Elements of Discipline: Nine Principles for Teachers and Parents, Stephen Greenspan

Автор: Alan Greenspan
Название: The Age of Turbulence
ISBN: 0141029919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141029917
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A guide to what is happening in the world, and where we`re heading, from the ultimate expert. It gives us an insider`s view of the world over the author`s lifetime, from stock market exuberance to political turmoil - and his predictions for the future of our fast-changing, increasingly turbulent global economy.

Автор: Dorie Greenspan
Название: Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Herme HB
ISBN: 0316357413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316357418
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: Whether you are an expert in the dessert kitchen or a beginner with a desire for the delicious this collection will introduce you to the myriad delights of Pierre Herme's desserts, his unusual juxtapositions of ingredients, his conjurer's touch with textures, and his perfect pitch when it comes to sweetness, tartness and "chocolatey-ness". The book provides recipes for the simplest chocolate truffle as well as the luxuriously soft and rich Suzy's Cake, which is spectacularly delicious yet quite simple to make. Through more than 75 recipes, readers will be able to taste chocolate in all its states - hot and cold, creamy and crunchy, smooth and custardy, thick and chewy, bittersweet and sweet, dark, milk and white. Finally,ere are the indispensable Base Recipes and a Dictionary of Terms, Techniques, Equipment and Ingredients. Together they form a complete course in chocolate dessert artistry.

Автор: Ralph J. Greenspan
Название: An Introduction to Nervous Systems
ISBN: 0879698217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780879698218
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: An Introduction to Nervous Systems presents the principles of neurobiology from an evolutionary perspective--from singleDScelled organisms to complex invertebrates such as flies--and is ideal for use as a supplemental textbook. Greenspan describes the mechanisms that allow behavior to become ever
more sophisticated--from simple avoidance behavior of Paramecium through to the complex cognitive behaviors of the honeybee--and shows how these mechanisms produce the increasing neural complexity found in these organisms. The book ends with a discussion of what is universal about nervous systems and
what may be required, neurobiologically, to be human. This novel and highly readable presentation of fundamental principles of neurobiology is designed to be accessible to undergraduate and graduate students not already steeped in the subject.

Автор: Mallaby Sebastian
Название: The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
ISBN: 1594204845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594204845
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time
Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years--and the presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush--in a whole new light. As the most influential economic statesman of his age, Greenspan spent a lifetime grappling with a momentous shift: the transformation of finance from the fixed and regulated system of the post-war era to the free-for-all of the past quarter century. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.
Greenspan's life is a quintessential American success story: raised by a single mother in the Jewish emigre community of Washington Heights, he was a math prodigy who found a niche as a stats-crunching consultant. A master at explaining the economic weather to captains of industry, he translated that skill into advising Richard Nixon in his 1968 campaign. This led to a perch on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and then to a dazzling array of business and government roles, from which the path to the Fed was relatively clear. A fire-breathing libertarian and disciple of Ayn Rand in his youth who once called the Fed's creation a historic mistake, Mallaby shows how Greenspan reinvented himself as a pragmatist once in power. In his analysis, and in his core mission of keeping inflation in check, he was a maestro indeed, and hailed as such. At his retirement in 2006, he was lauded as the age's necessary man, the veritable God in the machine, the global economy's avatar. His memoirs sold for record sums to publishers around the world.
But then came 2008. Mallaby's story lands with both feet on the great crash which did so much to damage Alan Greenspan's reputation. Mallaby argues that the conventional wisdom is off base: Greenspan wasn't a naive ideologue who believed greater regulation was unnecessary. He had pressed for greater regulation of some key areas of finance over the years, and had gotten nowhere. To argue that he didn't know the risks in irrational markets is to miss the point. He knew more than almost anyone; the question is why he didn't act, and whether anyone else could or would have. A close reading of Greenspan's life provides fascinating answers to these questions, answers whose lessons we would do well to heed. Because perhaps Mallaby's greatest lesson is that economic statesmanship, like political statesmanship, is the art of the possible. "The Man Who Knew" is a searching reckoning with what exactly comprised the art, and the possible, in the career of Alan Greenspan."