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The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller "Liar's Poker" exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Category: History
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: Sports and Hobbies | 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 Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Category: Fiction
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 and write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces ...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: Business, Economics and Law
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
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
Category: Business, Economics and Law
"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 Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
Category: Business Finance Management
An investigation of how new technology affects our lives. This book explores how digital technology and the Internet has changed the way we live. It argues that not only do we have the easiest access to more information than ever before, but that this has changed our attitudes to life.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Michael (NRT) C. S.; York Lewis
Category: Fiction | Series: The Chronicles of Narnia
The Money Culture by Michael Lewis
Category: Business, Economics and Law
While Michael Lewis worked as a bond dealer at Salomon Brothers he began his second career as a journalist and helped to record a real-life 'bonfire of the vanities'. Not afraid of interviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealing the treachery and deception behind some of the biggest f ...Show more
The New New Thing: How Silicon Valley Defines the Ways We Think and Live as We Enter a New Century by Michael Lewis
Category: Business
The author of this book sets out to find the most important technology entrepreneur. He finds Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who aims to turn the healthcare industry around with his new project.