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• Author: S. Roth

Seller Description: This eye-opening work takes investors through Kevin Roth's story--a second grader who designed a portfolio that beat the S&P 500 index by four percent--while driving home key strategies and tools to implement in their own portfolios. See More Details

Seller Description: "Contentious debates over the benefits-or drawbacks-of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism-often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student's capacity for ... See More Details

Seller Description: In this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. See More Details

Seller Description: From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education See More Details

Seller Description: In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century France of medical criteria for diagnosing memory disorders, which signal fundamental changes in ... See More Details

Seller Description: In Disturbing Remains , ten extraordinary scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century. The volume opens with essays by David William Cohen, Veena Das, and Philip Gourevitch. Their reflections on the narratives framing Robert Ouko's death in Kenya, Sikh-Hindu violence in India around ... See More Details

Seller Description: Ruins have fascinated and intrigued viewers for centuries. These include not only famous sites like Angkor Wat and the Temple of Olympian Zeus, but the remnants of natural disasters like the Lisbon earthquake. This book--the catalog for an exhibition held at the Getty Center--explores the allure of ruins and examines the roles that they play in ... See More Details

Seller Description: Legal memoir including case studies and life lessons. Follow along as Mr. Subro tackles litigation running the gamut from a giraffe barn fire at the King of Pop's Neverland Ranch, to a flood caused by the Northridge Earthquake to the devastating Sayre Wildfire. Mr. Subro also touches on subjects like the value of mentorship and the importance of ... See More Details

Seller Description: What can parents do to help their kids feel less anxious? In our increasingly uncertain world, helping children cultivate resilience is key. Written by pioneering experts in child psychology and anxiety, The Resilience Recipe offers parents of children ages 5 to 12 struggling with anxiety a proven-effective, evidence-based plan grounded in ... See More Details

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Seller Description: Many children experience anxious thoughts, worry about the unknown, or are afraid to try new things. In The Worry Workbook for Kids, two respected psychologists offer simple, action-based activities grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help young readers ages seven to twelve conquer their fear of uncertainty, set and accomplish goal... See More Details

Seller Description: Neither before, during, nor after the Holocaust have women been silent about the experiences that left them forever marked by the "Final Solution". Here are 28 selections, some long out of print and some written this year, brought together to intensify an awareness of the depths of the Holocaust's tragedy. See More Details

Seller Description: Reflecting the lively and comprehensive spirit of the forthcoming Library of Congress exhibition on Freud, these essays provide a fascinating spectrum of viewpoints on one of the most influential figures of the modern age. See More Details

Seller Description: In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In this volume, noted scholars reflect on how their own thinking about the Holocaust has changed over the years. In their personal stories they confront the questions that the Holocaust has raised for them and explore how these questions have been ... See More Details

Seller Description: On Tyranny is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero , or Tyrannicus , in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss's commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Koj ... See More Details

Seller Description: On a quest to find an inner truth, Henry the Squirrel and Austin the Pup set off on a daring voyage to find the legendary chest of Crabby Jack. Through fearsome challenges that test their bravery and wit, they'll come across unlikely friends that will help them along the way. Teamwork and trust teach the friends how to endure, and it leads them to ... See More Details

Seller Description: When Miss Lee announces that her birthday is the next day, Posey can hardly wait to give her teacher homegrown roses. But when her friend brings Miss Lee a big bouquet from a florist, Posey feels like her present isn't special enough. See More Details

Seller Description: Written in the midst of the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th-9th centuries, these essays affirm the Incarnation and its meaning for icon veneration. See More Details

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Seller Description: This book, offering the state-of-the-art in cultural/intellectual history today, examines some of the major problems and themes critical to the historical study of European culture. It explores the limits and capacities of historical consciousness in modernity and shares a concern with the ways in which cultural productions are connected to self ... See More Details

Seller Description: A down-home story straight from the chicken coop. Josi loves her animals, and her favorite is especially quirky. His name proclaims it- Chickenfriend ! But when new chickens arrive on the farm, things get a little clucky. His feathers get ruffled, and Chickenfriend reacts in the worst way. Will their friendship survive? And can it ever be the ... See More Details

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