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Free Download Performance Evaluation of Financial Holding Companies
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819781272 | 305 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This book attempts to illustrate the case of performance evaluation of Chinese financial holding companies. The question motivating the book is: with the deepening of reforms such as interest rate liberalization, the profitability of some traditional commercial banks has declined. In this context, how to maintain continuous improvement in operating performance of traditional commercial banks to resist the profitability declines.

Free Download Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0593300297 | 352 pages | PDF | 3.21 Mb
"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump’s Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining – in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped." – from Holding the Line

Free Download Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKK7VFQG | 2024 | 8 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Jessica Calarco
Narrator: Jessica Calarco, Karen Murray
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women-women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women’s labor as the reason we’ve gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women’s work maintains the illusion that we don’t need a net. Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it.

Free Download Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D51M1JXV | 2024 | 6 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Ethan Nichtern
Narrator: Danny Hughes
A funny, wise, and relatable exploration of how to stand firm amid the ups and downs of existence. In today’s culture of intense polarization and constant change, how do we find the confidence to navigate life’s challenges? Is now really the time for meditation, for looking inward? What do we do with mindfulness? Ethan Nichtern, described by Vogue as "a supercool, deeply kind brainiac," and one of the leading meditation teachers of our time, tackles these questions head-on in Confidence. This provocative book takes contemporary considerations of power, identity, ethics, and confidence to new heights, offering listeners an essential guide to self-discovery. Nichtern examines the Buddhist concept of the Eight Worldly Winds, the four paired opposites of praise and blame, pleasure and pain, fame and insignificance, and success and failure. By delving into these dichotomies, listeners gain invaluable insights into their relationships with others (including teachers, friends, leaders, the disgraced, and the adored) and themselves. With four transformative meditation exercises, this book empowers listeners to cultivate and access their innate confidence and wisdom.

Free Download Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World by Sue Marriott, Ann Kelley
English | April 30, 2024 | ISBN: 0063334550 | 352 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
Experienced mental health professionals and hosts of the Therapist Uncensored podcast offer a groundbreaking new clinical perspective that integrates modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and current cultural context to create a hopeful framework for deeper and more permanent change, growth and connection in all types of relationships.

Free Download Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds by Ethan Nichtern
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1608688542 | 240 pages | PDF | 2.26 Mb
How do we stand firm amid the ups and downs of existence?

Free Download Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFG895WN | 2024 | 5 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Camille Sapara Barton
Narrator: Camille Sapara Barton
An embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community-practical exercises, decolonized rituals, and Earth-based medicines for healing and processing loss. We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our grief-deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person’s experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Barton’s take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer people disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss. Deeply practical and easy to use in times of confusion, trauma, and pain, Tending Grief includes rituals, reflection prompts, and exercises that help us process and metabolize our grief-without bypassing or pushing aside what comes to the fore.

Free Download Sue Marriott, Ann Kelley (Author, Narrator), "Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World"
English | ASIN: B0C9FMDVJP | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:30:00 | 343 MB
Experienced mental health professionals and hosts of the Therapist Uncensored podcast offer a groundbreaking new clinical perspective that integrates modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and current cultural context to create a hopeful framework for deeper and more permanent change, growth and connection in all types of relationships.
Secure Relating offers a refreshing and innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in today’s increasingly polarized world. Drawing on over thirty years of professional clinical experience, authors Ann Kelley, PhD and Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP integrate modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and depth psychology into practical tools for deepening self-awareness and navigating closeness with strength in even the most challenging relationships.
Instead of the popular broad attachment categorizations, Secure Relating presents a nuanced understanding of attachment and interpersonal defensive patterns, allowing listeners to delve into the complexities of their own experience and apply the specific skills they need.

Free Download Raphael Cushnir, "The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0060897392 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.7 mb
"By the time you finish this book, there will be nothing holding you back."-from the Introduction

Free Download Holding It All Together when You’re Hypermobile: Achieve a Better Life Experience with EDS, POTS, and Joint Instability (Audiobook)
English | April 10, 2023 | ASIN: B0C1TJJ8GB | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 16m | 396 MB
Author: Christie Cox | Narrator: Rebecca Winder
Tired of being told there’s no name or treatment for your illness? That it’s "all in your head", or that your pain can’t be real because you’re too young/old/pretty/bright/healthy/normal to have a chronic disorder?
What if instead, there was someone who knew what you were going through and could teach you strategies for coping with rare chronic illness?