Accessible financial guidance for turbulent economic times With the stock market in a tailspin, real estate market continuing to drop, and the economy in recession, it?s important to understand how you can get through these difficult times. That's why you need Survive the Slump. As the personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal Online, author has become an authority for individuals who need to know how to best position themselves and their money. Now, with his new book, Arends has crafted a financial plan that anyone can put to work immediately
Word Recreations: Games and Diversions from 'Word Ways'
What is the shortest American place name? The last word in a dictionary? People have been playing with words since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, wordplay has not been percieved to be a separate field of study - logology (recreational linguistics) - until recently. The Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics, reports new discoveries in lology. This publication presents a collection of word games and diversions from the magazine.
The Carmen Sandiego series are spy adventure programs. Carmen devises an evil plot and you are challenged to stop her. In Math Detective, she shrinks many of the world's famous sites such as the Great Wall of China, Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Ayers Rock exercises skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, estimating, converting fractions and decimals, calculating percentages, geometry. Teaches 34 math strategies that can be used to solve these types of math questions.
Volumes of the Children's Literature Review present full-text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, monographs, reviews, and scholarly papers.
Descartes is often accused of having fragmented the human being into two independent substances, mind and body, with no clear strategy for explaining the apparent unity of human experience. Deborah Brown argues that, contrary to this view, Descartes did in fact have a conception of a single, integrated human being, and that in his view this conception is crucial to the success of human beings as rational and moral agents and as practitioners of science.
