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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 seems horri...

A corporation, or a government department isn't a conscious being, but it is an artificial intelligence. It has the capability to take decisions which are completely distinct from the intentions of any of the people who compose it. And under stressful conditions, it can go stark raving mad.'When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In Decisions Nobody Made, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systemati...

Emily Dickinson, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts geboren, erfasste mit ihren gefühlvollen Gedichten auf unnachahmliche Art und Weise sowohl den Schrecken, als auch die Schönheit der Welt. Dabei hat sie davon selbst nicht viel gesehen. Nachdem ihr Vater die gegen die evangelistischen Lehren rebellierende Emily schon früh aus der Schule nahm, verbrachte sie fortan die Zeit zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Austin und ihrer Schwester Vinnie in ihrem Elter...

A book to personalize so that the child's name appears throughout for him or her to become the star of the story.A story made for you! Add your name using the stickers provided to become the star of the book! The area where the stickers are placed is die-cut throughout so the name appears through the book!

A book to personalize so that the child's name appears throughout for him or her to become the star of the story.A story made for you! Add your name using the stickers provided to become the star of the book! The area where the stickers are placed is die-cut throughout so the name appears through the book!

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 seems horri...

Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyrinths of deceit.Along the way you'll find out how to fake a gold mine with a wedding...

First edition published by David Fulton Publishers 2003"--T.p. verso.

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Our Hero in this Book Travels from Minor to Major Adventure, Resembling the Russian toy, Matryoska Dolls (Nesting Dolls) ur Hero is a Retired US Marine looking for something new to get into and boy did he fifi nd something that almost ended his life. He runs into many Unsavory characters in his Adventures. ThTh ese take him to Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, Syria and Greece. He has to deal with Illegal Gun Running, Illegal Drugs, Murders,...

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Providing a systematic cross-curricular approach to learning English, this comprehensive six-level course is designed for situations where students study English intensivel.

A definitive account of the Jimmy Saville story, from a journalist who spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Saville, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. Over the last two-and-a-half years, Dan has been interviewing scores of people, many of them unobtainable while Jimmy was alive, discovering that his instincts were right all along, and that behind the mask lay a hideous truth.

The second edition of Teaching Science Creatively has been fully updated to reflect new research and updates to the Primary science curriculum. It offers innovative starting points to enhance your teaching and highlights curiosity, observation, exploration and enquiry as central components of children¿s creative learning in science. Stimulating and accessible, with contemporary and cutting-edge practice at the forefront, Teaching Science Creat...

In a city with a long history of social barriers and forbidding aristocratic preserves, Philadelphia Jews, in the last half of the twentieth century, became a force to reckon with in the cultural, political and economic life of the region. This book looks at how Jews have shaped and have been shaped by Philadelphia and its long immigrant history.