Author: Stephan PastisPublisher: Pearls Before Swine
ISBN: 9781449458300
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These strips appeared in newspapers from September 3, 2012 to June 2, 2013.
Breaking the Vicious Circle
Author: Stephen BreyerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674028777
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written by a highly respected federal judge, who obviously recognizes the necessity of regulation but perceives its failures and weaknesses as well, it pinpoints the most serious problems and offers a creative solution that would for the first time bring rationality to bear on the vital issue of priorities in our era of limited resources.
Mistakes Were Made
Author: Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763666890
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise "Total Failure, Inc." challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.
Author: Stephan PastisBecause Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left Hand
Author: Stephan PastisPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449410235
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Covering subjects ranging from modern technology and current events to human nature and drinking beer in the fourth grade, a treasury of "Pearls Before Swine" daily and Sunday strips.
Die Broke
Author: Stephen PollanPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006184697X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you'll learn that life is a game where the loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. There are four steps to the process: Quit Today No, don't tell your boss to shove it...at least not out loud. But in your head accept that from this day on you're a free agent whose number one workplace priority is your personal bottom line. Pay Cash You should be as conscious of spending as you are of saving. Credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (buying homes and cars) when paying cash is impossible. Don't Retire Your work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss. Die Broke It sounds terrifying, the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now, fear of impoverishment in the long run.
Our Love Matters
Author: Dr. Nicki MontiPublisher: The Montecchiani Group
ISBN: 0991369904
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Our Love Matters: Find it, Fix it or Let it Go! by Nicki J. Monti is the ultimate self-help, self-realization and relationship management book available today. Dr. Nicki; as she is most commonly referred to; from her TV show appearances, articles, podcasts, and live appearances takes the reader to new levels as their guide on relationships and love. Our Love Matters is much more than a self-help book or a book about Love. It is the ultimate guidebook on relationships from finding love, fixing love and even when to let love go. Dr. Nicki is neither your typical author nor your typical therapist. She is your guide, companion, and she skillfully intertwines her own life experiences within the experiences she shares with the reader of Our Love Matters. No matter how you look at it, Our Love Does Matter and Dr. Nicki J. Monti will take you there. You may recognize Dr. Nicki's name or image as she has been featured on many reality TV Shows including Keeping up with the Kardashians, Millionaire Matchmaker and many others. Dr. Nicki not only cuts through the sugar to get the point--she gets you on path to the relationship you want and deserve. If there is one book that any relationship could benefit from, it is Our Love Matters.
Author: Stephan Pastis
Author: Stephan PastisHow Economics Shapes Science
Author: Paula StephanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674267559
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The beauty of science may be pure and eternal, but the practice of science costs money. And scientists, being human, respond to incentives and costs, in money and glory. Choosing a research topic, deciding what papers to write and where to publish them, sticking with a familiar area or going into something new—the payoff may be tenure or a job at a highly ranked university or a prestigious award or a bump in salary. The risk may be not getting any of that. At a time when science is seen as an engine of economic growth, Paula Stephan brings a keen understanding of the ongoing cost-benefit calculations made by individuals and institutions as they compete for resources and reputation. She shows how universities offload risks by increasing the percentage of non-tenure-track faculty, requiring tenured faculty to pay salaries from outside grants, and staffing labs with foreign workers on temporary visas. With funding tight, investigators pursue safe projects rather than less fundable ones with uncertain but potentially path-breaking outcomes. Career prospects in science are increasingly dismal for the young because of ever-lengthening apprenticeships, scarcity of permanent academic positions, and the difficulty of getting funded. Vivid, thorough, and bold, How Economics Shapes Science highlights the growing gap between the haves and have-nots—especially the vast imbalance between the biomedical sciences and physics/engineering—and offers a persuasive vision of a more productive, more creative research system that would lead and benefit the world.
