![]() ![]() ![]() Chief among them is that, by cutting through the sterile debate for or against the market, it makes it easier to ask sharper questions about public policy. Sen describes and advocates has great attractions. Sens optimism and no-nonsense proposals leave one feeling that perhaps there is a solution. The overall argument eloquent and probing. Development as Freedom is essential reading. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers-perhaps even the majority of people-he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the worlds entire population. Book Synopsis By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development-for both rich and poor-in the twenty-first century. ![]() About the Book From the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics comes an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development, for both rich and poor, in the 21st century. ![]()
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Similarly, Wolfe was alternatively exultant and disparaging of his adopted borough: “God, I hate Brooklyn,” he once told a New York newspaperman. ![]() ![]() As an adult, he lived in physical and psychic exile from Asheville, North Carolina, where he grew up, and his writing is both obsessed with the particularities of that past and an aggressive act of rejection. Wolfe, that incandescent exploding star of early-twentieth-century fiction, had a deeply felt ambivalence to the idea of home. “We’ll wait if you have to get your coat and leave.” We remained. This is a different Tom Wolfe, he told the audience, in case we had expected talk of white suits and Kool-Aid. After a bit of biography, he paused to make a clarification. Eigeman then took over as emcee, leading a discursive retelling of Wolfe’s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() To keep them from claiming their true power.īecause in that power exists a terrible choice. 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The book is surprisingly intimate and often reads like a memoir posing as a self-help guide as the narrative moves between Sasaki’s search for happiness and practical ways to implement lifestyle changes (for example, he suggests thinking of possessions as roommates who don’t pay rent). Get your colleagues together to laugh and reflect on this person’s time with the company. ![]() Put together some decorations and order a cake. Using his 215-square-foot apartment as the prime example, he suggests that studio living with mere basics not only reduces overhead and improves one’s social life but makes housekeeping three times easier.īuilds his case for a minimalist lifestyle by looking inward and sharing personal details about the improvements he’s made in his life. Don’t let your feelings overwhelm the exchange. Sasaki, co-editor-in-chief at Wani Books, a manga publisher in Tokyo, delivers insights on the benefits of a private refuge in his compulsively readable primer on living with less. ![]() ![]() Please call.” Back in WWII, Steve Edmond, following his time as a Canadian fighter pilot with the RAF, becomes a billionaire mining magnate. At heart this story turns on Pete Dexter, now 51, a bounty hunter of the most elevated and shrouded heights, supposedly a ruggedly physical small-town Pennsylvania lawyer who keeps himself in trim for a triathlon but whose real center of operations is a small dark Manhattan apartment from which he goes out after big game whenever he answers an ad in Vintage Airplane magazine: “AVENGER. ![]() ![]() Even so, Avenger is far less well focused than things were with Jackal out to kill De Gaulle. But, as Forsyth knows, when you grab a tiger by the tail, you’re in business. ![]() Readers dazed by Forsyth’s terrific flow of detail will wonder where it’s all going as chapter after chapter floods by, diverges into a superabundant new bed of fine backgrounding that starts in WWII, passes through the blood-soaked puzzles of Vietnam, goes to the breakdown of tripartite Yugoslavia, and then to South America today. The great Forsythe of 1971’s The Day of the Jackal returns (more recently, the polished tales of The Veteran, 2001), flourishing a well-researched thriller set on the world’s bloodiest stages. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are helpful notes for grown-ups at the back too and links to websites for more advice. ![]() ![]() Topics covered include learning to describe feelings, how your feelings can change, and being kind to yourself. How are you feeling today? This lively and engaging exploration of emotions helps young children learn to answer this important question. 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With delightful illustrations, this glorious celebration of family diversity talks about lone-parent families, adoptive, foster, divorced, remarried, and mixed race families, and lots, lots more, showing little children that families come in all shapes and sizes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. ![]() Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice–Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family. 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It’s a solitary existence, but she likes it that way. ![]() Now in her late eighties, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father’s ancient armchair. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.Įver since her darling father’s untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and…no qualms about a little murder. 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