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“Take thow a book into thine hands as Simon the Just took the child Jesus into his arms to carry him and kiss him. And when th0u has finished reading, close the book and give thanks for every word out of the mouth of God; because in the Lord’s field thou has found a hidden treasure.”
THOMAS A KEMPIS: Doctrinale Juvenum

PREFACE
THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK.

Plutarch's lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is the first great work of biography. Also known as Parallel Lives, it presents the life stories of the most famous statesmen and heroes of Ancient Greece, comparing each with the life of a celebrated Roman. It is one of our major sources of classical history and was the inspiration for Shakespeare's Roman plays. (achievement.org)

This study by the WTO explains the basic links between trade and the financial sector, and how financial crises are interrelated with trade. This study also includes case studies on past financial crises.

This booklet, Pathways to Getting Ahead, is about making choices that can move you along the path toward the economic future you want for yourself. It's also about increasing the chances that you attain the future you choose to seek. Making the best choices and increasing your chances aren't easy. So you need to know what pathways lead from where you are to where you want to be. You need to know about ways to get on the path you pick, how to stay on it, and how to move ahead on it. This booklet offers you that kind of information.

This occasional paper of the National Defense University’s Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD Center) examines the role, manifestations, and challenges of international cooperation to combat the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat and poses important questions for future leaders to address in moving international cooperation forward in this area.

A real Hollywood-style tell-all, this is the extremely candid and highly explosive autobiography of one of the movie industry's most talented and troubled young stars.

At age ten, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history for her performance in the film classic Paper Moon. As the sidekick to her father, the flamboyant star and man-about-town Ryan O'Neal, she became a fixture at the most glamorous Hollywood parties and counted celebrities ranging from Cher to Stanley Kubrick among her childhood friends.

When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity--national, political, personal, and sexual--music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music, a curious oversight given its importance to German culture and nation formation. Caryl Flinn's study reverses this trend, identifying styles of historical remembrance in which music participates. Flinn concentrates on those styles that urge listeners to interact with difference--including that embodied in Germany's difficult history--rather than to "master" or "get past" it.