Hopscotch...or Why Children Are the Better Day Traders

Hopscotch...or Why Children Are the Better Day Traders
Author: Matthias Thoma
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412002516

This book presents you with a new and fresh approach to the usually very technical and boring subject of direct-access trading. The Author's "Keep It Simple Stupid" approach enables you to learn about the Securities industry and, more important, the life as a professional trader with ease. You receive an entertaining insight on the Author's perspective. To round things up you are introduced to the very strategy that gave this book its name Hopscotch, of which the Author claims that it so easy to apply that even a child could be successful with it. A brief excursion into various other trading strategies and an extensive Appendix with explanations about Technical Analysis and Industry lingo give the book a neat balance between entertaining and educating its reader.

The New Yorker

The New Yorker
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1682
Release: 1954-05
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN:

Nourishing Life

Nourishing Life
Author: Arianna Huhn
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1789208904

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.

Man, Play, and Games

Man, Play, and Games
Author: Roger Caillois
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780252070334

According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.

Together for Christmas

Together for Christmas
Author: Carol Rivers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471131319

A heart-warming and nostalgic Christmas family saga set at the heart of wartime London, from the bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas. Perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Rosie Goodwin WILL CHRISTMAS BE A BEACON OF HOPE IN THE DARKEST OF TIMES? After Britain declares war on Germany, the whole country is thrown into uproar, and Flora, Hilda and Will, who grew up together in St Boniface orphanage, discuss the impending war and the changes it will bring to their lives. Will wants to go off to fight, Hilda hopes to become a maid at the charitable institute, Hailing House, but Flora is content with her job as assistant to the Isle of Dogs' kindly Doctor Tapper. Taking a vow, they pledge to always be there for each other, come what may. It quickly becomes clear that the war will not be over by Christmas, and the first zeppelin raids bring casualties flooding into the surgery where Flora works. Tragedy strikes in the trenches, too, and Will returns home with physical and mental wounds too deep for Flora to be able to nurse back to health. And it is not long before Hilda finds herself out of her depth. As the consequences of each of their choices lead to a shocking discovery, the orphan's lives will be changed forever . . . Praise for CAROL RIVERS: 'Surely one of the best saga writers of her time' – Rosie Clarke 'A gripping page turner' - LEAH FLEMING 'Brings the East End to life - family loyalties, warring characters and broken dreams. Superb' - ELIZABETH GILL

Motherhood So White

Motherhood So White
Author: Nefertiti Austin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-09-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 149267902X

The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid's tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that. Especially if you're a single Black mom... and adopting. Nefertiti Austin shares her story of starting a family through adoption as a single Black woman. In this unflinching account of her parenting journey, Nefertiti examines the history of adoption in the African American community, faces off against stereotypes of single Black moms, and confronts the reality of what it looks like to raise children of color and answer their questions about racism in modern-day America. Honest, vulnerable, and uplifting, Motherhood So White is a fantastic book for mothers who have read White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, or other books about racism and want to see how these social issues play out in a very personal way for a single mom and her Black son. This great book club read explores social and cultural bias, gives a new perspective on a familiar experience, and sparks meaningful conversations about what it looks like for Black families in white America today.

My Only Bag

My Only Bag
Author: Michael Balaguera
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1698707185

As the world turns, things change. Our life cycle is full of memories. Those memories tell my adventures from childhood through adulthood. Some full of joy, some are full of despair, panic and pain. This book shares my story as my story needs to be told and read by many. MY ONLY BAG is a bag I brought from Belen, Boyaca, Colombia with only a few personal items but full of my childhood memories. It also contained all my dreams, which now can be opened by many to enjoy the growth of one man to a large family and all the goodness and goodies of my life...MY ONLY BAG.

The Nurture Assumption

The Nurture Assumption
Author: Judith Rich Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1999
Genre: Child development
ISBN: 0684857073

Harris takes on the "experts" and boldly questions conventional wisdom of parents' role in their children's lives, asserting that it's not the home environment that shapes children, but the environment they share with their peers.

The World Until Yesterday

The World Until Yesterday
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 727
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1101606002

The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.