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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century

Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong

by John Kay ...

A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business—what it is for and how it works**“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”—Andrew Hill, Financial Times, “Best Books of 2024: Business”Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business—what it is for and how it works**“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”—Andrew Hill, Financial Times, “Best Books of 2024: Business”Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and
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Stars Screaming

by John Kaye ...

"A cross between The Player, The Day of the Locust, and Sunset Boulevard . . . A gritty, bizarre, yet all-too-believable Tinseltown epic." — DetourRay Burk is a disillusioned network censor struggling to break into the business as a screenwriter. But it's the drama of his personal life that occupies him most—as his unbalanced wife Sandra and neglected son grow more and more detached from the real ... Read more

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"A cross between The Player, The Day of the Locust, and Sunset Boulevard . . . A gritty, bizarre, yet all-too-believable Tinseltown epic." — DetourRay Burk is a disillusioned network censor struggling to break into the business as a screenwriter. But it's the drama of his personal life that occupies him most—as his unbalanced wife Sandra and neglected son grow more and more detached from the real
... Read more
Radical Uncertainty

Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

by John Kay, Mervyn King ...

Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.“An elegant and careful guide to thinking about personal and social economics, especially in a time of uncertainty. The timing is ... Read more

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Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.“An elegant and careful guide to thinking about personal and social economics, especially in a time of uncertainty. The timing is
... Read more

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The Dead Circus

A Novel

by John Kaye ...

From the acclaimed author of Stars Screaming, "a fine new novel . . . [that] pulls some of the dregs of Manson's dark legacy into the light" ( The Oregonian).It's 1986. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, private eye Gene Burk becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. While attempting to reconstruct the ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author of Stars Screaming, "a fine new novel . . . [that] pulls some of the dregs of Manson's dark legacy into the light" ( The Oregonian).It's 1986. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, private eye Gene Burk becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. While attempting to reconstruct the
... Read more
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Dwellers of Darkness [Dramatized Adaptation]

Darkness 3

by Stacey Marie Brown ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Jessica Threet, Michael Glenn, Nicole Shara, Karen Novack, Danny Montooth, Robb Moreira, Christopher McLinden, Elena Anderson, Michael John Casey, Jonathon Church, Kay Elúvian ...

Series series Darkness
Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

Three years have passed in Earth’s realm when Ember and her friends finally return from the Otherworld.Eli feels her the moment she steps back, and the beast is far from delighted. Believing for the last three years she was dead, he has become violent and cruel in her absence.Eli’s anger isn’t the only thing she should fear. Ember is at the top of the Unseelie King’s list after breaking her oath ... Read more

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Three years have passed in Earth’s realm when Ember and her friends finally return from the Otherworld.Eli feels her the moment she steps back, and the beast is far from delighted. Believing for the last three years she was dead, he has become violent and cruel in her absence.Eli’s anger isn’t the only thing she should fear. Ember is at the top of the Unseelie King’s list after breaking her oath
... Read more
The Long and the Short of It (International edition)

A guide to finance and investment for normally intelligent people who aren’t in the industry

by John Kay ...

The follies of finance have threatened the stability of the global economy, and the world of finance has become increasingly complex and sophisticated, but also greedy, cynical and self-interested. The Long and the Short of It provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance and explains how to put your finances in the only hands you can confidently trust - your own.In this new, wholly ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The follies of finance have threatened the stability of the global economy, and the world of finance has become increasingly complex and sophisticated, but also greedy, cynical and self-interested. The Long and the Short of It provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance and explains how to put your finances in the only hands you can confidently trust - your own.In this new, wholly
... Read more
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Dark Sand

A Port Stirling Mystery, Book 4

by Kay Jennings ...

Narrated by John McLain ...

Series Audiobook 4 - A Port Stirling Mystery
Unabridged

10 hours 10 min

Police chief Matt Horning thought life in Port Stirling, Oregon was returning to normal after the earthquake. He was dead wrong.Almost one year has passed since the earth shook up Matt Horning and his coastal village. Now, the world's foremost scientists have flocked to the remote town to study the aftereffects on the sea and land.Turns out, one of them isn't a nice man. Famous geologist, British ... Read more

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Police chief Matt Horning thought life in Port Stirling, Oregon was returning to normal after the earthquake. He was dead wrong.Almost one year has passed since the earth shook up Matt Horning and his coastal village. Now, the world's foremost scientists have flocked to the remote town to study the aftereffects on the sea and land.Turns out, one of them isn't a nice man. Famous geologist, British
... Read more
The Long and the Short of It

A guide to finance and investment

by John Kay ...

This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance. It describes the basics of investment and the sophisticated innovations of the modern financial system. It explains how the follies of finance have threatened the stability of the world economy, and describes an environment that is complex and sophisticated, but greedy, cynical and self-interested. This book explains how to put your ... Read more

$12.99 USD

This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance. It describes the basics of investment and the sophisticated innovations of the modern financial system. It explains how the follies of finance have threatened the stability of the world economy, and describes an environment that is complex and sophisticated, but greedy, cynical and self-interested. This book explains how to put your
... Read more
Audiobook

Obliquity

Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

by John Kay ...

Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt ...

Unabridged

4 hours 49 min

A leading economist charts the indirect road to happiness and wealth.Using dozens of practical examples from the worlds of business, politics, science, sports, literature, even parenting, esteemed economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: The best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal-from happiness to wealth to profit to preventing ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A leading economist charts the indirect road to happiness and wealth.Using dozens of practical examples from the worlds of business, politics, science, sports, literature, even parenting, esteemed economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: The best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal-from happiness to wealth to profit to preventing
... Read more
Audiobook

The Corporation in the 21st Century

Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong

by John Kay ...

Narrated by Peter Wicks ...

Unabridged

14 hours 19 min

In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, ... Read more

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In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen,
... Read more
Audiobook

Suicide Kings [Dramatized Adaptation]

Eric Carter 7

by Stephen Blackmoore ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Michael John Casey, Rana Kay, Nora Achrati, Aure Nash, Nick DePinto, Kimberley Gilbert, Yasmin Tuazon, Nazia Chaudhry, Terence Aselford, Dawn Ursula, Chris Stinson ...

Series series Eric Carter
Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

"The seventh book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.Family is murder.When Eric Carter helps a friend with a deadly ritual that could determine the fate of the most powerful mage family in Los Angeles he steps into the middle of centuries-long feuds with people who make the ... Read more

$22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"The seventh book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.Family is murder.When Eric Carter helps a friend with a deadly ritual that could determine the fate of the most powerful mage family in Los Angeles he steps into the middle of centuries-long feuds with people who make the
... Read more
The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel

The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State

by Louis Grumet, John M. Caher ...

Twenty years ago, on the last day of session, the New York State Legislature created a publicly funded school district to cater to the interests of a religious sect called Kiryas Joel, an extremely insular group of Hasidic Jews. The sect had bought land in upstate New York, populated it solely with members of its faction, and created a village that exerted extraordinary political pressure over ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Twenty years ago, on the last day of session, the New York State Legislature created a publicly funded school district to cater to the interests of a religious sect called Kiryas Joel, an extremely insular group of Hasidic Jews. The sect had bought land in upstate New York, populated it solely with members of its faction, and created a village that exerted extraordinary political pressure over
... Read more

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