All About The Benjamins

Have you ever —had a dream that didn’t come true, —made a vision board that didn’t produce the vision, —told a loved one to rest in peace only to find out later that you had no peace when left to handle their affairs, and —felt like your money left your hands faster than you can make it? If you answered yes to any of these questions and you are looking for some real answers, you have the right book in your hands. There are people that are working hard for their money and not able to keep it long enough to make their dreams come true. By reading this book, you will learn how to use money to move from a place of never having enough, to a place of having more than enough or at the very least, to make it to the next level of financial sufficiency. It does not matter what you need the money for. It could be used for retirement, pleasure, a college education, debt cancellation or to leave your children’s children an inheritance. You will have to know and apply what is in this book. —How you should be thinking about money? —What you should be saying about money? and —What you should be doing with money? You will learn to make money and how to make money work for you. You will learn what has not been taught in school for many years but has been used for centuries by those that are financially independent. In this book, you will find out how to overcome the many obstacles that arise when you even think about fulfilling a dream. It will change your mind, change your life, and change your community. This book is “ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS”.

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Meet the Benjamins. It has been less than a year since Susan Benjamin succumbed to cancer and her family has yet to come to terms with her death--and their own secrets. Her daughter Amy, reeling from a divorce, struggles to parent her teenaged son without controlling him as her own mother had done. Her son Adam, thirtysomething and gay, feels untethered in his mother's absence and drifts through a series of unrewarding jobs and relationships even though he craves love and stability. Her husband Joel, father of Amy and Adam, is fifty-eight and about to come out for the first time as a gay man. Joel's coming out is at the center of All About the Benjamins, Zev Good's first novel, and is, ultimately, what forces the family to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and each other while they try to accept what no one could have prepared for: their father is gay and was unfaithful to their mother for the course of their thirty-eight year marriage. As he did in his short story collection, A Map of the World, Zev Good offers a nuanced, tender, and often darkly comic view into loss, identity, and the unbreakable bonds of family.

Darkly humorous, cynical, non-PC, action-packed story about love, sex, money, espionage, moral flexibility and gender politics. Three unsuspecting women, one suicidal, one na?ve, and one far too romantic, meet four KGB agents who are trying to keep an ex-CIA crony away from the hundred million dollars they stole and finish one last job so they can retire. Men make you crazy. Women make you stupid. It's never about the Benjamins.

Every year, hundreds of American film schools graduate thousands of aspiring filmmakers. Very few of them, however, leave school prepared for the challenges that await or are fortunate enough to secure the financial backing of a major studio. This practical guide provides all necessary information for newcomers to the profession to get a movie made, information often left out of film school curricula. Topics include finding a project, breaking down a script, creating a production board, casting, budgeting, scouting locations, scheduling, dealing with actors, establishing set protocol, marketing, and many others. Throughout, real-life examples vividly illustrate the subject at hand. Bridging the gap between learning the craft of moviemaking and exercising that craft in the entertainment world, this manual is essential for all who seek a career in film. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Commercial Alert in Washington, D.C., presents a June 22, 1999 letter to the chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning the marketing of violent entertainment to children. The letter emphasizes the importance of the 1999 FTC and U.S. Department of Justice study of advertising and marketing of violent entertainment products to children.

The world of investing normally sees experts telling us the 'right' way to manage our money. How often do these experts pull back the curtain and tell us how they invest their own money? Never. How I Invest My Money changes that. In this unprecedented collection, 25 financial experts share how they navigate markets with their own capital. In this honest rendering of how they invest, save, spend, give, and borrow, this group of portfolio managers, financial advisors, venture capitalists and other experts detail the 'how' and the 'why' of their investments. They share stories about their childhood, their families, the struggles they face and the aspirations they hold. Sometimes raw, always revealing, these stories detail the indelible relationship between our money and our values. Taken as a whole, these essays powerfully demonstrate that there is no single 'right' way to save, spend, and invest. We see a kaleidoscope of perspectives on stocks, bonds, real assets, funds, charity, and other means of achieving the life one desires. With engaging illustrations throughout by Carl Richards, How I Invest My Money inspires readers to think creatively about their financial decisions and how money figures in the broader quest for a contented life. With contributions from: Morgan Housel, Christine Benz, Brian Portnoy, Joshua Brown, Bob Seawright, Carolyn McClanahan, Tyrone Ross, Dasarte Yarnway, Nina O'Neal, Debbie Freeman, Shirl Penney, Ted Seides, Ashby Daniels, Blair duQuesnay, Leighann Miko, Perth Tolle, Josh Rogers, Jenny Harrington, Mike Underhill, Dan Egan, Howard Lindzon, Ryan Krueger, Lazetta Rainey Braxton, Rita Cheng, Alex Chalekian

What would you do if you were a few months from collecting early retirement—a pension for which you’d sucked up and sycophanted almost twenty years—when your obscenely overweight and extremely crass boss told you that if you didn’t raise the company’s market share by the end of the year, you’d be out on your ass without a dime? If you’re Sky Thorne, Senior V.P. of Tailburger—a fringe fast food chain whose specialties are batter dipped, deep-fried meat patties and 96-oz. beef-flavored shakes—you’ll get to work on as many harebrained, desperate schemes as you can think of. And if that means launching a marketing campaign that asks the public, “Why just abuse your body when you can torture it?” then damn it, that’s what you’ll do! Because Sky Thorne is ready to fight dirty and do anything necessary to earn the pension he sees as the reset button on life, liberty, and the pursuit of unadulterated deep-fried happiness. Red Meat Cures Cancer is a hilarious and poignant romp through a world of excess, and marks the arrival of a great new satirical voice in American literature.