Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult UnderachievementIf you or someone you love isn't living up to his or her potential -- and suffers from even one or two of these feelings -- here is a program that can help. In Your Own Worst Enemy, Dr. Kenneth Christian details the telltale signs of what he calls self-limiting behavior -- everyday habits that can seem harmless but that over time can send high potential people into a tailspin of dead ends and frustration.
Cookie Craft: From Baking to Luster Dust, Designs and Techniques for Creative Cookie Occasions
Elaborately decorated cookies fill the shelves of high-end bakery cases, tempting shoppers with bright colors and whimsical shapes. The cookies are beautiful, but buying them in a bakery can be shockingly expensive, and their flavor often doesn’t live up to their appearance. Now home bakers can have their pretty cookies and enjoy eating them too!
Curbing Bailouts: Bank Crises and Democratic Accountability in Comparative Perspective
"Rosas's compelling theory and wide-ranging empirical evidence yield a persuasive but surprising conclusion in light of the financial meltdown of 2008–9. In the event of banking crises, not only do elected governments treat taxpayers better and force bankers and their creditors to pay more for their mistakes, but bankers in democracies are more prudent as a consequence . . . essential reading for all interested in the political economy of crisis and in the future of banking regulation."
The new edition of Ronald Miller and Peter Blair's classic textbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community. The book has been fully revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field since its original publication. New topics covered include SAMs (and extended input-output models) and their connection to input-output data, structural decomposition analysis (SDA), multiplier decompositions, identifying important coefficients, and international input-output models.
Child of Our Time: A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 12 May 2010
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This book tells the profound and inspirational story of a girl who was plucked from deep rural Germany after witnessing the horror of Kristallnacht and her familys eviction from its village. Ruth L. David was sent to England as part of the Kindertransportone of the few routes to safety and survival for many children who would lose their parents in the Holocaust. This story tells of her subsequent life in an orphanage, and her enduring and moving struggles.
