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It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be
Paul Arden
Издател: Phaidon Press
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket 'bible' for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. The world's top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief,
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis
Издател: Penguin Group
Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his
The Ethics of Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard
Издател: New York University Press
In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position.
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A General History of the Pyrates
Daniel Defoe
Издател: Dover Publications
Despite varying titles, these are essentially the same book. Published in 1724, Defoe's chronicle of the scourges of the sea was a smashing success, finding a wide audience eager for tales of those cutthroat sailors who flew the skull and crossbones. The Dover edition is more scholarly, including several essays on Defoe, indexes (ships, names, and
The Royal Treasury Of England
John Stevens
Издател: Gale ECCO, Print Editions
A fascinating history of royal taxation and expenditure from 1066 to the early eighteenth century. It examines such income sources as feudal pledges and penalties imposed on conquered enemies and such expenses as defense, maintenance of the royal household and the suppression of heresy. Highly regarded upon publication, it was a standard work for
Teeline for Journalists
Dawn Johnston
Издател: Heinemann
This student book is fully supported by an audio CD so that students can practice dictation passages to improve their shorthand speed for exam success. Theory principles are covered in logical progression to build skills and confidence. Revision points and lots of tasks reinforce learning and give students plenty of opportunity to practice their
Money Mavericks
Lars Kroijer
Издател: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager charts the founding, seemingly interminable rise and eventual closure of a fund which operated in London during the febrile years of 2002 to 2008. Shedding light on the incredible inside workings of hedge funds, it’s a tale of a bubble industry in a bubble town during the bubble years. It
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Питър Дж. Кинг
Издател: ИК "Кибеа"
Каква е природата на доброто и злото? Какъв е смисълът на съществуването и кои сме ние всъщност? В продължение на хилядолетия философите се борят с такива въпроси, като премислят всеки довод
Panic!
David A. Zimmerman
Издател: The University of North Carolina Press
During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States. Fiction writers published scores of novels that explored this new cultural phenomenon. In Panic, David A. Zimmerman studies how American novelists and
The Philosophers' Quarrel
Robert Zaretsky , John T. Scott
Издател: Yale University Press
The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was fired off, then quickly published and devoured
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