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- The 7 most important equations for your retirement : the fascinating people and ideas behind planning your retirement income / by Milevsky, Moshe Arye,1967-(CARDINAL)705805;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.An equation can't predict your future-- but it can help you plan for it -- How long will my number last? : equation #1, Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1250) -- How long will I spend in retirement? : equation #2, Benjamin Gompertz (1779-1865) -- Is a pension annuity worth it? : equation #3, Edmond Halley (1656-1742) -- What is a proper spending rate? : equation #4, Irving Fisher (1867-1947) -- How much in risky stocks versus safe cash? : equation #5, Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) -- What is your financial legacy today? : equation #6, Solomon S. Huebner (1882-1964) -- Is my current plan sustainable? : equation #7, Andrei N. Kolmogorov (1903-1987) -- Controversies, omissions, and concluding thoughts -- Appendix. Crash course on natural and unnatural logarithms.- Subjects: Anecdotes.; Retirement; Financial planners; Retraite; Planificateurs financiers;
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- Tar baby / by Morrison, Toni.(CARDINAL)155916;
"Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women."--Cover.A beautiful African-American woman of privilege finds herself attracted to the kind of man she has dreaded since childhood: uneducated, violent, and contemptuous of her.Winner of the 1978 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction. "Beautiful and satisfying ... an unusually wise and large-spirited book ... consistently picturesque, charged with startling images".--Baltimore Sun.- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Domestic fiction.; African Americans; Fugitives from justice; Retirees; Fugitifs recherchés par la justice; Noirs américains; Retraités;
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- Guerre et terebenthine / by Hertmans, Stefan,author.; Rosselin, Isabelle,translator.author.;
"A novel about his grandfather, the artist Urbain Martien, during World War I. Hertmans based it on the notebooks his grandfather gave him in 1981." -- cataloger's summary of various websites."En parcourant les memoires que son grand-pere Urbain Martien lui a confies, l'ecrivain retrace la vie de celui-ci. Ne a Gand en 1891, il a ete contraint de travailler a la fonderie locale a 13 ans, et n'a pu s'adonner a la peinture que lorsqu'il a ete mis a la retraite pour invalidite militaire. Il raconte, apres sa mobilisation en 1914, sa participation a la Premiere Guerre mondiale." -- various websites.- Subjects: War fiction.; Biographical fiction.; World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers; Grandfathers;
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