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Personal Finance
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
Hannah Arendt’s portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil contains an introduction by Amos Elon in Penguin Classics.Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative – a meticulous and unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was for many years University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution, and Between Past and Future.If you enjoyed Eichmann in Jerusalem, you might like Elie Wiesel’s Night, available in Penguin Modern Classics.’Deals with the greatest problem of our time … the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system’Bruno Bettelheim, The New Republic’A profound and documented analysis … Bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences’Chicago Tribune
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Law
Electrician’s Guide to the Building Regulations (Electrical Regulations)
Electrician’s Guide to the Building Regulations includes the latest guidance on third-party certification schemes and covers relevant parts of the Building Regulations, including Fire Safety, Ventilation and Conservation of Energy. This guide has been fully updated to BS 7671:2018. The 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations published in July 2018 and came into effect in January 2019. Changes from the previous edition include requirements concerning Surge Protection Devices, Arc Fault Detection Devices and the installation of electric vehicle charging equipment as well as many other areas.
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Business Biographies & Histories
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
Business Biographies & HistoriesElon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior. The personal tale of Musk’s life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life … Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by tech reporter, Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.
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Business Management
Emotional Intelligence: Managing emotions to make a positive impact on your life and career
Business ManagementEmotional Intelligence: Managing emotions to make a positive impact on your life and career
From the author of the bestselling Mindfulness: Be Mindful. Live in the Moment. Emotional Intelligence is fast becoming the skill to master that will unlock your true potential. You ve probably noticed that it s not the smartest people that are the most successful or the most fulfilled in life; being clever, talented or skilled is not enough. It s your ability to manage your feelings, other people and your interactions with them that makes the difference. We re all born with this ability – emotional intelligence is a skill and we all have the capacity to develop this skill. This book will show you how. It will change the way you think about emotions. Instead of thinking of emotions as being positive or negative, you will learn that all emotions have a positive intent all emotions have our best interests in mind. Improve your emotional intelligence and you improve your ability to understand and manage emotions. You can think clearly and creatively, manage stress and challenges, communicate well with others and display trust, empathy and confidence. You will be in a better position to handle situations, events and other people that in the past you ve found difficult or stressful. Emotional Intelligence will show you how to heighten your EQ and improve your personal and work life, including how to be more assertive and confident express how you feel, what you want and don t want. understand what others are feeling and forge stronger relationships manage office politics and navigate the social complexities of the workplace manage anxiety, anger and disappointment deal with bullying motivate and inspire others
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Law
Enemies of the People?: How Judges Shape Society
When newspapers reported a court ruling on Brexit, senior judges were condemned as ‘enemies of the people’. But they still ruled that an order by the Queen on the advice of her prime minister was just ‘a blank piece of paper’. Joshua Rozenberg asks how the judges can maintain public confidence while making hard choices.
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Business Biographies & Histories
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt
Business Biographies & HistoriesEnemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt
Henry Avery was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular – and wildly inaccurate – reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key event – the attack of an Indian treasure ship by Avery and his crew – and its surprising repercussions across time and space. Johnson uses the extraordinary story of Henry Avery and his crimes to explore the emergence of the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations. Like the bestselling How We Got To Now and The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind crosses disciplinary boundaries to recount its history: the chemistry behind the invention of gunpowder; the innovations in navigation that enabled the age of exploration; the cultural history of pirates; the biographical history of Avery and his crew; the rise of the Moghul dynasty; and the commercial ambition of the East India Company. In this compelling work of history and ideas, Johnson deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.
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Personal Finance
Essential Property Investment Calculations: The numbers led approach to property investment and property management
Personal FinanceEssential Property Investment Calculations: The numbers led approach to property investment and property management
OverviewLike any other form of investment, property is largely a numbers game. But there’s a huge gulf between the techniques used by individual investors in the buy-to-let market and the more disciplined, numbers-led approach used by professional real estate investors. These investors use a range of techniques and formalised metrics to assess property deals and manage their portfolios. But there is no single source of knowledge or wisdom that brings all these calculation techniques and metrics together in one place. This book aims to bridge that gap.Essential Property Investment Calculations is a guide to all the calculations, numerical techniques and metrics you need to know to take your property investing to the next level.Part OnePart One is all about assessing property deals. It will teach you the calculations you need to know to find, finance, and close any property deal. You’ll learn techniques used by professional valuers, including the comparison, investment, and residual methods of valuation. You’ll also learn some negotiation tips and tricks straight from the FBI school of hostage negotiation. Part TwoPart Two is all about managing your property portfolio. It will teach you how to measure property returns, both on a property-by-property basis and at the total portfolio level. You’ll learn the property management KPIs you need to track and improve performance, how to quantify and manage key property risks, and the golden rules of portfolio building.Whether you’re new to property investing or a seasoned professional, this book is a guide to the essential property investment calculations you need to know.List of ChaptersPart One : Assessing a property deal Chapter 1 – Rental Yield Calculations Chapter 2 – The importance of cash flow Chapter 3 – How to value residential property Chapter 4 – Financing a property deal Chapter 5 – Negotiation tips and tricks Part Two : Managing a property portfolio Chapter 6 – Accounting for property investors Chapter 7 – How to measure property returns Chapter 8 – Property management KPIs Chapter 9 – Portfolio risk management Chapter 10 – Golden rules of portfolio buildingAbout the AuthorRobert Heaton is a property investor, writer and qualified actuary. He is the founder of Greenwich Bookkeeping, a bookkeeping and accounting service for UK property investors.He blogs about property and investing at www.greenwichbookkeeping.co.uk
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E-Commerce
Everybody Writes: Your Go-to Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
Finally a go-to guide to creating and publishing the kind of content that will make your business thrive. Everybody Writes is a go-to guide to attracting and retaining customers through stellar online communication, because in our content-driven world, every one of us is, in fact, a writer. If you have a web site, you are a publisher. If you are on social media, you are in marketing. And that means that we are all relying on our words to carry our marketing messages. We are all writers. Yeah, but who cares about writing anymore? In a time-challenged world dominated by short and snappy, by click-bait headlines and Twitter streams and Instagram feeds and gifs and video and Snapchat and YOLO and LOL and #tbt…does the idea of focusing on writing seem pedantic and ordinary? Actually, writing matters more now, not less. Our online words are our currency; they tell our customers who we are. Our writing can make us look smart or it can make us look stupid. It can make us seem fun, or warm, or competent, or trustworthy. But it can also make us seem humdrum or discombobulated or flat-out boring. That means you’ve got to choose words well, and write with economy and the style and honest empathy for your customers. And it means you put a new value on an often-overlooked skill in content marketing: How to write, and how to tell a true story really, really well. That’s true whether you’re writing a listicle or the words on a Slideshare deck or the words you’re reading right here, right now…And so being able to communicate well in writing isn’t just nice; it’s necessity. And it’s also the oft-overlooked cornerstone of nearly all our content marketing. In Everybody Writes, top marketing veteran Ann Handley gives expert guidance and insight into the process and strategy of content creation, production and publishing, with actionable how-to advice designed to get results. These lessons and rules apply across all of your online assets like web pages, home page, landing pages, blogs, email, marketing offers, and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media. Ann deconstructs the strategy and delivers a practical approach to create ridiculously compelling and competent content. It’s designed to be the go-to guide for anyone creating or publishing any kind of online content whether you’re a big brand or you’re small and solo. Sections include: * How to write better. (Or, for “adult-onset writers”: How to hate writing less.) * Easy grammar and usage rules tailored for business in a fun, memorable way. (Enough to keep you looking sharp, but not too much to overwhelm you.) * Giving your audience the gift of your true story, told well. Empathy and humanity and inspiration are key here, so the book covers that, too. * Best practices for creating credible, trustworthy content steeped in some time-honored rules of solid journalism. Because publishing content and talking directly to your customers is, at its heart, a privilege. *”Things Marketers Write”: The fundamentals of 17 specific kinds of content that marketers are often tasked with crafting. * Content Tools: The sharpest tools you need to get the job done. Traditional marketing techniques are no longer enough. Everybody Writes is a field guide for the smartest businesses who know that great content is the key to thriving in this digital world.
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Personal Finance
Everything is Figureoutable: The #1 New York Times Bestseller
The New York Times #1 Bestseller ‘Millions of young women look to Marie Forleo as their inspiration for empowerment and achievement’ Oprah Winfrey’This book delivers a knockout punch to whatever is holding you back’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild Do you ever have trouble finishing what you start? Do amazing ideas come to you all the time but after the initial excitement wanes you struggle to follow through? If you’re creative and ambitious, the answer is likely yes.The problem isn’t you. It’s not that you’re not hardworking, intelligent or deserving, but that you haven’t yet installed the one key belief that will change everything: Everything is figureoutable. Whether you want to leave a dead-end job, heal a relationship, grow a business, master your money, or just find two free hours in your day, Everything is Figureoutable will train your brain to think more positively and help you break down any dream into manageable steps. Inside you’ll learn: – How to deal with criticism and imposter syndrome – Why it’s crucial that you strive for progress not perfection- How to bounce back from failure – How to overcome a lack of time and money You’ll also hear triumphant stories of everyday people using the everything is figureoutable philosophy to transform their life. Everything is figureoutable is more than just a fun phrase to say. It’s a practical, actionable discipline. And it’s about to make you unstoppable!Praise for Everything is Figureoutable ‘Smart, funny, and as brilliant as it is straightforward. LOVED it!’ Brené Brown, author of Daring Greatly ‘Reading these pages I experienced the sensation of limitless possibility. This book will change lives’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls ‘An unapologetic guide to solving your biggest problems and accomplishing your wildest dreams’Sophia Amoruso, author of #GIRLBOSS
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E-Commerce
Excel 2019 in easy steps
Are you making the most of this feature-packed spreadsheet? Excel 2019 in easy steps starts with the basics and then reveals the key clever features on offer all in easy steps! Areas covered include: Creating, editing and manipulating worksheets Formulas, Functions, Tables, and importing data Handy templates to give you a head start Macros for everyday tasks to save time Charts to get an overview of your data What-if, Goal Seek and Optimization Using the Excel Online app to share and collaborate on spreadsheets and workbooks Adding images and illustrations to your spreadsheet to impress your colleagues! This primer illustrates how to use Excel to manage your finance and data effectively and easily both at home and at work. Whether you re upgrading to Excel 2019 or new to spreadsheets, use this guide to get more out of Microsoft Excel! Table of Contents: Introduction Begin with Excel Manage Data Formulas and Functions Excel Tables Advanced Functions Control Excel Charts Macros in Excel Templates and Scenarios Links and Connections
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E-Commerce
Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice (1st…
E-CommerceExpert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice (1st…
“Best book ever for marketing your business. And not just for online marketing. This book goes into so much detail and is perfect for any business. How to tell stories to make sales. How to be the EXPERT in your Niche.” ― J. Paterson, Amazon Customer “Jam packed with step by step advice to create a sales webinar, generate more leads, and close high ticket coaching clients. ” ― JulzB, Amazon Customer “This book is incredible for Marketers, Sales people, Entrepreneurs and Online Influencers.” ― Luca Nuñez, Amazon Customer “I lost $$thousands more running ads trying to figure out what I was missing… until I came across this book.” ― Nicole, Amazon Customer Find Your Message, Build A Tribe, And Change The World… Founder of Click Funnels, Russell Brunson shares how he’s sold close to $400 million by building a mass movement of entrepreneurs who paid to hear his message. It doesn’t matter what message, product, or service you are selling online, if you don’t build a mass movement of people who will pay to hear your mes- sage, it’s unlikely you will achieve success. Expert Secrets Will Help You Too Find your voice and give you the confidence to become a leader… Build a mass movement of people whose lives you can affect… Make this calling a career, where people will pay you for your advice… Your message has the ability to change someone’s life. The impact that the right message can have on someone at the right time in their life is immeasurable. It could help to save marriages, repair families, change someone’s health, grow a company or more… But only if you know how to get it into the hands of the people whose lives you have been called to change. Expert Secrets will put your message into the hands of people who need it. Russell Brunson is a serial entrepreneur who started his first online company while he was wrestling at Boise State University. Within a year of graduating he had sold over a million dollars worth of his own products and services from his basement! For over 10 years now Russell has been starting and scaling companies online. He owns a software company, a supplement company, a coaching company, and is one of the top super affiliates in the world. Expert Secrets was created to help entrepreneurs around the world to start, promote and grow their companies online.
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Business Management
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Now with an excerpt from the authors’ new book, THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP. Combat, the most intense and dynamic environment imaginable, teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand on the most violent and dangerous battlefield in Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, their mission was one many thought impossible: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping, firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories, they learned that leadership–at every level–is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training to pass on their harsh lessons learned in combat to help forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After leaving the SEAL Teams, they launched a company, Echelon Front, to teach those same leadership principles to leaders in businesses, companies, and organizations across the civilian sector. Since that time, they have trained countless leaders and worked with hundreds of companies in virtually every industry across the U.S. and internationally, teaching them how to develop their own high-performance teams and most effectively lead those teams to dominate their battlefields. Since it’s release in October 2015, Extreme Ownership has revolutionized leadership development and set a new standard for literature on the subject. Required reading for many of the most successful organizations, it has become an integral part of the official leadership training programs for scores of business teams, military units, and first responders. Detailing the mindset and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult combat missions, Extreme Ownership demonstrates how to apply them to any team or organization, in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.
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E-Commerce
Facebook for Beginners in easy steps
New to Facebook? Then this essential guide will prove to be the perfect introduction to the world’s largest social media site. Covering Facebook’s key features, including: Setting up an account and posting on Facebook, whilst maintaining your privacy and staying safe. Having fun perfecting and sharing photos and videos. Creating Facebook Groups and Pages, including your business or charity Page. Saving time by using Events to invite friends, and to organize your social life, in an instant. Buying and selling items using the no-fee Marketplace. Eliminating irrelevant adverts and annoying posts from your News Feed. Using the free messaging service, Messenger, to send private messages, and make phone and video calls. Learning about Facebook Live, and the television apps. Even if you are a veteran Facebook user already, you’re sure to learn something new with this jam-packed book. Table of Contents: Introducing Facebook Setting up a new Facebook account Familiarise yourself with Facebook Creating your first Facebook posts Start using the Facebook app Working with Groups Working with Pages Using Facebook Messenger Create and join events Using photos and videos Buying and selling Tailoring the adverts Privacy and security Using third-party apps
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Law
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn’t be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society. Our unfamiliarity is dangerous because it makes us vulnerable to media spin, political lies and the kind of misinformation that frequently comes from loud-mouthed amateurs and those with vested interests. This ‘fake law’ allows the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge – worse, we risk letting them make us complicit. Thankfully, the Secret Barrister is back to reveal the stupidity, malice and incompetence behind many of the biggest legal stories of recent years. In Fake Law, the Secret Barrister debunks the lies and builds a defence against the abuse of our law, our rights and our democracy that is as entertaining as it is vital.
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Law
Father Brown Complete Murder Mysteries: The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair…
LawFather Brown Complete Murder Mysteries: The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair…
Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself…
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Business Management
Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action
Business ManagementFeel The Fear And Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action
The phenomenal classic that has changed the lives of millions of people around the globe What are you afraid of? Public speaking; asserting yourself; making decisions; being alone; intimacy; changing jobs; interviews; going back to school; ageing; ill health; driving; dating; ending a relationship; losing a loved one; becoming a parent; leaving home, failure, believing in yourself… Internationally renowned author Susan Jeffers has helped millions of people overcome their fears and heal the pain in their lives with her simple but profound advice. Whatever your anxieties, Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway® will give you the insight and tools to vastly improve your ability to handle any given situation. You will learn to live your life the way you want – so you can move from a place of pain, paralysis, depression and indecision to one of power, energy, enthusiasm and action. An empowering and life-affirming book, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway will help you triumph over your fears and move forward with your life.
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Business Biographies & Histories
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Based on the series produced for the BBC World ServiceWho thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down?The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet’s seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what’s going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend?From the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford’s fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next.Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We’ll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We’ll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we’ll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.
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Personal Finance
Financial Times Guide to Investing, The: The Definitive Companion to Investment and the Financial Markets (The FT Guides…
Personal FinanceFinancial Times Guide to Investing, The: The Definitive Companion to Investment and the Financial Markets (The FT Guides…
‘The most damaging half truth for savers is “performance matters more than expenses”. Read this book carefully and the financial services industry will have one fewer easy victim, but you will have a sound base for a lifetime of successful investment.’Martin White, Chair of UK Shareholders Association This is one of those great big books to buy and then tuck away for constant reference. It’s a tour through everything from managing a portfolio to establishing a fair intrinsic value for a share. If it moves in the world of investing, it’s probably here.’David Stevenson, ‘Adventurous Investor’ in the Financial Times ‘Informative and easy to read, Glen Arnold has produced arguably the most comprehensive book there is today on stock market investing and one that unquestionably will give an edge to any retail investor. This is a must read for anyone serious about investing.’ Simon Thompson, Companies Editor, Investors Chronicle AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE BESTSELLING INVESTING BOOK IN THE UK The Financial Times Guide to Investing is the definitive introduction to the art of successful stock market investing by debunking the myth that investing is only for the wealthy. Bestselling author Glen Arnold covers the basics of what investors do and why companies need them, through to the practicalities of buying and selling shares and how to make the most from your money. Learn how to understand different types of investment vehicles, pick the right companies and understand their accounts so you can compile and manage a sophisticated portfolio.The fourth edition of this investing classic has been thoroughly updated and will give you everything you need to choose your shares with skill and confidence.New for this edition: Updated insights into the inner workings of stock markets, new accounting rules and dangers to watch out for when looking for investment gems Recent Financial Times articles, and the latest statistics to illustrate and expand on case studies and examples Detailed updates of changes to tax rules and rates
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Business Biographies & Histories
First Man In: Leading from the Front
NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating, exhilarating life.Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure.To survive the gruelling selection process to become a member of the elite you need toughness, aggression, meticulous attention to detail and unrelenting self-discipline, all traits that make for the best leaders.After 13 years service in the military, with 4 years as a Special Boat Service (SBS) sniper, Ant Middleton is the epitome of what it takes to excel. He served in the SBS, the naval wing of the special forces, the Royal Marines and 9 Parachute Squadron Royal, achieving what is known as the ‘Holy Trinity’ of the UK’s Elite Forces. As a point man in the SBS, Ant was always the first man through the door, the first man into the dark, and the first man in harm’s way.In this fascinating, exhilarating and revealing book, Ant speaks about the highs and gut-wrenching lows of his life – from the thrill of passing Special Forces Selection to dealing with the early death of his father and ending up in prison on leaving the military – and draws valuable lessons that we can all use in our daily lives.
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Business Biographies & Histories
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis’s epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye – and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It’s hilarious, terrifying and it’s all true.’The greatest story of our age … Be very afraid’ John Arlidge, Sunday Times’Thrilling, a masterclass’ Robert McCrum, Observer, Books of the Year ‘Jaw-dropping, astonishing … Lewis has lit the touch paper’ Liam Halligan, Spectator’The kind of writer who creates his own weather system’John Lanchester, London Review of Books ‘I read Michael Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like’ Malcolm Gladwell
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Business Biographies & Histories
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Business Biographies & HistoriesFlash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
‘The UK’s pre-eminent chronicler of financial crime’ New Yorker‘Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest for money he didn’t even spend, but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’Oliver Bullough, author of MoneylandFor fans of Bad Blood and Flash Boys, the story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom-until the US government accused him of helping trigger an unprecedented market collapse.On May 6, 2010, financial markets around the world tumbled simultaneously and without warning. In the span of five minutes, a trillion dollars of valuation was lost. The Flash Crash, as it became known, represented the fastest drop in market history. When share values rebounded less than half an hour later, experts around the globe were left perplexed. What had they just witnessed? Navinder Singh Sarao hardly seemed like a man who would shake the world’s financial markets to their core. Raised in a working-class neighbourhood in West London, Nav was a preternaturally gifted trader who played the markets like a computer game. By the age of thirty, he had left behind London’s trading arcades, working instead out of his childhood home. For years the money poured in. But when lightning-fast electronic traders infiltrated markets and started eating into his profits, Nav built a system of his own to fight back. It worked-until 2015, when the FBI arrived at his door. Depending on whom you ask, Sarao was a scourge, a symbol of a financial system run horribly amok, or a folk hero-an outsider who took on the tyranny of Wall Street and the high-frequency traders.A real-life financial thriller, Flash Crash uncovers the remarkable, behind-the-scenes narrative of a mystifying market crash, a globe-spanning investigation into international fraud, and the man at the centre of them both.
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E-Commerce
FOREX TRADING: The Basics Explained in Simple Terms: 1 (Forex, Forex Trading System, Forex Trading Strategy, Oil…
E-CommerceFOREX TRADING: The Basics Explained in Simple Terms: 1 (Forex, Forex Trading System, Forex Trading Strategy, Oil…
All three of Jim’s FOREX books consistently rank as BEST SELLERS on Amazon and there is a very good reason for this. At no extra cost (or on-costs) Jim shares with his readers:His custom indicators for the MT4/MT5 MetaTrader platforms and more recently TradingView, as a download package at the end of the book. An invitation to join his free JAGfx Facebook Group with over 5,500 members (both new and experienced Forex Traders contributing) and/or Telegram Group.Daily interaction in his Facebook Group.He calls his trades live, shares his results AND records regular trade analysis videos.His contact details if you require further clarification.Jim, from Queensland Australia, is a full-time Forex Trader, currently residing in Vietnam. His knowledge of currency trading has evolved from the old fashioned manual charting when he first started in 2002, to trading on multiple screens and entering the arena of automated trading. During this time, he has developed and shared many trading systems for free, and assisted many new traders through various blogs and forum participation.This book is for those of you who are just starting to consider trading Forex but don’t know where to start, given the abundance of information on the internet. It is a good first book to read, to gain an understanding of the very basics. As an added Bonus, Jim offers one of his Trading Systems, as well as the indicators without any further cost to his readers.Check out his YouTube videos, chat with him on Facebook or in Telegram – he’s an approachable guy who is passionate about trading. Jim’s books in order of releaseForex Trading The Basics Explained in Simple TermsMT4/5 & TradingView High Probability Forex Trading MethodTrading Forex with Divergence on MT4/MT5 & TradingViewCheck out the Editorial Reviews and Amazon Reviews …
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Law
From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland – 17 cases that shocked the world
‘If Henriques were a fictional character, he would be a celebrity, the kind of dashing, hawkish QC who turns up in Agatha Christie novels and is recognised by everybody… There is an undeniable, lawyerly authenticity about Henriques’s book. He takes us meticulously through his cases… It is fascinating to read.’ – Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSir Richard Henriques has been centre stage in some of the most high-profile and notorious cases of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. After taking silk in 1986, over the course of the next 14 years he appeared in no fewer than 106 murder trials, including prosecuting Harold Shipman, Britain’s most prolific serial killer, and the killers of James Bulger. In 2000 he was appointed to the High Court Bench and tried the transatlantic airline plot, the Morecambe Bay cockle pickers, the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, and many other cases. He sat in the Court of Appeal on the appeals of Barry George, then convicted of murdering Jill Dando, and Jeremy Bamber, the White House Farm killer. In From Crime to Crime he not only recreates some of his most famous cases but also includes his trenchant views on the state of the British judicial system; how it works – or doesn’t – and the current threats to the rule of law that affect us all.
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Law
From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland – 17 cases that shocked the world
‘If Henriques were a fictional character, he would be a celebrity, the kind of dashing, hawkish QC who turns up in Agatha Christie novels and is recognised by everybody… There is an undeniable, lawyerly authenticity about Henriques’s book. He takes us meticulously through his cases… It is fascinating to read.’ – Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSir Richard Henriques has been centre stage in some of the most high-profile and notorious cases of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. After taking silk in 1986, over the course of the next 14 years he appeared in no fewer than 106 murder trials, including prosecuting Harold Shipman, Britain’s most prolific serial killer, and the killers of James Bulger. In 2000 he was appointed to the High Court Bench and tried the transatlantic airline plot, the Morecambe Bay cockle pickers, the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, and many other cases. He sat in the Court of Appeal on the appeals of Barry George, then convicted of murdering Jill Dando, and Jeremy Bamber, the White House Farm killer. In From Crime to Crime he not only recreates some of his most famous cases but also includes his trenchant views on the state of the British judicial system; how it works – or doesn’t – and the current threats to the rule of law that affect us all.
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