Do you feel that the stock market is too complex to understand? Have you ever wondered why the stock market goes up when you feel it should go down? Do you lack a framework and strategy for making investment decisions? Are you nearing retirement and concerned about the longevity of your hard-earned assets? Conquering the Bull and the Bear gives you the tools you need to become a lifelong successful investor by providing a framework for making decisions and changing the way you think about investing. This book portrays how the stock market works at its roots-the people, entities, and processes involved in shaping the economic and socio-political landscape combined with a detailed look at the idiosyncrasies of market behavior. No other book brings together seemingly disparate topics such as history, psychology, banking, and politics into a cohesive structure to help you identify key turning points in the stock market so you can be ahead of major moves. A skilled investment advisor, Tim Nguyen shares the principles that have served him well in approaching the market. From having a long-term focus to reading the politics and trends that affect the market, the sound suggestions in Conquering the Bull and the Bear offer clear guidelines to investing and having a secure portfolio in times of downturn and growth. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the world in which we live and how the stock market reacts in that world, Nguyen gives you the power, perspective, and strategies to help you spot key turning points in the stock market.

A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.

Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years. These essays draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. Contributors explore the ways bears have been treated as something akin to another kind of human—in the words of anthropologist Irving Hallowell, “other than human persons”—in Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquois, Meskwaki, Creek, and many other Native cultures. Case studies focus on bear imagery in Native art and artifacts; the religious and economic significance of bears and bear products such as meat, fat, oil, and pelts; bears in Native worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies; and the use of bears as commodities in transatlantic trade. The case studies in Bears demonstrate that bears were not only a source of food, but were also religious, economic, and political icons within Indigenous cultures. This volume convincingly portrays the black bear as one of the most socially significant species in Native eastern North America. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Katie is afraid of the bear that lives under the stairs in her house, until they exchange letters and she finally gets to meet him.

Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks. Over all this, the bears triumph with bravery, ingenuity, humility, and high spirits.

Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. After reading a scary book, Sister becomes afraid of the dark. Thankfully, Papa has some good ideas to help Sister conquer her fear. This beloved story is a perfect way to teach children about bravery and overcoming their fears.

Flying With The Eagle, Racing the Great Bear is a continent-spanning collection of sixteen thrilling tales in which young men must face great enemies, find the strength and endurance within themselves to succedd, and take their place by the side of their elders.