Written by a former Traffic Homicide Investigator and a Retired District Attorney, Crash Course is the definitive guide to defensive driving. With over 50 years of combined experience at crash scenes and in courtrooms, the authors deliver a gripping, eye-opening look into the true cost of reckless, distracted, and impaired driving.Packed with unforgettable real-life cases and fifteen essential defensive driving tips, this book equips readers with the tools to make safer, s...

"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years."--From the Foreword by Warren E. BuffettFirst published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.As relevant today as when they f...

***"Graham's ideas inspired the investment community for nearly a century."--***Smart Money*"Graham's method of investing is as relevant today as it was when he first espoused it during the Roaring Twenties."--*Investor's Business DailyBenjamin Graham's revolutionary theories have influenced and inspired investors for nearly 70 years. First published in 1934, his Security Analysis is still considered to be the value investing bible for investors of...

Author David Benjamin has always been fascinated by Christmas—and by Christmas stories, starting with the Book of Luke. But the holiday tale that tickled Benjamin's literary fancy was Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," a story which, Benjamin believes, opened the door to countless variations on holiday themes, from Scrooge to Kris Kringle to the Grinch and beyond."Beyond" is where Benjamin began to venture with his first Christmas story, "The Little Red Dot," written when he was...

"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years." (From the Foreword by Warren E. Buffett)First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.As relevant today as when they first a...

Complexity has met its match!Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility, and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way—they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It’s like setting a pot of water on “low” and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that ...

Sumo is a fresh and funny introduction to the fascinating world of sumo, Japan's national sport. Author David Benjamin peels away the veneer of sumo as a cultural treasure and reveals it as an action-packed sport populated by superb athletes who employ numerous strategies and techniques to overcome their gargantuan opponents. Sumo provides an engaging, witty, behind-the-scenes look at sumo today.

Franklin Roosevelt Cribbs' summer job, at an art and music camp in the Wisconsin woods, spiraled into the wildest journey of his life. But this was true for almost anyone in that summer of 1968. Camp Nantoka was a piece of Chicago ripped from its roots and dropped into the woods. While campers came for art and music, their city simmered with racial tension and political turmoil. Thrust into the maelstrom, Cribbsy feels his way, learning fast, arguing, fighting, blundering, falling in love,...

People are looking around today, more than ever, and finding many reasons to get angry on the other side, there are so many people who are doing everything they can to make sure they also remain cool, calm and collected. Economic issues, school violence, partisan politics, the pressures of a culture that is increasingly rapidly, even urban drift. If you speak about this with other individuals, you're likely to come up with a consensus that anger issues get worse. Furthermore, the amount of...

This Element documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse, diagnoses its sources, and directs scholarly attention towards what the authors believe will be more fruitful avenues of future research. In the scholarship to date, there is substantial regional heterogeneity and substantial evidence denying the existence of a political resource curse. This dissensus is located in theory, measure, and research design, especially regarding measurement error a...

This book encompasses all you need to know to have a great understanding about how to rewire and rework your brain.Neuroscience, the brain's science study, underpins this book's content. It is a magnificent discipline that has dramatically advanced our knowledge of how we have been working over the past 20 years. There is still a lengthy path ahead of it where there will be found many more insights. As incredible as it is, revealing truths is just one of many fields of research. Le...

In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s “compelling” (The Economist) and “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prime minister of Israel tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending his country and securing its future.From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holoca...