Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As t...

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and Shanghai in the 2000s. As ...

About the BookThe Deuce takes a humorous look at New York City in the late nineteen seventies to remind us how we’ve changed since then. The story also examines how life in a crowded urban environment might shape the people who live there as it follows the romance of a young man with his latest girlfriend, and his reluctant romance with his first boyfriend.About the AuthorWilliam Quinn is a third-generation New Yorker, but after escaping New York himself, likes to writ...

Embark on Your Ultimate Costa Rican Adventure! Get ready for the journey of a lifetime with our comprehensive Costa Rica Travel Guide, curated by the knowledgeable Isabela Sol. Whether you're a thrill-seeker craving adrenaline-pumping adventures or a nature lover yearning to immerse yourself in lush rainforests and pristine beaches, this guide has everything you need to make your dream vacation a reality.Inside, you'll discover: Exciting Activities: Dive into...

LibertyBy: William QuinnAfter spending the first forty-eight years of his life in Brooklyn, William Quinn has retreated to a secluded, and undisclosed location deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, where he finds it’s possible to reminisce and reflect on the experiences of a long, hard, and varied life that has stretched from the halls of academia, to the halls of tenement crack houses, and many divergent paths in between.Liberty is a playful reminder of how the g...

The Saurians are coming! No, claims Dr. Alistair Truepenny, professor of xenoarchaeology at Winston University, they are already here, and, what’s more, they have been among us for centuries, patiently manipulating us politically, economically, and socially. So says the Codex, an ancient text found by Truepenny in the ruins of an underground labyrinth on the distant world to which he has ventured by way of the wormhole that one day mysteriously opened in his office. The codex, Truepenny as...

The squirrelly little professor Stanley Kosiewski occupies an unstable place in the world located between two realities: an imagined one in which he socializes and converses with some of the most famous characters of world literature and the academic world of dysfunctional Winston University. The latter is defined by his relationship with four colleagues. Together with K, they comprise the Fellowship of the Fire, a literary clique of philosophically minded, antiquated intellectuals with an...

Schooled in sexist attitudes and fancying himself a ladies’ man, Dante Aloysius Grace strikes out on a pleasure-seeking quest to find the perfect sexual partner. Dante, who can barely unite words in a coherent sentence, decides to write his memoirs about his sex life as an aid for later remembering the pleasure of his self-indulgence but largely to make sense of it all, for Dante has arrived in the middle of his life at an emotional crossroads. Like his illustrious, medieval namesake for w...

Professor Sophia Stuart, smart, sexy, and sassy, finds herself in competition for a prestigious academic appointment with her closest friend, a prospective lover, a nasty colleague, and one very strange little man. Over the course of a sometimes whacky, sometimes heart-wrenching semester, as she campaigns for the honor that would be the crowning achievement of her professional career, Sophia becomes swept up in the private war of wills between two powerful personalities for whom the univer...

Predicated on the immemorial core or "first" principles of the universal perennial philosophy, which finds expression from Lao Tzu to Ramana Maharshi in the East and from Pythagoras to René Guénon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in the West, The Higher Spiritual Path details how those on the higher spiritual path must address and master its requirements. This book is as practical as it is philosophical -- or theosophical -- since it is based on the specifics of “sacred science,” or spiritual sc...

Understanding a medieval poetry genre through modern translations, commentary, and the role of performanceMiddle English lyrics are anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. They address a range of themes, both secular and religious, and usually emphasize the author’s personal relationship to the subject matter. In this introduction to the genre, William Quinn offers an overview of the large body of work, identifying comm...

Dr. Quinn provides a review on related research and programs and effectiveness. A presentation of the model program provides most of the materials an individual or agency would need to begin to implement the program. A practitioner might take activities from the model program and integrate them into an existing program.