Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discussfirst-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme No One WouldListen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-leadinvestigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.While a lot has been written about Madoff's scam, few actually knowhow Markopolos and his team-affectionately called The Fox Hounds byMarkopolos himself, uncovered what Madoff was doing years beforethis financial disaster reached its pinnacle. Unfortunately, no onelistened, until the damage of the world's largest financial fraudever was irreversible. Since that time, Markopolos openly hastestified and questioned the enforcement and fraud investigationcapabilities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),shared a sliver of this page-turning story with 60 Minutes, andbecome perhaps the world's most visible and insightfulwhistleblower on fraud and conflicts of interest in financialmarkets. Throughout the book, Markopolos and his Fox Hounds telltheir first-h

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A.Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of theSenate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkableperiods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the UnitedStates Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics,by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody ofitself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperatelyneeded liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance,charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and mostpowerful Majority Leader in history and how he used hisincomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberalsand Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rightslegislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detailinto a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizingportrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory studyof the workings of legislative power.

Exploring women’s experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words. A passionate celebrator of 'sexual difference', Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that celebrated the differences between the genders and their coming together in a union without hierarchy.

Chelsea Handler is a woman on a mission. She's smart, sassy andnot afraid to speak her mind. From an early age Chelsea knewexactly what she wanted and even in the trickiest of situations,she's never one to pass up an opportunity. Like the time sheconvinced her third-grade class she was shooting movies with GoldieHawn on location in the Galapagos just to get them to like her, orwhen she spent the night in a women's prison, contemplating anaffair with the inmate who killed her own sister. Chelsea it seems,has done it all, and a whole lot more...Any mishaps along the wayjust spur Chelsea on further. Whether she is being dry-humped by asumo masseur, dumped by her Big Red experiment or kicked out of aLondon restaurant with her pants down, Chelsea is always armed withan unshakable disregard for rules and is incapable of leading aquiet life. "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" is anentertaining memoir-in-stories that will have you rolling aroundwith laughter.

The top-selling auto repair guide--400,000 copies sold--nowextensively reorganized and updated Forty-eight percent of U.S. households perform at least someautomobile maintenance on their own, with women now accounting forone third of this $34 billion automotive do-it-yourself market. Fornew or would-be do-it-yourself mechanics, this illustrated how-toguide has long been a must and now it's even better. A completereorganization now puts relevant repair and maintenance informationdirectly after each automotive system overview, making it mucheasier to find hands-on fix-it instructions. Author Deanna Sclarhas updated systems and repair information throughout, eliminatingdiscussions of carburetors and adding coverage of hybrid andalternative fuel vehicles. She's also revised schedules fortune-ups and oil changes, included driving tips that can save onmaintenance and repair costs, and added new advice ontroubleshooting problems and determining when to call in aprofessional mechanic. For anyone who want

A revealing insider's look at one of Hollywood's most prominent, private, and notoriously difficult directors; at the way the film business works; and at the Washington/Hollywood connection. JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me is the funny, thoughtful memoir of an accomplished former Congressional staffer who left D.C. for Hollywood and a job with Oliver Stone, hoping to help make politically engaged films and a difference, and found himself instead in a wildly dysfunctional universe ruled by greed, paranoia, narcissism, competition, alcohol and drugs. After finishing law school, Eric Hamburg became an unusually effective young staffer on Capitol Hill-convincing his boss, Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana, to submit a bill that would release the House's closely held files on the John F. Kennedy assassination investigation, one of Hamburg's own pet obsessions. This led to his meeting Oliver Stone and soon-much to his own surprise-Hamburg found swimming amongst the sneakiest of Hollywood sharks. Hamburg describes his fa

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled witheasy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens ofreproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middleschool through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, andprofessionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writesreports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Bookoffers instant answers to everyday English usage questions.