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  The Persuaders - The hidden...

  James Garvey

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  'A work of engaging pop philosophy and accessible social science [and] a boisterous dissection of the forces jellifying our minds' Sunday Times
  Includes brand new material covering the US election and Brexit
  
  Every day, many people will try to change your mind, but they won't reason with you. Instead, you'll be nudged, anchored, incentivised and manipulated in barely noticeable ways. It's a profound shift in the way we interact with one another. 
  
  Philosopher James Garvey explores the hidden story of persuasion and the men and women in the business of changing our minds. From the covert PR used to start the first Gulf War to the neuromarketing of products to appeal to our unconscious minds, he reveals the dark arts practised by professional persuaders.
  
  How did we end up with a world where beliefs are mass-produced by lobbyists and PR firms? Could Google or Facebook swing elections? Are new kinds of persuasion making us less likely to live happy, decent lives in an open, peaceful world?
  
  Is it too late, or can we learn to listen to reason again? The Persuaders is a call to think again about how we think now.

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  Capitalism Created the Climate...

  Kentaro Kawamori

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  In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a fascinating and timely exploration of the interplay between capitalism and climate change. He explains how the capitalist system helped to contribute to the current crisis of global warming and how that same system will help to end it.In the book, the author discusses the enormous impact of the climate crisis and how the government, the modern finance industry, the fossil fuel industry, and others combined to accelerate the warming of the world. He then considers the roles those same players will play to reverse this effect in the coming years.You'll also find:● Discussions of how climate tech innovations will transform the economy and how technology disruptors will become involved in the process● The ways the energy industry will change to incorporate the realities and consequences of a warming climate● Explorations of the incentives created by free market structures and how to include climate stakeholders in the discussion

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  Disposable Domestics - Immigrant...

  Grace Chang

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  The book that “has helped to make transnational analyses of reproductive labor central to our understanding of race and gender in the twenty-first century” (Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle). Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain. Grace Chang’s vital account of immigrant women—who work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers—proves just the opposite: the women who perform our least desirable jobs are the most crucial to our economy and society. Disposable Domestics highlights the unrewarded work immigrant women perform as caregivers, cleaners, and servers and shows how these women are actively resisting the exploitation they face.“As timely and relevant now as it was when it was first written . . . reveals a long history of collusion between the U.S. government, the IMF and World Bank, corporations, and private employers to create and maintain a super-exploited, low-wage, female labor force of caregivers and cleaners.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Hammer and Hoe“Grace Chang’s nuanced analysis of our immigration policy and the devastating consequences of global capitalism captures the experiences of poor immigrant women of color. Disposable Domestics reveals how these women, servicing the economy as domestics, nannies, maids, and janitors, are vilified by politicians and the media.” —Mary Romero, author of The Maid’s Daughter“Refusing to segregate people, places, or processes, Disposable Domestics reorganizes our capacity to think powerfully about the world in which the struggle for social justice is too often imperiled by certain kinds of partiality.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Change Everything

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  The Capitalist Code - It Can...

  Ben Stein

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  Most Americans have not inherited wealth or a successful business that can set them up for life. That means most Americans are destined to live with financial worries and concerns for the rest of their lives, right? Wrong! With his entertaining and informative style, New York Times bestselling author, actor, and financial pundit Ben Stein refutes the current notion that the corporate system is rigged against ordinary citizens and explains how corporate stock ownership is the best system ever devised to give both workers and savers a route to financial comfort and security. That's what this book is all about: how being smart about consistent, conservative investment in a diversified portfolio of stocks can harness the incredible power of the US economy, building financial security for any American that decides to participate.

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  The 52-Week Low Formula - A...

  Wesley R. Gray, Luke L. Wiley

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  The 52-Week Low Formula is all about looking at companies to  invest in and asking the following questions:    Do they have a durable competitive advantage? Are the kind of  company that is hard to compete with either because they have  cornered a difficult market or because competing with them would  require an unreasonably high investment by others?  What is the purchase value of the company? If someone were to  come in and buy everything, would they inherit debt greater than  revenue? And, if you were to buy the company, would it be worth it?  Would you make more money that you would simply investing in  10-year Treasury bonds?  Whats the Return on Invested Capital of the company? Is  it using its money well to create returns or is it taking on bad  investments that dont pay off?  Can it pay its debt off quickly? There are a lot of companies  out there that are making a lot of money, but can they, should all  revenue activities cease and all debt come due, remain in the  black?  Finally, is it trading lower than it has in a year?    The 52-Week Low formula is based on the idea that even the best  companies go through a skid, a downturn in stock value. If a  company answers the above four questions well, you want to know if  its going through a rough patch. This is the filter that  requires discipline because common investors often overlook good  companies when they are on the skids. But good companies always  find a way to come back. Thats what makes them good  companies, what makes them the right companies to invest in, what  makes investing in them worthwhile.  In this book, readers will:    examine the principles that go into selecting the 25 companies  Wiley invests in every six months  what he looks for, what  requirements he has and how those came to be.  examine case studies of companies that have proven time and  again that they can overcome obstacles and provide consistent  growth for the long-term.  show the results of a disciplined approach to investing over an  emotional one and the mistakes investors make when they invest out  of fear instead of a solid strategic approach.  cover the evolution of the 52-Week Low, how the philosophy  developed and became strategy and pitfalls hes experienced  along the way.

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  The Age of Intoxication -...

  Benjamin Breen

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  Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs and spices—like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile—to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories—illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional—and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist.Focusing on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen examines the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed. He then turns his attention to the British Empire, arguing that it owed much of its success in this period to its usurpation of the Portuguese drug networks. From the sickly sweet tobacco that helped finance the Atlantic slave trade to the cannabis that an East Indies merchant sold to the natural philosopher Robert Hooke in one of the earliest European coffeehouses, Breen shows how drugs have been entangled with science and empire from the very beginning.

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