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  • Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth

    Studies in Income and Wealth

    Edited by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Barry Johnson, Arthur Kennickell ...
    Series Book 80 - National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    A collection of twenty-three studies that explore the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility.Economic research is increasingly focused on inequality in the distribution of personal resources and outcomes. One aspect of inequality is mobility: are individuals locked into their respective places in this distribution? To what extent do circumstances change, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

    An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

    by John T. Friedman ...
    In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Out of the Blue

    A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival

    by John Friedman ...
    The odds of being hit by lightning each year are only about 1 in 750,000 in the U.S. And yet this rare phenomenon has inspired both fear and fascination for thousands of years. In this groundbreaking, brilliantly researched book, journalist John S. Friedman probes lightning’s scientific, spiritual, and cultural roots. Blending vibrant history with riveting first-hand accounts of those who have ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Bereshit, The Book of Beginnings

    A New Translation with Commentary

    by David B. Friedman ...
    In this work, the author brings the book of Bereshit (Genesis) to life by his idiomatic, easily understood translation of the Masoretic text. Dr. Friedman takes many ancient Hebrew idioms and unfolds them and their significance for the reader. Additionally, the reader enters into the flow of the text through his commentary, one that is based on unique Jewish approaches to understanding this ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing Sustainability

    First Steps to First Class

    by John Friedman ...
    Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class provides a compelling case, real-world examples, and the tools to follow a proven strategy for aligning sustainability efforts with existing organizational priorities.This strategy has taken companies from initial conception to the top of the sustainability rankings. Using examples from leading companies, readers will understand how to build ... Read more

    $22.89 CAD

  • The Grief Recovery Handbook for Pet Loss

    by Russell Friedman, Cole James, John W. James ...
    If you’ve found yourself almost inconsolable after your pet died, please know that you’re normal.If you’ve found that your family and friends don’t seem to understand the level of your grief, please know that, too, is normal.Without comparing our relationships with our pets to those with people, we know that, because of the unique emotional relationships we have with our pets, their deaths produce ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Choose Economic Freedom

    Enduring Policy Lessons from the 1970s and 1980s

    by George P. Shultz, John B. Taylor ...
    Learn from economic history's successes and failures to inform today's policy decisions. George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from decades of experience to show how letting the market work on its own, without government intervention, is a recipe for success. Choose Economic Freedom reconstructs debates from the 1960s and 1970s about wage and price controls, revealing how brilliant economists ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • PR 2.0

    How Digital Media Can Help You Build a Sustainable Brand

    by John Friedman ...
    Series series DoShorts
    Digital media offer many of the same characteristics – immediacy, transparency and interactivity – that make one-to-one the most effective form of communication. And yet many organizations do not fully embrace them. They simultaneously underestimate and fear the power of digital communications. And yet these tools, when used strategically, can be an effective part of your communications plan.PR 2 ... Read more

    $57.70 CAD

  • Rotating Relativistic Stars

    by John L. Friedman, Nikolaos Stergioulas ...
    Series series Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
    The masses of neutron stars are limited by an instability to gravitational collapse and an instability driven by gravitational waves limits their spin. Their oscillations are relevant to x-ray observations of accreting binaries and to gravitational wave observations of neutron stars formed during the coalescence of double neutron-star systems. This volume includes more than forty years of research ... Read more

    $184.79 CAD

  • The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition

    The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses

    by John W. James, Russell Friedman ...
    Updated to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic self-help resource further explores the effects of grief and sheds new light on how to begin to take effective actions to complete the grieving process and work towards emotional recovery and happiness.Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • When Children Grieve

    For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses

    by John W. James, Russell Friedman, Dr. Leslie Matthews ...
    "Once in a generation, a book comes along that alters the way society views a topic. When Children Grieve is an essential primer for parents and others who interact with children on a regular basis." — Bernard McGrane, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Chapman University and U.C. IrvineThe first—and definitive—guide to helping children really deal with loss from the authors of the The Grief Recovery ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Moving Beyond Loss

    Real Answers to Real Questions from Real People

    by Russell Friedman, John W. James ...
    Russell Friedman and John W. James are the exclusive providers of grief and grief-recovery related content on a memorial website called Tributes.com, which receives approximately 1.5 million hits per month. In addition to providing helpful articles on recovery from loss, they answer grief-related questions submitted by visitors to the site, The questions are unique and personal, and represent the ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus