For 60 years Guinness World Records has celebratedthe world’s most remarkable human and animalachievements, natural wonders and feats of innovation. In doing so, it has inspired generationsof record-setters and GWR fans alike, and has set itsown record for all-time bestselling annual publication(over 130 million copies sold!). In this special diamond anniversary book, weshare 60 of the most iconic, heart-warming andworld-changing records, year by year from 1955 to today. Illustrated with stunning photography, theserecords show how Guinness World Records hasacted as a mirror to the evolving world around us.From pioneering space exploration and unrivalledsporting achievements to supersized animals andincredible human bodies, there’s something herefor everyone. Perhaps it will even inspire the nextgeneration of record-breakers…

Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discussfirst-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme No One WouldListen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-leadinvestigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.While a lot has been written about Madoff's scam, few actually knowhow Markopolos and his team-affectionately called The Fox Hounds byMarkopolos himself, uncovered what Madoff was doing years beforethis financial disaster reached its pinnacle. Unfortunately, no onelistened, until the damage of the world's largest financial fraudever was irreversible. Since that time, Markopolos openly hastestified and questioned the enforcement and fraud investigationcapabilities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),shared a sliver of this page-turning story with 60 Minutes, andbecome perhaps the world's most visible and insightfulwhistleblower on fraud and conflicts of interest in financialmarkets. Throughout the book, Markopolos and his Fox Hounds telltheir first-h

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