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Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers. At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called “The Trading Game.” The prize? A golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in eradicating poverty. This is an inspiring story of one man’s realization that access to even a small amount of credit can transform the lives of the poorest citizens of the world.

Part memoir, part emotional gut-check, this fast, raw, and unexpectedly funny audiobook traces the chaos, doubt, and quiet belief behind the idea that the financial industry needs to completely rethink how it addresses people’s money challenges—and that change should start with the emotional side of money.

Pensada como una obra destinada a "suscitar la reflexión sobre el presente y el futuro del país", se ha convertido en un libro clásico. Obra de síntesis, pero a la vez de ideas, en sus páginas no sólo se encuentran hechos sino también interpretaciones que generan polémicas y opiniones encontradas. Fue actualizada por el autor poco antes de su muerte en 1977.

Pensada como una obra destinada a "suscitar la reflexión sobre el presente y el futuro del país", se ha convertido en un libro clásico. Obra de síntesis, pero a la vez de ideas, en sus páginas no sólo se encuentran hechos sino también interpretaciones que generan polémicas y opiniones encontradas. Fue actualizada por el autor poco antes de su muerte en 1977.

Рами Блект – человек с необычной судьбой, путешествуя по всему миру, проконсультировал тысячи людей и провел семинары во многих странах нашей планеты. Автор встречался с Учителями и Мудрецами, изучал восточные и западные науки. Чтобы помочь читателю решить практически любую проблему, преодолеть любой кризис и выйти из жизненных проблем победителем. Часть событий, описанных на страницах книги, пережил сам автор.

К Марине Королёвой обращаются за консультацией, когда хотят знать, «как правильно». Автор бестселлеров о русском языке: «Говорим по-русски с Мариной Королёвой», «Говорим по-русски правильно» (Книга года – 2007), «Чисто по-русски» (два издания). В эту книгу М. Королёвой «Чисто по-русски» вошли как избранные и переработанные статьи из предыдущих изданий, так и новые материалы.

The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value. Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt.

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Step into the wildly entertaining world of David Bruce OBE, an unconventional entrepreneur, and legendary founder of Bruce’s Brewery and the Firkin pubs brand, who took the brewing industry by storm. In The Firkin Saga, he shares nearly 60 years of beer, business and bold decisions. In 1979, David defied the odds, opening London’s first pub in a century to brew its own beer–The Goose & Firkin–and proving his doubters wrong. What followed was a whirlwind of international ventures, charitable endeavours and a fair share of triumphs and setbacks.

Conservation Confidential recounts the wild path Mitch Friedman took from radical Earth First! activist engaging in controversial protests to the founder and longtime director of Conservation Northwest. The book documents challenges, success stories, and key lessons along the way to helping preserve Northwest ancient forests, peaceably recover wolves in the region, and much more. ​Part memoir, part guide on strategy for activists and liberal citizens, Conservation Confidential offers the distilled wisdom of experience that Friedman searched for as a young activist but couldn’t find.

McLaren Racing hadn't won a championship in twenty-six years - until Zak Brown joined the team. A professional racer for ten years, Zak Brown is a CEO who knows how to bring the competitive mindset of a life in motorsport to building successful businesses and teams. In Seven Tenths of a Second, Zak shows us how it's done: overcoming early adversity, managing competitive team-mates, fostering the drive for victory and building the best team in the world.

Everything you want to achieve in life requires you to take risks, push beyond your comfort zone and build trust with others. Our first instinct is often to avoid risk altogether, but that only creates a chasm between what we want to achieve and what we're willing to do to get there. To bridge that divide, we need a way to make those risks feel smaller, less dangerous, more worthwhile, and, frankly, more fun. Safe Danger offers groundbreaking insights that will allow listeners to overcome and control the risks in their lives, based upon five core principles.

Filled with captivating facts about color words and colors themselves—did you know that the word “puke” used to be a highly fashionable color before it was associated with vomit?—and fueled by Stamper’s inexhaustible curiosity, A Trick of Light will transform the way you see the world, from black-and-white to Technicolor.

Jonathan McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced him to Elon Musk, who was looking for help at Tesla. McNeill was steeped in the lean principles that had made Toyota a global powerhouse—principles focused on achieving efficiency and optimization by incrementally improving existing systems and processes. What he learned from Elon at Tesla was its antithesis, an approach that required radical rethinking to explode the status quo, attack complexity, and set seemingly unrealistic goals. Elon called this five-step framework “The Algorithm.”

When Lloyd Blankfein was attacked as a Wall Street fat cat, he had to smile, thinking of his precarious childhood in the notorious public housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn, and a high school so chaotic he didn’t feel safe enough to use the bathroom once in his time there. Harvard was a total moon shot, and his outsider status never wore off, there or at Harvard Law. Street Wise is a delightfully honest, sharp and often very funny reckoning with the author’s education—in finance, human nature, and the workings of the world.

I started a blog. I borrowed USD 16,000. And now, I’ve built a multimillion dollar fashion company, garnered 1.8 million followers on Instagram and managed to squeeze in time to get married and give birth to not one, but four children. Perfect for young entrepreneurs, this book shares the secrets of my entrepreneurial journey so far—from starting a business with my boyfriend (telling my dad sure was fun), to fundraising, to managing a team of 400 people, to dealing with the good and bad of social media, and to pretending to nod when my tech team talks about cookies.

When Amy Smilovic, founder of Tibi, realized that she no longer liked the clothes her brand produced, she had a choice to make. Would she continue to cater to the data-driven demands of department store buyers looking for “average”? Or would she bet on her own creative point-of-view and completely reinvent her thriving $70M global business? In Almost Reckless, Smilovic invites her fellow "CPs" to get comfortable taking smart risks in pursuit of their visions.

A pesar de los padecimientos y de la monstruosa brutalidad sufridos, Frankl pudo reconocer que, pese a todo, la vida es digna de ser vivida y que la libertad interior y la dignidad humana son indestructibles. La logoterapia, método psicoterapéutico creado por el propio Frankl, se basa precisamente en la búsqueda del sentido de la existencia, en la que el ser humano asume la responsabilidad ante sí mismo, ante los demás y ante la vida.