More than 10,000 Americans are retiring everyday in the United States. Many have not saved enough for retirement; and most of those who have been saving for decades to get to this milestone in life have their precious retirement savings in a spot where a crash in the financial markets could change their plans for a comfortable retirement.The lessons in this book come from the painful and personal story of the parents of Tom Jacobs. Tom's parents had just retired in 2007 after worki...

A fun and funny way for kids to learn about mistakes and how to recover from them. Making a mistake can leave anyone feeling sick in the stomach or thinking that the world is going to end. Learning how to cope with mistakes—and how to stop that “ache”—can be one of the hardest parts of growing up. The latest entry in Free Spirit’s acclaimed Laugh and Learn® series takes a closer look at the mistakes kids make—honest and intentional—and offers practical advice on how to bounce back. With a ...

Learn how to detect corporate sleight of hand—and gain the upper hand with smart investing“[An] informative book . . . . Written in lively prose.”—Barron's“At Crazy Eddie, we succeeded in perpetrating our financial fraud for many years because most Wall Street analysts and investors took for granted the integrity of our reported numbers. What’s Behind the Numbers? teaches investors to critically look under the surfa...

In an era defined by digital transformation, modern media literacy evolves to address generative AI, social media, and the news. As AI-driven tools shape the creation and dissemination of information, traditional boundaries blur, challenging individuals to critically assess sources, motives, and authenticity. Social media platforms increase these dynamics, accelerating the spread of both credible journalism and misleading content generated by algorithms. In this context, media literacy nav...

Learn the secrets of how recurring revenue is driven at expert firms like BCG, KPMG, EY, and moreNever Say Sell explains how to scale individual engagements into long-term business relationships. Cowritten by Tom McMakin, the coauthor of How Clients Buy and expert in account development, and colleague Jacob Parks, this book provides insights into how key rainmakers at firms like Accenture and IBM drive growth from existing relationships.

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starting their studies or more experienced, and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading, thinking about, and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts tal...

A gripping and emotional suspense about two sisters and the dark past that binds them, from the eight-time Sunday Times bestselling author.Rosy is the responsible sister. Amy is the free spirit, always breaking the rules. But between them lies a secret; one they've sworn to keep safe, whatever the cost.When Amy confides in James, her new psychiatrist, he begins to suspect one sister is covering for the other. Instinct tells him to run, but his own ...

American democracy has existed for more than two hundred years, surviving challenges, betrayals, bashing, bloody wars, and the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001.Here Jacob Needleman explores the sacred meaning of America.

A family’s only hope to heal their shattered lives is that love is stronger than griefWhen they meet in the 1930s, Doris and Tup’s love is immediate. They marry quickly and Doris commits to the only life Tup ever wanted: working the Senter family farm, where his parents and grandparents and great-grandparents are buried under the old pines. Their lives follow the calming rhythms of the land—chores in the cow barn, haying the fields, tending their gardens—and in thi...

From creative team Erin Sandberg and Tom Booth comes Never Give a Baby a Library Card**, a rhyming, rollicking book read-aloud about the power of books and the perfect introduction to the library for little readers—for fans of** If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t!“Never give a baby a library card. They could learn to do anything! Just think, and think hard! Ideas come from books, and too m...

In the land of the great red sun, dogs sing, wolves kill, humans serve, and wolf-shifters rule with magic and menace.Pietre is a human boy who has spent the last thirteen years afraid of the sunset, the Blødguard, and the wolf-shifting masters who rule his world.Wittendon is a werewolf prince who has spent the last nineteen years afraid of his father, his inability to do magic, and the upcoming tournament he's sure to lose.But when Pietre finds an orphaned pup in th...

Drawing on original and innovative research from around the world, this book explores issues and opportunities relating to internationalising sport management curriculum. It explains how to design and implement an international curriculum, and therefore how to better equip graduates for work in an increasingly global sport business environment.This book provides an in-depth understanding of the role educational developers can play in the internationalisation of higher education and...