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  • Retirement for Smarties: Managing the Transition from Accumulation to Payout

    by William Jack ...
    The period in mid-life through pre-retirement when the focus is on asset accumulation and investment for growth is widely discussed in newspapers and books. However, this book deals with a different set of issues such as determining future income needs and determining strategies for converting assets into reliable income. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incentives and Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market

    by William Jack, Joost De Laat, Kara Hanson, Agnes Soucat ...
    Series Book 192 - Africa Human Development Series
    By international standards, health workers in Ethiopia are in short supply. In addition, those who do enter the health fields and remain in the country disproportionately live and work in the capital, Addis Ababa. This paper uses detailed data gathered from nearly 1,000 health workers to examine the incentives and constraints that health workers face when choosing where to work, the likely ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cat At the Glasnost Hotel: The Rocky Years

    by William Jack ...
    Cats, being exceptionally clever, let humans think that they control the destiny of a country. In rocky times for Russia and the Soviet Union, cats step forward and control the vertical, control the horizontal. As the Soviet Union splinters, and as Russia re-awakens,cats gather midnight in a crummy Leningrad courtyard, to hear tales of their heroes. Off to the side, a tubby tabby, named simply ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Here We Go Loop De Loop

    by William Jack Sibley ...
    "Put me in a car with Bill Sibley on a road trip across the nation and everything will be just fine. His spectacular voice, his aptitude for creating instantly indelible characters in richly funny scenes, his perfect pacing and splendid particularity are dazzling and hypnotic. Storyteller supreme! Here We Go Loop De Loop lifted my mood entirely."- Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People's Poet Laureate, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Night Shift at Chez Roy's Cafe

    by William Francis Jack ...
    A naïve Minnesota small-town kid 'escapes' by moving to the Big City and starting college. He loses his money in a scam, is forced to move in with his crusty 'exiled' grandfather, and work in a failing out-of-the-way restaurant. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest of Vices

    by William Francis Jack ...
    Professor Matthew Eastman walks into his office one afternoon and suddenly discovers that he's "forgotten" a year of his life. It is now 2005, but he doesn't remember anything from 2004. A therapist pulls him through his life, crisis-by-crisis and sin-by-sin, until they reach 2004. That was the year when he began researching a Russian novel that includes elements of black magic. That book, "The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Rigger

    by Jack Williams ...
    A British soldier recounts his experience maintaining surveillance towers in Northern Ireland during The Troubles in this candid military memoir.Making unprecedented use of electronic surveillance, the Special Air Service and other British assault units were dependent on information provided by a network of towers and other devices. Construction and maintenance of the towers was the job of the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lime Spring

    by Jack Williams ...
    Rather than live under the mores of the Antebellum South, John and Abigail Whitmore sell everything they own, turn their backs on their families, and flee from 1840s Mississippi to the free North.After settling near Weston, Missouri, they soon learn that blacks are not allowed to marry, hold office, read and write, own property, or shoot firearms. Committed to the area, they remain and establish ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Curious Case of Commander Cole

    by Jack Williams ...
    Through a clerical error, superintendent of schools Jack Cole finds himself called to active duty in the United States Navy at the beginning of WWII. Cole was never in the Navy and responds accordingly. Thinking he is trying to avoid military service the Bureau of Naval Personnel has him apprehended and flown to Washington DC where he is given the choice of active duty or Portsmouth Naval Prison ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hurricane Watch

    Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth

    by Jack Williams, Bob Sheets ...
    The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by seafarers at predicting storms to the way satellite imaging is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Robert Recorde

    Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner of Computation

    by Jack Williams ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his achievements and his historical importance. This scholarly yet accessible work examines the latest evidence on all aspects of Recorde ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • THE Question

    A Guide to Answering Life’s Most Important Question

    by Jack Williams ...
    Since the start of time, man has been searching for ways to live a productive and meaningful life. Everyone goes through this thought process, either consciously or subconsciously. The key to finding that answer is to begin asking the right questions.A great starting point for asking the right questions is a question I asked myself thirty years ago. That question was, What are my core values, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD