Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture
The world’s savviest investors are those who can recognize when the herd is running headlong in the wrong direction and can take advantage of their fear and confusion. That’s never been truer than it is right now. Now, there’s a book that will show you how to earn the same outside returns these savvy value investors do. Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism will help you uncover enormous value opportunities that keep on emerging even as the economic crisis keeps spreading.
Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the author's research, Francois Grosjean contributes significantly to redressing the balance. The volume covers four areas of research: the definition and characterization of the bilingual person, the perception and production of spoken language by bilinguals...
Grade 6-8–Each volume examines the cultures of these ancient societies through their literature, artifacts, and documents. Religion, farming, levels of society, art, government, and fine arts are covered in these well-written and attractive books. Throughout the texts and in numerous sidebars, the authors relate fascinating information about ancient settlements in India, a bronze statue of the Buddha unearthed in a Viking marketplace, and the significance of a birth date in Aztec society.
Despite the fact that our lives are powered by electricity to an astonishing degree, most of us have little or no understanding of how or why it works. Instead, we rely on a blurry notion that it flows--like water--through wires to turn on our appliances. In Electric Universe, David Bodanis fools readers, by keeping them entertained and intrigued, into learning the science behind electricity. He does this by telling a series of stories, starting with how a backwoods American really invented the telegraph and how Samuel Morse stole the credit for it.
