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Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007-08-28
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0393330478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStory of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.
Author: Michael Oher
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1101560037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1324002654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times Bestseller, with a new afterword "[Michael Lewis’s] most ambitious and important book." —Joe Klein, New York Times Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative of the Trump administration’s botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed. The government manages a vast array of critical services that keep us safe and underpin our lives from ensuring the safety of our food and drugs and predicting extreme weather events to tracking and locating black market uranium before the terrorists do. The Fifth Risk masterfully and vividly unspools the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works.
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-03-02
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 039333869X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: H. G. Bissinger
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0306824221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, Pulitzer Prize winner H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires -- and sometimes shatters -- the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. The inspiration for the hit television program and film of the same name, this anniversary edition features a new afterword by the author.
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-03-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0393066231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers?numbers!?collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0393881563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. 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 visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.
Author: Milkyway Media
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Published: 2024-03-01
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Lewis's The Blind Side In The Blind Side (2009), journalist Michael Lewis tells the story of Michael Oher, who rose from poverty to NFL stardom. He focuses on the transformative role of his adoptive family, the Tuohys, whose love and support helped Michael overcome many challenges stemming from racial and social inequalities. Through Michael’s story, Lewis sheds light on broader systemic social issues, emphasizing the importance of providing opportunities for kids like Michael. The Blind Side, first published in 2006, was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie in 2009.
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-05-17
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 039306624X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."—BusinessWeek With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods are crumbling. In the new order, the amateur is king: fourteen-year-olds manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Unseen forces undermine all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. With a new afterword by the author.
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Published: 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The quarterback of the Washington Redskins, Joe Theismann, turns and hands the ball to running back John Riggins. It’s what most people know as a flea-flicker, but the Redskins call it a throw back special. #2 The game of football evolved because of the arrival of Lawrence Taylor. He alone changed the environment around him and forced opposing coaches and players to adapt. #3 The New York Giants were scouring the country for young men six three or taller and 240 pounds or heavier with speed. They could be found. In that pool of physical specimens what was precious was Lawrence Taylor’s energy and mind: relentless, manic, with grandiose ambitions and private standards of performance. #4 Parcells believed that Taylor’s greatness was an act of will, a refusal to allow the world to understand him as anything less than great. He responded to anything that threatened his status.
