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For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have guaranteed that they alone can illuminate the golden pathway to prosperity—despite strong evidence to the contrary. In fact, too often, they are singing a siren song of devastation. And yet we keep listening.\n\n\u003ci\u003eInvested\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how the genre of investment advice developed and grew in the United Kingdom and the United States, from its origins in the eighteenth century through today as it saturates our world. The authors analyse centuries of books, TV shows, blogs, and more, all promising techniques for amateur investors to master the ways of the market: from Thomas Mortimer’s pathbreaking 1761 work, \u003ci\u003eEvery Man His Own Broker\u003c\/i\u003e, through the Gilded Age explosion of sensationalist investment manuals, the early twentieth-century emergence of a vernacular financial science, and the more recent convergence of self-help and personal finance.\n\n\u003ci\u003eInvested\u003c\/i\u003e asks why, in the absence of evidence that such advice reliably works, guides to the stock market have remained perennially popular. The authors argue that the appeal of popular investment advice lies in its promise to level the playing field, giving outsiders the privileged information of insiders. As \u003ci\u003eInvested\u003c\/i\u003e persuasively shows, the fantasies sold by these writings are damaging and deceptive, peddling unrealistic visions of easy profits and the certainty of success, while trying to hide the fact that there is no formula for avoiding life’s economic uncertainties and calamities.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000652316908,"sku":"9780226820989","price":213.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20438173482268.jpg?v=1763293858"},{"product_id":"invested-by-james-taylor-9780226821009","title":"Invested","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInvested\u003c\/i\u003e examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nWho hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? 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Taking the American Willys Jeep as inspiration, Rover designers came up with a four-wheel-drive utility vehicle that would become an all-time classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Land Rover has undergone a number of facelifts in its sixty-year life, but the vehicle still made today is fundamentally very close to the 1948 original. After 1970, the original was joined by a host of other models including the Discovery, Range Rover, and Freelander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of \u003cem\u003eLand Rover\u003c\/em\u003e, written by the foremost historian of the make, encompassing all the models and dividing them according to their use. 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The BMW E34 5 Series became the benchmark executive saloon during its eight-year production life, and today enthusiasts still look back on it as one of the high points of the BMW story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe E34 range made its debut in 1988, and built on BMW's growing success in the medium-sized saloon class. From the start, its makers aimed to seize leadership of the market sector from their arch-rivals at Mercedes-Benz, and to that end they developed a sleek, sporty shape and made the car available with a range of 6-cylinder engines. These included highly regarded diesel types, and later there would be an entry-level 4-cylinder as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBMW kept the E34 range fresh to the very end, through three major eras of production. The first lasted until 1990, and established the range firmly. The second period, from 1990 to 1992, brought 'Touring' (estate) models, 4-wheel-drive variants and advanced new 4-valve engines. 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