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This book is for anyone at any age who wants to get a better handle on how to deal with their money. There is a lot to personal finance and very little of it has ever been taught in school. Now there are crypto currencies, options, ETFs and Roth IRAs we all need to make sense of. Take ten minutes, read the first few pages here to learn about saving, its important features, and the best ways to go about it. If that makes sense to you, buy the book and learn more details about personal finance. What the terms mean, how they fit together, and how to make best use of your money:Accounts - 401k, IRA, brokerage, etcAssets- stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, ETFs and more.How to allocate money across your accounts.How to diversify investments to manage risk..How to choose individual stocks.Mortgages - how they work and features to consider.Loans - when to borrow and which to pay off.Taxes - how to pay less of them.Inflation - what happens and why.Psychology and Finance- why investing scares us and how to deal with it.. FAQ - how do I do X? - real questions asked by young people with thoughtful answers.You know this stuff is important. It's not particularly hard but it's not really covered in high school or college, so take the time to read a book. I wrote it to make a difference for my kids and nieces and nephews. Their parents said they learned some things. I hope you do too!

Un Juif et un Arabe ouvrent ensemble un restaurant en face de l'ONU. Ça pourrait être le début d'une blague, mais ce n'est qu'une des nombreuses péripéties de ce truculent roman aux allures de fable espiègle et provocatrice. Ici, une boîte de haricots philosophe, une petite cuillère joue les mystificatrices, une jeune serveuse se rêve star de l'avant-garde new-yorkaise tandis qu'un soudeur découvre le Dieu perdu de Palestine... Alors, on pourrait vous en dire plus mais ce serait vous priver d'un des voyages les plus délurés que la littérature puisse vous offrir. Accrochez-vous et rejoignez Salomé dans sa « danse de la connaissance suprême » pour admirer ses jambes fluettes, etc. Délicieusement drôle.

Tom Robbins, surnommé l''écrivain « le plus dangereux du monde », raconte les expériences qui ont marqué sa vie. Le parcours de celui qui clame comme principe « la joie avant tout » est haut en couleur. Ce petit-fils de prédicateurs baptistes né en Caroline du Nord a suivi un cirque avant de se prendre pour un poète. Il a ensuite été bombardé météorologiste en Corée après s''être engagé dans l''armée, puis il a été DJ pour une radio locale après des études de journalisme, critique d''art dans un journal de Seattle, pour enfin devenir un romancier de renommée mondiale et un héros culturel.

Before Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During the 1970s and 1980s, photographer Larry Racioppo, a South Brooklynite with roots three generations deep, recorded Brooklyn on the cusp of being the trendy borough we know today. In Brooklyn Before, Racioppo lets us see the vitality of his native Brooklyn, stretching from historic Park Slope to the beginnings of Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park. His black and white photographs pull us deep into the community, stretching our memories back more than forty years and teasing out the long-lost recollections of life on the streets and in apartment homes. Racioppo has the fascinating ability to tell a story in one photograph and, because of his native bona fides, he depicts an intriguing set of true Brooklyn stories from the inside, in ways that an outsider simply cannot. On the pages of, Brooklyn Before the intimacy and roughness of life in a working-class community of Irish American, Italian American, and Puerto Rican families is shown with honesty and insight. Racioppo's 128 photographs are paired with essays from journalist Tom Robbins and art critic and curator Julia Van Haaften. Taken together, the images and words of Brooklyn Before return us to pre-gentrification Brooklyn and immerse us in a community defined by work, family, and ethnic ties.

Switters, agent peu conventionnel de la CIA, épicurien à la libido débridée, se rend dans la forêt amazonienne pour libérer le perroquet de sa grand-mère, grande prêtresse du piratage informatique. Il y sera victime d''un sortilège lancé par un étrange chaman à la tête en forme de pyramide. Rendu infirme par cette malédiction, Switters échoue au Moyen-Orient chez des nonnes militant pour la contraception. Il y découvrira l''amour, ainsi qu''une prophétie mystérieuse jadis dictée par la Vierge à Fatima et qui contient le secret d''un nouvel ordre mondial. De l''Amazonie au Vatican, ce roman d''aventures de Tom Robbins est une épopée picaresque balayant d''un trait de plume plein d''humour quelques-uns des plus grands mystères de l''humanité.

Gwendolyn, jeune trader ambitieuse, voit son univers s''effondrer avec les marchés financiers la veille de Pâques. C''est le début du pire week-end de sa vie : alors qu''elle s''imagine déjà privée d''avenir, le singe kleptomane de son petit ami s''enfuit, un ancien as de la finance de retour de Tombouctou s''immisce dans son existence et sa meilleure amie se volatilise, tandis qu''un étrange médecin japonais débarque à Seattle pour y présenter un remède miracle contre le cancer. Au milieu de tout ce désordre, Gwen devra faire un choix : continuer de poursuivre le rêve américain ou partir à l''aventure. Dénonçant le consumérisme de l''Amérique et ses désirs de gloire, Comme la grenouille sur son nénuphar est un chef-d''oeuvre d''humour et de fantaisie.

Leigh-Cheri, vingt ans, rousse, végétarienne, idéaliste et princesse de son état, vit en exil près de Seattle avec ses parents. Elle vient de quitter la fac, le coeur brisé par un membre de l''équipe de football et ne croit plus en l''amour. Mais alors qu''elle assiste à un festival écolo à Hawaï, au milieu des scientifiques et politiciens assemblés, elle rencontre Bernard Mickey Wrangle, hors-la-loi en cavale surnommé le Pivert. Il est roux comme elle, il veut dynamiter le festival, et il va lui prouver que l''amour existe.

Leigh-Cheri, vingt ans, rousse, végétarienne, idéaliste et princesse de son état, vit en exil près de Seattle avec ses parents. Elle vient de quitter la fac, le coeur brisé par un membre de l'équipe de football et ne croit plus en l'amour. Mais alors qu'elle assiste à un festival écolo à Hawaï, au milieu des scientifiques et politiciens assemblés, elle rencontre Bernard Mickey Wrangle, hors-la-loi en cavale surnommé le Pivert. Il est roux comme elle, il veut dynamiter le festival, et il va lui prouver que l'amour existe.

Dotée à sa naissance des deux plus longs pouces du monde, Sissy Hankshaw décide de devenir la plus grande autostoppeuse des États-Unis. Partant ainsi à l''aventure, Sissy fera une série de rencontres étonnantes qui transformeront sa vie : la Comtesse, magnats des déodorants intimes ; Julian Gitche, l''Indien qui sera un temps son mari ; le docteur Robbins, psychiatre farfelu. Et surtout les cow-girls du ranch de la Rose de Caoutchouc qui revendiquent l''égalité avec les hommes sous la conduite de la belle et sauvage Bonanza Jellybean. Dans ce roman drôle et excentrique, Tom Robbins bouscule allègrement les conventions morales et littéraires. De ce chef-d''œuvre de la contre-culture, rien ni personne ne sortira indemne.

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, ''one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out''. That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Tim Robinson''s epic exploration of the desolate, storm-lashed, limestone rocks, which have already haunted generations of Irish writers, takes the form of a clockwise journey around the coast. Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition.

Dieses Buch – der zweite Roman des amerikanischen Kultautors Tom Robbins – offenbart den Widerspruch zwischen sozialem Engagement und individueller Romantik, die Frage nach dem Zweck des Mondes, den Unterschied zwischen einem «Outlaw» und einem Allerweltsbanditen, kurz: das Problem der Liebe am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dass es bei all dem auch um das Problem der Rothaarigen geht, sollte hier nicht vorenthalten werden.

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins’ legendary memoir—wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads. In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures —told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. The grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins would become over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air force weatherman, a radio DJ, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters. Robbins offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the West Coast during the Sixties psychedelic revolution, international roving before homeland security monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it still relied on trees. Written with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which he is known, Tibetan Peach Pie is an invitation into the private world of a literary legend. “A rollicking reminiscence of his Appalachian upbringing, his spiral through the psychedelic ’60s, and his unconventional path to literary stardom.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

Ein Jude und ein Araber eröffnen gemeinsam ein Restaurant gegenüber dem New Yorker UNO-Gebäude. Da solch ein Ort der Völkerverständigung militanten Fundamentalisten aller Seiten ein Dorn im Auge sein muss, gehen bald die Bombendrohungen ein. Eine phantastische Geschichte. Auf den Seiten tanzen – wild und erotisch wie Salome – die verrücktesten Gestalten, die schärfsten Sprüche und die provokantesten Gedanken. «‹Salomes siebter Schleier› ist Tom Robbins'' Meisterwerk ... eine wahre, wohlige Lust zu lesen.» (Berliner Morgenpost)

An der Börse in Seattle stürzen die Kurse ab. Die Börsenmaklerin Gwendolyn Mati befürchtet, mit ihren nicht ganz sauberen Spekulationen baden zu gehen. Sie strapaziert all ihren Grips, um den Kopf aus der Schlinge zu ziehen, und wird in schicksalhafte Abenteuer verstrickt. «Der ‹Halbschlaf im Froschpyjama› wird Ihnen den Schlaf rauben, mindestens eine Nacht lang.» (NDR)

“[A] fascinating new book about mafia boss Alfonso D’Arco, who became the federal government’s most successful cooperator.” —The Village Voice Alfonso “Little Al” D’Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese organized crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti’s top aide, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D’Arco’s life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for four decades. Until the day he switched sides, D’Arco lived and breathed the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D’Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on mob secrets going back a hundred years. After speaking with D’Arco, the authors reveal unprecedented insights, exposing shocking secrets and troublesome truths about a city where a famous pizza parlor doubled as a Mafia center for multi-million-dollar heroin deals, where hit men carried out murders dressed as women, and where kidnapping a celebrity newsman’s son was deemed appropriate revenge for the father’s satirical novel. Capeci and Robbins spent hundreds of hours in conversation with D’Arco, and exhausted many hours more fleshing out his stories in this riveting narrative that takes readers behind the famous witness testimony for a comprehensive look at the Mafia in New York City.

Ein CIA-Agent unterwegs im Auftrag der Großmutter Was haben ein zur Nonne gewordenes Nacktmodell, ein Urwaldmagier, eine Großmutter, eine reizvolle Lolita und der Papst gemein? Sie sind Albtraum und Erlösung für CIA-Agent Switters: ein vom Staat bezahlter Anarchist, ein knarretragender Pazifist und ein keuscher Lebemann, den nur zwei Fragen umtreiben: wie man Frauen ins Bett kriegt und wie man die bedrohte Weltordnung rettet. Switters ist ein Held, wie er im Buche steht. Aber nur in diesem! «Der wildeste Schriftsteller der Welt!» (Financial Times)

This volume contains more than 20 interviews with the acclaimed author of "Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life With Woodpecker, B Is for Beer," and many other novels.

When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, though ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced you are facing the Weekend From Hell.You don''t know the half of it! Obviously, before the market reopens on Monday, you''re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there''s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you are jerked from one trial and one revelation to another; forced to confront things ranging from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space.The weekend isn''t from Hell, it''s from Sirius the Dog Star. And by the time it''s over, the glide path of your destiny has been knocked widely askew.You may or may not be a better person, you may or may not have found love, the world may or may not be a different place, yet cosmic connections have been established that cannot be broken.And as an indication of just how strange it has all become, you - prosaic, materialistic, irritable you - are left with a complete understanding of the surprisingly serious phrase ''half asleep in frog pajamas''.