Author: Julio CortázarPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."--Pablo Neruda
Author: A. BatesFinal Exam
Author: Pauline W. ChenPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030727537X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality. “Uncommonly moving ... A revealing and heartfelt book." —Atul Gawande, #1 New York bestselling author of Being Mortal When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she found herself wrestling with medicine’s most profound paradox—that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her education and practice as she struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate sense of empathy and humanity. A superb addition to the best medical literature of our time.
Banking's Final Exam
Author: Morris GoldsteinPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0881327069
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Spurred by the success of the first stress test of US banks toward the end of the global economic crisis in 2009, stress testing of large financial institutions has become the cornerstone of banking supervision worldwide. The aim of the tests is to determine which banks are adequately capitalized under severe economic shocks and to order corrective measures for those that are vulnerable. In Banking’s Final Exam, one of the world’s leading experts on banking regulation concludes that the tests administered on both sides of the Atlantic suffer from fundamental weaknesses, leading to a false sense of reassurance about the safety and soundness of the banking system. Some weaknesses can be corrected within the existing bank-capital regime, but others will require bold reforms—including higher minimum capital requirements for the largest and most systemically-important banks. The banking industry is likely to resist these reforms, but this book explains why their objections do not hold water.
Life's Final Exam
Author: Swami GirirajPublisher: Torchlight Publications
ISBN: 9781937731120
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life's Final Exam is an inclusive treatment for one's last days of life that gives readers the resources to face death squarely and deal successfully with that often fearful and painful but also saving moment. Down-to-earth and practical as well as scriptural, both fresh and mature, it draws us in with superb narratives and also answers tough questions about death and dying.
School of Fear
Author: Gitty DaneshvariPublisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031607117X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Everyone is afraid of something... Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders. Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying. Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces. Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water. With very few options left, the parents of these four twelve year-olds send them to the highly elusive and exclusive School of Fear to help them overcome their phobias. But when their peculiar teacher, Mrs. Wellington, and her unconventional teaching methods turn out to be more frightening than even their fears, the foursome realize that this just may be the scariest summer of their lives.
Silver
Author: Chris WoodingPublisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407136798
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Who will turn silver next? When a boy is bitten by a strange silver beetle, he becomes the first victim of a terrifying virus. It turns flesh into metal and humans into machines. The whole world to sparkling, bloodthirsty silver...
Public Administration's Final Exam
Author: Michael M. HarmonPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731539X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first “written” in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field’s answers to the legitimacy question. Because the assumptions that underwrite the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the exam should be canceled and its question rewritten. Envisaging a public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy question, Harmon explains how the study and practice of public administration might proceed from adolescence to maturity. Drawing chiefly from pragmatist philosophy, he argues that despite the universal rejection of the “politics/administration” dichotomy on factual grounds, the pseudo-problem of legitimacy nonetheless persists in the guise of four related conceptual dualisms: 1) values and facts, 2) thinking and doing, 3) ends and means, and 4) theory and practice. Collectively, these dualisms demand an impossible answer to the practical question of how we might live, and govern, together in a world of radical uncertainty and interdependence. Only by dissolving them can the legitimacy question (Woodrow Wilson’s ghost) finally be banished, clearing away the theoretical debris that obscures a more vital and useful conception of governance.
Creature Teacher: The Final Exam (Goosebumps Most Wanted #6)
Author: R. L. StinePublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545630924
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Goosebumps now on Disney+! It doesn't take long for Tommy to find out he's in big trouble. His whole family is obsessed with winning and he's being sent off to a special camp to help make him into a "winner." When Tommy gets there, he sees that something isn't right. All of the kids are so competetive. It's almost like their lives depend on it. Can Tommy survive The Final Exam?
Author: Geoffrey Meyer