Daylight Robbery

Daylight Robbery
Title Daylight Robbery PDF eBook
Author Dominic Frisby
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 288
Release 2019-10-17
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0241360854

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Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern society? In Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the ancient world, through to today. He explores the role of tax in the formation of our global religions, the part tax played in wars and revolutions throughout the ages, why, at one stage, we paid tax for daylight or for growing a beard. Ranging from the despotic to the absurd, the tax laws of the past reveal so much about how we got to where we are today and what we can do to build a system fit for the future. Featured on Stepping up with Nigel Farage 'An important book for investors in gold and bitcoin' - Daniela Cambone, Stansberry Research 'This entertaining, surprising, contrarian book is a tour de force!' - Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything 'In this spectacular gallop through history, Frisby shows how taxation has warped, stunted and thwarted human progress' - Mark Littlewood, Director General, Institute of Economic Affairs 'Frisby's historical interpretation and utopian ideas will outrage Left and Right' - Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe and Member of the House of Commons Treasury Committee 'Fascinating book which exposes the political and economic basis of tax. A must read for those of us who believe in simpler, lower taxes' - Rt Hon Liz Truss, MP for South West Norfolk, Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade

Daylight Robbery

Daylight Robbery
Title Daylight Robbery PDF eBook
Author Melissa Pearl
Publisher Forever Love Publishing Ltd
Pages 328
Release
Genre Fiction
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She’s fifteen and she’s terrified. This teenage thief has finally been caught red-handed by a cop. Can she escape? Or will her experience in jail make her question everything she’s been raised to believe? Stealing is all Leah knows. She’s good at what she does—she was trained to be the best—but that all changes when she’s caught red-handed by a cop. Cuffed in the back of a police car, she soon realizes her screw-up means she’ll pay a heavy price… Kellan has to tread carefully with the teenage girl he caught robbing his parents’ house. Not just because she’s a minor and she’s terrified, but because she is a painful reminder of the daughter he lost. He’s determined to help her, but he’s going to need backup in the form of one very attractive social worker… Melina jumps at any chance she can to work with Kellan. The man’s a locked box she’s been trying to break open for years. Haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter, Melina thinks this case might be exactly what Kellan needs to deal with the demons of his past… But nothing goes according to plan. When the station is attacked and someone breaks Leah out of jail, Kellan and Melina realize there’s much more to this girl than meets the eye. Suddenly, Kellan is right back where he started, hunting for a lost child. Will he find this one in time, or is it too late to rescue her?

Daylight Robbery

Daylight Robbery
Title Daylight Robbery PDF eBook
Author Surendra Mohana Pāṭhaka
Publisher Blaft Publications Pvt Limited
Pages 240
Release 2010-10-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9788190605694

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Stealing Rembrandts

Stealing Rembrandts
Title Stealing Rembrandts PDF eBook
Author Anthony M. Amore
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Pages 272
Release 2011-07-05
Genre Art
ISBN 0230337422

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Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg's Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world - from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio - the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums. There are robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings; self-styled art experts who fall in love with the Dutch master and desire to own his art at all costs; and international criminal masterminds who don't hesitate to resort to violence. They also show how museums are thwarted in their ability to pursue the thieves - even going so far as to conduct investigations on their own, far away from the maddening crowd of police intervention, sparing no expense to save the priceless masterpieces. Stealing Rembrandts is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind look at the black market of art theft, and how it compromises some of the greatest treasures the world has ever known.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin
Title Bitcoin PDF eBook
Author Dominic Frisby
Publisher Unbound Publishing
Pages 266
Release 2014-11-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1783520760

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Following the economic crisis of 2008, the website ‘bitcoin.org’ was registered by a mysterious computer programmer called Satoshi Nakamoto. A new form of money was born: electronic cash. Does Bitcoin have the potential to change how the world transacts financially? Or is it just a passing fad, even a major scam? In Bitcoin: The Future of Money?, MoneyWeek’s Dominic Frisby's explains this controversial new currency and how it came about, interviewing some of the key players in its development while casting light on its strange and murky origins, in particular the much-disputed identity of Nakamoto himself. Economic theory meets whodunnit mystery in this indispensable guide to one of the most divisive innovations of our time.

Twilight Robbery

Twilight Robbery
Title Twilight Robbery PDF eBook
Author Frances Hardinge
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Pages 462
Release 2011-03-04
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 0230759130

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Twilight Robbery is the extraordinary sequel to the award-winning Fly By Night by Costa winner Frances Hardinge. The city at night is a dangerous place . . . Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price. By day, the city is well-mannered and orderly; by night, it's the haunt of rogues and villains. Wherever there's a plot, there's sure to be treachery, and wherever there's treachery, there's sure to be trouble – and where there's trouble, Clent, Mosca and the web-footed apocalypse Saracen the goose can't be far behind. But as past deeds catch up with them and old enemies appear, it looks as if this time there's no way out . . . 'Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

Annual Report of the Department of Public Welfare

Annual Report of the Department of Public Welfare
Title Annual Report of the Department of Public Welfare PDF eBook
Author Illinois. Department of Public Welfare
Publisher
Pages 200
Release 1922
Genre Public welfare
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