Author: Copthorne Macdonald
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: love, happiness, peace, inner, finding, way, wisdom
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2001-10-11
ISBN-10: 059520256X
ISBN-13: 9780595202560

Toward Wisdom addresses the nature of wisdom, humanity’s need for it, and ways and means of developing it.   The situation the world faces today is extremely complex. Long-cherished values have begun to conflict with each other: material comfort vs. an uncontaminated world; economic growth now vs. economic well-being for our grandchildren. Toward Wisdom takes the position that the only way to make the world a better place is to make it a wiser place. Wisdom is no longer an option or a frill. We, and the world, need wisdom-based analyses of our problems followed by wisdom-based act

Author: A.J. Braithwaite
Publisher: eBookDB.org
Keywords: runaway, roman
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 2007-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB010023

Having a good family friend as your headmaster might sound ideal, but Luke Brownlow soon finds that it just makes life even more complicated. Luke is in trouble with his parents for not bothering to do any school work at his local comprehensive. When they decide to send him to Hawley Lodge to get him away from his friends, Luke falls out with his family completely and plans to get expelled from the new school. In the meantime, in order to avoid his parents, Luke forges a summer friendship with Ned Kelly, the man who lives next door. Things begin to get problematic once Luke arrives at his new

Author: Mark Pilgrim
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: python, dive
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2009-03-20
ISBN-10: 1441413022
ISBN-13: 9781441413024

Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers. Whether you’re an experienced programmer looking to get into Python or grizzled Python veteran who remembers the days when you had to import the string module, Dive Into Python is your ’desert island’ Python book. If you’ve never programmed before, Python is an excellent language to learn modern programming techniques. But this book should not be your starting point. Get "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python" by Allen Downey, Jeffrey Elkner, Chris Meyers and learn the basics. Then div

Author: Jesus Huerta de Soto
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: cycles, economic, credit, bank, money
Number of Pages: 885
Published: 2009-04-14
ISBN-10: 1933550392
ISBN-13: 9781933550398

Can the market fully manage the money and banking sector? JesA s Huerta de Soto, professor of economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, has made history with this mammoth and exciting treatise that it has and can again, without inflation, without business cycles, and without the economic instability that has characterized the age of government control. Such a book as this comes along only once every several generations: a complete comprehensive treatise on economic theory. It is sweeping, revolutionary, and devastating--not only the most extended elucidation of Austrian business c