Part thriller, part medical detective story, this is the origin story of the opioid crisis in America and a rollicking insight into the ways of big pharma and the greed of business that fuelled a national tragedy.
Spark provides an unhurried, thought-provoking experience about what drives individuals, teams and organizations to thrive, and how readers can use that knowledge to ignite and direct their own careers.
Examines societies where people of diverse ethnicities, races and/or religions live together in peace. In this book, the authors show how recognition of multiple identities can defuse rather than provoke conflict - providing, there is also insistence on respect for basic rights within as well as between ethnic, religious, and cultural groups.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students.
Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the most successful financial scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos and blackjack tables of Las Vegas, in the process getting drawn into the high life of drugs, sex and spending big.
For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; And he made millions of dollars playing blackjack, using three simple techniques that gave him the edge, techniques that are revealed in this book for the first time. This is his story, the ultimate true story of Las Vegas, the book Vegas doesn't want you to read...
This is the definitive take on the wildest story of the year-the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a staggering tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever. Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of the private investors and internet trolls who took down one of the biggest Wall Street hedge funds, and in so doing, fired the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the financial establishment.
*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to its Knees.