From the author of international bestseller The Black Swan" Nassim Nicholas Taleb's " Fooled by Randomness" is the bestselling account of the hidden role of chance in life & the markets. Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill & strategy
- or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business & the world. It is all about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal & professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets
- we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented' but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random finding reasons where none exist. A " Financial Times" book of the year this irreverent bestseller has shattered the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness. Now it can do the same for you. " One of the smartest books of all time". (" Fortune"). " An iconoclastic tour de force.. .nothing escapes his Exocets". (" Evening Standard"). " Brilliant". (John Kay). " Excellent & thought-provoking.. .an entertaining book". (" Financial Times"). " Wall Street's principal dissident". (Malcolm Gladwell). Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b.1960) has devoted his life to immersing himself in probelmce s of luck uncertainty probability & knowledge. His books " The Black Swan" & " Fooled by Randomness" have been published in thirty-one languages & " Fooled by Randomness" was selected by " Fortune" magazine as one of ' The Smartest Books of All Time'."

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A Ph D candidate in physics at Columbia University Alex Stone is also part of the underground magic circuit an exclusive community whose members convene regularly in pizza parlours & coffee shops to swap tips & develop new illusions. Determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level Stone embarks on a personal quest to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world & become a master magician. But he has some learning to do. In Fooling Houdini" we journey through a strange & colourful subculture of obsessive brilliant & dysfunctional geniuses
- blind card sharps street-hustlers & Las Vegas showmen
- learning the principles & history of some of the greatest tricks ever performed. Seeking answers to broader questions about decision making the limits of perception & the nature of deception Stone helps us understand what happens as we attempt to distinguish reality from illusion & discovers the link between magic & psychology physics & even crime. From back-street scams to laboratories to the Magic Olympics " Fooling Houdini" reveals the mysterious world of magic as never before."

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Alex Stone part of the underground magic circuit is determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world & become a master magician. Combining his passion for magic with his studies in Physics Stone takes us on a journey through a strange & colourful subculture of brilliant characters
- a blind card sharp street-hustlers Las Vegas showmen & world-leading scientists
- as he seeks answers to the questions about the limits of perception & the psychology of deception & decision-making. By pulling back the curtain Stone reveals the principles & history of some of the greatest tricks ever performed.

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This title comes from the international bestseller of The Godfather". A story of big-time gamblers in a feverish world where law & organised crime are one & the same... From New York to Las Vegas Merlyn & his brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America
- a world of greed lust violence & betrayal where the power of corruption & the corruption of power are nowhere better explored."
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Wet foot. Dry foot. Low foot. High foot. Early readers will enjoy marching in time to the beat of many many feet with Dr. Seuss' fun exploration of opposites. With his unique combination of hilarious stories zany pictures & riotous rhymes Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children & helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat & ranking among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller with nearly half a million books sold worldwide. This delightful book forms part of the third stage in Harper Collins' major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of six more titles in January 2004 such all-time favourites as The Lorax The Foot Book & Yertle the Turtle now boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own & Yellow Back Books are for older more fluent readers to enjoy. The Foot Book belongs to the Blue Back Book range. ...

Football coaches & players at all levels are increasingly having to look elsewhere for that psychological edge
- the mental discipline
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This is a mini version of the fascinating 100 Years of Football" with photographs h&-picked from the Press Association's archives. It is an essential & compelling addition to the bookshelves of fans of the sport. It is also a unique insight into our recent history; the crowds & backgrounds tell a story of their own. H&-picked by PA Photos' own archivists most of these images have lain unseen since they were used as news pictures when they were first taken. Each image has been scanned especially for these books many from glass plates ensuring the best possible quality of reproduction. Fans of football will find these books an essential & compelling addition to their shelves; a chance to see the people & witness the great moments of the last hundred years of the sport in Britain. The general reader will be equally fascinated by the unique insight into our recent history that these pictures provide: to modern eyes the crowds & backgrounds are as interesting as the subjects themselves." ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2011 ' Patrick Barclay traces the arc of the Scot's Govan youth to his Old Trafford supremacy with insight sensitivity & poise' Sports Book of the Year Sunday Telegraph Sir Alex Ferguson is the most controversial & compelling figure in football. For many he ranks as the greatest manager of all time. He is certainly the most successful. It's been more than ten years since Ferguson's Manchester United triumphed over Bayern Munich in the dying seconds of the Champions League final. Since then he has presided over the rise & fall & rise again of Jose Mourinho; the arrival & departure of the world's best player Ronaldo; the removal of one English talisman
- Beckham
- & the irresistible instalment of another
- Rooney. Ferguson has been instrumental in making the Premier League the most successful competition in football & he has endured while the mountains of cash have turned to valleys of debt. Throughout award-winning journalist Patrick Barclay has been pitch-side & spoken to all those who know Ferguson best
- fellow managers former players colleagues & commentators. The result is Football
- Bloody Hell!: the definitive work on the game's greatest living legend. ' Thorough of research rich of detail' Richard Williams Guardian Book of the Week ' Stylishly written admirably well-researched' Scotsman




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Throughout the world football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national political & cultural identities football is the medium through which the worlds hopes & fears passions & hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy from Russia to the USA to examine the way football has shaped them. At the same time he tried to find out what lies behind each nations distinctive style of play from the carefree self-expression of the Brazilians to the anxious calculation of the Italians. During his journeys he met an extraordinary range of players politicians &
- of course
- the fans themselves all of whom revealed in their different ways the unique place football has in the life of the planet.

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Who controls football in Britain today? The FA? The clubs? The fans? The shocking reality is that organised crime is moving in more aggressively than a Wayne Rooney tackle & theres little the authorities can do about it. Football & Gangsters" is an explosive in-depth investigation into the sinister underbelly of modern soccer. It exposes the new phenomenon of taxing
- a protection racket in which villains force young highly paid Premiership stars & their agents to hand over cash under threat of injury & death. Michael Owen Rio Ferdinand & Robbie Fowler are just some of the sports big names to have fallen foul of the games godfathers & paid the price. Their alarming stories are told here. No one might be willing to admit it but criminal organisations have manoeuvred themselves into a position of power in football. Drug-dealers launder money by buying clubs hooligan gangs have muscled their way into big-time crime & the boardroom & the influence of Asian betting rings continues to grow. Through a series of dangerous undercover investigations along with interviews with players club officials police & the underworld figures responsible the sensational evidence is laid bare in " Football & Gangsters"."
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