Authors:Genevieve Barlow, William Stivers,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: mexico, historias, stories
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1995-01-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0844208116
ISBN-13: 9780844208114

These 16 legends, drawn from 1500 years of Mexican history are told in Spanish and English, on facing pages, and with end vocabulary lists in both languages.

Author: Bobbye Stivers Maggard
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: time, everything, changes
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2010-03-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1450582826
ISBN-13: 9781450582827

Now faintly remembered, there had been a time in Claire Bentson Mandley’s life when an occasional dream or nightmare had been her only connection with the past. However, during that period of amnesia she enjoyed many new relationships. As old faces, places and situations dredge up scores of memories (some pleasant and others spine-chilling) new faces, places and situations come tumbling into her life. At what seems to her to be lightening speed she continues to experience the twists and turns, detours and speed bumps that threaten to obstruct her progress. Although her faith occasiona

Authors:N. J. Enfield, Tanya Stivers,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: perspectives, language, culture, cognition, social, cultural, reference, interaction, linguistic, person
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0521872456
ISBN-13: 9780521872454

How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name (’Robert Smith’), reduced name (’Bob’), description (’tall guy’), kin term (’my son’) etc. Our choices reflect how we know that person in context, and allow us to take a particular perspective on them. This book brings together a team of leading linguists, sociologists and anthropologists to show that there is more to person reference than meets the eye. Drawing on video-recorded, everyday interactions in nine l

Authors:Robert L. Stivers, Christine E. Gudorf, Alice Frazer
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: approach, method, case, ethics, christian
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 157075621X
ISBN-13: 9781570756214

Authors:William J. Cook, William H. Cunningham, William R.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: optimization, combinatorial
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-11-12
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 047155894X
ISBN-13: 9780471558941

A complete, highly accessible introduction to one of today’s most exciting areas of applied mathematics One of the youngest, most vital areas of applied mathematics, combinatorial optimization integrates techniques from combinatorics, linear programming, and the theory of algorithms. Because of its success in solving difficult problems in areas from telecommunications to VLSI, from product distribution to airline crew scheduling, the field has seen a ground swell of activity over the past decade. Combinatorial Optimization is an ideal introduction to this mathematical discipline for ad

Authors:William Reichenstein, William W. Jennings, William
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: code, tax, investments, integrating
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0471216429
ISBN-13: 9780471216421

Add Value to any Client’s Portfolio With Tax-Saving Strategies "Bill Reichenstein and William Jennings are two of the industry’s very few true pioneers. This book should be on the short list of anyone interested in private wealth management, whether expressed in thousands or millions of dollars." –Jean L. P. Brunel, CFA, Editor of the Journal of Wealth Management and author of Integrated Wealth Management "Reichenstein and Jennings tackle many key issues facing individual investors, including ‘How should you differentiate between the before-tax dollars in retirement acc

Authors:William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry, David C. John, William
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: saves, america, way, changing, automatic
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815702787
ISBN-13: 9780815702788

Automatic offers an innovative new way to think about how Americans can save for retirement.Over the past quarter century, America’s pension system has shifted away from defined benefit plans and toward defined contribution savings programs such as 401(k)s and IRAs. There is much to be done to improve the defined contribution system. Many workers fail to participate and those who do often contribute too little, invest the funds poorly, and are not adequately prepared to manage funds while in retirement.To resolve these problems, the authors propose that employees should be automatically