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The Honors Class

Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers

By: Ben Yandell

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The Honors Class

Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers

By: Ben Yandell

This eminently readable book focuses on the people of mathematics and draws the reader into their fascinating world. In a monumental address, given to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, David Hilbert, perhaps the most respected mathematician of his time, developed a blueprint for mathematical research in the new century.

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CRC Press

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1439864225

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Theatre World

By: John Willis,Ben Hodges

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Theatre World

By: John Willis,Ben Hodges

Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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155783685X

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9781557836854

Young Justice Book Three

By: Peter David,Geoff Johns,Ben Raab,Chuck Dixon,Dwayne McDuffie

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Young Justice Book Three

By: Peter David,Geoff Johns,Ben Raab,Chuck Dixon,Dwayne McDuffie

The teen superheroes of Young Justice are about to experience their craziest adventures yet. The mysterious organization known only as the Agenda has meddled with the lives of both Young Justice and the teamÕs rival superhero group, Old Justice. Some of the young crime-fighters have become adults, and some of the elderly heroes have turned into teenagers. Will they ever find a way to reverse this madness, or are all of the heroes stuck in their new bodies for good? From author Peter David (Aquaman) comes the next collection of Young Justice! Collects Young Justice #18-19, Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1-2, Young Justice: Sins of Youth Secret Files #1, Superboy #74, Sins of Youth: JLA Jr. #1, Sins of Youth: Aquaboy/Lagoon Man #1, Sins of Youth: Batboy and Robin #1, Sins of Youth: Kid Flash/Impulse #1, Sins of Youth: Starwoman and the JSA Jr. #1, Sins of Youth: Superman Jr./Superboy Sr. #1, Sins of Youth: Wonder Girls #1 and Sins of Youth: The Secrets/Deadboy #1.

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DC Comics

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1401296564

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9781401296568

Do The Gods Wear Capes?

Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes

By: Ben Saunders

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Do The Gods Wear Capes?

Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes

By: Ben Saunders

Brash, bold, and sometimes brutal, superheroes might seem to epitomize modern pop-culture at its most melodramatic and mindless. But according to Ben Saunders, the appeal of the superhero is fundamentally metaphysical - even spiritual - in nature. In chapter-length analyses of the early comic book adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and Iron-Man, Saunders explores a number of complex philosophical and theological issues, including: the problem of evil; the will-to-power; the tension between intimacy and vulnerability; and the challenge of love, in the face of mortality. He concludes that comic book fantasies of the superhuman ironically reveal more than we might care to admit about our human limitations, even as they expose the falsehood of the characteristically modern opposition between religion and science. Clearly and passionately written, this insightful and at times exhilarating book should delight all readers who believe in the redemptive capacity of the imagination, regardless of whether they consider themselves comic book fans.

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A&C Black

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1441127224

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9781441127228

The B Side

The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

By: Ben Yagoda

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The B Side

The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song

By: Ben Yagoda

An acclaimed cultural historian--drawing on previously untapped archival sources and interviews with such voices as Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, and Herb Alpert--presents a social history of the great American songwriting era.

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Riverhead Books

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1594634092

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The Joy of Leadership

How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World

By: Tal Ben-Shahar,Angus Ridgway

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The Joy of Leadership

How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World

By: Tal Ben-Shahar,Angus Ridgway

Think of the last time you were at your best and working in the zone. Now compare that to all the time you’ve spent just going through the motions. How would you quantify the difference between the two in terms of how you felt and what you produced? Would you rate it as a 5% difference. . . a 50% difference? Most people would describe the gulf between those two states of being as vast—as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon. For quality of experience, engagement, productivity, and just the sheer joy of living, the majority of people asked to rate the difference between flourishing and floundering found it to be around a factor of 10. In their work with managers and executives at leading companies around the world, authors Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway have identified a select group of individuals who consistently perform at their peak, and who make work seem effortless and working with them feel easy. The name they’ve given to those lucky few is “10X Leaders”. You know who they are. They’re the team leaders who bring out the best in everyone. They’re the senior managers who drive growth and innovation. They’re the dream bosses, dream partners, and dream colleagues. There’s a good chance you’ve encountered at least one 10X leader in your career—you’re probably thinking of one right now. And you wondered how they did it. Dr. Ben-Shahar and Mr. Ridgway believe they know the answer. They have identified the core characteristics, behaviors, and cognitive styles that all 10X leaders share. Even better, they’ve developed a way for virtually anyone to cultivate those traits and ways of thinking in themselves to become happier, more effective, and more successful. In this powerful new book they describe their revolutionary SHARP (Strength, Health, Absorption, Relationships, and Purpose) program for becoming a 10X leader. They tell you the true stories of people at organizations around the globe who’ve become more effective by learning to use these performance multipliers. And they offer proven strategies for mastering those characteristics and habits for lasting change—the kind of change that can bring you greater fulfilment and success, not just at work, but in every area of your life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119313007

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9781119313007

Babies in Groups

Expanding Imaginations

By: Ben S. Bradley,Jane Selby,Matthew Stapleton

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Babies in Groups

Expanding Imaginations

By: Ben S. Bradley,Jane Selby,Matthew Stapleton

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Research has shown that young babies - well before they form their first bond to a caring adult - enjoy participating in groups and group processes. Babies in Groups examines the consequences of these findings for science, for early education practice and policy, and for adult psychotherapy. The authors report research showing the extensive capacity of preverbal infants for group-communication in all-baby trios and quartets, backed by findings about primate sociability, the social brain, cultural histories, and human evolution. These studies open up new ways of imagining human development as fundamentally group-based. In addition, the authors explore the changes that a group-based vision of infancy could bring to early child education and care. They also show how ignoring group contexts in many clinical traditions can distort descriptions of what happens in therapy, producing such unintended consequences as 'mother-blaming' for the future problems an infant may experience as she or he grows up. Finally, the book's appendix summarises the main forms of evidence which falsify claims that science has proven that an inborn gift for dyadic 'intersubjectivity,' or for one-to-one infant-adult attachments, founds human social development.

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Oxford University Press

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0192675559

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9780192675552

Making Up Our Mind

What School Choice Is Really About

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath,Michael C. Johanek

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Making Up Our Mind

What School Choice Is Really About

By: Sigal R. Ben-Porath,Michael C. Johanek

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its past and expand parental choice? Those are not only the wrong questions—they’re the wrong premises, argue philosopher Sigal R. Ben-Porath and historian Michael C. Johanek in Making Up Our Mind. Market-driven school choices aren’t new. They predate the republic, and for generations parents have chosen to educate their children through an evolving mix of publicly supported, private, charitable, and entrepreneurial enterprises. The question is not whether to have school choice. It is how we will regulate who has which choices in our mixed market for schooling—and what we, as a nation, hope to accomplish with that mix of choices. Looking beyond the simplistic divide between those who oppose government intervention and those who support public education, the authors make the case for a structured landscape of choice in schooling, one that protects the interests of children and of society, while also identifying key shared values on which a broadly acceptable policy could rest.

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University of Chicago Press

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022661963X

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Excitatory Amino Acids and Epilepsy

By: Robert Schwarcz,Yehezkel Ben-Ari

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Excitatory Amino Acids and Epilepsy

By: Robert Schwarcz,Yehezkel Ben-Ari

Human epilepsy is a major public health problem affecting approximately 2 persons per 1000. It is particularly frequent in ohildren where convul sions may lead to brain damage and subsequent seizure activity in adulthood. Temporal lobe epilepsy (synonyms include limbic epilepsy. psychomotor epilepsy and complex partial epilepsy) is the most devastating form of epilepsy in the adult population since: a) it is often extremely resistant to currently available anticonvulsant drugs (i.e •• it is more resistant than tonico-clonic or grand mal seizures) and b) it includes loss of consciousness. thereby limiting performance of many normal functions and leaving the individual susceptible to bodily injury. It is also associated with nerve cell loss. in particular in the hippocampus and other structures of the temporal lobes. In order to promote an appropriate therapy it is essential to understand the etiology of seizures and its relationship to brain damage. Basic research on epilepsy also provides a very useful vehicle to learn about the way the brain functions under normal conditions. For instance. much of our present understanding of the mechanisms of action of GABA and benzo diazepines. control of neuronal activity. etc. has been derived from such stUdies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468479717

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Compassionate Confinement

A Year in the Life of Unit C

By: Laura S. Abrams,Ben Anderson-Nathe

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Compassionate Confinement

A Year in the Life of Unit C

By: Laura S. Abrams,Ben Anderson-Nathe

To date, knowledge of the everyday world of the juvenile correction institution has been extremely sparse. Compassionate Confinement brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the U.S. system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys’ residential facility, Laura S. Abrams and Ben Anderson-Nathe provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system’s most troubling tensions. This ethnographic text utilizes narratives, observations, and case examples to illustrate the strain between treatment and correctional paradigms and the mixed messages regarding gender identity and masculinity that the youths are expected to navigate. Within this context, the authors use the boys’ stories to show various and unexpected pathways toward behavior change. While some residents clearly seized opportunities for self-transformation, others manipulated their way toward release, and faced substantial challenges when they returned home. Compassionate Confinement concludes with recommendations for rehabilitating this notoriously troubled system in light of the experiences of its most vulnerable stakeholders.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813554144

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A Comparative History of World Philosophy

From the Upanishads to Kant

By: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

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A Comparative History of World Philosophy

From the Upanishads to Kant

By: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

A Comparative History of World Philosophy presents a personal yet balanced guide through what the author argues to be the three great philosophical traditions: Chinese, European, and Indian. The book breaks through the cultural barriers between these traditions, proving that despite their considerable differences, fundamental resemblances exist in their abstract principles. Ben-Ami Scharfstein argues that Western students of philosophy will profit considerably if they study Indian and Chinese philosophy from the very beginning, along with their own. Written with clarity and infused with an engaging narrative voice, this book is organized thematically, presenting in virtually every chapter characteristic views from each tradition that represent similar positions in the core areas of metaphysics and epistemology. At the same time, Scharfstein develops each tradition historically as the chapters unfold. He presents a great variety of philosophical positions fairly, avoiding the relativism and ethnocentrism that could easily plague a comparative presentation of Western and non-Western philosophies.

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State University of New York Press

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1438418876

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9781438418872

A Wealth of Common Sense

Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan

By: Ben Carlson

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A Wealth of Common Sense

Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan

By: Ben Carlson

A simple guide to a smarter strategy for the individualinvestor A Wealth of Common Sense sheds a refreshing light oninvesting, and shows you how a simplicity-based framework can leadto better investment decisions. The financial market is a complexsystem, but that doesn't mean it requires a complex strategy; infact, this false premise is the driving force behind manyinvestors' market "mistakes." Information is important, butunderstanding and perspective are the keys to betterdecision-making. This book describes the proper way to view themarkets and your portfolio, and show you the simple strategies thatmake investing more profitable, less confusing, and lesstime-consuming. Without the burden of short-term performancebenchmarks, individual investors have the advantage of focusing onthe long view, and the freedom to construct the kind of portfoliothat will serve their investment goals best. This book proves howcomplex strategies essentially waste these advantages, and providesan alternative game plan for those ready to simplify. Complexity is often used as a mechanism for talking investorsinto unnecessary purchases, when all most need is a deeperunderstanding of conventional options. This book explains whichissues you actually should pay attention to, and which ones aresimply used for an illusion of intelligence and control. Keep up with—or beat—professional moneymanagers Exploit stock market volatility to your utmost advantage Learn where advisors and consultants fit into smartstrategy Build a portfolio that makes sense for your particularsituation You don't have to outsmart the market if you can simplyoutperform it. Cut through the confusion and noise and focus onwhat actually matters. A Wealth of Common Sense clears theair, and gives you the insight you need to become a smarter, moresuccessful investor.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119024897

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9781119024897

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Theory, Practice and Futures

By: Ben Spigel

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Theory, Practice and Futures

By: Ben Spigel

This is a guide to understanding entrepreneurial ecosystems: what they are, why they matter, and to whom they matter. Ben Spigel explores this popular new theory of economic development, locating the intellectual roots of ecosystems, explaining the practices and processes that allow ecosystems to support the creation and growth of innovative entrepreneurial firms.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788975936

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9781788975933

The South Never Plays Itself

A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen

By: Ben Beard

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The South Never Plays Itself

A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen

By: Ben Beard

Since Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South—as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliveranceto Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself, author and film critic Ben Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. Beard’s idiosyncratic narrative—part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir—journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America’s past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood’s distorting lens. Opinionated, obsessive, sweeping, often combative, sometimes funny—a wild narrative tumble into culture both high and low—Beard attempts to answer the haunting question: what do movies know about the South that we don’t?

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NewSouth Books

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1588384241

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Incorporating Psychotherapeutic Concepts and Interventions Within Medicine

With the Heart in Mind

By: Shamit Kadosh,Asaf Rolef Ben-shahar

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Incorporating Psychotherapeutic Concepts and Interventions Within Medicine

With the Heart in Mind

By: Shamit Kadosh,Asaf Rolef Ben-shahar

This book provides doctors with insights into psychological and relational dynamics to better understand themselves and their patients, deepen their understanding of somatic and psychic dimensions of illness, and give them diagnostic and therapeutic tools to design better treatment procedures for patients. In the first part of the book, the authors explore cognitive, emotional, and somatic strategies that are supportive of doctors’ well-being. In the second part, they introduce theoretical knowledge and applicable skills from psychotherapy that can illuminate the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship, broaden doctors' approaches, and upgrade their communicative skills. The third part introduces some of the basic tenets of somatic psychotherapy that can deepen doctors' understanding of symptoms and illness, providing them with richer therapeutic tools and a deeper knowledge of bodily and psychological aspects, interweaving in a variety of medical conditions. This text not only provides a helping hand to both doctors and psychotherapists in designing an amalgamated approach to clinical treatment but also provides doctors with better tools for understanding and managing the intricacies of the doctor-patient relationship.

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Routledge

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1351376292

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9781351376297

Crazy Like a Fox

One Principal's Triumph in the Inner City

By: Ben Chavis,Carey Blakely

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Crazy Like a Fox

One Principal's Triumph in the Inner City

By: Ben Chavis,Carey Blakely

The inspiring true story of "one of the country's finest educators" (National Review) and the school he changed forever. Under the leadership of highly unorthodox principal Dr. Ben Chavis, Oakland's American Indian Public Charter School was hailed as an "education miracle" by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after it was transformed from a failing "nuisance" into one of the best public middle schools in the nation. This is the story of that transformation and of a man who dared to be different. With his rigorous, no-nonsense approach, Dr. Chavis debunks the myth that poor, minority, inner-city schools have little chance at academic excellence. Focusing on back-tobasics ideals, he has created a structured educational model that, combined with the enthusiasm of his students and teachers, delivers astounding results. In Crazy Like a Fox, Dr. Chavis recounts how he did it-in his own words and through the stories of the extraordinary young people he's helped.

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Penguin

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1101532491

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9781101532492

Conditions in Occupational Therapy

Effect on Occupational Performance

By: Ben Atchison,Diane Dirette

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Conditions in Occupational Therapy

Effect on Occupational Performance

By: Ben Atchison,Diane Dirette

This updated 6th Edition is fully aligned with the most current DSM-5 and Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 4th Edition, and adds new chapters reflecting recent advances in the management of infectious diseases, general deconditioning, musculoskeletal pain, amputations, and sickle cell anemia. Each chapter follows a consistent format, presenting an opening case followed by descriptions and definitions, etiology, incidence and prevalence, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, course and prognosis, medical/surgical management, impact on occupational performance, and two case illustrations. Rounded out with robust instructor resources and new full-color imagery, this bestselling resource is an essential tool for today’s occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975215583

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9781975215583

Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life

Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning

By: Ben Stein

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Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life

Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning

By: Ben Stein

Life is not lived all at once - it's lived in moments, days, months, years, and decades. This means that the financial plans and actions we all have to take to meet our responsibilities sensibly must be organized by years and decades. Ben Stein wrote the original guide to this subject almost a quarter century ago. Now, Ben, along with Phil DeMuth, the eminent financial planner and writer, have gotten together to update the book, incorporating the massive changes that have occurred in the economy in the past 25 years. This book tells you what and when to save, how much to save, what to save it in, when to spend, and when to say no to your present and yes to your future. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life! is a time-traveling guidebook on how to organize the money side of your life for all of the decades of your life.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458770311

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21 Bringing Down the House

The Inside Story of Six MIT Students who Took Vegas for Millions

By: Ben Mezrich

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21 Bringing Down the House

The Inside Story of Six MIT Students who Took Vegas for Millions

By: Ben Mezrich

Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416561706

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Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

By: Ben Brucato

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Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

By: Ben Brucato

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institution of racialized chattel slavery originated along with a novel, binary conception of race. On one side, for the first time Europeans from various nationalities were united in a single racial category. Inclusion in this category was necessary for citizenship. On the other, Blacks were branded as slaves, cast as social enemies, and assumed to be threats to the social order. The state determined not only that it would administer slavery, but that it would regulate slaves, authorizing the use of violence by agents of the state and white citizens to secure the social order. In doing so, slavery, citizenship, and police mutually informed one another, and together they produced racial capitalism, a working class defined and separated by the color line, and a racial social order. Race and Police corrects the Eurocentrism in the orthodox history of American police and in predominating critical theories of police. That orthodoxy rests on an origin story that begins with Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police Service. Predating the Met by more than a century, America’s first police, often called slave patrols, did more than maintain order—it fabricated a racial order. Prior to their creation, all white citizens were conscripted to police all Blacks. Their participation in the coercive control of Blacks gave definition to their whiteness. Targeted as threats to the security of the economy and white society, being policed defined Blacks who, for the first time, were treated as a single racial group. The boundaries of whiteness were first established on the basis of who was required to regulate slaves, given a specific mandate to prevent Black insurrection, a mandate that remains core to the police role to this day.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978834500

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Standing in Line

By: Ben Chatfield

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Standing in Line

By: Ben Chatfield

Told through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy becoming a 39-year-old man, this book is a love letter both to Wimbledon and to the wonder of British summertime. Watching the Championships is a national pastime, and this book is full of the ups and downs out on court, as well as the memorable pop-cultural moments off it. It is set against the desperate wait for a British Gentlemen's champion, viewed against the global reality show Wimbledon has become-transcending sport and class, yet still embracing tradition. Illustrated with drawings from renowned artist and author Zebedee Helm, the book observes both the changing world around us and the behavior of the half-million fans who cram themselves into this leafy corner of London for two weeks every year. Standing in Line is a joyful, gently nostalgic read for anyone who has found themselves gazing for hours on end at coverage of Wimbledon.

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1785314165

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21: Bringing Down the House - Movie Tie-In

The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

By: Ben Mezrich

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21: Bringing Down the House - Movie Tie-In

The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

By: Ben Mezrich

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1416564195

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No Jurisdiction

Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema

By: Fareed Ben-Youssef

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No Jurisdiction

Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema

By: Fareed Ben-Youssef

No Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing Hollywood genre films as a key to understanding a crisis-filled world shaped by the global War on Terror, Fareed Ben-Youssef shows how, in response to 9/11, filmmakers and lawmakers mobilized iconic characters—the cowboy, the femme fatale, and the superhero—to make sense of our traumas and inspire new legal landscapes. The competing visions of power produced in this dialogue between Hollywood entertainment and mainstream politics underscore genre cinema's multivalent purpose: to normalize state violence and also to critique it. Chapters devoted to the Western, film noir, superhero movies, and global films that deploy and comment on these genres offer compelling readings of films ranging from the more apparent (The Dark Knight, Sicario, and Logan) to the more unexpected (Sin City, Adieu Gary, The Broken Circle Breakdown, and Tokyo Sonata). Through narratives of states of emergency that include vaguely defined enemies, obscured battlefield boundaries, and blurred lines between victims and perpetrators, a new post-9/11 film canon emerges. No Jurisdiction is a deeply personal work of film scholarship, arguing that we can face our complicity and discover opportunities for resistance through our beloved genre movies.

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1438489285

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Bone Remodeling Process

Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling

By: Rabeb Ben Kahla,Abdelwahed Barkaoui

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Bone Remodeling Process

Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling

By: Rabeb Ben Kahla,Abdelwahed Barkaoui

Bone Remodeling Process: Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling provides a literature review. The first part of the book discusses bones in a normal physiological condition, bringing together the involved actors and factors reported over the past two decades, and the second discusses pathological conditions, highlighting the attack vectors of each bone disease. The third part is devoted to the mathematical descriptions of bone remodeling, formulated to develop models able to provide information that is not amenable to direct measurement, while the last part focuses on models using the finite element method in investigating bone biomechanics.This book creates an overall image of the complex communication network established between the diverse remodeling actors, based on overwhelming control evidence revealed over recent years, as well as visualizes the remodeling defects and possible treatments in each case. It also regroups the models allowing readers to analyze and assess bone mechanical and biological properties. This book details the cellular mechanisms allowing the bone to adapt its microarchitecture to the requirements of the human body, which is the main issue in bone biology and presents the evolution of mathematical modeling used in a bone computer simulation. - Each chapter covers a core topic in bone biomechanics - Provides a multidisciplinary view that effectively links orthopaedics, cellular biology, mechanics, and computer simulation - Draws an overall image about bone biology and cell interactions, for identifying cell populations that are crucial for the remodeling process

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Simply Put

Why Clear Messages Winand How to Design Them

By: Ben Guttmann

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Simply Put

Why Clear Messages Winand How to Design Them

By: Ben Guttmann

Stop complicating everything! Create simple messages that are more powerful, more memorable, and win people over. Simply Put is a modern exploration of the simplicity principle for anybody who needs to sell stuff or persuade others. This book is a splash of cold water, designed to wake up entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, and marketing pros who have something they need to tell the world but just can't quite connect the dots. With this book, we're all better marketers. So why does simple win? And how do we get simple? The award-winning marketing entrepreneur behind New York Times best-selling authors and notable campaigns such as I Love NY provides answers and tools to simplify messages in this practical guide. From Yes We Can to Just Do It, regardless of if they're trying to get your dollars, your votes, or just your thoughts, effective messages share one thing they're simple. Being able to tell your story clearly and effectively is the winning skill for the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders.

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Justice League Unlimited: Hocus Pocus

By: Adam Beechen,Jason Hall,Matt Wayne,Ben McCool

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Justice League Unlimited: Hocus Pocus

By: Adam Beechen,Jason Hall,Matt Wayne,Ben McCool

DC’s greatest superheroes team up to defend Earth against unpredictably dark, ancient, and mystical forces! Facing off against Dr. Destiny, ancient evils, demons, and other supernatural threats isn’t easy. This collection features the iconic core members of the Justice League as they enlist the help of an expanded roster featuring Stargirl, Deadman, Blue Devil, Doctor Fate, Zatanna, and more to take action against the dark, magical forces of the DC Universe, including the Shadow Thief and an out-of-control Spectre! Collects Justice League Unlimited #11, #14, #25, #33, #37, and #40.

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1779512325

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Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Book Two

By: Geoff Johns,Ben Raab,Mark Waid

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Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Book Two

By: Geoff Johns,Ben Raab,Mark Waid

Geoff Johns, the writer behind some of DC’s greatest events, including DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH and INFINITE CRISIS, continues his smashing run on the classic TEEN TITANS franchise with TEEN TITANS BY GEOFF JOHNS BOOK TWO. After misadventures in Hollywood and life-changing revelations for Beast Boy in San Francisco, the Teen Titans earn a much-deserved weekend off. While the Titans’ weekends are usually a chance to get away from it all, this time they’re really gone…to the 31st century. There they must help the Legion of Super-Heroes stop a threat known as the Fatal Five Hundred. Their return trip drops them off a mere ten years into the future, but it’s not a place they want to stay. Most of the team are horrified at what they grow up to become and what these adult Titans do to accomplish their goals. In this second volume, Johns teams with Mike McKone (JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED) and other artists for his unforgettable reimagining of one of the DC Universe’s staple titles. Collects BEAST BOY #1-4, TEEN TITANS #13-19, TEEN TITANS/LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES SPECIAL #1 and more.

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1401286011

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World Politics Simulations in a Global Information Age

By: Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Luba Levin-Banchik,Chanan Naveh

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World Politics Simulations in a Global Information Age

By: Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Luba Levin-Banchik,Chanan Naveh

A comprehensive guide explaining how to create simulations of international relations for the purposes of both teaching and research. Hemda Ben-Yehuda, Luba Levin-Banchik, and Chanan Naveh offer as a model their hallmark “World Politics Simulations Project,” which involves participants representing various states, nonstate actors, and media organizations embroiled in an international political crisis. Following the trajectory of a simulation, the authors describe theory, implementation, and analysis. Starting with a typology of simulations, they present a framework for selecting the most suitable one for a given teaching situation, based on academic setting, goals, costs, and other practical considerations. They then provide step-by-step instructions for creating simulations on cyber platforms, particularly Facebook, complete with schedules, guidelines, sample forms, teaching tips, and student exercises. Throughout the simulation, and especially during the final analysis, they explain how to reinforce learning and foster critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, and other essential skills. The authors conclude with suggestions for using data gathered during a simulation for scholarly research. Instructors in both introductory and advanced courses in political science, international relations, media, history, and area studies—as well as leaders of professional training programs in the civil and military service and media organizations—will find this guide invaluable.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472121294

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Therapeutic Skills for Mental Health Nurses

By: Nicola Evans,Ben Hannigan

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Therapeutic Skills for Mental Health Nurses

By: Nicola Evans,Ben Hannigan

Most specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts. This book puts therapeutic skills at the heart of the nurse’s role, with one central aim: to equip you with knowledge to use in your practice, thus improving your ability to deliver care. This book: • Will enable you to strengthen your core therapeutic skills and broaden your knowledge to include other practical therapeutic approaches • Collates in one place information on a range of therapeutic approaches, from person centred counselling, motivational interviewing and solution focused approaches, through to day to day skills of challenging unhelpful thoughts, de-escalating difficult situations, working with families, and problem solving • Demonstrates application of theory to practice through a variety of practical examples • Features reader activities to facilitate personal growth and learning • Includes a chapter exploring clinical supervision and how this makes practice more effective Each chapter is grounded in authentic clinical experiences and focuses on equipping the reader to develop confidence in their client facing skills. This text is an essential purchase for all mental health nurse students as well as qualified nurses. "Whilst the essential therapeutic component of mental health nursing is the nurse themselves, it is also essential that they have knowledge and competencies to offer the client. This valuable book offers the reader an introduction to a wide range of approaches that are considered helpful, evidence based and effective. Modern mental health nursing requires much of its practitioners; this book will help inform and support that endeavour." Ian Hulatt, Mental Health Adviser, Royal College of Nursing, UK “This is a timely book which addresses, head on, questions about what mental health nurses can do to be effective with their patients. At last we have a book that mental health nurses can draw on to understand why and how various therapeutic approaches are used. The range is from cognitive behavioural therapy, to psychodynamic approaches to mindfulness, with others in between. Each chapter is written by an expert and each offers concrete examples of what it involved in each of the approaches. These examples are imperative if readers are to understand how to use interventions in their everyday work. This ground breaking book will be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the care of those with mental health problems. A wonderful book.” Philip Burnard, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, Cardiff University, UK

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0335264417

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Building a Diaspora

Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Mikhail Lyubansky,Olaf Gluckner,Paul Harris,Yael Israel,Willy Jasper,Julius Schoeps

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Building a Diaspora

Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Mikhail Lyubansky,Olaf Gluckner,Paul Harris,Yael Israel,Willy Jasper,Julius Schoeps

The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their “good reasons” to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas.

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BRILL

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9047418530

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CANCER AND THE FAMILY CAREGIVER

Distress and Coping

By: Ora Gilbar,Hasida Ben-Zur

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CANCER AND THE FAMILY CAREGIVER

Distress and Coping

By: Ora Gilbar,Hasida Ben-Zur

This book is the product of the authors’ research and clinical practice in the field of psycho-oncology, stress, and coping for a period of over twenty years. It fills a gap that exists in the discussion of caregiver distress felt by both cancer researchers and psycho-oncologists in the vital area of predicting, acknowledging, and alleviating the distress of caregivers of cancer patients, and it focuses on the caregivers of cancer patients in various phases of the illness. The discussion of cancer-patient caregivers is divided into three aspects: theoretical (Part 1), research (Part 2), and practical (Part 3) issues. The analysis of these areas can be useful to clinicians, researchers, medical/psychological social workers, and nurses by familiarizing them with the spectrum of stresses experienced by cancer patients and their caregivers, and the coping methods that have proven most effective. Part One presents theoretical background on the structure and progression of the caregiver role and how caregivers cope with the illness as explored in recent literature. Part Two presents empirical research on caregiver psychological distress carried out by the authors during 1993-1999. Part Three examines two important issues. The first is intervention for reducing caregiver distress, and the second issue is the ethical question of caregiver involvement in the patient’s medical decisions. The book is timely, as it is felt that the issue at hand will have mounting importance and relevance to our society as it experiences growing longevity and concomitant challenges in cancer caregiving.

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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0398083673

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Odd Words for Crossword and People in Puzzles

Fifth Edition

By: Ben Bougard

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Odd Words for Crossword and People in Puzzles

Fifth Edition

By: Ben Bougard

This book will help you complete those hard to do Sunday Puzzles.

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iUniverse

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1491795190

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Typographic Design

Form and Communication

By: Rob Carter,Philip B. Meggs,Ben Day,Sandra Maxa,Mark Sanders

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Typographic Design

Form and Communication

By: Rob Carter,Philip B. Meggs,Ben Day,Sandra Maxa,Mark Sanders

Provides a comprehensive overview of every aspect of designing with type"--

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118715764

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Night of the Living Dead

By: Ben Hervey

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Night of the Living Dead

By: Ben Hervey

George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic that has resonated with audiences and independent filmmakers ever since its release in 1968. It redefined horror cinema and launched the modern zombie genre that continues with films and series like 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and The Walking Dead. Ben Hervey's illuminating study of the movie traces Night's influences, from Powell and Pressburger to fifties horror comics, and provides the first history of its reception. Hervey argues that the film broke cultural barriers, fêted at New York's Museum of Modern Art while it was still packing 42nd Street grindhouses. Scene-by-scene analysis meshes with detailed historical contexts, showing why Night was a new kind of horror film: the expression of a generation who didn't want their world to return to normal.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839022027

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My Korean Deli

Risking it All for a Convenience Store

By: BEN RYDER HOWE

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My Korean Deli

Risking it All for a Convenience Store

By: BEN RYDER HOWE

This sweet and funny tale of a preppy literary editor buying a Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws is about family, class, culture clash, and the quest for authentic experiences in an increasingly unreal city. It starts with a simple gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, reluctantly agrees to go along. However, things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in George Plimpton's Upper East Side townhouse by day, and heading to Brooklyn at night to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets. The book follows the store's tumultuous lifespan, and along the way paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership between characters across society, from the Brooklyn ghetto to Seoul to Puritan New England. Owning the deli becomes a transformative experience for everyone involved as they struggle to salvage the original gift — and the family — while sorting out issues of values, work and identity.

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Doubleday Canada

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0307374777

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Noncognitive Skills in the Classroom

New Perspectives on Educational Research

By: Jeffrey A. Rosen,Elizabeth J. Glennie,Ben W. Dalton,Jean M. Lennon,Robert N. Bozick

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Noncognitive Skills in the Classroom

New Perspectives on Educational Research

By: Jeffrey A. Rosen,Elizabeth J. Glennie,Ben W. Dalton,Jean M. Lennon,Robert N. Bozick

This book provides an overview of recent research on the relationship between noncognitive attributes (motivation, self efficacy, resilience) and academic outcomes (such as grades or test scores). We focus primarily on how these sets of attributes are measured and how they relate to important academic outcomes. Noncognitive attributes are those academically and occupationally relevant skills and traits that are not “cognitive”—that is, not specifically intellectual or analytical in nature. We examine seven attributes in depth and critique the measurement approaches used by researchers and talk about how they can be improved.

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RTI Press

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1934831026

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The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing

Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life

By: Ben Stein,Phil DeMuth

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The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing

Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life

By: Ben Stein,Phil DeMuth

Investing do's and don'ts from some of the most recognizable voices in personal finance It's been a tough year for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what they have and make back some of what they've lost. That's why the bestselling author team of Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth have created The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life. When you invest, there are essential things you should do and many things you shouldn't. The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life addresses this issue and shows you how to utilize the fundamentals of finance to achieve success in today's market. This practical guide contains proven advice on navigating today's treacherous financial landscape and will put you in a better position to make more informed investment decisions. Includes street-smart advice for the individual investor uncertain about their investment and retirement portfolios Written by a experienced team of bestselling authors whose investment advice is accessible to everyone Outlines the steps you must take to protect yourself from the financial calamities of modern life The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life offers quick, easy-to-follow, and entertaining advice for anyone looking to get back on the right investment track.

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0470568054

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