Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises Charles P. Kindleberger
The best known and most highly regarded book on financial crises Financial crises and speculative excess can be traced back to the very beginning of trade and commerce. Since its introduction in 1978, this book has charted and followed this volatile...
The Mathematics of Poker Bill Chen, Jerrod Ankenman
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the bond an option markets were dominated by traders who had learned their craft by experience. They believed that there experience and intuition for trading were a renewable edge; this is, that they could make mon...
Memos From the Chairman Alan C. Greenberg
When he assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of Bear Stearns in 1978, Alan C. Greenberg found himself with the unenviable task of meeting —and surpassing —the rigorous leadership standards set by his legendary predecessor, Cy Lewis, "the ma...
Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that w...
Moby Dick Herman Melville
On board the whaling ship Pequod, a crew of wise men and fools, renegades, and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed captain hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. As the "great flood-gates of the wonder-world" sw...
Money: A Suicide Note Martin Amis
London Trilogy [1]: One of Time's 100 best novels in the English language—by the acclaimed author ofLionel Asbo: State of England and London FieldsPart of Martin Amis's “London Trilogy,” along with the novel London Fields andThe Information, Money wa...
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite Sebastian Mallaby
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge fund...
