Lewis, Michael:Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
- eerste uitgave 2013, ISBN: 9780141042312
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NY: St. Martin's Press, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5". 309 pgs. 1st Printing. White cloth boards w/red metallic letters on spine. Jacke… Meer...
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5". 309 pgs. 1st Printing. White cloth boards w/red metallic letters on spine. Jacket design and illustration by Phil Pascuzzo. Photo of Janet Evanovich by Roland Scarpa. Photo of Dorien Kelly by Marti Corn Photography. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library,& unclipped. PON whited-out on first fly paper. From The New York Times bestselling writing duo Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, comes the story of a young woman's search for true love. Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother, Eddie, and his friend, Jack Culhane, on their adventures. While Jack and Eddie are off seeing the world, buying up businesses and building wildly successful careers, Caroline's stuck at home frightening off the men her mother hopes will ask for her hand in marriage. When her mother sets her sights on the questionable Lord Bremerton as a possible suitor, Caroline struggles with her instincts and the true nature of her heart. She longs for adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane, an unconventional Irish-American bachelor with new money and no title. A completely unacceptable suitor in the eyes of Caroline's mother. But Caroline's dark hair, brilliant eyes and quick wit have Jack understanding just why it is people fall in love and get married. Set in New York City in 1894, The Husband List is an American gilded age romantic mystery. It evokes memories of the lavish lifestyles and social expectations of the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers a time when new money from the Americas married Old World social prestige and privilege. Dresses by Worth, transcontinental ocean voyages, lavish parties, a little intrigue, and a lot of romance await in, The Husband List.. Goodreads 3.57., St. Martin's Press, 2013, 4, New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x7. First printing. Front cover lightly creased. 2011 Trade Paperback. xii, 766 pp. "Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain “Colonel Roosevelt,†he was hailed as the most famous man in the world. Crowned heads vied to put him up in their palaces. “If I see another king,†he joked, “I think I shall bite him.†Had TR won his historic “Bull Moose†campaign in 1912 (when he outpolled the sitting president, William Howard Taft), he might have averted World War I, so great was his international influence. Had he not died in 1919, at the early age of sixty, he would unquestionably have been reelected to a third term in the White House and completed the work he began in 1901 of establishing the United States as a model democracy, militarily strong and socially just. This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, is itself the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, it recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin's bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine' Colonel Roosevelt begins with a prologue recounting what TR called his “journey into the Pleistoceneâ€â€”a yearlong safari through East Africa, collecting specimens for the Smithsonian. Some readers will be repulsed by TR's bloodlust, which this book does not prettify, yet there can be no denying that the Colonel passionately loved and understood every living thing that came his way: The text is rich in quotations from his marvelous nature writing. Although TR intended to remain out of politics when he returned home in 1910, a fateful decision that spring drew him back into public life. By the end of the summer, in his famous “New Nationalism†speech, he was the guiding spirit of the Progressive movement, which inspired much of the social agenda of the future New Deal. (TR's fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt acknowledged that debt, adding that the Colonel “was the greatest man I ever knew.â€) Then follows a detailed account of TR's reluctant yet almost successful campaign for the White House in 1912. But unlike other biographers, Edmund Morris does not treat TR mainly as a politician. This volume gives as much consideration to TR's literary achievements and epic expedition to Brazil in 1913–1914 as to his fatherhood of six astonishingly different children, his spiritual and aesthetic beliefs, and his eager embrace of other cultures—from Arab and Magyar to German and American Indian. It is impossible to read Colonel Roosevelt and not be awed by the man's universality. The Colonel himself remarked, “I have enjoyed life as much as any nine men I know.†Morris does not hesitate, however, to show how pathologically TR turned upon those who inherited the power he craved—the hapless Taft, the adroit Woodrow Wilson. When Wilson declined to bring the United States into World War I in 1915 and 1916, the Colonel blasted him with some of the worst abuse ever uttered by a former chief executive. Yet even Wilson had to admit that behind the Rooseveltian will to rule lay a winning idealism and decency. “He is just like a big boy—there is a sweetness about him that you can't resist.†That makes the story of TR's last year, when the “boy†in him died, all the sadder in the telling: the conclusion of a life of Aristotelian grandeur., Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011, 4, Baton Rogue. 1992. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Slight Water Stain to Side Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807117781. Translated from the Icelandic by Alan Boucher. 224 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration - ‘Vetrarskogur’ (Winter forest) by Jon Reykdal, 1990. keywords: Literature Iceland Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The twelve stories collected here in THE STARS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, the first comprehensive sampling of Sigurdsson's writing available in English, were published in Iceland over a period of some thirty-five years and provide an excellent introduction to his fiction. They embrace a range of emotions and experiences, from the innocence of childhood in the isolation of the countryside, to the loneliness of life in a growing town, to the frustrations of old age. In ‘The Changing Earth,' the effects of the revolving seasons on the Icelandic countryside form a backdrop to the coming-of-age of a farm youth who experiences first disillusionment and then a new sense of freedom as he matures and begins to appreciate the nature of love. ‘Pastor Bodvar's Letter,' offers an ironic portrait of an aging, largely content man who, as he nears the end of his days, must come to terms with his life's disappointments. Many of the stories, particularly those told from the point of view of children, have the quality of fables. In the title story a boy is seduced by the boundless possibilities of a more exotic world represented by the trinkets proffered by a pair of wayfarers. In another, a child, inspired by an itinerant carpenter who has come to work at his family's farm, dreams of building a pyramid. Other stories are concerned with the fragility of human connections in an ever more impersonal society. In ‘The Hand' a solitary man and an old woman, lodgers in the same house, forge a tentative yet important bond. In ‘The Blind Boy' a composer, unable to complete his commissions, nonetheless is able to create beautiful music that soothes a sightless child. inventory #47104 ISBN: 0807117781., 0, UK: Penguin, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very clean copy which feels unread. #1 Bestselling Author of Liar's Poker guides us through the mayhem From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-too-soon forgotten. In this unique collection of articles Michael Lewis - ex-trader and bestselling chronicler of greed and frenzy in the markets - casts a sceptical eye back over the most panicked-about panics of recent decades. He tells a story of boom and bust, deranged greed, outsized egos and over-inflated salaries, where the only thing that can ever be predicted is our constant inability to predict anything. Using contemporary accounts from commentators such as Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman, plus many of his own best writings, Michael Lewis gives us a completely new insight into how markets really operate - and who really knows what they're talking about., Penguin, 2008, 4<
