Author: Steven Greenhouse
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400096529
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meet all kinds of workers—white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-class and low-income—as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees who are locked in during a hurricane or fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-job injuries. With pragmatic recommendations on what government, business and labor should do to alleviate the economic crunch, The Big Squeeze is a balanced, consistently revealing look at a major American crisis.
The Big Squeeze
Author: Steven Greenhouse
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400096529
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meet all kinds of workers—white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-class and low-income—as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees who are locked in during a hurricane or fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-job injuries. With pragmatic recommendations on what government, business and labor should do to alleviate the economic crunch, The Big Squeeze is a balanced, consistently revealing look at a major American crisis.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400096529
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meet all kinds of workers—white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-class and low-income—as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees who are locked in during a hurricane or fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-job injuries. With pragmatic recommendations on what government, business and labor should do to alleviate the economic crunch, The Big Squeeze is a balanced, consistently revealing look at a major American crisis.
The Big Squeeze
Author: Barbara Shapiro
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345381453
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Your mother has a weekly doctor's appointment and depends on you to get her there. Your spouse, dissatisfied at work, brings all his troubles home. Your boss has given you a job to do and wants it done now. Your children want dinner, want a ride, want help with their homework. Welcome to THE BIG SQUEEZE.... Today two-income families are the norm, childbearing is often postponed into the thirties and forties, longevity is on the increase. The family circle can sometimes seem like a trap. You are in the middle, and the physical, emotional, and financial stresses can be overwhelming. Now, here's a compassionate, commonsense approach to avoiding the Big Squeeze. Offering practical solutions to specific crises, this unique and remarkably simple 8-STEP PROGRAM can help you: Set your priorities and reduce your pressures Balance your family's needs with your own Communicate openly and delegate responsibilities among family members Discover all the community resources that you and your family have And much more! "A PRACTICAL AND SENSITIVE GAME PLAN...Written in layman's language, without intimidating or wearisome professional jargon." --West Hartford News
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345381453
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Your mother has a weekly doctor's appointment and depends on you to get her there. Your spouse, dissatisfied at work, brings all his troubles home. Your boss has given you a job to do and wants it done now. Your children want dinner, want a ride, want help with their homework. Welcome to THE BIG SQUEEZE.... Today two-income families are the norm, childbearing is often postponed into the thirties and forties, longevity is on the increase. The family circle can sometimes seem like a trap. You are in the middle, and the physical, emotional, and financial stresses can be overwhelming. Now, here's a compassionate, commonsense approach to avoiding the Big Squeeze. Offering practical solutions to specific crises, this unique and remarkably simple 8-STEP PROGRAM can help you: Set your priorities and reduce your pressures Balance your family's needs with your own Communicate openly and delegate responsibilities among family members Discover all the community resources that you and your family have And much more! "A PRACTICAL AND SENSITIVE GAME PLAN...Written in layman's language, without intimidating or wearisome professional jargon." --West Hartford News
The Big Squeeze!
Author: Joe Staton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846531262
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Join Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc. as they embark on more crazy crime-busting capers and amusing monster mysteries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846531262
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Join Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc. as they embark on more crazy crime-busting capers and amusing monster mysteries.
The Weird Accordion to Al
Author: Nathan Rabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Squeeze Me
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524733458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“If you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times From the author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a hilarious, New York Times best-selling novel of social and political intrigues, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast. It's the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season: for every disease or cause, there's a reason for the local luminaries to eat (minimally), drink (maximally), and be seen. But when a prominent high-society dowager suddenly vanishes during a swank gala, and is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. Kiki Pew was notable not just for her wealth and her jewels--she was an ardent fan of the Winter White House resident just down the road, and a founding member of the POTUSSIES, a group of women dedicated to supporting their President. Never one to miss an opportunity to play to his base, the President immediately declares that Kiki was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, it turns out, is far from the truth. The truth might just lie in the middle of the highway, where a bizarre discovery brings the First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a love-struck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons . . . Carl Hiaasen can brighten even the darkest of days and Squeeze Me is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen. Irreverent, ingenious, and highly entertaining, Squeeze Me perfectly captures the absurdity of our times.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524733458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“If you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times From the author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a hilarious, New York Times best-selling novel of social and political intrigues, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast. It's the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season: for every disease or cause, there's a reason for the local luminaries to eat (minimally), drink (maximally), and be seen. But when a prominent high-society dowager suddenly vanishes during a swank gala, and is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. Kiki Pew was notable not just for her wealth and her jewels--she was an ardent fan of the Winter White House resident just down the road, and a founding member of the POTUSSIES, a group of women dedicated to supporting their President. Never one to miss an opportunity to play to his base, the President immediately declares that Kiki was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, it turns out, is far from the truth. The truth might just lie in the middle of the highway, where a bizarre discovery brings the First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a love-struck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons . . . Carl Hiaasen can brighten even the darkest of days and Squeeze Me is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen. Irreverent, ingenious, and highly entertaining, Squeeze Me perfectly captures the absurdity of our times.
The Big Squeeze
Author: Handel Reynolds
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801466008
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal age to start getting mammograms. While some praised the new recommendation as sensible given the smaller benefit women under fifty derive from mammography, many women's groups, health care advocates, and individual women saw the guidelines as privileging financial considerations over women's health and a setback to decades-long efforts to reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer. In The Big Squeeze, Dr. Handel Reynolds, a practicing radiologist, notes that this episode was only the most recent controversy in the turbulent history of mammography since its introduction in the early 1970s. In a book written for the millions of women who face the decision about whether to get a mammogram, health professionals interested in cancer screening, and public health policymakers, Reynolds shows how pivotal decisions made during mammography's initial launch made it all but inevitable that the test would be contentious. He describes how, at several key points in its history, the emphasis on mammography screening as a fundamental aspect of women's preventive health care coincided with social and political developments, from the women's movement in the early 1970s to breast cancer activism in the 1980s and '90s. At the same time, aggressive promotion of mammography made the screening tool the cornerstone of a huge new industry. Taking a balanced approach to this much-disputed issue, Reynolds addresses both the benefits and risks of mammography, charting debates, for example, that have weighed the early detection of aggressively malignant tumors against unnecessary treatments resulting from the identification of slow-growing and non-life-threatening cancers. The Big Squeeze, ultimately, helps to evaluate the ongoing public health controversies surrounding mammography and provides a clear understanding of how mammography achieved its current primacy in cancer screening.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801466008
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal age to start getting mammograms. While some praised the new recommendation as sensible given the smaller benefit women under fifty derive from mammography, many women's groups, health care advocates, and individual women saw the guidelines as privileging financial considerations over women's health and a setback to decades-long efforts to reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer. In The Big Squeeze, Dr. Handel Reynolds, a practicing radiologist, notes that this episode was only the most recent controversy in the turbulent history of mammography since its introduction in the early 1970s. In a book written for the millions of women who face the decision about whether to get a mammogram, health professionals interested in cancer screening, and public health policymakers, Reynolds shows how pivotal decisions made during mammography's initial launch made it all but inevitable that the test would be contentious. He describes how, at several key points in its history, the emphasis on mammography screening as a fundamental aspect of women's preventive health care coincided with social and political developments, from the women's movement in the early 1970s to breast cancer activism in the 1980s and '90s. At the same time, aggressive promotion of mammography made the screening tool the cornerstone of a huge new industry. Taking a balanced approach to this much-disputed issue, Reynolds addresses both the benefits and risks of mammography, charting debates, for example, that have weighed the early detection of aggressively malignant tumors against unnecessary treatments resulting from the identification of slow-growing and non-life-threatening cancers. The Big Squeeze, ultimately, helps to evaluate the ongoing public health controversies surrounding mammography and provides a clear understanding of how mammography achieved its current primacy in cancer screening.
The Big Silver Short
Author: Chris Marcus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Why The Price of Silver Is Set To Explode!Many were stunned to see The Big Short and realize that there were a few savvy traders who saw the subprime crisis in advance, and used that knowledge to make a fortune in the financial markets. Shockingly, a similar situation is playing out in the silver market at this very moment, and The Big Silver Short provides the perfectly timed handguide to profit from one of the greatest investing opportunities in history! Featuring interviews with 15 of the world's top silver experts--including Ted Butler, Andrew Maguire, Bart Chilton, Rick Rule, and David Morgan--the book reveals: Why a dramatically higher silver price has become a matter of "when" rather than "if" How the Wall Street banks have effectively sold each ounce of silver to over 500 people Former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton's stunning revelations about J.P. Morgan and silver manipulation Why Ted Butler thinks J.P. Morgan has more than 800 million ounces of silver The real story about the Hunt brothers The truth about Warren Buffett's silver position and how he got forced out of it Why the Federal Reserve will never raise interest rates So if you're watching the Fed's hyperinflation campaign, and you want to be prepared and keep your money safe (or even profit at Wall Street's expense), get The Big Silver Short today!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Why The Price of Silver Is Set To Explode!Many were stunned to see The Big Short and realize that there were a few savvy traders who saw the subprime crisis in advance, and used that knowledge to make a fortune in the financial markets. Shockingly, a similar situation is playing out in the silver market at this very moment, and The Big Silver Short provides the perfectly timed handguide to profit from one of the greatest investing opportunities in history! Featuring interviews with 15 of the world's top silver experts--including Ted Butler, Andrew Maguire, Bart Chilton, Rick Rule, and David Morgan--the book reveals: Why a dramatically higher silver price has become a matter of "when" rather than "if" How the Wall Street banks have effectively sold each ounce of silver to over 500 people Former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton's stunning revelations about J.P. Morgan and silver manipulation Why Ted Butler thinks J.P. Morgan has more than 800 million ounces of silver The real story about the Hunt brothers The truth about Warren Buffett's silver position and how he got forced out of it Why the Federal Reserve will never raise interest rates So if you're watching the Fed's hyperinflation campaign, and you want to be prepared and keep your money safe (or even profit at Wall Street's expense), get The Big Silver Short today!
A Squash and a Squeeze
Author: Julia Donaldson
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
ISBN: 9781338052206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in 1993 by Nethuen Children's Books, London, United Kingdom."--Colophon.
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
ISBN: 9781338052206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in 1993 by Nethuen Children's Books, London, United Kingdom."--Colophon.
What Caused the Big Bang?
Author: Rem B. Edwards
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004496033
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order and contingent existence.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004496033
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order and contingent existence.
Comfortable with Uncertainty
Author: Pema Chödrön
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1590305558
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help readers cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1590305558
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help readers cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living.