The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it 
Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America’s middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country’s leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past thirty-five years undermining working families, and a rousing call to action. 
Warren grew up in Oklahoma, and she’s never forgotten how difficult it was for her mother and father to hold on at the ragged edge of the middle class. An educational system that offered opportunities for all made it possible for her to achieve her dream of going to college, becoming a teacher, and, later, attending law school. But now, for many, these kinds of opportunities are gone, and a government that once looked out for working families is instead captive to the rich and powerful. Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal ushered in an age of widespread prosperity; in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan reversed course and sold the country on the disastrous fiction called trickle-down economics. Now, with the election of Donald Trump—a con artist who promised to drain the swamp of special interests and then surrounded himself with billionaires and lobbyists—the middle class is being pushed ever closer to collapse. 
Written in the candid, high-spirited voice that is Warren’s trademark, This Fight Is Our Fight tells eye-opening stories about her battles in the Senate and vividly describes the experiences of hard-working Americans who have too often been given the short end of the stick. Elizabeth Warren has had enough of phony promises and a government that no longer serves its people—she won’t sit down, she won’t be silenced, and she will fight back.

This Fight is Our Fight

Warren, Elizabeth

William Collins

Bankruptcy in America is a booming business. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans each year have joined giant corporations, like Johns Manville and Continental Airlines, and once-wealthy individuals, like John Connally, in filing for bankruptcy. Is this dramatic growth a result of mushrooming debt--consumer debt and consumer bankruptcy have both more than doubled since the late 1970s--or does it reflect a moreal decline that permits the middle class to evade their debts? As We Forgive Our Debtors addresses these questions with the data gathered in the largest empirical study of consumer bankruptcy ever done in this country. The authors of this mulit-disciplinary study describe the law and the statistics in clear, nontechnical language, combining a thorough statistical description of the social and economic position of consumer bankrupts with human portraits of the debtors and creditors whose journey has ended in bankruptcy court. In addition to an overall picture of bankruptcy, As We Forgive Our Debtors devotes several chapters to hidden subgroups in bankruptcy. One focuses on women, analyzing the desperate financial circumstances of single women and the increasing pressure on one-income families. Another reveals that more than half of the bankrupts are homeowners and discusses the anomalies in the way they are treated by current law. Other chapters examine the surprising role of medical debts in financial collapse and give a new account of the financial pressures on small businesses. The book also provides the first detailed analysis ever done of the position of various types of creditors whose debtors go bankrupt. This book is destined to become a standard reference for sociologists who study wealth and income and for every credit manager in America. It will also bring to the legal and political debates about bankruptcy law hard facts that will help legal scholars in many fields to measure the distance between armchair theorizing and the law in action.

As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America

Business & Money

Sullivan, Teresa A.

Westbrook, Jay Lawrence

Finance

Oxford University Press

Bankruptcy in America is a booming business. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans file for bankruptcy each year, joining such giant corporations as Johns Manville and Continental Airlines, and once-wealthy individuals such as former Texas governor John Connally and rock star James Taylor. Is this dramatic growth a result of mushrooming debt--consumer debt and consumer bankruptcy have both more than doubled since the late 1970s--or does it reflect a moral decline that permits the middle class to evade their debts? As We Forgive Our Debtors addresses these questions with the data gathered in the largest empirical study of consumer bankruptcy ever done in this country. The authors of this multi-disciplinary study describe the law and the statistics in clear, nontechnical language, combining a thorough statistical description of the social and economic position of consumer bankrupts with human portraits of the debtors and creditors whose journey has ended in bankruptcy court. In addition to an overall picture of bankruptcy, As We Forgive Our Debtors devotes several chapters to hidden subgroups in bankruptcy. One focuses on women, analyzing the desperate financial circumstances of single women and increasing pressure on one-income families. Another reveals that over half of the debtors are homeowners and discusses the anomalies in the way they are treated by current law. Other chapters examine the surprising role of medical debts in financial collapse and give a new account of the financial pressures on small businesses. The book also provides the first detailed analysis ever done of the position of various types of creditors whose debtors go bankrupt. This book is destined to become a standard reference for sociologists who study wealth and income and for every credit manager in America. It will also bring to the legal and political debates about bankruptcy law hard facts that will help legal scholars in many fields to measure the distance between armchair theorizing and the law in action.

Economics

Teaching Mathematics: Foundations to Middle Years connects readers to the bigger picture of mathematics. This comprehensive textbook designed to help pre-service teachers gradually build mathematical knowledge and become confident about teaching the subject to a range of age groups, in diverse learning environments. Spanning Foundations to 9 mathematics curriculum, the books unique structure explores the different stages of how children learn maths and how to teach maths, before drilling down to specific strands and skills by age group. Updated to draw on the revised Australian Curriculum, the second edition is rich with student work examples, practical activities and a wealth of teaching and learning tools to ensure pre-service and practising educators feel positive about mathematics and their role in teaching it.

Teaching Mathematics: Foundations to Middle Years

Clark, Julie

Beswick, Kim

Brady, Kathy

Faragher, Rhonda

Siemon, Di

Teaching Mathematics "I was never any good at maths. I dropped it as soon as I could" How many times have you heard your students make a similar statement when asked to study mathematics? Teaching Mathematics counters this with a rich set of practical pedagogy that will connect students to the bigger picture of mathematics and show them how to: Communicate mathematically Feel positive about mathematics and their role ... Full description

Teaching Mathematics Foundations to Middle Years

Science & Math

Siemon, Dianne

Mathematics

Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. A new preface examines the persistent and new threats that have emerged since the original publication. “[A] fascinating, alarming study. . . . [This] chilling diagnosis of middle-class affliction demonstrates that we all may be only a job loss, medical problem or credit card indulgence away from the downward spiral leading to bankruptcy.”—Publishers Weekly "A well-designed and carefully executed study."—Andrew Greeley, University of Chicago "The Fragile Middle Class, a well-written work of social science that is about as gripping as the genre gets, forces us to reevaluate notions about consumerism."—American Prospect

The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt

Sullivan IV, Teresa A.

Yale University Press

If you've taught from Secured Credit: A Systems Approach before,  cutting-edge coverage and extraordinary authorship is what you've come to  expect from two of the foremost authorities in commercial law and bankruptcy.  If you have never taught from this book, you have yet to discover the  flexibility of its modular organization, how convenient it is to teach using  the assignment units, and the pedagogical advantages to teaching the code in  the context of actual transactions. Secured Credit: A Systems Approach, Sixth Edition, features:   the Systems Approach, examining how the law is applied in actual  transactions   convenient assignment structure and problem-based pedagogy --for added  flexibility, some assignments in the Sixth Edition will be have half-way  stopping points, to allow one-and-a-half assignments to be covered in a single  75-minute class   adaptable modular organization that supports different teaching  approaches   a helpful review of the commonalities between secured transactions and  bankruptcy   Thoroughly revised to ensure currency and accuracy, with updated cases,  statutes, and rules, the Sixth Edition includes:   updates to reflect the adoption of Revised Article 1 by a majority of  states, while preserving old Article 1 section numbers for use in states that  haven't made the change   new material on chattel paper, instruments, accounts, and payment  intangibles, including the celebrated Commercial Money Center case   new material on asset securitization, the sale-lease distinction  --including In re Worldcom-- and new debtors  updated search methods and costs to reflect migration of the UCC filing  systems to the Internet   two simple, easy-to-use drafting problems --a one-sentence security  agreement and a financing statement   refreshed and revised problems   Whether you've been teaching with Secured Credit: A Systems Approach for years, or you're looking at it for the first time, we think you will be  impressed by all that it offers: Outstanding authorship, flexibility,  pedagogy, and teaching support.

Secured Credit: A Systems Approach (Law School Casebook Series)

LoPucki, Lynn M.

Business

Little Brown & Co Law & Business

&lt;p> The lively style, excellent problems, and balanced coverage of &lt;b>The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems&lt;/b> have made this text one of the leading bankruptcy law casebooks. Honed through six editions, it continues to provide students and professors with an exemplary instructional tool. &lt;/p> &lt;p> &lt;b>Among the attributes that make this casebook a favorite with teachers and students alike&lt;/b>: &lt;/p> &lt;ul> &lt;li> &lt;b>more than 50 problem sets &lt;/b>&#8212; featuring the realistic questions a lawyer considers in confronting the statutory provisions for a bankruptcy case &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>explanatory text throughout&lt;/b> makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and easier to teach &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>organized functionally, as a bankruptcy case would unfold &lt;/b>&#8212; students find it logical and sensible &lt;/li> &lt;li> a &lt;b>thematic &#8220;mega-problem&#8221; appears throughout the book&lt;/b>, providing chapter-by-chapter review and integrating elements of all chapters at the end of the book &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>consumer bankruptcy is separated from business bankruptcy for clarity&lt;/b>, and the text begins with the more familiar consumer bankruptcy &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>an excellent Teacher&#8217;s Manual&lt;/b> that is especially helpful to newer professors &lt;/li> &lt;/ul> &lt;p> &lt;b>This timely revision has been updated to reflect recent developments and case law and includes&lt;/b>: &lt;/p> &lt;ul> &lt;li> &lt;b>coverage of cases resulting from the 2005 Amendments&lt;/b>, including consumer bankruptcy, including Chapter 7; Chapter 13, the &#8220;hanging paragraph;&#8221; and means test eligibility &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>expanded business law coverage&lt;/b> with individualized treatment of small business bankruptcies and their bigger, publicly traded Chapter 11 cousins, emphasizing the rapid changes in the world of reorganization and the first international cases under Chapter 15 &lt;/li> &lt;li> as in past editions, there are problem sets for each subject area in the book, however the sixth edition will have &lt;b>variations of some of the problems available, allowing for more flexibility&lt;/b> &lt;/li> &lt;/ul> &lt;p> Classroom-tested through five editions, revised to keep pace with the most recent developments in the world of bankruptcy, &lt;b>The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Sixth Edition&lt;/b>, is an unbeatable method for teaching a practical, animated, and completely state-of-the-art course. &lt;/p> &lt;p> &lt;/p>

Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases and Problems

Little,Brown & Co

Law of Debtors and Creditors Text Cases and Problems

The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (Law School Casebook Series)

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