In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. Lewis also found much [...]

"It Can't Happen Here" is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of "Main Street, ""Babbitt," and "Arrowsmith." A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great De[...]

'The Gothic Revival', writes Professor Michael Lewis, 'is more than a fashion craze for pointed arches and pinnacles. During its years of greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art, belief, society and labour to intense intellectual scrutiny, using the Middle Ages as a platform from which [...]

Shame, the quintessential human emotion, received little attention during the years in which the central forces believed to be motivating us were identified as primitive instincts like sex and aggression. Now, redressing the balance, there is an explosion of interest in the self-conscious emotion. M[...]

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most celebrated surviving works of art, as well as recounting the story of one of the most famous episodes of British history. Yet much about the object itself remains a mystery; who commissioned it, and where, when and why was it made? In this introduction to the T[...]

Applied regression allows social scientists who are not specialists in quantitative techniques to arrive at clear verbal explanations of their numerical results. Provides a lucid discussion of more specialized subjects: analysis of residuals, interaction effects, specification error, multicollineari[...]

"Successful management buyouts (MBOs) are the pinnacle of business success today and a great way to earn an ever-increasing stake in the American dream. "Buyout" provides managers and executives with the necessary tools and strategies for leading a company or division buyout. It explores the detail[...]

Navigating transition from growth to resilience is a formidable challenge, but together we can build a robust, resilient, low-carbon economy. From land and finance reform to energy sufficiency and sustainable food systems, "The Resilience Imperative" advances a rich mixture of analysis and innovatio[...]

A guide for students who intend to come to Britain. It provides the essential language in a wide range of situations, including coping with life in a host family.[...]

In Stout, Michael Lewis traces the changing view of this popular beer style from a medicinal tonic to its glorified position in today's beer world. Lewis covers the style completely from history and commercial examples to recipes for home and professional brewing.[...]

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[...]