A hedge fund manager reveals how to spot a business on the verge of collapse—and how to profit from it—in this "surprisingly entertaining" guide ( Publishers Weekly).Unlike most investors, who live in fear of failure, Scott Fearon actively seeks it out. He has earned millions of dollars for his hedge fund by shorting the stocks of businesses he believed were on their way to bankruptcy. In Dead Companies Walking, Fearon describes his methods for spo...

A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%.Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the "experts."Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this sys...

$20,000 to $2 million in only three years— the greatest stock-picker you never heard of tells you how you can do it tooChris Camillo is not a stockbroker, financial analyst, or hedge fund manager. He is an ordinary person with a knack for identifying trends and discovering great investments hidden in everyday life. In early 2007, he invested $20,000 in the stock market, and in three years it grew to just over $2 million.With Laughing at Wall Street...

Bitcoin: The Future of Money? was the first book to tell the incredible story behind Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and it remains a cryptocurrency book unlike any other.Author Dominic Frisby doesn't just provide the best explanation of cryptocurrency for beginners but takes readers on a page-turning journey through the anarchic internet subcultures that gave rise to it, meeting many of those who had a front-row seat to a financial revolution...

"A rich, generous book about writing and reading and Kurt Vonnegut as writer, teacher, and friend . . . Every page brings pleasure and insight."— Gail Godwin, New York Times bestselling authorHere is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an enti...

Thrive is the roadmap of how to grow your business and drive sales in highly shifting, constantly changing economic times.It is the story of those leaders and organizations that have seen consistent growth through several economic crises-companies that were founded in the late 1700’s to early 1900’s and they are still in business thriving today.In this book we share their stories, their struggles, and tell you exactly how they have not only overcome adversity, but ...

The legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur examines how both business and government organizations can harness the power of disruptive technologies.Tom Siebel, the billionaire technologist and founder of Siebel Systems, discusses how four technologies—elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things—are fundamentally changing how business and government will operate in the 21st century. While this profound and fast-moving transf...

"A New Civil Rights Leader" explores what we mean when we speak of democracy and if democracy can truly ever exist ( LA Times).There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money campaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise.The problems lie deeper than...

"We are certain we are 'one' person, not a thousand different selves reacting unconsciously to thousands of different stimuli. Everyday Bias is an important guide to seeing oneself the way others might." - Ken Burns, filmmakerTo be human is to be biased. From this simple truth, nationally recognized diversity expert Howard J. Ross explores the biases we each carry within us. Incorporating anecdotes from today's headlines alongside case studies from over 30...

"A perceptive look at [the] Amazon founder's annual shareholder letters, extracting 14 key 'growth principles' that [businesses] can use to scale up." — Publishers WeeklyJeff Bezos created Amazon, the fastest company to reach $100 billion in sales ever, making him the richest man in the world. Business owners marvel at Amazon's success, but don't realize they have the answers right at their fingertips as Bezos reveals his hidden roadmap in his annual letter...

This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women's rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered 'persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment were thrown open to them, and by 1919, they won universal suffrage.

This biographical history of the English Civil War profiles the lives and ultimate fates of the nearly 60 men who sentenced their king to death.On January 30th, 1649, King Charles I was executed on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House of Whitehall. The parliamentarian High Court of Justice declared him guilty of treason, disregarding the Divine Right of Kings. Fifty-nine commissioners signed his death warrant.These killers of the king were soldiers, lawy...