change the way you look at your impact on the world. Whether you consider the environment to be an important issue or not, it is well worth your time to read this short yet powerful book. The world is changing, fast, and it is becoming impossible to ...             A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Edward J. Larson Free Press, 2008 Vivid re-creation of 1800 election Edward J. Larson's magnificent look at America's first disputed election manages to remain very suspenseful (what will Pennsylvania finally do?) even though we all know how it turned out. In brief, in the days before the 12th Amendment (and this election was ...             Camping Catastrophe (Ready, Freddy!) Abby Klein The Blue Sky Press, 2008 GOTTA Buy ALL Ready Freddy Books!! I can't say enough about the Ready Freddy series books! They're humorous, interactive, educational...and just plain old fun! Let's put it this way I began reading these to my 4 and 6 year old boys just before school let out for the summer and in a matter of 2 1/2 ...             The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ... Grove Press, 2006 The Long Emergency An excellent argument that we are at or approaching the peak oil production plateau, and speculates on the drastic future we may expect. Well done. Provokes a lot of thought about how one should adapt to eventually intolerable circumstances!             The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know ... Iain Murray Regnery Publishing, 2008 the really inconvenient truths The Author makes very sound arguments as to the underlying reasons liberals have such an intense disdain for anything that is contrary to their position. When real truth is held up and given a fair stage onto which to expound its arguments, honest logic prevails. ...             Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments John Waggoner Wiley, 2008 Very insightful This is a great read on the whole mortgage industry. Lots of interesting trivia and it makes a complicated issue very understandable. Great analogies that help piece it together. Waggoner is extremely witty.             Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes Barbara Hand Clow Bear & Company, 2001 Catastrophobia: Have We Been Viewing the Film in Reverse? Barbara Hand Clow is a noted astrologer, shaman, teacher, theologian and trained anthropologist, a tireless researcher, and the author of a number of important and best-selling books including "Pleiadian Agenda" and "Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner and Outer ...             Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the ... Stephan Talty Three Rivers Press, 2008 Great Book Absolute page turner. It provided great detail on not only the life of Henry Mrogan but many sub plots as well.             Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe (Vintage) Robert Gellately Vintage, 2008 Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: Three evil dictactors plunge Europe into the inferno of world war and millions of needless deaths The twentieth century has gone down in infamy as the bloodiest century in history. This horrible fact is due to many political and economic factors most notably World War I and World War II. In no small measure this holocaust was created, nurtured and led by the three ...             The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization Thomas Homer-Dixon Island Press, 2008 Reflecting in the fog The key question in this book is raised in the very middle: "Why don't we face reality?" A major reason is that we are groping in a fog to learn what that reality is. Homer-Dixon likens our society to a driver careering along a country road in a dense fog. We can ...             From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves David Berardinelli Trial Guides, 2008 It's the story the insurance industry doesn't want you to know. Now, for the first time, the story covered in the "lawyer only" book From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves is available to the pubic. Find out for yourself why insurance claims are being improperly denied, delayed, and defended at trial. 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