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1) Bygones
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An estranged couple must temper their hostilities when their daughter announces that she is pregnant and wants both parents to walk her down the aisle.
Forty-year-old Bess Curran is an interior designer who is still lonely and bitter after a traumatic divorce from Michael six years earlier. She and her husband have nothing left to say to each other, and their children, Lisa and Randy, are their only bond. Lisa, anxious for her parents to reconcile,...
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Les architectes, les urbanistes et parfois les architectes de paysage mentionnent dans leurs biographies professionnelles le « design urbain » comme appartenant à leur champ d'expertise. Les architectes, les urbanistes et les architectes de paysage seraient-ils naturellement des designers urbains? Et le design urbain ne serait-il qu'une activité connexe de l'urbanisme, de l'architecture de paysage et plus encore de l’architecture? Cela a été...
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Cet ouvrage souhaite montrer la richesse d'une ouverture géographique et thématique des recherches urbaines actuelles en présentant celles qui prennent en considération les villes situées en dehors de l'aire occidentale. Il donne la voix à de jeunes chercheurs et praticiens originaires de six pays et de trois continents qui, par leurs réflexions engagées, proposent de corriger les perceptions souvent négatives, voire catastrophiques, de l'urbanisation...
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We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather...
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Get the Summary of Emily Guy Birken's The 5 Years Before You Retire Updated Edition in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The 5 Years Before You Retire Updated Edition" by Emily Guy Birken provides a comprehensive guide to financial preparation for retirement. It emphasizes the importance of personal savings and investment in the absence of traditional pensions, with 401(k) plans being the primary retirement vehicle...
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" Passive Income Strategies: Unlocking Financial Freedom " is a comprehensive guide to building a sustainable and diversified passive income stream. The book provides practical advice and step-by-step instructions on how to set realistic financial goals, create a budget, and build a diversified portfolio of passive income-generating assets.The book covers a range of passive income strategies, including investing in stocks, bonds, real estate, and...
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Those who have a deep affection for Britain's countryside will be totally absorbed by this extraordinary history of environmentalists' efforts to conserve the glorious South Downs. After describing the special qualities of the area and earlier attempts to safeguard it, the story of a twenty-year campaign to secure National Park status for this special part of England is recounted. Strong forces opposed, but the South Downs Campaign, which eventually...
8) The Nine Principles of Agile Planning: Create Nimble and Dynamic Forecasting in Your Organization
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The Nine Principles of Agile Planning teaches CFOs, CAOs, CIOs, and Finance leaders the secret to building nimble and dynamic forecasts within their organizations. The Nine Principles blend real-world processes, people, and cloud tech to get your business forecasting the right way. By adopting the Nine Principles, you can create world-class forecasting that reacts to real-time changes in your business, reduces project risk, and makes you a forecasting...
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2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-a visionary in urban development and renewal-champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century.
Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress;...
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Pinching pennies and living life cheaply can do more damage than good. Protecting your money at all costs prevents you from learning how to create money. The true path to wealth is having your money make money. Trying to save a couple of pennies on each transaction only leads to hate and discontent. Even if a cheap person amasses a vast fortune, they will hesitate actually to spend the money. Remember that they have lived their entire lives cheaply....
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"Where Can I Invest? Unlocking a World of Opportunities" is your ultimate guide to navigating the complex world of investments and discovering a myriad of opportunities to grow your wealth and secure your financial future.Whether you're a seasoned investor or a complete novice, this comprehensive book empowers you with the knowledge and insights needed to make informed investment decisions. Explore a wide range of investment options, from traditional...
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Wall Street Journal "Love and Money" columnist Jeff D. Opdyke offers a compassionate and highly effective handbook designed to help elderly parents manage their money. Protecting Your Parents' Money is the essential guide to helping Mom and Dad navigate the finances of retirement, covering such topics as understanding Medicare, preventing elder fraud, and the hunt for a quality, affordable retirement home. Protecting Your Parents' Money is a book...
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We call them the ‘ golden years' . Retirement these days can span 30-plus years, so we need to plan retirement as carefully as we plan other phases of our life that span three decades – our career, raising and educating children, and buying and paying off our home. This book helps you make this plan. It looks at the lifestyle you want to achieve in retirement, how to keep your money working for you...
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How to "super-simply" creating a "real-time-" actionable, strategic action plan ('super-simplified super-system')…not more, nor less. Written by a Yale-educated, "master-of-all-trades:" MD, MBA, MS-Epidemiology/Biostatistics, MS-experimental psychology, MPH-Health Policy-researcher, Clinician-Entrepreneur/ Decision-Making theorist, this e-book uses a Elon Musk-/jeff Bezos'-ian "first principles'-MO," (or Jim Simon's- i.e., Renaissance Technology's-IBM...
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En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s'implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu'on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des halls d'immeubles, de bureaux et d'habitation, des galeries marchandes, des pavillons universitaires et bien d'autres structures. Toronto a connu avec le «...
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It's challenging to gain your footing as a head of household. There are many competing interests financially that you have to juggle. Saving for expenses, vacations, school, and maintenance is part of your daily routine. However, we still need to save for emergencies, invest for retirement, and build a nest egg for future generations. How is one to thrive in this overwhelming environment? First, learn to relax. Then we only need to create a road map....
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Personal finances are like a journey: they require direction, planning, and solid habits to get where we want to go. In this book, we will explore a series of powerful habits that will not only improve your finances but also make you a more skilled and conscious investor.From discipline in spending to smart financial automation, each habit presented here has been carefully selected to provide you with practical tools that will transform your relationship...
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An inside look at the complexities of Capital Campaigns for non-profit organizations provided by the expert in full-time, resident-directed fundraising campaign efforts. Learn why our method of conducting a Capital Campaign will result in both higher contributions and greater public awareness of your organization. Learn why most campaign efforts are hampered in their ability to raise significant funds and why yours doesn't have to be. The book provides...
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*This is the Revised 2024 Book Edition* The Retirement Planning Guidebook helps you navigate through the important decisions to prepare for your best retirement. You will have the detailed knowledge and understanding to make smart retirement decisions:- Understand your personal retirement income style, which can then help you navigate through the conflicting opinions about retirement strategies to choose your right path. - Learn about investment and...
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At the crossroads of our lives, we all yearn for a higher purpose: prosperity. But what does thriving truly mean? Is it simply about accumulating material wealth, or does it go beyond, embracing love and family harmony?In "The Path to Prosperity: Habits for a Fulfilling Life in Family, Finances, and Love," we will explore how small daily acts can transform our existence in remarkable ways. Prosperity is not a distant destination, but a journey that...
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