With proverbs and precepts, saws, adages and axioms. Polished over years of use, here are thousands of sayings that are truer now than the day they were coined. All collected by Barbara Ann Kipfer, who has the sensibility of a poet, the outlook of a practical philosopher, the obsession of a list maker.
The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large—retrace Odysseus' route around the Mediterranean—and wishes small—find a genuine arrowhead. There…
Di dalam buku yang mengubah hidup ini, Anda akan belajar cara mengenali dan memperbaiki cetak biru uang Anda untuk secara drastis meningkatkan pendapatan dan melipatgandakan kesejahteraan Anda. Lewat kombinasi kecerdasan, selera humor, dan kehangatan yang langka, Anda akan belajar bagaimana pengaruh masa kanak-kanak Anda membentuk takdir finansial Anda. Anda juga akan belajar cara untuk mengena…
Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the past three decades. The Two Koreas places the tensions between North and South within a historical context, with a special emphasis on the involvement of outside powers.
Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street unfurls a gripping chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse, drawing on 180 interviews with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs. Lowenstein looks to the roots of the crisis to reveal how America succumbed to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages. Combining deep analysis with sizzling narrative, The End of Wall Street charts the…