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2001) Turning the Stars
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Turning the Stars is the latest collection of poetry by writer Joshua Ginsberg. Spanning two decades, this collection of urban verbal snapshots form a collage of different cities, experiences and emotions. Individually Ginsberg's poems explore themes of love, loss and the search for security within a constantly changing internal and external landscape. Viewed collectively, it becomes a meditation on the passage of time with motifs borrowed from sources...
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"Winner of a 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural Historians" "One of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019" "Winner of the Alice David Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians" Ünver Rüstem is assistant professor of Islamic art and architecture at Johns Hopkins University.
A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world
With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European...
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Rock Your Gig And Get Promoted offers readers the inspiration, perspectives and tools required to ignite career growth. Its intention is to serve as a guide to help uncover new approaches to career enhancement by providing an evolved, sustainable and highly effective path to greater success. Rock Your Gig has six main areas of focus:
1. The Spirit of Reinvention - It all begins with a desire to reimagine and grow. Individuals that sustain the highest...
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"Winner of the 2012 Award for the Best Book in European Politics, European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association" David Stasavage is professor of politics at New York University. He is the author of Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State.
States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and...
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"Jean Tirole, Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics" Jean Tirole, the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, is chairman of the Foundation Jean-Jacques Laffont at the Toulouse School of Economics, scientific director of Toulouse's Industrial Economics Institute, and annual visiting professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Theory of Corporate Finance (Princeton), The Theory of Industrial...
2006) Hipoteca 2020
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Si usted está en el proceso de comprar su primera casa y ha estado tratando de encontrar todos los hechos en un solo lugar, puede dejar de buscar ahora. Hipoteca 2020 establece de forma clara y concisa los Nuevos Programas Hipotecarios para la Nueva Generación de Compradores de Vivienda. Con explicaciones sobre programas hipotecarios convencionales y asegurados por el gobierno, pautas de calificación, los pasos para solicitar una hipoteca y más,...
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"Winner of the 2003 Best Book Award, American Sociology Association" "Winner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association" "Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association" Amy J. Binder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities...
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Only she knows what happened The betrayal…After finding her fiancé and best friend in bed together, Syra Fragos flees heartbreak for the lush farmland and unplugged serenity of Amish Country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There, she stays in a farmette with no electricity or Wifi. But there is one perk: handsome caretaker Jonas Martin. A decade ago, he was banned from the Amish after refusing, without explanation, to marry his pregnant teen girlfriend,...
2009) Enlightened Public Finance: Fiscal Literacy for Democrats, Independents, Millennials and Collegians
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This timely and unprecedented book will inform politically active readers throughout the 2020 national election cycle. It provides financial information on major campaign issues such as national health care policy, college tuition relief, and tax reforms that would be required to pay for "big changes" as well as the unspoken issue of mounting federal deficits. It explains why Modern Monetary Theory is not a solution. As a bonus, it includes unprecedented...
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Diversification provides a well-known way of getting something close to a free lunch: by spreading money across different kinds of investments, investors can earn the same return with lower risk (or a much higher return for the same amount of risk). This strategy, introduced nearly fifty years ago, led to such strategies as index funds.
What if we were all missing out on another free lunch that's right under our noses?
In Lifecycle Investing,...
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"Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2014" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of FA-mag.com's Books of the Year 2014" "One of "The Books Quartz Read" in 2014" "One of Minnpost.com's 'Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list' 2014" "Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014" Diane Coyle is professor...
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"TAUT, ALMOST UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks." -- Booklist (starred review) "All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that first evening in July and saw my husband trudging into the yard after lifetimes spent away from us, a borrowed bag in his hand and the shadow of grief on his face, was that he had to be protected at all costs from...
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"Brett has been in love with Charlie ever since he took her skiing on a lovely Colorado night fourteen years ago. And now, living in a seaside cottage on Cape Cod with their young daughter, it looks as if they have settled into the life they desired. However, Brett and Charlie’s marriage has been tenuous for quite some time. When Charlie’s unstable younger brother plans to move in with them, the tension simmering under the surface of their marriage...
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The average rate of tuition at four-year private colleges was about $21, 235; four-year public universities average $5, 491. Tuition costs, of course, are just the beginning now add room and board, the cost of attending a private college is $29, 026 per year on average, and $12, 127 at four-year public universities. Take a look at IVY league universities such as Princeton and the total fees will climb to nearly $37, 000. An 8% college inflation rate...
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Detyens are doomed to die at the age of thirty if they don't find their fated mates in time.This bundle brings together the first three books in the Mated to the Alien series. Read as Ruwen, Tyral, and Stoan find human mates and a new hope for their dying race. This series will bring you fated mates, steamy alphas, and plenty of space adventures.Start reading today!Book One: RuwenDead alien walking...Ruwen NaNaran knows he's a goner. His alien species...
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Daryl Collins is senior associate at Bankable Frontier Associates in Boston. Jonathan Morduch is professor of public policy and economics at New York University and coauthor of The Economics of Microfinance. Stuart Rutherford is the founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh. Orlanda Ruthven recently completed a doctoral degree in international development at the University of Oxford, and currently lives in Delhi.
Nearly forty...
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"Shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Award, Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre" Omnia El Shakry is professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt and the editor of Gender and Sexuality in Islam.
The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999" Lendol Calder is Assistant Professor of History at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.
Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and the...
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All hell breaks loose in Bass Ackwards, Tennessee when two witches cross paths with a smarmy demon determined to steal their powers.When their only hope is a ghost whose missed her next 'Great Adventure' and a warlock who likes to wear women's leotards, will magic as they know it cease to exist?A Witch Possessed: Magic and Mayhem Universe is book 1 in the Magick and Chaos series.Hildy and Chuck are desperate to begin their next 'great adventure',...
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You are a high achiever. Your work speaks for itself to everyone, except perhaps to you. You are exhausted by constantly doubting your abilities, second-guessing your decisions, and feeling like a victim of circumstances. Do you struggle to find your place in a group or feel inadequate when comparing yourself to others? Many of us experience self-doubt and insecurity, but it can become a constant battle that hinders personal growth and professional...