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Affiche du document Charles II - George II

Charles II - George II

Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett

4h12min45

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337 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h13min.
Charles Featherstone gleefully narrates the uproarious finale of A’Beckett’s Comic History, skewering Britain’s glorious descent into chaos after Queen Anne. Witness thick-accented German kings fumbling through English, ministers auctioning the nation’s dignity, and England drowning in get-rich-quick scams – all while crinolines expanded and sense evaporated.meet George I, shuffling mistresses in and out of palace cupboards while dodging Jacobite assassins; his son George II, shrieking battlefield commands in mangled English (and reportedly dropping his trousers for "luck" mid-cavalry charge); and Britain’s "first" Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, who perfected bribery as statecraft with the immortal quip: "Every man has his price... and mine is remarkably low!"Witness the South Sea Bubble—a frenzy of greed that saw nobles and cobblers alike betting fortunes on "vapor and paperwork" until the economy imploded (though London’s wig-makers somehow thrived). Hold your breath as Bonnie Prince Charlie’s tartan-clad Jacobite rebels storm south in the ’45 Rising, only to collapse into farce when the prince reportedly fled a dessert fork "quivering in his pudding." And marvel at Britain’s global gambles: empires built on naval mutinies over rancid limes, colonial cash-grabs, and taxes on everything from windows to gin—all while Germanic kings gazed wistfully toward Saxony.Perfect for fans of Blackadder the Third and The Perfect for fans of Blackadder the Third and the screwball intrigue of The Favourite, this riotous finale proves Britain’s "Enlightenment" was really enlightened self-interest—a stumble toward greatness paved with blunders, bribes, and enough powdered wigs to choke a horse.
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Building Community Via Sport

Stacy Warner

1h11min15

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95 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h11min.
This book explores the profound impact of sport on community building, personal growth, and social cohesion. It delves into nostalgic memories of informal sport, the integration of sport management in academia, and the powerful sense of unity fostered through informal and formal sporting events and local traditions. The text builds from Warner and Dixon’s Sport and Sense of Community theory while emphasizing the importance of having a common interest, people-focused administration, and creating leadership opportunities within sport organizations. It also highlights the critical role of social spaces, both physical and virtual, and equitable decision-making in fostering connections and psychological well-being. The author then underscores the necessity of the Sense of Community in Sport (SCS) scale, which developed from this theory. This tool can be utilized to gauge, measure, analyze, and then adopt the scale findings to enhance community dynamics in sport and recreation settings. The author argues that sport managers must understand and implement the strategies outlined to build strong, inclusive communities, especially in the context of contemporary challenges like the loneliness epidemic and mental health crisis across the globe. Ultimately, through well-managed sport and acknowledgment of a shared responsibility, sport can be a solution to addressing the innate desire to belong to a healthy and supportive community. Warner provides a well-defined path and plan for sport managers to lead the way in creating a better together society.
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The Resilient Investor

Michael Krämer

1h39min45

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133 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h40min.
Socially responsible investors try to avoid putting their assets in companies that do damage in the world. Resilient investing goes further. The authors redefine the very meaning of “assets” and “investing” and show how to design a strategy to give you, and the planet, the best possible chance of thriving. After all, we’re in this together!If you want to build a better life and a better world—and really be prepared for any possible future in these turbulent times—you need to become a resilient investor! This trailblazing guide will expand your ideas of investing way beyond Wall Street. Your time, your energy, and the things you own are investments too, and you'll learn to diversify them in ways that move you toward your life goals. The Resilient Investment Map lays out all your assets—personal and physical as well as financial—and then provides three essential, timely strategies (Close to Home, Sustainable Global Economy, and Evolutionary Investing) that will help you grow each of them. The goal is to become more resilient: able to anticipate disturbance, rebuild as necessary, and improve when possible. You'll discover that the choices making you more resilient also enhance our communities, our economy, and the planet—building real wealth for all. Introduction: Standing up to Uncertainty1. Facing the Future: Why we're expanding your view of investing2. More Than Money: Recognizing your real net worth: Personal, tangible, and financial assets3. Weaning off Wall Street: The Three Investment Strategies: Close to Home, Sustainable Global Economy, Evolutionary 4. A Field Guide to Resilient Investing: A tour of the nine realms of the resilient investing map5. Find Yourself on the Map: What you're already doing: self-assessment6. Be Ready for Anything: Qualities of the resilient investor, scenario planning, plausible futures7. Dancing With the Future: Resilient Investor profiles: Doomer, Dreamer, Dualist, Driver, Denier, etc.8. Your Resilient Investing Plan: Design, implement, and evaluate your resilient investing plan9. Tales of Resilient Living: The authors' stories10. The Invisible Heart of Resilience: By becoming personally resilient, we help create a resilient worldResources: (i) The Case for SRI(II) The Investor's EyeNotesIndexAbout the Authors
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Crunch

Jared Bernstein

1h29min15

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119 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h29min.
Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? Should I give that homeless guy a buck? What’s a “living wage”? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? What does the Federal Reserve Bank really do? And even when some pundits say the economy’s sound, why do I still feel so squeezed? If you’d like some straight answers, premier economist Jared Bernstein is here to help. In Crunch he responds to dozens of questions he has fielded from working Americans, questions that directly relate to the bottom-line, dollars-and-cents concerns of real people. Chances are if there’s a stumper you’ve always wanted to ask an economist, it’s solved in this book. Bernstein is fed up with “Darth Vaders with PhDs” who use their supposed expertise to intimidate average citizens and turn economics into a tool for the rich and powerful. In the pages of Crunch, Bernstein lays bare the dark secret of economics: it’s not an objective scientific discipline. It’s a set of decisions about the best way to organize our society to produce and distribute resources and opportunities. And we all can, and must, participate in these decisions. “America is a democracy,” he writes. “And in a democracy all of us, not just the elites and their scholarly shock troops, get to weigh in on biggies like this.” To not weigh in, Bernstein insists, is a profoundly political act, one with damaging consequences. Our economy will be only as fair as we can make it. In this lively and irreverent tour through everyday economic mysteries, Bernstein helps us decode economic “analysis,” navigate through murky ethical quandaries, and make sound economicdecisions that reflect our deepest aspirations for ourselves, our families, and our country.
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Affiche du document The Big Investment Lie

The Big Investment Lie

Michael Edesess

2h09min45

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173 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h10min.
The investment advice and management industry is built on fraud: the idea that professional advisors can predictably and consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments. The industry sells us on this lie using manipulative tactics that are studied, refined, Wall Street minted, and Madison Avenue packaged. And extraordinarily effective. Here, Michael Edesess exposes the shocking truth that, in fact, behind the success of nearly every prosperous investment professional lies not the ability to procure higher rates of return on investment for his or her clients but the ability to procure astoundingly high fees from those clients and nothing more. Through fascinating and sometimes humorous anecdotes and straightforward explanations of investment theory and scientific evidence, Edesess reveals just how badly investors are being scammed by The Big Investment Lie. He examines how the master salespeople that make up the industry sell their cleverly concocted distortions of truth--to the tune of $200 billion a year--to unsuspecting consumers who swallow them hook, line and sinker. He then shines a spotlight on the true cost of the industry's useless advice, showing that a prudent independent investor, following a conservative strategy, can reap anywhere from 40 percent to over 100 percent more than an investor who falls for The Big Investment Lie. Detailing the Ten New Commandments for Smart Investing--practical advice for how, where, and when to invest your money to maximize wealth--The Big Investment Lie provides the guidance you need to secure your financial future without throwing your hard-earned money away on the fraudulent investment advice industry.
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Affiche du document Couture zéro déchet pour bébé, je me lance ! - 27 objets réutilisables pour un mode de vie durable

Couture zéro déchet pour bébé, je me lance ! - 27 objets réutilisables pour un mode de vie durable

Laurane R. K.

1h44min15

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139 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h44min.
COUDRE, C'EST UN PAS VERS L'AUTONOMIE,UN GESTE ÉCOLOGIQUE ET DU BON SENS ÉCONOMIQUEVous ne savez pas coudre ? Qu'à cela ne tienne ! Laurane non plus n'avait jamais touché une machine à coudre de sa vie... avant de se lancer dans le zéro déchet. Aujourd'hui, elle sait coudre tout ce dont elle a besoin au quotidien. Dans ce nouveau livre, elle s’attelle aux accessoires de puériculture : langes, lingettes nettoyantes, bavoirs, coussinets d’allaitement, attache-tétine, écharpe de portage, sac de change, tapis de jeu, couverture d’emmaillotage, et même des décorations de Noël pour votre petit bout... Des objets simples, utiles, économiques et écologiques.Cette panoplie parfaite pour un mode de vie durable, vous aussi pourrez la réaliser sans difficulté grâce à ce guide illustré spécial débutants. Dans ce livre, vous trouverez :- 27 tutos pas-à-pas avec photos- Un accès à des vidéos pour se familiariser avec les techniques et gestes de base- La liste du matériel indispensable pour démarrer- Des conseils pour bien choisir ses tissus, sa machine à coudre, le nécessaire de Bébé- 7 téléchargeables via un QR-code.Laurane R.K. milite pour un mode de vie écoresponsable ; elle est devenue la référence de la couture zéro déchet en France. Engagée au niveau local, elle préside l’association Zéro déchet de l’Ain. C'est son deuxième ouvrage aux éditions Thierry Souccar.]]>
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Affiche du document Par ici la sortie : Développez votre intelligence financière et mettez votre argent au service de vos rêves

Par ici la sortie : Développez votre intelligence financière et mettez votre argent au service de vos rêves

Michaël Ferrari

1h53min15

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151 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h53min.
Vous souhaitez vivre sans dépendre d’un employeur ou d’un salaire ? Vous rêvez d’avoir le temps de voir vos enfants grandir ou d’accomplir les projets qui vous tiennent à cœur ?C’est possible ! Grâce à son blog Esprit Riche, Michaël Ferrari a accompagné des millliers de personnes dans cette voie. Parti de zéro, il a mis son argent au service de sa vie. Il touche plusieurs revenus tout en voyageant et profitant de sa famille sans s’inquiéter de son avenir.Comment ? Grâce à l’intelligence financière, « la dixième intelligence », méconnue mais indispensable pour reprendre le contrôle de son portefeuille, investir en toute sérénité et quitter définitivement le métro-boulot-dodo.Grâce à ce livre, vous allez bâtir un solide plan d’investissement basé sur les trois piliers fondamentaux de la liberté financière :- l’entrepreneuriat ;- l’immobilier ;- la bourse.Vous apprendrez à investir dans l’immobilier, à créer de la valeur et à gérer un portefeuille boursier optimisé qui ne prend qu’une heure par mois. L’objectif ? Créer une vie riche, une vie sur mesure que vous avez entièrement choisie.Michaël Ferrari est investisseur et entrepreneur. Pionnier sur le sujet de la liberté financière, il a créé en 2007 le premier blog d’éducation financière et d’investissement Esprit Riche, devenu aujourd’hui une chaîne YouTube de référence avec 12 millions de vues.
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