Most Popular Books by Mark Burgess

Do you dream of living life on your terms and having personal and financial freedom? Are you tired of living payday to payday? This book reveals that what thousands of people are discovering every day, you can realise your dreams and financial goals. It gives the information you need to build and enjoy a successful home-based business of your own.

A survey of the elementary functions of money and its invariant representations, alongside the complementary topic of ownership. The book uses the language of Promise Theory to explain the semantics and lifecycle of money in a concise and semi-formal manner, with the goal of reaching a modern probabilistic view of money and economics as a network, independent of philosophical or political treatments as well as models that build on Game Theory. Relativistic notions like `value'' are distinguished carefully from invariant measures of amount to decouple frequently muddled concepts in the popular literature, and money is distinguished from its many inequivalent representations (i.e. proxy technologies). A key strength of this work lies in the way it exposes money as an interconnection network, which has evolved to communicate intentions and decisions between agents in a network, where prices form a language for information channels that we call markets.This book is aimed at economists, philosophers, and engineers. It introduces readers to the concepts in a practical manner, building on the concept of voluntary cooperation. The book draws on many examples from the real world, with a particular emphasis on semi-formal semantics. ''A must read for anyone involved in designing intelligent digital currency.''--Mike Warner (Senior Strategist, San Francisco Federal Reserve)

Spike - an undercover secret agent - is dragged from his classroom one ordinary morning to tackle a problem that''s getting out of control. Vegetables are taking over the scientific research institute, and anything that''s not a vegetable is considered a weed - that includes the staff of the institute and the prime minister, who is due to make a visit that afternoon. To add to the problems, rivalries are breaking out between different species of veg. Can the problem be contained in time? And will Spike survive a confrontation with the Big Pumpkin, the Vegetable Chief?

A living ghost storyHow many ways can a man become a ghost of his former self?When exactly did Benjamin Lamarck pass from the world of the living? One day this esteemed University Professor finds himself adrift somewhere between the dreamy spires of Oxford and angular towers of New York, confused and frustrated by his inability to connect to the living. Clues of a life he has apparently departed haunt him like a cloud of black smoke. Then he meets Giles Divad, a shadowy presence who offers him a way out of his isolation, if only he can learn to blend in with the crowd.Now, assailed by a faceless mob that wants to make him one of the crowd, Lamarck is seized and wiped of individuality, only to regain it by clawing onto the places that were once important to him, in his former life. Then, a young girl forces him to confront the truth of his past, and give it meaning, as he wanders about the episodes of his former life seeking purchase. Perhaps it is still not too late to reconnect with his wife and daughter.

Caractacus Algernon Tobias Crusoe is swept overboard and finds himself on a desert island. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

When Harriet hides a circus horse in the closet at school, its nocturnal wanderings start a rumor that the building is haunted.