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A Guy Walks Into A Bar... by Michael Lewis
Category: Humour
501 Bar Jokes, Stories, Anecdotes, Quips, Quotes, Riddles, and Wisecracks Michael Lewis has gathered a wide range of the very best and funniest bar jokes, riddles, anecdotes, and quotations in this rib-tickling (and thirst-inducing) collection. Sure to be a favorite of tipplers of all stripes - and the ...Show more
Boomerang: The Biggest Bust by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to p ...Show more
Cezanne: Matamorphoses by Alexander Eiling (Editor); Tessa Rosebrock (Contribution by); Fabienne Ruppen (Contribution by); Margret Stuffmann (Contribution by); Pia Müller-Tamm (Preface by); Juliane Betz (Contribution by); Michael Clarke (Contribution by); Inken Freudenberg (Contribution by); Eva-Maria Höllerer (Contribution by); Richard Kendall (Contribution by); Mary Tompkins Lewis (Contribution by); Astrid Reuter (Contribution by)
Category: Art
This remarkable thematic survey offers up an entirely new way of looking at and thinking about Paul C zanne's oeuvre. As an artist, Paul C zanne sought to capture the secrets and essence of the world around him--a world he perceived as phenomena constantly in flux. This book explores C zanne's oeuvre th ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Eve ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller is now available in Encore at a great low price.A small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, ...Show more
Flight or Fright by Stephen King; Cody Goodfellow; John Varley; Joe Hill; David Schow; Ray Bradbury; Roald Dahl; Peter Treemayne; James L. Dickey; Bev Vincent; Michael Lewis; Arthur Conan Doyle; Richard Matheson; Ambrose Bierce; E. c. Tubb; Tom Bissell; Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up ...Show more
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
Category: Politics
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the ...Show more
Handbook of Emotions 4ed by LISA BARRETT, MICHAEL LEWIS AND JEANNETTE HAVILAND
Category: Education
Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary by Richard J. Lewis Sr. (Editor); Robert A. Lewis; Michael D. Larrañaga (Editor)
Category: Reference
Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 15th Edition is a compilation of technical data and descriptive information covering thousands of chemicals and chemical phenomena, trade name products, processes, reactions, products, and related terminology. Updates and expands the coverage from the previous ed ...Show more
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-da ...Show more
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short by Michael Lewis
Category: Business | Series: Hodder Great Reads Ser.
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfir ...Show more
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Category: Sport | Series: Movie Tie-In Editions Ser.
This is The New York Times best-selling book behind the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opening this autumn, Moneyball is the story of the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt). He has an epiphany: all conventional baseball wisdom is wrong. ...Show more