Liar s Poker

• Author : Michael Lewis
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 15 March 2010

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. 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-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of

• Author : Michel Collon
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 July 2022

The fundamental and strategic interests of Germany and the United States in controlling oil routes and key areas of the world are illuminated in this translation. Domination of Russia and China, the bombing of Yugoslavia, and a NATO-sanctioned war for control of the Balkans are speculated about and discussed as long-term goals of the so-called Great Powers. The media and its faulty coverage of similar events in the past is examined, giving the reader the tools necessary to weed through

• Author : Patricia Hogue Werhane
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 07 July 1999

Managers are not motivated only by greed, but applying moral principles to decision-making has not been a big success. The author argues that managers and their companies need a moral imagination which lets them be aware of, evaluate, and change the mental models that constrict business behaviour.

• Author : Michael Lewis
• Publisher : W. W. Norton
• Release : 27 October 2014

The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

• Author : Michael M. Lewis
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 July 1990

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 Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

• Author : Ian MacKenzie
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 30 May 2002

English for Business Studies is a course for upper-intermediate and advanced level students who need to understand and discuss business and economic concepts.

• Author : Gabriel Kim,Vault (Firm)
• Publisher : Vault Inc.
• Release : 07 July 2022

This guide includes step-by-step examples of how a trade is made on the trading floor, and Q & As with industry professionals of all levels.

• Author : Tim Donaghy
• Publisher : Clerisy Press
• Release : 09 June 2010

The media has often speculated and sports fans have debated, but until now no one has known the real story. Personal Foul takes an in-depth look at former NBA referee Tim Donaghy and the betting scandal that rocked professional basketball. This is the decisive book that reveals exactly what was done and how it all happened. Which games were affected and how? Did referees target particular players or teams? Just how much did the NBA know and when? How did

• Author : Linda Annette Hill
• Publisher : Harvard Business Press
• Release : 07 July 2022

Second Edition, Expanded to Include Fresh Insights and Practical Tools For New and Experienced Managers No book has captured the trials and traumas of the transition from star performer to competent manager better than Linda Hill's classicBecoming a Manager. In tracing and analyzing the experiences of nineteen new managers, Hill reveals the profound complexity and difficulty of the process of developing into a manager. In their own distinct voices, these managers describe how they reframed their understanding of their roles

• Author : Raymond P. Hutter
• Publisher : America Star Books
• Release : 02 July 2007

Business Class is a suspense thriller about a family man that travels frequently for business, and develops a thrill for killing people during his travels. Ryan Hunter grew up in a family of police officers and uses his upbringing and family experience to commit the perfect murders. Ryan commits his murders the night before he flies home, leaving the local authorities baffled with no clues, no leads and no suspects. Meanwhile, in New York City, a thirty-two-year veteran of the

• Author : Irene Finel-Honigman
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 16 October 2009

The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of 2008, like others since 1720, repeat the same patterns of enthusiasm, greed, culpability, revulsion, reform and recovery. The book explores the political and socio-economic factors which determine fallibility and resilience in financial cultures, periods of

• Author : Ray Miller
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 13 February 2006

"The Still Hog Theory" captures the life and times of Ray Miller who grew up in the rural South. He was born at the end of the Great Depression and the start of World War II. His vivid memory of events of early childhood allows him to portray what these events meant to real people. He tells of the many adventures of growing up far removed from modern conveniences. His childhood was spent around a mill complex consisting of a

• Author : Kevin M. McCarthy
• Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
• Release : 07 July 1992

"Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You

• Author : J. R. Moehringer
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 01 September 2005

Soon to be a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club. J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permament Subcommittee on Investigations
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 July 1962