Author : Isabelle Rodrigues
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780658004162
Here is French as it's really spoken--in conversations and jokes that are full of everyday slang and colloquialisms. Students learn through lively, natural dialogues that show the language in use; practice exercises and review chapters that test comprehension; jokes that reinforce vocabulary; notes that indicate appropriate usage; and fascinating features that explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions.
Author : Isabelle Rodrigues
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780071478748
The next best thing to a year abroad . . . Streetwise French with Audio CD offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how French is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang, and vulgarisms currently used by people from all walks of life. Fascinating features help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions. And exercises enable you to flex your comprehension and conversational skills.
Author : Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller
Publisher : Langenscheidt Publishing Group
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789812467607
This book contains 101 of the hottest French expressions, including fun illustrations and easy-to-read pronunciation. Inside you'll find cool ways to say hi and bye, love lingo, language for fashionistas, partying French style, tech talk, and more.
Author : Nancy Baker
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Photography
ISBN :
A collection of photographs of Seattle's street children that captures their lives on the streets--and the effects of that life. Meet Tina, a 13-year-old prostitute with dreams of diamonds and furs; Rat and Mike, 16-year-olds who eat from dumpsters; and Dewayne, a 16-year-old boy who hanged himself in a juvenile facility when faced with the prospect of returning to the streets. 57 duotone photographs.
Author : Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400829402
Streetwise brings together classic articles from the publication that helped revolutionize the way Wall Street does business. During the recession of the early 1970s, investment professionals turned to the theories of a small band of mathematical economists, whose ideas on such topics as portfolio development and risk management eventually led to the reform and maintenance of entire economies. This was the first time economists and practitioners had joined forces to such remarkable effect. Economist and money manager Peter Bernstein sought to encourage this exchange when, in 1974, he founded The Journal of Portfolio Management (JPM). For this present volume, Bernstein and JPM editor Frank Fabozzi have selected forty-one of the most influential articles to appear in the journal over the past twenty-five years, some of them written by Nobel laureates and all aimed at stimulating dialogue between academic economists wishing to understand the real-world problems of finance and investment professionals wanting to bring the most advanced theoretical work to bear on commerce. Financial economics is a youthful but vital field. Streetwise not only reflects its fascinating history but through articles on topics ranging from stock prices and risk management to bonds and real estate also offers relevant insights for today. The contributors are: R. Akhoury, R. D. Arnott, G. L. Bergstrom, G. O. Bierwag, F. Black, R. Bookstaber, K. Cholerton, R. Clarke, D. M. Cutler, C. P. Dialynas, P. O. Dietz, D. H. Edington, M. W. Einhorn, J. Evnine, R. Ferguson, P. M. Firstenberg, H. R. Fogler, F. Garrone, R. Grieves, R. C. Grinold, D. J. Hardy, D. P. Jacob, B. I. Jacobs, R. H. Jeffrey, R. N. Kahn, G. G. Kaufman, M. Kritzman, R. Lanstein, C. M. Latta, M. L. Leibowitz, K. N. Levy, R. Lochoff, R. W. McEnally, K. R. Meyer, E. M. Miller, A. F. Perold, P. Pieraerts, J. M. Poterba, K. Reid, R. R. Reitano, R. Roll, B. Rosenberg, S. A. Ross, M. Rubinstein, A. Rudd, P. A. Samuelson, R. Schweitzer, C. Seix, W. F. Sharpe, B. Solnik, L. H. Summers, A. L. Toevs, J. L. Treynor, A. Weinberger, and R. C. Zisler.
Author : Ramon Ricker
Publisher : Soundown Inc
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 098286390X
"Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor" sheds light on what every successful musician knows but most music schools don't teach--that a musician, regardless of instrument or specialty, is a small business and with that comes the need for entrepreneurial savvy.
Author : Colin Adams
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1627798854
Written by three gifted-and funny-teachers, How to Ace Calculus provides humorous and readable explanations of the key topics of calculus without the technical details and fine print that would be found in a more formal text. Capturing the tone of students exchanging ideas among themselves, this unique guide also explains how calculus is taught, how to get the best teachers, what to study, and what is likely to be on exams-all the tricks of the trade that will make learning the material of first-semester calculus a piece of cake. Funny, irreverent, and flexible, How to Ace Calculus shows why learning calculus can be not only a mind-expanding experience but also fantastic fun.
Author : Nick Theobald
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1456600230
Instant! French is a practical, street-wise and witty English-French phrase book. It's the phonetic phrase book that's got the world talking. With Instant! French, what you see is what you say. Speak French in seconds with Instant! French.
Author : Tom Kertscher
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299183103
Al McGuire was the Mark Twain of college basketball. Never was there a figure in the game so quoted and so quotable, on sports and on the human condition. This book collects more than a hundred of McGuire's most colorful quotations, plus photographs from his life and career, in a tribute that is funny, poignant, and brimming with his streetwise sagacity. McGuire, a brash and fiery New Yorker who grew up working in his parents' saloon, played a rough and tumble game of basketball at St. John's University and briefly in the NBA before entering the coaching ranks. He reached the pinnacle of his profession and gained national fame at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where in thirteen seasons he compiled a 295-80 record, appeared in nine NCAA tournaments, and won eighty-one home games in a row. He was a fine coach who cared deeply about his players and was beloved by his teams and fans alike, but his flamboyance and his mouth sometimes got him into trouble. The end of his coaching career captivated the nation: McGuire wept on the bench as his Marquette Warriors won the national title. McGuire then began a ground-breaking career in network broadcasting, adding a zest and unconventionality that the college game had never seen. His sometimes bizarre and always entertaining commentary kept viewers tuned in even after the outcome of a lopsided game was a foregone conclusion. When Al McGuire died of leukemia in 2001, the sports world lost a true original.
Author : Daniel Anselme
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0865478961
A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable war When On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, its power to disturb was too much to bear. Through David Bellos's translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful, and moving, it describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal, and an infantryman, each home on leave in Paris. What these soldiers have to say can't be heard, can't even be spoken; they find themselves strangers in their own city, unmoored from their lives. Full of sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, On Leave is a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and the terror felt by men returning home from war.
