Author: William Davis
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840466952
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Rich has topped America's bestseller lists and received international acclaim for its insight into the lives and fortunes of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. Renowned international business journalist William Davis investigates who's up and who's down in the world of today's super-rich. The Rich looks behind the bank balances to reveal what it takes to amass great wealth, where it comes from, and what it really means to those who have it. Crammed with quotes and anecdotes on entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and Donald Trump, oligarchs like Roman Abromavich, and stars of sport and entertainment such as Tiger Woods and Elton John, The Rich is luxuriously thought-provoking and highly entertaining.
The Old Money Book - 2nd Edition
Author: Byron Tully
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950118137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Old Money Book details how anyone from any background can adopt the values, priorities, and habits of America's Upper Class in order to live a richer life. Expanded and updated for a post-pandemic world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950118137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Old Money Book details how anyone from any background can adopt the values, priorities, and habits of America's Upper Class in order to live a richer life. Expanded and updated for a post-pandemic world.
The Rich
Author: William Davis
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840466952
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Rich has topped America's bestseller lists and received international acclaim for its insight into the lives and fortunes of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. Renowned international business journalist William Davis investigates who's up and who's down in the world of today's super-rich. The Rich looks behind the bank balances to reveal what it takes to amass great wealth, where it comes from, and what it really means to those who have it. Crammed with quotes and anecdotes on entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and Donald Trump, oligarchs like Roman Abromavich, and stars of sport and entertainment such as Tiger Woods and Elton John, The Rich is luxuriously thought-provoking and highly entertaining.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840466952
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Rich has topped America's bestseller lists and received international acclaim for its insight into the lives and fortunes of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. Renowned international business journalist William Davis investigates who's up and who's down in the world of today's super-rich. The Rich looks behind the bank balances to reveal what it takes to amass great wealth, where it comes from, and what it really means to those who have it. Crammed with quotes and anecdotes on entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and Donald Trump, oligarchs like Roman Abromavich, and stars of sport and entertainment such as Tiger Woods and Elton John, The Rich is luxuriously thought-provoking and highly entertaining.
Fashion and Cultural Studies
Author: Susan B. Kaiser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350104698
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text considers fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Kaiser and Green use a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore how race, ethnicity, class, gender and other identities intersect and are produced through embodied fashion. Drawing on intersectionality in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars. This revised edition includes updated case studies and two new chapters. The first new chapter explores religion, spirituality, and faith in relation to style, fashion, and dress. The second offers a critique of “beauty” and considers dressed embodiment inclusive of diverse sizes, shapes and dis/abilities. Throughout the text, Kaiser and Green use a range of examples to interrogate the complex entanglements of production, regulation, distribution, consumption, and subject formation within and through fashion.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350104698
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text considers fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Kaiser and Green use a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore how race, ethnicity, class, gender and other identities intersect and are produced through embodied fashion. Drawing on intersectionality in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars. This revised edition includes updated case studies and two new chapters. The first new chapter explores religion, spirituality, and faith in relation to style, fashion, and dress. The second offers a critique of “beauty” and considers dressed embodiment inclusive of diverse sizes, shapes and dis/abilities. Throughout the text, Kaiser and Green use a range of examples to interrogate the complex entanglements of production, regulation, distribution, consumption, and subject formation within and through fashion.
The Book of Astrology
Author: Marion Williamson
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1398834998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Bestselling author Marion Williamson brings you a comprehensive guide to astrology, beautifully presented in a hardback gift edition with ivory pager, gilded page edges, patterned endpapers and a gold-embossed cover design. Astrology is more than just the 12 signs of the zodiac - it's a layered, multi-faceted tool for understanding ourselves and others. In this fascinating guide, you can discover what your sun sign says about you, who you are most compatible with romantically, and how you can progress in life with insights from the heavens above. More advanced ideas regarding aspects such as Mercury Retrograde, Moon Signs and other astrological terms are explained fully and permit the reader to begin their journey into this lifelong passion. • Descriptions of all 12 signs • Controversies about whether there is a 13th sign addressed • Moon signs and their significance
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1398834998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Bestselling author Marion Williamson brings you a comprehensive guide to astrology, beautifully presented in a hardback gift edition with ivory pager, gilded page edges, patterned endpapers and a gold-embossed cover design. Astrology is more than just the 12 signs of the zodiac - it's a layered, multi-faceted tool for understanding ourselves and others. In this fascinating guide, you can discover what your sun sign says about you, who you are most compatible with romantically, and how you can progress in life with insights from the heavens above. More advanced ideas regarding aspects such as Mercury Retrograde, Moon Signs and other astrological terms are explained fully and permit the reader to begin their journey into this lifelong passion. • Descriptions of all 12 signs • Controversies about whether there is a 13th sign addressed • Moon signs and their significance
All About Eva
Author: Deidre Berry
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 0758294581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
"A hilarious riches-to-rags-and-redemption saga." --Publishers Weekly When You've Had Everything, What's Next? A wealthy boyfriend, designer clothes, exotic vacations, and a Central Park penthouse--these are a few of Eva Cantrell's favorite things. But when her boyfriend turns out to be an investment swindler and goes on the run, he leaves an unsuspecting Eva without a couture bag to her name. With the gravy train permanently derailed, suddenly nobody is who Eva thought they were. Her socialite best friend has become her worst enemy, and her new attorney is an all-out hunk who makes it difficult to keep their relationship strictly professional. And with her return to her old south side Chicago neighborhood, Eva's also got her hands full dealing with her always out-there family of dreamers, divas, and straight-up scammers. Now, Eva has to face the past, get a life that's truly hers, and find out if the best things in life really are free. . . . Praise For The Next Best Thing "Delightful. . .a clever and refreshing mix of zany characters, humor, and heart." --Lutishia Lovely, author of Taking Care of Business "With a strong, powerful female lead and feisty, tough women as her support, Berry's first novel is a fresh, vivid portrait. . .." --Booklist
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 0758294581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
"A hilarious riches-to-rags-and-redemption saga." --Publishers Weekly When You've Had Everything, What's Next? A wealthy boyfriend, designer clothes, exotic vacations, and a Central Park penthouse--these are a few of Eva Cantrell's favorite things. But when her boyfriend turns out to be an investment swindler and goes on the run, he leaves an unsuspecting Eva without a couture bag to her name. With the gravy train permanently derailed, suddenly nobody is who Eva thought they were. Her socialite best friend has become her worst enemy, and her new attorney is an all-out hunk who makes it difficult to keep their relationship strictly professional. And with her return to her old south side Chicago neighborhood, Eva's also got her hands full dealing with her always out-there family of dreamers, divas, and straight-up scammers. Now, Eva has to face the past, get a life that's truly hers, and find out if the best things in life really are free. . . . Praise For The Next Best Thing "Delightful. . .a clever and refreshing mix of zany characters, humor, and heart." --Lutishia Lovely, author of Taking Care of Business "With a strong, powerful female lead and feisty, tough women as her support, Berry's first novel is a fresh, vivid portrait. . .." --Booklist
Shattered Class
Author: Conrad Riker
Publisher: Conrad Riker
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Is your life governed by your social class? Are you struggling to get ahead despite your best efforts? Discover the hidden barriers that hold you back in "Shattered Class". If you want to break free from the constraints of your social class and pave a better future for yourself and your family, then buy this book today. 1. How employment opportunities in England are determined by your social standing. 2. The power of social connections in granting you access to resources and job offers. 3. The impact of education on social class mobility and the importance of lifelong learning. 4. The role of markers of speech in signaling your social class and how it affects your interactions with others. 5. The connection between your social class and your crime attitudes, as well as the implications on policing and community safety. 6. The influence of social class on your voting patterns and political affiliations, shaping the future of our society. 7. The extent of economic inequality between different social classes in England and the consequences of wealth disparity. 8. The importance of international travel passports and foreign language skills in the context of social class, as well as the barriers faced by different social groups in obtaining these resources.
Publisher: Conrad Riker
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Is your life governed by your social class? Are you struggling to get ahead despite your best efforts? Discover the hidden barriers that hold you back in "Shattered Class". If you want to break free from the constraints of your social class and pave a better future for yourself and your family, then buy this book today. 1. How employment opportunities in England are determined by your social standing. 2. The power of social connections in granting you access to resources and job offers. 3. The impact of education on social class mobility and the importance of lifelong learning. 4. The role of markers of speech in signaling your social class and how it affects your interactions with others. 5. The connection between your social class and your crime attitudes, as well as the implications on policing and community safety. 6. The influence of social class on your voting patterns and political affiliations, shaping the future of our society. 7. The extent of economic inequality between different social classes in England and the consequences of wealth disparity. 8. The importance of international travel passports and foreign language skills in the context of social class, as well as the barriers faced by different social groups in obtaining these resources.
Weekend Utopia
Author: Alastair Gordon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568982720
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Hamptons are hot. Gordon, who grew up there, traces the invention of the idea of the Hamptons as a resort for the elite of New York City and shows how various forces, including artists, real estate developers, and media professionals transformed what had been a quiet rural place into a modern and worldwide phenomenon. 175 illustrations.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568982720
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Hamptons are hot. Gordon, who grew up there, traces the invention of the idea of the Hamptons as a resort for the elite of New York City and shows how various forces, including artists, real estate developers, and media professionals transformed what had been a quiet rural place into a modern and worldwide phenomenon. 175 illustrations.
Atlanta Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.
Behind Closed Doors... in My Father's House
Author: Collen Dixon
Publisher: the FIN group
ISBN: 0971056633
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Discover what happens when "The Sopranos' meet "Dynasty" and "Sugar Hill." You get "Behind Closed Doors... In My Father's House."This sizzling novel begins at the conclusion of "Simon Says," and takes the reader on a thrilling journey of the misadventures of the four privileged Cavanaugh siblings: Conrad, Joseph, Christian and Madison. Each stunningly beautiful, and tragically flawed.When Harry, the family patriarch, falls ill, he has to decide which one of his dysfunctional children to pass the helm of the family business to. Lending to the difficulty of rendering this decision is the fact that the family business is dirty business. They are a Black DC Mafia family, teetering on the brink of phenmenal wealth given the blossoming crack market, and threatening to implode due to family squabbles, treachery and bloodlust.
Publisher: the FIN group
ISBN: 0971056633
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Discover what happens when "The Sopranos' meet "Dynasty" and "Sugar Hill." You get "Behind Closed Doors... In My Father's House."This sizzling novel begins at the conclusion of "Simon Says," and takes the reader on a thrilling journey of the misadventures of the four privileged Cavanaugh siblings: Conrad, Joseph, Christian and Madison. Each stunningly beautiful, and tragically flawed.When Harry, the family patriarch, falls ill, he has to decide which one of his dysfunctional children to pass the helm of the family business to. Lending to the difficulty of rendering this decision is the fact that the family business is dirty business. They are a Black DC Mafia family, teetering on the brink of phenmenal wealth given the blossoming crack market, and threatening to implode due to family squabbles, treachery and bloodlust.
The Ideal Man
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1118098110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1118098110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today. Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed today Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged in Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to life Written by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance