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Title: Bitcoin: The Complete Bitcoin Guide to Help you Master Bitcoin and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

Author: Matthew Scott

Narrator: Matthew Bolden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-17

Publisher: Platinum Press LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Do you want to become a master at trading and investing in Bitcoin? Here is the complete guide!

Bitcoin was dropped off in complete anonymity by a figure who referred to himself as "Satoshi Nakamoto". This anonymous gift to the world has gone on to revolutionize the world of commerce like never before. Bitcoin is the first decentralized digital currency to be completely free from governmental controls and oversight.

Anyone anywhere can use Bitcoin and due to the finite amount of coins in circulation, whatever happens in the outside world, those virtual coins locked up in cyberspace will never face the inflation and corruption that plagues the dollar, pound, and euro. This book takes you back to the very beginning, to when the aptly named "genesis block" - the first seed of Bitcoin was planted in what has become the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Whether you are a novice or a seasoned user of Bitcoin this book will provide relevant and eye-opening details as to how you can succeed in the Bitcoin universe like never before. Learn how to mine your own Bitcoins, market them, join mining pools, and associated affiliate groups.

As well as a primer on how to use and mine in the Bitcoin ecosystem this book also provides an inside look at some of the triumphs and tragedies of this new mode of living with the personal testimonies of those whose whole world was changed by the seemingly random yet life changing letters and numbers that make up the block chain.

In this book you will learn how to:

Get your copy today and become a Bitcoin Master!

Members Reviews:

Finally a perfect introductory book.

It is very difficult to find a book written by a real expert. This author knows what he is talking about and conveys all the relevant information regarding Cryptocurrency in an easy and simplified way. For a long time I wanted to understand the principals of Cryptocurrencies, but not being tech savvy I refrained from the effort. Finally I have a book that gave me a wonderful introduction to the topics of Bitcoin, Blockchain, and all. Will look after other books by this author.

Helpful and easy to understand

If you're interested in investing in crytocurrency, this is the best place to start. Matthew Scott gives helpful hints on how to succeed. His experience and know-how are apparent. His honesty on risks and explanations on how to manage them help the begginer investor avoid rookie pitfalls. Overall, a very helpful and insightful book.

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency are the new means of exchange that only function in the digital world. I know you will find this book valuable on your journey to learning about cryptocurrencies. . I've read a lot of books regarding this topic and this must be one of the top for beginners. Highly recommend it. He gives good tips and advices on the basics of Cryptocurrency.

Well informed...

This is such a good reference for a newbie like me. I really had no idea about this before I've read this book. I am not saying that I am already an expert, but I now know and understand what this is all about.

Highly Informative

The book introduces and explores Bitcoin and the various technologies it implements to make the system publicly available and secure. If you want to learn everything about bitcoin/crypto-currencies then this is the book.

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Title: A Century of Wealth in America

Author: Edward N. Wolff

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Understanding wealth in the United States - who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it - is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of wealth since 1900.

A Century of Wealth in America demonstrates that the most remarkable change has been the growth of per capita household wealth, which climbed almost eightfold prior to the 2007 recession. But overlaid on this base rate are worrying trends. The share of personal wealth claimed by the richest one percent almost doubled between the mid-1970s and 2013, concurrent with a steep run-up of debt in the middle class. As the wealth of the average family dropped precipitously - by 44 percent - between 2007 and 2013, with black families hit hardest, the debt-income ratio more than doubled.

The Great Recession also caused a sharp spike in asset poverty, as more and more families barely survived from one paycheck to the next. In short, the United States has changed from being one of the most economically equal of the advanced industrialized countries to being one of the most unequal.

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Critic Reviews:

"Edward Wolff is probably the most knowledgeable scholar of the empirics of household wealth in the US. The book is comprehensive and engaging. The historical perspective is particularly illuminating." (Philippe Van Kerm, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research and University of Luxembourg)

Members Reviews:

Facts Are Stubborn Things.

Professor Ed Wolff has been studying wealth in America far longer than most living economists. He compiles striking, objective evidence about wealth creation that confounds politically motivated polemicists. His contributions to the field are unparalleled.

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal provided a fantastic book review [by Gregory Clark]

Am about half way through. Yesterday's Wall Street Journal provided a fantastic book review [by Gregory Clark]. Briefly, Mr Picketty the French economist [i.e., the anti-American socialist] wrote in his "CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY" that inheritance is the major source of wealth. Mr Edward Wolff in his well-written and superbly researched work, finds that inheritance provides [only] 23% of wealth, 1989 - 2013. Mr Wolff's fine book is armed with facts and figures. The book is best read slowly; and i recommend it.

Howling Wolff

Thorough study of wealth and income inequality through the past 150 years in US.

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Title: Analysis of Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm

Author: Milkyway Media

Narrator: Dwight Equitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-17

Publisher: Milkyway Media

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This is an analysis of Crossing the Chasm, not the original book.

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Consumers (1991, third edition published in 2014) by Geoffrey Moore is a guide for high-tech companies that wish to transition successfully from a small, technically minded customer base to a larger general market.

Customers within a given market adopt new products at different points during their development....

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Title: Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy

Author: Tim Harford

Narrator: Roger Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service)

A Financial Times and Bloomberg Business Week Book of the Year)

Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside down?

The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously changing system of immense complexity, it offers over 10 billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every 15 years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on.

How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, listeners will start to understand where we are, how we got here and where we might be going next.

Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.

Members Reviews:

Loved this book

I found this book through provoking and really interesting

Great narration too

Highly r commended

Good pick

The short chapters of 50 things is a good way to learn to look at things and enjoy our world. It also is diverse enough to teach something new to most people.

I am bored by the narrator

Would you try another book written by Tim Harford or narrated by Roger Davis?

I love Tim Harford from his More or Less programme on Radio 4 and I am very disappointed that he does not read it himself. After hearing the first story, I do not want to continue because of the narrator.

What other book might you compare Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy to, and why?

Easy comparison is QI: THE SOUND OF GENERAL IGNORANCE book. It is being read by both authors and it is SOOO good, so ALIVE. You just want to carry on. Not here.

Would you be willing to try another one of Roger Daviss performances?

Definitely not

Was Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy worth the listening time?

I only did about 10 mins...

Any additional comments?

Very disappointed, and I would like to swap for another book

Very scientific text

Not a light read. probably good, but I abandoned it because it was too technical.

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Title: Blockchain Revolution: Understanding the Internet of Money

Author: Smart Reads

Narrator: Eddie Leonard Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-17

Publisher: Smart Reads

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

All the major players are getting onboard with blockchain, a new type of decentralized database that is Bitcoin's best innovation yet. Santander is checking it out and so is the Deutsche Bank. Heck, even the U.K. government has been sniffing around it. But most importantlyso are your rivals. Which makes it all the more imperative that you get onboard, too.

Blockchain isn't the easiest piece of tech to understand. But because it will eventually go mainstream, you need to prepare yourself for the blockchain boom by learning what it's all about and how to use it now.

In this book, we simplify the concept of the blockchain. We also:

This book is for beginners and those who know a fair bit about blockchain. Stuffed with useful info and actionable tips, it will ground you and prepare you for a better way of using your databases from now on. It's time to take a step towards the future.

About Smart Reads

Smart Reads exists to provide you with the highest quality information in the least amount of time. Our team of professional writers work with experts on given topics to give you the content that matters quickly. Our books are short, easy-to-read and highly informative so you get important information right away.

We also pay it forward by donating five percent of our profit to Pencils of Promise to help build schools, train teachers and support child education. Choose Smart Reads and get smart in less time.

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Title: Perfume

Subtitle: The Alchemy of Scent

Author: Jean-Claude Ellena

Narrator: David de Vries

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the master himself takes you through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing the key methods and recipes involved in this mysterious alchemy.

Perfume is a cutthroat, secretive multibillion-dollar industry, and Ellena provides an insider's tour, guiding us from initial inspiration through the mixing of essences and synthetic elements, to the deluxe packaging and marketing in elegant boutiques worldwide, and even the increasingly complicated safety standards that are set in motion for each bottle of perfume that is manufactured. He explains how the sense of smell works, using a palette of fragrant materials, and how he personally chooses and composes a perfume. He also reveals his unique way of creating a fragrance by playing with our olfactory memories in order to make the perfume seductive and desired by men and women the world over. Perfume illuminates the world of scent and manufactured desire by a perfumer who has had clients the likes of Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and Hermés.

Members Reviews:

What?

The author has accomplished something I never expected. His love for perfume will make me question ever using it again.

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Title: The End of Loyalty

Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America

Author: Rick Wartzman

Narrator: Rick Wartzman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American dream. Not anymore.

In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers - General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola - he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed.

But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over 70 years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s, the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s, and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American dream gone sideways.

Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class.

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Critic Reviews:

"TheEnd of Loyalty is the rich story of how the corporate bonds that were once essential to American life have fractured. It's a prescient book that helps explain the rise of Donald Trump and why so many people feel anger and an acute sense of loss." (Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times)

"The End of Loyalty tells a story that needs to be told. Rick Wartzman vividly describes a world in which corporate leaders believed that good business meant generating value for their employees as well as their shareholders, an old-fashioned attitude whose time may come again. It's a great book." (Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America and author of Unfinished Business)

"In a lucid economic history of the last seventy-five years, Rick Wartzman's The End of Loyalty convincingly argues that the economic angst and political turbulence of our moment are linked to the collapse of a corporate social contract that guided American economic life for much of the twentieth century. While Wartzman places much of the blame for this problem on business and a growing obsession with profit, he challenges all of us - liberals and conservatives, CEOs and union members - to imagine what a new social contract might look like." (E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and Why the Right Went Wrong)

Members Reviews:

In-depth and interesting

The publisher's summary and the critics' blurbs are accurate.

I read (listened to) this book after I heard the author speak about the book on a podcast. It's a subject I've thought a lot about lately after nearly 40 years in the work place. I've never really felt that any company I worked for had a "social contract" with me, so I was curious to read about an era in which this was the case.

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Título: El Blockchain en la Práctica [Blockchain in Practice]

Subtitular: Una introducción simple para profesionales [A Simple Introduction for Professionals]

Autor: Lucas Sergio Cervigni

Narrador: Alfonso Sales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-25-17

Editor: South Ram Consulting Associates, Ltd.

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 27 votos

Categorías: Business, Commerce & Economy

Resumen del editor:

Tanto los profesionales del ámbito académico como del ámbito comercial, legislativo, contable y administrativo necesitan comprender los conceptos básicos del Blockchain: qué es, cómo funciona y cómo cambiará nuestras vidas.

Este libro, escrito por el destacado experto Lucas Cervigni, es la primera guía accesible pero inteligente para profesionales.

El libro consigue un equilibrio entre la perspectiva técnica del Blockchain y los usos que muchos de nosotros le daremos (o le damos) en la vida real. Citando a algunos de los comentadores e innovadores más importantes, Cervigni nos da su punto de vista especializado respecto de las distintas fuerzas que están impulsando la evolución de esta tecnología revolucionaria.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Perfecto y muy bien explicado

Perfecta guía de blockchain en español . Los conceptos muy bien explicados . Gracias .

Lo que buscaba. Didáctico

Quise saber más sobre Blockchain ante el auge que está teniendo y las continuas informaciones en los medios de comunicación. Este audiolibrones una guía que me ha resultado muy didáctica.

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Title: Completing Capitalism

Subtitle: Heal Business to Heal the World

Author: Bruno Roche, Jay Jakub

Narrator: Tom Kruse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-17

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

For the past 50 years, the business world has been dominated by the Milton Friedman financial capitalism economic model, which preaches that it is the "sole social responsibility of business to maximize profit for distribution to shareholders". This one-dimensional focus represents a grossly incomplete view of reality - there are many other factors businesses need to pay attention to if they are to thrive and endure - and has resulted in increasing global economic dysfunction, widening inequality, and environmental destruction.

In this book, Roche and Jakub offer a new model that is built around detailed metrics to measure and track performance in all forms of capital, including social, human, and natural as well as financial. And this is not simply theory: The model has been extensively field-tested in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. It is delivering superior measurable performance across the different forms of capital, including generating more profit than a profit maximization approach. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed the shortcomings of today's financial capitalism model, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, proven alternative.

Members Reviews:

how to do business with a good purpose

A good book on sustainability, with a pragmatic vision on how to do business with a good purpose

A new fresh healthy look at capitalism.

Love the book. A great look at the current state of capitalism and its weaknesses. The book challenges the current concepts and presents an amazing balanced alternative to the current system. The alternative is something that takes all stake holders into account, from planet to financial investors. Great read highly recommend.

could turn business into a global force for good

Compelling, challenging, thought-provoking and hopeful. This could literally turn business into a global force for good.

Five Stars

A refreshing approach to business.

Exceptional

Deep and extremely insightful. The concepts discussed have the ability to change how we see and do business and therefore build a better future for those after us.

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Title: The CEO Pay Machine

Subtitle: How It Trashes America and How to Stop it

Author: Steven Clifford

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us - and how we can stop it.

Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major US firms and their workers is higher than ever before - depending on the method of calculation, CEOs get paid between 300 and 700 times more than the average worker. Such outsized pay is a relatively recent phenomenon, but despite all the outrage, few detractors truly understand the numerous factors that have contributed to the dizzying upward spiral in CEO compensation.

Steven Clifford, a former CEO who has also served on many corporate boards, has a name for these procedures and practices: the CEO Pay Machine. The CEO Pay Machine is Clifford's thorough and shocking explanation of the 'machine' - how it works, how its parts interact, and how every step pushes CEO pay to higher levels. As Clifford sees it, the payment structure for CEOs begins with shared delusions that reinforce one other. Once this groupthink is accepted as corporate dogma, it becomes infinitely harder to see any decision as potentially irrational or dysfunctional. Yet, as Clifford notes, the Pay Machine has caused immeasurable harm to companies, shareholders, economic growth, and democracy itself. He uses real-life examples of the top four CEOs named the highest paid in 2011 through 2014. Clifford examines how board directors and compensation committees have directly contributed to the rising salaries and bonuses of the country's richest executives; what's more, Clifford argues, each of those companies could have paid their CEOs 90 percent less and performed just as well.

Witty and infuriating, The CEO Pay Machine is a thorough and incisive critique of an economic issue that affects all American workers.

Members Reviews:

Wow definitely read this book!

Urgent, passionate, smart and shocking. This book gets at the root of a major cause and symptom of economic inequality in society today. The author also shows how the CEO pay machine hurts American industry. This book is easy to understand for a non-specialist and really opened my eyes. Well worth the effort to read.

Gret book!

incredible insight into the corporate makeup, compensation structure and how others can benefit from this formerly secret knowledge .