Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Paperback - Michael Lewis

Reducere. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow ...

Reducere. DescriptionIcelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash...

From the author of Liar's Poker and The Big Short, this is the laugh-out-loud tale of Europe in meltdown, now in paperback. 'Michael Lewis's bravur...

From the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER comes the definitive 21st-century business storyP...

A founding text of transnational feminism For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the la...

Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his tra...

All of the color, gaiety, and charm of Burma springs to life with this master story-teller, despite the fact that at the time of his visit much of ...

Reducere. Completely revised edition of the ground-breaking travel writing book that provides a road map to success in the digital age. It dives headlong int...

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.

Reducere. Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown...

Reducere. An important resource for World Christianity, this long-anticipated revision to the classic text sheds new light on the Biblical concerns of tradit...

Reducere. A Major Study of One of the Twentieth Century's Darkest PeriodsUntil now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Ge...

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

Reducere. 'Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the wor...

From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Br...

The author of }Liar's Poker{ is on the trail of an astonishing story emerging from a secretive world of high finance, dodgy data and low morals. Th...

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 'bonfir...

Reducere. Over a half- century ago, Ashok, a shy 18-year old Indian student from Tanzania, a third world country in East Africa, goes to England with the gra...

In the latest fruit of a brilliant career, Michael Nagler argues that nonviolence--not just as a tactic but as a way of being--is the only way to u...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Many black neighborhoods in New Orleans are perceived by outsiders as being areas of decay. However, to photographer Michael P. Smith, in these nei...

Reducere. Disaster relief in Mexico. Sustainability classes in Bali. Desert camping in Morocco. English instruction in India. They're typical travel experien...

A black student is shot dead during a demonstration claiming "Beethoven Was Black" in Bonn's historic M nsterplatz with its majestic monument to th...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael LewisNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 22Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Once in a while a travel book comes along that pushes at the boundaries of the genre. Quondam: Travels in a Once World does exactly that, asking us...

An inspiring reminder of the great strength of twentieth century Communism in the Global South.

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times bestseller and People "Book of the Week" This hilarious, charming road trip through canine-loving America is "essential...

From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, this title tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionar...

In this rich and original photo book, Austrian photographer Michael Koenigshofer explores how lives are lived in the intense and extreme environmen...

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An exploration of the consequences of a lack of know-how and information among those democratically appointed to political posts, drawing attention...

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cyril ScottWritten as a sequel to THE INITIATE, the Pupil (as Scott called himself) reconnects with the master. He travels ...

In this now classic text, December Green and Laura Luehrmann show how history, economics, and politics converge to create the realities of life in ...

Reducere. "Guaranteed to make blood boil." --Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclast...

New York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted the...

Reducere. DescriptionWhere is home? What is home? For kids who are raised internationally, these are massive questions.The essays in Finding Home explore the...

Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Action Party's signature style of tec...

The illustrated diary of Japanese Navy floatplane pilot Warrant Officer Nemoto Kumesako, dating from the early months of the Pacific War, presented...

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Shares practical insights into the modern world trading system and the complexities that exist within. The book provides an invaluable framework fo...

The first people in the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. On a side of the planet no human had ever seen, different groups arrived fr...

Publisher: PM PressAuthor(s): Noam ChomskyNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

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Reducere. Evangelical scholarship has had over fifty years of extensive (and at times, heated) discussion over the usage of the Old Testament in New Testamen...

Reducere. John Haines spent the better part of two decades traveling the world: biking through Tibet, kayaking the length of the Niger River, taking the Tran...

The Cambridge Handbook of Environment in Human Development - Linda Mayes, Michael Lewis

Reducere. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions a...