This timely book answers complex and perplexing questions raised by Wall Street's role in the financial crisis. What are the economic and moral connections between Wall Street and the overall economy? How did we arrive at this point in history where our most powerful financial institutions thwart ra[...]
Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short, there was Liar's Poker. A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this insider s account of 1980s Wall Street excess transformed Michael Lewis from a disillusioned bond salesman to the best-selling literary icon he is today. Together, the three books co[...]
"Guaranteed to make blood boil." Janet Maslin, New York Times In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries [...]
This book covers the guns that were emplaced along the Atlantic Wall by Germany during WWII.
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall "
President Ronald Reagan's famous exhortation when visiting Berlin in 1987 has long been widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The United States won, so this version of history goes, because Ronald Reagan stood firm against th[...]
A lavishly illustrated, pictorial odyssey that spans more than four thousand miles traverses the Great Wall of China, from beginning to end, and describes the history of the monument and its construction, as well as the landscapes, scenic wonders, and regions it covers.[...]
From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Liar's Poker" and "one of the country's most popular business journalists" ("The New York Times") Michael Lewis, comes an engaging new book about Wall Street.
Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of "Boomerang," "The Big Short," "The Blind Sid[...]
This is a unique and visual companion to the best-known and most spectacular monument to the Roman Empire in Britain. A fascinating look at Hadrian's Wall uses James Irwin Coates 'old views' of the Wall as a comparison to how it looks today. Alan Michael Whitworth also uses several pieces of Roman s[...]
Get up to speed on Apache Accumulo, the flexible, high-performance key/value store created by the National Security Agency (NSA). Written by former NSA team members, this comprehensive tutorial and reference covers Accumulo architecture, application development, table design, and cell-level security[...]
Poems which bear witness to the Jewish Holocaust, from one of Ireland's best-known poets.
Some of the carefully staged and composed images here are digitally altered, and almost all of them were originally displayed in backlit boxes. If those strategies sound familiar, you can thank Jeff Wall, born in Vancouver in 1946 and widely recognized as one of the most adventurous and inventive ar[...]
Samtidigt som Wall Street var sysselsatta med att skapa historiens största kreditbubbla anade ett antal outsiderinvesterare att den snart skulle explodera De satsade allt mot banksystemet och tjänade en förmögenhet.
Den hyllade ekonomiskribenten Michael Lewis berättar i Värstin[...]
Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, or Pyat, that charming but despicable mythomaniac who first appeared in "Byzantium Endures," is back in this second book of the Pyat quartet. Having fled Bolshevik Russia in late 1919, Pyat's progress is a series of leaps from crisis to crisis, as he begins affairs with[...]