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When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself. The dramatic story of Long-Term's fall is now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later.

In Bank 3.0, Brett King brings the story up to date with the latest trends redefining financial services and payments - from the global scramble for dominance of the mobile wallet and the expectations created by tablet computing to the operationalizing of the cloud, the explosion of social media, and the rise of the de-banked consumer, who doesn't need a bank at all.

The foundations of civilization and human relationships is the family. Stephen R. Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families jump starts your thinking and behaviors so that you can give your best to and get the most blessing from your family.

Every family, looking at the next generation, hopes to confer advantages that are more than just material and financial - to inculcate character and leadership, to inspire creativity and enterprise, to help all family members find and follow their individual callings, and to avoid the financial dependency and loss of initiative that can all too often be an unwanted consequence of financial success. Yet many families never succeed in realizing that vision, much less sustaining it for three, four, or five generations and beyond.

This book offers a series of problems in thinking that require no special knowledge and no mathematics. The problems are designed to let readers find out about their personal style of thinking, its weaknesses and strengths, and the potential methods that they never use. Being right is not always important – an error can lead to the right decision. A copy of the L-game is inserted in each book for use in the section on strategy.

The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle - and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another, which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back.

"Brian Tracy is the master in understanding and teaching self-enrichment. In this priceless book, he unlocks the key to your door of success and fulfillment—belief in your own potential. Internalize his wisdom and you will surely realize your goals." —Denis Waitley, author of Psychology of Success

In every mystical wisdom tradition, non-ordinary states of consciousness have served as essential tools for discovering why we are here and how we can live richer, more meaningful lives. For more than 40 years, Stanislav Grof has tested and brought these methods into the field of modern...

Устали от бесконечного поиска одобрения? Хотите перестать зависеть от чужого мнения? Перед вами путеводитель к вашей новой жизни, свободной от постоянной борьбы за одобрение окружающих. В этой книге вы найдете инновационные стратегии и практические инструменты для развития уверенности в себе и укрепления здоровой самооценки.

"Обломов" - роман Ивана Александровича Гончарова, входит в трилогию вместе с произведениями "Обыкновенная история" и "Обрыв", являясь её второй частью.

Предприниматель Бэйли решил осуществить грандиозную аферу. Он построил подземный секретный завод, на котором, засасывая из земной атмосферы воздух, превращает его в твёрдые шарики.

John Ronald Ruel Tolkien created more than just books - he created the whole world, which has become a reality for millions of fans. If you want to know how new worlds are built, to understand the reasons for the wild popularity of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, or if you want to make a sightseeing tour of Middle-earth - listen to this book.

Roman opisyvaet sobytiya russkoy istorii na odnom iz eyo klyuchevyh ehtapov - so smerti Aleksandra Nevskogo (1263g.) do smerti poslednego iz ego synovey Andreya Gorodeckogo (1304g.), - kogda reshalsya vopros o eyo dal'neyshey sud'be. Pod perom pisatelya vstayut peripetii bor'by za vlast' synovey Aleksandra Nevskogo, slozhnye i tyagostnye otnosheniya Rusi s Ordoy, sozdanie Moskovskogo knyazhestva.

In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership and change management expert, and best-selling author, John Kotter provides a fascinating answer - and a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. Kotter explains how traditional organizational hierarchies evolved to meet the daily demands of running an enterprise.

MacBook - jeto sovershennye noutbuki, vypuskaemye firmoj Apple. Nazvanie jetot komp'juter poluchil iz-za svoih miniatjurnyh gabaritov. Jeto ochen' legkij i uzkij noutbuk. Ego ne sputaesh' s drugimi komp'juterami. U MacBook aljuminievyj korpus, strogie polosy serebristo-chernogo cveta i zaostrennye formy.

Zahvatyvayushchiy istoricheskiy roman "Slony Gannibala" sozdan izvestnym otechestvennym istorikom Aleksandrom Iosifovichem Nemirovskim. Kniga posvyashchena dramaticheskomu ehpizodu Punicheskih voyn mezhdu Rimom i Karfagenom - pohodu karfagenskogo polkovodca Gannibala na Italiyu. Ottochennyy literaturnyy stil', napryazhennyy syuzhet, osnovannyy na doskonal'nom znanii istoricheskih istochnikov, psihologizm povestvovaniya.

Esli vyi esche ne znaete, chto edyat na Marse, kak zakuporit leto v butyilkah i zachem nuzhno chitat knigi, to vyi ne imeete predstavleniya o Ree Bredberi. I eto neobhodimo ispravit. Samyiy nefantasticheskiy iz vseh pisateley-fantastov i samyiy tainstvennyiy iz realistov, Rey Bredberi otkryivaet novyie miryi na zadnem dvore i nahodit staryie vospominaniya na chuzhih planetah. V etoy knige - kratkiy obzor tvorchestva velikogo rasskazchika.

The sinking-stomach sensation that signals the beginning of a new workweek is the feeling at the core of this humorous but serious examination of the lives of the white-collar working class. A clever look at office life, this guide offers comfort and understanding to the modern office worker while exploring the four emotions - sorrow, fear, disgust, and anger - at the root of Monday morning frustrations.

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Konfliktyi presleduyut nas v samyih raznyih zhiznennyih situatsiyah. No vsegda naibolee problemnyimi i trudno razreshaemyimi schitalis konfliktnyie situatsii, kotoryie voznikayut na rabote i v seme. Rabochie konfliktyi vliyayut na obschuyu atmosferu v kollektive, chto privodit k rasstroystvu trudovogo protsessa, i, sledovatelno, otritsatelno skazyivayutsya na konechnom rezultate. Konfliktyi zhe v seme chrevatyi ne tolko razvodami, no i psihologicheskimi problemami detey v buduschem.