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Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
Published: 2009-11-02
Paperback: 400 pages
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The New York Times bestseller: A masterful account of today’s money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe.When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. In this New York Times bestseller, Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most vi...
The Money Culture
Published: 2011-02-14
Paperback: 304 pages
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The classic warts-and-all portrait of the 1980s financial scene.The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Published: 2001-01-01
Paperback: 288 pages
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As American capitalism undergoes a seismic shift, Michael Lewis, author of the bestselling Liar's Poker, sets out on a Silicon Valley safari to find the true representative of the coming economic age. All roads lead to Jim Clark, the man who rewrote the rules of American capitalism as the ...
The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
Published: 2008-01-01
Hardcover: 1472 pages
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In his New York Times bestsellers Liar’s Poker and Moneyball, Michael Lewis gave us an unprecedented look at what goes on behind the scenes on Wall Street. Now he takes us back across the centuries to explore the four classics that created and defined not just Wall Street, but the entire...
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Published: 2012-01-17
Paperback: 304 pages
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The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Ca...
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
Published: 2007-07-04
Paperback: 472 pages
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When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most Army officers knew more about the U.S. ...
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Published: 2003-06-10
Paperback: 224 pages
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As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divini...
Kraken
Published: 2010-06-29
Hardcover: 528 pages
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With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, polic...
Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
Published: 1969-07-30
Paperback: 254 pages
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A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca...
Tao of Jeet Kune Do: New Expanded Edition
Published: 2011-11-01
Paperback: 250 pages
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Compiled from Bruce Lee s notes and essays and originally published in 1975, this iconic volume is one of the seminal martial arts guides of its time. The science and philosophy behind the fighting system Lee pioneered himself—jeet kune do—is explained in detail, depicted through hundreds of Lee...
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