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Free Download The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble by Alok Sama
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 1250332842 | 304 pages | PDF | 2.68 Mb
A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on an industry that is disrupting our lives.

Free Download The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3VYGKB | 2024 | 9 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Alok Sama
Narrator: Raza Jaffrey
A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on an industry that is disrupting our lives. Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he’d seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world-SoftBank, the backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is Sama’s thrilling, stranger-than-fiction personal odyssey featuring his experiences alongside SoftBank’s iconic founder, Masayoshi Son, a visionary maverick who wants to be remembered as "the crazy guy who bet on the future" and whose mission is "happiness for everyone." Sama takes the listener on a wild journey as he consorts with A-list CEOs and heads of state, and negotiates mega-deals on a Gulfstream jet, Son’s sanctuary with its exquisite Japanese garden, and a waterside restaurant in the Turkish Riviera-all while contending with a mysterious dark-arts smear campaign that takes a toll on his private life. This fascinating and humorous saga provides a unique insider perspective on the insanity of high finance and venture investing. Written with self-deprecating wit, unflinching honesty and searing introspection, The Money Trap is ultimately a morality tale: in life, as in technology investing, more money isn’t always the answer.

Free Download The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble by Alok Sama
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 1250332842 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 1.28 MB
A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on an industry that is disrupting our lives.

Free Download Michael A. DiSpezio, "Eye-Popping Optical Illusions"
English | ISBN: 0806966416 | 2001 | 80 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Every image in this follow-up to Optical Illusion Magic is out to trick your perception with afterimages, visual "traps," and distorted views. Sometimes you’ll have to shift the page to see the magic; in other illusions, pattern and shape make all the difference, producing spirals where none really exist. "A book with a fresh perspective, lots of scientific information, and hours of fun." -School Library Journal. "Will entertain and educate."-Booklist.

Free Download Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (Audiobook)
English | September 02, 2014 | ASIN: B00LPSPZRE | M4B@64 kbps | 18h 12m | 498 MB
Author: Noam Chomsky | Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
In his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies.
Chomsky considers how the media might be democratized (as part of the general problem of developing more democratic institutions) in order to offer citizens broader and more meaningful participation in social and political life.

Free Download John M. Rist, "What is a Person?: Realities, Constructs, Illusions"
English | ISBN: 1108478077 | 2020 | 294 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this book, John M. Rist offers an account of the concept of ‘person’ as it has developed in the West, and how it has become alien in a post-Christian culture. He begins by identifying the ‘mainline tradition’ about persons as it evolved from the time of Plato to the High Middle Ages, then turns to successive attacks on it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, then proceeds to the ‘five ways’ in which the tradition was savaged or distorted in the nineteenth century and beyond. He concludes by considering whether ideas from contemporary philosophical movements, those that combine a closer analysis of human nature with a more traditional metaphysical background, may enable the tradition to be restored. A timely book on a theme of universal significance, Rist ponders whether we persons matter, and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do.

Free Download Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJK31W9W | 2024 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Ed Zwick
Narrator: Ed Zwick

Free Download Magic Box. Tricks and illusions!
by Tom Jackson
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1639194606 | 128 Pages | ePUB | 5.64 MB

Free Download Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization by Coco Krumme
English | September 12, 2023 | ISBN: 0593331117 | 256 pages | PDF | 2.79 Mb
How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach

Free Download Geometries of Anamorphic Illusions: Landscape, Architecture, Contemporary Art and Design
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031472454 | 184 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 99 MB
This book intends to focus exclusively on anamorphic experiments in contemporary art and design, leaving an in-depth historical examination of its Baroque season to other studies. Themes, languages and fields of application of anamorphosis in contemporary culture are critically analyzed to make the reader aware of the communicative potentiality of this kind of geometrical technique. The book also has the aim to teach the reader the most appropriate geometric techniques for each of them, in order to achieve the designed illusion. Each typology of anamorphosis is accompanied in this book by contemporary installations, a geometrical explanation by means of 3D models and didactic experiments carried on in collaboration with the students of the Department of Architecture in Naples.