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Feeling Good Handbook»rank: 547par: David Burns
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Kaplan GMAT 2009 Premier Program (w/ CD-ROM)»rank: 1154par: Kaplan
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The Elements of Style»rank: 984par: William Strunk, E. B. White
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. |
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Reality Check»rank: 4840par: Guy Kawasaki
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. |
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The Great Crash of 1929»rank: 319par: John Kenneth Galbraith
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome to the late 1920s. There are obvious and absolute parallels to the great bull market of the late 1990s, writes Galbraith in a new introduction dated 1997. 0f course, Galbraith notes, every financial bubble since 1929 has been compared to the Great Crash, which is why this book has never been out of ... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird: The Timeless Classic of Growing Up and the Human Dignity»rank: 616par: Harper Lee
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. l maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.' Set in the ... |
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Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets»rank: 6940par: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? ln Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders ... |
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Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before»rank: 344par: Alastair Fothergill
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? ln Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders ... |
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software»rank: 5191par: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Design Patterns is based on the idea that there are only so many design problems in computer programming. This book identifies some common program-design problems--such as adapting the interface of one object to that of another object or notifying an object of a change in another object's state--and explains the best ways (not always the obvious ways) that the authors know to solve them. The idea is that you can use the authors' sophisticated design ideas to solve problems that you often waste time solving over and ... |
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness»rank: 1036par: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Chroniques et points de vue: : s Questions for Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein : What do you mean by 'nudge' and why do people sometimes need to be nudged? Thaler and Sunstein: By a nudge we mean anything that influences our choices. A school cafeteria might try to nudge kids toward good diets by putting the healthiest foods at front. We think that it's time for institutions, including government, to become much more user-friendly by enlisting the science of choice to make life easier for people and by gentling nudging ... |