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Brought to you by Penguin. A revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to control the future – and what it means to win Even in a tech world crowded with visionary leaders, Demis Hassabis is recognized as a special case. Born to working class, immigrant parents in...

Wealthy, powerful and potentially dangerous, hedge fund managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first-century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. A saga of riches and rich egos, this is also a history of discovery. Drawing on insights from mathematics, economics and psychology to crack the mysteries of the market, hedge funds have transformed the world, spawning new markets in exotic financial instruments and rewriting the rules of capitalism.

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children.

Brought to you by Penguin. It is no exaggeration to say that venture capital has been central to the greatest legal creation of wealth anywhere, and enabled much of the world we live in, yet we know surprisingly little about this strange tribe of financiers. In The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby...

A show where Kenny Sebastian ( I am writing this description btw) talks to the funniest comedians from the Indian scene (sometimes to himself) about things he wishes people spoke about more in public. A some times funny and sometimes serious show where questions from the audience are discussed in depth and "no advice" is being given. Hit the follow button to be updated about the latest episodes, Go to the @simplekenpodcast on Instagram to ask questions or my personal profile @kennethseb to get updated about my latest shows and antics. Visit www.simpleken.com incase you hate apps and just like ...

The 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai offer a rare picture of the ties between Pakistan’s intelligence service and the militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba. The trail of two key figures, an accused Pakistani mastermind and his American operative, traces the rise of a complex, international threat.

A prisoner in a psychiatric ward confesses to killing two children and leads the Berlin police to their bodies. The police are certain he is also the kidnapper of a six-year-old boy, Max, who disappeared a year ago. But they only have circumstantial evidence, and the murderer is now refusing talk. In the many months since Max vanished, his father Till’s life has spiraled out of control. His wife has left him, he’s lost his job, and all he can do is obsess about what happened to his son.

Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series. Read by award winning audiobook narrator, Joel Leslie. Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running...

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to...

Willkommen bei eurem neuen Lieblingspodcast rund um Finanzen und Versicherungen – mit Tim & Basti.Wir sprechen Klartext über Geld, Absicherung und die Entscheidungen, die wirklich zählen. Modern, verständlich und ohne unnötigen Fachjargon nehmen wir euch mit in die Welt der Finanz- und Versicherungsthemen – so, dass ihr sie nicht nur versteht, sondern auch für euch nutzen könnt.Egal ob aktuelle Entwicklungen am Markt, neue Trends oder wichtige Änderungen: Wir halten euch auf dem Laufenden und zeigen, was das konkret für euch bedeutet. Gleichzeitig gehen wir einen Schritt weiter –...

Die biblische Geschichte von Abraham und Sara hat Sebastian Rochlitzer zu Texten inspiriert, die es in sich haben. Gemeinsam mit seinem blauen, flauschigen Freund Ulfie wird es dabei lustig, aber auch ernst – mit Inhalten, die Kinder in ihrer Gefühlswelt ernst nehmen und sie neugierig machen: „Wie und wo ist Gott?", „Kann ich ihn kennenlernen?", „Kann ich ihm vertrauen?". Dabei sind die Texte einfallsreich und vielschichtig. Dieses Album enthält das komplette Hörspiel aus dem Musikalbum Versprochen ist Versprochen – ohne Lieder.

Mucho más que el fragmento que se le incrustó en la cabeza, a Marc Lucas le duele la herida emocional causada por el accidente automovilístico que él mismo provocó, ya que su esposa no sobrevivió. Cuando Marc se entera de un experimento psiquiátrico que podría liberarlo de ese recuerdo insoportable, recupera la esperanza. Pero tras las primeras pruebas, comienza el horror: la llave de su departamento ya no encaja. Un nombre desconocido aparece en el timbre. Entonces la puerta se abre… y Marc se enfrenta cara a cara con una pesadilla.

Klarheit statt Coaching ist kein Podcast über Selbstoptimierung. Hier geht es nicht darum, sich besser zu fühlen. Sondern darum, klarer zu sehen. Ich bin Sebastian Schlösser. Ich arbeite mit Menschen, die an einem Punkt stehen, an dem sie merken: So wie es gerade läuft, geht es nicht weiter. Viele wissen ziemlich genau, was sie tun müssten. Und bleiben trotzdem stehen. Nicht, weil sie zu wenig wissen. Sondern weil sie an den falschen Stellen suchen. In diesem Podcast geht es genau um diese Punkte. Um Situationen, in denen du feststeckst. Um Muster, die sich wiederholen. Um Entscheidungen,...

This is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last 50 years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression - but by quiet force of intellect, he rose to become a global financial 'maestro'. Appointed by Ronald Reagan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, a post he held for 18 years, he presided over an unprecedented period of stability and low inflation.

Having signed up for the US Army in the 1850s, aged barely 17, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and ultimately the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in, they find these days to be vivid. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past.

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international politics. John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato argue that rational decisions in international politics rest on credible theories about how the world works and emerge from deliberative decision‑making processes.

In the heat of the French summer, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford travels to France and falls in love with his host's wife, Isabelle Azaire. When the world stops, their affair falters, and Stephen signs up. In a maze of tunnels under the trenches, Stephen finds the courage this war demands from the men in his command. And it is here that he will fight for everything he has ever known and loved.

Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. 

“Exceptional . . . Deeply researched and elegantly written . . . As a description of the politics and pressures under which modern independent central banking has to operate, the book is incomparable.” —Financial Times The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of...

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. In 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has wandered the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - following his childhood ambition to better himself.