100 Minds That Made the Market

100 Minds That Made the Market

Author: Kenneth L. Fisher

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-08-27

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0470175443

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Introducing the new Fisher Investment Series, comprised of engaging and informative titles written by renowned money manager and bestselling author Ken Fisher. This series offers essential insights into the worlds of investing and finance. Over the course of nearly two centuries, the innovations, mistakes, and scandals of different market participants have played an important role in shaping today's financial markets. Now, in 100 Minds That Made the Market, Ken Fisher delivers cameo biographies of these pioneers of American financial history. From Joe Kennedy's "sexcapades" to Jesse Livermore's suicide, this book details the drama, the dirt, and the financial principles of an amazingly inventive group of financial minds. Fisher digs deep to uncover the careers, personal lives, and contributions of these individuals, and leads you through the lessons that can be learned from each one. Here you have 100 of the best teachers -- some you already know, some you will feel you know, and some you may not have previously discovered -- whose experiences will undoubtedly enhance your understanding of the markets. With a few pages dedicated to each person, 100 Minds That Made the Market quickly captures the essence of the people and ideas that have influenced the evolution of the financial industry.


Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Author: Martin Amis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-01-26

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0307777790

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A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike


Empire of Ecstasy

Empire of Ecstasy

Author: Karl Eric Toepfer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780520206632

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"A massive achievement. . . . Toepfer respects the body, wants to understand movement as the primary medium of ideas, and gives women the central role they actually played in this aesthetic and intellectual discourse."Marcia B. Siegel, author of The Shapes of Change"


The Films of the Nineties

The Films of the Nineties

Author: W. Palmer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-03-02

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 023061955X

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By breaking down classic films from the nineteen-nineties such as Forest Gump and Titanic, this book offers a reel-to-reel cultural analysis, chronicling the concept of 'spin' as a major sociopolitical persuasion strategy.


A Language Older Than Words

A Language Older Than Words

Author: Derrick Jensen

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1603581820

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At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.


Lords of Finance

Lords of Finance

Author: Liaquat Ahamed

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9781594201820

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Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.


Radically Speaking

Radically Speaking

Author: Diane Bell

Publisher: Spinifex Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9781875559381

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The contributors to Radically Speaking show that a radical feminist analysis cuts across class, race, sexuality, region, religion and across the generations. It is essential reading for Women's Studies, sociology, cultural studies, and anyone interested in processes of social change. Thecollection reveals the global reach of radical feminism and analyze the causes and solutions to patriarchal oppression. Seventy writers discuss their ideas and practice of contemporary feminism.


The Old Boys

The Old Boys

Author: Burton Hersh

Publisher:

Published: 2001-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780971066014

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First published in 1992, THE OLD BOYS provoked fits up and down the intelligence corridors of Washington. The book provided details, according to the CIA's own in-house summation, "not available eslewhere." Documentation on the attempts by Allen Dulles in 1945 to cover for his Nazi buisness friends while furitively endeavoring to buy up the I.G. Farben remnants for himself and a few insiders. The news that CIA policy-makers, both in Germany and inside the Agency were demonstrably KGB plnats and the extent to which key figures around the CIA jumped off the planning staff before the Bay of Pigs is explored in wonderful detail in this book. This is the book that taught the CIA it's history.