A Kill in the Morning

A Kill in the Morning
Author: Graeme Shimmin
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448171636

‘I don’t like killing, but I’m good at it. Murder isn’t so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though – a garrotte around a target’s neck or a knife in their heart – it’s not for me. Too much empathy, that’s my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different . . . ‘ The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourteen years since Churchill died and the Second World War ended. In occupied Europe, Britain fights a cold war against a nuclear-armed Nazi Germany. In Berlin the Gestapo is on the trail of a beautiful young resistance fighter, and the head of the SS is plotting to dispose of an ailing Adolf Hitler and restart the war against Britain and her empire. Meanwhile, in a secret bunker hidden deep beneath the German countryside, scientists are experimenting with a force far beyond their understanding. Into this arena steps a nameless British assassin, on the run from a sinister cabal within his own government, and planning a private war against the Nazis. And now the fate of the world rests on a single kill in the morning . . .

Can I Retire Yet?

Can I Retire Yet?
Author: Darrow Kirkpatrick
Publisher: StructureByDesign
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989283021

You've worked hard, lived carefully, and saved diligently. You've reached major milestones and accumulated more assets than you dreamed possible, and yet you hesitate. ""Can I retire?"" This book will help answer that question by showing you.... The tools you need to live a secure and independent retirement, without worrying about money What you must know before leaving a career behind How much it will cost you to live in retirement, and how to manage your cash flow The current choices for retirement health care, including lesser-known but effective options The threat from inflation: two secrets that politicians and bankers will never admit A realistic assessment of the impact that income taxes will have on your retirement Social Security's role in your retirement: when you should claim and how much it's worth to you How to construct and manage an investment portfolio for income and growth in retirement About immediate annuities and why you need multiple sources of retirement income The key variables and unknowns in your retirement withdrawal equation Reviews of the best retirement calculators, and tips for how to use them accurately Beyond the simplistic 4% Rule to the latest research on safe withdrawal rates Realistic bracketing of your retirement savings needs, without over caution or overconfidence The history of economic cycles and the related asset classes for optimal retirement security A survey of strategies plus original research for how to orchestrate your retirement distributions A practical "retirement fuel gauge" alerting you to problems while you still have time to act Backup plans: the "lifeboat strategies" for ensuring you'll never be without essential income The 6 crucial questions to answer before you can retire The one, simple, powerful, non-financial reason that you can and should retire earlier than later

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies
Author: Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387770011

This entertaining book seeks to unravel an array of pricing puzzles from the one captured in the book’s title to why so many prices end with "9" (as in $2.99 or $179). Along the way, the author explains how the 9/11 terrorists have, through the effects of their heinous acts on the relative prices of various modes of travel, killed more Americans since 9/11 than they killed that fateful day. He also explains how well-meaning efforts to spur the use of alternative, supposedly environmentally friendly fuels have starved millions of people around the world and given rise to the deforestation of rainforests in Malaysia and Indonesia.

What Money Can't Buy

What Money Can't Buy
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1429942584

In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

Happy Money

Happy Money
Author: Elizabeth Dunn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1476740704

If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?

Understanding Buying and Spending

Understanding Buying and Spending
Author: Robyn Hardyman
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499434847

One of the first steps toward good money management is opening a bank account or two. How debit and savings accounts work, how to get cash from these accounts, and more are covered in this introductory volume on using money. Practical tips such as shopping around for a good deal and credit card management are woven through basic economic concepts of spending, budgeting, and saving. Written in understandable language with age-appropriate information, the main content, sidebars, and fact boxes ready readers for the beginning of their long financial lives.

Buy Your Own Business With Other People's Money

Buy Your Own Business With Other People's Money
Author: Robert A. Cooke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471735191

Most entrepreneurs interested in buying a business naturally assume they need large amounts of cash to work a deal. In fact, there are other ways to fund an entrepreneurial venture, particularly through seller financing. This simple, straightforward guide covers every possible source of financing available for wannabe business owners, how to deal with sellers, and how to use asset financing, selling equity, and asset protection. Buy Your Own Business with Other People’s Money shows that you don’t have to be rich to buy a business; you just need to be creative in financing your new business. For everyone who dreams of owning a business one day, this book has the answers.

Financial Peace

Financial Peace
Author: Dave Ramsey
Publisher: Lampo
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780963571236

Dave Ramsey explains those scriptural guidelines for handling money.

Recognition in International Law

Recognition in International Law
Author: Stefan Talmon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2021-10-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004478140

The bibliography lists the literature and State practice on the question of recognition in international law for the last two hundred years. It contains books and articles, ie. contributions to journals and other collected works such as Festschriften and Encyclopaedias, as well as (published and unpublished) theses, pamphlets, compilations of diplomatic documents and case notes. As many of the monographs on recognition in international law will not be available in all libraries, book reviews have been included in the bibliography in order to enable the user to decide whether it may be advisable to order a certain work by inter-library loan. Its 4,500 entries are arranged systematically according to subject categories in fourteen main sections. Each main section is further subdivided with ever-increasing specificity into sub-sections on codification, codification attempts, general studies, studies of certain recognition questions and studies of specific recognition cases. The bibliography employs a broad meaning of recognition. It is not restricted to the question of status of an authority or entity in international law but encompasses also the question of relations with it. As many of the recognition cases must be considered, and can only be understood, against their historic, political and sometimes even economic background, the bibliography includes not only purely legal treaties but also publications of a primarily historical, political or economic content which incidentally deal with aspects of recognition in international law. This is reflected by the titles of the 730 journals from more than 50 countries in 20 different languages which have been used to compile the bibliography. The bibliography contains both an author and a comprehensive subject index to enable users to locate works of a particular writer or a specific problem.

How to Buy 10 Properties Fast

How to Buy 10 Properties Fast
Author: Eddie Dilleen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2024-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1394255977

Do you want financial independence and a secure retirement? Bestselling author Eddie Dilleen shows you how to build a successful property portfolio — even faster than you dreamed! How to Buy 10 Properties Fast shares a powerful plan for property success. Through simple strategies and helpful tips, buyers agent Eddie Dilleen shows how you can become a successful property investor FAST. You’ll get step-by-step practical guidance for buying your first property, then your second — all the way to 10+ properties, building a reliable, sustainable portfolio. With this book, you’ll learn how to crush it when it comes to investing: find the right properties, maximise your equity, and boost your long-term wealth. The Australian property market can be daunting, and it’s easy to feel that you’ve left it too late. But whether you want to set yourself up in 1 year, 3 years, or 7 years, time is still on your side. And there are still bargains to be snapped up! With How to Buy 10 Properties Fast, you’ll learn about property growth cycles, discover how to spot potential for high rental income, and get the fundamentals of property finance. Through detailed case studies and clear milestones, Eddie shares a roadmap for starting your own investment journey — and securing your financial future. Learn the 3 Golden Rules for the ultimate investment strategy Find up-to-date advice on property location and property growth Get tips for negotiating with agents, banks, and brokers Understand how to maximise your deposit and equity Manage your portfolio by finding a strong team and keeping great tenants Eddie’s tried-and-true investing tactics helped him build a portfolio of over 80 properties by age 32. So what are you waiting for? Backed with clear and comprehensive examples, this book will show you how to make your next moves in the property market — and reach your financial goals faster.