Financial Freedom through Property  is a practical, inspiring and distinctly South African road map to building lasting wealth through real estate. In this updated edition of his bestseller, Laurens Boel shares the strategies that took him from retrenched corporate employee to the owner of over 200 rental units and an R80-million property portfolio.
 
Readers will learn how to progress from financial instability to full financial freedom, with clear steps for raising capital, analysing and securing high-yield deals, structuring investments for maximum tax efficiency, and managing properties profitably. Combining real-world case studies, actual deal numbers and proven systems, Laurens demystifies property investing while highlighting common pitfalls to avoid. Written in an accessible style with a touch of humour, the book blends practical tools – templates, checklists and formulas – with mindset shifts that will empower readers to take action.
 
Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned investor, this is a blueprint for escaping the rat race, reclaiming your time and creating generational wealth.

Self-doubt. It’s the silent force that undermines potential, eats away at confidence and traps even the most capable in overthinking. You can’t outperform it, but you can rewire it.

Drawing on leading research, over a decade of work with Fortune 500 companies, and experience educating millions of professionals worldwide, Dr Shadé Zahrai reveals a proven system for breaking the cycle of self-doubt and building deep, unshakable self-trust. In Big Trust she shares her proven framework – the Four A’s: Acceptance, Agency, Autonomy and Adaptability – and shows you how to take control of your inner world so you can thrive in the outer one.

With insights from her self-diagnostic quiz and actionable exercises throughout, you’ll learn to:

• Reframe the beliefs that hold you back
• Break free from people-pleasing and perfectionism
• Quiet comparison and imposter thoughts
• Stretch your comfort zone and reclaim your power
• Channel emotion into clarity and conviction

Most of us don’t know how to spend money. We chase things that impress others but leave us cold. Or we save endlessly, afraid to spend on what would actually make life better. We confuse admiration with envy, comfort with excess, and utility with status.

The Art of Spending Money doesn't provide budgets, hacks, or one-size-fits-all solutions. It gives you understanding of how your relationship with money shapes your decisions—and how to reshape it so money works for you.

Morgan Housel’s work has helped millions rethink how they earn, save, and invest. Now he turns his attention to the other side of the equation: how to spend. With insight and warmth, he shows why the most valuable return on investment is peace of mind, why expectations matter more than income, and why doing well with money has less to do with spreadsheets and more to do with self-awareness.

This book isn’t about getting rich. It’s about getting the most out of what you already have—and learning to want what’s worth wanting.

In the stillness of the African bush, leadership reveals itself in its most primal form. Here, where the survival of each species depends on discipline, instinct, coordination, and trust, its lessons arise from the most unexpected sources.

For Letlhokwa George Mpedi, a journey through South Africa’s Kruger National Park transformed from merely a game drive to a masterclass in leadership. Observing the intricate dynamics of animal behaviour, Letlhokwa began to trace compelling parallels between the natural order and human systems of power. Through this lens, this book explores how nature’s codes can inform leadership dynamics.

Drawing from a distinctly African approach to leadership, which emphasises community and interdependence, From Predator to Prey explores the unwritten rule of law that governs the wild and its applications for humanity. From the silent cooperation of lionesses on a hunt to the matriarchal approach of elephants, and even the territorial instincts of wild dogs, this book offers a vivid and thought-provoking perspective on how nature’s instincts can inform our understanding of leadership dynamics.

As Letlhokwa tracks and interprets the behaviours and strategies of various species, he challenges conventional ideas of leadership based solely on top-down control. Through this observation, he invites a critical rethinking of conventional leadership paradigms. In place of rigid hierarchies, he presents a model that values the very tenets of ubuntu leadership as he offers a compelling argument for leadership rooted in nature’s enduring logic.

Rooted and Rising is a transformative manifesto and practical guide that empowers Africans and people of African descent to embrace their heritage unapologetically while thriving in a globalised world. Thebe Ikalafeng challenges the Western-dominated narrative of personal branding and leadership, offering instead an African-centered approach rooted in Ubuntu philosophy -- the principle that 'I am because we are'.

How have people managed extraordinary things to escape the shackles of their circumstances? Can success be taught, or does it depend on personal talent alone – is it nature or nurture? Does luck have a part to play?

This book finds common threads across different disciplines – sport, business, war and politics. A consistent set of leadership attributes emerges, around personal organisation and dedication, maintaining attention to detail while keeping an eye on clear and realisable long-term goals, assiduous planning and careful prioritisation, building a team that delivers institutional capacity and personal support, compiling experience and building skills, focusing on changing yourself rather than others, taking a long view, and thinking things through to the finish. All these factors contribute to the achievement of success over different eras, in diverse settings, in public life as well as private business, in conflict and in the sporting arena.

The book’s overall message is one of empowerment, whatever the level of your potential. Just as Sir Chris Hoy told the authors, ‘The only person you have to beat is yourself, yesterday.’

The highly anticipated third book in the phenomenally successful Extreme Ownership series, from ex-Navy Seals Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, the visionary authors behind Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership.

Drawing from his experiences as a Marine Corps officer, fighter pilot and TOPGUN instructor, author Dave Berke, alongside Jocko Willink, illustrates how leadership is integral to overcoming every challenge. Berke’s insights, based on his time in combat and his role at Echelon Front, aim to help readers become better leaders and understand that leadership is a universal requirement for success, no matter the environment.
By adopting the right leadership mindsets and behaviours, we gain the capacity to solve problems, support the people around us and amend our mistakes. How do we develop these necessary skills? By embracing the principles imparted to Berke from each humbling moment in the cockpit:

EVERYONE IS A LEADER: From the CEO to the most junior employee, everyone at every level is a leader. Leadership isn’t about rank, title, position or function. The more people see themselves as leaders, the more they want to contribute to the team’s success.

EVERY PROBLEM WE FACE IS A LEADERSHIP PROBLEM: The problems we confront at work aren’t caused by external factors. They are caused by our failure to lead. If a lack of leadership is the problem, and good leadership is the solution, then how we lead becomes the most critical factor affecting the outcome.

LEADERSHIP IS A SKILL: Good leaders aren’t simply born. Leadership can be learned, which means every single person in the world can get better at it if they choose. This book is their guide.

Through compelling stories from TOPGUN training and combat to the boardroom and at home, Berke gives readers the necessary tools to succeed.

For over 30 years, Jim Kwik, the world-renowned brain coach, has been the secret weapon of success for a diverse range of high achievers, including actors, athletes, CEOs, and business pioneers. In Limitless, he reveals science-based practices and field-tested tips to accelerate self-learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed reading to create amazing results.

In this expanded edition, you’ll find four new chapters:

· How to harness A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) to boost H.I. (Human Intelligence)
· The latest breakthroughs in nootropics and nutrition to enhance cognitive performance
· Limitless at Work–tools to adapt and thrive, whether you’re fully remote, embracing the hybrid model, or resuming the traditional office setting
· A self-assessment to crack your “brain animal” code

Newly updated with transformative success stories from people who’ve used Jim’s teaching in the real world, the expanded edition of Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more―more productivity, more transformation, more personal success, more business achievement―by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods and creating unstoppable Momentum. These “4 M’s” live in the pages of Limitless along with practical techniques that unlock the superpowers of your brain and change your habits.

Learn how to:

· FLIP YOUR MINDSET - Identify and challenge the assumptions, habits, and procrastinations that limit you and expand the boundaries of what you believe is possible.
· IGNITE YOUR MOTIVATION - Uncovering what motivates you is the key that opens up limitless mental capacity. When you unleash your passions, purposes, and sources of energy, you stay focused and clear on your goals.
· MASTER THE METHODS - Accelerate learning, improve memory, and enhance brain performance. Jim Kwik applies the latest neuroscience for accelerated learning so you can finish a book 3x faster through speed reading (and remember it), learn a new language in record time, and master new skills with ease.
· BUILD MOMENTUM - Unstoppable momentum is the product of mindset, motivation, and methods. Jim offers new insights and tools to unlock the first 3 M’s so you can become truly limitless.

Limitless Expanded Edition is the ultimate brain training book, packed with practical techniques to help you level up your mental performance and transform your life.

Data is a resource like oil or minerals, so who owns it is critical, especially as data is the raw material that’s powering the artificial intelligence revolution.

Sovereign AI is about much more than countries merely owning their data, it’s about control. It ensures AI aligns with their cultural, ethical, and legal frameworks. It’s about making sure AI works for people and not the other way around.

Businesses, nations, and leaders are quickly realising they need to embrace sovereign AI. This shift signifies an unprecedented move from the generation of software to the creation of intelligence. AI has already changed everything.

How we think about its ownership is going to shape everything to come.

In this groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, Mastering Sovereign Artificial Intelligence, AI expert, researcher, and speaker Dr Mark Nasila explores what sovereign AI truly means, how it differs from other AI models, and why it’s so critical to understand.

He outlines the shifting geopolitical landscape of AI and the emerging trends shaping international competition, and delves into how AI intersects with national security, the economy, and global power.

Data and AI sovereignty require countries to cultivate skilled AI workforces, build AI factories, and ensure governance and ethics are considered from the inception of any AI strategy.


Packed with insights from global industry experts, this is an essential hand-book for anyone who’s interested in AI, from individuals to business owners, policymakers, and parents concerned about what the future of work might look like.

AI is an asset like any other. So how we think about its ownership will shape the future of the world, and decide our place in it.

This workbook has been written for students to provide the maximum examples of questions on most tax topics.
It is an annual publication and up-to-date with the latest legislation. Separate solutions are available.

Today’s tech platforms are some of history's most advanced tools for extracting as much as possible – data, attention, profit-margins – from everyone else. As they become essential, we are at risk of building an economy that is perpetually unfair for much of humanity.

Places and spaces where people can exchange information and goods have been at the heart of every economy and every civilization in history, but today’s global platforms - as provided by Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta and others - are different: instead of providing value they extract it, creating vast disparities in wealth and power between the haves and have-nots. For the first time in history, we have the ability to create sustainable prosperity for all, but currently that wealth is concentrated in a tiny number of hands. It isn't abundance that's the problem; it is distribution.

In this brilliantly engaging, frequently surprising account, Tim Wu, one of the world’s foremost experts on anti-monopoly law, draws on fascinating case studies in the history of technology's explosive rise to demonstrate emphatically that breaking monopolies will ultimately unleash creativity and growth - and reduce the vast inequality that inevitably leads to social upheaval and political chaos. Wu also sets out an alternative blueprint that preserves the economic flourishing that platforms catalyze, allowing tech platforms to play a major role in creating and sustaining an economic model of prosperity not just for the few but for the many.

For decades, the business world has been content with leaders who drive profits and make strategic decisions. But in today's ultracompetitive world, that is simply not enough. The ability to tell a compelling story about your product or service is no longer just a competitive advantage--it's a requirement.

In The Storyteller's Advantage, investor, startup advisor, and former business journalist Christina Farr reveals the secrets of business leaders who inspire, entertain, and empathize through the art of storytelling. Farr offers an inside look at the greatest storytelling CEOs, whose narrative abilities enable them to raise more capital, retain more talent, and make their brands more memorable. With empirical research and candid commentary, Farr explores how these leaders developed their stories, breaks down the narratives that are resonating in today's workplaces, and shares practical advice on how to deliver the most compelling message.

Practical and approachable, The Storyteller's Advantage will help any business leader to tap into their ultimate superpower--telling a great story.

Do big government debts and fast rates of adding to them threaten our collective well-being? In this groundbreaking analysis, Ray Dalio, one of the greatest investors of our time and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles, shares the reasons behind his fears for the US debt markets, answering some of the most important market and economic questions we now face: Are there limits to debt growth? Can a big, important reserve currency country like the US really go broke? Is there such a thing as a 'Big Debt Cycle' that can tell us when to worry about debt and what to do about it?

For decades, politicians, policymakers and investors have debated these questions, but the Big Debt Cycle that helps answer them is not talked about or well understood. With the US debt issue coming to a head, Dalio’s How Countries Go Broke provides the first-ever detailed analysis of the Big Debt Cycle, explaining its implications and offering a surprisingly straightforward solution to getting debt problems like those faced by the US under control.

Dalio has built his career as a leading global macro investor by studying the patterns of history to develop unconventional perspectives on what’s happening in markets and economies today. It was this approach that led him, in the years leading up to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, to study the Great Depression and other past big debt crises and use what he learned to navigate the turbulent markets successfully. By looking closely at thirty-five cases over the past 100 years when governments have gone broke and studying the mechanics behind them, Dalio has developed a first-of-its-kind template for what to watch for and what to do when the threat is as significant as his measures show that it now is. He has discussed this template with treasury secretaries and central bankers from around the world and is now sharing it with the public to help bring urgent attention to the big risks the US and a number of other countries face – and to explain how to avoid the worst-case scenario.

No one sets out to be a bad boss. But some bosses out there really do give it all they’ve got. One in four of us feel like we are currently working for our worst boss ever. That not only has a huge impact on our enjoyment of the job, but our productivity also plummets, which surely is no good for anyone!

The problem is, when you are stuck with a job or boss you don’t like, you are given the same two pieces of advice; either suck it up or go off and find a new job, which costs you time and a whole lot of headspace, and costs businesses too!

My Boss is a Moron is all about the third way.

Serial entrepreneur and content creator Ben Askins shows you how to handle a terrible boss, make the best of a bad situation and still come out on top.

Taking you through the entire lifecycle of work from job descriptions and interviews, to pay rises, promotions, annual leave and so much more, My Boss is a Moron pulls back the curtain on why companies and bosses make the choices they make, and what you can do to give yourself the best possible chance of success.

With outrageous real boss stories and Askins’ beloved sarcasm and humour, My Boss is a Moron is as entertaining as it is helpful and is designed to help you sidestep silly company policies and terrible management to ensure that you thrive at work, no matter the circumstances.

From the boardrooms to the court rooms, this is the gripping story of how Apple became the world's most valuable company, and of the lawmakers and entrepreneurs determined to knock it off its pedestal.

Since the invention of the iPhone and App Store, Apple has built a near unassailable market power, controlling not only commerce, but also culture, and - increasingly - the flow of ideas.

In response, a loose rebel alliance of tech entrepreneurs has formed to lay siege to Apple, bringing together Epic Games' Tim Sweeney, Spotify's Daniel Ek, X's Elon Musk and WeChat's Pony Ma. In the trenches of popular opinion and now in the courtrooms of Europe and the United States, this rebellion aims to tear down Apple's walls and dismantle its alleged monopoly.

iWar weaves together the story of Apple's rise and reign with the political and international forces arrayed against it in the fight over control of the global digital economy. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Pitching sucks. The word alone conjures up dull PowerPoint decks, pushy tactics, and shouty emails. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Danny Fontaine, an expert in innovative pitching, presents a game-changing guide that transforms pitching into an exciting, creative and enjoyable experience. Drawing from his billion-dollar pitching experience, this book delves into the psychology of connection and storytelling mastery, alongside practical methods for persuading any audience. And it's all backed with anecdotes of some of the very best, and worst, pitches of all time.

These techniques work in any context, from corporate boardrooms to classroom lectures to after-dinner speeches, proving that great pitching is all about creating experiences and evoking emotions.

Forget PowerPoint and discover how to captivate any audience, win more deals, and have fun doing it.

Every day we're bombarded with methods, mantras and life hacks that promise us wellness and prosperity - while time and talent remain some of our most squandered resources. The average full-time worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job: are you making the most of them? Do you truly believe in what you do, day in, day out?

What if you want to do something more with your limited time on the planet?

Internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman shows us that with moral ambition - the will to make the world a wildly better place - we can be both idealistic and successful, and change the world along the way. Uncovering the qualities that made the great change-makers of history so effective, he shows how we too can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to inequality to the next pandemic. With moral ambition, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can make history itself.

This book won't make your life easier, but it should make it more meaningful. The question is: what will you do with it?

Work is changing for everyone, everywhere. Standing still isn't an option. Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman, CEO and Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn, show you how to take control of this moment with clarity and confidence.

The future of work is not a distant horizon. It is being built right now. While some of us are experimenting and adapting with AI, most of us are feeling anxious and uncertain, navigating rapid change with outdated playbooks. We're relying on old career advice that assumes the tasks you do at work are static, that the skills you learned in school last decades and that success comes from moving up a predictable ladder. That's the old world of work and it's on the way out.

Open To Work offers a new path forward. Backed by real-time insights from over a billion professionals on LinkedIn, it is a clear-eyed view of what's actually changing, what skills you really need, and how to stay ahead at work as AI reshapes every aspect of work.

You'll meet early movers like Neil, who used AI to get better at his job; Jonetta, who used AI to get a new job; and Taj, who used AI to build a business.

You’ll also get expert perspectives across the future of work and careers, helping you discover what will make you competitive in ways no machine can replace. You'll learn how to:

• Assess which parts of your job to delegate to AI, and which to keep for yourself
• Build the core human capabilities that will carry you through any technological shift
• Take action, including with a 30-60-90 day plan

Real-life, hard-won wisdom on how to start, run and grow a successful business, from the founder of The Sweaty Startup.

If you ask the average person who an entrepreneur is, they’ll probably say people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. But the truth is, you don’t need to know how to code or raise VC money to start a business. There are hundreds of millions of small business owners globally, with most creating simple, straightforward services that customers need.

Nick Huber, founder of The Sweaty Startup and several million-dollar businesses, challenges the prevailing Silicon Valley wisdom by demonstrating that success as a small business owner is based on the essential principle of doing common things uncommonly well. In The Sweaty Startup, Nick offers readers the simplest, easiest, and lowest-risk path to reclaiming entrepreneurship, generating value, and forging a new path to get ahead on their own terms. By returning to the most foundational business tactics, this book is a refreshing burst of clarity and simplicity in a world that’s obsessed with technology startups, the suffocating squeeze of digital innovation, and the elusive lure of billion-dollar payouts.

Filled to the brim with practical insights, inspiring real-life stories, and actionable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, Nick will reveal how to create a business that succeeds on the most essential level: making money, consistently and predictably over the long term. His book will redefine entrepreneurship and become the go-to handbook for years to come.

A striving for national self-sufficiency is shaping up to be one of the greatest forces of twenty-first century geopolitics - Exile Economics is a provocative warning about the risks of abandoning globalisation and how isolationism weakens the global economy.

The dangerous race for self-sufficiency has begun. Be warned.

Nations are turning away from each other. Faith in globalisaton has been fatally undermined by the pandemic, the energy crisis, surging trade frictions and swelling great power rivalry. A new vision is vying to replace what we've known for many decades. This vision - Exile Economics - entails a rejection of interdependence, a downgrading of multilateral collaboration and a striving for greater national self-sufficiency. The supporters of this new order argue it will establish genuine security, prosperity and peace. But is this promise achievable? Or a seductive delusion?

Through the stories of globally traded commodities - from silicon to steel and from soybeans to solar panels - economics journalist Ben Chu illustrates the intricate web of interdependence that has come to bind nations together - and underlines the dangers of this new push to isolationism. Exile Economics is an essential guide to this new world in all its promise and peril.

In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected Afghanistan’s hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the world.

Lyse Doucet – now the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, then a young reporter on her inaugural trip to Afghanistan – first checked into the Inter-Continental in 1988. In the decades since, she has witnessed a Soviet evacuation, a devastating civil war, the US invasion, and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban, all from within its increasingly battered walls. The Inter-Con has never closed its doors.

Now, she weaves together the experiences of the Afghans who have kept the hotel running to craft a richly immersive history of their country. It is the story of Hazrat, the septuagenarian housekeeper who still holds fast to his Inter-Continental training from the hotel’s 1970s glory days – an era of haute cuisine and high fashion, when Afghanistan was a kingdom and Kabul was the ‘Paris of Central Asia’. Of Abida, who became the first female chef after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. And of Malalai and Sadeq, the twenty-somethings who seized every opportunity offered by two decades of fragile democracy – only to see the Taliban come roaring back in 2021.

Through these intimate portraits of Kabul life, the story of a hotel becomes the story of a people.

When you think about retirement, what comes to mind? Maybe it has something to do with stopping work, but should it? Whatever your plans for retirement are, do you know how to achieve them? Do you know how your pensions, ISAs, property and everything else will come together to deliver the lifestyle you want one day?

In this deeply practical book, 25-year veteran financial planner Pete Matthew walks you through the three phases of retirement:

• The Home Straight – the last five or ten years before retirement, when it’s time to get everything in place and aligned
• The Great Transition – for many of us, retiring is a process not an event and it looks different for each of us
• The New Normal – once we’re settled into our new life, we need to keep everything under review and look towards some later life planning

In this book, you’ll find everything you need to KNOW and everything you need to DO to plan and enjoy your perfect retirement.

In this groundbreaking book, renowned global economist David McWilliams unlocks the mysteries and the awesome power of money: what it is, how it works and why it matters.

Money is an epic, breathlessly entertaining journey across the world through the present and the past, from the birthplace of money in ancient Babylon to the beginning of trade along the silk road to China, from Marrakech markets to Wall Street and the dawn of cryptocurrency. By tracking its history McWilliams uncovers our relationship with money, transforming our perspective on its impact on the world right now.

The story of money is the story of our desires, our genius and our downfalls. Money has shaped the very essence of what it means to be human. We can’t hope to understand ourselves without it. And yet despite money’s primacy, most of us don’t truly understand it. Where does money come from? How much is out there? Who controls it? Nothing we’ve invented as a species has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed the direction of our planet’s history so dramatically. Money is power – and power beguiles. It unleashes our deepest cravings.

The story of money is the story of earth’s most inventive, destructive and dangerous animal, Homo Sapiens. It is our story.

A jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty years told through the many lives of a single ship.

At 94 meters long and 9,500 deadweight tonnes, once called the Bibby Resolution, is an unremarkable hulk, crossing the oceans unnoticed. And yet, the astonishing journey of this boat can tell us the story of the modern world.

First built as a Swedish offshore oil rig in the 1970s, it went on to become a barracks for British soldiers in the Falklands War in the 1980s, a jail off New York in the 1990s, a prison in Portland in the 2000s, and accommodation for Nigerian oil workers off the coast of Africa in the 2010s. It has been called Safe Esperia, HMP The Weare, even 'The Love Boat'. In each of its lives this empty vessel has been commanded by economic forces much larger than itself: private investment, war, mass incarceration, imperial interests, national sovereignty, inflation, booms, busts and greed.

Through its encounters with a world of island tax havens, the English court system, exploited labour forces, free banking zones or immigration politics, the ordinary boat at the heart of this story reveals our complex modern economy to us, connecting the dots of a dramatically changing world in the making, and warning us of its dangerous consequences.

Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era, but the backbone of globalisation is still low-cost labour and rapacious corporate control. Extractive capitalism is what made - and is still making - our unequal world.

Professor Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives record-breaking profits.

Piercing, wry and constantly revealing, Extractive Capitalism brings vividly to light the dark truths behind the world's most voracious industries.