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Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression

Good Mood: The New Psychology of Overcoming Depression

Julian Lincoln Simon

Julian Simon was depressed for 13 long years, living each day under a black cloud of sadness and pain.
A Life Against the Grain: The Autobiography of an ...

A Life Against the Grain: The Autobiography of an ...

Julian Lincoln Simon

Rather, after the personal chronology and experiences, the book includes substantive chapters on research methods, population economics, and immigration. It also explains how Julian Simon became the economist he was.
Hoodwinking the Nation

Hoodwinking the Nation

Julian Lincoln Simon

And why do we believe it? Those are the questions Julian L. Simon set out to answer in his book, Hoodwinking the Nation. The purpose of this book is not to preach but to examine.
The Ultimate Resource 2

The Ultimate Resource 2

Julian Lincoln Simon

Rev. ed. of: The ultimate resource by Julian L. Simon, published Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1981.
The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

Julian Lincoln Simon

Illuminates and explains the emergence of modern economic development in Western Europe after the seventeenth century
The Art of Empirical Investigation

The Art of Empirical Investigation

Julian Lincoln Simon

Presupposing nothing, the book introduces the reader to the foundations of empirical social-science research, regardless of a specific field.
Economics Against the Grain: Microeconomics, industrial ...

Economics Against the Grain: Microeconomics, industrial ...

Julian Lincoln Simon

Often considered as controversial and unorthodox, these essays challenge conventional approaches. The book begins with introductory chapters in which the author discusses his background and experiences as a controversial scholar.
How to Start and Operate a Mail-order Business

How to Start and Operate a Mail-order Business

Julian Lincoln Simon

Or maybe you're well established in business but anxious to cash in on the lucrative mail-order market. Either way, this book tells you what you need to know to make money by mail.
Developing Decision-Making Skills for Business

Developing Decision-Making Skills for Business

Julian Lincoln Simon

The book covers a wide range of topics -- identifying tastes and preferences, personal skill assessment, cost-benefit analysis, risk and uncertainty, multi-tasking, human resource management, time constraints, data collection, and more.
Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected Essays

Population and Development in Poor Countries: Selected Essays

Julian Lincoln Simon

This book gathers a set of articles--theoretical, empirical, and policy analyses--written over the past twenty years, which examine the effects of population increase on various aspects of economic development in less-developed economies.
Politics for the Greatest Good: The Case for Prudence in the ...

Politics for the Greatest Good: The Case for Prudence in the ...

Clarke Forsythe

[69] Simon, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney, pp.180-83. [70] Ibid., p.181; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, p.334. [71] Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 2:232 (“ Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress”). [72] Ibid. [73] Farber, Lincoln's ...
The Beatles Quiz Book

The Beatles Quiz Book

Adam Pearson

Which Paul McCartney composition was written about Julian Lennon? What year was Julian Lennon born? What was the title of Julian Lennon's first hit single? What is Julian Lennon's full name? Julian Lennon released his first album, Valotte ...
Conversations with Julian Barnes

Conversations with Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes

Interview with Julian Barnes Observer 27 "Novels Come out of Life, Not out of Theories": An Interview with Julian Barnes Rudolf Freiburg 31 "History in Question(s)": An Interview with Julian Barnes Vanessa Guignery 53 Julian Barnes: The Art ...
Lincoln in Indiana

Lincoln in Indiana

Brian R. Dirck

Lincoln in Indiana offers a fascinating account of Lincoln's boyhood in Indiana, setting the relationships, values, and environment that fundamentally shaped Lincoln's character within the context of frontier and farm life in early ...
The Annotated Lincoln

The Annotated Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment.
Monthly Bulletin

Monthly Bulletin

Ohio State Library

The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln; by James Henry Lea. B-L638 . The boyhood of Lincoln: by Eleanor Atkinson. B-L638 . The boy's life of Abraham Lincoln; by Helen Nicolay. B-L638 . The death of Lincoln; the story of Booth's plot, his deed and ...
Lincoln: A Photobiography

Lincoln: A Photobiography

Russell Freedman

The book's final chapter is a moving account of that tragic evening in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Concludes with a sampling of Lincoln writings and a detailed list of Lincoln historical sites.
The Lincoln Legacy: A Quarterly Publication of the Lincoln ...

The Lincoln Legacy: A Quarterly Publication of the Lincoln ...

David A. Warren

LINCOLN, LAND, AND LABOR, 1809-60 By Olivier Fraysse Translated By Sylvia Neely ******************************** Reviewed by Steven K. Rogstad The title of this book may cause many non- academics to avoid reading it, which would be ...
Lincoln on Democracy

Lincoln on Democracy

Abraham Lincoln

Back in print after ten years, this unique book brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Lincoln on the theme of democracy.
Citizen Lincoln

Citizen Lincoln

Ward McAfee

In modern times, some critics have belittled Abraham Lincoln's antislavery resolve as shallow. Some have portrayed him as a passive president, waiting upon the bold initiatives of others. 'Citizen Lincoln' regards him differently.
Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in ...

Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in ...

Jackie Hogan

William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story ofa Great Life. ... Guelzo, Ahraham Lincoln: Redeemer President; H. Donald Winkler, The Women in Lincoln's Life: How the Sixteenth American President Was Shaped ...
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Christi E. Parker

Who Was Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States ' during hard times. The people of the United States argued about many problems. The most important issue was slavery. Lincoln was against slavery.
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

Walter Stahr

Some of Lincoln’s critics even saw Seward, erroneously, as the power behind the throne; this is why John Wilkes Booth and his colleagues attempted to kill Seward as well as Lincoln.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

This book is available again in a fresh new edition just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address with a new introduction by Lincoln- and Civil War–scholar Gabor S. Boritt.
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. ...

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. ...

Sidney Blumenthal

This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as “a slave,” to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.
The Collected Plays of Neil Simon

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon

Neil Simon

Neil Simon. Theater in Washington, D.C., Simon's twenty-seventh produced play script, fourteenth Best Play and Pulitzer Prize winner. Lost in Yonhers also won Simon the 1991 Tony Award as the season's Best Play. While Lost in Yonkers ...
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Allen C. Guelzo

The first "intellectual biography" of Lincoln, this work explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him as a serious thinker deeply involved in the nineteenth-century debates over politics, religion, and culture.
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

Walter Stahr

Presents a profile of the leader of Lincoln's "team of rivals," examining the many political roles he had in his lifetime, including governor of New York, Secretary of State, and Lincoln's closest advisor during the Civil War.
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Edward Steers

133; Elden C. Weckesser, His Name Was Mudd (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 1991), p. 143. 18. Bryan, The Great American Myth; Eisenschiml, Why Was Lincoln Murdered?; Roy Z. Chamlee Jr., Lincoln's Assassins (Jefferson, ...

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