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Investing in Liquid Assets

Uncorking Profits in Today's Global Wine Market

By: David Sokolin,Alexandra Bruce

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Investing in Liquid Assets

Uncorking Profits in Today's Global Wine Market

By: David Sokolin,Alexandra Bruce

Now more than ever, the value of Investment-Grade Wines (IGWs) and opportunities to invest in wine as an asset class are soaring. With a little research and a little risk, wine enthusiasts on every level will find it possible to gain big rewards in wine investment -- and there's never been a better time to try. IGWs have dependably outperformed blue chip stocks over the past 150 years, and the upscale wine market is still an area in which independent investors can profit handsomely. A third-generation wine merchant, and CEO of one of the largest rare-wine companies in the world, David Sokolin knows how to turn fine wine into cold cash. And he knows how you can, too. In simple, practical terms, Investing in Liquid Assets provides all the information you need to understand the economic principles that govern the world of fine wine and take advantage of the resources currently available. Using his insider's expertise, Sokolin defines Investment-Grade Wine and identifies the most financially important wine regions and styles. Defining the key players in the field, Sokolin shows you how to navigate the world of wine critics and understand the impact of their scores, and he explains why it's perfectly fine that your own personal tastes really don't matter. He offers tips on where to find reputable sources for fine wine, how to manage storage and resale, as well as all-important buying and selling strategies. In the second half of the book, he gives overviews of the world's greatest wine regions and offers his predictions about which regions and which wines are likely to represent the greatest investment opportunities in the near future. Providing information and tactics previously known only to successful professionals, Investing in Liquid Assets turns your passion for fine wine into a valuable resource that will pay for itself.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416565000

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Investing in Liquid Assets

Uncorking Profits in Today's Global Wine Market

By: David Sokolin,Alexandra Bruce

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Uncorking Profits in Today's Global Wine Market

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Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

By: David Frick

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Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

By: David Frick

In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, languages, and faiths. In Kith, Kin, and Neighbors, David Frick shows how Wilno's inhabitants navigated and negotiated these differences in their public and private lives. This remarkable book opens with a walk through the streets of Wilno, offering a look over the royal quartermaster's shoulder as he made his survey of the city's intramural houses in preparation for King Wladyslaw IV's visit in 1636. These surveys (Lustrations) provide concise descriptions of each house within the city walls that, in concert with court and church records, enable Frick to accurately discern Wilno's neighborhoods and human networks, ascertain the extent to which such networks were bounded confessionally and culturally, determine when citizens crossed these boundaries, and conclude which kinds of cross-confessional constellations were more likely than others. These maps provide the backdrops against which the dramas of Wilno lives played out: birth, baptism, education, marriage, separation or divorce, guild membership, poor relief, and death and funeral practices. Perhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors sets a new standard for urban history and for work on the religious and communal life of Eastern Europe.

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Cornell University Press

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0801467535

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9780801467530

Never Speak to Strangers and other writing from Russia and the Soviet Union

By: David Satter

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Never Speak to Strangers and other writing from Russia and the Soviet Union

By: David Satter

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June, 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. After 1982, he was banned from the Soviet Union but allowed back in 1990, and finally expelled in 2013 on the grounds that the secret police regarded his presence as “undesirable.” From 1976 to the present, he saw four different Russias, which differed from each other radically while remaining essentially the same. From 1976 to 1982, the Soviet Union was at the height of its world power and its people were in thrall to an absurd ideology. With the advent of Gorbachev’s perestroika, the Soviet population was liberated from the ideology and the state hurtled to its inevitable collapse. When independent Russia emerged from the wreckage, the failure to replace the missing ideology with genuine moral values led to Russia’s complete criminalization. The articles in this unique collection are a chronicle of Russia from the day David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union until the present. Emigres from the states of the former Soviet Union often despair of their inability to convey the true character of their experiences to the West. Penetrating the veil of Russian mystification requires effort and the ability to understand that seeing is not always believing. The Russians have created an entire false world for our benefit. This collection reflects David Satter’s 40-year attempt to see them as they are.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3838214579

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9783838214573

Hal David: His Magic Moments

There is Always Something There to Remind Me

By: Eunice David

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Hal David: His Magic Moments

There is Always Something There to Remind Me

By: Eunice David

Hal David: His Magic Moments: There is Always Something There to Remind Me by Eunice David Eunice and Hal David’s love for each other was legendary. For the first time, Eunice recounts her exciting life as the wife of one of the world’s most renowned lyricists. Memorable anecdotes include how Hal came to write some of his most iconic songs, such as the Academy Award-winning “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “What the World Needs Now is Love,” “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” and “The Four Winds and the Seven Seas.” All set within the span of their world-wide travels and historic events, this novel covers their magical twenty-five years of marriage, which all began with a simple game of tennis.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480931004

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The Immortalists

Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

By: David M. Friedman

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The Immortalists

Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

By: David M. Friedman

His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth century, the subject of best-selling biographies and a hit movie, as well as the inspiration for a dance step—the Lindy Hop—that he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention lavished on Lindbergh, one story has remained untold until now: his macabre scientific collaboration with Dr. Alexis Carrel. This oddest of couples—one a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning surgeon turned social engineer, the other a failed dirt farmer turned hero of the skies—joined forces in 1930 driven by a shared and secret dream: to conquer death and attain immortality. Part Frankenstein, part The Professor and the Madman, and all true, The Immortalists is the remarkable story of how two men of prodigious achievement and equally large character flaws challenged nature's oldest rule, with consequences—personal, professional, and political—that neither man anticipated.

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Harper Collins

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0061963410

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9780061963414

A David Suzuki Collection

A Lifetime of Ideas

By: David Suzuki

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A David Suzuki Collection

A Lifetime of Ideas

By: David Suzuki

Preface Foreword by Bill McKibben Interconnections Economics and Politics Science, Technology, and Information A Biocentric View Leaders, Role Models, and Success Stories Ethics Epilogue References

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Allen & Unwin

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1741143055

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9781741143058

Two Visionary Brothers

David and Alfred Smart

By: David Mazie

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Two Visionary Brothers

David and Alfred Smart

By: David Mazie

David and Alfred Smart were the Chicago-based founders of Esquire magazine, launched in 1933. One of the first men's fashion magazines, Esquire was also distinguished by the high quality of its literary and editorial features: the first issue included pieces by Ernest Hemingway and Jon Dos Passos, and Dashiell Hammett. The Smart brothers' other ventures included Coronet Films, the nation's leading producer of educational and training films during the Cold War era—many of which are now cult favorites. This fully illustrated biography chronicles their lives and innovations in the film and magazine publishing business.

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University of Chicago David & Alfred

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0935573372

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Das Affenpuzzle und weitere bad news aus der Computerwelt

und weitere bad news aus der Computerwelt

By: David Harel

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Das Affenpuzzle und weitere bad news aus der Computerwelt

und weitere bad news aus der Computerwelt

By: David Harel

In einer brillanten tour de force beweist der bekannte Computer-Wissenschaftler David Harel bestechend logisch, dass selbst die leistungsstärksten Computer der Welt nicht alles können und niemals können werden. Eine provokative, mit Überraschungen gewürzte Botschaft, die uns an die Grenzen allen Wissens führt.

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3540423079

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Book's by David Sokolin

Investing in Liquid Assets

Investing in Liquid Assets

Investing in Liquid Assets

Investing in Liquid Assets

Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

Never Speak to Strangers and other writing from Russia and the Soviet Union

Never Speak to Strangers and other writing from Russia and the Soviet Union

Hal David: His Magic Moments

Hal David: His Magic Moments

The Immortalists

The Immortalists

A David Suzuki Collection

A David Suzuki Collection

Two Visionary Brothers

Two Visionary Brothers

Das Affenpuzzle und weitere bad news aus der Computerwelt

Das Affenpuzzle und weitere bad news aus der Computerwelt

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