From the invention of the electric telegraph to the emergence of the Internet, new technology has constantly stimulated our desire for information. Nowhere is that desire more intense than in the world's financial trading community, where survival depends as never before on instant and continuous access to market prices and market- moving news. The creation of that community, by a handful of pioneering information companies, is the subject of this book. Its author spent a lifetime working ...

O planeta está em profunda crise por causa do capitalismo e Karl Marx está sendo redescoberto em no mundo todo como o pensador que nos forneceu a crítica mais perspicaz. O renascimento de Marx é o melhor, mais completo e mais moderno guia para compreender as ideias de Marx que apareceu desde a queda do Muro de Berlim. Escrito por especialistas internacionais de renome, de forma didática e acessível a um público mais amplo, reúne as mais vivas e instigantes interpretações contemporâneas da ...

A comedy murder mystery with a plot like nothing you've ever seen before. If it doesn't make you laugh, you need to take your pulse. Dr. Jason Longfellow, PI and amateur sleuth is at it again, driving his poor wife Chelsea crazy while trying to solve another murder. Chelsea loves her husband, but he can be irritating. As an FDA scientist he excelled, as a PI...not so much. Chelsea usually solves the case while struggling to keep her hubby alive. You'll enjoy the banter between these two lo...

First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their capacity to choose discriminatingly, when the sheer complexity of the issues facing them tends all the time to make them increasingly dependent on the skills and judgements of their professional advi...

Winner of 2022 FIREBIRD BOOK AWARDS: 1st Place for both MYSTERY AND HUMOR categoriesDr. Jason Longfellow, Private Eye and amateur sleuth, and wife Chelsea travel to the Sunshine State to buy a vacation home. While touring beautiful resort communities near the beach, they encounter some very aggressive realtors. Why are the realtors so angry? Is Jason really that annoying? Then their search turns deadly and the bodies start piling up

Dr. Jason Longfellow is a bored FDA drug reviewer in the midst of a serious midlife crisis. He has a shiny new convertible he can't fit into, an exasperated wife who thinks he's lost his mind, three daughters who always side with mom, and with a new PI license he fancies himself a modern-day Jessica Fletcher. What could go wrong? Carpooling to work one morning, Jason gets his first case when his attractive brunette passenger erupts into relentless spontaneous happy endings. Intent on clear...

MURDER BY ROAD TRIP is a comedy murder mystery, staged in the medical biotech and pharmaceutical industry. John J Jessop co-wrote the book with his daughter, Jackie. The story was inspired by a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country road trip they took together in 2016. While the destinations may be real, all events in MURDER BY ROAD TRIP are hilariously fictitious.A missing research monkey, a tiny jewel thief, the great cheese caper, and a bumbling FDA reviewer/wannabe private eye trapp...

That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable biographies” of great men, and his almost unparalleled record of correspondence with contemporaries both great and small, makes him a necessary figure of study in multiple fields.Th...