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Penguin Books. Good. 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches. Paperback. 2003. 288 pages. Text tanned.<br>In this eye-opening resource, Dr. Sal Severe taps his twenty-five years of experience as a … Mehr…

Penguin Books. Good. 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches. Paperback. 2003. 288 pages. Text tanned.<br>In this eye-opening resource, Dr. Sal Severe taps his twenty-five years of experience as a school psych ologist and parenting workshop leader to show that a child's beha vior is often a reflection of the parent's behavior, and by makin g changes themselves, parents can achieve dramatic results in the ir children. Instead of focusing on what children do wrong, Dr. S evere teaches parents to emphasize the positive, to be consistent , and to be more patient. He shows parents how to teach their chi ldren to behave, listen, and be more cooperative, and how moms an d dads can manage their own anger and prevent arguments and power struggles. Packed with concrete strategies for dealing with home work hassles, ending tantrums, and other common problems, Dr. Sev ere's empathetic, common-sense book will be welcome everywhere. Editorial Reviews Review The book gives parents the confidence t hey need to practice self-discipline, patience, and consistency i n order to raise well-behaved children. --New York Daily News Th is book speaks to the heart of the family system--the parents. Pa rents must behave so their children will, too! --John Bradshaw I found this to be a very valuable book. It has helped me immensel y with my own children. --Jack Canfield About the Author Dr. Sal Severe has been a school psychologist for more than twenty-five years. He serves on the advisory board of Parents magazine and is a member of the National Association of School Psychologists. Dr . Severe is also the author of How to Behave So Your Preschooler Will, Too! Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserve d. Chapter 1 (How Successful Parents Behave) Whenever I am asked if my children have ever done something I was unprepared to hand le, I tell this story. Anthony was almost three years old when my spouse became pregnant. We knew it was vital to prepare him for the arrival of a new baby. We wanted to avoid the dreaded effects of sibling rivalry. We read the Berenstain Bears New Baby book a dozen times. We did everything imaginable to make him feel that our new baby was also going to be his new baby. As Mom's tummy be gan to grow, Anthony kept a little doll tucked beneath the front of his T-shirt. Leah's birth fascinated Anthony. He was so excit ed. Nearly everyone who brought a present for Leah brought one fo r him. It was like Christmas in May. He loved his new sister, eve n though he noticed that she did not have any teeth. Everything w as going just as we had planned. On Leah's sixth day home, it ha ppened. Anthony hopped out of the bathtub. His rosy skin smelled like soap and baby powder. He asked if he could have an apple. I said sure. He reappeared a few moments later and placed one hand on the back of my chair while holding the apple in the other. Da d, I think I'm in trouble. What for? I asked. Well, when I was getting my apple, I accidentally peed in the refrigerator. You'r e right, I said. You are in trouble. What We Want My children c reate many challenging situations. Occasionally I am amused. Ofte n I feel frustrated and discouraged. Sometimes I feel embarrassed and guilty. Our children are a measure of our success and worthi ness. We judge ourselves by their success and achievements. We co mpare ourselves to other parents, and compare our children to oth er children. Have you ever watched people buy apples? We rotate e ach apple looking for a blemish. We hold it up to the light, exam ining the reflection. We squeeze each one for firmness. We study each competitor looking for the perfect apple. Parents want perf ect apples. We want successful children, happy and well adjusted. We want them to feel good about themselves. We want children who are loving and respectful of others, well behaved, and self-moti vated. We want them to be independent-not still living with us wh en they are thirty. All parents have the same goals and aspiratio ns. What We Have Most parents confront the same behavior proble ms. We become annoyed repeating everything three times. We spend too much time arguing. We become drained from the nagging and whi ning and manipulating and quarreling, and exhausted from shouting and threatening. At times, it seems that all we do is punish. We feel guilty for getting angry, but it appears to be the only way to get results. We blame ourselves and feel ineffective for not knowing what to do. There are times when we dislike our children because their misbehavior makes us feel so inadequate and miserab le. Raising well-behaved children is not easy. Many parents fail not because they are inadequate or because they lack love for th eir children or because they want something less than the best fo r their children, but because they are inconsistent. They procras tinate. They give warnings but do not follow through. They say th ings they do not mean. They lack patience. They punish in anger. Unsuccessful parents attend to the negative rather than the posit ive. They criticize too much. Parents who have discipline problem s do not plan. They do not realize that they can be part of the p roblem. Parents are part of the problem because of their pattern s of reaction. Parents usually react in one of two ways. Sometime s parents react passively; they give in to misbehavior because th ey do not feel like confronting the problem, at least not right t hen. You will learn why giving in makes misbehavior worse. Someti mes parents react with anger. You can also learn how reacting wit h anger makes misbehavior worse. The way you react to your child ren's misbehavior affects future misbehavior. A certain amount of misbehavior is normal; my guess is that young children misbehave about 5 percent of the time. (Some days it feels like 50 percent !) Knowing how to react to this 5 percent is crucial. Reacting co rrectly and consistently can reduce misbehavior from 5 percent to less than 2 percent while reacting incorrectly can increase misb ehavior to 10 percent or more. Knowing how to react is essential , but knowing how to prevent discipline problems is more importan t. You can escape many predicaments by setting up a few guideline s in advance. Successful parents believe in prevention and planni ng; they are more proactive than reactive. You will learn several strategies to help you be more proactive. What We Need What fa ctors contribute to successful parenting? Successful parents and their children are partners in discipline. Successful parents kno w that discipline is a teaching process, not just punishment. Suc cessful parents understand that their behavior and emotions affec t their children's behavior and emotions. Successful parents mode l responsibility; they focus their attention and energy on the po sitive aspects of their children's behavior and emphasize coopera tion, not control. Successful parents teach their children to thi nk for themselves. They teach children self-control. Successful p arents build self-esteem. They know that healthy self-esteem is t he main ingredient children need to develop self-confidence and r esiliency. Successful parents learn from their children. They de velop reaction patterns that reduce misbehavior. Successful paren ts are consistent; they say what they mean and mean what they say . They follow through. Successful parents stay calm when their bu ttons are being pushed. They use punishments that teach, not get even. Successful parents connect special activities with good beh avior. Successful parents anticipate problems. They have a game plan. They have proactive strategies for managing tantrums, disob edience, fighting, arguments, and power struggles. Successful par ents have plans that teach the value of completing chores, earnin g allowances, and doing homework. Successful parents do not let misbehavior keep them from enjoying their children. Successful pa rents are strict but positive. They are serious about the importa nce of proper conduct, but they have a childlike sense of humor w henever it is needed. Successful parents know how to appreciate t heir children, even when they are misbehaving. Most importantly, successful parents are open to change. How This Book Will Help This book will make your life easier. This book teaches you how t o get your children to listen the first time you ask them to do s omething. It teaches you how to be more consistent. It shows you how to get your children to behave without getting angry. It expl ains how to use incentives without bribing. It shows you how to u se punishments that teach. It explains how to punish your childre n without feeling punished yourself. It teaches you how to correc t your children without arguments and power struggles. It empower s you to handle teasing and tantrums. It will even tell you what to do when one of your children pees in the refrigerator. If you already have well-behaved children, thank your higher power. Thi s book will help you, too. It will make you more conscious of the successful strategies you are currently using. This book will sh ow you how to maintain good behavior, and it will prepare you for any future problems. One of the best sources of help for parent s is other parents. I realized this after watching parents who ha ve attended my parenting workshops. It's thrilling to see parents pick each other's brains for techniques. They find ideas that wi ll stop Jonathan's tantrums or get Heather to do her homework or get the twins to stop fighting. This book is a collection of idea s that I have learned from parents-parents who were fatigued and confused, parents drained by yelling, parents who felt imprisoned by their children, parents who walked through life on a treadmil l, parents whose hearts were empty, parents who sometimes felt li ke giving up. Parents who discovered a better way. All the examp les in this book are true stories from actual parents with real p roblems. The ideas in this book are simple and practical. Everyth ing is explained in down-to-earth language. There are a number o f theories about parent and child behavior. Most authors accept o ne theory. They try to convince you that their ideas work for eve ry parent and every child. After trying this approach, I decided it was insufficient. Since every parent and child is unique, why not use a variety of methods? Use the best from every theory. Thi s book provides hundreds of ideas. Not all of them will work all the time. You need to select the ideas that make sense to you. H ow We Learn Parenting Behavior We learned most of our parenting behavior from our parents. Have you ever said something to your c hildren and then realized you heard these same words-Be careful o r you'll break your neck, Be quiet and eat-when you were a child? We parent the way we were parented. We discipline as we were dis ciplined. Most ideas that we learned from our parents are helpful , but some are not. We pick and choose from these methods. Things we like, we use. Things we do not like, we don't. We also learn by watching other parents for good ideas and by talking with fri ends. We learn from their experiences, they learn from ours, and we share techniques that work. We also learn by trial and error. Much of what we do with our children is based on our best guess at the time. Some things work; some fail. This happens to us all. Every firstborn child is a test; we begin using trial and error the moment we get home from the hospital. I remember feeling conf used and helpless. The baby is crying-what does it mean? Hungry? Lonely? Wet? Too warm? Too cold? Trial and error also applies to discipline: if sending your child to bed early works once, you wi ll probably do it again. The beliefs that you already have about parenting and discipline are fine. Learning from your parents an d friends and learning by trial and error is normal. Add judgment and common sense, and you have a solid foundation. This book wil l build on that foundation. Love Does Not Always Light the Way Too many parents have the false belief that if they love their ch ildren as much as possible, their misbehavior will someday improv e. Love, warmth, and affection are essential. They are fundamenta ls. But you also need knowledge. Imagine you needed an operation . As you were about to be put under, your physician whispered in your ear, I want you to know that I am not a surgeon. I'm not a d octor at all. Please don't worry. My parents are both doctors. I have a lot of friends who are doctors. I've asked a lot of questi ons about surgery. Just relax! I have a lot of common sense, and I love my patients very much. Would you let this person use a sca lpel on you? Parents need training just as professionals need tr aining. Children need trained parents as much as they need loving parents. Training pulls together all the good ideas you already have, provides structure and direction, and gives you confidence. You learn that what you are doing is right. More confidence mean s more self-control, less anger, less guilt, and less frustration . More confidence means more respect from your children. Without confidence, many parents are afraid to correct or punish their ch ildren. Some worry that their children will not like them or are afraid they might harm their children emotionally, so they let th eir children misbehave. It Wasn't Like That When I Was Growing U p Why doesn't discipline work the way it did twenty or thirty ye ars ago? Why don't the old-fashioned methods work? Why is being a parent so demanding and confusing? Parenting is more difficult b ecause childhood is more difficult. Children are under pressure-p ressure to make adult decisions with the experience and emotions of a child; pressure from peers; pressure from school; pressure f rom the media; pressure that seeps down from pressures on the par ents. Pressure on our children translates into problems for us. Several changes in our culture have had a tremendous impact on di scipline and our roles as parents. Our economy has created financ ial tension in families. Parents come home stressed. Their fuse i s short. The rising divorce rate affects all of our children; tod ay, there are schools where four out of five children have experi enced divorce. Single parenting is stressful. Twenty years ago, everyone in the same town or neighborhood had the same values and beliefs. No matter where you went to play, the rules were the sa me. Everyone's parents had the same expectations. This is no long er true. Every family has its own standards. Our children experie nce many versions of right and wrong. This is confusing to childr en. How do these changes in our society affect the way you disci pline your children? Why won', Penguin Books, 2003, 2.5, Berkley. Very Good. Paperback. 2010. 592 pages. <br>In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame.... It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta--despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst f or CNN--to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased v isibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettl ing events, culminating in an ominous package--possibly a bomb--s howing up at the front desk of the apartment building where she a nd her husband, Benton, live. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpet ta's life finds her embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a f amous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappear ance of a beautiful millionaire with whom her niece, Lucy, seems to have shared a secret past. Scarpetta's CNN producer wants he r to launch a TV show called The Scarpetta Factor. Given the biza rre events already in play, she fears that her growing fame will generate the illusion that she has a special factor, a mythical a bility to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will end up lik e other TV personalities: her own stereotype. Editorial Reviews Review Praise for The Scarpetta Factor [An] insistent and gripp ing thriller.--The Star-Ledger A finely crafted, pulse-racing th riller that readers won't wantto put down.--Library Journal Abou t the Author Patricia Cornwell is considered one of the world's b estselling crime writers. Her intrepid medical examiner Kay Scarp etta first appeared on the scene in 1990 with Postmortem--the onl y novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards a nd the French Prix du Roman d'Aventure in a single year--and Crue l and Unusual, which won Britain's prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won t he 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an Ameri can author. Ms. Cornwell's work is translated into 36 languages a cross more than 120 countries. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permissio n. All rights reserved. Voltaire,Oeuvres Complètes 1785 A frigid wind gusted in from the East River, snatching at Dr. Kay Scarpet ta's coat as she walked quickly along 30th Street. It was one we ek before Christmas without a hint of the holidays in what she th ought of as Manhattan's Tragic Triangle, three vertices connected by wretchedness and death. Behind her was Memorial Park, a volum inous white tent housing the vacuum-packed human remains still un identified or unclaimed from Ground Zero. Ahead on the left was t he Gothic redbrick former Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, now a sh elter for the homeless. Across from that was the loading dock and bay for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where a gray s teel garage door was open. A truck was backing up, more pallets o f plywood being unloaded. It had been a noisy day at the morgue, a constant hammering in corridors that carried sound like an amph itheater. The mortuary techs were busy assembling plain pine coff ins, adult-size, infant-size, hardly able to keep up with the gro wing demand for city burials at Potter's Field. Economy-related. Everything was. Scarpetta already regretted the cheeseburger and fries in the cardboard box she carried. How long had they been i n the warming cabinet on the serving line of the NYU Medical Scho ol cafeteria? It was late for lunch, almost three p.m., and she w as pretty sure she knew the answer about the palatability of the food, but there was no time to place an order or bother with the salad bar, to eat healthy or even eat something she might actuall y enjoy. So far there had been fifteen cases today, suicides, acc idents, homicides, and indigents who died unattended by a physici an or, even sadder, alone. She had been at work by six a.m. to g et an early start, completing her first two autopsies by nine, sa ving the worst for last-a young woman with injuries and artifacts that were time-consuming and confounding. Scarpetta had spent mo re than five hours on Toni Darien, making meticulously detailed d iagrams and notes, taking dozens of photographs, fixing the whole brain in a bucket of formalin for further studies, collecting an d preserving more than the usual tubes of fluids and sections of organs and tissue, holding on to and documenting everything she p ossibly could in a case that was odd not because it was unusual b ut because it was a contradiction. The twenty-six-year-old woman 's manner and cause of death were depressingly mundane and hadn't required a lengthy postmortem examination to answer the most rud imentary questions. She was a homicide from blunt-force trauma, a single blow to the back of her head by an object that possibly h ad a multicolored painted surface. What didn't make sense was eve rything else. When her body was discovered at the edge of Central Park, some thirty feet off East 110th Street shortly before dawn , it was assumed she had been jogging last night in the rain when she was sexually assaulted and murdered. Her running pants and p anties were around her ankles, her fleece and sports bra pushed a bove her breasts. A Polartec scarf was tied in a double knot tigh tly around her neck, and at first glance it was assumed by the po lice and the OCME's medicolegal investigators who responded to th e scene that she was strangled with an article of her own clothin g. She wasn't. When Scarpetta examined the body in the morgue, s he found nothing to indicate the scarf had caused the death or ev en contributed to it, no sign of asphyxia, no vital reaction such as redness or bruising, only a dry abrasion on the neck, as if t he scarf had been tied around it postmortem. Certainly it was pos sible the killer struck her in the head and at some point later s trangled her, perhaps not realizing she was already dead. But if so, how much time did he spend with her? Based on the contusion, swelling, and hemorrhage to the cerebral cortex of her brain, she had survived for a while, possibly hours. Yet there was very lit tle blood at the scene. It wasn't until the body was turned over that the injury to the back of her head was even noticed, a one-a nd-a-half-inch laceration with significant swelling but only a sl ight weeping of fluid from the wound, the lack of blood blamed on the rain. Scarpetta seriously doubted it. The scalp laceration would have bled heavily, and it was unlikely a rainstorm that was intermittent and at best moderate would have washed most of the blood out of Toni's long, thick hair. Did her assailant fracture her skull, then spend a long interval with her outside on a rainy winter's night before tying a scarf tightly around her neck to m ake sure she didn't live to tell the tale? Or was the ligature pa rt of a sexually violent ritual? Why were livor and rigor mortis arguing loudly with what the crime scene seemed to say? It appear ed she had died in the park late last night, and it appeared she had been dead for as long as thirty-six hours. Scarpetta was baff led by the case. Maybe she was overthinking it. Maybe she wasn't thinking clearly, for that matter, because she was harried and he r blood sugar was low, having eaten nothing all day, only coffee, lots of it. She was about to be late for the three p.m. staff m eeting and needed to be home by six to go to the gym and have din ner with her husband, Benton Wesley, before rushing over to CNN, the last thing she felt like doing. She should never have agreed to appear on The Crispin Report. Why for God's sake had she agree d to go on the air with Carley Crispin and talk about postmortem changes in head hair and the importance of microscopy and other d isciplines of forensic science, which were misunderstood because of the very thing Scarpetta had gotten herself involved in-the en tertainment industry? She carried her boxed lunch through the loa ding dock, piled with cartons and crates of office and morgue sup plies, and metal carts and trollies and plywood. The security gua rd was busy on the phone behind Plexiglas and barely gave her a g lance as she went past. At the top of a ramp she used the swipe card she wore on a lanyard to open a heavy metal door and entered a catacomb of white subway tile with teal-green accents and rail s that seemed to lead everywhere and nowhere. When she first bega n working here as a part-time ME, she got lost quite a lot, endin g up at the anthropology lab instead of the neuropath lab or the cardiopath lab or the men's locker room instead of the women's, o r the decomp room instead of the main autopsy room, or the wrong walk-in refrigerator or stairwell or even on the wrong floor when she boarded the old steel freight elevator. Soon enough she cau ght on to the logic of the layout, to its sensible circular flow, beginning with the bay. Like the loading dock, it was behind a m assive garage door. When a body was delivered by the medical exam iner transport team, the stretcher was unloaded in the bay and pa ssed beneath a radiation detector over the door. If no alarm was triggered indicating the presence of a radioactive material, such as radiopharmaceuticals used in the treatment of some cancers, t he next stop was the floor scale, where the body was weighed and measured. Where it went after that depended on its condition. If it was in bad shape or considered potentially hazardous to the li ving, it went inside the walk-in decomp refrigerator next to the decomp room, where the autopsy would be performed in isolation wi th special ventilation and other protections. If the body was in good shape it was wheeled along a corridor to the right of the b ay, a journey that could at some point include the possibility of various stops relative to the body's stage of deconstruction: th e x-ray suite, the histology specimen storage room, the forensic anthropology lab, two more walk-in refrigerators for fresh bodies that hadn't been examined yet, the lift for those that were to b e viewed and identified upstairs, evidence lockers, the neuropath room, the cardiac path room, the main autopsy room. After a case was completed and the body was ready for release, it ended up fu ll circle back at the bay inside yet another walk-in refrigerator , which was where Toni Darien should be right now, zipped up in a pouch on a storage rack. But she wasn't. She was on a gurney pa rked in front of the stainless-steel refrigerator door, an ID tec h arranging a blue sheet around the neck, up to the chin. What a re we doing? Scarpetta said. We've had a little excitement upsta irs. She's going to be viewed. By whom and why? Mother's in the lobby and won't leave until she sees her. Don't worry. I'll take care of it. The tech's name was Rene, mid-thirties with curly bl ack hair and ebony eyes, and unusually gifted at handling familie s. If she was having a problem with one, it wasn't trivial. Rene could defuse just about anything. I thought the father had made the ID, Scarpetta said. He filled out the paperwork, and then I showed him the picture you uploaded to me-this was right before y ou left for the cafeteria. A few minutes later, the mother walks in and the two of them start arguing in the lobby, and I mean goi ng at it, and finally he storms out. They're divorced? And obvi ously hate each other. She's insisting on seeing the body, won't take no for an answer. Rene's purple nitrile-gloved hands moved a strand of damp hair off the dead woman's brow, rearranging sever al more strands behind the ears, making sure no sutures from the autopsy showed. I know you've got a staff meeting in a few minute s. I'll take care of this. She looked at the cardboard box Scarpe tta was holding. You didn't even eat yet. What have you had today ? Probably nothing, as usual. How much weight have you lost? You' re going to end up in the anthro lab, mistaken for a skeleton. W hat were they arguing about in the lobby? Scarpetta asked. Funer al homes. Mother wants one on Long Island. Father wants one in Ne w Jersey. Mother wants a burial, but the father wants cremation. Both of them fighting over her. Touching the dead body again, as if it were part of the conversation. Then they started blaming ea ch other for everything you can think of. At one point Dr. Edison came out, they were causing such a ruckus. He was the chief med ical examiner and Scarpetta's boss when she worked in the city. I t was still a little hard getting used to being supervised, havin g been either a chief herself or the owner of a private practice for most of her career. But she wouldn't want to be in charge of the New York OCME, not that she'd been asked or likely ever would be. Running an office of this magnitude was like being the mayor of a major metropolis. Well, you know how it works, Scarpetta s aid. A dispute, and the body doesn't go anywhere. We'll put a hol d on her release until Legal instructs us otherwise. You showed t he mother the picture, and then what? I tried, but she wouldn't look at it. She says she wants to see her daughter and isn't leav ing until she does. She's in the family room? That's where I le ft her. I put the folder on your desk, copies of the paperwork. Thanks. I'll look at it when I go upstairs. You get her on the li ft, and I'll take care of things on the other end, Scarpetta said . Maybe you can let Dr. Edison know I'm going to miss the three-o 'clock. In fact, it's already started. Hopefully I'll catch up wi th him before he heads home. He and I need to talk about this cas e. I'll tell him. Rene placed her hands on the steel gurney's pu sh handle. Good luck on TV tonight. Tell him the scene photos ha ve been uploaded to him, but I won't be able to dictate the autop sy protocol or get those photos to him until tomorrow. I saw the commercials for the show. They're cool. Rene was still talking a bout TV. Except I can't stand Carley Crispin and what's the name of that profiler who's on there all the time? Dr. Agee. I'm sick and tired of them talking about Hannah Starr. I'm betting Carley' s going to ask you about it. CNN knows I won't discuss active ca ses. You think she's dead? Because I sure do. Rene's voice follo wed Scarpetta into the elevator. Like what's-her-name in Aruba? N atalee? People vanish for a reason-because somebody wanted them t o. Scarpetta had been promised. Carley Crispin wouldn't do that to her, wouldn't dare. It, Berkley, 2010, 3, Little, Brown. Very Good. Paperback. 2006. 288 pages. <br>The economy [isn't] a bunch of rather dull statist ics with names like GDP (gross domestic product), notes Tim Harfo rd, columnist and regular guest on NPR's Marketplace, economics i s about who gets what and why. In this acclaimed and riveting boo k-part expos? part user's manual-the astute and entertaining colu mnist from the Financial Times demystifies the ways in which mone y works in the world. From why the coffee in your cup costs so mu ch to why efficiency is not necessarily the answer to ensuring a fair society, from improving health care to curing crosstown traf fic-all the dirty little secrets of dollars and cents are delight fully revealed by The Undercover Economist. A rare specimen: a b ook on economics that will enthrall its readers . . . It brings t he power of economics to life. -Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Fre akonomics A playful guide to the economics of everyday life, and as such is something of an elder sibling to Steven Levitt's wild child, the hugely successful Freakonomics. -The Economist A tou r de force . . . If you need to be convinced of the everrelevant and fascinating nature of economics, read this insightful and wit ty book. -Jagdish Bhagwati, author of In Defense of Globalization This is a book to savor. -The New York Times Harford writes li ke a dream. From his book I found out why there's a Starbucks on every corner [and] how not to get duped in an auction. Reading Th e Undercover Economist is like spending an ordinary day wearing X -ray goggles. -David Bodanis, author of Electric Universe Much w it and wisdom. -The Houston Chronicle From Publishers Weekly Nat tily packaged-the cover sports a Roy Lichtensteinesque image of a n economist in Dick Tracy garb-and cleverly written, this book ap plies basic economic theory to such modern phenomena as Starbucks ' pricing system and Microsoft's stock values. While the concepts explored are those encountered in Microeconomics 101, Harford gr acefully explains abstruse ideas like pricing along the demand cu rve and game theory using real world examples without relying on graphs or jargon. The book addresses free market economic theory, but Harford is not a complete apologist for capitalism; he shows how companies from Amazon to Whole Foods to Starbucks have g ouged consumers through guerrilla pricing techniques and explains the high rents in London (it has more to do with agriculture tha n one might think). Harford comes down soft on Chinese sweatshops , acknowledging conditions in factories are terrible, but sweatsh ops are better than the horrors that came before them, and a step on the road to something better. Perhaps, but Harford doesn't qu estion whether communism or a capitalist-style industrial revolut ion are the only two choices available in modern economies. That aside, the book is unequaled in its accessibility and ability to show how free market economic forces affect readers' day-to-day. Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevie r Inc. All rights reserved. From Bookmarks Magazine Harford expo ses the dark underbelly of capitalism in Undercover Economist. Co mpared with Steven Levitt's and Stephen J. Dubner's popular Freak onomics (*** July/Aug 2005), the book uses simple, playful exampl es (written in plain English) to elucidate complex economic theor ies. Critics agree that the book will grip readers interested in understanding free-market forces but disagree about Harford's app roach. Some thought the author mastered the small ideas while kee ping in sight the larger context of globalization; others faulted Harford for failing to criticize certain economic theories and t o ground his arguments in political, organizational structures. E ither way, his case studies-some entertaining, others indicative of times to come-will make you think twice about that cup of coff ee. Copyright ? 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. Editorial Re views From Publishers Weekly Nattily packaged-the cover sports a Roy Lichtensteinesque image of an economist in Dick Tracy garb-a nd cleverly written, this book applies basic economic theory to s uch modern phenomena as Starbucks' pricing system and Microsoft's stock values. While the concepts explored are those encountered in Microeconomics 101, Harford gracefully explains abstruse ideas like pricing along the demand curve and game theory using real w orld examples without relying on graphs or jargon. The book addre sses free market economic theory, but Harford is not a complete a pologist for capitalism; he shows how companies from Amazon t o Whole Foods to Starbucks have gouged consumers through guerrill a pricing techniques and explains the high rents in London (it ha s more to do with agriculture than one might think). Harford come s down soft on Chinese sweatshops, acknowledging conditions in fa ctories are terrible, but sweatshops are better than the horrors that came before them, and a step on the road to something better . Perhaps, but Harford doesn't question whether communism or a ca pitalist-style industrial revolution are the only two choices ava ilable in modern economies. That aside, the book is unequaled in its accessibility and ability to show how free market economic fo rces affect readers' day-to-day. Copyright ? Reed Business Inform ation, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Fro m the Back Cover The Undercover Economist is a rare specimen: a b ook on economics that will enthrall its readers. Beautifully writ ten and argued, it brings the power of economics to life. This bo ok should be required reading for every elected official, busines s leader, and university student. --Steven D. Levitt, author of F reakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everyt hing Harford writes like a dream--and is also one of the leadin g economic thinkers of his generation. From his book I found out why there's a Starbucks on every corner, what Bob Geldof needs to learn to make development aid work properly, and how not to get duped in an auction. Reading The Undercover Economist is like spe nding an ordinary day wearing X-ray goggles. --David Bodanis, aut hor of E=mc2 and Electric Universe If you need to be convinced of the ever-relevant and fascinating nature of economics, read th is insightful and witty book by Tim Harford. Using one interestin g example after another, The Undercover Economist demonstrates ho w economic reasoning -- often esoteric and dull, but totally acce ssible in Harford's hands -- helps illuminate the world around us . Indeed, Harford's book is a tour de force. --Jagdish Bhagwati, author of In Defense of Globalization As Tim Harford demonstrat es brilliantly in this enjoyable book, the powerful underlying id eas of economics can, in the hands of the right person, illuminat e every aspect of the world we inhabit. --Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, and auth or of Why Globalization Works Most people think economists are boring, opinionated and wrong. Tim Harford is often right, always opinionated, but never boring. He shows how economics can be use d to illuminate our everyday lives. Whether you want an explanati on of the price of a cup of coffee or of poverty in the third wor ld, Harford has it all. --John Kay, author of Culture and Prosper ity: The Truth About Markets About the Author Tim Harford is an editorial writer at the Financial Times, where he also writes th e newspaper's Dear Economist column and The Undercover Economist column, which also appears in Slate. He lives in London. About t he Author Tim Harford is an editorial writer at the Financial Tim es, where he also writes the newspaper's Dear Economist column an d The Undercover Economist column, which also appears in Slate. H e lives in London. Review Required reading. -Steven Levitt, auth or of Freakonomics A playful guide to the economics of everyday life, and as such. . . something of an elder sibling to Steven Le vitt's wild child, the hugely successful Freakonomics. -The Econo mist A book to savor. -The New York Times The Undercover Econom ist is a book you must pick up if you want a fresh perspective on how basic ideas in economics can help in answering the most comp lex and perplexing questions about the world around us. -Business Today [Harford] is in every sense consumer-friendly. His chapte rs come in bite-size sections, with wacky sub-headings. His style is breezy and no-nonsense. . . . The Undercover Economistis part primer, part consciousness raiser, part self-help manual. --Time s Literary Supplement Anyone mystified by how the world works wi ll benefit from this book - especially anyone confused about why good intentions don't, necessarily, translate into good results. -The Daily Telegraph (UK) Harford writes like a dream - and is a lso one of the leading economic thinkers of his generation. From his book I found out why there's a Starbucks on every corner, wha t Bob Geldof needs to learn to make development aid work properly , and how not to get duped in an auction. Reading The Undercover Economist is like spending an ordinary day wearing X-ray goggles. -David Bodanis, author of E=mc2 and Electric Universe Popular e conomics is not an oxymoron, and here is the proof. This book, by the Financial Times columnist Tim Harford, is as lively and witt y an introduction to the supposedly 'dismal science' as you are l ikely to read. -The Times From AudioFile This delightful behind- the-scenes look at basic economics should be required listening f or anyone who's looked up at a Starbucks menu and asked, Why am I paying four dollars for a cup of coffee? Robert McKenzie reads w ith an educated English accent that entertains as well as enchant s, and he makes a point to be both clear and challenging in his d elivery. The author's take on money is laugh-out-loud funny, and listeners who tune in for the entertainment value will find thems elves educated in the ways of the economic world. Magnificently w ritten and read, this book solves some of the mysteries of everyd ay life with wit and style. R.O. ? AudioFile 2006, Portland, Main e-- Copyright ? AudioFile, Portland, Maine Excerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. One Who Pays for Your Coffee ? The long commute on public transportation is a commonplace exp erience of life in major cities around the world, whether you liv e in New York, Tokyo, Antwerp, or Prague. Commuting dispiritingly combines the universal and the particular. The particular, becau se each commuter is a rat in his own unique maze: timing the run from the shower to the station turnstiles; learning the timetable s and the correct end of the platform to speed up the transfer be tween different trains; trading off the disadvantages of standing room only on the first train home against a seat on the last one . Yet commutes also produce common patterns-bottlenecks and rush hours-that are exploited by entrepreneurs the world over. My comm ute in Washington, D.C., is not the same as yours in London, New York, or Hong Kong, but it will look surprisingly familiar. Farr agut West is the Metro station ideally positioned to serve the Wo rld Bank, International Monetary Fund, and even the White House. Every morning, sleep-deprived, irritable travelers surface from F arragut West into the International Square plaza, and they are no t easily turned aside from their paths. They want to get out of t he noise and bustle, around the shuffling tourists, and to their desks just slightly before their bosses. They do not welcome deto urs. But there is a place of peace and bounty that can tempt them to tarry for a couple of minutes. In this oasis, rare delights a re served with smiles by attractive and exotic men and women-toda y, a charming barista whose name badge reads Maria. I am thinking , of course, of Starbucks. The caf?is placed, inescapably, at the exit to International Square. This is no quirk of Farragut West: the first storefront you will pass on your way out of the nearby Farragut North Metro is-another Starbucks. You find such conveni ently located coffee shops all over the planet and catering to th e same desperate commuters. The coffee shop within ten yards of t he exit from Washington's Dupont Circle Metro station is called C osi. New York's Penn Station boasts Seattle Coffee Roasters just by the exit to Eighth Avenue. Commuters through Shinjuku Station, Tokyo, can enjoy a Starbucks without leaving the station concour se. In London's Waterloo station, it is the AMT kiosk that guards the exit onto the south bank of the Thames. At $2.55 a tall cap puccino from Starbucks is hardly cheap. But of course, I can affo rd it. Like many of the people stopping at that caf? I earn the p rice of that coffee every few minutes. None of us care to waste o ur time trying to save a few pennies by searching out a cheaper c offee at 8:30 in the morning. There is a huge demand for the most convenient coffee possible-in Waterloo Station, for example, sev enty-four million people pass through each year. That makes the l ocation of the coffee bar crucial. The position of the Starbucks caf?at Farragut West is advantageous, not just because it's loca ted on an efficient route from the platforms to the station exit, but because there are no other coffee bars on that route. It's h ardly a surprise that they do a roaring trade. If you buy as muc h coffee as I do you may have come to the conclusion that somebod y is getting filthy rich out of all this. If the occasional gripe s in the newspapers are correct, the coffee in that cappuccino co sts pennies. Of course, the newspapers don't tell us the whole st ory: there's milk, electricity, cost of the paper cups-and the co st of paying Maria to smile at grouchy customers all day long. Bu t after you add all that up you still get something a lot less th an the price of a cup of coffee. According to economics professor Brian McManus, markups on coffee are around 150 percent-it costs forty cents to make a one-dollar cup of drip coffee and costs le ss than a dollar for a small latte, which sells for $2.55. So som ebody is making a lot of money. Who? You might think that the ob vious candidate is Howard Schultz, the owner of Starbucks. But th e answer isn't as simple as that. The main reason that Starbucks can ask $2.55 for a cappuccino is that there isn't a shop next do or charging $2.00. So why is nobody next door undercutting Starbu cks? Without wishing to dismiss the achievements of Mr. Schultz, cappuccinos are not in fact complicated products. There is no sho rtage of drinkable cappuccinos (sadly, there is no shortage of un, Little, Brown, 2006, 3, Sourcebooks. Very Good. 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Paperback. 2013. 320 pages. <br>A New York Times bestseller For millions of peopl e, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearfu l experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web' s popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know... ?How planes fly, an d a revealing look at the men and women who fly them ?Straight ta lk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety ?The real story on c ongestion, delays, and the dysfunction of the modern airport ?The myths and misconceptions of cabin air and cockpit automation ?Te rrorism in perspective, and a provocative look at security ?Airfa res, seating woes, and the pitfalls of airline customer service ? The colors and cultures of the airlines we love to hate Cockpit Confidential covers not only the nuts and bolts of flying, but al so the grand theater of air travel, from airport architecture to inflight service to the excitement of travel abroad. It's a thoug htful, funny, at times deeply personal look into the strange and misunderstood world of commercial flying. It's the ideal book fo r frequent flyers, nervous passengers, and global travelers. Ref reshed and vastly expanded from the original Ask the Pilot, with approximately 75 percent new material. Editorial Reviews Review Brilliant...A book to be savored and passed to friends. -- Willi am Langewiesche, Vanity Fair Nobody covers the airline experienc e like Patrick Smith. He brings balance and clarity to a subject all too often over-hyped. And, he's a damned good writer. -- Cliv e Irving, Conde Nast Traveler I wish I could fold up Patrick Sm ith and put him in my suitcase. He seems to know everything worth knowing about flying. -- Stephen Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomic s Patrick Smith is extraordinarily knowledgeable about modern av iation, and communicates beautifully in English, not in pilot-ese . Th ideal seatmate, companion, writer and explainer. -- Alex Bea m, Boston Globe A brilliant writer, Patrick Smith provides a lau gh-a-page tour of a misunderstood industry -- a journey into the world of aviation, stripped of the mumbo-jumbo and filled with hu mor and insight. -- Christine Negroni, aviation correspondent and author of Flying Lessons Patrick Smith doesn't just know everyt hing about air travel, he possesses a rare knack for explaining i t in lucid and witty prose. -- Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Trave ler Patrick Smith is one of the best writers around, period, whi ch certainly makes him by far the best writer ever to have earned a commercial pilot's license. A soaring accomplishment, indispen sable for anyone who travels by air, which means everyone. -- Jam es Kaplan Wonderful -- Rudy Maxa Patrick Smith manages to demys tify the experience and remind us of the magic of aviation. Also he has a great sense of humor - which is critical when you are we dged into seat 14D on a regional jet. -- Chris Bohjalian Brillia ntly down to earth and reassuring -- Cath Urquhart, The Times (Lo ndon) What a pleasure it is reading Patrick Smith's surprisingl y elegant explanations and commentary. The world needs somebody w riting E.B. White simple and sensible about a topic everyone has a question about. -- Berke Breathed Patrick Smith doesn't just know everything about air travel, he possesses a rare knack for e xplaining it in lucid and witty prose. -- Barbara Peterson, Con dé Nast TraveleCockpit Confidential is the document that belongs in the seat-back pocket in front of you. -- David Pogue, New Yor k Times correspondent and PBS television host About the Author P atrick Smith is a New York Times bestselling author, airline pilo t, air travel writer, and the host of www.askthepilot. He has visited more than seventy countries and always asks for a window seat. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Excerpt. ® Reprint ed by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction The Painter 's Brush More than ever, air travel is a focus of curiosity, int rigue, anxiety, and anger. In the chapters that follow I will do my best to provide answers for the curious, reassurance for the a nxious, and unexpected facts for the deceived. It won't be easy, and I begin with a simple premise: everything you think you know about flying is wrong. That's an exaggeration, I hope, but not a n outrageous starting point in light of what I'm up against. Comm ercial aviation is a breeding ground for bad information, and the extent to which different myths, fallacies, and conspiracy theor ies have become embedded in the prevailing wisdom is startling. E ven the savviest frequent flyers are prone to misconstruing much of what actually goes on. It isn't surprising. Air travel is a c omplicated, inconvenient, and often scary affair for millions of people, and at the same time it's cloaked in secrecy. Its mysteri es are concealed behind a wall of specialized jargon, corporate r eticence, and an irresponsible media. Airlines, it hardly needs s aying, aren't the most forthcoming of entities, while journalists and broadcasters like to keep it simple and sensational. It's ha rd to know who to trust or what to believe. I'll give it my best shot. And in doing so, I will tell you how a plane stays in the air, yes. I'll address your nuts-and-bolts concerns and tackle th ose insufferable myths. However, this is not a book about flying, per se. I will not burden readers with gee-whiz specifications a bout airplanes. I am not writing for gearheads or those with a pr edisposed interest in planes; my readers don't want to see an aer ospace engineer's schematic of a jet engine, and a technical disc ussion about cockpit instruments or aircraft hydraulics is guaran teed to be tedious and uninteresting?especially to me. Sure, we'r e all curious how fast a plane goes, how high it flies, how many statistical bullet points can be made of its wires and plumbing. But as both author and pilot, my infatuation with flight goes bey ond the airplane itself, encompassing the fuller, richer drama of getting from here to there?the theater of air travel, as I like to call it. For most of us who grow up to become airline pilots, flying isn't just something we fell into after college. Ask any pilot where his love of aviation comes from, and the answer almos t always goes back to early childhood?to some ineffable, hard-wir ed affinity. Mine certainly did. My earliest crayon drawings were of planes, and I took flying lessons before I could drive. Just the same, I have never met another pilot whose formative obsessio ns were quite like mine. I have limited fascination with the sky or with the seat-of-the-pants thrills of flight itself. As a youn gster, the sight of a Piper Cub meant nothing to me. Five minutes at an air show watching the Blue Angels do barrel rolls, and I w as bored to tears. What enthralled me instead were the workings o f the airlines: the planes they flew and the places they went. I n the fifth grade I could recognize a Boeing 727-100 from a 727-2 00 by the shape of the intake of its center engine (oval, not rou nd). I could spend hours cloistered in my bedroom or at the dinin g room table, poring over the route maps and timetables of Pan Am , Aeroflot, Lufthansa, and British Airways, memorizing the names of the foreign capitals they flew to. Next time you're wedged in economy, flip to the route maps in the back of the inflight magaz ine. I could spend hours studying those three-panel foldouts and their crazy nests of city-pairs, immersed in a kind of junior pil ot porno. I knew the logos and liveries of all the prominent airl ines (and many of the nonprominent ones) and could replicate them freehand with a set of colored pencils. Thus I learned geograph y as thoroughly as I learned aviation. For most pilots, the world beneath those lines of the route map remains a permanent abstrac tion, countries and cultures of little or no interest beyond the airport fence or the perimeter of the layover hotel. For others, as happened to me, there's a point when those places become meani ngful. One feels an excitement not merely from the act of moving through the air, but from the idea of going somewhere. You're not just flying, you're traveling. The full, beautiful integration o f flight and travel, travel and flight. Are they not the same thi ng? To me they are. One can inspire the other, sure, but I never would have traipsed off to so many countries in my free time?from Cambodia to Botswana, Sri Lanka to Brunei?if I hadn't fallen in love with aviation first. If ever this connection struck me in a moment of clarity, it was a night several years ago during a vac ation to Mali, in West Africa. Though I could write pages about t he wonders and strangeness of West Africa, one of the trip's most vivid moments took place at the airport in Bamako, moments after our plane touched down from Paris. Two hundred of us descended t he drive-up stairs into a sinister midnight murk. The air was mis ty and smelled of woodsmoke. Yellow beams from military-style spo tlights crisscrossed the tarmac. We were paraded solemnly around the exterior of the aircraft, moving aft in a wide semicircle tow ard the arrivals lounge. There was something ceremonial and ritua listic about it. I remember walking beneath the soaring, blue-and -white tail of Air France, the plane's auxiliary turbine screamin g into the darkness. It was all so exciting and, to use a politic ally incorrect word, exotic. And that incredible airplane is what brought us there. In a matter of hours, no less?a voyage that on ce would have taken weeks by ship and desert caravan. The discon nect between air travel and culture seems to me wholly unnatural, yet we've seen a virtually clean break. Nobody gives a damn anym ore how you get there?the means coldly separated from the ends. F or most people, whether bound for Kansas or Kathmandu, the airpla ne is a necessary evil, incidental to the journey but no longer p art of it. An old girlfriend of mine, an artist who would have no trouble appreciating the play of light in a seventeenth-century painting by Vermeer, found my opinions utterly perplexing. Like m ost people, she analogized airplanes merely as tools. The sky was the canvas, she believed; the jetliner as discardable as the pai nter's brush. I disagree, for as a brush's stroke represents the moment of artistic inspiration, what is travel without the journe y? We've come to view flying as yet another impressive but ultim ately uninspiring technological realm. There I am, sitting in a B oeing 747, a plane that if tipped onto its nose would rise as tal l as a 20-story office tower. I'm at 33,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean, traveling at 600 miles per hour, bound for the Far East. And what are the passengers doing? Complaining, sulking, tapping glumly into their laptops. A man next to me is upset over a dent in his can of ginger ale. This is the realization, perhaps, of a fully evolved technology. Progress, one way or the other, mandate s that the extraordinary become the ordinary. But don't we lose v aluable perspective when we begin to equate the commonplace, more or less by definition, with the tedious? Aren't we forfeiting so mething important when we sneer indifferently at the sight of an airplane?at the sheer impressiveness of being able to throw down a few hundred dollars and travel halfway around the world at near ly the speed of sound? It's a tough sell, I know, in this age of long lines, grinding delays, overbooked planes, and inconsolable babies. To be clear, I am not extolling the virtues of tiny seats or the culinary subtlety of half-ounce bags of snack mix. The in dignities and hassles of modern air travel require little elabora tion and are duly noted. But believe it or not, there is still pl enty about flying for the traveler to savor and appreciate. I'm hesitant to say that we've developed a sense of entitlement, but it's something like that. Our technological triumphs aside, consi der also the industry's remarkable safety record and the fact tha t fares have remained startlingly cheap, even with tremendous sur ges in the price of fuel. Sure, years ago, passengers could enjoy a five-course meal served by a tuxedoed flight attendant before retiring to a private sleeping berth. My first airplane ride was in 1974: I remember my father in a suit and tie and double helpin gs of fresh cheesecake on a ninety-minute domestic flight. The th ing was, getting on a plane was expensive. This will be lost on m any people today, young people especially, but once upon a time, college kids didn't zip home for a few days over Christmas. You d idn't grab a last minute seat for $99 and pop over to Las Vegas?o r to Mallorca or Phuket?for a long weekend. Flying was a luxury, and people indulged sporadically, if at all. In 1939, aboard Pan Am's Dixie Clipper, it cost $750 to fly round-trip between New Yo rk and France. That's equal to well over $11,000 in today's money . In 1970, it cost the equivalent of $2,700 to fly from New York to Hawaii. Things changed. Planes, for one, became more efficien t. Aircraft like the 707 and the 747 made long-haul travel afford able to the masses. Then the effects of deregulation kicked in, c hanging forever the way airlines competed. Fares plummeted, and p assengers poured in. Yes, flying became more aggravating and less comfortable. It also became affordable for almost everybody. I have learned never to underestimate the contempt people hold for airlines and the degree to which they hate to fly. While some of this contempt is well deserved, much of it is unfair. Today a pas senger can, in a backpack and flip-flops, traverse the oceans for the equivalent of a few pennies per mile, in near-perfect safety and with an 85 percent chance of arriving on time. Is that reall y such an awful way to travel? Meanwhile, if you're that insatiab ly eager to revisit those luxurious indulgences of aviation's gol den years, well, you can do that too, by purchasing a first or bu siness class ticket?for less than what it cost fifty years ago. < /div ., Sourcebooks, 2013, 3, Paperback / softback. New. Why do oil and diamonds lead to economic disaster more often than boom? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Why might believing in God be good for your balance-sheet? Using the stories of economic triumph and disaster, this title explains how some countries went wrong while others went right., 6, Hardback. New. How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesn't uses illustration, humour, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author, Peter Schiff, presents economics in two informative, yet thoroughly entertaining tales., 6<

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