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As a girl, Katy accidentally discovers her mother is earning money as a sex worker at the family home, rupturing their bond. As an adult, Katy contends with grief and mental health challenges before she and her mother attempt to heal their relationship. From Canada, to Leeds and Jamaica, and exploring shame, immigration and class, the pair shares their stories but struggles to understand each other’s choices in a fast-changing world. By revealing their truths, can these two strong women call a truce on their hostilities and overcome the oppressive ghosts of the past?

TBS系列「林先生が驚く 初耳学」(2016/9/25,10/9,11/6放送)で「日本国民全員が一冊持つべき」と紹介された話題の一冊!

医者「なぜ患者さんは治療方針を決められないのか」
患者「なぜお医者さんは不安な気持ちをわかってくれないのか」
人間心理のクセがわかれば、溝は埋められる！

「ここまでやって来たのだから続けたい」
「まだ大丈夫だからこのままでいい」
「『がんが消えた』という広告があ

Per alcuni porterebbe alla semplificazione del sistema tributario e a una pressione fiscale meno opprimente per chi lavora, favorendo la crescita economica e contrastando l'evasione. Per altri, che la identificano con una bassa pressione fiscale, la flat tax sarebbe una riforma a vantaggio dei più ricchi che costringerebbe lo Stato a tagliare la spesa sociale. L'audiolibro illustra con chiarezza caratteristiche e posta in gioco della flat tax: vantaggi e limiti, esperienze in altri paesi, effetti possibili delle proposte avanzate negli ultimi anni in Italia.

Author Stephen Birmingham, who chronicled the rise of Jewish immigrants to extraordinary wealth and success in Our Crowd, now turns his attention to the Irish. Real Lace tells the colorful and fascinating true stories of America’s most renowned Irish-Catholic families. Scions of courageous, driven, and resilient men and women who escaped starvation during Ireland’s terrible potato famine in the mid-19th century, they battled their way out of the slums of Boston and New York, overcoming prejudice and poverty to achieve great wealth, fame, and political power.

Há anos, o Brasil enfrenta desafios gigantescos para o mercado de capitais. Desafios que, no entanto, podem encontrar nas novas gerações um sujeito ativo capaz de tomá-los pelas rédeas. Este esforço, naturalmente, não pode ser suficiente sem o necessário embasamento e reflexão. Com a motivação de apresentar ao ouvinte a importância ímpar do mercado de capitais para a sociedade brasileira e de fornecer um ponto de apoio para quem ainda aguarda pelos tempos de maturidade do setor, Raymundo Magliano Filho reúne aqui mais de quarenta artigos de sua autoria sobre o tema.

２０１７年のノーベル経済学賞はリチャード・セイラー氏が受賞した。

Cincuenta años después de su publicación, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades es, según el New York Times, «probablemente la obra más influyente en la historia de la planificación urbana». Jane Jacobs, columnista y crítica de arquitectura en Nueva York de principios de los años sesenta, afirmaba que la diversidad y la vitalidad de las ciudades estaban siendo destruidas por algunos arquitectos y urbanistas muy influyentes.

Every generation has looked up from the Earth and wondered at the beauty of the moon. 50 years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse - with the whole world watching through their eyes. In this short but wide-ranging book, Oliver Morton explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with the moon. A counterpoint in the sky, it has shaped our understanding of the Earth from Galileo to Apollo. Its gentle light has spoken of love and loneliness; its battered surface of death and the cosmic.

Could the United States experience another Great Depression? Is the Social Security program doomed for future generations? What, exactly, do economists do anyway? Economics is not only for academics or Wall Street titans. If you’re curious about how the economy functions and don’t know where to start, Economics will guide you through the essentials, laying out the basic concepts and issues in the field of economics, from business cycles and free markets to social security and healthcare reform, and more.

As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries. For example, ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their balance sheets, and farmers as a hazard to their livelihoods.

　核実験を続け、国際社会からの経済制裁が続いている北朝鮮。金一族の若きプリンス・金正恩が最高指導者となって２年目となるが、北朝鮮メディアでは連日、金正恩第一書記の現地指導をはじめ経済ニュースが大きなスペースを占めるようになった。３月には「経済建設と核武力の並進路線」を公言、経済の立て直しに力を入れ始めた。「経済強国」建設をアピールし、国を挙げての経済成長を目指しているようだ。

　だが、12月に金正恩第一書記の叔父・張成沢氏が失脚。経済改革を重視した張氏の失脚で北朝鮮の経済政策に変化は起こるのか。

　北朝鮮住民の収入状況、経済政策など、若き指導者の登場で変化する北朝鮮に迫る！

米国で「子どもに対する就学前教育が、その後の人生に決定的な影響を与える」という研究が注目を集めている。

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「データサイエンス」。ここ数年、数量的思考力を高めようとするビジネスパーソンが増えている。そこで、データを分析する際に必要な統計の基礎知識をざっとおさらいし、景気動向や証券市場動向の理解に役立ててはどうか。数学が苦手でも基本原理や落とし穴を知ればレベルアップ。また経済学理論の変遷を交え、使える！経済学を紹介する。
　本誌は『週刊東洋経済』2016年10月1日号掲載の22ページ分を電子化したものです。　

　2014年9月18…

Le premier livre sur le "Marketing Vidéo", tendance majeure du marketing. La vidéo est en train de devenir le format incontournable pour faire parler d'une marque ou d'une entreprise. Une étude Cisco estime que la vidéo représentera 82 % du trafic global d'Internet d'ici 2020, contre 70 % en 2015. Quant aux dépenses en publicité vidéo sur Internet, elles devraient passer de 9,90 milliards de dollars en 2016 à 28,08 milliards de dollars en 2020. Mais, concrètement, comment réaliser une vidéo de qualité à moindres coûts, et le plus simplement possible ?

This is the third book in the Easy Money trilogy which discusses how what the world now calls the global financial crisis evolved in the aftermath of the real estate bubble bursting in the United States and other parts of the world. In this book, we will try to understand the various reasons behind the financial crisis, and also identify the different villains behind it.

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Enthusiasm and determination with a healthy dose of entrepreneurial vision that is enhanced by rapid strides in technology has provided the platform for young Indians to become the makers of a new India. Millions of young Indians are entering the workforce annually with a continually major shift from rural to urban areas, and a burgeoning middle class with demands and expectations of quality health and education, further increasing the dependence on sustainable, viable, and continuous growth.

Incarnée par Emmanuel Macron et Édouard Philippe, une nouvelle noblesse d'État dirige la France. Une "caste" de hauts fonctionnaires plus que jamais minée par l'entre-soi et les conflits d'intérêts. Ils exploitent leurs carnets d'adresses pour faire fortune comme banquiers d'affaires, consultants ou lobbyistes. Ils bénéficient du démembrement de l'État qu'ils ont eux-mêmes organisé. Ils se répartissent des postes très lucratifs en multipliant les établissements publics inutiles. Et parviennent à masquer leurs échecs, même les plus graves. Par quel miracle ?

The bigger picture of the ongoing financial crisis has now started to evolve. Easy Money captures this big picture. The history of money and the financial system as it has evolved over the centuries stand at the heart of this endeavor. It explores the idea that the evolution of money over centuries has led to an easy money policy being followed by governments and central banks across the world, which in turn has fueled humongous Ponzi schemes, which have now started to unravel, bringing the whole world on the brink of a financial disaster.