Author: David L. Mason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: savings, loan, industry, american, history, loans, bail, outs, buildings
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2004-07-05
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 052182754X
ISBN-13: 9780521827546

For most Americans, the savings and loan industry is defined by the fraud, ineptitude, and failures of the 1980s. These events, however, overshadow a long history in which thrifts played a key role in helping thousands of households buy homes. First appearing in the 1830s, savings and loans, then known as building and loans, encouraged their working-class members to adhere to the principles of thrift and mutual cooperation as a way to achieve the ’American Dream’ of home ownership. This book traces the development of this industry, from its origins as a movement of loosely affiliat

Author: David S. Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: century, american
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2009-11-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0742557022
ISBN-13: 9780742557024

This compelling and persuasive book is the first to explore all of the interrelated aspects of America’s decline. Hard-hitting and provocative, yet measured and clearly written, The End of the American Century demonstrates the phases of social, economic, and international decline that mark the end of a period of world dominance that began with World War II. David S. Mason convincingly shows that the war on terror and the Iraq War have exacerbated American domestic weakness and malaise and tarnished its image and stature in the world community. The collapse of the U.S. financial system is

Authors:J.C. Mason, David C. Handscomb,
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: polynomials, chebyshev
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-09-17
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0849303559
ISBN-13: 9780849303555

Chebyshev polynomials crop up in virtually every area of numerical analysis, and they hold particular importance in recent advances in subjects such as orthogonal polynomials, polynomial approximation, numerical integration, and spectral methods. Yet no book dedicated to Chebyshev polynomials has been published since 1990, and even that work focused primarily on the theoretical aspects. A broad, up-to-date treatment is long overdue.Providing highly readable exposition on the subject’s state of the art, Chebyshev Polynomials is just such a treatment. It includes rigorous yet down-to-earth

Author: David Mason Greene
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Keywords: composers, important, over, ancient, greeks, present, achievements, day, lives, encyclopedia, biographical, music, lover, greene, treasury, musical
Number of Pages: 1348
Published: 1985-09-25
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0385142781
ISBN-13: 9780385142786

Authors:David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth,
Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub.
Keywords: player, advance, players, advanced, poker
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1999-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1880685221
ISBN-13: 9781880685228

Texas Hold ’em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you must balance many concepts, some of which occasionally contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of players, were made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, and the hold ’em explosion had begun. It is now a new century, and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including extensive sections on "loose games," and "short-handed games." Anyone who studies this text,

Authors:Millicent King Channell, David C Mason,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: consult, minute, series, manipulative, osteopathic, medicine
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0781779537
ISBN-13: 9780781779531

This pocket-sized book is the first osteopathic clinical manual to be organized by diagnoses in a two-page, quick-reference format. In the tradition of The 5-Minute Consult Series, each diagnosis is presented on a two-page spread. The first page has a definition of the disease, a list of associated autonomic and motor innervations, and a list of common somatic dysfunctions. The second page lists the techniques that might be used for those somatic dysfunctions. The second page is further subdivided into three levels of treatment: 2-minute, 5-minute, and extended. Next to each technique is the c

Authors:Ed Miller, David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth,
Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub.
Keywords: play, expert, winning, stakes, small
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2004-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1880685329
ISBN-13: 9781880685327

For today’s poker players, Texas hold ’em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold ’em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable — if you play well. But most people don’t play well and end up leaving their money on the table. Small Stakes Hold ’em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell y