The Fateful History of Fannie Mae:: New Deal Birth to Mortgage Crisis Fall James R. Hagerty
In 1938, the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a small agency called Fannie Mae. Intended to make home loans more accessible, the agency was born of the Great Depression and a government desperate to revive housing construction. It was a minor detail of the New Deal, barely recorded by the newspapers of the day. Over the next seventy years, Fannie Mae evolved into one of the largest financial companies in the world, owned by private shareholders but with its nearly $1 trillion of debt effectively guaranteed by the government. Almost from the beginning, critics repeatedly warned that Fannie was an accident waiting to happen. Then, in 2008, the housing market collapsed. Amid a wave of foreclosures, the company's capital began to run out, and the U.S. Treasury seized control...
Federal Evidence: Expert Witnesses, Hearsay and Hearsay Exceptions: E Borrowing OK Professor Steven
A law school book. Expert witness evidence must be necessary for jury understanding of facts and then go through certain hoops to be admitted. These hoops include the relevance of the evidence to the facts of the particular trial. Hearsay is the biggest single law school issue and is heavily tested. All the federal rules and all the exceptions to the hearsay rule are in this book, properly explained and illustrated in understandable language. StudyPrivatelyForTheBar.com No more law school tears**About the AuthorCaliforniabarhelp.com No more bar exam tears
The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration Into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine Joseph Tafur and Gabor Maté
“This is the medicine of the future, the big answer to what ails us in the West. For millennia the doctor and the medicine man were one and the same person. Dr. Tafur takes us into the heart of the Amazon and shows us how spirit can heal the body, how love can repair the soul, and how awakening to our higher purpose and mission in life can open the doors to health and long life. Brilliant!” Alberto Villoldo, PhD, bestselling author of Shaman, Healer, Sage and One Spirit Medicine “Dr. Tafur's timely book takes us on an enchanted adventure through the emerging world of Amazonian shamanism. All along the way, he engages the reader with personal stories that illuminate his exciting and evolving philosophy of medicine and healing.” Andrew Weil, MD, bestselling author of Spontaneous Healing ...
Female competition in chimpanzees Anne E. Pusey, Kara Schroepfer-Walker
Female chimpanzees exhibit exceptionally slow rates of reproduction and raise their offspring without direct paternal care. Therefore, their reproductive success depends critically on long-term access to high-quality food resources over a long lifespan. Chimpanzee communities contain multiple adult males, multiple adult females and their offspring. Because males are philopatric and jointly defend the community range while most females transfer to new communities before breeding, adult females are typically surrounded by unrelated competitors. Communities are fission–fusion societies in which individuals spend time alone or in fluid subgroups, whose size depends mostly on the abundance and distribution of food. To varying extents in different populations, females avoid direct competition by...
Filosofía del budismo Zen Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han busca hacer explícita la filosofía que está implícita en el budismo Zen, y lo hace a través de la comparación con los filósofos más destacados de la filosofía occidental. Byung-Chul Han nos propone en este ensayo sobre el budismo zen que es posible reflexionar de modo filosófico sobre un objeto que no implica ninguna filosofía en sentido estricto. Aunque el budismo Zen se caracteriza por su actitud escéptica con el lenguaje y el pensamiento conceptual, Han propone que podemos dar vueltas lingüísticas en torno a su uso del silencio y el lenguaje enigmático. Para ello, Han recurre a la comparación como un método que saca a la luz el sentido. La filosofía del budismo Zen se alimenta de un «filosofar sobre» y «con» el budismo Zen, con el objetivo de desarrollar conceptualmente l...
Finding Peace With ADHD Mind: Quick Ways to Reduce Stress, Think Clearly and Calm Down Ryan McRae
Our ADHD can be a brutal force when it comes to anxiety. We can't seem to stop the ADHD engine when it comes to what we need to worry about our what our most recent failure was. Our ADHD can't help us remember where we last put our car keys, but it will remind us of the time we fainted in the 3rd grade play or when we left our term paper on the kitchen table. Our anxiety takes us away from the joys of life, from the relationships we desperately want and the calmness we see everyone else having. How can we experience peace with an ADHD mind? My book, Finding Peace with an ADHD Mind, can help you use your ADHD to help you reduce your stress and think clearly instead of the panic induced fog our ADHD usually gives us. I offer tactics on how to: Calmly go into conflict.Use simple mindfuln...
Finland History: Origins of the Finns, the Era of Swedish Rule, 1150-1809, Independence and the Interwar Era, 1917-39, Society, Economy, Government and Politics Henry Albinson
History of Finland Also include, Finland Culture, Finland government and politics, Finland art and culture, Finland tourism and investment. Present-day Finland became habitable in about 8,000 B.C., following the northward retreat of the glaciers, and at about that time Neolithic peoples migrated into the country. According to the legends found in the Finnish folk epic, the Kalevala, those early inhabitants included the people of the mythical land Pohjola, against whom the Kalevala people-- identified with the Finns--struggled; however, archaeological and linguistic evidence of the prehistory of the region is fragmentary.According to the traditional view of Finnish prehistory, ancestors of the Finns migrated westward and northward from their ancestral home in the Volga River basin during th...
First and Last Hilaire Belloc
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.**
Fisica de Aristoteles, Coleccion La Critica Literaria Por El Celebre Critico Literario Juan Bautista Bergua, Ediciones Ibericas Aristoteles
Un estudio detallado sobre la obra maestra Física de Aristóteles traducido por Edmundo Gonzalez-Blanco, con cientos de notas además de una extensa introducción. Editado por Juan Bautista Bergua y presentado por Manuel Fdez. de la Cueva, profesor de filosofía. Aristóteles (384-322 a. C.) escribió Física hacia el año 335 a. C. y se compone de ocho libros. En el Libro I busca los principios de las cosas naturales. En el Libro II estudia las causas de la naturaleza. El libro III trata el movimiento y el concepto de 'infinito'. Libros IV, V y VI son una continuación del libro anterior. En el libro IV Aristóteles estudia el tiempo y, en este capítulo, se encuentran algunas de las páginas más bellas que sobre este tema jamás se han escrito. En el Libro VII Aristóteles estudia la relación del Prim...
Fisica de Aristóteles Aristoteles
El movimiento natural es aquel que le corresponde a una sustancia en virtud de sus propiedades naturales. El movimiento o cambio natural consiste en la modificación que sufre una entidad como consecuencia de su “afán” por la consecución de la forma a la que tiende, del fin al que aspira. El movimiento natural puede ser en función de la cualidad (el cambio que sufre una hoja en otoño), de la cantidad (el crecimiento de un árbol), pero también local. Este último punto es importante pues la física aristotélica hará difícil la introducción del principio de inercia al establecer que el estado natural de las cosas sublunares es el del reposo en el suelo en el caso de las cosas pesadas, y el estar arriba en el caso de la ligeras como el humo, siendo cualquier otro movimiento local algo que les oc...
Florence: The History and Legacy of the Birthplace of the Renaissance Charles River Editors
Includes picturesIncludes contemporary accounts of FlorenceIncludes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIncludes a table of contents When historians are asked to pick a point in history when Western civilization was transformed and guided down the path to modernity, most of them point to the Renaissance. Indeed, the Renaissance revolutionized art, philosophy, religion, sciences and math, with individuals like Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dante, and Petrarch bridging the past and modern society. Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the place that started and developed the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century. If Florence is receiving its due credit, much of i...
A Flowershop in Baghdad Michael Banzet
Named to Kirkus Reviews "Best of 2013" and Amazon's "Hot, New Releases in 2013", this inspiring look at American exceptionalism in Iraq was recently featured in the Air Force Times. Seen through an airman's lens, Major Banzet describes the USAF’s efforts to build a credible, accountable partner in the deserts of the Middle East. Through humor and tragedy, Major Banzet describes the hidden efforts of the American, British and desperately courageous Iraqis to build a new Air Force out of war and destruction. With a perceptive eye and rare wit, he compares the two cultures; both aiming to rebuild and grow the next generation of the young Iraqi men and women that could determine the fate of the Middle East for the next fifty years. You won’t forget this book.**
The Formation of Saudi Arabia: The History of the Arabian Peninsula’s Unification and the Discovery of Oil Charles River Editors
Includes picturesIncludes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents At the conclusion of World War I, a once promised unified Arab state, which was to include the modern Hejaz, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, Jordan and Iraq, did not materialize. Instead, the territories were divided between the French and British, but the British did reward the Hashemites by putting local leaders on the thrones of Iraq and Jordan. In 1924, when the revolutionary government of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk declared Turkey a secular state and abolished the Caliphate, the Sharif (now King) declared himself Caliph, and it appeared that a new Arab-based Caliphate centered on Mecca would emerge . However, this was also not to be, because the Saudis had reformed their power...
Foundations of Social Evolution Steven A. Frank
This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. Steven Frank tackles the problem with a highly original combination of approaches: game theory, classical models of natural selection, quantitative genetics, and kin selection. He unites these with the best of economic thought: a clear theory of model formation and comparative statics, the development of simple methods for analyzing complex problems, and notions of information and rationality. Using this unique, multidisciplinary approach, Frank makes major advances in understanding the foundations of social evolution.Frank begins by developing the three measures of value used in biology--marginal value, reproductive value, and kin selection. He...
Four Seconds Peter Bregman
Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones.The things we want most—peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work—are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In 4 Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds—the length of a deep breath—allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. 4 Seconds reveals: Why listening—not ...
Four Seconds Peter Bregman
Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones.The things we want most—peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work—are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In 4 Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds—the length of a deep breath—allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. 4 Seconds reveals: Why listening—not ...
Fractals William Bradley
In his seminal book The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Benoit Mandelbrot wrote, "A cauliflower shows how an object can be made of many parts, each of which is like a whole, but smaller. Many plants are like that. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale." In this collection of linked essays, William Bradley presents us with small glimpses of his larger consciousness, which is somewhat irregular itself. Reflecting on subjects as diverse as soap opera actors, superheroes, mortality, and marriage, these essays endeavor to reveal what we have in common, the connections we share that demonstrate that we are all fractals, in a sense—self-similar component parts of...
Fractals--Seeing Nature's Hidden Dimension: An Interactive Book for Children and Their Parents Sara Deutsch
**FRACTAL MAGIC FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS**FRACTALS--Seeing Nature's Hidden Dimension is an interactive book, for children from 7-14 years old and their parents, about opening our eyes to see the strange, beautiful forms of fractals everywhere. The whole universe is fractal, and seeing fractals can change the way you look at your world! In this richly illustrated book with 40 images, you will see fractals in trees, leaves, landscapes, water, rivers, clouds, flowers, snow, lightning, vegetables, biological networks, birds and sea creatures, as well as the author's inspired, fractal paintings. Old Euclidean math deals with simple smooth shapes like points, lines, circles, cubes and squares, It’s useful for describing things that people make--buildings, bridges, industrial goods--but c...
Fractals: A Programmer's Approach Ben Trube
Fractals for a new generation! Understand and write your own fractal programs without the heavy math. Step by step programs guide you through such topics as The Chaos Game, Affine Transformations, Turtle Graphics, L-Systems, the Mandelbrot set, and Julia set. Includes hundreds of fractal images, example programs, and detailed explanations of many fractal topics.**
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Life From Beginning to End Hourly History
Franklin D. Roosevelt * Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside! * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.** One of America’s most influential presidents was a man who could not walk. The polio that struck Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he was a future political star did not diminish him. Instead, against all expectations, it was the agent that forged his destiny. He came from an affluent family; a cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, had been president; another Roosevelt cousin, Eleanor, would become the wife who transformed the role of First Lady into her version of the bully pulpit. However, FDR’s path to politics was far different from the one that Theodore traveled. Inside you will read about...✓ The Roosevelt Household: Son, Mother, Wife✓...
Freeconomics - Making Millions Giving It Away Martin Martinez
Who doesn't like getting something for FREE? Think of companies such as Google & Facebook, which mastered the power of FREE to generate billions of dollars in profit, whilst never charging for their services. Beyond Internet companies, many businesses are trying to harness the benefits of making part of or all of their products or services FREE of charge to their consumers, with the objective to start, grow and ultimately profit to various degrees of success. Unfortunately, many are going broke doing it before they reach their goals. 'Freeconomics - Making Millions Giving it Away' shares multiple proven business models used around the world by entrepreneurs for maximum benefit. Giving away your product or service has never been so profitable!**
French Revolution: A History From Beginning to End Hourly History
French Revolution * Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside! * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.** During the late years of the eighteenth century, the spirit of Enlightenment thinking and revolution were in the air. The world was changing, moving away from ingrained beliefs about religion, reason, society, and the rights of the individual and turning more towards the laws of nature as interpreted by the scientific method. Nowhere was the influence of this radical new way of thinking more apparent than in France, and the upheaval this caused would come to bloody fruition in the form of revolution. Inside you will read about...✓ An Environment of Revolution✓ Rise of the Third Estate✓ The Rights of Man✓ Vive la Revolution!✓ Reign of...
French and Indian War: A History From Beginning to End Hourly History
French and Indian War * Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside! * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.** The French and Indian War is one of the most significant, yet least acknowledged and understood, periods of American history. Fought chiefly between the two imperial powers of England and France in the mid-18th century, the struggle would also draw in native Indian nations who sought to exert their own strength and sovereignty over the North American continent. Inside you will read about...✓ Imperial Appetites✓ Sparks Ignite✓ Rumours of War✓ Pitt Rising✓ The Montcalm Before the Storm✓ Fortresses Fall✓ From the Plains of Abraham to Peace From the first shots fired in the Ohio Valley wilderness in 1754 until the Treaty of Paris s...
The Fundraising Rules Mark Peter Davis
The Fundraising Rules is a very clear explanation of the startup fundraising process, written by a person who has been on both sides of the fundraising process as a venture capitalist, angel investor and venture-backed startup founder. This book will guide you through the fundraising process from planning your fundraising strategy, to creating pitch materials, to getting the meeting, to closing the deal. You can read more about Mark Peter Davis, the author, on his blog http://mpd.me or follow him on Twitter http://twitter.com/mpd.WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:“THIS IS VERY CLEAR!”- Julien Smith, NY Times Best Selling Author and Startup CEO“A practical guide from someone who has seen thousands of pitches - read it to get the inside track on how to get funded with the least amount of pain.”- Jeff B...
Fundraising for the GENIUS Linda Lysakowski
Whether you are a “newbie” to fundraising or an experienced fundraiser concerned about shrinking funding sources, Fundraising for the GENIUS will guide you every step of the way toward fundraising success.Thomas Edison famously said that “genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Reading this For the GENIUSTM book shows that you have the inspiration to master the art and science of fundraising. Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE, helps you with the perspiration part by showing you how to dramatically increase your fundraising results by employing tried-and-true methods used by the most successful nonprofits and institutions. Learn how to develop an integrated fundraising program that allows you to leverage your human and financial resources to create a strong organization....
Fundraising: Crash Course! Fundraising Ideas & Strategies to Raise Money for Non-Profits & Businesses (Fundraising for Nonprofits, Fundraising for Business, ... Raise Money, Crowdfunding, Entrepreneur) Arnold Taggert
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