Gittins: 23 books
by Ross Gittins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
A clear, concise and entertaining introduction to the economics of today, written by Sydney Morning Herald/The Age economics guru Ross Gittins.
Drawing on many of Ross's popular columns and the needs of final year high school economics students, Gittins' Guide provides bite-sized, easy-to-follow...
Gittins
A life among budgets, bulldust and bastardry
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
For forty years Ross Gittins has had a ringside seat as the Australian economy has gone through radical change. He's covered forty budgets and sixteen elections, he's watched thirteen treasurers and eight prime ministers wrestle with boom and recession, debts and deficits. Few economic journalists...
Gittins' Gospel
The economics of just about everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Can any other economics guru claim to write the column in a daily newspaper that people turn to first?
Or to pack the auditorium at a literary festival?
Be it climate change, productivity, fairness, industrial relations, terrorism, media, the mining boom, the GFC, refugees and even economists...
The Way of Discipleship
Women, Men, and Today's Call to Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Vatican II’s famous declaration that "the church on earth is by its very nature missionary” has often been taken out of context and used to support all manner of church initiatives. But, the conclusion of the statement—"since . . . it has its origin in the mission of the Son and...
Come, Follow Me
The Commandments of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Unlike the negative but well-known precepts of the Old Testament--the Ten Commandments--the commands of Jesus are positive and relatively overlooked, despite their superb relevance to the challenges people face today. In Come, Follow Me: The Commandments of Jesus, Anthony J. Gittins helps the reader...
Stars in Jars
New and Collected Poems by Chrissie Gittins
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
A wonderful collection of new poems and old favourites, some funny and some serious, by a talented children's poet. Covering almost two decades of Chrissie Gittins's best work, this collection will appeal to anyone who loves words and what they can do.
With charming line illustrations by Calef Brown, this is a delightful selection to get children thinking, reading and rhyming.
Gittinomics
Living the good life without money stress, overwork and joyless consumption
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Ross Gittins is the economics guru of Australia. He has the extremely rare and enviable knack of making economics relevant, accessible and, most importantly of all, interesting. And Ross is a man on a mission. He wants to help us to understand just how the economy around us works, and more importantly,...
by John Gittins, Kevin Glazebrook, Richard Weber
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
In 1989 the first edition of this book set out Gittins' pioneering index solution to the multi-armed bandit problem and his subsequent investigation of a wide of sequential resource allocation and stochastic scheduling problems. Since then there has been a remarkable flowering of new insights, generalizations...
by Ian Gittins
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Explores all aspects of the most talked about secret society in the world, from its most famous members to its infamous history. For centuries the Freemasonry has been the subject of rumour and intrigue. From its obscure origins to the suspicion that it exercises huge influence on government and multinational...
by Ross Gittins
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
A provocative look at an area few economists dare to tread, by Australia's most read economic commentator. Most economists are obsessed with financial and economic measures, but not Ross Gittins. In The Happy Economist he mounts a provocative and persuasive case for a different approach. He argues...
by Sandra Gittins
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measure, both for the men sent away to fight and the women who took on new roles at home. Not since 1922 has the history of the GWR in the First...
THE HEROIN DIARIES
Une année dans la vie d'une rock star brisée
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2011
« L’alcool, les acides et la cocaïne n’étaient que des amourettes. Quand j’ai découvert l’héroïne, ça a été le coup de foudre. » Une année de la vie d’une rock star dévoyée ; le charme insidieux, lancinant, vicieux d’un Nikki Sixx dans toute sa splendeur de vedette pourrie par...
Stick It!
My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll life—and now he is telling his scarcely believable story. Appice ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love, managed by the Mob. He hung with Hendrix, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin...
Living Mission Interculturally
Faith, Culture, and the Renewal of Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Our globalized world increasingly brings together people of many different cultures, though not always harmoniously. In recent decades, multinational companies have sought more efficient strategies for authentic intercultural collaboration. But in today's multicultural world-church, faith communities...
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