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Explore the fascinating world of Economics through its 50 essential ideas, brought to life with vivid, full-colour graphics, illuminating diagrams, and engaging feature boxes in this highly-visual hardback guide. How do labor markets work? Is it better to aim for inflation or full employment? How can developing countries escape the poverty trap? In this accessible and entertaining guide, readers can explore the key questions and theories that top economists have sought to answer, and gain valuable insights into the complex world of economics. Ranging from demand and supply to globalization and international trade to game theory, and featuring ideas from such esteemed economists as Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, this essential guide will bring you up to speed on the core themes and theories of this great subject and understand how world economies function.

In what is widely considered Shakespeareâ€s starkest tragedy, the ageing Lear leaves his kingdom to his two flattering elder daughters, dismissing the truth-telling Cordelia. In the violent quarrels that ensue, he loses his followers, his status, his sanity and eventually his life.

Gain fascinating insights into human behavior with this comprehensive and accessible guide to psychology and its 50 key ideas. How do we think? What do our dreams mean? Why do we see things in different ways? Questions such as these have plagued the world's greatest thinkers throughout history, from Aristotle and Descartes to Freud and Carl Jung. This accessible guide introduces the most crucial quandaries in psychology and how we have tried to answer them. Includes:  Dream analysis  The Bystander effect  Personality  Criminal psychology  Social learning theory Written in plain English, with concise explanations and helpful diagrams, this book it untangles complicated theories and makes sense of abstract psychological concepts. It's perfect for students or anyone wanting a fresh look at this intriguing subject.

How did life emerge? What are the smallest elements of matter? How are planets formed? Over the centuries, brilliant men and women have sought to develop theories to answer the most compelling questions about the world around us. Through their amazing insights and conscientious efforts they helped to create the world we know today. In this beautifully illustrated book, Anne Rooney introduces you to the fascinating world of science and its greatest practitioners. Ranging from evolutionary biology to quantum physics to chaos theory and featuring the ideas of such pivotal scientists as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Stephen Hawking, this essential guide will bring you up to speed on all of the world's most important scientific discoveries.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.

A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in any situation.

When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.

As law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. As Freezing Order reveals, it was Browder’s campaign to expose Putin’s corruption that prompted Russia’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.

At once a financial caper, an international adventure and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a timely and stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world.

An exciting title in this bestselling series that features trend animals, Race Car is clearly a future hit in-store

Discover 22 roar-some sounds in this fun book! Featuring exciting scenes full of amazing dinosaurs and lots of buttons to press, this is the perfect sound book for dino fans.