Money is broken in many ways, including how we learn about it.For more than a decade, Michael Schramm, CFA, has written about money, personal finance, and investing. Along the way, he noticed a problem: traditional financial education rarely reaches the people who need it most, especially those who lack financial confidence because they grew up without wealth.So he wrote a new kind of beginner-friendly investing book. Emotional Finance makes invest...

Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster progress against absolute poverty is possible through reductions in national and global inequ...

This text forms a bridge between courses in calculus and real analysis. It focuses on the construction of mathematical proofs as well as their final content. Suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students of real analysis, it also provides a vital reference book for advanced courses in mathematics.The four-part treatment begins with an introduction to basic logical structures and techniques of proof, including discussions of the cardinality concept and the algebraic and orde...

The Sage Handbook of the Chinese Economy is a comprehensive resource that delves into the complexities of China′s economic and financial systems. Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, this handbook brings both depth and breadth to our understanding of China. It examines specific industries and issues, ranging from real estate to total factor productivity, while also covering China’s domestic economy and its global impact.China′s tremendous economi...

What this author wants more than anything in the world is for people to realize how important it is to love, and be loved, as it states in Corinthians 13:13. "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love".

This concise, practical text covers the essential information veterinary students, new graduates and practitioners need to succeed in equine practice, focussing on lameness. Written for an international readership, the book conveys the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet-points, lists, diagrams, protocols and extensive illustration (over 650 full colour, high quality photographs).Part of a five-book series that extracts and updates ke...

An instant New York Times bestsellerFrom the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive money management guide to all things money—from managing debt to investing and voting with your dollarsTori Dunlap was always good with money. As a kid, she watched her prudent parents balance their checkbook every month and learned to save for musical tickets by gathering pennies in an Altoids tin. But she quickly discovered ...

**“Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker.” —Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United KingdomA myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy.**China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch, based on American news coverage, policy, and ways of understanding.Enter Keyu Jin: a world-renowned economist who was born ...

The at a Glance series is popular among medical students and junior doctors for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with colour summary diagrams on the left page and explanatory text on the right. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory subject texts or for revision purposes, and are useful throughout medical school...

From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independenceA bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living life on your own termsKristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next Snapchat in her garage, or investing...

This lively introductory text exposes the student to the rewards of a rigorous study of functions of a real variable. In each chapter, informal discussions of questions that give analysis its inherent fascination are followed by precise, but not overly formal, developments of the techniques needed to make sense of them. By focusing on the unifying themes of approximation and the resolution of paradoxes that arise in the transition from the finite to the infinite, the text turns what could ...

China Versus the West is an innovative book.The author, a leading specialist on the international and Asian economy and business, presents the most comprehensive picture of the changing power balance between the emerging superpower China and the "old" developed economies of the West: mainly the US, Europe and Japan. The reader can clearly see in what areas and to what extent China has become the world leader, in what areas it is catching up and in what are...