This title is winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This eye-opening book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day. Looking at some of the most paradoxical aspects of life below the poverty line
- why the poor need to borrow in order to save why incentives that seem effective to us may not be for them & why despite being more risk-taking than high financiers they start businesses but rarely grow them
- Banerjee & Duflo offer a new understanding of the surprising way the world really works.

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This title comes from the award-winning founders of the unique & remarkable Abdul Latfi Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory at MIT a transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor their lives desires & frustrations. Billions of government dollars & thousands of charitable organizations & NGOs are dedicated to helping the worlds poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee & Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles supervised by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this & their 15 years of research from Chile to India Kenya to Indonesia they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people their needs & the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work transforms certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all that schooling equals learning that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low. Throughout the authors emphasize that life for the poor is simply not like life for everyone else: it is a much more perilous adventure denied many of the cushions & advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent: if they do not have a piped water supply the poor cannot benefit from chlorination; if they cannot afford ready-made breakfast cereals they cannot gain the enriched vitamins & other nutrients; they are routinely denied access to markets; & they get negative interest rates on their savings while exorbitant rates are charged on their loans. The daily stress of poverty discourages long-term thinking & often leads to bad decision-making. Add to that the fact the poor are routinely denied the information that might help them manage the nightmarish predicament that in most cases they are born into through no fault of their own. Bannerjee & Duflo are practical visionaries whose meticulous work offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty. ...

With their penetrating psychological insight & their emphasis on human dignity respect & forgiveness Dostoyevskys early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk" the authors first great literary triumph is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk & a young seamstress told through their passionate letters to each other. In " The Landlady" Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple & becomes their lodger. Mr. Prokharchin inspired by a true story is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser & Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which in common with the other tales in this volume questions the very nature of existence." ...

Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In The Poor Had No Lawyers Andy Wightman author of Who Owns Scotland updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland & takes the reader on a voyage of discovery into Scotland's history to find out how & why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common. He tells the untold story of how Scotland's legal establishment & politicians managed to appropriate land through legal fixes. From Robert the Bruce to Willie Ross & from James V to Donald Dewar land has conferred political & economic power. Have attempts to redistribute this power more equitably made any difference & what are the full implications of the recent debt-fuelled housing bubble? For all those with an interest in urban & rural land in Scotland this updated edition of The Poor Had No Lawyers provides a fascinating analysis of one the most important political questions in Scotland
- who owns Scotland & how did they get it?
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What strange secret made rich beautiful tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie Mc Candless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of true love & scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos low-life Alexandria & a Parisian bordello reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. ...

If you like cake & you like chocolate then you'll love cake POPs
- the delicious little treats that are a cross between a cake
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If you like cake you'll love cake POPs
- the delicious little treats that are a cross between a cake & a lollipop. Now you can
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In Pop Goes the Weasel" Albert Jack explores the strange & fascinating histories behind the nursery rhymes we thought we knew showing that their real meanings are far from innocent. Who were Mary Quite Contrary & Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle offer an essential astronomy lesson? & if Ring a Ring a Roses isnt about catching the plague then what is it really about? This ingenious book delves into the hidden meanings of the nursery rhymes & songs we all know so well & discovers all kinds of strange tales ranging from Viking raids to firewalking & from political rebellion to slaves being smuggled to freedom. From the grim true story behind Oranges & Lemons to the deadly secrets of Mary Quite Contrarys garden & from how Lucy Locket lost more than her pocket to why Humpty Dumpty wasnt egg-shaped at all Pop Goes the Weasel is a compendium of surprising stories you wont be able to resist passing on to everyone you know. " An irresistible treasure-trove". (" Daily Mirror"). " Most of us can still recite the words to nursery rhymes we learned as children but how many know the real meanings behind our most familiar verses? Albert Jack reveals hidden histories of cannons courtesans & vengeful queens". (" Guardian"). " The history behind nursery rhymes is not only highly specific but often splendidly grim". (" The Times"). Albert Jack has become something of a publishing phenomenon clocking up hundreds of thousands of sales with his series of bestselling adventures tracing the fantastic stories behind everyday phrases (" Red Herrings & White Elephants") the worlds great mysteries (" Loch Ness Monsters & Raining Frogs") & nursery rhymes (" Pop Goes the Weasel")." ...

In POP GOES THE WEASEL James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out a tender love story a plot powered by relentless suspense & psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high Its all just a game darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE WAR & CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. Youre a very lucky girl
- Im the best player of all. Geoffrey Shafter: a man who never loses he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all. Alex Cross: senior Washington DC homicide detective he is determined whatever the consequences to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel the prime suspect for a spate of killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate.
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If you think Ashlee Simpson & Lisa Simpson are sisters this is not the book for you. If on the other hand you are a pop-music expert these 42 hot & happening crosswords will make an awesome addition to your playlist. Whether youre solving them in the backseat or on the dance floor Sit & Solve Pop Music Crosswords" will have you crying that you Just Cant Get Enough." ...