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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
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Michael Lewis
The young man at the centre of this 'compelling book' ("The Economist") will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When Michael Lewis introduces him to the reader, he is one of thirteen children by a crack-addicted mother; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday or any of the things a ...
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
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Michael Lewis
In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper.
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Michael Lewis
In major league baseball the biggest wallet is supposed to win: rich teams spend four times as much on talent as poor teams. However, over the past four years, the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the best records. Last year, their superstar, Jason Giambi, went to the superrich Yankees. It hasn't ...
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
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Michael Lewis
"There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand at a crucial point in the ...
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
In his autobiography, John Lewis looks back at his life and his role in the American civil rights movement. He describes his childhood in rural Alabama and his memories of the struggle: from the demonstrations in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham to the Freedom Rides, the march on Washington, and the death of the movement's most charismatic leader ...
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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
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Michael Lewis, Dan John Miller (Read by)
The bestselling author of "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side" offers a perfectly frank and mercilessly funny account of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his three children.
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Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
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Michael Lewis (Editor)
The author of "Liar's Poker" and "Moneyball" guides readers through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history. Lewis describes the market factors leading up to each event, shows what people thought was happening, and analyzes what actually happened.
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The American Voter Revisited
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Dr. Michael S Lewis-Beck (Editor), Helmut Norpoth (Editor), William G Jacoby (Editor)
The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious and polarizing political events in American history.In an attempt to understand what happened during these historic elections, "The American Voter Revisited" recreates the outstanding classic from 1960, "The American Voter", following the same format, ...
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Community Counseling: Empowerment Strategies for a Diverse Society
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Judith A Lewis, Dr. Michael D Lewis, Judy A Daniels
This text gives a thorough revision that clearly describes and illustrates the practice of community counseling by discussing the most current issues and practices for community work in the 21st century.
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Applied Regression: An Introduction
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Dr. Michael S Lewis-Beck
Applied regression allows social scientists who are not specialists in quantitative techniques to arrive at clear verbal explanations of their numerical results. Provides a lucid discussion of more specialized subjects: analysis of residuals, interaction effects, specification error, multicollinearity, standardized coefficients, and dummy ...
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Brewing
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Michael Lewis, Tom W Young
Brewing is designed for those involved in the malting, brewing, and allied industries who have little or no formal training in brewing science. While some elementary knowledge of chemistry and biology is necessary, the book clearly presents the essentials of brewing science and its relationship to brewing technology. "Brewing" focuses on the ...
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Liar's Poker
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Michael Lewis
What does it take to make it in the high-stress, ethically-questionable world of junk bond selling? Lewis's account of life from his tenure at Salomon Brothers provides a humorous and candid profile of 1980s cutthroat business. LIAR'S POKER airs all the bad laundry of this once powerful brokerage house as it slowly collapses under the weight of ...
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Management of Human Service Programs
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Judith A Lewis
Master management and leadership with MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE PROGRAMS. Practical and easy to use, this human services text provides important guidelines for working within agencies that every manager of administrator needs to know. Every chapter includes a case example with reflection questions to help you view the issues in action and to ...
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Moneyball
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Michael Lewis (Read by)
Michael Lewis, the noted author of LIAR'S POKER and THE NEW NEW THING, examines the financial philosophy that Billy Beane, GM for the Oakland Athletics, has made famous. MONEYBALL explores how the A's, a perennial favorite, can outplay teams that spend twice as much on players' salaries, and what the thinking is behind their success. The story of ...
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The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
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Professor Michael Lewis (Editor)
In his "New York Times" bestsellers "Liar's Poker", and "Moneyball", Michael Lewis gave us an unprecedented look at what goes on behind the scenes on Wall Street. Now he takes us back across the centuries to explore the four classics that created and defined not just Wall Street, but the entire economic system we live under today. Brought together ...
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The Money Culture
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Michael Lewis
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 "bonfire of the vanities". Not afraid of interviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealing the treachery and deception behind some of the biggest financial deals ever made, the author provides ...
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Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind
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Michael J Lewis
Frank Furness's energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full- throated love of life vibrate in his architecture. This biography details his abolitionist upbringing, probes the horror of war and its translation into aggressive architecture. Contains 200 b/w illustrations.
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Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, Grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House
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Michael Lewis
A wickedly funny and astute chronicle and commentary on the U. S. presidential contest of 1996. The book is based on reports published first in "The New Republic", beginning with the primaries and ending with Bob Dole's defeat.
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Making a Nation: The United States and Its People
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Jeanne Boydston, Jan Lewis, Michael McGerr
For Introduction to U.S. History courses. Challenging students to get behind the facts, Making a Nation focuses on the relationships that shape and define human identity--cultural, race, gender, class and sectional relations--and recognizes the importance of such traditional fields as politics and diplomacy. The text shows that politics and the ...
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Guantanamo: What the World Should Know
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Michael Ratner, Anthony Lewis, Ellen Ray
In the months following its initial release, "Guantnamo: What the World Should Know" has proved to be a disturbingly accurate account of the Bush administration's tangle with civil liberties and torture. Written by Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights President and co-consul on the case of Rasul v. Bush)and Ellen Ray (Institute for ...
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who now aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his new ...
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Making a Nation: The United States and Its People, Volume I
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Jeanne Boydston, Jan Lewis, Michael McGerr
Taking political economy as its organizing theme, "Making A Nation" offers an intellectual focus to history that is sensitive to the recent innovations in women's history and environmental history. The book focuses on the relationships that shape and define human identity--cultural, diplomatic, race, gender, class and sectional relations-- and ...
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Losers: The Road to Everyplace But the White House
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A wickedly funny and astute chronicle and commentary on the U. S. presidential contest of 1996. The book is based on reports published first in "The New Republic", beginning with the primaries and ending with Bob Dole's defeat.
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The Best American Sports Writing
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Glenn Stout (Editor), Michael Lewis (Editor)
With Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Cramer at its helm, this collection brings together the best writing on sports from the past year. Not just for readers of the sports pages, this year's selections embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement.
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The New, New Thing
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Michael Lewis
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape--and now Healtheon, a startup which he hopes will turn ...
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