Tom James

"The funniest book of the year" Are you sick of a society that seems obsessed with children? Do you find modern parents insufferable? Your Children Are Boring is a uniquely humorous look at our culture's obsession with children, a world where virtually every advert has a squawking child in it, where pubs are full of wailing infants, and where every other Facebook post is tagged #ProudDad. Why do parents themselves behave like infants? Why having a child doesn't make you less selfish, why it's extremely unlikely that your child is in fact, 'special', and why modern parenting is ruining everything, not least the kids themselves. All the answers lie within, and it's your duty to read it. Yes, Your Children Are Boring will make you laugh, but it's much more than that. Once consumed you must take its teachings into the world and fix society. Or something. Oh and if you put 'Dad' or 'Mum' in your social media bios, this book is aimed at you. An excerpt from Your Children Are Boring: "There are more radical solutions available to us of course. I take my lead from the way we've societally turned smokers into pariahs at pubs. Let's create family areas in the pubs! Imagine, roped off areas out the back, covered in sick, where the tables are made of plastic rather than wood, soundproofed so we don't have to listen to you loudly slow-talking, or the baby crying. Or you could just go to McDonalds, which is where the kids want to be anyway. And that's another thing; does anyone think these kids want to go to a pub? They're not renowned for their rides and pits of plastic balls. But perhaps that's just a matter of time. We'll inevitably infantilise getting smashed like we seem intent on doing to everything else. You want it all don't you, your spoilt little brain thinks, 'I've had a child, but that doesn't mean I should modify my life. I still want pub, so baby come to pub!' Kids should be, and probably are, bored out of their tiny minds at pubs. It's where grown-ups go to bitch about their friends' new kitchen or boyfriend / girlfriend, not a playground, that's why they're full of glass, fruit machines and sharp edges. If we can be a little melodramatic though, you're a virus. You're ruining pubs like you ruined football and the cinema, colonising it like the most boring invading army in history armed with iPhones and Kleenex."

Or How Modern Parents Ruin Everything

Your Children Are Boring

Doina Petrescu

Kathrin Böhm

Introducing the Eco Nomadic School

Learn to Act

A guide to e-commerce law, explaining the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the Communications Decency Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and Copyright Act, the Lanham Act, and relevant portions of the FTC Act and regulations, state laws, EU regulations, treaties, the U.C.C., and more. Topics covered include: (1) Starting and managing a business; (2) Hiring, firing and managing employees; (3) Securities regulations; (4) Contract and sales law; (5) E-contracts and e-signatures; (6) Electronic credit, debit and ETF transactions; (7) Chargebacks; (8) Sales and use taxes; (9) Data security; (10) trade secret; (11) Patents; (12) Proprietary information; (13) Unfair competition; (14) Unfair and deceptive trade practices; (15) Trade disparagement; (16) Defamation; (17) Advertising; (18) Publicity rights; (19) Trademarks; (20) Keywords and meta-tags; (21) Domain names; (22) Cybersquatting; (23) UDRP proceedings; (24) Liability for user-provided content; (25) Children and child-directed advertising and websites; (26) Adult (sexually explicit) content; (27) Privacy rights; (28) Copyrights; (29) Fair use doctrine; (30) The public domain; (31) Licensing intellectual property rights; (32) Jurisdiction in cyberspace; (33) Dispute resolution. Includes notes, table of statutes and cases; bibliography; index.

E-Commerce Law

Blockchain and artificial intelligence are perhaps the two most significant disruptive technologies this century and both will significantly rewire the world of global financial markets and the world in which we live. While blockchain offers a number of significant advantages over traditional forms of finance including lower cost and massive increases in operational efficiencies of traded markets, property records and a whole host of transaction processes, artificial intelligence is moving fast from basic structured machine learning doing menial yet important big data tasks like credit card fraud detection to predictive analysis and real-time real-world risk management and investment decision making. There is still a lot of confusion in the market about cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology. Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence highlights the underlying technologies of blockchain and the differences between cryptocurrencies and blockchain financial applications. It explores the current AI offerings and gives a vision of the fast-moving developments in this area including the many solutions that are expected to revolutionize the way financial and commodity markets will operate in the future.

The World Rewired

Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence

“Mormon Money” whipsaws the reader on a madcap journey through the cultural mores of Mormonism led by some wacky wise guys, a self-admitted Mormon con-man and the FBI...all in search of Mormon money. And along the way, nothing is left behind...from polygamy to funeral potatoes...every sacred cow is drawn and quartered.

AND THE WACKY WAYS SOME WISE GUYS, A CON-MAN, A Techno-Nerd and the FBI want to Get to it!

Mormon Money

Peter C. Fusaro

Written by best selling author Peter C. Fusaro and renowned energy market expert and commentator Tom James, this book demonstrates that the forces of energy and environmental issues and linked more than ever before. The beginning of European emissions and trading in 2005 and the implementation of the Kyoto protocol have accelerated efforts already underway in the US to use market forces to remediate environmental issues. Topics such as emissions trading, renewable energy trading, the fourth dimension in energy trading, and new outcomes on green project finance will be analyzed in this book.

Collision Or Convergence

Energy and Emissions Markets

Price Risk Management and Trading. Energy risk management expert, Tom James, does it again. His latest book is a timely addition to the rapidly developing energy trading markets. This book should be on every energy trader, risk manager and corporate planer′s desk. it is an easy read as Tom goes into great detail to explain the intricacies of this market and its various unique elements. – Peter C. Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates Inc., Best–selling Author and Energy Expert This sensible and practical guide is essential for those seeking an understanding of commerce in energy derivatives. beyond merely informative, this hand book for the practitioner details the finer points of the use of derivatives as tools for price–risk management. No energy trading desk should be without it. – Ethan L. Cohen, Senior Director, Utility and Energy Technology, UtiliPoint International Inc. Energy markets are much more volatile than other commodity markets, so risk mitigation is more of a concern. Energy prices, for example, can be affected by weather, geopo9litical turmoil, changes in tax and legal systems, OPEC decisions, analysis′ reports, transportation issues, and supply and demand – to name just a few factors. Tom James′s book is a practical guide to assessing and managing these risks. It is a must–read for senior management as well as risk and financial professionals.– Don Stowers, Editor, Oil & Gas Financial Journal This book is the most comprehensive on price risk management–centric efforts. It provides the reader with a tangible experience of derivatives in today′s capital and energy markets. The breadth and scope of the passages are immense, in that both developed and developing countries′ energy markets are considered and examples applied. Terrific read! – Rashpal Bhatti, Marketing Manager, Energy Trading Asia, Enron/BHP Billiton Tom James has simplified the intricacies of a very complex market. In this new market of "hot" commodities, he has been able to give a fresh course to those who are new to the energy markets and a solid review for those that are well seasoned. he covers everything within the oil market from A to Z in this book and does it well. Coming from a financial background myself, it′s good to finally find a book that can bring a better understanding to the field of energy commodities. – Carl Larry, Vice President Citi Energy Global Commodities

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