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Brought to you by Penguin. We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; even the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most...

Dirty cops, trafficking rings, globe-spanning, nail-biting undercover detective work and the biggest takedown of the online narcotics market in the history of the internet. This is the story of how a single innovation has fuelled the world's criminal financial markets, and unleashed a cat-and mouse game like no other. Lords of Crypto Crime is the gripping, insider story of how a brilliant group of investigators took down the biggest kingpins of the dark web.

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late 17th- and early 18th-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior.

Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.

In light of the colossal losses and amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers, it is time to rethink money management in the broadest of terms. Drastic changes need to be made, and managers who actually made money during 2008 make for a logical starting place. The Invisible Hands provides investors and traders with the latest thinking from some of the best and the most successful players in money management, highlighting the specific risk and return objectives of each, and discussing the evolution of certain styles and beliefs in money management.

Envied by Lord Byron, admired by Jane Austen, read avidly by the British royalty: this is the story of ‘The Great Maria’. Maria Edgeworth, known to her contemporaries as 'the Great Maria', was one of the most important authors of the Regency era. Her work was the envy of Lord Byron, Humphry...

Modern Chains examines a truth we have been conditioned to ignore: our financial system functions as a silent mechanism of enslavement. Drawing on centuries of history, philosophy, and moral reasoning, author Neal Flesher reveals how our fiat monetary order corrodes human dignity and fractures communities. This book delivers a powerful appeal to moral clarity.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Science has never been about compliance, but about query. Why is something the way that it is? Why does it behave a certain way? And if you understand the logic, how do you apply it to what you are actually trying to achieve? Economics governs every...

The easiest sale you will ever make is the one where the customer finds you and already knows why they want you. They arrive convinced. The conversation is a formality, a confirmation of a decision that was made before you ever spoke.Most leaders never get that sale. Not because their product is worse than the one that won, but because the buyer never found them. By the time a prospect reaches out, they have already read, compared, and quietly built a shortlist, and most of that happened somewhere you weren't. Gartner puts it at 83% of the buying decision made before a vendor is in the room. ...

The Supernova Model is a client service, client acquisition, and practice management model that drives an explosive acceleration in revenue and client satisfaction by capitalizing upon the 80/20 Rule. First implemented by financial advisors at Merrill Lynch - under the leadership of author Rob Knapp - it has grown increasingly popular within the financial services industry.

Unlock the secrets of global markets, crypto crazes, and everyday economics with hot takes from rogue analysts and Wall Street whistleblowers. This no-holds-barred podcast exposes the hidden forces controlling your wallet – before the next economic tsunami hits. Are you ready to play the game?

The Invisible Friction is a podcast about the hidden patterns, habits and systems that quietly get in the way of healthy, high-performing organisations.Hosted by Anna Ahrenfelt and Mårten Stenfors, the podcast brings together two complementary perspectives.Mårten draws on more than 25 years of experience leading complex global organisations from the inside, with responsibility for performance, transformation and people. Anna brings more than 20 years of experience working alongside leaders and organisations from the outside, in change management, leadership and organisational ...

The Invisible Heart takes a provocative look at business, economics, and regulation through the eyes of Sam Gordon and Laura Silver, teachers at the exclusive Edwards School in Washington, D.C. Sam lives and breathes capitalism. He thinks that most government regulation is unnecessary or even harmful. He believes that success in business is a virtue. He believes that our humanity flourishes under economic freedom. Laura prefers Wordsworth to the Wall Street Journal.

Conventional wisdom suggests generating additional sources of revenue, outside of your paycheck. Chris Widener shares his proven system for generating invisible profits by studying success, understanding the difference between profit and wages, looking into leveraged profit systems, what separates successful people from unsuccessfully people, working hard on yourself, and leaving a legacy.

'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial Times What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such...

Our current democratic capitalist system is close to imploding. This book is the first to reveal the secret financial system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy.

Praxeology, the science of human action, is a lens through which truthfulness of the world is revealed. Truth goggles, if you will. Praxeology teaches us that everything going on in our society is rooted in the wills and desires of individuals. Starting from an irrefutable set of statements about human beings, we can come to conclusions about human behavior that are true regardless of what any political ideology might assert.

Decision Intelligence Zone is a podcast that unpacks how real decisions get made—exploring the emotions, strategies, blind spots, and patterns we don’t often talk about, so you can sharpen your thinking and make better choices in leadership and life. Hosted by Dr. Magda Du Preez, a decision intelligence researcher at the intersection of business and psychology, and Christi Mertens, a leadership team coach specializing in team decision-making and collaboration, the show blends science with real-world insight. Through honest conversations with leaders who’ve built, broken, and reimagined ...

Everyday Entrepreneurs Building Unforgettable Businesses Most business owners can tell you what they do. Far fewer can tell you who they're really for, what keeps them going when it gets hard, or what they actually want to be known for, not just what they put on their website. Invisible to Unforgettable is an interview podcast hosted by Monique Eckes of Silver Paw Studio, recorded in person in Fort Collins, Colorado with local entrepreneurs. Each episode asks the questions most people never think to ask: What do you love about your work? Who is your best fit client? What does the messy middle ...

Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.