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The Number

What Do You Need for the Rest of Your Life, and What Will It Cost?

Author: Lee Eisenberg  

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Backed by imaginative reporting and insights, Eisenberg urges people to assume control and responsibility for their standard of living, and take greater aim on their long-term aspirations. Not an investment guide, this is a revealing look at common financial and emotional conflicts and how to control them.

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Backed by imaginative reporting and insights, Eisenberg urges people to assume control and responsibility for their standard of living, and take greater aim on their long-term aspirations. Not an investment guide, this is a revealing look at common financial and emotional conflicts and how to control them.

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Do you know your Number? What happens if you don't make it to your Number? Do you have a plan? The Number is no ordinary finance book--it offers an intriguing and entertaining tour of weath gurus, life coaches, and financial advisers, and our hopes and fears for the future. The result is a provocative field guide to your psyche and finances and an urgently useful book for anyone over thirty.

The often-avoided, anxiety-riddled discussion about financial planning for a secure and fulfilling future has been given a new starting point in The Number by Lee Eisenberg. The buzz of professionals and financial industry insiders everywhere, the Number represents the amount of money and resources people will need to enjoy the active life they desire, especially post-career. Backed by imaginative reporting and insights, Eisenberg urges people to assume control and responsibility for their standard of living, and take greater aim on their long-term aspirations.

From Wall Street to Main Street USA, the Number means different things to different people. It is constantly fluctuating in people's minds and bank accounts. To some, the Number symbolizes freedom, validation of career success, the ticket to luxurious indulgences and spiritual exploration; to others, it represents the bewildering and nonsensical nightmare of an impoverished existence creeping up on them in their old age, a seemingly hopeless inevitability that they would rather simply ignore than confront. People are highly private and closed-mouthed when it comes to discussing their Numbers, or lack thereof, for fear they might either reveal too much or display ineptitude.

In The Number, Eisenberg describes this secret anxiety as the "Last Taboo," a conundrum snared in confusing financial lingo. He sorts through the fancy jargon and translates the Number into commonsense advice that resonates just as easily with the aging gods and goddesses of corporate boardrooms as it does with ordinary people who are beginning to realize that retirement is now just a couple of decades away. Believing that the Number is as much about self-worth as it is net worth, Eisenberg strives to help readers better understand and more efficiently manage all aspects of their life, money, and pursuit of happiness.

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Critic Reviews

“"YEisenberg's? tips are timely for millions of baby boomers who are hurtling toward retirement with little sense of what they want from it or how they'll get along once they no longer bring home a paycheck."-- "Hartford Courant"”

"[Eisenberg] has a deft way of making abstract financial principles both personal and funny. His book will definitely make you think about where you're going and why." -- MoneySense

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About the Author

Lee Eisenberg, most recently the author of Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What (2013). The Number was a New York Times bestseller and was cited by Business Week as one of the best books of the year. Eisenberg is also the former editor in chief of Esquire. Under his stewardship the magazine won National Magazine Awards across a number of writing and design categories. He currently lives in Chicago.

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Back Cover

Millimeter wave communication systems are poised to play key roles in modern gigabit wireless communication; millimeter wave industrial standards from IEEE, Wireless Gigabit Alliance, European Computer Manufacturers Association, and Wireless High Definition Group are about to emerge. This is the first book to address complete and modern millimeter wave communication systems, covering their key components and explaining the critical issues that influence their performance. The authors, experts in the field of millimeter wave communications, provide powerful techniques for analyzing real millimeter wave systems, with an emphasis on new transceivers, new antennas, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), modulations, beam steering, beam forming, and frequency domain equalization. Covering the whole system from millimeter wave front-end to digital signal processing, the book reviews up-to-date research results and numerous design methods and analysis for an entire high-speed wireless system. Major topics addressed are: Millimeter wave characteristics Modulations for millimeter wave communications Millimeter wave transceivers Millimeter wave antennas Millimeter wave MIMO Advanced diversity over MIMO channels Beam steering and beam forming Single-carrier frequency domain equalization The authors emphasize the importance and the requirements of high-gain antennas, low-power transceivers, MIMO, modulation, frequency domain equalization, beam steering, and beam forming for gigabit wireless communications. In addition, they discuss new research and patents in transceivers, antennas, MIMO, channel capacity, equalizers, modems, beam steering, and beam forming. The application of these systems is explained in light of different forthcoming wireless standards for V-band and E-band use. Example designs are presented and the analysis of their performance is detailed. Linking academic research with commercial applications, this practical resource gives wireless communication system professionals, millimeter wave professionals, and project managers the insights they need to reduce design and production costs when integrating these systems. This book is also written for graduate students who are interested in becoming familiar with the modern communication system concept at millimeter wave range.

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Do you know what your "number" is? It's the amount you need for your nest egg. Have you saved enough? Can you save enough?The Numberoffers an intriguing and entertaining tour -- of wealth gurus, life coaches, and financial advisers, and our hopes and fears for the future -- to explore the secrets of the Number. The result is a provocative field guide to your psyche and finances, and an urgently useful book for anyone over thirty. The Numberwill help you think about the kind of life you want, and the kind of help you need to achieve it.

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Product Details

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published
1st January 2007
Pages
288
ISBN
9780743270328

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