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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Category: Sport
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in Baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-bedget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. The ...Show more
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
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 violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Lewis paints the mood and market factors lead ...Show more
Panic : The story of modern financial insanity by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
Edited by the bestselling author of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis, "Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity" gives us a completely new insight into how markets really operate - and who really knows what they're talking about. From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble ...Show more
Psychology 3rd Edition The Science of Mind and Behaviour by Emily Castell (As told to); Simon Boag (As told to); Mark Edwards (As told to); Darren Garvey (As told to); Mark Kohler (As told to); Andrew Lewis (As told to); Kimberley Norris (As told to); Con Stough (As told to); Marianna Szabo (As told to); Michael W. Passer; Ronald E. Smith; Sarah Cowie (As told to); Charini Gunaratne (As told to); Nicholas Harris (As told to); Jacqui Macdonald (As told to); Natalie Morrison (As told to); Carolyn Wilshire (As told to); Jeroen van Boxtel (As told to); Felicity Allen (As told to)
Category: Self-Help
The third edition of Psychology: The science of mind and behaviour provides an authoritative and highly-regarded introduction to this fascinating topic. Although many approaches to the study of Psychology are presented in this text, the emphasis is on the biopsychosocial model. This serves as an underly ...Show more
THE BLIND SIDE by LEWIS MICHAEL
Category: Sport
The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any o ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Category: Non-Fiction
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Category: Business | Series: Movie Tie-in Editions
From the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The film adaptation by Adam McKay (Anchorman I and II, The Other Guys) features Academy Award(R) winners Ch ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
When the crash of the U. S. stock market 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 dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real ...Show more
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Category: Sport | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
When we first meet Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter ...Show more
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Category: Politics
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
Category: Politics
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
Category: Politics
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened- ...Show more