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Results for 'michael lewis'
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The New Map
Energy, Climate, and the Clash of NationsThere are many ... stories in this wonderful book, all of them directed at the transformation of the global map of power and wealth that has happened in the 21st century. Don't waste your time on Boris or Trump, Covid or novichock, just read this to find out what is really happening.
€ 23,50 -
The Everything War
**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**'Riveting and explosive. This is the business story of our time.'Christopher Leonard, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kochland and The Lords of Easy Money'A hard-hitting analysis of Amazon's dominance. Makes a compelling case that no company should be this powerful.'Financial Times---From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, its pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary, and the growing efforts to stop it.For over twenty years, Amazon was the quintessential American success story, whilst its "customer obsession" approach made it indelibly attractive to consumers across the globe. But the company was not benevolent; it operated in ways that ensured it stayed on top, coming to dominate over a dozen industries beyond retail, growing voraciously by abusing data, exploiting partners, copying competitors, and avoiding taxes-leveraging its power to extract whatever it could, at any cost and without much scrutiny. Until now.With unparalleled access, and having interviewed hundreds of people - from Amazon executives to competitors to small businesses who rely on its marketplace to survive - Dana Mattioli exposes how Amazon was driven by a competitive edge to dominate every industry it entered, bulldozed all who stood in its way, reshaped the retail landscape, transformed how Wall Street evaluates companies, and altered the very nature of the global economy.In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed a monopoly lawsuit against Amazon in what may become one of the largest antitrust cases in the 21st century. As Amazon's supremacy is finally challenged, The Everything War is the definitive, inside story of how it grew into one of the most powerful and feared companies in the world - and why this is the most consequential business story of our times.Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2024, announced August 2024.
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Lords of Finance
1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the WorldTHIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War.
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Blockers
Rebels in the Deep StateMichael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
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Blockers
Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.
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Who Really Runs Ireland?
The story of the elite who led Ireland from bust to boom ... and back to bust againHaving money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it ... this is the story of Ireland during the boom described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper identifies the most influential people in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era describes how they interacted with each other to mutual benefit and reveals who were the few to retain their power amid the debris arising from the bursting of the Irish economic bubble. 'Highly accessible and akin to a good thriller ... fascinating ... compelling' Sunday Tribune'Hugely entertaining as well as instructive' Irish Independent'Impressive and eminently readable' Irish Times'An eye-opener ... you might be driven to tears of rage' David McCullagh RTE'The detail is riveting ... and a lot of it illuminating'Irish Examiner'The scale of Cooper's research is highly impressive ... an in-depth reference guide to folly and hubris' Sunday Business Post'Complex but surprisingly reader-friendly ... a rattling and frequently horrifying read' Hot Press'Superbly readable and insightful ... a must-have' Irish Mail on Sunday
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Killing Giants
Killing Giants unveils practical strategies for overtaking larger competitors in any market looking at companies like that started out small but quickly dominated by using their opponents' size to their advantage. Baidu has beaten Google at search in China and the Boston Beer Company took on Budweiser with Sam Adams Boston Lager.Stephen Denny shows how even behemoths like Nike and Coca Cola are susceptible to small even tiny competitors because of their size. Using a range of fresh case studies he explains how by taking a fresh approach you can carve out a larger chunk of any marketplace.
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A Grand Unified Theory
This book is an intellectual provocation that refuses to accept the convenient placeholders of mainstream physics-randomness, dark matter, and dark energy-as final answers. Instead, it demands rigorous scrutiny, fresh questions, and a relentless search for the underlying mechanisms that govern reality.At its heart, the manuscript challenges the foundational assumptions about gravity, time, entropy, and quantum uncertainty. It rejects the idea that these phenomena are mysterious black boxes or simply given facts, proposing instead that they emerge from deeper, measurable processes. Gravity, for example, is recast not as an abstract force or simple curvature of spacetime but as an emergent effect of trillions of tiny, directional alignments at the atomic and subatomic scale-a sum of micro-movements rather than a monolithic pull.The book exposes the scientific community's over-reliance on "dark" entities to patch holes in models. It argues that dark matter and dark energy remain unproven hypotheses used to fill gaps in data rather than genuine discoveries. This skepticism is paired with a call for experimental rigor: unless these "ghost" phenomena can be observed, measured, and manipulated in controlled settings, they remain unscientific assumptions.Central to the work is the insistence that randomness is often a mask for hidden order. The manuscript confronts the common use of randomness in physics and information theory as a fallback when theory falters, pushing instead for a view of the universe as lawful at every level. Quantum phenomena, long considered intrinsically uncertain, are reinterpreted as the product of field interference, curvature effects, or undiscovered correlations rather than true randomness.Entropy is reframed from a vague notion of disorder to a measurable curvature in state-space, something that can, in principle, be tracked, understood, and even engineered. This approach integrates thermodynamics, information theory, and geometry into a unified conceptual framework.The work also explores the role of angular momentum and rotation as fundamental drivers-not mere consequences-of cosmic structure, particle creation, and gravitational effects. Instead of treating these as secondary, the book suggests that these dynamics might be the missing link to explaining anomalies in galaxy formation, quantum coherence, and even large-scale cosmological expansion.In computation and information, the manuscript sees every logical operation as a physical event involving real energy shifts and curvature changes. This outlook collapses the divide between abstract math and physical reality, viewing computation, AI, and consciousness as emergent properties of energy-driven, field-connected systems.The narrative doesn't shy away from the struggle of inquiry. Early chapters show a raw, confessional style revealing the author's journey through doubt, confusion, and stubborn determination. Later chapters sharpen arguments and mathematical models, culminating not in tidy conclusions but in deliberate unfinished business. The final chapter challenges readers to test, attack, and try to break the new framework-because truth emerges from struggle, not from received wisdom.Finally, the book pays homage to the overlooked genius of Emmy Noether, whose work on symmetry and conservation provides a crucial foundation for rethinking the laws of physics. Her theorem guides the approach: every law is provisional, grounded in symmetry and invariance, and must be rigorously tested and revised.
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Il quinto rischio
Dopo le elezioni del 2016, i dipendenti del dipartimento dell'Energia degli Stati Uniti - luogo chiave per l'economia e la sicurezza - sono andati al lavoro incerti su cosa aspettarsi dalla nuova leadership. Hanno atteso a lungo, ma nessuno si è presentato. Quando le amministrazioni precedenti avevano già decretato le 'top ten people' a capo del dipartimento sistemando gran parte dei dipendenti negli uffici, Trump ne aveva nominate tre, mostrando disinteresse e disinformazione. Nella lista stilata da John MacWilliams (il primo 'chief risk officer' del dipartimento) sui principali rischi nazionali per gli Stati Uniti, il più pericoloso si è rivelato il «quinto rischio»: quello che corre una società impreparata, che minimizza i problemi e risponde con soluzioni precarie alle questioni di lungo termine. Questo saggio non è soltanto il ritratto del presidente Trump e del suo entourage. È anche un richiamo generale alle necessità di competenza e senso dello Stato nell'ambito della pubblica amministrazione.
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Flight From Prague
A true story of courage, exile and the making of a refugee in the shadow of World War Two On the night of 30 September 1938, as German troops cross the border into Czechoslovakia, Jewish businessman Harry Lewy has only hours to decide: stay and risk persecution, or leave behind everything he knows. What follows is a perilous journey from the Sudetenland across Nazi Germany and war‑torn Europe, in search of safety and a future that is far from guaranteed. In Flight From Prague, Harry's son Michael Lewis reconstructs Harry’s flight and the fragile new life he builds in Belfast, drawing on family memories, interviews, letters and archival records. This deeply researched non‑fiction narrative brings to life the tramlines and stations of Central Europe, the quiet terror of border crossings, and the small acts of kindness that keep hope alive. As Harry rebuilds his world in a foreign country – later reunited with his childhood sweetheart, dancer and Holocaust survivor Helen Lewis (née Helena Katz) – he must come to terms with what has been lost and what it means to be labelled a “refugee” forever. Elegant and unsentimental, Flight From Prague is both an intimate Jewish refugee memoir and a vivid work of World War Two history, inviting us to see beyond statistics and categories to the singular human being behind each journey. Perfect for readers who enjoy: True stories from World War Two and European history Jewish biography and Holocaust non‑fiction that centre individual lives Literary narrative non‑fiction in the tradition of family memoir Thought‑provoking books that illuminate today’s refugee and migration crises For book clubs, students of modern history, and anyone drawn to powerful true stories of escape, resilience and moral courage, Flight From Prague offers an unforgettable journey from fear towards a new life. Reviews Michael Lewis captures perfectly the mix of terror, determination and sheer exhaustion that his Jewish father experienced as he fled for his life from his Czechoslovakian homeland, eventually crossing Nazi Germany to safety in Belfast shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. While it is the unique story of one refugee who loses everything, risks everything and starts again in a foreign country, it will surely help us understand better the plight of those who continue to make such perilous journeys in our own time, and perhaps deepen our compassion for them as well. The Revd Canon Dr Alan Billings Harry’s story is richly informative about historical events that should never be forgotten. At the same time, its human details engage our current predicament. It narrates an individual as we hope they would be treated in law and policy – not labelled as ‘refugee’, ‘asylum seeker’ or ‘migrant’, but recognised as a person with dignity, needs and rights. John Birtwhistle
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House of Huawei
'Explosive' Sunday Times'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang'Riveting, robustly researched' TLS'Essential reading' Chris Miller, author of Chip WarOn the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world's most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies' female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the U.S.-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the international spotlight.In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei's reclusive founder Ren Zhengfei and how he built a sprawling corporate empire - one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting. The book dissects the global web of power, money, influence, surveillance, bloodshed and national glory that Huawei helped to build - and that has also ensnared it.
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Who is Government?
Who works for the government and why does their work matter? Michael Lewis, bestselling author of The Big Short and The Fifth Risk, along with an all-star team of writers and storytellers, takes us on a riveting journey into a hidden world 'A timely reminder of the quiet dedication and skill of the people who work every day to make this country work' - Barack Obama, President Obama's 2025 Summer ReadsThe government is a vast, complex system that citizens pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It's also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it's made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone.Michael Lewis invited his favourite writers to find someone doing an interesting job for the government and write about them. The stories they found are unexpected, riveting, and inspiring, including a former coal miner devoted to making mine roofs less likely to collapse, saving thousands of lives; an IRS agent straight out of a crime thriller; and the manager who made the National Cemetery Administration the best-run organization, public or private, in the entire country. Each essay shines a spotlight on the essential behind-the-scenes work of exemplary federal employees.Whether they're digitizing archives, chasing down cybercriminals, or discovering new planets, these public servants are committed to their work and universally reluctant to take credit. Who is Government? shows how the essential business of government makes our lives possible, and how much it matters.
€ 31,50