In the space of a few years Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than 12 billion Venture capital firms Goldman Sachs the New York Stock Exchange & billionaires such as Richard Branson & Peter Thiel have invested more than 1 billion in companies built on this groundbreaking technology Bill Gates has even declared it better than currency' The pioneers of Bitcoin were twenty-first-century outlaws
- cryptographers hackers Free Staters ex-cons & drug dealers teenage futurists & self-taught entrepreneurs
- armed with a renegade ideology & a grudge against big government & big banks Now those same institutions are threatening to co-opt or curtail the impact of digital currency But the pioneers some of whom have become millionaires themselves aren't going down without a fight Sweeping & provocative How Money Got Free reveals how this disruptive technology is shaping the debate around competing ideas of money & liberty & what that means for our future

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Get the answers to hundreds of financial questions with How Money Works including how to invest for the future how to maximise your income how financial markets work & how governments control money Discover essential know-how on everything from debt management to online fraud & learn to manage your own money from payments to pensions This intriguing guide breaks down the jargon of the financial world with insights into personal business & governmental finance & giving you the definitions to cash flow bonds superannuation the open market & hundreds more Fully up-to-date with the latest financial developments including quantitative easing & cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin How Money Works is your indispensable guide to the world of money ...

Features a story about a journey to develop emotional resilience This book describes the behaviour of monsters who each have different ways of relating to others & the world around them It is about how a child's needs can sometimes become distorted so that the needs we see expressed mask the true hidden emotional needs that go unmet 28 pages 20 Halftones color Ttofa Juliette ...

Your brain is shrinking Does it matter? How Much Brain Do We Really Need? challenges us to think differently about the brain Rather than just concentrating on the many wonderful things it can do this entertaining insight into the complexities & contradictions of the human brain asks whether in fact we can live satisfactorily without some of it The bad news is that our brains start to shrink from our mid-thirties But the good news is that we still seem to generally muddle along & our brain is able to adapt in extraordinary ways when things going wrong Alexis Willett & Jennifer Barnett shed light on what the human brain can do
- in both optimal & suboptimal conditions
- & consider what it can manage without Through fascinating facts & figures case studies & hypothetical scenarios expert interviews & scientific principles they take us on a journey from the ancient mists of time to the far reaches of the future via different species & lands Is brain training the key to healthy ageing? Do women really experience 'baby brain'? Is our brain at its evolutionary peak or do we have an even more brilliant future to look forward to? We discover the answers to these questions & more

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Norman Foster & his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design Portrayed are emblematic projects such as the largest building in the world Beijing Airport the Reichstag the Hearst Building in New York & works such as the tallest bridge ever in Millau France In the very near future the majority of mankind will abandon the countryside & live entirely in cities Foster offers some striking solutions to the problems that this historic event will create Architecture comes alive Fosters projects are photographed in a cinematic style that seeks to bring the spectacular nature of their size & scale to the big screen But is fracking safe? ...

' Although he feared death he could not stop ' If I stopped now after coming all this way
- well they'd call me an idiot!'A pair
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Let Mitchell Symons be your guide into the weird & wonderful world of trivia Camels are born without humps Walt Disney creator of Mickey Mouse was scared of mice Only 30 of humans can flare their nostrils A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink & an elephant produces an eye-wateringly pongy 20 kilos of dung a day! 320 pages Symons Mitchell ...

' Nobody has ever measured not even poets how much the heart can hold' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept In this collection seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love from Philautia self-love to Agape love for humanity; & from Storge a natural affection for family to Mania a frenzied obsessive love Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold

Includes:: the winning short story from the Sceptre Loves short story Prize

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What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? Kanye West to a German engineer? Beyonce to a boardroom mogul? They've all changed the face of the music business in the most unexpected ways How Music Got Free is the incredible true story of how online piracy & the MP3 revolutionised the way our world works one track at a time This brilliant book tells you exactly how the perfect storm that forever changed the way we consume music took shape Like many great works of investigative journalism it makes it clear that this is one of those stories you think you know Until you realise you don't' John Niven The Spectator Reads like an underworld crime story concise & very funny The most remarkable thing about Witt's book is that virtually none of the names is familiar Witt finds unlikely heroes in unlikely places' New Statesman ...

How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads Brian Eno & his myriad collaborators
- along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses African villages & anywhere music exists
- Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity It is his magnum opus & an impassioned argument about music's liberating life-affirming power

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