Quer começar a investir no mercado de ações, mas não sabe como agir? O que são ações? O que determina os preços de mercado? Por que eles sobem e caem? Como posso vencer o mercado de ações? O que são fundos mútuos? O que são fundos de índice? O que são ETFs? Apesar de o mercado de ações ser o cerne da riqueza de um país, e mesmo que ele permita que qualquer um seja parcialmente proprietário de alguma coisa nos maiores e mais bem-sucedidos países do mundo, este assunto não é ensinado nas escolas. Mas atenção: a grande mídia muitas vezes deturpa o mercado de ações. Ela se concentra nas notícias sensacionalistas e dramáticas para poder vender. Para ser franco, o melhor tipo de investimento é entediante. É investir o máximo possível em várias empresas e reinvestir os dividendos. E continuar a fazer isso até chegar a idade de se aposentar. A melhor maneira de investir não é tentar descobrir o que acontecerá com a economia ou com o mercado amanhã, na próxima semana, no próximo mês ou no próximo ano. Muitos escritores de finanças tentam fazer você pensar que é preciso ralar para investir. Você tem que analisar gráficos todas as noites. Ler relatórios anuais. Dissecar as demonstrações financeiras de uma empresa. Ler o WALL STREET JOURNAL e outros jornais da área. Comprar um software especial. Pesquisar fóruns online sobre investimento. Não é assim! Não desperdice seu tempo. Este livro leva a teoria financeira moderna a uma conclusão lógica. Você pode obter o máximo de benefícios em longo prazo seguindo um simples plano. Não é preciso nenhum cálculo matemático chato nem de teoria econômica. É um plano simples de se organizar. Depois de tudo, você pode esquecer completamente dele. Não será necessário prestar atenção nas notícias. Apenas se concentre em ganhar o máximo de dinheiro que p

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It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination. Award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh's London house. Now, together with the paper's investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.

Former Wikileaks insider and spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg authors an expose of the "World's Most Dangerous Website." In an eye-opening account, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed details about the inner workings of the increasingly controversial organization that has struck fear into governments and business organizations worldwide, prompting the Pentagon to convene a 120-person task force. Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was the effective Number 2 at Wikileaks and the organization's public face, after Julian Assange. In this book, he reveals the evolution, finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organization, beginning with this first meeting with Assange in December 2007. He also describes what led to his September 2010 withdrawal from WikiLeaks, including his disenchantment with the organization's lack of transparency, its abandonment of political neutrality, and Assange's increasing concentration of power.

Thoughts on Interaction Design, Second Edition, contemplates and contributes to the theory of Interaction Design by exploring the semantic connections that live between technology and form that are brought to life when someone uses a product. It defines Interaction Design in a way that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural facets of the discipline. This edition explores how changes in the economic climate, increased connectivity, and international adoption of technology affect designing for behavior and the nature of design itself. Ultimately, the text exists to provide a definition that encompasses the intellectual facets of the field, the conceptual underpinnings of interaction design as a legitimate human-centered field, and the particular methods used by practitioners in their day-to-day experiences. This text is recommended for practicing designers: interaction designers, industrial designers, UX practitioners, graphic designers, interface designers, and managers. - Provides new and fresh insights on designing for behavior in a world of increased connectivity and mobility and how design education has evolved over the decades - Maintains the informal-yet-informative voice that made the first edition so popular

Describing how to build balanced map layouts suited to varied mapping goals, this guide focuses on export options that suit different media and can be edited in other applications. The wide range of text characteristics needed for expert map design as well as how to improve map readability with type effects such as character spacing, leading, callouts, shadows, and halos is detailed. Tips are included for using font tools in the Windows operating system, such as creating special characters in map text, as is information on using text characteristics to indicate feature locations, categories, and hierarchies on maps. How cartographic conventions guide placement of labels for point, line, and area features are also explained.

Offering an interactive, visual opportunity to learn how to clarify and interpret data, this text features real world examples and applications.