Have you ever agreed to purchase a car or a software subscription at a fantastic price, only to discover a mountain of mandatory hidden fees at the final checkout? Surprisingly, instead of walking away in disgust, most people proceed with the transaction. This is the psychological dark art known as the Low-Ball Technique. Rooted in the principle of commitment and consistency, this deceptive sales strategy exploits a fundamental glitch in human cognition. Once a consumer makes the initial p...

El presente libro se desarrolla en dos partes. En la primera parte, realizada por el profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, se estudia el novedoso mecanismo del "control de convencionalidad" y su particular referencia a la garantía del derecho a la protección judicial mediante un recurso sencillo, rápido y efectivo de amparo de los derechos humanos. Se revisan las dos vertientes del control de convencionalidad, su desarrollo conceptual y el despliegue del mismo en el marco del ejercicio del recu...

The twists and turns of the last 15 years of the Qantas story contain all the ingredients of a corporate thriller, with constant shocks to the system, and boardroom dramas and disasters narrowly avoided. During this tumultuous period, as CEO of Australia's iconic airline, Alan Joyce became one of the best-known corporate figures in Australia, and one of the most polarising.He's had to steer the company through cyclones and bushfires, volcanic ash clouds and a tsunami, a pandemic, t...

Includes information on the latest thyroid treatmentsUnderstand and manage your thyroid conditionDon't get pushed around by the little gland in your neck. Whether you suffer from an underactive or overactive thyroid, nodules, or a goitre, Thyroid For Dummies has all the jargon-free information you need to get to grips with the problem and expert advice on how to get your condition under control.Discover how to* Tell if you have a thyroid problem* Under...

Join Alan Jeffers and friends as they try to make it to the world champoinship with his baseball team, The Dodgers!

Many of us, at the best of times, struggle for inspiration when it comes to cooking – and that’s without a medical condition that may affect our eating habits and require careful management. The right diet is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and all the more important for the successful management of diabetes.Fully updated for a UK audience Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies will include the latest dietary recommendations and medical information on diabetes and its managem...

Highlights the relationship between climate change and the emergence of invasive insect crop pestsConsiders the key challenges facing the identification of crop insect pests and the role of new, emerging technologies in improving the rate of detection (e.g. image-based, DNA barcoding)Reviews the establishment of successful integrated pest management (IPM) programmes to control and/or eradicate the existence of invasive species

Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain,...

Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of contemporaries, Personal Impressions, in which he sees the point of radically differing personalities, enters into their distinctive outlooks, and describes his encounters with them, in arrestingly ...

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of research. This volume breaks down the boundaries between traditional historical time periods and s...

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction...