With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world’s first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. Through Ferguson's expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.īread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters.
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In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. 253-264) and indexįallibility: Education of a knife - Computer and the hernia factory - When doctors make mistakes - Nine thousand surgeons - When good doctors go bad - Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth - Pain perplex - Queasy feeling - Crimson tide - Man who couldn't stop eating - Uncertainty: Final cut - Dead baby mystery - Whose body is it anyway? - Case of the red legĪ brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"-T.p. In fact, I’m going to make my decision as I write this review and see what it feels like in the end. I am really torn up about what to rate this book. 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The story comes from twenty years of wielding the needle that sends beloved pets on to their eternal rest. What inspired you to write this story?: I’m a veterinarian. It’s a quick piece to remind us that love never dies, and best friends are forever. “Rowdy” is the story of an old dog’s last day on earth. Vogel takes over my page with a discussion about her short story, "Rowdy," appearing in the anthology A Haunting of Words, which also includes my brand new short story, "Anesthetize or A Dream Played in Reverse on Piano Keys"): Finding people is pretty high on the list of things that Rain does best. She still manages to request that they find her dear friend, Cherry Parker, so that she can say goodbye. Their latest case involves Hannah Caldwell, a silent ghost who can't-or won't-speak. At least work is keeping Rain and the PTU plenty busy. The hoopla is enough to make him wish for a quick flight to Vegas and an Elvis officiant. us step with fellow detective, Daniel McKenna, and he couldn't be happier. That's not to say everything is going smoothly-there's a wedding in the works, after all. But he's finally finding his groove as a reluctant medium and cold-case detective. Rain Christiansen isn't sure he'll ever fully understand the supernatural. The Spooky Life Lib/E (Audio CD / Audio, Library Edition) Fortunately, I'm starting to realize that fighting is my specialty. I want nothing more than an honest future with Gray, but the past isn't about to let me go without a fight. The more I learn about myself, the less I want to know. My life is a tangled mess of lies and deceit. I console myself that at least I've reached rock bottom and things can't get worse. He assures me that I'm imagining the distance between us, but I know better. Grayson Laurie has always been my kryptonite, and it would take more than a bullet to the brain to forget him. Waking up in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head is bad. Chrysalis (Audio CD / Audio, Library Edition) Later, he was shot five times and robbed in the lobby of a recording studio in New York City. Shakur became the target of lawsuits and experienced other legal problems. Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, gained critical recognition and backlash for its controversial lyrics. Shakur was initially a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground. Shakur's work is known for advocating political, economic, social and racial equality, as well as his raw descriptions of violence, drug and alcohol abuse and conflicts with the law. Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society and conflicts with other rappers. He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling rap artist, with over 75,000,000 albums sold worldwide, including over 50,000,000 in the United States. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a successful film actor and a prominent social activist. Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Both organisations work across the UK and globally helping children and young people have a better life. Lumos Foundation is a registered charity in the UK with no. Rowling (writing as Newt Scamander) and six new beasts!Ĭomic Relief, operating name Charity Projects, is a registered charity in the UK with charity nos. This collection includes the updated edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, with a new foreword from J.K. A treasure trove of magical facts and fairy tales, the Hogwarts Library Collection is an essential companion to the Harry Potter series. Rowling and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. A collection of three books treasured by users of the great library at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander's masterful work on magical creatures Quidditch Through the Ages, a comprehensive history of the game and its rules and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, with an introduction and illustrations by J.K. When she wakes, Sally finds Halloween Town perfectly quiet. She finally retrieves her arm, sews it back on, and then falls asleep. Forgetting the door, Sally chases Zero back to the cemetery. She opens the door and is about to fall through when Zero grabs her arm and pulls her back. Investigating, she finds an overgrown door with a crescent moon sign on it. She considers going to Valentine Town to ask Queen Ruby for advice, but she hears Zero barking deeper in the woods. Sally flees to Jack for help, but he is preoccupied and can only tell her that whatever kind of queen she wants to be will be perfect.Įscaping to the woods with the ghost dog Zero, Sally returns to the holiday grove. The Vampire Prince and the Witch Sisters sweep Sally away and start pinning her into an uncomfortable dress, criticizing her hair, clothes, and posture. When Sally and Jack return to Halloween Town, Jack is immediately caught up in the preparations for Halloween, which is only two weeks away. Sally feels especially insecure after meeting Ruby Valentino, the queen of Valentine Town, who seems impossibly perfect. Sally and Jack spent their honeymoon in Valentine Town. After saving Jack (and Christmas) from the near disaster caused by his impulsive attempt to co-opt Christmas, Sally has won his heart, and they are married, but Sally worries that she does not know how to be a queen. Sally the ragdoll has loved Jack Skellington for as long as she can remember. 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Nineteen years ago, Dave Cullen was among the first to arrive at Columbine High, even before most of the SWAT teams went in. The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders-inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement. It succeeds as an in-depth report about the “generational campaign” in the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy, a bi-partisan movement advocating serious gun reform.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A moving petition to America that it not look away from the catastrophes at Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and, yes, Parkland. |