How should you approach your investments? How should you think about them? Those are the types of questions Chris Mayer tackles in his newest book, How Do You Know: A Guide to Clear Thinking About Wall Street, Investing, and Life. Through a series of provocative-and often amusing-examples, Chris puts those perennial investing questions into a much larger context... How do you know anything at all? His answer, which is sure to make many readers uncomfortable is... you don't. Ho...

Who were Shakespeare's first readers and what did they think of his works? Offering the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the centuries during which they were originally produced, Jean-Christophe Mayer reconsiders the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame and in the history of canon formation. Addressing an essential formative 'moment' when Shakespeare became a literary dramatist, this book explores six crucial fields: lite...

Invaluable insights into finding diverse investment opportunities in the emergent global economyFrom Brazilian farmlands to Colombian gold fields, from Chinese shopping malls to Indian hotels, from South African wine country to the boom/bust souks of Dubai, this around-the-world investing field trip explores the nooks and crannies for hidden investment opportunities. World Right Side Up: Investing Across Six Continents is packed with ideas to power your po...

The unspeakable level is Korzybski's term for that swirl of events language cannot fully capture. It is all that 'is.' Our abstractions-names, descriptions, etc.-often hide andobscure this unspeakable level. In this volume, the author looks at various ways to get behind these abstractions. Korzybski's Razor is one such tool, which knocks many lofty sounding terms off their pedestals. Another chapter explores the nature of polarities, drawing on insights from Meister Eckhar...

The night before her wedding and honeymoon on Titanic's maiden voyage, Louise discovers the man she was to marry is a hardened criminal. Desperate to escape and protect her younger sister, she does the only thing she can think of to hide—become a mail order bride and mother to two young children. Louise knows nothing of mothering or managing a home, and it’s sure to be the perfect cover.But when Louise arrives at her destination, she’s surprised to learn she’s not the only...

“The only way to save your ma is to marry me…”Josie and her ma were desperate to save their farm. George wanted their farm and Josie wanted to know why. Something wasn’t right.Praying for the Lord to guide and protect her, she impulsively buys a newspaper, secretly responding to an ad for a mail-order bride.While feeling at peace about her decision, George becomes forceful about their marriage.When disaster leaves them destitute, they escape...

Grace stopped to catch her breath and look over her shoulder. Her misfortune began when she’d seen her boss shoot his partner and had run to St. Louis as a mail-order bride. If that wasn’t bad enough, her groom-to-be was a monster. She grimaced and pulled a briar from her hand. A quick look down the street proved they were still coming after her.She rounded the corner of the depot and prayed the train was ready to depart. She looked for a friendly face in the crowd...

After one too many failed inventions, Julian has hit rock bottom.Summoned to another world where gods and monsters roam, Julian continues his streak of bad luck. Rather than touching the Godcore directly, he let his smartphone absorb it. Now, he's got to figure out how to make the Godcore and his phone work together to help the people who summoned him survive their upcoming annihilation by the mad God of Chains.He's going to have to innovate his way out of his bad luck. Good ...

Abandoned as infants, twins Peter and Rory have never known a real family. While Peter wants nothing more than to escape his abusive adoptive father, Rory struggles to not get kicked out of her twelfth foster home since she was separated from Peter seven years ago. All that changes when magical birds appear offering to help them reunite … and return them to the home they never knew.But fate is cruel. They arrive on the planet Inara, on opposing sides of a brutal war. It is up to th...

In her first-ever solo anthology, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Cantrell demonstrates her award-winning skill with four wonderful stories—including the prequel to her Hannah Vogel series where Ernst Vogel explores the shadowy world of Weimar-era Berlin on the cusp of the Nazi rise to power as he investigates the murder of a young cigarette boy at his cabaret.The collection also includes a journey through the wreckage of postwar Berlin in a search for hope, a fated meeti...

1 के बदले 100 का रिटर्न देने वाले स्टॉक्स और उन्हें कैसे खोजेंयह कृति 100-बैगर्स के बारे में है। ये ऐसे स्टॉक्स हैं, जो प्रत्येक 1 डॉलर के निवेश पर 100 डॉलर का रिटर्न देते हैं। इसका मतलब है कि 10,000 डॉलर का निवेश 1 मिलियन डॉलर में बदल जाता है। क्रिस मेयर उन्हें खोजने में आपकी मदद कर सकते हैं। यह सफलता की बेहद असंभव संभावना प्रतीत होता है, जो चौंका देने वाली खोज की तरह लगता है, लेकिन जब मेयर ने अतीत के 100-बैगर्स का अध्ययन किया, तो निश्चित पैटर्न सामने आए। 100-बैगर्स में, आप 100-बै...

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, his Viennese translator and disciple Sigmund Freud took up the challenge and invented psychoanalysis. Previous scholarship has viewed hypnosis and psychoanalysis in sharp opposition or claimed that ...