Beating the Indexes: Investing in Convertible Bonds to Improve Performance and Reduce Risk
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You can beat the market by avoiding risk-averse, career-protecting investment managers and...
Practical Professionalism in Medicine: A Global Case-Based Workbook
Roger P. Worthington and Richard Hays
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Doctors in training are exposed to pressures and distractions to which they do not always respond...
Rachel King (13 KP) rated Divergent in Books
Feb 11, 2019
I found the idea of dividing society into factions based on a specific personality trait interesting in that I wanted much greater detail about each faction, much more so than the main character, Tris, was willing to provide. Tris is a teenager being forced into making the greatest decision of her life, and there just is not time for dwelling on the details. I found the simulation that is designed to help decide the faction of each individual too simplistic. Human beings are complex creatures, and an individual's personal prerogatives can change very easily from year to year. Abnegation, Amity, Erudite, Candor, Dauntless, or the rebellious Divergent - I could easily fit into any of these at different times in my life. The characters in the book are no different.
Much of the book centers around Tris undergoing the trials of becoming Dauntless, with details of the other factions trickling in, as well as the state of the political current. While this world of factions was originally created with the best of intentions, corruption has set in at all levels, and Tris's world will be toppled by the end of the book. While her trials are a journey of self-discovery, she is also forced to grow up quickly to protect the people she loves.
The only thing I would have liked to end differently is what happens to Tris's mother - with everything that we discover about her, she could have been a fountain of fascinating plot elements. Unfortunately, in most YA books, parental figures rarely stick around. Hopefully, I will get my hands on Insurgent soon!
The Study Guide for the New Trading for a Living
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Test your trading knowledge and skills without risking any money You may read the best trading book,...
Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera....
My Daily Book of Mormon Devotional
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This book helps you answer two questions, “How do I make my scripture study more effective?” and...
The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World
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In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the...
The Language of Museum Communication: A Diachronic Perspective: 2016
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This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present...
Cellular Automata in Image Processing and Geometry
Andrew Adamatzky, Paul Rosin and Xianfang Sun
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The book presents findings, views and ideas on what exact problems of image processing, pattern...
Jenny Houle (24 KP) rated Holiday Cookies: Showstopping Recipes to Sweeten the Season in Books
Jan 13, 2018
Every single recipe in this cookbook looked so awesome...but it's cookies, so that's hard not to be the case.
My five star review is actually based more on content and layout. The author broke the recipes down into six sections, and explained how and why she divided the recipes as she did. She also included a very useful list of 10 cookie tips and tricks.
I think my favorite part of the cookbook, though, was that each recipe was simple even though some looked more complicated. There were very few of the 50 cookie recipes that required ingredients that weren't relatively standard in a household. And she included an icing recipe and tips on how to best store cookies so that they are preserved well for a later time.