From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino. Over the course of decades, Bill Gross turned the sleepy bond market into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded Pimco, one of today’s most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession—to his own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along the way. Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing. To understand the winners and losers of today’s money game, journalist Mary Childs argues, is to understand the bond market—and to understand the bond market is to understand the Bond King.
This text offers a collection of essays examining various aspects of the law of evidence. Each chapter provides a feminist critique of some aspect of evidence scholarship and evidence law. Much has been written about evidence and about feminist legal theory: this text explores their intersection.
At age four, Mary, the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, made her first journey. Accompanied by her mother Anne, her father Joachim, her sister Mary Heli, and her niece Mary Cleophas, Mary went to Jerusalem for her Presentation to the Temple. Some of the other journeys that folowed included trips to Sephoris, Bethlehem, Matarea, and Heiropolis as well as many other trips to Jerusalem. When her son, Jesus, began his public ministry, Mary moved from Nazareth to Capharnaum. With her friends, the Holy Women, she followed Jesus as he travelled around Galilee and throughout the Holy Land. Ultimately, Mary followed Jesus to Golgotha and the foot of the cross. After the Crucifixion and Ascension, Mary relocated to Ephesus, Turkey. She travelled to Jerusalem and back again to Ephesus before ending her earthly life there. The Journeys of Mary is the story of Mary's life and the life, Passion, and death of her son. In Part I of a trilogy, Mary leaves for Ephesus. As she travels with St. John the Evangelist and her maidservant Leah, Mary reflects on her early life and the journeys she took with her husband, St. Joseph. With him as her escort, Mary travelled to visit her cousin Elizabeth in the hill country around Sephoris. As the wife of Joseph, she travelled to Bethlehem where her son was born. When the life of Jesus is threatened, Joseph takes Mary and the child to Egypt where they lived for many years until their return to Nazareth. The Journeys of Mary is the story of both the interior journey that Mary takes as the mother of Jesus and the exterior journeys she takes as she lives out her life fulfilling the will of God.
That chocolate-loving penguin detective from The Mysterious Cases of Mr. Pin and Mr. Pin: The Chocolate Files returns with more witty and hilarious crime solving. With his sidekick Maggie, Pin is on the trail of a culprit--who looks just like him--who's been smashing gargoyles all over Chicago.
Mary Lous Surprise is a story of a young girl named Mary Lou who has leukemia and who is missing her classmates. After hearing the news at school, Henry decides to throw a party at Easter time at her house with cake, ice-cream, balloons, and games. Through all the excitement, Mary Lous friends, teacher, and principle all learn that happiness is doing for others. I wrote and illustrated Mary Lous Surprise when I was eleven years old. For over thirty-six years, the homemade book was tucked away in my mothers attic, hidden in an old suitcase I used to carry around as a child. Getting ready to move, my mother rediscovered it and gave it me. When I reread the story that I wrote many years ago, I discovered several uncanny parallels to my adult life. I knew God wanted me to share it as a testimonial of hope for others. I feel I am living proof that life goes in a full circle. Like Mary Lou, I too, have cancer which is also a white blood disorder and is very similar to leukemia. I have had it for fourteen years and have relapsed for the fifth time as of last year. Over the summer the cancer has spread and I start chemotherapy for a third time in January. It was not long before I started work at Island Hospice as Volunteer Coordinator for THA Group, that I felt my calling was to help others. I recruited my children Sims fourteen and Stephen seventeen, as Island Hospice Teen volunteers. I wanted them to learn important lessons in life like the benefits of helping those in need. There are a number of other aspects in the book and from my childhood that now have so much relevance. Not only does Mary Lou have cancer, but they go to visit her on Easter. This year April 8th, my husband Stephen and I will have been married twenty four years and it falls on Easter. Mary Lous teachers name is Miss Beatie and that is the teacher on the popular television show Little House on the Prairie, which was my childhood favorite show. My daughter and I watch the reruns today. Henry and the children play games with Mary Lou to cheer her up. I play games now with our hospice patients to cheer them up and relieve stress. The cover was recreated by my daughter just like we found it, but put on a lime green paper. My children discovered that all cancer types are given a color and lymphomas is lime green and the celebration month is September. The book was just discovered in the month of September and my childhood favorite color just so happened to be apple green. I truly believe God gave me the courage to write the story so young because I believed in him so much. He knew one day I would find the book at just the right time in my life, so that I could share it with others who need encouragement. I believe everything is for a reason and there are no such things as consequences. I have shared my story with patients, nurses, children and veterans. I now want to share it with you and your family. Mary Lous moral of her story says it all happiness is doing for others. I would love to hear your comments. Email: buttimer1@att.net.
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