Most Popular Books by Michael Carr

''If you want to land your kids in therapy, then by all means, give them everything under the sun.'' In his work as a family psychologist, Michael Carr-Gregg has noticed a worrying trend in our modern parenting styles, which sees kids running riot and parents running for cover. In our desire to give our children the best, we may have given them way too much, and overlooked the importance of setting boundaries. He believes it''s a recipe for disaster. In Strictly Parenting, Michael asks parents to take a good hard look at the way they are parenting - to toughen up and stop trying to be their kids'' best friends. Instead he offers practical, evidence-based solutions on how to take back the reins and start making the most of the precious family years. With a user-friendly A-Z guide covering all the tricky issues that parents encounter over the years - everything from birthday parties and bedtimes to sex and drugs - this is an invaluable and very timely resource for parents of all school-aged kids.

This book and its numerous coloured photographs describes the history of a 1934 K1 type MG car its rebuild as an accurate copy of a supercharged 1934 K3 racing car.

Christians are called to bear a cross. These crosses sometimes involve the general burdens that affect everyone. At other times Christians bear specific burdens. The Lord promises us that our crosses and burdens can be transformed into small splinters if we focus on what really matters. How can this happen? You will find the answer in Splinters of the Cross ... the same answer that was found by Abraham, Moses, Daniel, Peter, Paul, and many more: God''s grace is sufficient for you.

When does normal teenage behaviour become something more serious, something so worrying that parents must step into action? This book offers practical information on how to detect early warning signs and most importantly, advice on what to do when teenagers have lost their psychological moorings.

For more than twenty years, shipment consolidation has been utilized as a method to significantly decrease the cost of transporting goods, people, and information. Due to ever-increasing fuel costs and customer expectations, consolidation strategies are becoming even more important in the freight transportation industry. The hub-and-spoke model has also been widely recognized as an effective design for shipment consolidation. This shipment consolidation takes advantage of transportation economies of scale by gathering the shipments from clustered origins around a transshipment center, called a hub, transporting them in bulk to other hubs, and distributing the shipments to clustered destinations. This research proposes mathematical models and solution methodologies that will determine the optimal set of hub-to-hub routes for the consolidation and transportation of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments, shipments that were originally transported individually by commercial trucking. Data from a Fortune-500 manufacturing company concerning a large-scale domestic LTL network has been provided as a case example for the proposed methods. Results are given in which 8 scenarios are identified to save transportation costs when compared to previous policy. The methods can also be extended or tailored in a variety of ways.

One of the methods of increased privacy protection is the creation of synthetic data sets. In this paper we consider the differences that emerge between synthetic and non-synthetic data in one of the very few attempts to create a synthetic data file for a major household survey data set, the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data we use are non-synthetic and synthetic versions of the SIPP linked to administrative earnings histories, known as the SIPP Gold Standard File (GSF) and the SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB), respectively. We present a set of results on short-run earnings dynamics estimated on both the SSB and the GSF, focusing on volatility - the variance of short-run earnings growth rates - and an error components decomposition of inequality into the permanent and transitory components. We find that short-run instability - both volatility and the transitory component of earnings inequality - is higher in the SSB than the GSF though the differences are somewhat dependent on modeling choices and the treatment of low earnings. Differences between the two data sets emerge both because cross-sectional inequality is higher in the SSB than in the GSF and because the dynamics of earnings over both shorter and longer periods appear to be different.

A look at the growing dislike for the spoiled star of Beverly Hills 90210 discusses the birth and popularity of the I Hate Brenda Newsletter and the off-screen behavior of the actress. Original.

A true reproduction of the official ship''s cruise book for the Around the World Cruise of the US Navy destroyer, USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865) in the years 1972-1973