Download or read book Coco s Number Nightmare written by Georgie Hanlin and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third-grader Coco is bad at math, but when the class math whiz finds her hiding in a bathroom, unwilling to face the day's multiplication tables, their caring teacher tells the pair of them that it's okay for people to have different strengths and weaknesses-and shows Coco that some tools can make learning math fun.
Download or read book Beautiful Chef Seduces the Husband written by Sui He and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My wife, I want to eat your tofu ..." "Eat your sister!"" I was reborn into the body of a poor country girl, Su Jinsi said, and it's all not a big deal, I have one spoon in my hand even in the world, I'll be a cook, I'll be the king of kitchens, and I'll gain the reputation of a deity eater. But, that handsome man, why does he always have one spoon in his mouth?"
Download or read book Cocos Keeling written by Ken Mullen and published by Sydney : Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Makes a Bank Systemically Important written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biomedicine written by Bruce H. Robinson and published by Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This beautifuly designed two color book is filled with over 100 detailed illustrations to help the reader better understand the materials being presented. Red flag cases are included and clearly explained to help the practitioner decide when an immediate referral is necessary. This book covers many Western diseases you will encounter and is clearly written for practitioners of Chinese medicine. With this textbook you will learn the clinical presentation and treatment of the major diseases seen in Western medical practice today, and how to confidently interact with Western medical practitioners."--Publisher
Download or read book The Gender Politics of HIV AIDS in Women written by Nancy Goldstein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their posts at the center of the pandemic - in the laboratory, the academy, clinics, and community based organizations - experts such as Evelynn Hammonds, Risa Denenberg, Michelle Murrain, and Paul Farmer criticize blind spots in the recognition and treatment of HIV in women and articulate accessible and practical solutions to specific areas of difficulty.
Download or read book A Time for Governing written by Yuval Levin and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America finds itself in a moment of profound and complex governing challenges. A crushing recession followed by a feeble recovery have shaken the foundations of our financial and economic system. We are struggling with the exploding costs of health-care and entitlement spending, and fiscal disaster looms as our society ages. American families are anxious about wage stagnation, barriers to social mobility, and the nation's competitiveness in an era of globalization. Meanwhile, our large governing institutions -- most of them designed several decades ago -- are showing signs of strain and decay, calling out for serious reform. National Affairs, a quarterly journal of essays on domestic policy and political economy, was launched in 2009 to help Americans think more clearly about these problems and to develop promising solutions. This book is a collection of some of the most timely and concrete policy proposals published in the journal's pages, offering ideas for reforming our welfare state, our tax system, financial regulation, monetary policy, education, state finances, and more. Each essay was written by a prominent expert in the field--the authors are all notable right-leaning academics, policy experts, former government officials, or think tank scholars with national reputations. The book thus comprises a ready-made domestic policy agenda for conservative policymakers (including a Republican president, should one be elected in 2012), based on the latest and best thinking from the world of conservative policy intellectuals. It will be the only resource of its kind in this election year--a one-stop-shop for conservative policy ideas.
Download or read book Machos Maricones Gays written by Ian Lumsden and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable account of gays in Cuba links the treatment of male homosexuality under Castro with prejudices and preconceptions prevalent in Cuban society before the Revolution. Ian Lumsden argues that much of the present discussion does not acknowledge the significant improvements that have occurred in the last decade. As an antidote to what he considers wide-spread misinformation, Lumsden locates the current issues surrounding homosexual identity within the broad context of Cuban culture, history, and social policy and makes revealing comparisons to the experience of homosexuals in other Latin American countries. Lumsden explores the historic roots of the oppression of homosexuals through such issues as race, religion, and gender. He considers the cultural history and current erosion of traditional "machismo," the correlation between traditional women's roles and the relationships between gay men, and homosexuality as defined by the law and as presented in typical sexual education. He addresses the international controversy over state-imposed sanatoriums for HIV/AIDS patients, and details the social scene, the varying ideals among different generations of gay Cubans, gay life and family ties, and the difference between being publicly and privately gay in Cuba. Lumsden's involvement over the years in gay culture in Cuba, his interviews with gay Cuban men, and his formidable scholarship produce a strikingly honest, accurate portrayal of the changes in homosexual life.
Download or read book Liar s Code written by Richard Chiappone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warm, funny, and memorable musings on a life spent fishing. With this eclectic collection of personal essays taking him from his childhood haunts along the industrial Niagara River of the 1960s to Alaska and the saltwater flats of the Caribbean, Richard Chiappone elongates the fishing-writing genre, suggesting that he finds almost anything a fisherman does interesting—anything but the actual fishing. In one piece, he gets no farther than the curb outside his upstate New York childhood home, futilely waiting for his ride to the rivers of his dreams. In another account he describes an afternoon, standing in a midwinter snow bank, casting to house cats. With humor and self-skewering wit, Chiappone admits he can’t cast very well, ties some of the ugliest flies in the world, and spent nineteen years of his life trying to catch a permit. The essays, both funny and touching, reveal him as a writer of stark contradictions: a man who despises winter and loves living in Alaska; who laments having spent half his life just downstream from the infamous Love Canal, and simultaneously remembers those years with elegiac fondness. Lifting his gaze past the tip of his fly rod, and beyond the river and the fish all the way into his own heart, he portrays everything from a sentimental memory of his mother to his doubts about the adequacy of his grief over a dead daughter, making this compilation a kind of memoir in linked essays—a fisherman’s life examined. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Small Spaces written by Katherine Arden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. Now in paperback. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie who only finds solace in books discovers a chilling ghost story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man"—a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Captivated by the tale, Ollie begins to wonder if the smiling man might be real when she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about on a school trip to a nearby farm. Then, later, when her school bus breaks down on the ride home, the strange bus driver tells Ollie and her classmates: "Best get moving. At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you." Nightfall is, indeed, fast descending when Ollie's previously broken digital wristwatch begins a startling countdown and delivers a terrifying message: RUN. Only Ollie and two of her classmates heed these warnings. As the trio head out into the woods—bordered by a field of scarecrows that seem to be watching them—the bus driver has just one final piece of advice for Ollie and her friends: "Avoid large places. Keep to small." And with that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins.
Download or read book Westward from Cocos written by Coralie Rees and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Treasure of Cocos Island written by Ralph Hancock and published by New York : Nelson. This book was released on 1960 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of various treasures purported to be on the island, how they came to be there, and many of the expeditions which have attempted to locate them.
Download or read book North Gladiola written by James Wilcox and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethyl Mae Coco's rambling Victorian home on North Gladiola -- the Main Street of Tula Springs, Louisiana -- is the only residence left at the business end of town, but it's a hotbed for chaotic comedy. Mrs. Coco, aged fifty-seven and feeling somewhat left behind herself, directs her considerable energy into keeping those around her in line -- her remote, obsessively bargain-hunting husband; members of the Pro Arts Quartet chamber music group, which Ethyl Mae aspires to turn into an accomplished cultural jewel; her six unruly grown children, none of whom keeps the Catholic faith to their staunch convert mother's satisfaction; and the other assorted, eccentric, and endearing people of Tula Springs. Nothing is simple -- or quite as gossip portrays it -- in Tula Springs, but after all upheavals and sunders pass, this wired family and community remain strongly connected.
Download or read book Dangerous Earth written by Ellen Prager and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can also bury forests, fields, and entire towns under ash, mud, lava, and debris. The very forces that create and recycle Earth’s crust also spawn destructive earthquakes and tsunamis. Water and wind bring and spread life, but in hurricanes they can leave devastation in their wake. And while it is the planet’s warmth that enables life to thrive, rapidly increasing temperatures are causing sea levels to rise and weather events to become more extreme. Today, we know more than ever before about the powerful forces that can cause catastrophe, but significant questions remain. Why can’t we better predict some natural disasters? What do scientists know about them already? What do they wish they knew? In Dangerous Earth, marine scientist and science communicator Ellen Prager explores the science of investigating volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, rip currents, and—maybe the most perilous hazard of all—climate change. Each chapter considers a specific hazard, begins with a game-changing historical event (like the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens or the landfall and impacts of Hurricane Harvey), and highlights what remains unknown about these dynamic phenomena. Along the way, we hear from scientists trying to read Earth’s warning signs, pass its messages along to the rest of us, and prevent catastrophic loss. A sweeping tour of some of the most awesome forces on our planet—many tragic, yet nonetheless awe-inspiring—Dangerous Earth is an illuminating journey through the undiscovered, unresolved, and in some cases unimagined mysteries that continue to frustrate and fascinate the world’s leading scientists: the “wish-we-knews” that ignite both our curiosity and global change.
Download or read book Achieving Financial Stability Challenges To Prudential Regulation written by Kaufman George G and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2010 exposed the existence of significant imperfections in the financial regulatory framework that encouraged excessive risk-taking and increased system vulnerabilities. The resulting high cost of the crisis in terms of lost aggregate income and wealth, and increased unemployment has reinforced the need to improve financial stability within and across countries via changes in traditional microprudential regulation, as well as the introduction of new macroprudential regulations. Amongst the questions raised are: What are the challenges to prudential regulation? How has the regulatory environment changed in recent years? How do the reforms interplay with market discipline, risk-taking incentives and risk management arrangements?Does the new regulatory framework allow for the introduction of financial innovation, and the associated benefits, without increasing disruptive financial risk? Contents: PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsSpecial Addresses: Challenges for Future Monetary Policy Frameworks: A European Perspective (Vítor Constâncio)Income Inequality: The Battlefield Casualty of Post-Crisis Financial Policy (Karen Shaw Petrou)A Practical Case for Rules-Based Macroprudential Policy (Adam S Posen)Financial Regulation: The Evolving Macro- and Microprudential Landscape: Evolving Micro- and Macroprudential Regulations in the United States: A Primer (Diana Hancock)The Regulatory Response to the Sovereign-Bank Nexus (Luc Laeven)Japan's Regulatory Responses to Banking Crisis (Masami Imai)The Costs and Benefits of Bank Capital Requirements (Gianni De Nicolò)Capital Regulation: Capital Regulation: How Much Capital is Needed? (Mark Carey)CoCos: A Promising Idea Poorly Executed (Richard J Herring)Capital Regulation: Lessons from a Macroeconomic Model (Caterina Mendicino, Kalin Nikolov and Dominik Supera)Liquidity Regulation: How Should Bank Liquidity be Regulated? (Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale)How Do We Figure Out Optimal Liquidity Regulation? (Douglas W Diamond and Anil K Kashyap) The Interplay Between Liquidity Regulation, Monetary Policy Implementation and Financial Stability(Todd Keister)Liquidity and Capital: Substitutes or Complements? (Marie Hoerova)Market Infrastructures, Central Clearing and Collateral Management: An Incentive Theory of Counterparty Risk, Margins, and CCP Design (Florian Heider)Monitoring CCP Exposure, In Real Time If Needed (Albert J Menkveld)Regulation and Financial Innovation: Innovation & Regulation: Some Preliminary Observations (Michael S Barr)Financial Innovation and Regulation (Thorsten Beck)Thoughts About Financial Innovation (Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano)How Technological Innovation Will Reshape Financial Regulation (Carmelo Salleo)Bail-in Versus Bail-Outs: Incentives and Financial Stability: Bail-in-Able Debt and Fragility (Russell Cooper)Government Guarantees to Financial Institutions: Banks' Incentives and Fiscal Sustainability (Agnese Leonello)The Unconvertible CoCo Bonds (Paul Glasserman and Enrico Perotti)Where to From Here?: The Macroprudential Toolkit (Richard Berner)The Great Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: A
Download or read book The Complete Language of Trees Pocket Edition written by S. THERESA. DIETZ and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 400 types of trees--now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go reference. Along with a stunning visual depiction, each entry provides the tree's scientific and common name, characteristics, and historic and hidden properties from mythology, legends, and folklore. Discover the lore of trees, including: Hackberry Tree - encourages someone to continuously do their best Manchineel Tree - it is so toxic that the smoke from a burning tree can cause blindness, and it is not even advised to inhale the air around the tree Bark from the Bird Cherry Tree was placed on doors during medieval times to ward off plague Washi paper is created from the inner bark of the Paper Mulberry Tree. Pando is a Quaking Aspen colony that is 108 acres wide (about the size of 83 football fields!). It is technically one tree. Imagine developing a spiritual connection with a tree in a way that exceeds visual perception; where learning its meaning and value simultaneously improves your own mental and physical wellness. Throughout history, floriographies--flower dictionaries--have gained notoriety for regulating human emotions and giving depth, symbolism, and meaning to extremely delicate aspects of nature. Following the success of The Complete Language of Herbs and its predecessor The Complete Language of Flowers, author S. Theresa Dietz continues this custom with The Complete Language of Trees. Coupled with two indexes, one for searching by common tree name and the other organized by meaning, Dietz cleverly connects quality time in nature with the overall improvement of mental health by developing a stunningly depicted dictionary for gardeners, environmentalists, and nature lovers alike.
Download or read book Poet Anderson Of Nightmares written by Tom DeLonge and published by To The Stars. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas Anderson and his older brother Alan are Lucid Dreamers. But after a car accident lands Alan in a coma, Jonas sets out into the Dream World in an attempt to find his brother and wake him up. What he discovers instead is an entire shared consciousness where fear comes to life as a snarling beast called a Night Terror, and a creature named REM is bent on destruction and misery, devouring the souls of the strongest dreamers. With the help of a Dream Walker—a guardian of the dreamscape, Jonas must face his fears, save his brother, and become who he was always meant to be: Poet Anderson.
