For the first time, THE BUSINESS INVESTOR explains in practical terms how to apply Warren Buffett's investment hurdle rate, using Buffett's own words as the foundation.The book lays out the Warren Buffett path to financial freedom in a groundbreaking, step-by-step guide that takes you from mindset to methodology and is designed for investors who want to think and act like long-term business owners. Building on Benjamin Graham's...

När Daniel kliver in i ridhuset tror han att han har hittat en fristad, ett nytt hem där rutiner, gemenskap och tydlig ordning råder. Men bakom den välputsade fasaden finns en annan sorts disciplin, den som styrs av rädsla, lojaliteter och auktoriteter som aldrig blir ifrågasatta.Då Daniel en dag säger ifrån mot en tränare som går för långt kastas hela hans värld omkull. Det trygga systemet vänds emot honom och plötsligt är det inte prestationerna som räknas, utan vem som känner ve...

A young computer hacker accidentally saves the planet while trying to destroy it.In the distant future our young hero, Peter Gustafson, finds himself in a battle of wits against the greatest AI ever created. The machine needs a human to throw the switch to give it total control, Peter is conflicted when he is recruited to help it launch a satellite that will scan, upload and defragment all of Earth's data but must destroy the planet in the process.

När Daniel kliver in i ridhuset tror han att han har hittat en fristad, ett nytt hem där rutiner, gemenskap och tydlig ordning råder. Men bakom den välputsade fasaden finns en annan sorts disciplin, den som styrs av rädsla, lojaliteter och auktoriteter som aldrig blir ifrågasatta.Då Daniel en dag säger ifrån mot en tränare som går för långt kastas hela hans värld omkull. Det trygga systemet vänds emot honom och plötsligt är det inte prestationerna som räknas, utan vem som känner ve...

This edited volume focuses on slow media, an approach that fosters intentional and thoughtful engagement with media of all forms. Contributors explore our individual and community relations with analog and digital media by critiquing current power structures underpinning contemporary media sensibilities, processes, and technologies. Through these critiques, the authors pose crucial questions surrounding how to slow down and be intentional within the landscape of accelerated media technolog...

Much has been written about the issue of religious freedom and church-state relations. The contributors to this book, however, take up another side of the question: what has been the impact of religion on human rights. Representatives from various religious traditions address a broad range of topics, from environmental rights to the basic validation of human rights, to the rights of women in India and Iran and within Orthodox Judaism, to the global imposition of criminal justice, to pressu...

Spying, the “world’s second oldest profession,” is hardly limited to the traditional great power countries. Intelligence Elsewhere, nevertheless, is the first scholarly volume to deal exclusively with the comparative study of national intelligence outside of the anglosphere and European mainstream. Past studies of intelligence and counterintelligence have tended to focus on countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and Russia, as well as, to a lesser extent, Canada, Australia, Fr...

This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. These relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them steadily decrease humankind’s chances to achi...