Riches Among the Ruins

Riches Among the Ruins

Author: Robert P. Smith

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780814410608

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Details the financial-oriented adventures of Robert P. Smith, who has made and lost millions by making risky investments in troubled economies around the world, and describes his trips to Baghdad, Vietnam, Guatemala, and other places.


Water: Riches Or Ruin

Water: Riches Or Ruin

Author: Helen Bauer

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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Discusses the need for conservation in the United States, the water cycle, erosion of soil and ways to stop it, slowing down running water, dams, transportation of water to cities and farms, and the need for planning to assure an adequate water supply.


From Ruin to Riches

From Ruin to Riches

Author: Louise Allen

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1460324285

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A lord in want of a wife Ruined and on the run, Julia Prior is in desperate straits when she meets a gentleman with a shocking proposal. Certain he is close to death, William Hadfield, Lord Dereham, sees Julia as the perfect woman to care for his beloved estate when he is gone—if she will first become his wife…. Marriage is Julia's salvation—as Lady Hadfield, she can finally escape her sins. Until three years later, when the husband she believes to be dead returns, as handsome and strong as ever and intent on claiming the wedding night they never had! "Allen reaches into readers' hearts." —RT Book Reviews on Married to a Stranger


Crude Nation

Crude Nation

Author: Raul Gallegos

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2016-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1612348572

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Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude--the world's largest reserves--an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc. Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela's economic ruin and turned the country into a cautionary tale for the world. Raúl Gallegos, a former Caracas-based oil correspondent, paints a picture both vivid and analytical of the country's economic decline, the government's foolhardy economic policies, and the wrecked lives of Venezuelans. Without transparency, the Venezuelan government uses oil money to subsidize life for its citizens in myriad unsustainable ways, while regulating nearly every aspect of day-to-day existence in Venezuela. This has created a paradox in which citizens can fill up the tanks of their SUVs for less than one American dollar while simultaneously enduring nationwide shortages of staples such as milk, sugar, and toilet paper. Gallegos's insightful analysis shows how mismanagement has ruined Venezuela again and again over the past century and lays out how Venezuelans can begin to fix their country, a nation that can play an important role in the global energy industry.


Treadwell Gold

Treadwell Gold

Author: Sheila Kelly

Publisher: University of Alaska Press

Published: 2010-05-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1602231028

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A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity. Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold mining’s past.


Creatures of Want and Ruin

Creatures of Want and Ruin

Author: Molly Tanzer

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1328710254

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This sequel to Creatures of Will and Temper picks up in 1927 Long Island, where Ellie West fishes by day and sells moonshine by night to the citizens of her home town. But after Ellie's father joins a church whose parishioners possess supernatural powers and a violent hatred for immigrants, Ellie finds she doesn't know her beloved island, or her father, as well as she thought.


How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio

How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio

Author: Ben Stein

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 111895131X

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Hilarious advice on what NOT to do with money, from financial funny man Ben Stein Everyone's searching for the secrets to financial success, but what about the best ways to lose money . . . fast?! In How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio, bestselling author, economist, financial commentator, and media personality Ben Stein explains exactly what to do . . . to go bust! The ultimate "how-NOT-to" guide, the book gives readers invaluable tips that should be avoided at all costs. Written in Stein's own inimitable style, this hilarious guide provides essential financial advice on what not to do when it comes to managing money. From reading and acting upon investing newsletters to trading on a margin, from investing in bonds to breathlessly following CNBC, and from buying stock in firms you do not understand to believing in your own genius at stock picking to keeping as little cash on hand as possible, Stein presents the rules that every would-be investor needs to know, so they can do the exact opposite and actually make money. Fully revised and updated, this new edition presents all-new missteps that can destroy any portfolio. Fully revised and updated edition of the tongue-in-cheek bestseller that shows investors what not to do with their money Written by acclaimed author economist, financial commentator, and media personality Ben Stein Loaded with indispensable pieces of bad advice that readers should avoid at all costs A laugh-out-loud approach to personal finance, How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio is an accessible guide to money from the funniest man in finance.


This Day All Gods Die

This Day All Gods Die

Author: Stephen R. Donaldson

Publisher: Spectra

Published: 2009-12-09

Total Pages: 699

ISBN-13: 0307574059

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The Gap series comes to a shattering climax in a cataclysmic showdown that will mean either the survival of all humankind . . . or its absorption and annihilation. Drifting in space, sabotaged by a crewman tainted with an alien mutagen, the starship Trumpet broadcasts to any ship in range the formula of the mutagen’s antidote—a drug the United Mining Companies has suppressed for its own sinister purposes. Aboard the crippled ship, the fugitives and survivors—Morn Hyland, an ex-UMCP cop, Angus Thermopyle, a newly freed cyborg, and unwilling saboteur Ciro Vasaczk—must make a desperate gamble. Pursued by the UMCP ship Punisher, threatened by the return of an Amnion combat vessel, they will hijack the police craft by any means necessary—and take it back to Earth.


A Marxist Interpretation of Church Leadership

A Marxist Interpretation of Church Leadership

Author: Jon-Arild Johannessen

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-02-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1666920614

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A Marxist Interpretation of Church Leadership: Romans 13:1–7 is a study of Romans 13: 1-7 from a Marxist perspective. If too much emphasis is given to obedience, then this may provide the fundament for capitalism ruling with a focus on profit before people.