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- Number go up : inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall / by Faux, Zeke,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked--but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named "digital asset"? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity--with a dash of FOMO--would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world's new financial machinery. Faux's investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires. Faux follows the trail to a luxury resort in the Bahamas, where SBF boldly declares that he will use his crypto fortune to save the world. Faux talks his way onto the yacht of a former child actor turned crypto impresario and gains access to "ApeFest," an elite party headlined by Snoop Dogg, by purchasing a $20,000 image of a cartoon monkey. In El Salvador, Faux learns what happens when a country wagers its treasury on Bitcoin, and in the Philippines, he stumbles upon a Pokémon knockoff mobile game touted by boosters as a cure for poverty. And in an astonishing development, a spam text leads Faux to Cambodia, where he uncovers a crypto-powered human-trafficking ring. When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF's penthouse as the fallen crypto king faces his imminent arrest. Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade "our great poet of crime" (Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine), Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a $3 trillion financial delusion"--
- Subjects: Cryptocurrencies.; Digital currency.; Investments.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Mathemagic! : number tricks / by Colgan, Lynda,1953-; Kurisu, Jane.;
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- Subjects: Mathematical recreations;
- © c2011, Kids Can Press,
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- Let's learn numbers / by Utchenko, Olga.;
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- Subjects: Counting books.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- None the number : a counting adventure / by Jeffers, Oliver.;
One of the Hueys tries to explain the concept of "none" to another by finding different numbers of items, one through ten, then taking them all away.LSC
- Subjects: Zero (The number); Families; Counting books.; Family life; Counting;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Think of a number : a novel / by Verdon, John.;
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- Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Police; Serial murderers; Gurney, Dave (Fictitious character);
- © 2010., Crown Publishers,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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SABADO VIAJANTE Number 3
Mode of access: Internet.
- Subjects: Travel & Culture;
- © , Cofina
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- Who is number 1? / by James, Steve(Illustrator);
Who Is Number 1 is a great counting board book with cute little rhymes!
- Subjects: Board books.; Animals;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Making numbers count : the art and science of communicating numbers / by Heath, Chip,author.; Starr, Karla,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Understanding numbers is essential - but humans aren't built to understand them. Chip Heath outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain's language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say "Wow, now I get it!" This book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world - allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
- Subjects: Information visualization.; Visual communication.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The Who by numbers : the story of the Who through their music / by Grantley, Steve;
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- Subjects: Who (Musical group); Rock musicians;
- © c2010., Helter Skelter,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- A number of things : stories of Canada told through fifty objects / by Urquhart, Jane,1949-author.;
From one of our nation's most beloved and iconic authors comes a lyrical 150th birthday gift to Canada. Jane Urquhart chooses 50 Canadian objects and weaves a rich and surprising narrative that speaks to our collective experience as a nation. Each object is beautifully illustrated by the noted artist Scott McKowen, with Jane Urquhart conjuring and distilling meaning and magic from these unexpected facets of our history. The fifty artifacts range from a Nobel Peace Prize medal, a literary cherry tree, a royal cowcatcher, a Beothuk legging, a famous skull and an iconic artist's shoe, as well as an Innu tea doll, a Sikh RCMP turban, a Cree basket, a Massey-Harris tractor and a hanging rope, among an array of unexpected and intriguing objects. Bringing the curiosity of the novelist and the eloquence of the poet to her task, Jane Urquhart composes a symphonic memory bank with objects that resonate with symbolic significance. In this compelling portrait of a completely original country called Canada, a master novelist has given all of us a national birthday bouquet like no other.
- Subjects: National characteristics, Canadian.; Material culture;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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