Unlucky Number


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The true crime story of murdered Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare. Poor man. Rich man. Dead man. It sounded like a fairy tale: A homeless man named Abraham Shakespeare spent his last dollars on a Florida State lottery ticket—and miraculously won $31 million. Unprepared for his new found fortune, Abraham hired Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore to help manage his winnings and field the numerous requests for loans and assistance that he received. But somehow, Dee Dee was the only one benefiting. When Abraham quietly disappeared from his home in Florida, friends and family grew suspicious—though he could not read or write, his only form of contact was through odd letters and texts. But it wasn’t until investigators began to question Dee Dee about her role in Abraham’s finances that a complicated web of lies—and the desperate lengths to which one woman would go to cover it up—was exposed…










Basis for Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings


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This authoritative series discusses issues relevant to Islam and presents accurate and reliable information based on the true beliefs and practices of the Prophet and his companions. (World Religions)




Priced to Influence, Sell & Satisfy: Lessons from Behavioral Economics for Pricing Success


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Pricing holds the key to business success. The greatest challenge in pricing is the human factor. To price effectively, customer psychology usually trumps rational microeconomic thinking. * How did Subway turn one accidentally discovered price promotion into a multi-billion dollar success story? * How much knowledge of prices do customers really have? * Why do most people spend two months’ salary to buy an engagement ring? * Does Pay What You Want pricing really work? * How can you get your customers to trade up? * Why do Supreme t-shirts sell for $1,500 or more? * Why do so many consumers hate Uber’s surge pricing even though economists love it? In Priced to Influence, Sell & Satisfy, you will find answers to these and many more questions. The book introduces the latest thinking about Psychological Pricing, the science of designing effective pricing strategies using behavioral economics principles. You will learn how customers search for, evaluate, share, and use prices in their buying decisions, how they participate in setting prices, and what managers can do to understand and influence these processes. Psychological pricing actions are levered. Many of them require relatively small investments and produce disproportionately large returns to the business.




Numericon


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Numericon tells the stories of the numbers, mathematical discoveries, oddities and personalities that have shaped the way we understand the world around us. Funny, bizarre, tragic and dramatic, these stories reveal the power, passion and beauty of mathematics. Each chapter is an intriguing story about a number, including why 3 is strong, e is natural and Graham's number is too big to write. Packed with quirky, informative facts and bound in a beautiful foil-blocked cover, this book will do for maths what The Etymologicon did for the English language.







Bad Luck and Trouble


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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • The inspiration for season two of the hit streaming series Reacher! “Electrifying . . . this series [is] utterly addictive.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and the people he once trusted with his life. Reacher is the ultimate loner—no phone, no ties, no address. But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know. Then she tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his team, scrambling to unravel the sudden disappearance of two other comrades. But Reacher won’t give up—because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them.




The Beast and His Number (666) On the Calculator


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About the Book The Beast and His Number (666) On the Calculator was written for the expressed purpose of compiling more data amongst the readers of those who have a mathematical mind, and who are of a religious nature. This compendium shows how to derive the Beast's number, 666, and other relevant numbers pertaining to the number 666. 666 is, of course, the Antichrist's number, and His rise in today’s societies is becoming more prevalent right before our eyes! The Beast’s number is cleverly hidden on the keypads: of calculators and iPhones as a subliminal number that goes directly into the mind of the person who looks upon the keypad! The subconscious mind can add, and subtract, and can come up with the number 666. Since the subconscious mind accepts this number, the conscious mind tends to accept it as well. It is written in Revelation of the Holy Bible that whoever accepts this number will not be found in the Lamb’s Book of Life, but God’s wrath abides on them! About the Author John R. Garay was in the Navy for six years, stationed in Guam. He belonged to the Fleet Ballistic Missile Program. As a 3rd class petty officer, his duties were wide and varied. His job was to see that the Polaris missile was ready to fly. Garay’s education in the Navy was very intensive in electronics, and computer logic. He spent most of his free time on his hobby, which was electronics, until he moved to the Ohio Veterans Home.