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Originally published in the United States in 1938 Address Unknown was an instant sensation and international bestseller. It was written before World War Two to alert the American public to the reality of Nazi power and its power remains undiminished after decades.The series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his German business partner in Munich traces their relationship as it changes after the coming to power of the Nazis.

In today''s volatile, complex and fast-moving business world, it can be difficult to gauge how sound a company really is. An apparently strong balance sheet and impressive reported profits may be hiding all sorts of problems that could even spell bankruptcy. So how do you:- Know whether a company is well run and doing well? - Decide which ratios and benchmarks to use to assess performance? - Work out if a company has massaged its results? - Recognise the danger signs on the corporate horizon?- Compare companies operating in different sectors or countries?These and many other important questions are answered in a completely updated and revised sixth edition of this clear and comprehensive guide. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand a company''s annual report, judge a customer''s creditworthiness, assess a company''s investment potential, and much more.

The world of economics is changing. Years of turmoil in the global economy mean that nothing will ever be quite the same again. This is the starting point and theme of this radically revised Economist books classic. Richard Davies takes us on a journey through the paper''s own analysis of the state of the world''s economies, how we reached this point and what to expect in the next decade. He explores: * what''s gone wrong since 2008, why it''s happened and how we can stop it happening again * the shifting focus of economics from banking to labour economics* a new breed of firm with economics at their operational core * the future hopes and challenges for the world economyAlong the way, we encounter the global economy laid bare, from banks, panics and crashes to innovative new policies to improve how markets function; from discussions around jobs, pay and inequality to the promise of innovation and productivity; and from the implications of emerging markets and the globalisation of trade through to the sharing economy and the economics of Google and eBay. The result is a fascinating review of the global economy and the changing role of economics in the new world order.

At last, a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. In How to Manage Your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx offers practical advice, showing where and how to buy slaves and how to get the best out of them. He explains how to tell good slaves from bad, offers guidance on the punishment of miscreants, and reveals the secrets of command and authority. He covers the delicate subjects of when you should let your slaves have sex and whether to engage in sex with them yourself - and considers when to set them free. Armed with this guide you will be master in your own home: your household will be a comfort to your family, its running the envy of your neighbours.Slavery was a core institution in the Roman world for all its long existence. As they conquered, the Romans enslaved millions and then bred from this stock to maintain their numbers in times of peace. It almost never occurred to anyone that slavery might be dispensed with and to no one at all that it was morally reprehensible. Up to now ancient slavery may have been difficult to fathom: this Roman''s-eye view takes us to the heart of the matter and, based on a wealth of original sources, lets us understand just why slaves meant so much to the Romans.

Ideally spooky Halloween reading...A chilling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black.One murky November evening after a satisfying meal in their Fleet Street lodgings, a conversation between four medical students takes a curious turn and Hugh is initiated into a dark secret. In the cellar of their narrow lodgings in Printer''s Devil Court and a little used mortuary in a subterranean annex of the hospital, they have begun to interfere with death itself, in shadowy experiments beyond the realms of medical ethics. They call on Hugh to witness an event both extraordinary and terrifying. Years later, Hugh has occasion to return to his student digs and the familiar surroundings resurrect peculiar and unpleasant memories of these unnatural events, the true horror of which only slowly becomes apparent.

Economics is all around us, essential to every aspect of our lives. But just how much does the average person understand about what Economics is for, how it underpins crucial decisions taken every day and how it continues to evolve?Step forward the Economist''s guide to Economics, written with the clarity and wit for which the newspaper is renowned and featuring bite-sized overviews of the most important economic ideas, concepts and terms. If you need to understand why a country''s balance of payments is such a big deal, whether deflation is always a bad thing, or exactly why John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman were so influential, then dipping into this A-Z Guide will provide the answers. Primer, glossary, dictionary and reference, this book offers everything you always wanted to know about Economics, but perhaps were afraid to ask.An Economist Book, published in association with the Economist.

The classic guide for the individual investor, The Economist Guide to Investment Strategy sets out the basic - and the not-so-basic - principles for putting your wealth to work. It looks at risk, pointing out the hazards for those who wish to explore a variety of investment approaches. It also teaches the importance of sophisticated self-knowledge in finance, distilling insights from behavioural analysis as well as the principles of traditional finance. It highlights how habitual patterns of decision-making can lead any of us into costly mistakes, and it stresses how markets are most dangerous when they appear to be most rewarding. This fourth edition includes new material on private investment and non-standard asset classes - art, wine, collectibles and the like - helping readers to navigate those areas in which prudence meets passion.

In 2011, Mujahid Sarsur found himself in a windowless room, where he was interrogated for hours. The Palestinian Authority's Intelligence Agency wanted to know: why did he lead a group of fellow Palestinian students on a trip to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem?This is the extraordinary story of Mujahid's journey, against enormous odds both logistical and political, and resistance from both Palestinian and Israeli authorities, to understand the culture that occupies his land. He traces his teenage years growing up in the West Bank in the shadow of the second Intifada, encountering Israelis at school in Canada (the first he'd met without guns), and developing his mission to lead the first Palestinian educational group to visit the Holocaust Museum. With rare lucidity and remarkable generosity, he reveals the frustrations and trauma of life under occupation, but also the powerful potential of reconciliation and shared understanding. This is a moving and unique look to the past in the hopes of building a different future.

The ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement, despite its best efforts to remain inconspicuous, is now a subject of deep curiosity to the outside world. Their scandals are splashed across headlines, their lives exhibited in Netflix shows and memoirs. But while there is much interest in Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy, there is little understanding of its history, depth, and power. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the scarred remnants of the Haredim - the 'God fearers' - rejected the secular world and rebuilt their community. With extraordinary access and investigative skill, Anshel Pfeffer leads us into Haredi communities the world over: from Jerusalem's grand courts of Hasidism to Orange County townships, where the Haredim are amassing civil power as a voting bloc. Pfeffer visits the dining rooms of Haredi diamond-dealers in Dubai and explores Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary as the unlikely location for modern-day shtetls. In Melbourne, a community faces allegations of sexual predation; in eastern Ukraine, brave rabbis are rescuing their flocks from the Russian invasion. In this, the first history of the Haredi in decades, Pfeffer's consummate expertise and superb prose offer an informative, immersive, and resonant panorama of an evolving fundamentalist world.

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America, and eating problems - from bulimia to obesity - are growing daily, affecting children as young as six. In China, women are having their legs broken and extended by 5cms. In Iran, behind the Hijab there are 35,000 cosmetic nose reconstructions a year. The body is no longer a given and to possess a flawless one has become the ambition of millions. In her years of practice as a psychoanalyst, Susie Orbach has come to realise that the way we view our bodies is the mirror of how we view ourselves: our body becomes the measure of our worth. In this book, she raises the fundamental questions about how we arrived here and proposes a new theory on how we became embodied.

A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver''s old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter''s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty ...

Valentine, the troubled daughter of a well-off but dysfunctional Parisian family, vanishes on her way to school. Inexperienced private detective Lucie Toledo is hired to find the missing teenager, and enlists the help of a formidable agent with a past, known to her friends as the Hyena. Their quest, from Paris to Barcelona and back, uncovers a rich cast of characters whose paths have crossed Valentine''s, leading to an alarming climax. Part political thriller, part road-movie, part romance, the latest novel by subversive writer and film-maker Virginie Despentes won the Prix Renaudot 2010 for the pitiless gaze it directs at society in the age of the internet.

FOR TABLET DEVICES. Foreword by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, and Preface by Julie Summers, bestselling author of Jambusters.In a century that has seen the role of women in both domestic and public life change irrevocably, the role of the Women''s Institute in effecting change has often gone unappreciated.From the barracking of Tony Blair at their AGM in 2000, through the extraordinary story of the WI Calendar Girls, and after a hundred years of campaigning and solidarity, the WI is enjoying a resurgence in popularity among younger city-dwelling women, while remaining firmly rooted in its rural origins. Women''s Century celebrates the WI''s centenary in 2015, calling attention to the indispensable role it has played in the development of women''s rights. From its establishment in a 1915 Britain suffering the rigours of war in Europe, the WI has become the UK''s most popular women''s organisation, playing a crucial role in encouraging women''s education and equal pay, prison reform and, more recently, AIDS awareness and fair trade. Focusing on powerful images of the WI and its work, the book tells its story to a new generation of men and women, whose forebears 100 years ago could never have imagined the force their fledgling new organisation would become.

WAR DRAGONS. FEARSOME RAIDERS. A DAEMONIC WARLORD ON THE RISE. '5/5 stars' SFX MagazineWhen the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home... Meanwhile the wider continent of Narida is lurching toward war. Black Keep is about to be caught in the crossfire - if only its new mismatched society can survive. THE START OF AN UNMISSABLE FANTASY SERIES. 'Vibrant and intricate worldbuilding' Matthew Ward'Epic... powerful... I really, really can't recommend this one enough' Fantasy Inn'Excellent characters and wonderful worldbuilding, with a wealth of interesting cultural collisions... I'm already excited for the next one!' Django Wexler'Compelling... promises to be a watershed epic fantasy series. I loved it' Fantasy Book ReviewThe Black Coast is the first fantasy novel from critically acclaimed Games Workshop/Warhammer 40k author Mike Brooks. Look out for the sequel: The Splinter King.

THE WORLD FRACTURES AS A DEAD GOD RISES... Darel, dragon knight and the new leader of Black Keep, must travel to the palace of the God-King to beg for the lives of his people. But in the capital of Narida, Marin and his warrior husband will be drawn into a palace coup, and Princess Tila will resort to murder to keep her hold on power. In the far reaches of the kingdom an heir in exile is hunted by assassins, rumours of a rival God-King abound, and daemonic forces from across the seas draw ever nearer... A saga of truly epic proportions, The Splinter King is the captivating sequel to Mike Brooks' The Black Coast. A spectacular adventure featuring a large cast of dragon riders, royalty, knights and deities, this new series is an unmissable treat for any fantasy reader.