Non-Fiction Book. — 1st Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0393343448, 978-0393343441. 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 to indulge....
Non-Fiction Book. — 1st Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 505 p. — ISBN: 9780393244663. In 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 — some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries — to investigate, expose, and reform the...
Non-Fiction Book. — 1st Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. — 4557 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-06740-8. 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-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur...
Non-Fiction Book. — 1st Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 579 p. — ISBN: 0393338827, 978-0393338829. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is about the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s. The Big Short describes several of the key players in the creation of the credit default swap market that sought to bet against the collateralized debt...
Non-Fiction Book. — 1st Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. — 4643 p. — ISBN: 0393330478, 978-0393330472. 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...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. — ISBN: 978-0-393-03037-2. National Bestseller. The classic warts-and-all portrait of the 1980s financial scene. The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment...
Non-Fiction Book. — 1st Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. — 590 p. — ISBN: 0393347818, 978-0393347814. The book focuses on the founder of several Silicon Valley companies, James H. Clark, and the entrepreneurial culture that dominated the area during the height of the Internet boom. It was named one of the best books of 1999 by BusinessWeek, Christian Science Monitor,...
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