Lustig: 58 books
How to Look Expensive
A Beauty Editor's Secrets to Getting Gorgeous without Breaking the Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Glamour's "Beauty Sleuth" reveals tricks of the trade to help you look fabulously high-end—in any economy.
Andrea Pomerantz Lustig has spent twenty years as a beauty editor, and her contact list is packed with the names of the most exclusive stylists in the business.In How to Look Expensive,...
Sugar Has 56 Names
A Shopper's Guide (A Penguin Special from Hudson Street Press)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the newest edition of The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the U.S. government has – for the very first time – limited the amount of sugar that it is safe for us to consume. Yet sugar hides behind many names on ingredient lists, making it sometimes impossible to discover. Although "evaporated...
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...
by Arnost Lustig
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the...
FT Guide to Saving and Investing for Retirement
The definitive handbook to securing your financial future
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
One of the most important financial plans you can have is saving and investing for your retirement. Quite simply, the success of this plan determines whether you’re going to live comfortably after you stop working.
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The Financial Times Guide to Saving and Investing for Retirement...
Beyond Crisis
Achieving Renewal in a Turbulent World
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
"If you want to know how countries, companies and individuals can master the winds and the waves that will dominate the next decade, this is the book for you."
—Rupert Pennant-Rea, former editor of the Economist, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
"'If leading your organisation...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming'...
Strategic Foresight
Learning from the Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
This is a practical guide for leaders, to aid their practice in strategy, decision making and change. Strategic Foresight is a set of skills and tools used to explore potential futures so organisations can plan for and take advantage of these possible futures. The book first explores how we think...
by Nora Lustig, Luis F. López-Calva, Subrata Mitra
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to...
The Investment Assets Handbook
A definitive practical guide to asset classes
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Investors who build diversified, multi-asset portfolios, have an ever increasing range of investment assets at their disposal. In order to invest effectively - and build a solid, performing portfolio - it is essential for investors to understand each of these single asset classes and how to use them...
E-mails From Shilo
Story of a dog's quest to figure out most everything.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
There is more to being a dog than looking cute, chasing squirrels or figuring out how to get along with the resident cat - as the "mom" of Shilo, a rescued Golden Retriever, discovers when she uncovers a mysterious folder in her computer filled with nearly two years' worth of e-mails - from Shilo to...
Ein geschenkter Tag - 2016
Gedanken zum 29. Februar
Language: German
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Fluch oder Geschenk: alle vier Jahre der 29. Tag Manche ignorieren ihn und gehen auch am 29. Februar ihrer gewohnten Beschäftigung nach: arbeiten, beten, kochen Wäsche waschen, … Andere nutzen ihn, den geschenkten Tag, machen aus ihm etwas Besonderes. Wie dieser Tag, so ist auch jeder Mensch etwas...
by Bruder Lustig
Language: German
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Abenteuer erlebt der faule Paul am liebsten auf dem Sofa. Er liest für sein Leben gerne. Vor allem Piratengeschichten. Doch plötzlich wird er in eines der Piraten-Abenteuer hineingezogen. Und dann heißt es: selbst Abenteuer erleben. Zusammen mit den Zeitpiraten kämpft er gegen den fiesen Piraten-Kapitän Killerich und seine Mannschaft!