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[...]

This book covers the guns that were emplaced along the Atlantic Wall by Germany during WWII.

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]