A Million Thanks

A Million Thanks
Author: Yoe Studios
Publisher: Running Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007-03-27
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780762428809

Here's the perfect expression of heartfelt gratitude in a lovely little gift book sure to be appreciated. Perfect for everyone-from the coworker who stepped up on a big project, to the stranger who returned a lost cell phone, from the teacher who stayed late with a struggling student, to the friend who came through in an emergency. In 400 pages, the sincere gratitude of the giver will be expressed a million times ... literally.

A Million Is Not Enough

A Million Is Not Enough
Author: Michael Farr
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2008-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0446511749

Will you have over $1 million ready for your retirement? If the answer is no, and this figure sounds totally out of reach, think again. A million dollars isn't what it used to be. The truth is that Baby Boomers, who have enjoyed more abundance and pleasures than any previous generation, need more than a million dollars for a comfortable retirement. And you can achieve this-even if you don't already have a net worth close to a million dollars-by starting now. In A MILLION IS NOT ENOUGH, Michael Farr, one of America's leading financial strategists, shows you that this goal can absolutely be accomplished-no matter what your income bracket. Farr has decades of experience as an investment strategist advising thousands of clients. With this inside information he provides a step-by-step program that includes: STEP 1: Save it...the 25 simple things you can do today to save an extra $300-$500 a monthSTEP 2: Invest it...the techniques all of us can use to demystify investingSTEP 3: Personalize it...investment strategies for readers in their thirties, forties, and fiftiesSTEP 4: Manage and protect it...how to keep investments safe in volatile marketsSTEP 5: Pass it on...creating a legacy for the future This strategy is ambitious, but Michael Farr shows you how painless it can be. Whether you're thirty-five, forty-five, or fifty-five; getting a head start, starting on time, or playing catch-up, A MILLION IS NOT ENOUGH can help you establish the financial security you really need for your retirement years.

Maximum Canada

Maximum Canada
Author: Doug Saunders
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 073527309X

The author argues that Canada needs to triple its population in order to avoid global obscurity, create lasting prosperity, ensure economic and ecological sustainability, and build equality and reconciliation of Indigenous and regional divides, and provides ways to achieve this.

Algorithms Are Not Enough

Algorithms Are Not Enough
Author: Herbert L. Roitblat
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262044129

Why a new approach is needed in the quest for general artificial intelligence. Since the inception of artificial intelligence, we have been warned about the imminent arrival of computational systems that can replicate human thought processes. Before we know it, computers will become so intelligent that humans will be lucky to kept as pets. And yet, although artificial intelligence has become increasingly sophisticated—with such achievements as driverless cars and humanless chess-playing—computer science has not yet created general artificial intelligence. In Algorithms Are Not Enough, Herbert Roitblat explains how artificial general intelligence may be possible and why a robopocalypse is neither imminent, nor likely. Existing artificial intelligence, Roitblat shows, has been limited to solving path problems, in which the entire problem consists of navigating a path of choices—finding specific solutions to well-structured problems. Human problem-solving, on the other hand, includes problems that consist of ill-structured situations, including the design of problem-solving paths themselves. These are insight problems, and insight is an essential part of intelligence that has not been addressed by computer science. Roitblat draws on cognitive science, including psychology, philosophy, and history, to identify the essential features of intelligence needed to achieve general artificial intelligence. Roitblat describes current computational approaches to intelligence, including the Turing Test, machine learning, and neural networks. He identifies building blocks of natural intelligence, including perception, analogy, ambiguity, common sense, and creativity. General intelligence can create new representations to solve new problems, but current computational intelligence cannot. The human brain, like the computer, uses algorithms; but general intelligence, he argues, is more than algorithmic processes.

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Author: Jim Paul
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231164688

Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all--his fortune, his reputation, and his job--in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors. This book--winner of a 2014 Axiom Business Book award gold medal--begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It then describes the circumstances leading up to Paul's $1.6 million loss and the essential lessons he learned from it--primarily that, although there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are people participating in them, all losses come from the same few sources. Investors lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological barriers preventing the application of analysis. While all analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for instances in which they do not work, psychological factors can keep an investor in a losing position, causing him to abandon one method for another in order to rationalize the decisions already made. Paul and Moynihan's cautionary tale includes strategies for avoiding loss tied to a simple framework for understanding, accepting, and dodging the dangers of investing, trading, and speculating.

Too Much Is Not Enough

Too Much Is Not Enough
Author: Andrew Rannells
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0525574867

From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City With a new afterword • “Candid, funny, crisp . . . honest and tender about lessons of the heart.”—Vogue When Andrew Rannells left Nebraska for New York City in 1997, he, like many young hopefuls, saw the city as a chance to break free. To start over. To transform the fiercely ambitious but sexually confused teenager he saw in the mirror into the Broadway leading man of his dreams. In Too Much Is Not Enough, Rannells takes us on the journey of a twentysomething hungry to experience everything New York has to offer: new friends, wild nights, great art, standing ovations. At the heart of his hunger lies a powerful drive to reconcile the boy he was when he left Omaha with the man he desperately wants to be. As Rannells fumbles his way towards the Great White Way, he also shares the drama of failed auditions and behind-the-curtain romances, the heartbreak of losing his father at the height of his struggle, and the exhilaration of making his Broadway debut in Hairspray at the age of twenty-six. Along the way, he learns that you never really leave your past—or your family—behind; that the most painful, and perversely motivating, jobs are the ones you almost get; and that sometimes the most memorable nights with friends are marked not by the trendy club you danced at but by the recap over diner food afterward. Honest and hilarious, Too Much Is Not Enough is an unforgettable look at love, loss, and the powerful forces that determine who we become.

Maximum Canada

Maximum Canada
Author: Doug Saunders
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0735273103

To face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many? Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. That wasn’t by accident. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated this country, attracting few of the people and building few of the institutions needed to sustain a sovereign nation. In fact, during most years before 1967, a greater number of people fled Canada than immigrated to it. Canada’s growth has faltered and left us underpopulated ever since. At Canada’s 150th anniversary, a more open, pluralist and international vision has largely overturned that colonial mindset and become consensus across the country and its major political parties. But that consensus is ever fragile. Our small population continues to hamper our competitive clout, our ability to act independently in an increasingly unstable world, and our capacity to build the resources we need to make our future viable. In Maximum Canada, a bold and detailed vision for Canada’s future, award-winning author and Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders proposes a most audacious way forward: to avoid global obscurity and create lasting prosperity, to build equality and reconciliation of indigenous and regional divides, and to ensure economic and ecological sustainability, Canada needs to triple its population.

A Million Bucks by 30

A Million Bucks by 30
Author: Alan Corey
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0345504518

At twenty-two, Alan Corey left his mom’s basement in Atlanta and moved to New York City with one goal in mind: to become a millionaire by the time he was thirty. His parents and friends laughed, but six years later they were all celebrating his prosperous accomplishment–at a bar Corey owned in one of Brooklyn’s hippest neighborhoods. No, Corey didn’t climb the corporate ladder to build his fortune. In fact, he worked the same entry-level 9-to-5 job for six years straight. But by pinching his pennies and making sound investments, he watched a pittance blossom into a seven-digit bank account. In A Million Bucks by 30, Corey recounts his rags-to-riches journey and shares his secrets to success. WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO BECOME FILTHY RICH. “What a steal . . . For any entrepreneur the advice in these pages is worth more than a million bucks.” –Barbara Corcoran, founder, The Corcoran Group “This is the best personal finance book I’ve ever read. Part self-help, part brass-tacks money guide; Corey’s confessional tales of making it to the million dollar mark are as hilarious as they are helpful.” –John Reynolds, writer, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

How to Turn $100 Into $1,000,000

How to Turn $100 Into $1,000,000
Author: James McKenna
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 076118080X

"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son, Limited"--Title page verso.

Once Is Not Enough

Once Is Not Enough
Author: Jacqueline Susann
Publisher: Tiger LLC
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0996317821

The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was a world that never slept. Magazine editors, models, pop stars and all the rest visited “vitamin doctors” to get the shots that would allow them to stay up all night and then work all day—in offices decorated with beanbag chairs and Calderesque mobiles… In this world, January Wayne goes from poor-little-rich-girl to grown-up swinger, as she searches New York and Los Angeles for a guy just like Mike Wayne, the glamorous movie producer, who also happens to be her father… “SPECTACULARLY SUCCESSFUL. There are plane crashes, drug orgies, motorcycle accidents, mass rapes, attempted abortions, suicide, evil doctors and other assorted activities; and I couldn’t put the damned thing down.” —Library Journal “[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. WITH HER FORMULA OF SEX, DRUGS, AND SHOW BUSINESS, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours.”—Detour