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PREFACE: DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST • When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time. Sir Ernest Cassell, banker to Edward VII N'ever before has...

The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner As soon as I got to Borstal they made me a long-distance cross-country runner. I suppose they thought I was just the build for it because I was long and skinny for my age (and still am) and in any case I didn't mind it much, to tell you the truth,...

Who Gives a Shit? An Introduction to the Expanded Election Edition You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America. You could call this book WhatYou Didn't Read in the New York Times...

Foreword There are two central issues in the study of happiness (I tend to prefer the label of subjective well-being). The first is a classic distinction, which goes back at least to Aristotle, between two views of the good life: a life of pleasure, contentment, and other positive feelings, or...

Introduction: Antioxidants to the Rescue!Antioxidants Defend Us Against AgeAntioxidants may be defined as any substance that protects tissue yiagainst oxidative damage. Even though oxygen is our primary fuel and we need a constant supply to live, when we use this fuel to generate energy, waste...

INTRODUCTION* * *Now it's time for something a little different.It was a blast writing the first two Top Secret Recipes cookbooks that include secret recipes inspired by convenience foodboth fast food and packaged food, like Big Macs, Snickers, Oreos, and Twinkles. Sure, dissecting hamburgers,...