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Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

Oil and the End of Globalization

by Jeff Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009

An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American–a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book...
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Dear Undercover Economist

Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges

by Tim Harford
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

Throughout history, great philosophers have been answering profound questions about life. But do they know why your socks keep disappearing from the dryer, or how to choose the quickest line at the supermarket? Probably not, but Tim Harford does. . . . In Dear Undercover Economist, the first...
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Virtual Vintage

The Insider's Guide to Buying and Selling Fashion Online

by Linda Lindroth, Deborah Newell Tornello
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002

Vintage clothing has never been more chic, with everyone from celebrity trendsetters to style-conscious professionals searching for wearable treasures from the past. Virtual Vintage is the first and only guide that helps both the novice and the fashion connoisseur evaluate and confidently participate...
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Adventure Capitalist

The Ultimate Road Trip

by Jim Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003

Drive . . . and grow rich! The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed...
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Investment Biker

Around the World with Jim Rogers

by Jim Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011

Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling business/adventure book, Investment Biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies. Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including...
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Managing at the Speed of Change

How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail

by Daryl R. Conner
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006

This classic, newly updated, is an indispensable source for anyone–from mid-level managers to CEOs–who must execute key business initiatives quickly and effectively. Once groundbreaking and now time-honored, Managing at the Speed of Change has helped countless business leaders learn how to orchestrate...
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Hedge Hogs

The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street's Largest Hedge Fund Disaster

by Barbara T. Dreyfuss
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

For readers of The Smartest Guys in the Room and When Genius Failed, the definitive take on Brian Hunter, John Arnold, Amaranth Advisors, and the largest hedge fund collapse in history At its peak, hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC had more than $9 billion in assets. A few weeks later, it completely...
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The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

The Past and Future of American Affluence

by Robert J. Samuelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008

The Great Inflation in the 1960s and 1970s, notes award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson, played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life. The direct consequences included stagnation in living standards, a growing belief—both in America and abroad—that...
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Antifragile

Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

***Antifragile *is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan,...
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A Gift to My Children

A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

by Jim Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

He’s the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities, and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and...
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The Number

How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America

by Alex Berenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003

In this commanding big-picture analysis of what went wrong in corporate America, Alex Berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for The New York Times, examines the common thread connecting Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Computer Associates, Tyco, and other recent corporate scandals: the cult...
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Hot Commodities

How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market

by Jim Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004

The next bull market is here. It’s not in stocks. It’s not in bonds. It’s in commodities –and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record returns in the next decade. Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his bestselling books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist,...
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The Logic of Life

The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

by Tim Harford
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent?...
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The Bed of Procrustes

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

***Bed of Procrustes *is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black...
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