Av författaren till THE BIG SHORT #1 på New York Times Bestsellerlista »Få har bättre koll på Wall Street än författaren Michael Lewis. Ingen annan amerikan jag känner till skriver åtminstone lika underhållande om pengar och makt.« | Jan Eklund, Dag…
Bästsäljaren bakom den Oscarsbelönade filmen!»Ingen skriver bättre om siffror och pengar än Michael Lewis.« | JAN GRADVALL, DI »Jag läser Lewis av samma skäl som jag tittar på Tiger Woods. Jag kommer aldrig att spela på samma nivå, men det är bra at…
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…
"Guaranteed to make blood boil." --Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together--…
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systemat…
In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in every way. But they were both obsessed with the human mind - and both happened to be geniuses. Together, they would change the way…
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 appea…
While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. This book tells the story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who,…
THE OUTRAGEOUS NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW AN OSCAR- AND BAFTA-WINNING FILM From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visi…
A brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. 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…
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 separa…
Explains how Billie Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is putting into play a new kind of thinking and ball playing with a compilation of statistics, locker room knowledge, and players rethinking what they know about playing baseba…
Explains how Billie Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is putting into play a new kind of thinking and ball playing where a compilation of statistics, locker room knowledge and players rethinking what they know about playing baseba…
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 I…
In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories--Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote…
"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…
It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time. After you learned the trick of it, all you had to do was pick up the phone and the money poure…
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 aspects of their characters they could not normally afford…
This accessible introduction to data analysis focuses on the interpretation of statistical results, in particular those which come from nonexperimental social research. It will provide social science researchers with the tools necessary to select an…
The best-selling author of Moneyball follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly paid players in the NFL…
When we first meet him, 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 fam…
The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of #1 bestsellers THE BIG SHORT and THE FIFTH RISK. __________ The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was cal…
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 a…
When developmental psychologists set forth the theory that the roots of adult psychopathology could be traced to childhood experience and behavior, the idea quickly took hold. Subsequently, as significant research in this area advanced during the pa…
Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this "masterpiece on the tyranny of love" (Independent, UK). "Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir's protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de f…
The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a "national treasure," this is a gripping first-hand account of the
Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read.A full-color paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is…
A modern resissue of a bestselling classic, by the author of Liar's Poker and Pacific Rift.
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 profes…
Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and un…
"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon 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 dem…
A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that prophesizes the coming of totalitarianism in the Unit…
Not afraid of interviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealing the treachery and deception behind some of the biggest financial deals ever made, in this book, Lewis provides a contemporary record of the ups and downs of the world's…
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the b…
Krav Maga, which means "contact combat" in Hebrew, is an easy-to-understand/remember aggressive system of self-defense. Idiot's Guides(R) Krav Maga will not only define what it is, but also review the principles and systems of techniques and trainin…
"Yo ho-ho-ho! Michael Lewis's sea-faring Santa tale is surely the best buried treasure you'll ever uncover! The Great Pirate Christmas Battle is so funny you'll shiver your timbers with laughter and clap your hands! Unless you have a hook for a hand…
Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical vi…
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TEACHING COLLOCATION provides further follow-up to THE LEXICAL APPROACH. It contains papers by a number of teachers and theoreticians interested in the practical classroom implications of incorporating collocation into everyday classroom teaching.
Beware, ye pilgrims, of the Knotty List crew! In the third book in the adventures of the Knotty List, Cap'n McNasty and his crew of roguish rapscallions don't have any plans for dinner. Not to worry, though, because from their ship, the crew spies a…
This title introduces the history and methods of Phenomenology through the study of four key thinkers: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. This book provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to the concept of phenomenology, perhaps…
Bästsäljaren bakom den Oscarsbelönade filmen! »Ingen skriver bättre om siffror och pengar än Michael Lewis.« | JAN GRADVALL, DI »Jag läser Lewis av samma skäl som jag tittar på Tiger Woods. Jag kommer aldrig att spela på samma nivå, men det är bra a…
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A wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how we go about choosing our leaders at the turn of the century. In it Michael Lewis brings to the political scene the same brilliance that distinguished his celebrated bes…
