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    Pack Warriors, The: Impetus: Season 1

    Series Audiobook 1 - The Pack Warriors

    Unabridged

    5 hours 44 min

    Fang and fury penetrate the night, searching for those who will carry the light, in an elemental battle as old as time.And reckoning arrives on silent feet when modern research crosses ancient ground.In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a research team pushes boundaries, chasing answers the modern world insists can be measured, cataloged, and controlled.But instead, they find history ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Financing Higher Education

    Answers from the UK

    This topical volume tells the story of the UK debate on financing higher education, illustrating a head-on collision between the economic imperatives of student loans and regulated market forces, and the political imperative of 'free' higher education. In telling the story of the partnership of an economist and a political professional, the book offers lessons about both policy design and the ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • The Welfare State as Piggy Bank

    Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State

    by Nicholas Barr ...
    Of the many functions of the welfare state, two are particularly prominent: the 'Robin Hood' function - the provision of poverty relief, the redistribution of income and wealth, and the reduction of social exclusion; and the 'piggy bank' function - ensuring mechanisms for insurance and for redistribution over the life cycle. The piggy-bank function, unlike the redistributive purpose of the welfare ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Reforming Pensions

    A Short Guide

    Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Reforming Pensions

    A Short Guide

    Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Pack Warriors, The: Claimed: Season 2

    Series Audiobook 2 - The Pack Warriors

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    What was awakened cannot be ignored. In the wake of the events that shattered the silence, the boundaries between ancient guardians and the modern world continue to erode. The truths revealed in Season One were only fragments, and their consequences ripple farther than anyone anticipated. As old forces press closer to the present, alliances are tested, loyalties deepen, and the cost of standing ... Read more

    $8.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Investing in Human Capital

    A Capital Markets Approach to Student Funding

    Most higher education finance literature assumes that students cannot pledge their future earnings to finance their education in a free society. Investing in Human Capital, first published in 2004, challenges that assumption and explores human capital contracts as an alternative mechanism for financing higher education. Investing in Human Capital tracks the roots of the idea behind human capital ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent?we are the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Finance for Non-Financial Managers 3/E

    Series series McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses
    Make simple sense of complex financial information!The high-profile accounting scandals of recent years have made one thing clear: You can't know too much about the company for which you work. What are the numbers? Where do you find them? How do they affect you and your staff?This fully revised and updated third edition of The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Finance for Nonfinancial Managers provides ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Wealthing Like Rabbits

    An Original and Occasionally Hilarious Introduction to the World of Personal Finance

    With Canadian personal savings lower than ever before and household debt going through the roof, many people are in dire need of financial advice. But can a book that includes sex, zombies, pancakes, and Star Trek really help? You might be surprised. Wealthing Like Rabbits is a fun, entertaining guide to personal finance that proves sound money management doesn’t have to be painful and neither ... Read more

    $5.81 USD

  • Financial Times Handbook of Corporate Finance, The

    A Business Companion to Financial Markets, Decisions and Techniques

    by Glen Arnold ...
    Glen Arnold is a businessman, investor and a professor of finance at Salford University. He’s the author of Corporate Financial Management, now in its fourth edition, Essentials of Corporate Financial Management, The Financial Times Guide to Value Investing, now in its second edition, and the market leading, The Financial Times Guide to Investing also in its second edition. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • How to Retire the Cheapskate Way

    The Ultimate Cheapskate's Guide to a Better, Earlier, Happier Retirement

    by Jeff Yeager ...
    Unlike most retirement planning and lifestyle books that focus on investing – or at the other end of the spectrum, on how to get the senior discount on a Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny’s – this new book from Jeff Yeager, America’s favorite cheapskate, makes the compelling case that you can have a joyous, worry-free retirement by merely spending smart and focusing on what you truly want and expect ... Read more

    $4.99 USD