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The Second Mountain
NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMAL Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want the things that are truly worth wanting. This is the second mountain. What does it mean to look beyond yourself and find a moral cause? To forget about independence and discover dependence - to be utterly enmeshed in a web of warm relationships? What does it mean to value intimacy, devotion, responsibility and commitment above individual freedom? In The Second Mountain David Brooks explores the meaning and possibilities that scaling a second mountain offer us and the four commitments that most commonly move us there: family, vocation, philosophy and community. Inspiring, personal and full of joy, this book will help you discover why you were really put on this earth.
The Wonderful Way You Are
An illustrated picture book for children with special needs or disabilities.
Her Perfect Twin
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR! With echoes of Gone Girl and My Lovely Wife, Sarah Bonner's debut novel introduces an exciting new voice in twisty thrillers. HER PERFECT TWIN. YOUR NEW OBSESSION. When Megan discovers photographs of her estranged identical twin sister on her husband’s phone, she wants answers. Leah already has everything Megan ever wanted. Fame, fortune, freedom to do what she wants. And when Megan confronts Leah, an argument turns to murder. The only way Megan can get away with killing her twin is to become her. But then lockdown hits. How can she continue living two lives? And what happens if someone else knows her secret?
Child of Light
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The electrifying first novel of an all-new fantasy series from the legendary author behind the Shannara saga, about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she’s never known “Enticing . . . Brooks’s fans will be thrilled to have a new series to savor.”—Publishers Weekly At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the age of fourteen, she has been trapped in a Goblin prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children’s prison, and rumors say that the adult version is far, far worse. So she and some friend...
Byzantium, Faith, and Power (1261-1557)
This volume publishes twelve papers that were delivered at an academic symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on April 16-18, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibition, "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)" (held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 23 to July 5, 2004).
Accidentally His
I found Jordan freezing on my mountain.I warmed her up - the best way a man can...Hey, it was the polite thing to do!Now I'll protect her from more than the storm.I gave up trusting people. Being a multimillionaire makes you real cynical.Now it's just me and my woods - that's how I like it.Until I saw Jordan shivering in the snow.Young, inexperienced, and vulnerable.I wasn't planning on her hanging around.But I can't let some sweet innocent girl blunder into a storm.Guess we'll have to wait it out.With Jordan heating up my cabin, I know how to pass the time...Turns out she's a girl with a past.And I'm not the only wolf on this mountain.But I'm the toughest. I'm the strongest.And I'll protect my woman to the end.
The Beginning of Us
Eliza, where are you? I'm listening, watching, waiting for you. I need you. How dare you run away? Where's the courage, the fearlessness I fell in love with? I don't know what else to do but write. It's dark in my dorm room, and the wind rattles the panes of my window, and I'm supposed to be driving to my parents' right now for winter break, but I can't feel my arms or my legs, and my chest aches because I don't know where you've gone. Or why. I know I shouldn't have fallen in love with my professor. But you inspired me when you stood in front of the class, telling us to find our authentic selves. And I did — with you. How could I know that you would be so afraid of this, of us? That you'd be so terrified of...yourself? Wherever you are, Eliza, hear me — and come back to me. Love (yes, I'll write that word, Professor), Your Tara
My Favorite Mistake
Vegas screwed me. That's the only way to explain the ring on my finger and the man attached to my hip.Sure, Cody's hot. I could rip his clothes off and lick him like an ice cream cone. But it's not about my heart pounding lust or the magical night I can't remember.We've got a problem. Two problems, actually.One, he's my best friend's brother. And she's about to murder me.Two, I've got a television contract that voids everything I've worked for if this leaks to the press.But hey, annulments are easy, right?Except Cody doesn't want one. He needs me to get his billion-dollar inheritance. If he wasn't such an jerk, maybe I'd help. But he teases me. Makes me think he really cares. Really loves...This isn't a game. Cody's gonna have to choose. It's me or his money. He can't keep us both.
Social Protection and the Market in Latin America
Social security institutions have been among the most stable post-war social programs around the world. Increasingly, however, these institutions have undergone profound transformation from public risk-pooling systems to individual market-based designs. Why has this 'privatization' occurred? Why do some governments enact more radical pension privatizations than others? This book provides a theoretical and empirical account of when and to what degree governments privatize national old-age pension systems. Quantitative cross-national analysis simulates the degree of pension privatization around the world and tests competing hypotheses to explain reform outcomes. In addition, comparative analysis of pension reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay evaluate a causal theory of institutional change. The central argument is that pension privatization emerges from political conflict, rather than from exogenous pressures. The argument is developed around three dimensions: the double bind of globalization, contingent path-dependent processes, and the legislative politics of loss imposition.
