Business & Money
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:Gigerenzer, Gerd [Gigerenzer, Gerd]

Prenatal Screening Imagine you are thirty-five and pregnant. In many countries doctors advise all women thirty-five and over to attend screening for Down syndrome. Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, is ...
( Category: Statistics May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tomasi, John

Applying the Theory As I have stated, I think of market democracy as a research program rather than as any one particular view. As a research program, a great variety ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-25 | Author:Paul Polak

What Went Wrong? Families seemed to have no problem making charcoal with the simple tools Amy and her team had developed. But the amount of bagasse available proved to be ...
( Category: Poverty May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica [Robinson, Ken & Aronica, Lou]

What Is Happiness? Happiness is not a material state: it is a spiritual one. It is an internal state of well-being. Sonja Lyubomirsky puts it this way: “Happiness is the ...
( Category: Counseling May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Jennifer Greene & Andrew Stellman [Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman]

Let everyone know how the project’s going You spend a lot of time collecting valuable information about how your projects are doing. So what do you do with it? You ...
( Category: PMP Exam May 23,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Deborah Cadbury [Cadbury, Deborah]

CHAPTER 12 A Serpentine and Malevolent Cocoa Magnate The first warning of slavery came when George Cadbury’s nephew, thirty-four-year-old William Cadbury, sailed across the Atlantic to visit one of the ...
( Category: History May 22,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Rudolph Chelminski [Chelminski, Rudolph]

VII ONE OF US A CHAMPION FOR THE BEAUJOLAIS The Beaujolais harvest was small in 1957, a mere 240,000 hectoliters (the vines had suffered from the hail and deep frosts ...
( Category: Wine May 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Martenson, Chris [Martenson, Chris]

Figure 16.8 indicates that even a historically modest 4 percent rate of global growth would require an advance from the 84.4 mbd (million barrels per day) in 2009 to 89.1 ...
( Category: Environmental Economics May 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Kari Lydersen [Lydersen, Kari]

PARTY AT TEAMSTER CITY This was also the refrain at the official victory celebration two days later, in the cavernous auditorium in Teamster City—the truckers’ sprawling union headquarters—on Union Row ...
( Category: Law May 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Bob Swarup

Of Sons and Gold Stars I have a three-year-old son, Maanas. A few months ago, in an effort to incentivize good habits and following the advice on numerous online parenting ...
( Category: Economic History May 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-06 | Author:Kroijer, Lars [Kroijer, Lars]

Corporate finance summary For those with an interest in corporate finance, here is a brief explanation of why Bure’s actions were likely to enhance shareholder value and why we could ...
( Category: Stocks May 21,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen D. King

LIVING WITH INCOME INEQUALITY Longer term, the education route appears to be attractive, but I cannot help feel there are immense limitations. We’re back to the population numbers game. As ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 21,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila Bair

CHAPTER 20 Dodd-Frank Implementation: The Final Stretch (or So I Thought) The battles over financial reform did not end with the president signing Dodd-Frank. Virtually all of the reforms in ...
( Category: Economics May 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Ram Charan [Charan, Ram]

IT’S TIME TO UNLEARN OLD LESSONS The central mental skill of leadership today is the ability to identify long-term, large-scale opportunities and then build the capabilities to turn them into ...
( Category: Specific Topics May 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Joseph T. Hallinan [Hallinan, Joseph T.]

Superstition Breeds Confidence AND that, in a nutshell, is the chief value of superstition—it helps us hold on. Whenever we find ourselves buffeted by doubt and uncertainty, a belief in ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions May 21,2014 )