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Boomerang: The Biggest Bust by Michael Lewis
$26.00 NZD
Category: Business
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to p ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller is now available in Encore at a great low price.A small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Eve ...Show more
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
$59.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the ...Show more
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business | Series: Hodder Great Reads Ser.
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfir ...Show more
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
$33.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in Baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-bedget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. The ...Show more
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sport general | Series: Movie Tie-In Editions Ser.
This is The New York Times best-selling book behind the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opening this autumn, Moneyball is the story of the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt). He has an epiphany: all conventional baseball wisdom is wrong. ...Show more
New New Thing by Lewis Michael
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category
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 ...Show more
Panic : The story of modern financial insanity by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
Edited by the bestselling author of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis, "Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity" gives us a completely new insight into how markets really operate - and who really knows what they're talking about. From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$32.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$33.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their ...Show more
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
When we first meet Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter ...Show more