Tom Wright – лучшие книги

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).
Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.

In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.

By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.
BILLION DOLLAR WHALE has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.

The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history.
In 2015, rumours began circulating that billions of dollars had been stolen from a Malaysian investment fund. The mastermind of the heist was twenty-seven-year-old Jho Low, a serial fabulist from an upper-middle-class Malaysian family, who had carefully built his reputation as a member of the jet-setting elite by arranging and financing elaborate parties for Wall Street bankers, celebrities, and even royalty.
With the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, Low stole billions of dollars, right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. He used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and bankroll Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.
Billion Dollar Whale reveals how this silver-tongued con man, a ‘modern Gatsby’, emerged from obscurity to pull off one of the most audacious financial heists the world has ever seen, and how the financial industry let him. It is a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.

Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on the Gospel of Mark and what it might mean for us are combined, passage-by-passage, with his fresh translation of the Bible text. Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the urgency and excitement of Mark's Gospel in a way few writers have..

Inmitten der t?glichen Herausforderungen unseres Alltags – und erst recht, wenn es im Leben drunter und dr?ber geht – f?hlt sich unser Glaube oft klein und schwach an. Es f?llt uns schwer, Gott zu verstehen, und manchmal haben wir mehr Zweifel als Glauben. Tom Wright erinnert uns in diesem Buch daran, dass es nicht auf unsere F?higkeit ankommt, Gott zu vertrauen, sondern auf den, dem wir vertrauen. Wir brauchen keinen gro?en Glauben, sondern Glauben an einen gro?en Gott.

Christen glauben an die Auferstehung der Toten. Aber wie sieht es mit dem ewigen Leben aus? Da sind unsere Vorstellungen eher schwammig. Der bekannte Neutestamentler und ehemalige Bischof von Durham untersucht die biblischen Aussagen zu diesem Thema genauer und kommt zu ?berraschenden Ergebnissen. Die Neusch?pfung von Himmel und Erde, von der die Bibel spricht, hat Auswirkungen auf unser Leben. Die Auferstehung Jesu begr?ndet den Glauben und nimmt uns hinein in «das Leben nach dem Tod» und in seine Auswirkungen f?r das «Leben vor dem Tod». Konkrete Verantwortung im Hier und Jetzt statt Vertr?stung auf ein unbestimmtes Jenseits. Der auferstandene Jesus statt Untergangsstimmung, weil Gottes Reich schon hier beginnt – so sieht christliche Hoffnung aus!