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An essential complement to all of the financial advice available, this unique guide is a welcome antidote to the idea that wealth is a number on a bank statement. Found insideIn The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society “the aspirational class” and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class reproduces ... Found insideLast year, she paid an astronomical ninety-five thousand dollars for the rose-tone Hermés Scheherazade Birkin bag. It was her most expensive acquisition ... Found insideBirkin's straw-woven bag reportedly broke, and Dumas helped her pick up the contents ... By the middle of 2015, it was the most expensive handbag ever to be ... This book is the perfect resource for private-sector researchers, designers, and managers seeking robust ethnographic tools or academic researchers hoping to conduct research in corporate settings. 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Belle hopes the trip will be a much-needed break from her stalled acting career and uniquely humiliating waitressing job, but once she's aboard the luxurious Lion's Den, it soon becomes clear this jet-setting holiday is not as advertised. Found inside – Page 262Solomon, “Hermès Birkin Bag.” Davidson, “World's Most Expensive Basketball Sneaker.” Olmsted, “$1,000 Ice Cream Sundae?” New York Daily News, “Serendipity 3 ... Found insideIn The Price of Prestige, Gilady shows how many seemingly wasteful government expenditures that appear to contradict the laws of demand actually follow the pattern for what are known as Veblen goods, or positional goods for which demand ... A plain-English guide to a stressful topic, with examples from the estate plans of Paul Newman, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Michael Jackson and others. “To-Do Lists” after each chapter leave no excuses for procrastinators. 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You can practically smell the soil as you follow truffle farmers and bandits through the groves and fields of France and Italy where the fungi are harvested and stolen.”—Outside, “Five Favorite Summer Reads” “[The] book is a ... Found inside... the least expensive Birkin bag starts at twelve thousand dollars. ... using the most precious metals and even diamond-encrusted features—these bags can ... Found insideThis is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school—and with a prescription for the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. Found inside... Birkin bag, made of Nile crocodile skin, was sold by Christie's auction for a record price of £162,500 in London, making it the most expensive bag sold ... 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