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  • Weight Loss, Italian-Style!

    Ditch the Diet, Pass the Pasta, and Drop the Pounds Forever

    Travel writer Jill Hendrickson has found the most exciting destination ever—slenderness and passionate living! You'll find it in "Weight Loss, Italian Style! Ditch the Diet, Pass the Pasta, and Drop the Pounds FOREVER." Join Jill on a food-filled adventure to the Tuscan Isle of Elba, where she learns that the secret to staying slim forever has nothing to do with counting calories or cutting carbs. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regulation and Instability in U.S. Commercial Banking

    A History of Crises

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The historical response to bank crises has always been more regulation. A pattern emerges that some may find surprising: regulation often contributes to bank instability. It suppresses competition and effective response to market changes and encourages bankers to take on additional risk. This book offers a valuable history lesson for policy makers. ... Read more

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    In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to ... Read more

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    A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its ... Read more

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    Weight Loss Boss is a frank, funny, and groundbreaking guide to surviving and thriving in an obesogenic world, from the CEO of Weight Watchers International.We live in a dangerous food world, full of temptation and instant gratification. No wonder obesity among Americans has tripled since the 1960s—and that those prone to weight gain fail over and over to maintain their hard-won goals. Simply put, ... Read more

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    In Foodist, Darya Pino Rose, a neuroscientist, food writer, and the creator of SummerTomato.com, delivers a savvy, practical guide to ending the diet cycle and discovering lasting weight-loss through the love of food and the fundamentals of science.A foodist simply has a different way of looking at food, and makes decisions with a clear understanding of how to optimize health and happiness. ... Read more

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