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Author: S. A. Monkress
Publisher: Sue Monkress
Published: 2009-03-29
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0557052742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel back in time with Jessie to the exciting 1900's oil boom in wild, beautiful Oklahoma -- to an era when those entrepreneurs BOLD enough to gamble on their dreams amassed fortunes!
Author: Sue Townley Monkress
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-25
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ambitious young girl in 1914 Oklahoma dreams of a career outside the home. And builds an oil empire!
Author: Iain R. Thomson
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2013-08-08
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0857907611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Long Horizon is an extraordinary book. Much more than simply the chronicle of a life spent farming in the Scottish Highlands, it is also a wonderful collection of stories, both factual and fictional, which reflect the changes that have revolutionised Highland life and dramatically affected the natural environment over the centuries. Using the colourful background to the Fraser clan chiefs as a central theme, from the cunning Red Fox through to the sudden death of the Master of Lovat, which set in train the sale of the Fraser empire around Beaufort Castle, Iain Thomson weaves an entertaining narrative that shows how historical events have such a profound effect on what happens today. Throughout the book shines the writer's deep love of the countryside and a respect for the generations before him who have carved their living from the harsh environment of the Highlands. It is a marvellous celebration both of the farming way of life and one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland.
Author: Mamare Touno
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2015-04-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780316383059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty thousand Japanese gamers awake one day to discover that the fantasy world of Elder Tales, an MMORPG that was formerly their collective hobby, has become their cold hard reality. Severed from their everyday lives, they confront a new horizon filled with ravenous monsters, flavorless food, and the inability to die! Amid the chaos, veteran gamer Shiroe gathers his friends, the guardian Naotsugu and the assassin Akatsuki, and together they embark on an adventure to change the world as they know it!
Author: Mamare Touno
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1975309928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Catastrophe hit, American Elder Tales player Leonardo was one of the many people trapped. Stuck on the Chinese server with none of his friends and surrounded by thousands of monsters, his situation is hopeless...until a headstrong girl comes to his rescue! Kanami, the former Debauchery Tea Party leader, recruits him for her party. Along with the hero Elias, the blank-faced healer Coppélia, and a strange white horse that can talk, the group resolves to travel to the Japanese server, the only place where the new expansion pack unlocked before the Catastrophe struck. The long trek eastward begins!
Author: Haim Levy
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2022-04-28
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9811250162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA century ago, life expectancy was roughly 40 years, hence all income could be consumed, as for most people, there was no need to save for retirement. Today, things have drastically changed: Life expectancy exceeds 80 years in many countries, and one should expect to live and consume many years after retirement. Thus, we have many investors with various investment horizons, where the length of the investment horizon becomes a crucial factor in determining the best investment diversification.This book analyzes the effect of the investment horizon on the optimal diversification, specifically between stocks and bonds: Should a young investor and an older investor have the same portfolio? Is it recommended to savers for retirement to change the asset allocation between stocks and bonds as they grow older, as life cycle mutual funds do in practice? Is the idiom 'stocks for the long run' backed by scientific evidence? We analyze for which horizons it is recommended to employ the popular Mean-Variance rule and for which horizons employing this rule induces an economic distortion, hence a loss to the investors. It is shown that all relevant parameters for investment choice (means, variances, and correlations) change in a non-linear way with the horizon, a fact that makes the investment horizon crucial for investment choices. Similarly, the popular Sharpe, Treynor, and Jensen performance indices vary with the assumed horizon even in the case of independence over time. To analyze all the above issues, we employ the Mean-Variance rule and Stochastic Dominance rules, as well as direct expected utility calculations.
Author: Mamare Touno
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1975306368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world of Elder Tales was supposed to be fun for everyone, but ever since the 12th expansion pack came out and trapped thirty thousand gamers within its fantastical confines, it's not much fun anymore! Nobody knows how to return to the real world, the food has no taste, and even death is no escape. Since the change, the world has fallen into lawlessness, and a strong guild is a player's only hope for survival. It's amid these dire circumstances that Shiroe sets off across the virtual landscape with his friends Naotsugu and Akatsuki on an adventure of discovery as they try to understand the nature of their new reality. Illustrator Kazuhiro Hara has adapted Mamare Touno's light novel series into a comic that gamers and manga fans alike won't want to miss!
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0525656219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.
Author: Mamare Touno
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1975383877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost a full year has passed since Shiroe and the others found themselves stuck in Elder Tales. Most of the Akiba residents have grown accustomed to the new world--though, they still don't want to be there. Minori delivers Shiroe a letter from Roe2, his sub-character from the test server. He suspects she's someone who might be able to explain exactly why the Catastrophe happened and for what purpose.
Author: Mamare Touno
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 197530991X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo obtain their very own Magic Bags, Touya, Minori, Serara, Isuzu, and Rundelhaus set off on their very first journey as a five-member party! Their quest to find the materials soon becomes a cross-country musical tour, as Isuzu further explores what music means both to her and to the People of the Earth. But no ordinary gig awaits them, because the kids are on their first real adventure without aid. Will they really be safe in this world that's more dangerous than it seems?
