The Constant Choice

Author : Peter Georgescu
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781608324071
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constant Choice written by Peter Georgescu and published by Greenleaf Book Group Llc. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the constant struggle dealing with a battle between good and evil and living a moral life through examples from the author's own life as a child in a Romanian labor camp to becoming the CEO of an adveristing agency.

Author : Peter Georgescu
Publisher : Sedona Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780578470672
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constant Choice written by Peter Georgescu and published by Sedona Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a most challenging time. Many of us struggle, emotionally, ethically, and spiritually. We seem headed toward less compassion and consideration, failing to overcome that basic instinct that often leads to evil in human behavior--self-preservation at all costs. Yet within each of us a new future is stirring. We can become better people and build a better world by opting for good over evil--one choice at a time. In The Constant Choice, Peter Georgescu offers a gripping narrative of his journey from childhood captivity in a Romanian labor camp to his role as CEO of the world-renowned advertising agency Young & Rubicam. His traumatic youth--his parents' exile from their homeland, his grandfather's murder in prison, his neighbors' betrayal of one another--led to a lifelong struggle to grasp humanity's moral nature. Despite his conviction when he arrived on American soil that he had reached the land of the good, he discovered a more subtle evil at work all around him. Yet he also thrived through the generosity of one benefactor after another. Goodness, he found, isn't inherent; it evolves from daily choice. Through decades of reflection on human behavior, as well as philosophical and spiritual exploration, Peter arrived at a new perspective on the significance of our habitual choices. Every decision we make alters our biological nature, for better or worse--a model that has been confirmed by recent science. The Constant Choice reveals a path for changing who we are and the future of humanity. It's up to each of us to become activists for good.

Author : Kenneth Train
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521766559
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation written by Kenneth Train and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the new generation of discrete choice methods, focusing on the many advances that are made possible by simulation. Researchers use these statistical methods to examine the choices that consumers, households, firms, and other agents make. Each of the major models is covered: logit, generalized extreme value, or GEV (including nested and cross-nested logits), probit, and mixed logit, plus a variety of specifications that build on these basics. Simulation-assisted estimation procedures are investigated and compared, including maximum stimulated likelihood, method of simulated moments, and method of simulated scores. Procedures for drawing from densities are described, including variance reduction techniques such as anithetics and Halton draws. Recent advances in Bayesian procedures are explored, including the use of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and its variant Gibbs sampling. The second edition adds chapters on endogeneity and expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. No other book incorporates all these fields, which have arisen in the past 25 years. The procedures are applicable in many fields, including energy, transportation, environmental studies, health, labor, and marketing.

Author : Michael Muata Moss, Ph.d.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973770039
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happiness Is a Constant Choice written by Michael Muata Moss, Ph.d. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HAPPINESS IS A CONSTANT CHOICE", is about the power of choices. Happiness and wellbeing is a constant, ongoing, choice. Circumstantial happiness is temporary. Happiness is like a fire that needs to be constantly fueled. In addition to providing a literature review of the subject of happiness, the book will also provide examples of choices that lead to wellness and personal empowerment, including using affirmations. The fact that you are reading these words is no accident. It is proof that you are already on your way to realizing your dreams, and fulfilling your destiny. The purpose of this book is to encourage the reader to make the constant choice to be happy every day. Happiness is a choice we can constantly make regardless of our circumstances. The one thing we always have, is the ability to choose.

Author : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925030474
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Choices written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future. “All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. “Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.” In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth, and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day. Secretary Clinton’s descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use “smart power” to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world—one in which America remains the indispensable nation.

Author : William Ryan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1956763848
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constant Soldier written by William Ryan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set near the concentration camps of Auschwitz, an accaimed historical thriller of the end of World War II that has been called “A masterpiece of empathetic imagination and storytelling flair” (BBC History Magazine, “Historical Novel of the Year”) 1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern Front to find his village changed and in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut—a luxurious retreat for officers recuperating from their injuries and for those who manage the nearby concentration camps of Auschwitz. The hut is run with the help of a small group of female prisoners from the camps who, against all odds, have survived the war so far. When, by chance, Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realizes he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years earlier, and now he must do all he can to protect her. As the Russian offensive moves closer and partisans press from the surrounding woodlands, the days of this rest hut and its SS inhabitants are numbered. And while hope for Brandt and the female prisoners grows tantalizingly close, the danger is greater than ever. In a forest to the east, a young female Soviet tank driver awaits her orders to advance . . . The Constant Soldier has been hauled as “a masterpiece” and “a modern classic” and praised on its UK publication as “An extraordinary novel, with the intensity and pace of a thriller and a wisdom and subtlety all of its own. I was gripped to the very last page” (Antonia Hodgson).

Author : Corey A. DeAngelis
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1948647923
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Choice Myths written by Corey A. DeAngelis and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there legitimate arguments to prevent families from choosing the education that works best for their children? Opponents of school choice have certainly offered many objections, but for decades they have mainly repeated myths either because they did not know any better or perhaps to protect the government schooling monopoly. In these pages, 14 of the top scholars in education policy debunk a dozen of the most pernicious myths, including “school choice siphons money from public schools,” “choice harms children left behind in public schools,” “school choice has racist origins,” and “choice only helps the rich get richer.” As the contributors demonstrate, even arguments against school choice that seem to make powerful intuitive sense fall apart under scrutiny. There are, frankly, no compelling arguments against funding students directly instead of public school systems. School Choice Myths shatters the mythology standing in the way of education freedom.

Author : Darryl S. Doane
Publisher : Human Resource Development
ISBN 13 : 1599961636
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constant Customer written by Darryl S. Doane and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2008 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are trying times. The economy has created an environment that forces customers to make more decisions, be more selective and cut back on items they may not have given a second thought to only a year ago. How can you ensure your company survives and thrives? The Constant Customer has the answer. It lays out the necessary guidelines to establishing the proper environment for the constant customer who comes back again and again and again. This book contains guidelines, suggestions, insights and actions to help you. It also offers actions to be taken immediately including always taking care of your customer, getting to know your customers business as well as you know your own, establishing trust, willingly educating your customers on your business, surprising your customers daily with your service and dealing with service problems and issues immediately. Obtaining the constant customer is not a spectator sport it involves a total immersion and complete involvement. The Constant Customer will instill in you a devotion to these ideas and to creating an environment in which they can flourish.

Author : George Loewenstein
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610443659
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choice Over Time written by George Loewenstein and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1992-10-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of our most urgent national problems suggest a widespread lack of concern for the future. Alarming economic conditions, such as low national savings rates, declining corporate investment in long-term capital projects, and ballooning private and public debt are matched by such social ills as diminished educational achievement, environmental degradation, and high rates of infant mortality, crime, and teenage pregnancy. At the heart of all these troubles lies an important behavioral phenomenon: in the role of consumer, manager, voter, student, or parent, many Americans choose inferior but immediate rewards over greater long-term benefits. Choice Over Time offers a rich sampling of original research on intertemporal choice—how and why people decide between immediate and delayed consequences—from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics. George Loewenstein, Jon Elster, and their distinguished colleagues review existing theories and forge new approaches to understanding significant questions: Why do people seem to "discount" future benefits? Do individuals use the same decision-making strategy in all aspects of their lives? What part is played by situational factors such as the certainty of delayed consequences? How are decisions affected by personal factors such as willpower and taste? In addressing these issues, the contributors to Choice Over Time address many social, economic, psychological, and personal time problems. Their work demonstrates the predictive power of short-term preferences in behavior as varied as addiction and phobia, the effect of prices on consumption, and the dramatic rise in debt and decline in savings. Choice Over Time provides an essential source for the most recent research and theory on intertemporal choice, offering new models for time preference patterns—and their aberrations—and presenting a diversity of potential solutions to the problem of "temporal myopia."

Author : University of Notre Dame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Notre Dame and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undergraduate and graduate programs are topics of individual issues yearly 1946-