Titles of interest.In Origins of the Crash (Penguin Books), business journalist Roger Lowenstein Roger Lowenstein, an American financial journalist, reported for the Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, including two years writing its Heard on the Street column, 1989 to 1991. explains the 2000 stock market debacle and the subsequent increase of corporate scandals A corporate scandal is a scandal involving allegations of unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. A corporate scandal sometimes involves accounting fraud of some sort. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Rather than concentrating purely on financial details, Lowenstein reveals the culture of corruption "Culture of corruption" is a political slogan used by the United States Democratic Party to refer to a series of political scandals affecting the Republican Party during George W. Bush's second term as President of the United States. that has plagued the U.S. business world since the 1980s. He argues that it is not the disaster that should be explained, rather the economic boom and the factors that led to the inevitable decline. Oil exploration has peaked. Scientists now predict the rapid depletion of fossil fuels, and a petroleum energy crisis will occur sooner than later. In this alarming book, Out of Gas (Norton), professor David Goodstein David L. Goodstein (born 1939) is a U.S. physicist and educator. Since 1988, he has served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. explains the scientific theories regarding the unavoidable fuel crisis we face. The book outlines the disastrous impact that running out of oil will have on our existence, a way of life that revolves around the cheap and abundant supply of a nevertheless limited resource. |
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