Warren Buffett once memorably described derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction". Read this sensational and controversial account of the often dazzling business of derivatives trading, a…
Shelve Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”— The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY…
Shelve When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
First published in 1923, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever. Generations of readers have found that it has more to teach them about ma…
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair
The real story of the crash bega…
Shelve The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Movie Tie-in Editions)
A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought…
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wrigh…
The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow …
Shelve The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.
Bil…
Shelve Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
In 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and is rescued by Hassanali, a shopkeeper whose beautiful sister Rehana nurses Pearce back to he…
These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambigu…
Shelve Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: 4 Short Novels
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative…
Shelve Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Felice Lasco torna a Napoli, nel rione Sanità, dopo quarantacinque anni trascorsi fra Medio Oriente e Africa. La madre sta morendo e lui la accudisce fino all’ultimo con tardiva ma amorosa pazienza. P…
Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by tod…
Shelve Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined…
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His c…
Shelve Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. P…
" Winning the Loser's Game is considered by many to be a classic analysis of investing." Financial Planning The premise of the bestselling Winning the Loser's Game that individual investors can a…
Shelve Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing
From a seasoned insider of global finance comes a “stimulating, relevant, and dramatic” ( The Wall Street Journal ) thriller about a group of American operatives who secretly take over the world’s lar…
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough assignments--responsible for everything from parachuting into France early DDay morning to the captur…
Shelve Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially a…
Shelve Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (Essential Mike Davis)
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa is the story of Peter Godwin's experiences growing up in Rhodesia. He recounts the story of that country's violent transformation in…
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman,from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging colle…
Shelve The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
This is the first collection of the popular comic strip that features Calvin, a rambunctious 6-year-old boy, and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, who comes charmingly to life.
Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth hung…
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambigu…
Shelve We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, bei…
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece in an artfully designed box set. The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris …
Shelve The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #1-2)
