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Veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis—now with a new preface addressing how its lessons remain unheeded in the present, as we''re facing the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. A Pulitzer Prize Finalist An Economist Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Book of the Year For fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories or how markets facilitate innovation, create wealth, and allocate society''s resources efficiently. But what about when they fail, when they lead us to stock market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, and credit crunches? In this updated and expanded edition of How Markets Fail, John Cassidy describes the rising influence of "utopian economies"—the thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can bring on disaster. Combining on-the-ground reporting and clear explanations of economic theories Cassidy warns that in today''s economic crisis, following old orthodoxies isn''t just misguided—it''s downright dangerous.

A sudden change of light can transform our perception of the familiar world. Holding such moments of tension, John Cassid gains insights into a situation as he shapes a poem around it. In this new group of poems, he has extended his territory to cover apprehensions of time; his progress is wary but determined, and always held in check by the sureness of his craft. The poems are concerned with the idea of time in many of its aspects: with chance and causality, perspective and circumstance, change and persistence, youth and age. They vary in their approach; some are observations, some speculations, some less formally shaped than others. Changes of Light is published simultaneously with The Fountain, a pamphlet comprising those poems from John Cassidy''s booklet, The Dancing Man (Poet''s Yearbook Award, 1977), which were not included in Cassidy''s book, An Attitude of Mind (Hutchinson, 1978). The title-poem, ''The Fountain'', was the precursor of the time poems of Changes of Light.

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A collection of 33 Icky-Poo activities for the substance that sticks but doesn''t get stuck. Throw it on the wall. It will slime its way down, but it leaves no mess on your hand or the wall. When it gets dirty, just wash it with soap and water. Book comes with one Icky-Poo ball and string.

From the same brains who brought you The Encyclopedia of Immaturity comes The Klutz Book of Inventions, a 200-page catalog of never-before-seen contraptions that are equal parts brilliant, useful, and ridiculous. None of them exist as actual products, but in a better world, a funnier world, they would all be household essentials.One of the most ambitous projects we''ve ever undertaken, this compendium was created over the course of hundreds of brainstorm hours by an all-star team from Klutz and IDEO, the world''s foremost product design firm. Each of the inventions was actually built in the legendary IDEO workshop before being photographed (usually in action) and described on its own page.

Written in collaboration with the world-famous San Francisco Exploratorium, this science book-o-rama takes readers on a 17-story roller coaster science ride. Divided into five sections, "Zap Science" invites readers to dive into the exciting world of science experiments. Full color.

John Cassidy''s poems are mostly descriptive, often portraits of people, or scenes from the natural world. Caught in sharp-edged detail, the subject is explored as the poem is shaped; the movement and imagery draw out and clarify the implicit significance of a particular situation or experience. Frequently energised by the meeting of opposites, the poems embody both hesitation and conflict in the texture of their language. Night Cries is John Cassidy''s second book-length collection. It includes the poems from his Bloodaxe pamphlets Changes of Light and The Fountain, which Dick Davis in PN Review praised for their ''wary ease'' - one of Cassidy''s own phrases. ''His best poems are very fine: fastidiously put together but not at all dandified, engaging with reality... He often deals in placid surfaces that mask a buried violence or vitality, and he does so with meticulous and self-effacing diction.'' Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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