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Book Synopsis The Eccentric Billionaire by : Nancy KRIPLEN
Download or read book The Eccentric Billionaire written by Nancy KRIPLEN and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating life of one of the most controversial and least-known billionaires in American history.
Book Synopsis Murder of the Eccentric Billionaire by : Liz Turner
Download or read book Murder of the Eccentric Billionaire written by Liz Turner and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREE BONUS BOOK INCLUDED DOWNLOAD FOR FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED Murder of the Eccentric Billionaire: A Jolene Park - Attorney At Law, Cozy Mystery After returning from a fabulous weekend getaway at the beach, defense attorney Jolene Park is intrigued when she comes across a headline that reads ORANGE COUNTY BILLIONAIRE MURDERED BY NIECE. She almost chokes on her drink when she realizes the accused is the young, happy woman she briefly encountered during their vacation. As she reads about the crime's unusual circumstances, she begins to question the legitimacy of the investigation and decides to look into the matter herself. Soon, Jolene's brought her whole Park and Walter law firm into the twisted world of an eccentric and difficult billionaire. She finds herself probing into the effects of hypnosis at a shady rehabilitation center and searching for clues in a remote chemical lab. Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the mystery is trying to infiltrate the complicated dynamics of the Fielder family--relationships made even more volatile now that billions are at stake. How did the billionaire meet his fate? Join Jolene and her team as they tackle their most challenging case yet. Get your copy today! Click the 'BUY' button at the top of this page. Then, you can immediately start reading "Murder of the Eccentric Billionaire" on your Kindle device, computer, tablet or smartphone.
Book Synopsis Negative Cosmopolitanism by : Eddy Kent
Download or read book Negative Cosmopolitanism written by Eddy Kent and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climate change, debt, and refugee crises to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective. In the twentieth century the world sought solutions through formal institutions of international governance such as the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the World Bank, but present-day responses to global realities are often more provisional, improvisational, and contingent. Tracing this uneven history in order to identify principal actors, contesting ideologies, and competing rhetoric, Negative Cosmopolitanism challenges the Kantian ideal of cosmopolitanism as the precondition for a perpetual global peace. Uniting literary scholars with researchers working on contemporary problems and those studying related issues of the past – including slavery, industrial capitalism, and corporate imperialism – essays in this volume scrutinize the entanglement of cosmopolitanism within expanding networks of trade and global capital from the eighteenth century to the present. By doing so, the contributors pinpoint the ways in which whole populations have been unwillingly caught up in a capitalist reality that has little in common with the earlier ideals of cosmopolitanism. A model for provoking new and necessary questions about neoliberalism, biopolitics, colonialism, citizenship, and xenophobia, Negative Cosmopolitanism establishes a fresh take on the representation of globalization and modern life in history and literature. Contributors Include Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota), Juliane Collard (University of British Columbia), Mike Dillon (California State University, Fullerton), Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia), Dina Gusejnova (University of Sheffield), Heather Latimer (University of British Columbia), Pamela McCallum (University of Calgary), Geordie Miller (Dalhousie University), Dennis Mischke (Universität Stuttgart), Peter Nyers (McMaster University), Liam O’Loughlin (Pacific Lutheran University), Crystal Parikh (New York University), Mark Simpson (University of Alberta), Melissa Stephens (Vancouver Island University), and Paul Ugor (Illinois State University).
Download or read book Eccentric Orbits written by John Bloom and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about.” —The Economist, “A Book of the Year 2016” In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Its constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit was a mind-boggling technical accomplishment, surely the future of communication. The only problem was that Iridium the company was a commercial disaster. Only months after launching service, it was $11 billion in debt, burning through $100 million a month and crippled by baroque rate plans and agreements that forced calls through Moscow, Beijing, Fucino, Italy, and elsewhere. Bankruptcy was inevitable—the largest to that point in American history. And when no real buyers seemed to materialize, it looked like Iridium would go down as just a “science experiment.” That is, until Dan Colussy got a wild idea. Colussy, a former head of Pan-Am now retired and working on his golf game in Palm Beach, heard about Motorola’s plans to “de-orbit” the system and decided he would buy Iridium and somehow turn around one of the biggest blunders in the history of business. Impeccably researched and wonderfully told, Eccentric Orbits is a rollicking, unforgettable tale of technological achievement, business failure, the military-industrial complex, and one of the greatest deals of all time. “Deep reporting put forward with epic intentions . . . a story that soars and jumps and dives and digresses . . . [A] big, gutsy, exciting book.” —The Wall Street Journal, “A Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016” “Spellbinding . . . A tireless researcher, Bloom delivers a superlative history . . . A tour de force.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Book Synopsis Human Enhancements for Space Missions by : Konrad Szocik
Download or read book Human Enhancements for Space Missions written by Konrad Szocik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions. The authors discuss pros and cons of mostly biological enhancement of human astronauts operating in hostile space environments, but also ethical and theological aspects are addressed. In contrast to the idea and program of human enhancement on Earth, human enhancement in space is considered a serious and necessary option. This book aims at scholars in the following fields: ethics and philosophy, space policy, public policy, as well as biologists and psychologists.
Book Synopsis The Assault on International Law by : Jens David Ohlin
Download or read book The Assault on International Law written by Jens David Ohlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why comply with international law when there is no world government to enforce it? Jens David Ohlin provides an alternate vision of international law based on a truly innovative theory of human rationality. Rationality requires that agents follow through on their plans even when faced with opportunities for defection.
Book Synopsis Beauty and the Billionaire: The Wedding by : Jessica Clare
Download or read book Beauty and the Billionaire: The Wedding written by Jessica Clare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this all-new novella in the New York Times bestselling series, Hunter and Gretchen are finally tying the knot—but their wedding may not be the easy fairy tale they’ve dreamed of... Someone's out to ruin Gretchen's happy-ever-after on the eve before the big day. Can she trust Hunter, the man she's given her heart to? And can she rely on her sister Daphne (the least reliable person of all!) to help her salvage things? Or is this marriage going to go down in flames before Gretchen and Hunter ever get to the altar? Includes a sneak peek of Dirty Money, first in Clare’s brand new Roughneck Billionaires series. Praise for the Billionaire Boys Club Novels “Blazing hot.”—USA Today “A fast, sexy read.”—Fiction Vixen “Great storytelling…delightful reading…It’s fun and oh so hot.”—Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis Billionaires' Row by : Katherine Clarke
Download or read book Billionaires' Row written by Katherine Clarke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling” (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires’ Row—from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal “Deeply informative, delightfully entertaining, and addictively readable.”—Diana B. Henriques, bestselling author of The Wizard of Lies A CEO Magazine Best Book of the Year • Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award To look south and skyward from Central Park these days is to gaze upon a physical manifestation of tens of billions of dollars in global wealth: a series of soaring spires stretching from Park Avenue to Broadway. Known as Billionaires’ Row, this set of slender high-rise residences has transformed the skyline of New York City, thanks to developer-friendly policies and a seemingly endless gush of cash from tech, finance, and foreign oligarchs. And chances are most of us will never be invited to step inside. In Billionaires’ Row, Katherine Clarke reveals the captivating story of how, in just a few years, the ruthless real-estate impresarios behind these “supertalls” lining 57th Street turned what was once a run-down strip of Midtown into the most exclusive street on Earth, as legendary Trump-era veterans went toe-to-toe with hungry upstart developers in an ego-fueled “race to the sky.” Based on far-reaching access to real estate’s power players, Clarke’s account brings readers inside one of the world’s most cutthroat industries, showing how a combination of ferocious ambition and relentless salesmanship has created a new market of $100 million apartments for the world’s one-percenters—units to live in or, sometimes, just places to stash their cash. Filled with eye-popping stories that bring the new era of extreme wealth inequality into vivid relief, Billionaires’ Row is a juicy, gimlet-eyed account of the genius, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world—a stranger-than-fiction saga of broken partnerships, broken marriages, lawsuits, and, for a few, fleeting triumph.
Book Synopsis The Value of Rationality by : Ralph Wedgwood
Download or read book The Value of Rationality written by Ralph Wedgwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality. The Value of Rationality is designed as the first instalment of a trilogy - to be followed by accounts of the requirements of rationality that apply specifically to beliefs and choices. The central claim of the book is that rationality is a normative concept. This claim is defended against some recent objections. Normative concepts are to be explained in terms of values (not in terms of 'ought' or reasons). Rationality is itself a value: rational thinking is in a certain way better than irrational thinking. Specifically, rationality is an internalist concept: what it is rational for you to think now depends solely on what is now present in your mind. Nonetheless, rationality has an external goal - the goal of thinking correctly, or getting things right in one's thinking. The connection between thinking rationally and thinking correctly is probabilistic: if your thinking is irrational, that is in effect bad news about your thinking's degree of correctness. This account of rationality explains how we should set about giving a theory of what it is for beliefs and choices to be rational. Wedgwood thus unifies practical and theoretical rationality, and reveals the connections between formal accounts of rationality (such as those of formal epistemologists and decision theorists) and the more metaethics-inspired recent discussions of the normativity of rationality. He does so partly by drawing on recent work in the semantics of normative and modal terms (including deontic modals like 'ought').
Book Synopsis Passages Between the Columns by : Joyce Richards Case
Download or read book Passages Between the Columns written by Joyce Richards Case and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prichard familys true-to-life story continues in Passages Between the Columns. Their paper dream fulfilled, Winn and Hope Prichard press on in their small town print shop. Winns weekly editorials in The Woodsboro News range from local items to expressing his fiery opinions of state and national issues in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Volume three accurately portrays a couples endurance to keep their dream from evaporating with the dawn of trials they never imagined. They realize that God brought them together and miraculously opened the way for them to attain their aspiration of publishing a newspaper. Now they experience the highs and lows of the life they prayed for. Winn and Hopes love endures though Winn cant, or wont, give up his craving for alcohol. Unexpected appearances of troublesome relatives cause upheaval for Hope. The familiar family members add a mixture of drama and heartfelt love. A wide spectrum of new characters that bring humor into the series is introduced. The quirky townsfolk will bring a smile and a nod of recognition of someone you know. Each week Winn writes an editorial, and each week the Prichards encounter unexpected passages between the columns.
Download or read book Time Biases written by Meghan Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should you care less about your distant future? What about events in your life that have already happened? How should the passage of time affect your planning and assessment of your life? Most of us think it is irrational to ignore the future but completely harmless to dismiss the past. But this book argues that rationality requires temporal neutrality: if you are rational you don't engage in any kind of temporal discounting. The book draws on puzzles about real-life planning to build the case for temporal neutrality. How much should you save for retirement? Does it make sense to cryogenically freeze your brain after death? How much should you ask to be compensated for a past injury? Will climate change make your life meaningless? Meghan Sullivan considers what it is for you to be a person extended over time, how time affects our ability to care about ourselves, and all of the ways that our emotions might bias our rational planning. Drawing substantially from work in social psychology, economics and the history of philosophy, the book offers a systematic new theory of rational planning.
Book Synopsis RED NOTICE - Summarized for Busy People by : Goldmine Reads
Download or read book RED NOTICE - Summarized for Busy People written by Goldmine Reads and published by Goldmine Reads. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version. This is the saga of Bill Browder who started out his adult life as a financial maverick leading him to Russia at the time just after the breakup of the Soviet Union where he started to achieve his fortune. It was there that he exposed corruption from which he had barely escaped with his life. But the death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, in the hands of the Russians was what changed Browder’s life forever. He went to extreme lengths in order to expose the murderous heart of the Putin regime and it was because of that the he became Putin’s number one enemy, especially after Browder had successfully campaigned to pass a law in the United States—the Magnitsky Act—punishing a list of Russians implicated in the lawyer’s murder. A crime thriller, a political crusade, and a financial caper, Red Notice shares the story of how one man overcame powerful odds just to change the world as well as, without meaning to, found his purpose in life. Wait no more, take action and get this book now!
Book Synopsis Curse of the Gold Cross by : Terry Chandler
Download or read book Curse of the Gold Cross written by Terry Chandler and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Terry Chandler. I am a disabled American that retired from the federal government after twenty-six years of service. I have been so blessed to have traveled the world. Every moment was like a story from the people I met. Now I would like to share with you a moment in time that still lives in my personal journey. My inspiration for writing this story was based on an employee that I met while I was working in South Korea. My work leader recommend that the employee be fired. In the days to come I watched the employee closely, and, from what I could see, he was my best worker. I needed to find out what the real problem was, so I decided to have a meeting with him to hear his side of the story. He started to tell me about his life. He said his mother gave birth to him after being raped in a camp where she was keep to satisfy Japanese soldiers. He said the Koreans hated him because they know who he is and how he came into this world. His face was a reminder of what once was. This grown man just cried like a child that was still in prison; but this time it was a prison of hate and his crime was living.
Book Synopsis Short Stories Vol 1-4 by : Bill Valiontis
Download or read book Short Stories Vol 1-4 written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 Short Stories.
Book Synopsis The Normative and the Evaluative by : Richard Rowland
Download or read book The Normative and the Evaluative written by Richard Rowland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have been attracted to the idea that for something to be good there just have to be reasons to favour it. This view has come to be known as the buck-passing account of value. According to this account, for pleasure to be good there need to be reasons for us to desire and pursue it. Likewise for liberty and equality to be values there have to be reasons for us to promote and preserve them. Extensive discussion has focussed on some of the problems that the buck-passing account faces, such as the 'wrong kind of reason' problem. Less attention, however, has been paid as to why we should accept the buck-passing account or what the theoretical pay-offs and other implications of accepting it are. The Normative and the Evaluative provides the first comprehensive motivation and defence of the buck-passing account of value. Richard Rowland argues that the buck-passing account explains several important features of the relationship between reasons and value, as well as the relationship between the different varieties of value, in a way that its competitors do not. He shows that alternatives to the buck-passing account are inconsistent with important views in normative ethics, uninformative, and at odds with the way in which we should see practical and epistemic normativity as related. In addition, he extends the buck-passing account to provide an account of moral properties as well as all other normative and deontic properties and concepts, such as fittingness and 'ought', in terms of reasons.
Book Synopsis The Last Eligible Billionaire by : Pippa Grant
Download or read book The Last Eligible Billionaire written by Pippa Grant and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pressing on with Hope by : Joyce Richards Case
Download or read book Pressing on with Hope written by Joyce Richards Case and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams — Devotion Deceptions — Disappointment Hope and Winn Prichard discover that God brings about His plan in surprising ways. Earthly angels, beggars, and even Howard Hughes help them in their quest to publish a newspaper during the Great Depression. From a riotous boomtown to a Texas border town, Winn’s unwise decisions and unpredictable bouts of binge drinking keep Hope on edge. In fear of losing Hope’s love, Winn covers his footprints on the path behind him with deception by omission. With an ulterior motive, Winn aids a stranger which results in the revival of an entire town. While Hope stays with her hypercritical mother-in-law, letters and prayers sustain them while Winn works to establish a newspaper. The Prichards rely on faith as they press on to achieve what God has placed in their hearts.
