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Smith, an airline pilot, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know about air travel. From how planes fly, to the real story on congestion and delays, to a provocative look at terrorism and security, it's a personal look into the strange and misunderstand world of commercial flying.
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In How to Smell a Rat, Ken Fisher takes an engaging and informative look at recent and historic examples of fraudsters, how they operated, and how they can be easily avoided. Fisher shows readers the quick, identifiable features of potential financial fraudsters. Readers will learn the questions to ask when assessing a money manager and how to spot red flags. There should be a premium for integrity. Asking the right questions and looking for the right...
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The author of Smoke in Mirrors and Soft Focus presents a sexy, irresistible story of two people searching for secrets-and finding each other . . .
Cady Briggs is useful to Mack Easton. Her expertise in art and antiques helps his low-profile company, Lost and Found, find missing treasures for high-paying clients. But Cady knows that being useful to a client is one thing-and being used is another. So no matter how alluring she finds Mack, she plans...
5) The frame-up
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"Twelve-year-old artist Sargent Singer must team up with some very unusual partners to thwart a theft of the masterpieces in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery"--
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When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up -- a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family.
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The incredible true account of the most extraordinary storm of the 20th century, this is the story of a tempest born from so rare a combination of factors it was deemed "perfect" and of the doomed fishing boat with her crew of six that was helpless in the midst of a force beyond comprehension.
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"Jayne Marcus feels directionless and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she will become if she meets her artistic potential....
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Justin Smith shares his extensive knowledge and experience to help you capitalize on the growing demand for industrial properties.
Industrial Income explores Smith's insider perspective on the most effective strategies and covers every aspect of industrial real estate. Discover how to leverage market intelligence for strategic positioning and decision-making. Learn the secrets of attracting and retaining high-quality tenants, negotiating advantageous...
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Nobody can know them all, certainly not Rudy Kurniawan, who never set eyes on Burgundy. In the end, it was his imprecise knowledge of a particular domaine's history that tripped him up. It happened amid extreme merriment, one spring evening, in New York. The mistakes that he made, minuscule and highly arcane, upended his life. Also upended would be the practices and pleasures of seekers after rare old wine.
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The Aviation Instructor's Handbook is a world-class educational reference tool developed and designed for ground instructors, flight instructors, and aviation maintenance instructors. This information-packed handbook provides the foundation for beginning instructors to understand and apply the fundamentals of instructing. It also provides aviation instructors with detailed, up-to-date information on learning and teaching, and how to relate this information...
12) Crash
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"With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe's stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang's investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins. But one...
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There are many paths to becoming successful in real estate. But flipping houses, holding a license or owning a home is only the beginning of what could be a long and transformative journey to building lasting wealth through real estate.
Your new instructor is about to arrive, but he won't be sitting you down in a classroom, instead, the opposite. Real estate investment icon Sam Liebman will whisk you straight from your seats down to the streets.
Harvard...
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"An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a 'saloon in the open air'), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to...
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Through his own story of hardship and triumph, Chuck Whittall shares the principles he used to overcome obstacles that can derail a business. In Perseverance: Broke to Billions, Whittall details what he's learned-from making key decisions and raising capital, to overcoming financial deficits and evaluating prospective opportunities.
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"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million -- upwards of $400 million today -- in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama ... When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man...
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"One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics" "One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2017" "One of Project Syndicate's Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kermal Dervi )" "Winner of the 2019 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business School" Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Economics...
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