Michael Lewis
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer...
Author
Language
English
Description
What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? "The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders the big Wall Street banks expose this institutionalized injustice and go to war to fix it.
10) Moneyball
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Language
English
Description
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is forced to rebuild his small-market team on a limited budget. Beane develops a roster of misfits and along the way, forever changes the way the game is played.
11) Moneyball
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
12) The blind side
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Rental ready.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...