Author: Maeve Binchy Publisher: Dell Publishing Company ISBN: 0440223571 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 267
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Presents an anthology of Christmas stories reflecting on the various ways in which the holidays serve as a catalyst to promote change, growth, and new beginnings
Author: Bob Sturm Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 0983988552 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 480
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For 31 years, The Dallas Mavericks had seasons end in disappointment. Every year, they tried again to find the right combination, only to find another dead end. But in the 2010-11 season, the Mavericks finally found the right mix around their superstar, Dirk Nowitzki, and shocked the basketball world by winning their first NBA Championship. Through extensive interviews and covering the Mavericks as a passionate journalist, Sturm illuminates what exactly brought the Mavericks together as a team. THIS YEAR IS DIFFERENT covers all the important details of the Dallas Mavericks' 2011 championship season, including: The transformation of the Dallas Mavericks franchise from perennial loser to NBA powerhouse. Dirk Nowitzki's career-long battle to cement his dynasty with an NBA championship, including a bitter loss in the 2006 Finals to Dwyane Wade's Miami Heat. Tracing the ups and downs of the 2011 campaign, as the Mavs soared to the top of the standings, only to suffer critical injuries mid-season and a string of losses which threatened their playoff hopes. A game-by-game recap of the Mavericks' 2011 playoff run, as they battled through the quarter-, semi-, and Western Conference Finals for a chance to compete for the NBA championship. The epic story of the 2011 NBA Finals, as Nowitzki and the Mavs took on Miami's "Big Three," in a rematch of Dallas' heartbreaking loss in the 2006 Finals, and how the Mavericks overcame all odds to win their first NBA Championship.
Author: Monika Kanokova Publisher: Monika Kanokova ISBN: 9783950396706 Category : Languages : en Pages : 242
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This Year Will Be Different is a book for and about entrepreneurial women; a practical guide for everyone who wants to start their own business or become a freelancer. It's filled with tips, tricks, stories and interviews with women who are now making money as bloggers, designers, consultants, photographers and many more great professions within the creative industries.
Author: Carmen M. Reinhart Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400831725 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 512
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling history of financial crises Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing, and recovering their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, “this time is different”—claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff definitively prove them wrong. Covering sixty-six countries across five continents and eight centuries, This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises—including government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes—from medieval currency debasements to the subprime mortgage catastrophe. Reinhart and Rogoff provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations. A remarkable history of financial folly, This Time Is Different will influence financial and economic thinking and policy for decades to come.
Author: Jennifer Egan Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1849017409 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2010 Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. We meet Bennie at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in many places. With music pulsing on every page, this is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Breathtaking work from one of our boldest writers. 'Irresistible. Fiction of the highest quality' Sunday Times 'Egan's precise, calm underwater prose is a persistent pleasure' Daily Telegraph 'Stories that defy narrative convention' Financial Times 'A must-read' Sunday Times
Author: Maria Semple Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 031640344X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.
Author: Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 113802628X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 572
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This book is devoted to a systems-theoretical presentation of the main results of applying the systemic yoyo model and relevant analytical tools to the topics of money and financial institutions. The author presents the main concepts and results of the subject matter in the language of systems science, which has in the past century prompted revolutionary applicati ons of systems research in various subfields of traditional disciplines. This volume applies a brand new logic of reasoning to some of the unsett led problems in the area of money and banking. Due to the particular systemic approach employed, the reader will be able to see how different economic activities are implicitly related to each other and how financial decisions are holistically made in reference to seemingly unrelated events. That is, the learning of this particular subject matter takes place at a different, more elevated level, from which, among others, economies are respectively seen as both closed and open systems; their interactions emulate those of rotational pools of fluids. This book can be used as a textbook for researchers and graduate students in economics, finance, systems science, and mathematical / systems modeling. It will also be useful as a reference book for applied economists and various policy makers.
Author: Carley Fortune Publisher: Michael Joseph ISBN: 9781405965453 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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From the million-copy #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and Meet Me at the Lake, Carley Fortune returns with a glorious and tantalising new escape Every summer forces Felix and Lucy to be together but they shouldn't be. Can they resist temptation? 'Radiant' Emily Henry 'What a dreamy and sexy summer novel. Carley Fortune knows how to tug at your heart' Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age and Come and Get It ---- This summer they'll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different. The first time Lucy and Felix met she was on vacation on Prince Edward Island. And a tour of the beaches wasn't the only thing he showed her. But when she discovered his true identity as her best friend, Bridget's brother, their electric night should have become a distant memory... Each year with Lucy and Bridget's return for a summer escape, she promises herself she won't end up in Felix's arms, but it's easier said than done. Not this year though. This year it will be different. With Bridget facing the biggest crisis of her life, Lucy must join her for one last trip to the island. But Felix's sparkling eyes and flirty quips have been replaced with something new, something more and Lucy's beginning to wonder just how safe her heart truly is. Tropes/themes: 1. Forced proximity 2. Summer romance 3. Best Friend's brother 4. Off limits relationship 5. Friends to lovers ---- 'A deep and shimmering story of friendship, sex, and - most of all - love. Be prepared to cry, swoon, ache and cheer. Stunning' Jennifer Niven, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places 'Clear your calendar and buckle up - this one will leave you breathless' Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of This Time Next Summer 'Carley Fortune is the master of the love story' Annabel Monaghan Readers love The Summer Will Be Different: 'Such a perfect summer romance that you can really fall in love with' ***** Reader Review 'This book has definitely put me in the summer feelings' ***** Reader Review 'This is hands down my favourite Carley Fortune book!' ***** Reader Review 'The chemistry was electric. I fell in love with the characters and the story' ***** Reader Review 'If you enjoyed of Every Summer After and Meet Me at the Lake, I'm certain you'll love this one just as much, if not more' ***** Reader Review
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