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  Behavioral Finance - How...

  Alice Jackson

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  Every day, millions of trades take place across the world's stock markets. Buy. Sell. Hold. On the surface, these actions look mechanical — numbers moving on a screen. But behind every decision is a human being, carrying a lifetime of experiences, emotions, and biases. And that changes everything. 
  Behavioral finance is the study of how psychology influences financial decisions and choices. It explains why the market can soar to irrational highs… and collapse into sudden panic. It's the science of our impulses, fears, and overconfidence — and how they shape the world of money. 
  You may think you invest with logic. But have you ever held onto a losing stock, hoping it would 'bounce back'? Or chased a rising price because you feared missing out? Those weren't numbers guiding you — those were emotions. 
  This book serves as your guide to seeing the markets from a different perspective. You'll learn why we are drawn to the illusion of control… why we anchor our thinking to the past… and why short-term noise can drown out long-term wisdom. 
  Once you understand these forces, you'll recognize the invisible patterns that drive prices. You'll see that the market isn't just a reflection of the economy — it's a living, breathing record of human behavior. And in that understanding lies your edge. 
  So, if you're ready to step beyond charts and headlines, and into the minds of the people moving the markets, let's begin.

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  The Best Story Wins - How to...

  Matthew Luhn

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  How to use the principles of Pixar-style storytelling to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, marketers, and business-minded storytellers of all stripes. 
   
   
   
  Pixar movies have transfixed viewers around the world and stirred a hunger in creative and corporate realms to adopt new and more impactful ways of telling stories. Former Pixar and The Simpsons animator and story artist Matthew Luhn translates his two and half decades of storytelling techniques and concepts to the CEOs, advertisers, marketers, and creatives in the business world and beyond. A combination of Luhn's personal stories and storytelling insights, The Best Story Wins retells the "Hero's Journey" story building methods through the lens of the Pixar films to help business minds embrace the power of storytelling for themselves!

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  The Awesome Portfolio - A Wall...

  Jared Dillian

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  'The portfolio is awesome, the approach is awesome, and the book is awesome' —Phil Bak, founder, Skyline Standard'The mic drop of finance books' —John Mauldin, founding partner, Mauldin Economics'The Awesome Portfolio is one for the ages. All ages' —Michael Martin, author, The Inner Voice of Trading*****************Have you ever wanted to protect your money against market volatility but still benefit from outsized returns?Then The Awesome Portfolio is for you.For the last few decades, the conventional wisdom in investing has been to put your money in low-cost index funds, let them compound over time, and ride them into retirement, where you pick up your bag of money. Often, that isn’t what happens. Over the course of an investing lifetime, there will be enormous ups and downs, big bear markets, and people will be unable to withstand the volatility.If volatility is the enemy, then the goal should be to construct a portfolio that gives you something close to the returns of the stock market, but with a lot less volatility – enter Jared Dillian's 'Awesome Portfolio'. It is the portfolio for people who want to sleep at night, and not ever have to worry about what their investments are doing.In this practical and accessible book, Jared Dillian, a seasoned Wall Street veteran and financial thought leader, dives deep into the philosophy and rationale behind this approach, examining the historical returns and mathematics that make it work.This essential guide offers a fresh perspective on wealth accumulation and retirement investing that will revolutionize how you manage your money.

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  Black Fat Femme - Revealing the...

  Ed.D. Jonathan P. Higgins,...

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  A celebration of (and how to find your own) queer intersectional identity through the lens of media 
    
  In Black. Fat. Femme.: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself, educator and media critic Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins―aka Doctor Jon Paul―delivers an honest and extraordinary new take on how the author, and other Black Fat Femmes like them, have come to find and understand their identity. 
    
  You'll learn about how standing at the intersection of multiple identities, communities, and causes shapes people and how they see the world. You'll also discover how public figures like Andre Leon Talley and Latrice Royale have helped people learn who they are and what is possible in life. 
    
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  • An examination of the importance of real representation in the media for marginalized people 
  • Discussions of the pioneers who fought so hard to be authentically who they are, both onscreen and off 
  • Explorations of how and why Black Fat Femme people have been left out and erased from LGBTQ+ conversations 
    
  Perfect for anyone with an interest in unique voices and truly singular perspectives, Black. Fat. Femme. is a one-of-a-kind book that will help you see the world with entirely new eyes.

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  On Natural Capital - The Value...

  Partha Dasgupta

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  From the man that the New York Times calls “the most important person you’ve never heard of,” renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, asking a simple yet profound question—what if we put a value on nature, just as we put a value on everything else? Narrated by Sid Sagar. 
  For just about everything of value in life, there is an economic model. If it matters to us, we have found a way to put a dollar amount on it—to quantify its importance in our lives and society. These models and metrics tell us that our economies are healthy because they are growing. And yet for as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture; they fail to account for the fact that our growth is driven by a resource that we take for free and treat as infinite: nature. Indeed, for centuries we have been using nature as if it were limitless, but more than ever, we are recognizing that our demands on the natural world are unsustainable. 
  In On Natural Capital, award-winning Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta lays out a seminal new approach to economics that asks, what if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else? Rooted in mankind’s struggle against climate change, Dasgupta’s approach examines the existential need to rethink our relationship to nature and see its preservation as an economic imperative. Challenging much of economic thought that has come before, Dasgupta presents an urgent call to transform the focus and structures of global economics with a profound new model—one so radical that only an economist of his stature could make the world take it seriously. On Natural Capital is a bold and groundbreaking book that could, truly, change everything.

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  Paper Fortunes - The Illusion of...

  Ty Pugh

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  From tulip bulbs trading for canal houses in 1637 Amsterdam to the Dow Jones crossing 50,000 in February 2026, Paper Fortunes traces four centuries of financial bubbles, crashes, and the timeless human tendency to mistake paper profits for real wealth. Through vivid historical episodes — the South Sea Bubble that ruined Isaac Newton, John Law's Mississippi Scheme, the Roaring Twenties collapse, the dot-com bust, the 2008 financial crisis, and the modern era of meme stocks and crypto manias — author Ty Pugh reveals why every generation convinces itself that this time is different. Part financial history, part psychological study, Paper Fortunes is an essential warning for anyone who has ever watched a number on a screen and called it wealth.

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