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By Timothy Ferriss. 2008
This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: how Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours…
per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week; how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want; how blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs; how to eliminate 50 per cent of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist; and, how to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent 'mini-retirements'. 2008.By Erik Orsenna. 2012
By Sylvain Tesson. 2016
Après une mauvaise chute qui a failli lui coûter la vie et causé de multiples fractures, le narrateur se retrouve…
à l'hôpital pendant plusieurs mois. Sur son lit, il se promet que s'il est rétabli, il traversera la France à pied. Une fois sorti, il entreprend un voyage de quatre mois à travers les chemins de campagne, à la reconquête de lui-même, depuis Tende (Alpes-Maritimes) jusqu'au Cotentin. 2016.By Bruce Sandison. 1990
The author, a keen angler and acute observer of the Scottish scene, reminisces about places he has visited and people…
he has met, instilling his love of Scotland's history and wildlife. 1990.By Dawn Graham. 2018
Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? In the wrong profession? An industry that just isn't a fit? This book…
provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to go. 2018.By Kendall Maycock. 2016
Yoon takes us into the minds of superconsumers of all kinds of brands. He reveals what makes these fanatics tick…
and why they spend so much more than other consumers. And, most important, he teaches readers how to use readily available data to identify their own superconsumers and then use this newfound knowledge to transform ordinary consumers into more profitable superconsumers. 2017.By David Stasavage, Kenneth F Scheve. 2016
Draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history…
of progressive taxation available. Explores the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made. 2016.By David Novak. 2012
By Ron Buist. 2003
The original Tim Horton's founders - Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Tim Horton, doughnut entrepreneur Jim Charade, and Nova Scotia born…
franchise wizard Ron Joyce - are all profiled in this examination of the marketing strategies behind Canada's most popular coffee-and-doughnuts chain. Look behind the invention of the apple fritter and the raisin dutchie, how timbits are made, or the origins of "Roll Up the Rim to Win". 2003.By Jane Jacobs. 1994
In the form of a Platonic dialogue, Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes - one governing commerce, the other, politics…
- and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She investigates such examples as business fraud, government subsidies to agriculture and criminal enterprise. She provides a new way of seeing our public transactions and encourages us towards the best use of our natural inclinations. 1994.In its search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is plunging ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling…
its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and filling its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells. In so doing, it is running out of water, destroying its range land, wiping out its forests and wildlife and spewing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. 2007.The fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple.…
How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray that it had to be sold at a fire sale price? How could the street fighters who ran Bear so aggressively miscalculate so completely? The Wall Street Journal's Kelly describes Bear's three final days, and shows how top executives descended into civil war as the mortgage crisis began to brew. Strong language. 2009.By Tom Higgins. 1995
Does moving to Lyon, France to open a restaurant sound romantic to you? This is about an English couple who…
did just that. Along the way they encountered disbelief from the French at their menu choices, and a difficult licensing bureaucracy. In the end they succeeded in creating a well-run eating establishment. 1995.By Alissa Quart. 2018
Alissa Quart weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and…
our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things. 2018.By Susan Fowler, Laurence Hawkins, Kenneth H Blanchard. 2017
By Marian Meaney, Belén Aguado Viguer. 2016
Provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Spain, ensuring that you arrive aware of basic manners, common courtesies,…
and sensitive issues. This concise guide tells you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your Spanish hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. 2016.