The Black Swan is a stand-alone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re done with the worst thing you’ll have to do all day. For Brian Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life.
The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You’ll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia’s revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis. Spellbinding, informative and moving, Stephen Fry’s Mythos perfectly captures these stories for the modern age – in all their rich and deeply human relevance.
Even if you are a below-average student, manager, or employee, the techniques and methods used by the memory champions of the world will help you to memorize and understand information easier, faster, and even longer than ever before.
You do not have to be smart to develop a memory like the hard disk in your computer.
Using the (ancient) methods applied by these memory champions to remember Pi to 10,000 digits in only 14 minutes will also help you in your day-to-day life as manager, worker, and student.
Copy and learn their techniques and secrets to learn and remember faster, easier, and better. It will change your life and work for the better.
“The inside scoop on how marijuana landed on Main Street…and why it’s coming soon to a city near you.” (Katie Couric)
From gleaming dispensaries stocked with elegantly wrapped edibles to the array of CBD lotions and oils for sale at your local drugstore to tastemaker Martha Stewart cooking up marijuana munchies on prime-time television, one thing is clear: Pot has fully shed its stoner image.
Dinesh D’Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller America: Imagine a World Without Her, has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years-or possibly eight years-of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable.
A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Their journey to the White House is a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal, that stretches from the Klondike Gold Rush, through Nazi-occupied Poland and across the American Century, to our new gilded age. In building and maintaining their dynastic wealth, these families came to embody the rising nationalism and inequality that has pushed the United States to the brink of oligarchy.
In this book, Gerry offers the reader a series of simple proven DAILY HABITS, which if adopted into their daily living, will guide and support them on their journey to achieving lasting happiness, inner peace, and contentment in their daily life. The simple proven DAILY HABITS and guidelines that are described in this easy to follow book offer great insight into what is essential for living a balanced, joyful and worthwhile life. Subsequently, when the reader accepts and subtly develops these daily habits into their life, then over time, it will lead to automatic changes to their thinking, which in turn leads to changes in their behavior, which assists them in manifesting the lasting happiness, inner peace and contentment that we all desire, or even crave. You will be amazed!
One CD, one promise: Listen to this 10-minute CD and you will immediately double your reading speed. Paul Scheele uses the latest in brain research to guide you through three easy steps that instantly result in increased reading speed, concentration and focus.
Paul R. Scheele is a recognized authority in three leading edge technologies or human development: Accelerated Learning, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Preconscious Processing. His unique expertise allows him to develop the process of Photoreading printed materials at rates exceeding 25,000 words a minute, which led to the development of Double Your Reading Speed in 10 Minutes.
Natalie Fee, Shiromi Arserio (Narrator), “How to Save the World for Free”
Are you worried about the effects of climate change on our environment? Want to help but don’t know where to start? Environmental activist Natalie Fee’s new handbook to green living will help you to make small lifestyle changes that will make a big difference to our planet.
Bolton had always liked guns better than shovels, so he took the job Wells Fargo offered. It was five dollars a day and a new Greener shotgun–and all he had to do was shepherd a king’s ransom in gold across a hundred miles of Hell.
Flawed, misleading, and false arguments are everywhere. From advertisers trying to separate you from your money, to politicians trying to sway your vote, to friends who want you to agree with them, your belief structure is constantly under attack. Logic is intellectual self-defense against such assaults on reason and also a method of quality control for checking the validity of your own views. But beyond these very practical benefits, informal logic-the kind we apply in daily life-is the gateway to an elegant and fascinating branch of philosophy known as formal logic, which is philosophy’s equivalent to calculus. Formal logic is a breathtakingly versatile tool. Much like a Swiss army knife for the incisive mind, it is a powerful mode of inquiry that can lead to surprising and worldview-shifting conclusions. Award-winning Professor Steven Gimbel guides you with wit and charm through the full scope of this immensely rewarding subject in An Introduction to Formal Logic, that teach you logic from the ground up-from the fallacies of everyday thinking to cutting edge ideas on the frontiers of the discipline.
