#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short and The Blind Side, Michael Lewis's masterful collection of articles and essays on the world's most recent financial panics is now available from Simon & Schuster Audio for only $14.99. When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. In [...]
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[...]
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Big Short," "Liar's Poker" and "The Blind Side"
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal as[...]
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FUNNY, FRIGHTENING, BREATHLESS AND HEARTLESS, LIAR'S POKER IS A TALE OF HYSTERICAL GREED AND AMBITION SET IN AN OBSESSED, ENCLOSED WORLD. From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumph[...]
When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact[...]
Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory, Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first, infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These "action patterns" are not learned, but [...]
A superb book. . . . Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar s Poker. Time 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[...]
"Did you hear the one about the bartender and the rabbi? If not, you'll find it in this delightful book--along with hundreds of other jokes and funny stories, classic and brand-new--about the denizens of bars, pubs, and watering holes everywhere."
Michael Lewis has gathered a wide range[...]
A #1 New York Times Bestseller
When the U.S. stock market crash became public knowledge in the fall of 2008 it was already old news. The real crash the silent crash had taken place over the previous year in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't bother to trea[...]
DescriptionQuicklets: Learn More. Read Less.Published in 1989, best-selling Liar's Poker details author Michael Lewis's time in the London office of Salomon Brothers in the mid-1980's. Written after he left the firm in 1988, the book tells the story of 1980's Wall Street in a wickedly funny manner, [...]
Summary, Analysis & Review of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project by InstareadPreview:The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds explores the relationship and psychological theories of two Israeli academics, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose ideas about human judgment and decisio[...]
Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in "The Big Short", Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? "Boomerang" is a tragi-comic romp acro[...]
The "LTP Dictionary of Selected Collocations" is a unique reference book aimed at all learners of English at the intermediate level and above. It is not a traditional dictionary. It lists collocations (words and the words which regularly combine with them). Knowing strong and frequent collocations i[...]
Since publication of "The Lexical Approach", the author has been developing his ideas in response to the wide-ranging debate he stimulated. This book describes how the lexical approach works in the classroom and contains, amongst other things, a summary of the approach and exercises and activities.[...]