John Train

The Olive Tree of Civilisation has a rich and varied history. The gnarled tree and its fruits has been extolled by bards from Ovid and Homer to Kipling, Tennyson and Nerua. What other fruit provides light, is a fundamental ingredient in perfume and adds joy and flavour at the table? The ancients knew these virtues, and olive oil became a key to their religious and political ceremonies, from the temples of Ra in Egypt where lamps burned olive oil, to the temple of Soloman, where kings were anointed with oil based ointments. Christ was offered a sip of oil on the cross; Hanukah is at its origin a festival to celebrate olive oil; the tree and its oil are found in the Koran. Today the oil is worshipped by chefs for its flavours and its colours. For decades, cooks and anthropologists have divided Europe along an olive oil/butter boundary; that line is vanishing as olive oil spreads around the globe. This book explores and brings to life the olives's glorious past, with chapters on the fruit's role in mythology, religion and ancient civilisation. It takes the reader on a tour of cultivation sites and illuminates the complex culture of olive oil commerce. Lovely illustrations of nature, human labour, tools and art accompany the text, revealing the olive in all its hues and guises.

Un repaso a las estrategias de inversión de los principales magos de las finanzasGrandes maestros de la inversión es un viaje a la mente de los legendarios genios de la inversión que han superado la prueba del tiempo, asi como una mirada a sus sucesores mas jovenes. John Train hace hincapie en aquellos aspectos de sus carreras que ilustran sus tecnicas de inversion y permiten entender por que determinadas decisiones de compra o venta hicieron crecer sus fortunas. ¿Como piensan? ¿De donde sacan la informacion? ¿En que medida dependen de los hechos? ¿O recurren mas bien a la psicologia? ¿Cuales son sus criterios a la hora de escoger un activo? ¿Que activos estan comprando ahora y por que? De la mano de Train recorremos las estrategias ganadoras, las decisiones mas valiosas y las peculiaridades psicologicas de quienes han dominado el arte del dinero. Si de la experiencia propia se aprende, de la de los mejores puede aprenderse todavia mas.