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Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? What's a "living wage?" Why do I feel so squeezed?

If you'd like to know the answers to these questions, premier economist Jared Bernstein is here to help. In "Crunch" he answers these as well as dozens of others he has fielded from working Americans by email, on blogs, and at events where he speaks. Chances are if there's a stumper you've always wanted to ask an economist, it's solved in this book..
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Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 2 - Non-Classical Fields continues the development of the methods used in quantum optics to treat open quantum systems and their fluctuations. Its early chapters build upon the phase-space methods introduced in the first volume Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 1 - Matter Equations and Fokker-Planck Equations: the difficulties these methods face in treating non-classical light are exposed, where the regime of large fluctuations – failure of the system size expansion – is shown to be particularly problematic. Cavity QED is adopted as a natural vehicle for extending quantum noise theory into this regime. In response to the issues raised, the theory of quantum trajectories is presented as a universal approach to the treatment of fluctuations in open quantum systems.

This book presents its material at a level suitable for beginning researchers or students in an advanced course in quantum optics, or a course in quantum mechanics or statistical physics that deals with open quantum systems. The text is complemented by exercises and interspersed notes that point the reader to side issues or a deeper exploration of the material presented.

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Only Carol Diggory Shields could reduce a whole body of knowledge to forty incisive, hilarious, and all-encompassing poems!
In this newest addition to the BrainJuice series, Carol Diggory Shields undertakes to impart all the really important facets of the English language -- and impart she does! Do you want the last word on punctuation? Spelling? Diagramming a sentence? Drafting a letter, keeping a journal, writing poetry? No aspect of English is left unexamined, and both students and teachers will not only find BrainJuice: English extremely cool, but they will be forever grateful to the author for supplying them with "36 Ways to Say Cool" (see sample below*).
Supporting the author's heroic efforts to make English funny, comprehensible and comprehensive, as well as irresistible, Tony Ross offers art that is funny, comprehensible, comprehensive, and extremely irresistible!
*A small sampling from "36 Way to Say Cool": Groovy, great, the cat's meow, awesome, chill, phat, wow, marvy, dandy, swell, divine, nifty, peachy-keen, fine!.
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Refresh Yourself True Stories of Struggle, Strife, And Success It all began with a wadded up scrap of paper that languished at the bottom of her purse, lost among the loose change and old gum wrappers Gayle was working as a nurse administrator, when a salesman slipped her a note with a phone number, This is someone you should meet. Gayle read the name on the note: Rita Snider. Yeah, sure, I ll get right on it, she thought, dropping it into her purse. There it sat - for a year. One day, on impulse, Gayle fished out the note and called. As soon as she d said hello, Rita replied, Honey, I ve been waiting for your call. A few days later, Gayle visited with Rita, and listened to the remarkable story of her battle with breast cancer. Diagnosed at age 36, Rita began chemotherapy and lost her hair nine times over. After a humiliating search for wigs and prosthesis, Rita declared Never again! Determined to help others, Rita opened a shop called The Lemonade Stand. A place to come and be refreshed , it was a safe and comfortable salon that provided women with everything they would need for their own fight with cancer. For seven years, she tirelessly helped hundreds of women fight the same battle that she was fighting. Rita surprised Gayle by saying, The Good Lord told me that if I hung on long enough, He d send someone to carry on. As soon as you walked in, I knew it was you. As amazing as it sounded, by the end of the day Gayle decided to quit her job and devote herself to The Lemonade Stand. Rita passed away later that year, but Gayle kept her dream alive for over a decade more. Those years were filled with financial struggles, heartaches, and challenges without end; but there were countless gifts and rewards as The Lemonade Stand went on to help over 10,000 clients..
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General science never stops! You have to learn earth science, space science, life science, chemistry, and physics - and that's way too much! But before you administer hot compresses to the head and herbal tea for settling the nerves, try Science, Fresh Squeezed!
As American History, Fresh Squeezed!, the first in the BrainJuice series, did for our country's past, Science, Fresh Squeezed! offers everything you need to know and understand about the entire body of scientific knowledge. Extracted from unreadable tomes, reduced to its essence, served up in hilarious poetry by Carol Diggory Shields, and garnished with off-the-wall drawings by Richard Thompson, these 41 poems will make another science class completely unnecessary. No guarantees on grades, though!.
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Since 1995, Janet Laurel has undergone two mastectomies, 47 chemotherapy treatments, and 33 ½ radiation sessions. She's lost her hair three times and been drenched fifty times a day from hot flashes Her breast cancer metastasized, traveling to her peritoneal cavity, lungs, and bones. By conventional medical accounts, Janet should have been dead years ago. And yet she's still here—working two jobs, savoring her home life, finding joy, and celebrating her journey. Despite having cancer, she thrives.

How does she explain her miraculous survival? "I'm a one-woman example of what can happen when you use everything to promote health," she says. Janet relies on a comprehensive program of complementary and alternative care, spiritual medicine, and a "take-charge" attitude toward treatment. Using it, she has turned cancer from a life-threatening disease into a chronic illness.

Seeing Janet Laurel now, zipping from one appointment to another, laughing raucously into her cell phone headgear as she walks, it's hard to imagine how sick she has been. How could that tiny frame have withstood the horrific side effects her cancer treatment caused? How did her spirit rally so many times? And where did she get the strength to start a foundation to help other cancer patients?

"At first I felt like I'd been run over by a truck," Janet says. "But I always asked, `What is the opportunity here? What am I do to with this mess?' I knew something good had to come from my situation, and as I learned more about cancer and cancer treatment, I had an inkling that I could help other women, too."

Janet first discovered an almond-like lump across from her left breast, below her armpit. Her gynecologist said, "You've had the flu, and sometimes lymph nodes get fluid in them during a flu. If the lump gets bigger, go see a surgeon." So went the misdiagnosis that sent Janet on the path to stage IV breast cancer and years of fighting for her life.

"I don't know what the doctor was thinking," Janet recounts. "That lymph node was already as big as it could get. She should have told me to get a biopsy. Then I might have been able to catch it early and go on with my life." Instead, it was nearly a year later when Janet, returned to the same gynecologist for an annual exam, only to be told there was "still nothing suspicious".

Three months later, her breast now demonstrating changes, a lump was biopsied and found cancerous. Janet began conventional cancer treatment: a modified radical mastectomy, removal of 15 lymph nodes, chemotherapy, and radiation. The treatments shook her chemically-sensitive body to its core. Her oncologist recommended a bone marrow transplant, which Janet agonized over and ultimately refused.

In between bouts of vomiting, terrified of a bone marrow transplant and furious at the cavalier attitude of her gynecologist, Janet resolved to sue. "I didn't want to bring a lawsuit," she says. "It's a myth that people sue doctors for money. I sued because I was outraged. I wanted to prevent the gynecologist from hurting someone else." She emerged from the lawsuit shaken but triumphant. Although the jury split liability between Janet and her doctor, it awarded the highest settlement allowed under state law.

In the meantime, and perhaps due to the lawsuit, Janet's health further deteriorated. The cancer metastasized. It's not about how long I live, she told herself. It's how well I live. From the beginning, she pulled together a team of caregivers to deal with the cancer and fortify her body. She saw an acupuncturist for pain relief, a functional medicine specialist for supplements, homeopathy and Chinese herbs to strengthen her immune system. A Quantum Energetics practitioner did treatments to re-channel the energy pathways in her body. She used homeopathy, massage, Reiki, psychic surgery, cognitive therapy, and a dozen other strategies to move toward health. "I let the conventional doctors fight the disease," Janet says. "And I looked for other practitioners to help me create health."

Her commitment to listening inwardly gave her the courage to chart new territory. She blended conventional and complementary care, did research on whatever new drugs or treatments people recommended, and made her own choices about her treatment plan progressed. Prayer, a gratitude journal, and spiritual exercises sustained her.

As she weathered each side effect, each new appearance of cancer in her body, she told herself, "This is not for nothing." Alongside the cancer grew a vision of helping other women. Convinced that her integrative medical program could work for other cancer patients, Janet created the Cherubim Foundation, a non-profit organization to educate and support women affected by breast, ovarian, or uterine cancer.

"There is something between the doctor's infusion room and hospice—it's called life," Janet states. "All these years I've been waiting for a cure, and nothing has showed up. Now, until there's a cure, there's Cherubim, an organization that helps promote health despite the presence of disease."

Since its inception in 1998, the Cherubim Foundation has served more than eighty women, spending almost $30,000 dollars to provide more than $60,000 worth of integrative medical care; acupuncture, nutritional counseling, energetic medicine, naturopathic and chiropractic medicine. Cherubim provides this care through their network of complementary and alternative practitioners who work closely with women undergoing chemotherapy and radiation.

"We could say that I live a charmed life," Janet says, "albeit a life permeated with cancer and cancer treatment. However, I know from watching Cherubim's courageous band of women that others can experience a longer and healthier life with cancer, just as I have, when they do what I have done. Living and thriving with stage IV breast cancer is possible.".
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History homework getting you down? Too much to learn? Names? Dates? Important events? Hang in there! Help is on the way! Adroitly reducing reams of boring data about our nation’s past to a generous selection of over-the-top verses, Carol Diggory Shields presents our history with incisive hilarity. Here, for example, is her wry interpretation of the Louisiana Purchase:
Tom Jefferson went shopping for a city one fine day
Something in the South with a harbor or a bay,
“Voila!” said the French, “The city of your dreams!
For only 15 million, we will sell you New Orleans.”
Nutritionally balanced, guaranteed pure, 100% refreshing, and cleverly distilled future BrainJuice topics will include biography, literature, and geography..
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