Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a large system does us wrong, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds.Financial crime ...

Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box—a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.Passengers get bumped from flights. Phone menus disconnect. Automated financial trades produce market collapse. Of all the challenges in modern life, some of the most vexing come from our relationships with automation: a large system does us wrong, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Il primo caso di truffa sugli appalti pubblici è testimoniato dalla Bibbia. Spett a invece a Demostene l'onore di essere diventato famoso contrastando le frodi. Vince la palma della balla più sensazionale dell'Ottocento Sir Gregor MacGregor: riuscì a vendere terreni e concessioni di una nazione inesistente nell'America centrale.Mentre nel dopoguerra Anthony De Angelis, il «re dell'olio dell'insalata», dominava il mercato internazionale spacciando barili immaginari di olio di soia. E se Pon...

A major source for the BBC drama The Reckoning**Winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize**Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a time quizzing Savile at his homes in Lee...

《黑天鵝效應》作者塔雷伯、《全球化矛盾》作者羅德里克、《影響力的終結》作者布萊德佛‧德隆等人，口碑強推！　　假鈔、假金礦，甚至假國家。藏在行李箱裡的幼童、五鬼搬運的沙拉油……，儘管詐取錢財的騙徒往往使用各種複雜的障眼法，但犯罪模式大多建立在很簡單的基礎上。　　現代經濟能夠蓬勃發展是建立在分工之上，而隨著商業體系越來越龐雜，現代社會也越來越傾向於「信任的分工」。然而儘管工作層層分化出去的過程中，催生了相應的控管制度，但由於我們不可能查核所有未親自經手的作業，因此制度中仍有許多可以「上下其手」之處。本書蒐羅了從古至今豐富的詐騙實例，帶大家了解商業騙局的幾大特色，同時解釋它們為何、以及會在什麼地方「露出馬腳」，乃至失控崩盤。　　你可以把本書當作一本「刺激的犯罪實錄」，享受當中令人驚詫、搖頭、甚至噴飯的詐騙情節，但若是看門道，它毋寧是一部「角度另類的商業史」。作者分章探討各詐騙案根柢的架構與性質，一邊介紹這些知名詐欺案的內情，一邊逐一檢視現代世界賴以建...

This is a guide for Parents to explain in all honesty the process of childbirth to their own children. As told by a dad reflecting on the birth of his first child. A heart warming, genuine and educational short story, with lots of excellent, realistic and telling illustrations. A must for every parent who wants to share the joy of birth with their own child and tell them the story of how they were born. Also an easy way to let siblings know what is going to happen to mummy with her big tum...

Six years after comet Lihtan swerves past planet Earth...."A delightfully offbeat tale of a dystopian world."—Kirkus Reviews

An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds.Financial crime ...

The story of how Brompton, the iconic folding bicycle that you can take anywhere—and that can take you anywhere—grew from a small cult bike company to a multimillion-dollar businessLightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding bicycle—or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its marvelous design (virtually unchanged over decades) and the particular joy of riding it.

This is a challenging new book for primary teachers interested in developing their teaching of Design & Technology, subject leaders in D&T, and for student teachers choosing this as their specialty. It will also appeal to in-service providers and LEA advisory staff.Children's creativity, cultural development and citizenship are important but currently underdeveloped in primary education. This book uniquely focuses on how these aspects can be emphasized in the teaching of Design and...

How can you unlock your own creativity to help children learn science creatively?How do you bring the world of ‘real science’ into the classroom?Where does science fit in a creative curriculum?This second edition of Teaching Science Creatively has been fully updated to reflect new research, initiatives and developments in the field. It offers innovative starting points to enhance your teaching and highlights curiosity, observation, exploration and enquiry a...