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There is an illuminating moment during our discussion of Julia Gillard. ... To say that you'd rather be sitting around in a children's kindergarten than worrying about foreign affairs when you're Prime Minister of Australia .
For more than a decade, Gregor Craigie interviewed scientists, engineers, and emergency planners about earthquakes, disaster response, and resilience.
The New York Times bestselling Library Lover's mysteries continue with a hot new case.
In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials—from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run—to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience.
Richard Kilmer proposes to his girlfriend Jen and accompanies her to Kendrick Falls in spite of disturbing rumors, but he suffers a car accident on the journey only to discover that Jen has mysteriously disappeared.
He reminds readers that, if the arguments about scarcity sound familiar, it is because the story of minerals scarcity is almost as old as human history-and so too is substitution and technological innovation.
When her brother, Jack, a world-traveling consultant for a coffee company, goes missing, Briar Creek library director Lindsey Norris gets mixed up in a strange case involving South American business dealings and an exotic woman.
This volume argues that by sacrificing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions, entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers.
A detailed narrative of the diplomatic, political and military maneuvers that occurred between the Munich Agreement in September 1938, and the invasion of Poland in September 1939.
Each morning, the first train of the day leaves Oakham station and thunders through a tunnel under the village of Manton.
... system's future financial balance, it deliberately neglects the grim prognosis for its health-care benefit component (Medicare), and it "double counts" its trust-fund surpluses in the unified federal budget. 114 On Borrowed Time.
How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future Neil Howe ... Based on 1980 data in Aging and Social Expenditures in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025 (Occasional Paper 47 of the International Monetary Fund; ...
David Rosenfelt's On Borrowed Time is a stunning new thriller about an ordinary man who is trapped in a nightmare where he can't be certain of anything—not even his own memories.
This volume argues that by sacrifi cing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions,entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers.
A mystery thriller set in Hong Kong and Shanghai from 1996 to 1997.