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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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

The untold story of the nineteenth-century novelist who outearned Jane Austen and wove provocative theories into her fiction—changing economics forever “Smialek, with the analytical rigor and narrative drive that made her one of the finest economics journalists of her generation, has rescued...

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.

Invisible Economics reveals the hidden systems behind ordinary life. A supermarket shelf. An airline seat. A parking space. A subscription. A price that feels wrong. Each episode begins with something familiar and follows the incentives, trade-offs, and business models operating underneath it. ▌│▌│ ▌│ ▌▌│ ▌│▌ ▌│ ▌▌│▌ ▌│ ▌│▌│ Companies, industries, prices, products, and global trade — explained without jargon, hype, or easy villains. The systems behind everyday life, made visible. ✧ Written and researched by a human. Narration produced with AI...

Decode the unspoken sociology rules of wealth and power that dictate true social mobility in our modern world. Whether navigating workplace dynamics on your daily commute or reflecting on your personal history, this calm, clear-eyed guide reveals why some life journeys feel effortless while...

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.

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.

¿Por qué hay personas con buenos ingresos que sienten que su estabilidad financiera es frágil, mientras otras con menos logran construir algo sólido? La mayoría cree que su vida financiera depende de cuánto gana o cuánto gasta. Pero muchas veces lo que realmente la define es algo mucho menos visible. El Diseño Invisible del Dinero explora los patrones que operan detrás de nuestras decisiones económicas. Sin fórmulas ni recetas. Solo análisis honesto de lo que realmente mueve el dinero.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling...

'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...

A podcast where we explore the technology that moves the world without you even noticing. Artificial intelligence, automation, algorithms, and the real impact they have on your daily life. We don’t talk about the future here… we talk about what’s already happening.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/invisible-code--6925451/support.

#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fascism—and shows us how to fight back. “Incisive, illuminating, eye-opening—an...

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 ...

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...

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 ...