Economics

Have you ever Heard about day trading?Have you ever considered giving it a go yourself? Do you know where to start? In this book, "How to Day Trade for a Living. Trading Strategies & Tactics to Consistently Earn Passive Income in Any Market - Stocks,...

Nicolas Darvas was a dancer, self-taught investor and author. He is best known for his book, "How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market." He discovered investing in 1952, when a Toronto nightclub, unable to pay him in cash, instead paid him with shares...

The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikötter.'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne...

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize.An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China."Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw...

There will be many books detailing the rise and fall of the cryptocurrency market, but this is one to seek out. This is a richly researched, in-depth expose of the players involved, from actor Ben McKenzie and journalist Jacob Silverman.INSTANT NEW YORK...

Longlisted for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year. An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long...

The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind...

A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European...

The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world's most famous sports brands, having started from a small factory in Bolton.Since the late 19th century, the Foster family had been hand-making running shoes, supplying the...

Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less...

Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024.In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political...

Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better still it can be understood without any jargon, any...

'Tim Harford is peerless at making sense of a complicated world and our place within it. This is a book that all children should read' - Matthew Syed.-> Did you know that a toy spaceship can teach you about inflation?-> Or that a pooping cow can...

A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.Traditional interpretations of the British Empire’s emerging success and...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for...

When two investigative journalists from the New York Times started their probe of McKinsey and Co., they knew it wouldn't be easy due to the company's veil of secrecy. But they persevered, and this important work is the result.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011.A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities.America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're...

David Graeber and David Wengrow, an anthropologist and an archaelologist, join forces to dig deep and long through 30,000 years of human history, looking to explain anew who we are and how we got from there to here. Immersive, commanding and incendiary,...

‘You need this book.' Steven Bartlett, author of The Diary of a CEO.The world is changing. It's time for a new financial playbook.In this must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth, success and happiness, you'll learn:• how to find and...

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay...