As a governor of the Federal Reserve Board from 1996 to 2002, Laurence H. Meyer helped make the economic policies that steered the United States through some of the wildest and most tumultuous times in its recent history. Now, in A Term at the Fed, Governor Meyer provides an insider's view of the Fed, the decisions that affected both the U.S. and world economies, and the challenges inherent in using monetary policy to guide the economy.When Governor Meyer was appointed by ...

In her final year of law school, Jill Hansen's greatest joy is representing criminal defendants in court through her school's criminal justice clinic. But when she's appointed to represent Carl, a handsome, charming man who's been charged with assault, she and her supervising professor face dangerous challenges and choices that could threaten their careers.Jill's Trials, a courtroom drama,follows Jill's path from law school, to the public defender's office, to a prestigiou...

Most companies know that long-term success does not hinge on any single product but on a continuous stream of value-rich products that target growth markets. Yet many firms inexplicably develop one product at a time, and by doing so fail to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or modularization among different products and product lines. At last, in this timely book, Marc H. Meyer and Alvin P. Lehnerd provide a formula for turning products into profits, ena...

Film Producer, Record Executive, and Raconteur, Andrew Meyer, reflects on his life in the entertainment business and his travels around the world.Mr. Meyer tells stories about producing concerts in college with The Grateful Dead, The Band, Miles Davis, and Sly and the Family Stone. Mr. Meyer joined A&M Records in the early 1970s and worked with legendary artists such as Cat Stevens, Joe Cok...

Martin H. Meyer - senior pastor, author, translator, academic teacher. He graduated from Clark University (MSc in Professional Communication) and University of Wroclaw (MA in Journalism and Social Communication), and did courses on diplomacy, political science and pedagogics. Father of three wonderful kids. Husband of one and dear wife. Lives with his family in Lubin, south-eastern part of Poland.

Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics of restitution, compensation, and other forms of historical redress have engaged with the thesis that historical injustice can be superseded, the idea that changing circumstances following histo...

This book aims to build concepts and create a solid foundation in the field of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for the general ophthalmologists as well as for the resident trainees and fellows. The chapters are written by leading international authorities in a style comprehensible to a broad audience. Numerous clinical pictures and SD-OCT scans help elucidate various clinical entities.OCT is the optical analog of ultrasound imaging and has emerged as a powerful imaging technique that en...

Are you sitting on the mountaintop with Jesus or down groveling in the mud puddles? Words of Worth travels both places. Sandra Meyers spiritual journey through life resembles that of many others, and she writes from her familiarity of both the good and hard times.Practical ideas to help you grow come from ordinary activities, nature, and experience. Often Christians march forward, only to take a slow ride downhill, unaware until weve already lost ground. Biblical people experienced the sam...

Are you sitting on the mountaintop with Jesus or down groveling in the mud puddles? Words of Worth travels both places. Sandra Meyers spiritual journey through life resembles that of many others, and she writes from her familiarity of both the good and hard times.Practical ideas to help you grow come from ordinary activities, nature, and experience. Often Christians march forward, only to take a slow ride downhill, unaware until weve already lost ground. Biblical people experienced...

Enlightenment is real, and you can attain it. The Truth about Enlightenment is a direct, accessible, and authentic account of the progressive spiritual insights along the Buddhist path-insights that reveal enlightenment itself.If you've ever wanted to know what egolessness, emptiness, or nonduality really mean, how they differ from one another, and how to attain these and other core insights, The Truth about Enlightenment is a practical guidebook, written from dir...

Separation of Variables for Partial Differential Equations: An Eigenfunction Approach includes many realistic applications beyond the usual model problems. The book concentrates on the method of separation of variables for partial differential equations, which remains an integral part of the training in applied mathematics. Beyond the usual model p

In this book, a physician suffering from Major Depression turns to spirituality in an attempt to save his life.Through luck or karma, his quest brings him to one of the worlds greatest spiritual teachers, a living Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.As he seeks to attain enlightenment in order to end his psychological pain, his experiences in the worlds of Western medicine and Buddhism are described.The central theme involves the magic and risk inherent in the sacred ...