{"title":"Jacques Peretti","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the world of investigative journalism with Jacques Peretti. Uncover gripping narratives, from the hidden truths of commerce to the darker corners of celebrity culture. Start your exploration here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"little-bird-of-auschwitz-book-jacques-peretti-9781473646452","title":"Little Bird of Auschwitz","description":"Voyages en France pendant les ann es 1787, 1788, 1789 d'Arthur Young est un r cit de voyage  crit par l'agronome et  conomiste britannique. Publi  en 1792, l'oeuvre documente les observations de Young sur la France pr -r volutionnaire   la fin des ann es 1780. L'auteur explore les aspects  conomiques, sociaux et politiques du pays, fournissant un aper u d taill  de la vie quotidienne, des conditions agricoles et des tensions pr -r volutionnaires. Ce r cit de voyage joue un r le significatif en pr sentant une perspective  trang re sur la France avant la R volution fran aise. Les observations perspicaces d'Arthur Young fournissent un t moignage historique pr cieux sur les r alit s de l' poque. Le livre contribue   la compr hension des tensions qui ont conduit   la R volution et demeure une source importante pour les chercheurs et les historiens.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49508325556497,"sku":"GOR012021953","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570094940433,"sku":"GOR011998639","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49662748066065,"sku":"GOR012166835","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744002744593,"sku":"NGR9781473646452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50132011319569,"sku":"GOR012213154","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473646456.jpg?v=1750757465"},{"product_id":"done-book-jacques-peretti-9781473646391","title":"Done","description":"'The book to read' GQ  'A revelatory book' John Lewis-Stempel  Praise for The Billion Dollar Deals and How They're Changing Our World, the TV documentary which accompanies the book:  'So brilliant, you want to take notes... It's a brilliant concept brilliantly executed.' Lucy Mangan, Guardian   What if the way we understand our world is wrong? What if it isn't politicians and events that shape our lives, but secret deals made by people you've never heard of?  This book tells the story of the secret deals that are changing the world, and revolutionizing everything we do, including money, the food we eat, what we buy, and the drugs we take to stay well. These deals never make the news: they are made high up in boardrooms, on golf courses, and in luxury cars: each sealed by world-changing handshakes. This is the story of those handshakes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49514199056657,"sku":"GOR008625788","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53190829572369,"sku":"GOR011462799","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473646391.jpg?v=1750757465"},{"product_id":"done-book-jacques-peretti-9781473646407","title":"Done","description":"What if the way we understand our world is wrong? What if it isn't politicians and events that shape our lives, but secret deals made by people you've never heard of?  This book tells the story of the secret deals that are changing the world, and revolutionizing everything we do, including money, the food we eat, what we buy, and the drugs we take to stay well. These deals never make the news: they are made high up in boardrooms, on golf courses, and in luxury cars: each sealed by world-changing handshakes. This is the story of those handshakes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519649292561,"sku":"GOR008825724","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376585511185,"sku":"CIN1473646405G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331245146385,"sku":"CIN1473646405VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51681514094865,"sku":"GOR009042396","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473646405.jpg?v=1751424565"},{"product_id":"deals-that-made-the-world-book-jacques-peretti-9781473646421","title":"The Deals that Made the World","description":"'The book to read' GQ  'A revelatory book' John Lewis-Stempel   While the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us - from the food we eat to the products we buy to the medications we take - is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.  For twenty years, Peretti has interviewed the people behind the decisions that have altered our world, from CEOs of multinational corporations to politicians, economists, and scientists. In The Deals that Made the World, Peretti draws on his vast knowledge to reveal a host of fascinating and startling connections, from how Wall Street's actions on food commodities helped spark the Arab Spring to the link between the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. He proves a sure guide, combining both eye-opening on-the-ground reporting and a narrative flair that makes esoteric financial and business concepts clear and understandable.  Like Steven Levitt, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Brad Stone, Michael Lewis, and Malcolm Gladwell, Peretti takes the ordinary and turns it inside out to give us a compelling new perspective on our lives and our world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49522170822929,"sku":"GOR009344424","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49531643003153,"sku":"GOR009232625","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563041562897,"sku":"GOR010834507","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49755305312529,"sku":"NGR9781473646421","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376589017361,"sku":"CIN1473646421G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473646421.jpg?v=1772791007"},{"product_id":"deals-that-made-the-world-book-jacques-peretti-9780062698292","title":"The Deals That Made the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Excellent. ... Impressive.\" --Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern world\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we elect. But in The Deals That Made the World, Jacques Peretti makes a provocative and quite different argument: much of the world around us--from the food we eat to teh products we buy to the medications we take--is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deals That Made the World takes us inside the sphere of these powerful players, examining ten groundbreaking business deals that have transformed our modern economy. Peretti reveals how corporate executives engineered an entire diet industry built on failure; how PayPal conquered online payments (and the specific behavioral science that underpins its success); and how pharmaceutical executives concocted a plan to successfully market medications to healthy people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor twenty years, Peretti has interviewed the people behind the decisions that have altered our world, from the CEOs of multinational corporations to politicians, economists, and scientists. Drawing on his vast knowledge, Peretti reveals a host of fascinating and startling connections, from how Wall Street's actions on food commodities helped spark the Arab Spring to the link between the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. Touching upon tech, finance, artificial intelligence, and the other levers of power in a postglobalization environment, Peretti offers a compelling way to understand the last hundred years--and a suggestion of what the next hundred might hold.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn essential book for anyone seeking to understand the hidden forces that shape our modern economy, The Deals That Made the World is illuminating and surprising--and an immensely fun read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49523990790417,"sku":"GOR009868658","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469674746129,"sku":"CIN006269829XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/006269829X.jpg?v=1750778588"},{"product_id":"little-bird-of-auschwitz-book-jacques-peretti-9781473646445","title":"Little Bird of Auschwitz","description":"Jacques Peretti's mother Alina escaped death at Auschwitz as a young teenager, and rarely spoke of the horrors she experienced there. Now, with Alina aged 90, mother and son embark on a moving journey to piece together her astonishing story - and preserve it while they still can.  'That nickname . . . \"Little bird.\" It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. \"Little Bird\" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of \"little birds\", just like me, all thinking they were the only one . . .'  'One of the best books I have ever read. A story told with such emotion. Now that I've finished it, I feel sad - like I have lost friends.' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐    'A true, inspiring, heartbreaking, motivating, courageous, and loving story of a woman growing up in war-torn Poland . . . Despite the traumatic backdrop this book is heartwarming, well-written, and a joy to read. I will treasure this story and share with my family.' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐    As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz.  In the few last months of the Second World War, thirteen-year-old Alina Peretti, along with her mother and sister, was one of thirteen thousand non-Jewish Poles sent to Auschwitz. Her experiences there cast a shadow over the rest of her life.  Now ninety, Alina has been diagnosed with dementia. Together, mother and son begin a race against time to record her memories and preserve her family's story. Along the way, Jacques learns long-hidden secrets about his mother's family. He gains an understanding of his mother through retracing her past, learning more about the woman who would never let him call her 'Mum'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550639038737,"sku":"GOR012902248","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742630125841,"sku":"NGR9781473646445","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49963305238801,"sku":"CIN1473646448VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376593277201,"sku":"CIN1473646448G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51125962146065,"sku":"NIN9781473646445","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52120968691985,"sku":"NLS9781473646445","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52752435413265,"sku":"GOR013301722","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53482139681041,"sku":"GOR013601291","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473646448.jpg?v=1778147239"},{"product_id":"edge-of-reality-book-jacques-peretti-9780241644515","title":"Edge of Reality","description":"Go behind the scenes of the most shocking, hilarious, controversial genre of entertainment: reality television.  Reality TV's influence is seismic: twenty-five years ago, the concept didn't exist. Yet today, it is one of the most powerful cultural forces on earth; a multi-billion-dollar machine. Despite that, it is often derided as \"trash\"; a cultural McDonalds not worthy of examination. The truth is that reality TV offers a profound insight into who we are as human beings, questioning the very nature of what we deem to be entertaining.  Writer, broadcaster and reality TV-obsessive Jacques Peretti goes behind the scenes of a world that has entranced and consumed him for two decades. Meeting with people at every level of the reality TV machine, from those responsible for coming up with ever-more extreme formats, to the contestants and participants at the heart of some of the most iconic moments in television, who felt that their lives and their vulnerabilities were being exploited in the name of entertainment. This is reality TV as you've never seen it before.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572617388305,"sku":"GOR013413701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49660468068625,"sku":"GOR013692635","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746049696017,"sku":"NGR9780241644515","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50059027808529,"sku":"GOR013849480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241644518.jpg?v=1751070286"},{"product_id":"little-bird-of-auschwitz-book-jacques-peretti-9781473646469","title":"Little Bird of Auschwitz","description":"'My son Jacques is telling my story. I always wanted to tell it myself but never could. Maybe my English wasn't good enough. I never had the courage. I never imagined for a second it would be written down.'  As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz.  In the few last months of the War, thirteen-year-old Alina Peretti, along with her mother and sister, was one of thirteen thousand non-Jewish Poles sent to Auschwitz, in the wake of the Warsaw Uprising. Her experiences there, which she rarely discussed, cast a shadow over the rest of her life.  Now ninety, Alina has been diagnosed with dementia. Together, mother and son begin a race against time to record her memories and preserve her family's story. For the first time, Alina recalls her experiences as a child during the Second World War, the horrors that she witnessed in Auschwitz and the miraculous story of how she survived a firing squad.  Along the way, Jacques learns long-hidden secrets about his mother's family; his mysterious grandfather who lived a double-life, his grandmother who read tarot cards in a Soviet labour camp, and his aunt and uncles, whose fate he never knew. He also gains an understanding of his mother through retracing her past, learning more about the woman who would never let him call her 'Mum'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49579324899601,"sku":"GOR012728303","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50525611229457,"sku":"GOR013985152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50874622804241,"sku":"GOR012937833","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473646464.jpg?v=1778147720"},{"product_id":"deals-that-made-the-world-book-jacques-peretti-9780062698308","title":"The Deals That Made the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Excellent. ... Impressive.\" --Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern world\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we elect. But in The Deals That Made the World, Jacques Peretti makes a provocative and quite different argument: much of the world around us--from the food we eat to teh products we buy to the medications we take--is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deals That Made the World takes us inside the sphere of these powerful players, examining ten groundbreaking business deals that have transformed our modern economy. Peretti reveals how corporate executives engineered an entire diet industry built on failure; how PayPal conquered online payments (and the specific behavioral science that underpins its success); and how pharmaceutical executives concocted a plan to successfully market medications to healthy people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor twenty years, Peretti has interviewed the people behind the decisions that have altered our world, from the CEOs of multinational corporations to politicians, economists, and scientists. Drawing on his vast knowledge, Peretti reveals a host of fascinating and startling connections, from how Wall Street's actions on food commodities helped spark the Arab Spring to the link between the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. Touching upon tech, finance, artificial intelligence, and the other levers of power in a postglobalization environment, Peretti offers a compelling way to understand the last hundred years--and a suggestion of what the next hundred might hold.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn essential book for anyone seeking to understand the hidden forces that shape our modern economy, The Deals That Made the World is illuminating and surprising--and an immensely fun read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49790310777105,"sku":"CIN0062698303G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999135961361,"sku":"NIN9780062698308","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325409329425,"sku":"CIN0062698303VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062698303.jpg?v=1750876234"},{"product_id":"edge-of-reality-book-jacques-peretti-9780744089103","title":"Edge of Reality","description":"Go behind the scenes of the most shocking, hilarious, controversial genre of entertainment: reality television.  Reality TV’s influence is seismic: twenty-five years ago, the concept didn’t exist. Yet today, it is one of the most powerful cultural forces on earth; a multi-billion-dollar machine. Despite that, it is often derided as \"trash\", a cultural McDonalds not worthy of examination. The truth is that reality TV offers a profound insight into who we are as human beings, questioning the very nature of what we deem to be entertaining.  Writer, broadcaster, and reality TV-obsessive Jacques Peretti goes behind the scenes of a world that has entranced and consumed him for two decades. Meeting with people at every level of the reality TV machine, from those responsible for coming up with ever-more extreme formats, to the contestants and participants at the heart of some of the most iconic moments in television, who felt that their lives and their vulnerabilities were being exploited in the name of entertainment.  This is reality TV as you’ve never seen it before.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50357190459665,"sku":"CIN0744089107G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006500536593,"sku":"NIN9780744089103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0744089107.jpg?v=1750881938"},{"product_id":"trato-hecho-book-jacques-peretti-9788415732303","title":"Trato Hecho!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern world\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we elect. But in \u003cem\u003eThe Deals That Made the World\u003c\/em\u003e, Jacques Peretti makes a provocative and quite different argument: much of the world around us--from the food we eat to the products we buy to the medications we take--is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Deals That Made the World\u003c\/em\u003e takes us inside the sphere of these powerful players, examining ten groundbreaking business deals that have transformed our modern economy. Peretti reveals how corporate executives engineered an entire diet industry built on failure; how PayPal conquered online payments (and the specific behavioral science that underpins its success); and how pharmaceutical executives concocted a plan to successfully market medications to healthy people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years, Peretti has interviewed the people behind the decisions that have altered our world, from the CEOs of multinational corporations to politicians, economists, and scientists. Drawing on his vast knowledge, Peretti reveals a host of fascinating and startling connections, from how Wall Street's actions on food commodities helped spark the Arab Spring to the link between the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. Touching upon tech, finance, artificial intelligence, and the other levers of power in a postglobalization environment, Peretti offers a compelling way to understand the last hundred years--and a suggestion of what the next hundred might hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential book for anyone seeking to understand the hidden forces that shape our modern economy, \u003cem\u003eThe Deals That Made the World\u003c\/em\u003e is illuminating and surprising--and an immensely fun read.\u003c\/p\u003e--Financial Advisor Magazine","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51088807461137,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51088807624977,"sku":"GOR014173832","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8415732309.jpg?v=1750808431"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-jacques-peretti.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}