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  • Amplify Your Career and Life

    4 Steps to Evaluate, Assess and Move Forward

    by Peter C. Diamond ...
    Midlife—the time you spend between the ages of thirty-five and fifty-five—is a critical juncture in anyone’s career and life. And yet these tend to be neglected decades. You may feel vulnerable about who you are and what you want to do, boxed in by societal pressures and an overly outward focus. You may know that the time to invoke change is now. But how?Enter Amplify Your Career and Life,an ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Security

    What Role for the Future?

    Edited by Peter A. Diamond, David C. Lindeman, Howard Young ...
    Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--around the year 2030, well within the retirement years of the baby boom generation. They also predict that the trust fund will stop being a net contributor and become instead a net claimant on the federal budget in the year 2013--much earlier than ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Unlocking Longevity

    The Heart Connection: A Cardiologist’s Perspective

    by Peter Diamond M.D. ...
    Narrated by Peter Diamond M.D. ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    Doctor Peter Diamond is an integrative Cardiologist who has been practicing medicine for over 45 years. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine, he was inspired to pursue a career in medicine and writing by his physician father, who was the author of several books. His passion for integrative health care has driven his desire to share his experiences in a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behavioral Economics and Its Applications

    Edited by Peter Diamond, Hannu Vartiainen ...
    In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of applied economics-finance. Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen's Behavioral Economics and Its ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Reforming Pensions

    A Short Guide

    by Nicholas Barr, Peter Diamond ...
    Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Reforming Pensions

    A Short Guide

    by Nicholas Barr, Peter Diamond ...
    Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Chindit vs Japanese Infantryman

    1943–44

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series Book 10 - Combat
    Featuring specially commissioned artwork, gripping first-hand accounts and expert analysis, this engaging reassessment offers a glimpse of what it was like for Britain's Chindits to fight in the jungles and mountains of Burma at the height of World War II.In order to keep China in the war against the Japanese, the Western Allies believed they had to return to Northern Burma. Colonel Orde Wingate, ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Chindit vs Japanese Infantryman

    1943–44

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series Book 10 - Combat
    Featuring specially commissioned artwork, gripping first-hand accounts and expert analysis, this engaging reassessment offers a glimpse of what it was like for Britain's Chindits to fight in the jungles and mountains of Burma at the height of World War II.In order to keep China in the war against the Japanese, the Western Allies believed they had to return to Northern Burma. Colonel Orde Wingate, ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • Archibald Wavell

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series Book 28 - Command
    Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II.In fact, between June 1940 and June 1941, he was the only British theatre commander actively engaging Axis forces. At a time when the British Expeditionary Force had been expelled from Europe, Wavell was conducting campaigns across nine countries and two continents. In those 12 months, he planned and ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Burma Road 1943–44

    Stilwell's assault on Myitkyina

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series Book 289 - Campaign
    “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell's assault on the Japanese position at Myitkyina, the key to northern Burma.Myitkyina was a vital objective in the Allied re-conquest of Burma in 1943–44. Following the disastrous retreat from Burma in April 1942, China had become isolated from re-supply except for the dangerous air route for US transports over the Himalaya Mountains.The Burma Road, which ran from Lashio ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Orde Wingate

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series Book 20 - Command
    A detailed study of one of the most influential commanders of World War II, one who is often regarded as a 'flawed genius'.Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the Chindits in Burma in 1943. He is an extremely important figure in military history, and deserves just as much attention as Alanbrooke, Montgomery, and Auchinleck. Unlike them, however, he always operated outside the accepted etiquette ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Sprawl

    Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs

    by Jason Diamond ...
    Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus