money

How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century economics and shows us how we are all on the brink of a revolution, whether we like it or not. Selected...

Pierwszy tom seksownej serii „King Maker”! To, co zrobiła Bailey w sylwestrową noc w toalecie hotelowej z seksownym nieznajomym, było kompletnie nie w jej stylu. Przecież ona jest grzeczną dziewczyną. Fakt, była zraniona po burzliwym rozstaniu z niewiernym narzeczonym, ale to jej nie usprawiedliwiało. Po wszystkim seksowny nieznajomy po prostu wyszedł i ją zostawił. To zabolało. Bardzo mocno. Chociaż...

The book „Money Matters” covers most topic-related areas of Finance, Banking and Accounting. It is targeted at university students and professionals from intermediate to advanced level of language competence. In addition to texts rich in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) terminology, it gives learners a variety of exercises that aim at practising and memorising core finance terminology and phraseology....

The book Money matters covers most topic-related areas of Finance, Banking and Accounting. It is targeted at university students and professionals from intermediate to advanced level of language competence. In addition to texts rich in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) terminology, it gives learners a variety of exercises that aim at practising and memorising core finance terminology and phraseology....

A melodramatic mystery, in which a young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs leads to some very unusual occurrences. Events then take a very sinister turn... As ever, with Anna Katherine Green, this early novel features love-struck...

Another fast-paced murder mystery by J.S. Fletcher told in the first person. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the „Golden Age”. It was first published in 1920, and has just the right stock of truly good characters, balanced by a couple of nasties. A young apprentice solicitor in a rural English...

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market. Tracing the establishment of this orthodoxy and the challenges posed to it since the Great Depression of 1929-32, Robert Skidelsky shows how - unlike then - the...

Jimmy Kildare met from the hospital every day and arrived at Tom McGuire’s lounge on the avenue. He always drank two mugs of beer. But one from the other, there should be a brain at the fingertips all day long, but two beers are not too far between man and themselves, if it has bumps on shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.

Pełen wybuchowej akcji polityczny thriller osadzony w niedalekiej przyszłości. Lindsey, studentka z Londynu, zostaje przypadkowo wciągnięta w wir zdarzeń mogących całkowicie odmienić obraz współczesnego świata. Cyberinwigilacja, wojna z terrorem, tajne programy CIA i zaginione pieniądze Al-Kaidy w zamkniętej historii autorstwa Thierry’ego Smolderena (autora niezapomnianego „Cygana”) i Dominique’a ...

Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it? Imagine if every month the government deposited £1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy, but Universal Basic Income (UBI) has become one of the most influential policy ideas of our time, backed by thinkers on both the left and the right. The founder of Facebook, Obama's chief economist,...