The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house staffs of more than 100, and their own “arborists.” They’re also different from Old Money, and have torn down blue-blood institutions to build their own shining empire.Richistan is like the best travel writing, full of colorful and interesti...

Full of captivating profiles and expert insights into the lives and lifestyles of the nouveau riche, Richistan tells the real story of a new gilded age. The recent explosion of wealth has created a new breed of multimillionaires. Ed Bazinet, for example, who turned miniature ceramic villages into a $250 million fortune. Or Tim Blixseth, who became a billionaire by trading remote stretches of timberland. Richistan takes readers inside a rarified world to see how these blue...

With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditur...

A Straightforward Guide to What to Expect When You Go to Court, Revised Edition, 2025, is designed for anyone who gets called to court, either as a defendant, a litigant or witness. It is especially designed for anyone bringing their own case to court. The book is comprehensive, clear and is aimed at the layperson and also the professional or student. The following areas are covered: Understanding how the legal system works; Problems created by the Pandemic; What is expected of you as a li...

This latest publication in the Straightforward Guides Series, Guide to Public Law is a comprehensive introduction to Public Law and all that entails, constitutional law and the rule of law generally covering the workings of government, Parliament, constitutional monarchy, the legislative process, Tribunals, European Law and administrative law and the powers of police.

This latest publication in the Straightforward Guides Series - A Guide to Business Law - is a comprehensive introduction to the law as it affects the business environment. The areas that affect business specifically are the English Legal system generally, contract law, employment law and company law. Also important is the law of intellectual property. It includes the implications for businesses due to Brexit as well.

If you are one of the 75 million readers of Fifty Shades of Grey, then you will want this edition. This special Amatory edition of Book 3, Third Eye Trilogy is for uninhibited and adventuresome readers. Fourteen scenes were expanded with intense, highly charged erotica. Few words of the original Book 3 were changed. Renowned erotica author E.B. LeDoux diligently integrated the special scenes. Her magic touch enhanced flavor beyond the rock 'em, sock 'em adventures. Get erotica with an exci...

Mirror of the Eye concludes the Third Eye Trilogy with continued switchbacks, turns and action all the way to the end.A twist leads Clay and Shali in a totally different direction with the regression protocols. Gaining experience from the past, they discover new ways to combat the Illuminati-like organization that has been trying to destroy them and their work for years.The dichotomy of their quest not only counters their nemesis, it reveals a future that could have only been...

The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts—models of financial propriety—suddenly set off on a wild ride of economic binges.Not only do they control more than a third of the country's wealth, their increasing vulnerability to the booms and busts of the sto...

This latest book, and timely, in the Straightforward Guides Series, Guide to Business Law, is a comprehensive introduction to the law as it affects the business environment. The areas that affect business specifically are the English Legal system generally, contract law, employment law and company law. Also important is the law and intellectual property.

A Straightforward Guide to What to Expect When You Go to Court, Revised Edition, is designed for anyone who gets called to court, either as a defendant, a litigant or witness. It is especially designed for anyone bringing their own case to court. The book is comprehensive, clear and is aimed at the layperson and also the professional or student.

A Straightforward Guide to What to Expect when You Go to Court, Revised Edition, is designed for anyone who gets called to court, either as a defendant, a litigant or witness. It is also designed for anyone bringing their own case to court. The book is comprehensive, clear and is aimed at the layperson and also the professional or student.