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"A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities -- both mundane and life-changing -- in which money may play little or no role. If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you've participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"From the low on March 9, 2009, to the bull market peak February 19, 2020, the S&P 1500 Index gained 530.1%, meaning $1.00 invested at the bottom would have grown into $6.30. This truly qualifies as a great bull market, yet many investors didn't participate and even sold and avoided the equities. To show that the 2009 multi-year bull market was unloved, the authors will examine mutual fund flows, investor sentiment, public pension funds, Barron's...
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One fateful day in 1996, upon discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard undertakes to save his family's farm. What ensues—through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters—is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard's biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and eschews
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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This collection of poems takes young readers to a day at an urban farmers' market. Whom to see, what to eat, and how produce is grown--it's all so exciting, fresh, and delicious. Readers are invited to peruse the stands and inspect vendors' wares with poems like "Farmer Greg's Free-Range Eggs," "Summer Checklist," and "Necessary Mess."
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Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"120 simple and delicious recipes in a cookbook that's chock-full of nutritional information and expert advice from Seattle's popular grocer, PCC Community Markets" --
Eating healthy, local food prepared from scratch is the philosophy of PCC Community Markets. Lightner has arranged the book by meals, and included cooking, storing, and shopping tips that will help you make the most of the local bounty offered in your area, wherever you live. -- adapted...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
©2016.
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English
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"In this pressing book, you'll learn not only why a collapse is imminent, but how to identify bubbles and tune in to the cycles driving that drive booms and busts. Practical, accessible, and illuminating, The Sale of a Lifetime will protect you from the tough challenges ahead and help you cash in on the unique opportunities of the next few years. At stake is nothing less than your entire financial future."--Amazon.
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2016.
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English
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"What is a market? To most people it is a shopping center or an abstract space in which stock prices vary minutely. In reality, a market is something much more fundamental to being human, and it affects not just the price of tomatoes but the boundaries of everything we value. Reading the newspapers these days, you could be forgiven for thinking that markets are getting ever more efficient-and better. But as Tim Sullivan and Ray Fisman argue in this...
14) Market maze
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Holiday House
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[2015]
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English
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Eight trucks hit the highway in a colorful and mesmerizing maze book that helps kids understand where food comes from and how it gets to their tables. In eleven intricately drawn mazes, eight vehicles, each carrying a different product, are on their way to the city. Fish, apples, dairy products, corn, vegetables, flowers, eggs, and baked goods all travel through colorful and minutely detailed landscape mazes to reach the city farmer's market. Information...
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Karadi Tales Company Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Farmer Falgu is off to the market to sell his produce, but has some unexpected bumps along the way. But then, Farmer Falgu can usually find his way out of any mess! Chitra Soundar's energetic tale radiates with adventure, while Kanika Nair's visual style underscores it with minimal artwork splashed with just a dab of vivid, striking color.
16) Fish is Our Life
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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This unusual documentary provides a fascinating profile of an important segment of the Japanese population rarely seen or studied in the West. It focuses on the small businessmen-proprietors who work the 1,100 family-owned businesses at Tsukiji Market, Tokyo's largest wholesale fish market.
19) Clotho the Fate
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Goddess girls. Main series volume 25
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Clotho is always linked with her two big sisters. Together, they are all the Three Fates, with abilities to predict events in mortals' lives. There are a few rules that the all-powerful Zeus has decreed for them, including a strict no-mingling with mortals policy. After Clotho discovers letterscrolls from unhappy mortals who don't love their fates, she wishes there was a way to try and earn their respect. During a secret trip to the...
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