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From the celebrated design expert, interior designer, and creator of EyeSwoon, Athena Calderone, comes a look into how creatives decorate their spaces.“This book is filled with her wisdom, insight, and direction on how to create…
''Rinsed is a triumph. If you want to understand how the chaotic world around us really works, read this book!’ MILES JOHNSON, AUTHOR OF CHASING SHADOWS''A riveting look at not only the nuts and bolts of cons and crimes but the techniques detectives use to stalk cyber criminals'' FINANCIAL TIMES''Gripping'' THE ECONOMIST There''s an old saying: ''a rising tide lifts all boats''. It''s normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of hi-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these launderers become at their work, the more crime of all types will be enabled. It''s time to understand where the water is rising, before it washes over us all.Money laundering has been around for centuries. For as long as people have been willing to steal money, there''s been an industry ready to wash it. But recent tech innovations have created vastly complex new systems for laundering that threaten to overwhelm authorities, destabilise economies and disrupt societies.Rinsed is a relevatory investigation into the new army of innovative criminals using tech to launder money, and the consequences for all of us.
From the celebrated design expert, interior designer, and creator of EyeSwoon, Athena Calderone, comes a look into how creatives decorate their spaces.“This book is filled with her wisdom, insight, and direction on how to create…
In 1679, Pepys is Secretary to the Admiralty, in charge of the navy, and at the right hand of King Charles. But also in 1679, England is awash with suspicion and fear. In this…
Život a práce Čechů jako honorárních konzulů, kteří od konce 19. století až do poloviny 20. století pomáhali krajanům na jihu Kalifornie, je zatím nezmapovanou částí česko-amerických dějin. Jejich osudy jsou zajímavé, ale také komplikované,…
Christina Rossetti psala básně od svých dvanácti let, ve čtrnácti letech se psychicky zhroutila - trpěla silnými depresemi. Její básně se vyznačují vykreslováním kontrastů, protipólů, symbolismem, jsou velmi barvité a evokativní. V letech 1859-1870 pracovala…
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She…
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful…
Lucy is an attractive mage-in-training who wants to join a magician''s guild so that she can become a full-fledged magician. The guild she dreams about joining is the most famous in the world, and it…
Bratří Grimmové prosluli v německé i světové literatuře svou sbírkou lidových pohádek a písní, méně už se ale ví, že zaznamenali také rozsáhlý soubor pověstí a legend. Skřítci, trpaslíci, duchové, lesní či vodní panny, udatní…