Be better. Be brief. Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night. Brooke Harrington followed the money to the eighteen most popular tax havens in the world, interviewing wealth managers to understand how they help their high-net-worth clients dodge taxes, creditors, and disgruntled heirs—all while staying just within the letter of the law.
She even trained to become a wealth manager herself in her quest to penetrate the fascinating, shadowy world of the guardians of the one percent.
The others—those were definitely me. Now, he makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India's elite—a situation that becomes complicated when one of his clients, the sweet but hapless eighteen-year-old Rudi Saxena, places first in the All Indias, the national university entrance exams, thanks to him. As he leads Rudi through a maze of crimes both large and small, their dizzying journey reveals an India in all its complexity, beauty, and squalor, moving from the bottom rungs to the circles inhabited by the ultra-rich and everywhere in between.
A caper, social satire, and love story rolled into one, How to Kidnap the Rich is a wild ride told by a mesmerizing new talent with an electric voice. Book Summary: An action-packed thriller from global bestseller Wilbur Smith "It takes one to recognise one. This was a man trained to live with and by violence. He was muscle, a soldier, in the jargon. I had hoped never to see this kind of barracuda cruising St Mary's placid waters. It gave me a sick little slide in the guts to know that it had found me out again.
But that life hasn't left him Harry Fletcher lives a quiet life these days, running a tourist fishing boat from the quiet island of St Mary's, off the South African coast. Then his next group arrives, with very specific instructions for Harry -instructions that suggest they know exactly who he is.
Before he knows it, Harry has been swept back into a world of greed and violence, of men who will do anything to get their hands on the treasure under the sea, and of women who are too beautiful to trust.
But when the Great Mogul diamond is the prize, all Harry knows is that he'll do anything to get there first Book Summary: The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.
Sandwiched between barbed wire and a meadow with a sign that reads "Don't Get Shot! Safe from viruses that have plagued America for years, Kingfisher offers a respite for wealthy clients. Now it also promises a second chance for Jack, a return to normalcy after a young life filled with loss. When he is assigned to guide a well-known singer, his only job is to rig her line, carry her gear, and steer her to the best trout he can find.
But then a human scream pierces the night, and Jack soon realizes that this idyllic fishing lodge may be merely a cover for a far more sinister operation. A novel as gripping as it is lyrical, as frightening as it is moving, The Guide is another masterpiece from Peter Heller.
Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a young woman named Courtney Wild came to see him. She told a shocking story of having been sexually coerced at the age of fourteen by a wealthy man in Palm Beach named Jeffrey Epstein.
Edwards, who had never heard of Epstein, had no idea that this moment would change the course of his life. Over the next ten years, Edwards devoted himself to bringing Epstein to justice, and came close to losing everything in the process. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines.
In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination—propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data. Book Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time.
In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.
And so is getting to know the delicious Elizabeth Milton. The fiery Texas heiress combines cosmopolitan chic with down-home sass—a mix impossible for a city slicker to resist. But a carefree affair is all they can have. A stipulation in her family's will keeps Elizabeth honor-bound to stay in Royal.
And this millionaire's business will soon force him to move on. Unless either dares to make the ultimate sacrifice and put love first. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father—a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, —Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge.
From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing—and compelling—as the twenty-first century promises to be From helping a client get married in the Vatican, to charming and connecting with business mogul Elon Musk, Bluefish founder Steve Sims is known to make the impossible possible. Now, in his first book, he shares tips, techniques, and principles to break down any door and step onto whatever glamorous stage awaits you.
Straight to Hell pulls back the curtain on a world that is both hated and envied, taking readers from the trading floors and roadshows to private planes and after-hours overindulgence.
Full of shocking lawlessness, boyish antics, and win-at-all-costs schemes, this is the definitive take on the deviant, dysfunctional, and absolutely excessive world of finance. In a deeply reported account, award-winning journalist Lauren Etter tells a riveting story of greed and deception in one of the biggest botched deals in business history. Kinky sex. The kinkier the better. Enter: Nathan Sinclair. Not the first time I see him after the party.
Or the next time. Or the time after that. And as much as I try to stop it, my two worlds are crashing into each other, putting my job and my reputation at risk. And all I can think about is Nathan Sinclair. All I can think about is getting just one more dirty, filthy fix. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do. Book Summary: A cutting-edge guide to applying the latest research in brain science to leadership - to sharpen performance, encourage innovation, and enhance job satisfaction.
The understanding of how our brains work has radically shifted, exploding long-held myths about our everyday cognitive performance and fundamentally changing the way we engage and succeed in the workplace. Combining their expertise in both neuropsychology and management consulting, neuropsychologist Friederike Fabritius and leadership expert Dr. Hans W. Hagemann present simple yet powerful strategies for: - Sharpening focus - Achieving the highest performance - Learning and retaining information more efficiently - Improving complex decision-making - Cultivating trust and building strong teams Based on the authors' popular leadership programs, which have been delivered to tens of thousands of leaders all over the world, this clear, insightful, and engaging book will help both individuals and teams perform at their maximum potential, delivering extraordinary results.
Combining in-depth, investigative reporting and fresh interviews, the authors effectively tabloid-proof this shocking, celebrity-driven story by lining up the facts and labeling rumors.
His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life--one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast? All-American Murder is the first book to investigate Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own shocking and untimely death.
Book Summary: In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves you. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men—and change your life.
Women who are armed with the insights found in these pages will be on the road to recovering control of their lives. Silverman, Ph. Book Summary: The world of investing normally sees experts telling us the 'right' way to manage our money. How often do these experts pull back the curtain and tell us how they invest their own money? How I Invest My Money changes that. In this unprecedented collection, 25 financial experts share how they navigate markets with their own capital. In this honest rendering of how they invest, save, spend, give, and borrow, this group of portfolio managers, financial advisors, venture capitalists and other experts detail the 'how' and the 'why' of their investments.
Performance: Follow in-depth discussions and tips throughout the book that will help you learn how to write high-performing GUI applications. Images: Understand how images are created and used to make better Java applications.
Advanced Graphics: Find out about elements of Swing and Java 2D that may not be in common use but that filthy rich clients benefit from greatly. Animation: Discover general concepts of animation, as well as how to use the facilities provided in the Java platform. Learn about new utilities that vastly simplify animations in Java.
Effects: Learn how to create and use static and animated effects that are the mainstay of filthy rich clients. Every chapter is filled with code examples which come directly from demos and libraries posted on this web site.
Outline Filthy Rich Clients covers many graphics-related topics. Download the Demos The source code for all the examples and demos from the book is available on GitHub at github. Dependencies: The examples might require the following two libraries to work properly. When required, the binaries are included in the source tree of each example but you might want to download these libraries separately.
Animated Transitions Timing Framework. Reviews You want to know what others think about the book? Check out the following reviews. Take a look at the following excerpts. Errata Despite our efforts the book is not perfect and your edition might contain a few mistakes or it might lack a piece of information. Chapter 2 Figure 8 is wrong. Chapter 4 On page , note that the getFasterScaledInstance was only intended for downscaling images. Chapter 6 One page , resultG and resultB should be calculated with srcG and srcB , respectively they incorrectly use srcR in the example code.
On page , the last paragraph should read To implement the AddContext [ Chapter 18 Effect memory leak In order to address a memory leak that comes from adding but never removing PropertySetters to the Animator used for ScreenTransition, there is a new method in Effect : public void cleanup Animator animator ; This method is a parallel to the existing init Animator method, only this one is called after the transition is complete, and gives the Effect a chance to clean up after itself such as removing targets from the Animator.
Cleaning Out EffectsManager EffectsManager makes it possible to set custom effects for an application, but not until now to remove thoes effects. To fix this, EffectsManager now has three new methods: public static void removeEffect JComponent component, TransitionType transitionType ; public static void clearEffects TransitionType transitionType ; public static void clearAllEffects ; removeEffect removes a single effect associated with a component and transitionType , clearEffects transitionType clears all effects for a given transition type, and clearAllEffects clears all effects regardless of the transition type.
The keys to Filthy Rich Clients are graphical and animated effects. These kinds of effects provide ways of enhancing the user experience of the application through more attractive GUIs, dynamic effects that give your application a pulse, and animated transitions that keep your user connected to the logical flow of the application. The book also discusses how to do so effectively, making sure to enrich applications in sensible ways. Learn how to maximize the flexibility of these libraries and use them most effectively.
Performance: Follow in-depth discussions and tips throughout the book that will help you write high-performing GUI applications. Images: Understand how images are created and used to make better Java applications.
Animation: Discover general concepts of animation, as well as how to use the facilities provided in the Java platform. Learn new utility libraries that vastly simplify animations in Java.
Effects: Learn how to create, customize, and use static and animated effects—the mainstays of Filthy Rich Clients. Informal, fun, and, most of all, useful, this book is great for any developer working with Java to build desktop applications.
It's the good guys versus the bad guys. But, the good guys aint that good! Ash O'Halloran is happy with her futon, her flat, her cat and her job as a party caterer.
She doesn't do impulsive. She is absolutely, perfectly in control of her single woman's life. And if she can't have relationships without complications - then she's content to carry on as she is.
Ms Self-Contained. But when she's employed to cook the supper over which Dan Morland plans to propose to his girlfriend, suddenly she becomes party to someone else's relationship - in all its tangled, heart-breaking complexity. And, as she watches Dan struggling to sort out the mess his emotions have got him into, Ash starts to realise she's not Ms Invulnerable after all What readers are saying about My Favourite Goodbye: 'An absolutely excellent book - I don't think I've read a more touching story since' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'I have read a couple of Sheila O'Flanagan's books already but this one is by far the best.
I wanted to read it all in one go but I just didn't want it to end so like a delicious bar of chocolate I allowed myself a bit at a time' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars 'What a delightful read! I cannot imagine anyone not enjoying this charming, light-hearted and humorous book' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars.
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