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Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series)

by William Bonner, Lila Rajiva

Published: 2007-08-31

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Why Going Against the Grain Pays. Bestselling author Bill Bonner has long been a maverick observer of the financial and political world, sharpening his sardonic wit, in particular, on the vagaries of the investing public. Market booms and busts, tulip manias and dotcom bubbles, ventur...

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Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Published: 2012-03-08

Paperback: 596 pages

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The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out a specific whale—Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the...

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Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)

by Herman Melville

Published: 2008-05-15

Paperback: 656 pages

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This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discuss the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery.

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Moby Dick: or the Whale (Modern Library)

by Herman Melville

Published: 1992-09-05

Hardcover: 864 pages

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 "As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow", was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the ultimate achievement ...

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Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)

by Herman Melville

Published: 1981-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 704 pages

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No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick.  Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.  It is th...

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Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

by Herman Melville

Published: 2003-04-01

Paperback: 752 pages

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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics�series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable featu...

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Moby-Dick : or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)

by Herman Melville

Published: 2000-10-10

Paperback: 896 pages

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First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, 'the greatest novel in American literature.' The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and s...

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)

by Herman Melville

Published: 2002-12-31

Paperback: 0 pages

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Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco Explanatory Commentary by Tom Quirk

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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went i

by Donovan Hohn

Published: 2011-03-03

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions...

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Mockingbird

by Kathryn Erskine

Published: 2011-02-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF OUR TIME FOR YOUNG READERSCaitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. B...