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Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1101201401

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • One of the Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year • Time's 10 Best Books of the Year • USA Today's Nonfiction Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book "Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The best account yet of the entire war." —Vanity Fair The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq Fiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq through mid-2006, now with a postscript on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account—explosive, shocking, and authoritative—of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders.

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : HMH
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544080106

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“A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel” from the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris (The New York Times). The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth’s excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first contact with an alien civilization, and to use the expansive space technology developed by humanity to seek new worlds, friendships, and alliances. But what its crew discovers on the planet Quinta is nothing like they had hoped. Locked in a seemingly endless cold war among themselves, the Quintans are uncommunicative and violent, refusing any discourse—except for the firing of deadly weapons. The crew of the Hermes is determined to accomplish what they had set out to do. But the cost of learning the secrets hidden on the silent surface of Quinta may be grave. Stark, startling, and insightful, Fiasco has been praised by Publishers Weekly as “one of Lem’s best novels.” It is classic, thought-provoking hard science fiction, as prescient today as when it was first written.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Derivative securities
ISBN : 0393336816

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In this behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's top Wall Street investment firms, Partnoy recounts his experience during the annual drunken skeet-shooting competition where he and his colleagues sharpen the killer instincts they're encouraged to use against competitors, clients, and each other.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0140278796

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FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't understand them. In his behind-the-scenes look at the trading floor and the offices of one of the world's top investment firms, Partnoy recounts the macho attitudes and fiercely competitive ploys of his office mates. And he takes us to the annual drunken skeet-shooting competition, FIASCO, where he and his colleagues sharpen the killer instincts they are encouraged to use against their competitiors, their clients, and each other. FIASCO is the first book to take on the derivatves trading industry, the most highly charged and risky sector of the stock market. More importantly, it is a blistering indictment of the largely unregulated market in derivatives and serves as a warning to unwary investors about real fiascos, which have cost billions of dollars.

Author : Ann Whitford Paul
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1430130024

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"Brian and Rosi Amador perform the story with energy and a smile, giving distinct voices to each character and presenting the Spanish-language words (nicely defined in the text and in an accompanying glossary) with brío. Light original music with a Mexican flavor dances in the background. A delightful production." -School Library Journal

Author : James Robert Parish
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2008-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0470358645

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A longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years, such as Cleopatra, The Cotton Club, and Waterworld. He recounts, in every gory detail, how enormous hubris, unbridled ambition, artistic hauteur, and bad business sense on the parts of Tinsel Town wheeler-dealers and superstars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Clint Eastwood, and Francis Ford Coppola, conspired to engender some of the worst films ever.

Author : Imre Kertész
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612193293

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Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Fiasco as Imre Kertesz himself has said, "is fiction founded on reality"—a Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forced into the army and assigned to escort military prisoners, the protagonist decides to feign insanity to be released from duty. But meanwhile, life under the new regime is portrayed almost as an uninterrupted continuation of life in the Nazi concentration camps-which, in turn, is depicted as a continuation of the patriarchal dictatorship of joyless childhood. It is, in short, a searing extension of Kertesz' fundamental theme: the totalitarian experience seen as trauma not only for an individual but for the whole civilization—ours—that made Auschwitz possible.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847651461

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Frank Partnoy, a former high-flying derivatives salesman, gives a vivid and shocking account of the vicious competition, raw machismo and dirty tricks at work in the riskiest sector of the stock market. Billions of dollars worth of securities are traded - and lost - in this amazing arena. Derivatives trading has also played a huge part in the global credit crunch that is the biggest story in the world today. This edition includes a sensational new chapter covering this, and all the other latest scandals.

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484726365

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Four friends. Three cookies. One problem. Hippo, Croc, and the Squirrels are determined to have equal cookies for all! But how? There are only three cookies . . . and four of them! They need to act fast before nervous Hippo breaks all the cookies into crumbs!

Author : AAKANSHA BHARGAVA
Publisher : WHERE INDIA WRITES PUBLICATION
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Fiasco, Bravo International World Record Holder book is a collection of quotes, poetries and short stories and all the co-authors from all over India framed their write-ups within 100 words about failure. Each writer have penned down their views in such a way that you'll feel empowered, happy and also experience the impact of words. Fiasco teaches a lesson to each and everyone about not letting oneself fade or vanished when continue failure chases you, you can change direction of sail to float flawlessly and to debug yourself from the ultimate failure.