Earn Money AND Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)

Earn Money AND Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)

Earn Money AND Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)

very pleasent with this purchase my son enjoyed this book like no one before,amazon is my favorite place for secure purchases,thanks.
Earn Money AND Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 6)

Earn Money AND unPHILtered

Earn Money AND unPHILtered

Earn Money AND unPHILtered
Earn Money AND unPHILtered unPHILtered: The Way I See It

As an educated Christian, I'm not always sure what to make of Duck Dynasty. I don't have time to watch much TV, which just complicates matters. I don't like the "fanatical" branch of Christianity that is "holier-than-though" and hates certain classes of sinners. This is what I expected from unPHILtered, and I really wanted to ignore it until it slid down the best-sellers charts and died a slow death. But, curiosity got the better of me and I cracked the cover. Hallelujah! I was wrong. It seems that the "love the sinner, hate the sin" branch of Christianity IS winning; this is the spirit of Robertson's new book. In it he drives home a clear message: "Love God. Love Your Neighbor." For those who might not know, Robertson here is paraphrasing Jesus' words found at both Matthew 22 and Mark 12. He resonates this theme throughout his new book, and it is certainly one that's hard to argue with. If you hold on to the "Love Your Neighbor" tenet, that covers a multitude of problems that we have in society including: bullies, terrorists, war-for-oil, and a host of other evils.
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He may simplify the problems and over-state his solution: "following Bible principles will cure all of our ills." He goes so far as to write: "All the miseries and evils from which men suffer--vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war--proceed from their despising and neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." This might seem over the top if it weren't for the fact that here he is quoting Noah Webster. You might think that people like Phil who "drink religious Kool-Aid" are all mindless idiots who don't think for themselves (thereby drinking neo-atheist Kool-Aid yourself, I might add)

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Earn Money AND The Intelligent Investor

Earn Money AND The Intelligent Investor

Earn Money AND The Intelligent Investor

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)

When I first came across the first edition of this book in my local library in 1959, I was a teenager. Back in those days there were only a handful of books about the stock market. And I've read all of them during my junior high and high school years.
This latest updated 623-page paperback (the index alone is 33 pages) version updated by Jason Zweig is a welcome addition to this classic. The original chapters are intact, but with footnoted comments by Zweig. Moreover, he provides his own commentary on each chapter contents in a separate chapter following each original chapter. He provides extensive research, charts, tables and commentary that updates the book to the present years. He is not afraid to take on the big guns of Wall Street and show how wrong they were in some of their extremely bullish predictions during January-March 2000, when the market was at its peak.
The first nine chapters cover investing basics that all investors could benefit from. There are many truisms spouted on Wall Street that are not really true. These chapters provide the investor with a realistic picture of how Wall Street works and what investors need to do to come out ahead.
Chapters 10-20 focus strictly on fundamental analysis, stock selection, convertible issues and warrants, and other subjects. Investors who plan to invest directly in stocks should make sure to read these chapters. However, for readers more interested in investing in mutual funds, and in particular index funds, they need not concern themselves with all the detail in these chapters unless they have the time or interest in the subject matter presented.
In conclusion, the combination of pioneer Ben Graham?s original work coupled with Zweig?s meticulous and enjoyable update, make this a remarkable book about investments and investor behavior that every new and experienced investor should read. Of the 500 investing books that I?ve read, this one certainly is one of the greats of all time.
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Earn Money AND Flash Boys Hardcover

Earn Money AND Flash Boys Hardcover

Earn Money AND Flash Boys Hardcover

I retired from the hedge fund world and I can tell you that this book is mostly on target. For those who deny that HFT (high-frequency trading) is a rigged game, either they are un-informed or disingenuous.

It wasn't always like this. There was a time, when a bid was a bid, and an ask was an ask. If you liked the ask, you could hit the buy button and have a buy order confirmed instantly. Likewise, if you liked the bid, you could hit it and have a sale order confirmed instantly. That instant used to be measured in seconds or less. Then came along the HFT algo. All of a sudden, a bid is no longer a firm bid, and an ask is no longer a firm ask. You can hit the bid, but instead of selling instantly, you now become the ask price, and the bid just got lowered by a penny or more, and the market is moving away from you. Most of the time, the price move is a head fake - an illusion, trying to get you to trade at a price with "scalping" built-in against you. If you are willing to stick around, the precise price you want will return and you can have your trade. But other times when execution really matters, it was all real, the price you were willing to trade at just got shifted permanently right before your eyes and somebody "front-run" you.

I decided to retire, partly out of disgust, partly out of my lack of financial ambition. I learned a while ago, if the first million can't make you happy, that you have to accumulate more, you will never be content. If you have to play the rigged game to add more riches to your money pile that most human beings will never see in their lifetime, I feel sorry for you. Life is too short for me to play that game.

Addendum: This book was written for the lay person, so was my review.

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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Earn Money  The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition Hardcover – October 19, 2014

For the first time one is able to read the original editions of the famous tales of the Brothers Grimm in English in an excellent translation by Jack Zipes. Published originally in two volumes in 1812 and 1815, they represent the "raw material" (and it is often raw) that was later edited, polished and bowdlerized to be more acceptable to polite society and children. Almost all of us will be familiar with many of the tales as they were later presented culminating in the 7th edition in 1857, which is often seen as definitive.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were interested in 'recovering the "true" nature of the German people through their so-called natural Poesie, the term that the Grimms often used to describe the formidable ancient Germanic and Nordic literature.' (p. xxiii). Rather than a work of entertainment for children this collection was intended as a scholarly work and included extensive scholarly notes. It was presented with minimal editing with the aim of capturing the original stories as they had been told to the brothers by a variety of sources. Zipes explains, in an interesting introduction, how they wanted to show how the cultivated literature, Kunstpoesie, evolved and eventually replaced Naturpoesie (tales, legends etc.) which survived in oral traditions.
There are a total of 156 tales in the two volumes, including nonsense stories, fables, animal and magical stories. All the well-known stories are there - Rapunzel, Snow White, Bluebeard, etc., etc. - but usually in shorter and often more basic forms. For example, in one version of Rapunzel her meetings with the prince are revealed when she gets pregnant and her clothes become too tight.
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Earn Money AND Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success

Earn Money AND Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success

Earn Money AND Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success

Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches

This is an absolute great book HOWEVER I wouldn't recommend getting the kindle edition or any type of ebook version of it because its also a workbook/journal and in those formats you have no where to write your thoughts and ideas. Buy the paperback or hard cover.
Earn Money AND Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success

Earn Money Dreamers and Deceivers

Earn Money Dreamers and Deceivers

Earn Money Dreamers and Deceivers

 Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America Hardcover – October 28, 2014

Contrary to others who write reviews based solely upon their political leanings (especially those willing to give only one star), this book is a well written work of historical fiction/biography. It is very much on par in quality with something like Ken Follet's works...regardless of what you think of him politically...but is not full of indecent language and indecent content simply to widen a reader base.

Beck draws out historically accurate points for each of the people in this book, and provides fascinating back story to some of the glossed over or taken-for-granted events in history. He in no way sugarcoats the 'good guys', or makes villains of the 'bad'. He states things the way they happened and leaves the reader to decide where to see the good and bad in each example.

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Earn Money Gray Mountain

Earn Money Gray Mountain

Earn Money Gray Mountain Gray Mountain: A Novel Hardcover – October

Earn Money Gray Mountain

Always a fan of John Grisham for his finely etched characterizations and ability to draw the reader into the courtroom drama of which his books are based. This book reads more like a docu drama. I did not like Samantha the female protagonist, who seemed a flat cardboard person who is self absorbed and shallow....bored with her job in a big law firm until she is unexpectedly let go due to the stock market crash. Then she is introduced to a world of the Appalachian "real people" through her volunteering at a free legal clinic and consequently becomes aware of many issues involving hardcore poverty and the huge environmentally devastating coal mining industry. Do not expect an armchair reading the usual Grisham novel generates....I put it down several times tired of the characters and being preached at about a thinly veiled attempt to spread the word of governmental collusion with the coal industry.
Earn Money Gray Mountain

Earn Money AND The Alchemist Paperback

Earn Money AND The Alchemist Paperback

Earn Money AND The Alchemist Paperback

Yes, much of what negative reviewers of this book have to say is true: the writing is blunt and simple, the characters lack depth and complexity, it is quite male-focused in its subject matter and language, it has a bunch of quasi-religious mumbo-jumbo, and so on. This book should not be put on the list of great literature for the ages. There are doubtless many novels that cover subject matter from this book far more artfully. As I read the book, I was aware of its hokeyness and lack of redeeming literary qualities. I am, in fact, usually the first person to criticize books that read like this.
And yet, I have to say - and I feel a bit sheepish about this - that I found it meaningful, even profound at times. How can I say this, given my criticisms? First of all, unlike many reviewers, I did not approach this book with great expectations. No one told me that this was Shakespeare or Tolstoy; I had never even heard of it until it was recommended to me recently. And by the end of page 2, I had adjusted my expectations further. This clearly was not going to be winning the Booker prize.
But I found the book moving in its simple way. The characters deliver their statements without subtlety, but subtlety is more a literary virtue than a philosophical one. In fact, I essentially came to view this work as a life philosophy expressed as a fable, so I didn't particularly mind that its messages were not buried far beneath the surface.
Are those messages novel? No, but what of it? Novelists have been recycling themes for centuries, becuase many themes are of enduring interest and relevance. The point is, the messages are worthwhile and deserving of consideration.

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Earn Money MONEY Master the Game

Earn Money MONEY Master the Game

Earn Money MONEY Master the Game

MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom Hardcover – 
I have not been a Tony Robbin's follower (because I just don't know enough about him), however I have been in the financial markets professionally for along time (20+ years) and pay keen attention to Kyle Bass and Ray Dalio. After listening to a brief interview with Tony on CNBC refer to them being interviewed for the book - I knew I had to buy it.

I just finished it late last night and must say it is an excellent, fast, and simple read.

Brief Overview:

Please note, I have never read any Tony Robbin's books so I am not sure if this is a common theme. While I am not trying to criticize Tony's intentions or his skill, for those that haven't read his books before there is a lot of "excitement", "wow factor", "hype", "selling" and "fluff" in the book - leading up to the meat. So it does read very "self-helpy" for a lack of a better word. Personally I don't mind it and perhaps it helps engage readers that need or want that - but it does add a significant amount of pages (my guesstimate is about 25-30%) to the book.

What is this book really?

It is not a trader, investing, or strategy book really. It does offer some general Principles, but it is NOT a typical trading book and it is NOT intending to be one. So for those looking to read this for education about investing, trading, and strategies - look else where and that is a GOOD THING!

This book is about a big picture objectivity and a philosophical way to invest your money. There are some broad Principles, mainly Dalio's - which for most of those that follow Dailo are already familiar with his All-Weather fund. What he does is simplify it for the average layman or individual investor - which is very well explained (sections 5.1 and 5.2)

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