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2222 The Untold Stories

by Lawrence Katz, Cybill Validum ...

Abraham Alvarez has the perfect life. He has inherited the sort of wealth men can only dream of. He has a gorgeous wife, and two healthy boys. A beloved teacher, he works despite his wealth to build up future generations. But beneath the surface, Abraham is a master of secrets, and true happiness eludes him. After a close call threatens to shed light on his sins, Abraham vows to turn over a new ... Read more

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Abraham Alvarez has the perfect life. He has inherited the sort of wealth men can only dream of. He has a gorgeous wife, and two healthy boys. A beloved teacher, he works despite his wealth to build up future generations. But beneath the surface, Abraham is a master of secrets, and true happiness eludes him. After a close call threatens to shed light on his sins, Abraham vows to turn over a new
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Keep Your Brain Alive

Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness

by Lawrence Katz, Manning Rubin ...

Narrated by Manning Rubin ...

Abridged

2 hours 5 min

No more punch lines that just slipped away. No more names on the tip of your tongue. No more senior moments! Drawing on cutting-edge neurological research, Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness, brings help to everyone whose memory is starting to slip.Devised by Dr. Lawrence Katz, a professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical ... Read more

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No more punch lines that just slipped away. No more names on the tip of your tongue. No more senior moments! Drawing on cutting-edge neurological research, Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness, brings help to everyone whose memory is starting to slip.Devised by Dr. Lawrence Katz, a professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical
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Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century

Edited by Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, Mark A. Loewenstein ...

Series Book 84 - Studies in Income and Wealth
Categorizing race and ethnicity for twenty-first-century statistics and economics.The increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the US population raises the question of whether the race and ethnicity categories and definitions used by federal statistical agencies to create demographic statistics on which government officials, business decision-makers, and private citizens rely fully reflect the ... Read more

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Categorizing race and ethnicity for twenty-first-century statistics and economics.The increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the US population raises the question of whether the race and ethnicity categories and definitions used by federal statistical agencies to create demographic statistics on which government officials, business decision-makers, and private citizens rely fully reflect the
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The Race between Education and Technology

by Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz ...

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational ... Read more

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This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational
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Women Working Longer

Increased Employment at Older Ages

Edited by Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz ...

Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today’s older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries.In Women Working Longer, editors ... Read more

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Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today’s older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries.In Women Working Longer, editors
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The Race between Education and Technology

by Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz ...

An incisive history of American education—its great success in creating prosperity and equality during the twentieth century and its relative decline since the 1970s.“As Goldin and Katz have argued, the 20th century was the American century in large part because it was the human-capital century. Education—knowledge—can help people live better by allowing them to learn from past errors and make new ... Read more

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An incisive history of American education—its great success in creating prosperity and equality during the twentieth century and its relative decline since the 1970s.“As Goldin and Katz have argued, the 20th century was the American century in large part because it was the human-capital century. Education—knowledge—can help people live better by allowing them to learn from past errors and make new
... Read more

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Scarcity

Why Having Too Little Means So Much

by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture.Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty ... Read more

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In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture.Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty
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The Achievement Habit

Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

by Bernard Roth ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible.Achievement can be learned. It’s a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you’ll be able to meet life’s challenges and fulfill your goals, Bernard Roth, Academic Director at the Stanford d.school contends.In The Achievement Habit, Roth applies the remarkable ... Read more

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The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible.Achievement can be learned. It’s a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you’ll be able to meet life’s challenges and fulfill your goals, Bernard Roth, Academic Director at the Stanford d.school contends.In The Achievement Habit, Roth applies the remarkable
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Seeing What Others Don't

The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

by Gary Klein ...

Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

Unabridged

9 hours

Insights—like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed—or what blocks ... Read more

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Insights—like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed—or what blocks
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You Are The Placebo

by Dr. Joe Dispenza ...

Narrated by Adam Boyce ...

Unabridged

12 hours 6 min

Is it possible to heal by thought alone—without drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have ... Read more

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Is it possible to heal by thought alone—without drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have
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A Fifty-Year Silence

Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

by Miranda Richmond Mouillot ...

Narrated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiencesIn 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of ... Read more

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A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiencesIn 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of
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All Creatures Great and Small

The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

by James Herriot ...

Narrated by Christopher Timothy ...

Unabridged

15 hours 41 min

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 **Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James ... Read more

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** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 **Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James
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