He earned hundreds of dollars per minute during the day. He squandered money as quickly as he could in the evening. Here, in Jordan Belfort’s own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street, from the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and racked up a $700,000 […]
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When an eight-year-old child went from playing policemen and robbers in the streets of Boston to chasing down criminals with a real badge and gun, he knew there was nothing else he wanted to do with his life.High-speed chases, drug busts, domestic attacks, burglaries, kidnappings, and medical calls are all common occurrences. Ed has seen
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey aka Loki gives voice to their feelings and concerns, and the anger that is spilling over. Anger he says we will have to get used to, unless things change.He invites you to come on a safari of sorts. A Poverty Safari. But
Debo spent silent hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look of pained concentration that comes over a hen’s face when it is laying an egg…. Unity and I made up a complete language called Boudledidge, unintelligible to anyone but ourselves, in which we translated various dirty songs (for
Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, examines Abraham Lincoln’s mastery of men in this massive dual biography. She demonstrates how he salvaged a Civil War-torn America by appointing his harshest opponents to crucial cabinet positions and requiring them to assist him realise his peace agenda. It’s an amazing study of one of the greatest
Susan Orlean’s sweeping, profoundly emotional narrative of Rin Tin Tin’s transformation from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who featured in twenty-seven films during the 1920s begins here. Rin Tin Tin is a love storey, a quintessentially American storey of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on
Lynch emphasises the importance of remembering that equities are not lottery tickets when it comes to investing. Every stock has a company behind it, and there’s a reason why companies—and their stocks—perform as they do. Peter Lynch demonstrates how to become an expert in a firm and how to develop a profitable investment portfolio based
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As he meets the individuals he needs to meet, interacts with family and friends, battles with opponents, and defies conventional thinking, here is Trump in action—how he manages his organisation and his life. Even a rogue follows the rules, and Trump has devised tried-and-true principles for success. He identifies the common elements in his biggest
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Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really–this book has no Introduction. The Insanity Defense reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges (“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And
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Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn’t want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television,
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