-Titulo Original : Iwoz Computer Geek To Cult Icon How I Invented The Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple, And Had Fun Doing It-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “‘The Woz’ built the first [personal computer] by hand, by himself.” USA Today Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, with cryptic switches and pages of encoded output. But in 1977 Steve Wozniak revolutionized the computer industry with his invention of the first personal computer. As the sole inventor of the Apple I and II computers, Wozniak has enjoyed wealth, fame, and the most coveted awards an engineer can receive, and he tells his story here for the first time. Review Every engineer-and certainly every engineering student-should read this book….It is, in a nutshell, the engineers manifesto. -- Guy Kawasaki, author of The Macintosh WayEveryone should enjoy Wozs very personal and engaging story….What a wild ride! -- Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of Singularity Is NearWorth waiting for…adds intriguing new information to the history of the origins of the personal computer revolution. -- Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs About the Author Steve Wozniak has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Technology and the Heinz Award. He lives in California...

-Titulo Original : Knitting Yarns Writers On Knitting-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Ingenious…Could it be that writers who knit are the cleverest people in the world? Philadelphia InquirerOtherwise normal-seeming writers come out as knitters in the infinitely crafty anthology Knitting Yarns. How hot is that? Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair[In Knitting Yarns] knitting and literature pair up in a spectacular way. Vogue KnittingA seamless collection of essays that explores the agony and ecstasy of ‘knitting yarns’ on the needles as well as on the page…Knitting Yarns is a little community of its own where its writers speak the language of knitters. Minneapolis Star TribunePoignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike. Book ReporterWhile tracing the magic of knitting, these funny, honest, and moving essays turn out to be quite magical themselves. Publishers Weekly In this lovely anthology, Sue Grafton, Barbara Kingsolver, and other authors go public with their passion for knitting. People (four stars)The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters…These essays will break your heart. They will have you laughing out loud. Ann Hood, from the introductionWhy does knitting occupy a place in the hearts of so many writers? What’s so magical and transformative about yarn and needles? How does knitting help us get through life-changing events and inspire joy? In Knitting Yarns, twenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow. Barbara Kingsolver describes sheering a sheep for yarn. Elizabeth Berg writes about her frustration at failing to knit. Ann Patchett traces her life through her knitting, writing about the scarf that knits together the women she’s loved and lost. Knitting a Christmas gift for his blind aunt helped Andre Dubus III knit an understanding with his girlfriend. Kaylie Jones finds the woman who used knitting to help raise her in France and heals old wounds. Sue Grafton writes about her passion for knitting. Also included are five original knitting patterns created by Helen Bingham.Poignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike. About the Author Ann Hood is the author of the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Obituary Writer, and The Knitting Circle, and the memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. Her most recent books are the memoirs Fly Girl A Memoir and Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City...

-Titulo Original : The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written By Himself (norton Critical Editions)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition. It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. Contexts provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. Criticism includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards, Charles T. Davis, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Angelo Costanzo, Catherine Obianju Acholonu, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Geraldine Murphy, Adam Potkay, and Robert J. Allison. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. Illustrations, maps About the Author Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and African American Studies at Harvard University. He previously taught at Columbia University, the Free University of Berlin, and the Universita degli Studi di Venezia. He is the author of Ethnic Modernism, Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture, and Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones: The Quest for a “Populist Modernism.” His edited works include A New Literary History of America (with Greil Marcus), African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (with Glenda R. Carpio), The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations (with Marc Shell), Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America, The Return of Thematic Criticism, Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader, The Invention of Ethnicity, and the Norton Critical edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself...

-Titulo Original : Losing The Nobel Prize A Story Of Cosmology, Ambition, And The Perils Of Sciences Highest Honor-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: About the Author Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; a Fellow of the American Physical Society; a commercially rated pilot; and the director of the Simons Observatory. He received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his work on BICEP. He lives with his family in La Jolla, California. A Forbes, Physics Today, Science News, and Science Friday Best Science Book Of 2018 The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize.What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they’d glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement broadcast live from Harvard University, immediately igniting rumors of an imminent Nobel Prize. But had these cosmologists truly read the cosmic prologue or, swept up in Nobel dreams, had they been deceived by a galactic mirage?In Losing the Nobel Prize, cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Brian Keating tells the inside story of BICEP2’s mesmerizing discovery and the scientific drama that ensued. In an adventure story that spans the globe from Rhode Island to the South Pole, from California to Chile, Keating takes us on a personal journey of revelation and discovery, bringing to vivid life the highly competitive, take-no-prisoners, publish-or-perish world of modern science. Along the way, he provocatively argues that the Nobel Prize, instead of advancing scientific progress, may actually hamper it, encouraging speed and greed while punishing collaboration and bold innovation. In a thoughtful reappraisal of the wishes of Alfred Nobel, Keating offers practical solutions for reforming the prize, providing a vision of a scientific future in which cosmologists may, finally, be able to see all the way back to the very beginning. Review “A riveting account of the rise and fall of the seeming confirmation of the cosmological theory of inflation... Keating offers vivid profiles of the personalities involved in shaping our modern view of the universe.”- Science“Losing the Nobel Prize dissects the error-prone humanity of science, but cuts the ugly details with beauty... Charming and clever, Losing the Nobel Prize bounces between clear explanations of nitty-gritty science, accounts of personal relationships and historical lessons.”- ScienceNews“Brian Keatings riveting new book tells the inside story of the search for cosmic origins, emphasizing the influence of Nobel dreams and laying bare the question of whether the lure of grand prizes is ultimately a good thing for science.”- Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe“By losing the Nobel Prize, Keating and BICEP2 has led us to an even greater victory: the recognition that there are more important things in this Universe, like scientific truths, than the fleeting glory of an earthly award.”Forbes“A fascinating autobiographical account, full of intriguing detail, of the passions and inspirations that underlie the scientific quest to comprehend the nature and origins of our universe...A highly thoughtful and informative book.”- Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford and author of The Emperor’s New Mind“Visionary Brian Keating takes us along on a refreshing and honest journey to see how great discoveries are made and unmade. This is one of the greatest stories told in cosmology. I couldnt put it down!”- Stephon Alexander, Professor of Physics, Brown University, jazz musician, and author of The Jazz of Physics“[Keating] is a deft writer, interweaving the science with personal musings.”- Nature“A compelling personal memoir, a fascinating history of cosmology, and an interesting firsthand account o...

-Titulo Original : The Outrun A Memoir-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review [A] gorgeous debut. . . . Full of lucid self-discovery and shimmering prose. New York Times Book ReviewContains unflinching interrogation of [Liptrot’s] self-destructive impulses, but also sharp observations about the metaphysical qualities of her surroundings. . . . The Outrun is slow and lyrical, transitioning from the rush of drinking into the raw sensations of island life. Elle[Liptrot’s] prose is spare, lean, and beautiful, much like the country about which she writes. Booklist (starred)Spectacular. . . . This magnificent memoir is a record of transformation in its truest sense Publishers WeeklyThe Outrun is an astonishingly beautiful book… Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate, and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake. And yet she’s also elegant, thoughtful, and controlled… A luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt that I’ll be pressing it into people’s hands for years to come. Olivia LaingUncompromising and lyrical…Liptrot’s writing is strong and sure… The Outrun is a bright addition to the exploding genre of writing about place and our place in the natural world. ObserverA lyrical, brave memoir… [Liptrot] walks the hills and dances between the standing stones of Stenness; she joins a wild swimming club and, hauling herself from the gelid waters, ‘naked on the beach, I am a selkie slipped from its skin.’ It’s this aptitude Liptrot has for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer and one to watch. Will Self, GuardianLiptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun equals works by fellow islanders such as George Mackay Brown and Peter Maxwell Davies. It may even be a future classic. Wherever she journeys next, you will want to go with her. New Statesman “The Outrun will no doubt sit alongside . . . Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk the sheer sensuality of Liptrot’s prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best.” New StatesmanWhen Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey.Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons, birth and death on the farm, and her father’s mental illness, which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild, carefree existence on Orkney. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. She moved to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. Now thirty, she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney, standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London.Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney’s wildlife puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings and nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey toward recovery from addiction.The Outrun is a beautiful, inspiring book about living on the edge, about the pull between island and city, and about the ability of the sea, the land, the wind, and the moon to restore life and renew hope.A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerNew Statesman Book of the Year About the Author Amy Liptrot received the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir for The Outrun. Formerly a writer for Orkney Today, editor of the Edinburgh Student, an artist’s model, and a trampolinist, she lives in Yorkshire...

-Titulo Original : The Nine Lives Of Pakistan Dispatches From A Precarious State-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country.Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals.On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes.Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country. 14 illustrations About the Author Declan Walsh, formerly the New York Times Pakistan bureau chief, is based in Cairo. He was educated in Dublin and has also reported from sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan, the United States, and across the Middle East...

-Titulo Original : The Premonition A Pandemic Story-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Lewis brings a welcome gimlet eye to the Trump era… the lessons of the “The Premonition” apply to more than just the C.D.C. they tell us why government bureaucracies fail. Nick Confessore, New York Times Book ReviewLewis finds ways not just to showcase the brokenness of the system writ large but to zoom in on the sand in the gears.... [S]pellbinding. Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesMuch has been written about how the pandemic came to be, but not so well known are the details about how it was able to spread so quickly in the United States…Michael Lewis has written a new book…that fills in those blanks. And it is a sweeping indictment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rachel Martin, NPR[T]he narrative of The Premonition makes for compelling reading...Lewis writes of the quest for an improved public health response to such devastating crises as an extended set piece in fearless and iconoclastic scientific inquiry, calling to mind the tense, high-stakes storyline of a Michael Crichton thriller or an episode of House. Chris Lehman, The New RepublicIn his new book...Michael Lewis does what Michael Lewis does better than anyone: He makes a problem of apparently ungodly complexity not only comprehensible but also a pleasure to be around. He does this by finding someone who sees the problem more clearly than others do (and invariably more clearly than the people in charge do), and then makes the problem as alive to the reader as the individual. Karl Vick, TimeThis is a book about some brave, curious people who tried hard to swim against the tide. As always in a Lewis book they are brought vividly alive. The descriptions are punchy, the dialogue snappy. Lewis is a master of his form. He’s an expert, in fact. Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times (UK)Replete with unforgettable characters, taut pacing and the stakes of life or death…. [A] page-turner. Elizabeth Greenwood, San Francisco ChronicleAn urgent, highly readable contribution to the literature of what might be called the politics of disease. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) New York Times Bestseller An American Scientist Science Book of 2021 A Bloomberg Best Book of 2021 A Fortune Best Books of 2021 A Guardian Best Book of 2021 A Mother Jones Best Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 One of Smithsonians 10 Best Science Books of 2021 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 the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work.Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in. From the Back Cover Praise for Michael LewisI would read an 800-page his...

-Titulo Original : The Big Short Inside The Doomsday Machine-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis....[he] does a nimble job of using his subjects’ stories to explicate the greed, idiocies and hypocrisies of a system notably lacking in grown-up supervision....Writing in faintly Tom Wolfe-ian prose, Mr. Lewis does a colorful job of introducing the lay reader to the Darwinian world of the bond market. Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesSuperb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance. . . . Lewis achieves what I previously imagined impossible: He makes subprime sexy all over again. Andrew Leonard, Salon One of the best business books of the past two decades. Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book ReviewI read Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like. Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book Review The #1 New York Times bestseller: It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And its essential reading. Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnt shine and the SEC doesnt 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 cant pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werent talking. Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liars Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time. About the Author 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 wife and three children...

-Titulo Original : The Art Of Strategy A Game Theorists Guide To Success In Business And Life-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.” Steven Levitt Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world. Using a diverse array of rich case studies from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history the authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it. Mastering game theory will make you more successful in business and life, and this lively book is the key to that mastery. About the Author Avinash K. Dixit is Emeritus John J.F. Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he offered his popular freshman course in game theory. He is among the world’s leading economists, having made fundamental contributions in several major fields as well as in game theory. He is the author of many books, including Dixit/Nalebuff: Thinking Strategically (Norton, 1991), Dixit/Pindyck: Investment Under Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 1994), and Dixit/Nalebuff: The Art of Strategy (Norton, 2009).Barry J. Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor at the Yale School of Management. Nalebuff applies game theory to business strategy and is the co-founder of one of Americas fastest-growing companies, Honest Tea...

-Titulo Original : The Soul Of Money Transforming Your Relationship With Money And Life-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review To anyone who wants to transform their lives and the world, I give this book my highest recommendation. Deepak ChopraThe Soul of Money is an inspired and utterly fascinating book. It will change the way you think about money. Jane GoodallWith her gentle, generous, and wise approach to a difficult topic, Lynne guided me through a personal transformation of how I think about money, how I handle money, and what money represents. Iyanla Vanzant A life-changing read. With warmth, honesty, and storytelling, Lynne turns everything we think we know about money upside down…Its the book we all need right now. Brene Brown, Ph.D., author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rising StrongThis liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money earning it, spending it, and giving it away offers surprising insight into our lives. Through personal stories and practical advice, Lynne Twist asks us to discover our relationship with money, understand how we use it, and by assessing our core human values, align our relationship with it to our desired goals. In doing so, we can transform our lives.The Soul of Money now includes a foreword from Jack Canfield and a new introduction by Lynne Twist, in which she explores the effects of the Great Recession and environmental concerns about our monetary needs and aims. About the Author Lynne Twist is a global activist and found of the Soul of Money Institute. She lives in San Francisco, California...

-Titulo Original : Super Pumped The Battle For Uber-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review An Amazon Best Book of September 2019: Love it or hate it, Uber changed the way we use transportation in the U.S. and beyond. The story of this Silicon Valley start-up and its maverick founder Travis Kalanick is utterly riveting, and in Super Pumped author Mike Isaac gives readers an insider’s view of the stunning highs and catastrophic lows of what Isaac calls one of the first mobile unicorns. Through a combination of rapid-fire technological advances and hubris, Uber not only challenged an antiquated system, they delivered it a death blow that has had profound repercussions. The abhorrent behavior, cut-throat mentality, and frat-boy corporate culture within Uber may make you question how it became such a success, but this was also a power structure founded on remarkable creativity, innovation, and tenacity. Kalanick was a master of manipulation and deception during his reign at Uber, and it’s fascinating to see the machinations and greed that were ultimately his downfall. Once again, Uber is making headlines, and Super Pumped gives readers the jump on some of the backroom dealings that are now coming to light. A masterful work of investigative journalism perfect for readers who were captivated by Bad Blood, Mike Isaac’s book is a wild ride that you won’t want to miss. -Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review Now a SHOWTIME® original series starring Emmy winners Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler and Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman. Now streaming - Only on SHOWTIME. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Fortune, Bloomberg, Sunday Times A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice “If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to read this book.” John Carreyrou, New York Times best-selling author of Bad BloodHailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. What followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong. Review Aside from being a delicious read, Mike Isaac’s account is also teeming with new revelations that will shock and outrage you. John Carreyrou, New York Times best-selling author of Bad BloodThis deeply reported book is a fascinating look at one of the most influential companies of the decade. VergeIsaac is great at the ticktock of events as they unfold, but his best work comes when he steps back to examine the bigger picture. Leslie Berlin, New York Times Book ReviewMany people have an Uber story this is the Uber story. NewsdayIf you had to pick the ‘startup profile book of the year award, Super Pumped would almost certainly take the crown. TechCrunch[T]he level of detail Isaac brings to [the story of Uber], the way he weaves the cast of characters together, is impressive. It’s the history of Uber, yes,… [b]ut it’s more.… It is the story of the dot-com bubble in the late ‘90s.…It’s the story of the convergence of Amazon Web Services, the iPhone and the App Store, and an economic crash that turned the faucet of finance back on again. It’s about the ethos of Silicon Valley… and the cult of the founder… of a business model built on quicksand, and that makes it about the damage Travis Kalanick has done in his pursuit of power. Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight BooksA detailed, unsparing account of entrepreneurial arrogance, breathtaking excess, and cutthroat competition at one of the tech industry’s most vaunted, loathed, and socially transformative companies. Anna Wi...

-Titulo Original : Misbehaving The Making Of Behavioral Economics-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A sly and somewhat subversive history of [the economics] profession . . . engrossing and highly relevant. Jonathan A. Knee, New York TimesHighly enjoyable . . . dense with fascinating examples. . . . It is long past time to replace Econs with Humans, both in theory and in the practice of prediction. Carol Tavris, Wall Street JournalA dryly humorous history of the revolution [Thaler] helped ignite, as well as a useful (if sometimes challenging) primer on its key concepts. Julia M. Klein, Chicago Tribune[A] masterful, readable account of behavioral economics. Very well done. David Wessel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Red Ink and Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great PanicBound to become a classic. Now established as one of the great figures in the history of economic thought, Thaler has no predecessors. A rebel with a cause . . .[w]here he wins Olympic gold is in keen observation; his greatest insights come from actually looking. Cass Sunstein, New RamblerEntertaining…. An excellent read on the shortcomings of classical economic and finance theory. Ronald L. Moy, CFA InstituteThe creative genius who invented the field of behavioral economics is also a master storyteller and a very funny man. All these talents are on display in this wonderful book. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Thinking, Fast and SlowThe story behind some of the most important insights in modern economics. If I had to be trapped in an elevator with any contemporary intellectual, I’d pick Richard Thaler. Malcolm GladwellRichard Thaler has been at the center of the most important revolution to happen in economics in the last thirty years. In this captivating book, he lays out the evidence for behavioral economics and explains why there was so much resistance to it. Read Misbehaving. There is no better guide to this new and exciting economics. Robert J. Shiller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Finance and the Good Society Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Get ready to change the way you think about economics.Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like real people. Whether buying a clock radio, selling basketball tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. More importantly, our misbehavior has serious consequences. Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations and their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments.Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives and market behavior, Thaler enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. He reveals how behavioral economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building, to TV game shows, the NFL draft, and businesses like Uber.Laced with antic stories of Thaler’s spirited battles with the bastions of traditional economic thinking, Misbehaving is a singular look into profound human foibles. When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers, and policy makers are both profound and entertaining.Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award About the Author...

-Titulo Original : A Random Walk Down Wall Street The Time-tested Strategy For Successful Investing-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Do you want to do well in the stock market? Here’s the best advice. Scrape together a few bucks and buy Burton Malkiel’s book. Then take what’s left and put it in an index fund. Los Angeles TimesImagine getting a week-long lesson on investing from someone with the common sense of Benjamin Franklin, the academic and institutional knowledge of Milton Friedman and the practical experience of Warren Buffett. That’s about what awaits you in the latest edition of this must-read by Burton Malkiel. BarronsNot more than half a dozen really good books about investing have been written in the past fifty years. This one may well belong in the classics category. ForbesIf one of your New Year’s resolutions is to improve your personal finances, here’s a suggestion: Instead of picking up one of the scores of new works flooding into bookstores, reread an old one: A Random Walk Down Wall Street. New York TimesAn engagingly written and wonderfully argued tome. MoneyA useful introduction to investing with lots of common-sense advice. Wall Street Journal With the prevailing wisdom changing on an almost daily basis, Burton G. Malkiel’s reassuring and vastly informative volume remains the best investment guide money can buy.In a time of increasing inequality, when high-frequency traders and hedge-fund managers seem to tower over the average investor, Burton G. Malkiel’s classic and gimmick-free investment guide is now more necessary than ever. Rather than tricks, what you’ll find here is a time-tested and thoroughly research-based strategy for your portfolio. Whether you’re considering your first 401k contribution or contemplating retirement, this fully-updated edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street should be the first book on your reading list.In A Random Walk Down Wall Street you’ll learn the basic terminology of the Street and how to navigate it with the help of a user-friendly, long-range investment strategy that really works. Drawing on his own varied experience as an economist, financial adviser, and successful investor, Malkiel shows why an individual who buys over time and holds a low-cost, internationally diversified index of securities is still likely to exceed the performance of portfolios carefully picked by professionals using sophisticated analytical techniques. In this new edition, Malkiel provides a brand-new section on the recent bubble in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, as well as valuable new material on “tax-loss harvesting” the crown jewel of tax management. He also presents a critical analysis of two recently popular investment-management techniques: factor investing and risk parity.On top of all this, the book’s classic lifecycle guide to investing, which tailors strategies to investors of any age, will help you plan confidently for the future. You’ll learn how to analyze the potential returns, not only for basic stocks and bonds but for the full range of investment opportunities from money market accounts and real estate investment trusts to insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets like gold and collectibles. Individual investors of every level of experience and risk tolerance will find throughout the book the critical facts and step-by-step guidance they need to protect and grow their hard-earned dollars. About the Author Burton G. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He is a former member of the Council of Economic Advisers and dean of the Yale School of Management, and resides in New Jersey...

-Titulo Original : Super Pumped The Battle For Uber-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review An Amazon Best Book of September 2019: Love it or hate it, Uber changed the way we use transportation in the U.S. and beyond. The story of this Silicon Valley start-up and its maverick founder Travis Kalanick is utterly riveting, and in Super Pumped author Mike Isaac gives readers an insider’s view of the stunning highs and catastrophic lows of what Isaac calls one of the first mobile unicorns. Through a combination of rapid-fire technological advances and hubris, Uber not only challenged an antiquated system, they delivered it a death blow that has had profound repercussions. The abhorrent behavior, cut-throat mentality, and frat-boy corporate culture within Uber may make you question how it became such a success, but this was also a power structure founded on remarkable creativity, innovation, and tenacity. Kalanick was a master of manipulation and deception during his reign at Uber, and it’s fascinating to see the machinations and greed that were ultimately his downfall. Once again, Uber is making headlines, and Super Pumped gives readers the jump on some of the backroom dealings that are now coming to light. A masterful work of investigative journalism perfect for readers who were captivated by Bad Blood, Mike Isaac’s book is a wild ride that you won’t want to miss. -Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic story of Uber, the Silicon Valley startup at the center of one of the great venture capital power struggles of our time.In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.Award-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. A near instant “unicorn,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon, Apple, and Google as a technology giant.What followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong. Isaac recounts Uber’s pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company’s toxic internal culture, and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. With billions of dollars at stake, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO.Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history. Review “The tale of Uber, the queen of the so-called ‘unicorns,’ is a parable about power and the lengths to which some startup founders will go to amass it and hold onto it. Aside from being a delicious read, Mike Isaac’s account is also teeming with new revelations that will shock and outrage you.” - John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood“[Isaac’s] meticulously reported account of Uber’s trajectory avoids the easy paths.” - Nitasha Tiku, WIRED“Isaac is great at the ticktock of events as they unfold, but his best work comes when he steps back to examine the bigger picture.” - Leslie Berlin, New York Times Book Review“[Isaac] spins a compelling yarn. . . [Super Pumped] is no dry business profile but a tale that Isaac...

-Titulo Original : The Fifth Risk Undoing Democracy-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A hymn to the deep state, which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what theyre talking about. Cory DoctorowFascinating and at times harrowing…Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear. Brian Naylor, NPRLewis has written a countercultural, almost subversive, book: one that praises the intellectual curiosity, dedication, foresight and sense of mission he finds among America’s federal workers. Carlos Lozada, Washington Post[A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government. Don Oldenburg, USA Today[The Fifth Risk is] so prescient it’s goosepimpling. Jennifer Senior, New York Times The New York Times Bestseller, with a new afterword [Michael Lewis’s] most ambitious and important book. Joe Klein, New York TimesMichael Lewis’s brilliant narrative of the Trump administration’s botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed. The government manages a vast array of critical services that keep us safe and underpin our lives from ensuring the safety of our food and drugs and predicting extreme weather events to tracking and locating black market uranium before the terrorists do. The Fifth Risk masterfully and vividly unspools the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works. About the Author 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 wife and three children...

-Titulo Original : Naked Economics Undressing The Dismal Science-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: International bestseller Clear, concise, informative, [and] witty. Chicago TribuneAt last! A new edition of the economics book that won’t put you to sleep. In fact, you won’t be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general readers is more than a good read, it’s a necessary investment with a blessedly sure rate of return. This revised and updated edition includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade, income inequality, and America’s rising debt. Ten years after the financial crisis, Naked Economics examines how policymakers managed the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.Demystifying buzzwords, laying bare the truths behind oft-quoted numbers, and answering the questions you were always too embarrassed to ask, the breezy Naked Economics gives you the tools to engage with pleasure and confidence in the deeply relevant, not so dismal science. --- Review Bravo, Charles Wheelan, for doing the impossible: making the study of economics fascinating, comprehensible, and laugh-out-loud funny. Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and WarI recommend this book to anyone who wants to gain an understanding of basic economics with little pain and much pleasure. Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Prize winner in economics Book Description Fully Revised and Updated About the Author Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy and economics at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family.Burton G. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He is a former member of the Council of Economic Advisers and dean of the Yale School of Management, and resides in New Jersey...

-Titulo Original : Becoming A Professional Life Coach Lessons From The Institute Of Life Coach Training-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: An updated version of the best-selling therapist-to-coach transition text. With his bestselling Therapist As Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in Becoming a Professional Life Coach he and Diane Menendez covered all the basic principles and strategies for effective coaching. Now Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez, former faculty at ILCT both master certified coaches bring back the book that has taught thousands of coaches over the past eight years with all-new information on coaching competencies, ethics, somatic coaching, wellness coaching, and how positive psychology and neuroscience are informing the profession today. Moving seamlessly from coaching fundamentals listening skills, effective language, session preparation to more advanced ideas such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, align values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity, this new edition is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and techniques for being a successful life coach, including: * Listening to, versus listening for, versus listening with * Establishing a client’s focus * Giving honest feedback and observation * Formulating first coaching conversations * Asking powerful, eliciting questions * Understanding human developmental issues * Reframing a client’s perspective * Enacting change with clients * Helping clients to identify and fulfill core values, and much, much more. All the major skillsets for empowering and “stretching” clients are covered. By filling the pages with client exercises, worksheets, sample dialogues, and self-assessments, Williams and Menendez give readers a hands-on coaching manual to expertly guide their clients to purposeful, transformative lives. Today, with more and more therapists incorporating coaching into their practices, and the number of master certified coaches, many with niche expertise, growing every year, Becoming a Professional Life Coach fills a greater need than ever. By tackling the nuts and bolts of coaching, Williams and Menendez equip readers with the tools and techniques they need to make a difference in their clients’ lives. Review [I]f you are curious about the life coaching profession, Williams and Menendez’s resource is a thorough one. The book provides a deeper understanding of the field along with the techniques and skills necessary to join it. . . . I found it useful as a way to learn more about the field of life coaching in general and even to learn techniques I can use on myself. PsychCentralAs a career counselor in private practice, I am always on the lookout for new tools and techniques to use with my clients. [This book] did not disappoint me. The book contains practical reminders of the basics of coaching and new ideas for improving coaching practices. . . . The authors guide readers through the fundamentals of coaching and do a great job in pointing out how counseling and coaching are similar and how they are different. . . . Readers obtain a potpourri of advice for becoming life coaches, as well as a refresher course on a number of important psychological theories and practices. They should find this book a pragmatic reference to accompany them on their transition from counseling to coaching. PsycCRITIQUESWhat a resource! This is the definitive book on life coaching, as useful to the master coach as it is to the novice. An essential book worth owning! Richard J. Leider, Founder & Chairman, The Inventure Group, and author of The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your BagsThis is the definitive book on how to become a whole-person life coach. Taking th...

-Titulo Original : Death And The Kings Horseman A Play-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A Nobel Prize-winning playwrights classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinkas powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the kings chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial district officer. The king has died and Elesin, his chief horseman, is expected by law and custom to commit suicide and accompany his ruler to heaven. The stage is set for a dramatic climax when Pilkings learns of the ritual and decides to intervene and Elesins son arrives home. Review ?Death and the Kings Horseman blends European literary theater with total-theater traditions from the Yoruba tribe in Southwest Nigeria. Through poetry, chorus, politics, and storytelling, Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will. ?Death and the Kings Horseman blends European literary theater with total-theater traditions from the Yoruba tribe in Southwest Nigeria. Through poetry, chorus, politics, and storytelling, Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will. About the Author Wole Soyinka, one of Africas foremost writers, won the Nobel Prize in 1986 and is the author of Death and the Kings Horseman, among other works...

-Titulo Original : The Only Business Writing Book Youll Ever Need-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A must-have guide for writing at work, with practical applications for getting your point across quickly, coherently, and efficiently.A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communication with its straightforward seven-step method. These easy-to-follow steps save you time from start to finish, and helpful checklists will boost your confidence as they keep you on track. You’ll learn to promote yourself and your ideas clearly and concisely whether putting together a persuasive project proposal or dealing with daily email.Laura Brown’s supportive, no-nonsense approach to business writing is thoughtfully adapted to the increasingly digital corporate landscape. She provides practical tips and comprehensive examples for all the most popular forms of communication, including slide presentations, resumes, cover letters, web copy, and a thorough guide to the art of crafting e-mails and instant messages. Insightful sidebars from experts in various fields demystify the skills of self-editing, creating content, and overcoming writer’s block, and Brown’s reference-ready resources on style, punctuation, and grammar will keep your writing error-free.Nuanced, personable, and of-the-moment, The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need offers essential tools for success in the rapidly changing world of business communication. 10 black and white illustrations Review All other guides to the critical skill of business writing may now be obsolete. Ming-Jer Chen, Fellow and former president, Academy of ManagementImagine…a world where every communication was clear, specific, and thoughtful. In this world, not only would every individual, team, and organization be more efficient, it would even be more pleasant to go to work! We can make that world a reality: all it will take is for everyone to follow the powerful advice that Laura Brown has pulled together in this practical and concise guide. Alan Iny, coauthor of Thinking in New BoxesWriting at work is more important than it’s ever been, and the stakes are higher. The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need offers individuals and organizations the help they need to communicate clearly and efficiently in writing. Anita Gupta, global head of communications, Deutsche Post DHLIn this brilliant book, Laura Brown offers executives the essential principles of communication whether e-mail, keynote speech, project proposal, or social media. Use them wisely to lay out your vision, clinch the next job, build relationships, or make your big ask. You’ll be amazed by the results. David L. Rogers, author of The Digital Transformation PlaybookEffective communication is one of the keys to success in business. Laura Brown’s book provides any student, manager, CEO, or board member the tools to write successfully. Robert C. Daugherty, executive dean, Forbes School of BusinessLaura Brown gives us seven steps to help become instantly more effective, including: how to make a clear ask, write for the reader, start strong and specific. She also gives examples for effective e-mail, thank-you notes, apologies, performance reviews, and termination letters. This is a resource business owners should not be without! Barry Moltz, host of The Small Business Radio ShowIf you’re writing anything, from an internal memo to a New York Times bestseller, keep The Only Business Writing Book Youll Ever Need next to your laptop. Your readers will thank you. Michael Snell, president and CEO, The Michael Snell Literary AgencyThis one-stop handbook on business writing covers everything you need to learn and do in a simple and practical manner. And it is fun to read! Bernd Schmitt, professor, Columbia Business SchoolPractical, relevant, clear, and concise strategies that are applicable and meaningful to students and working professionals. Andrew Shean, chief...

-Titulo Original : The Second Machine Age Work, Progress, And Prosperity In A Time Of Brilliant Technologies-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives. In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies with hardware, software, and networks at their core will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human. In The Second Machine Age MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee two thinkers at the forefront of their field reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kinds from lawyers to truck drivers will be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age alters how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress. Review Optimistic and intriguing. Steven Pearlstein, The Washington PostExcellent. Clive Crook, BloombergFascinating. Andrew Leonard, SalonMy favorite book so far of 2014. Both hopeful…and realistic. Joshua Kim, Inside Higher EducationMaddeningly reasonable and readable. Thomas Claburn, InformationWeekOffers important insights into how digital technologies are transforming our economy, a process that has only just begun. Reid Hoffman, cofounder/chairman of LinkedIn and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Start-up of YouBrynjolfsson and McAfee are right: we are on the cusp of a dramatically different world brought on by technology. The Second Machine Age is the book for anyone who wants to thrive in it. I’ll encourage all of our entrepreneurs to read it, and hope their competitors don’t. Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen HorowitzTechnology is overturning the world’s economies, and The Second Machine Age is the best explanation of this revolution yet written. Kevin Kelly, senior maverick for Wired and author of What Technology WantsWhat globalization was to the economic debates of the late 20th century, technological change is to the early 21st century. Long after the financial crisis and great recession have receded, the issues raised in this important book will be central to our lives and our politics. Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard UniversityIn this optimistic book Brynjolfsson and McAfee clearly explain the bounty that awaits us from intelligent machines. But they argue that creating the bounty depends on finding ways to race with the machine rather than racing against the machine. That means people like me need to build machines that are easy to master and use. Ultimately, those who embrace the new technologies will be the ones who benefit most. Rodney Brooks, chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, IncAn important book on the technology-driven opportunities and challenges we all face in the next decade. Anyone who wants to understand how amazing new technologies are tra...

-Titulo Original : Boomerang Travels In The New Third World-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.” Kyle Smith, Forbes The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewiss investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations. Review Lewis s rare gift as a guide through the world of credit default swaps and sovereign debt doesn t come simply from his deep understanding of how the global financial system works . . . also his skill as a storyteller, his ability to tell the larger tale through fascinating human stories of greed, excess, and self-delusion. --Chuck Leddy[Lewis s] explanations of thorny financial processes are surprisingly compelling, his characters entertaining. --Jessica LoudisMichael Lewis possesses the rare storyteller s ability to make virtually any subject both lucid and compelling. . . . Combining his easy familiarity with finance and the talents of a travel writer, Mr. Lewis sets off in these pages to give the reader a guided tour through some of the disparate places hard hit by the fiscal tsunami of 2008, like Greece, Iceland and Ireland, tracing how very different people for very different reasons gorged on the cheap credit available in the prelude to that disaster. The book based on articles Mr. Lewis wrote for Vanity Fair magazine is a companion piece of sorts to The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, his bestselling 2010 book about the fiscal crisis. . . . Mr. Lewis s ability to find people who can see what is obvious to others only in retrospect or who somehow embody something larger going on in the financial world is uncanny. And in this book he weaves their stories into a sharp-edged narrative that leaves readers with a visceral understanding of the fiscal recklessness that lies behind today s headlines about Europe s growing debt problems and the risk of contagion they now pose to the world. --Michiko Kakutani[Lewiss] explanations of thorny financial processes are surprisingly compelling, his characters entertaining. --Jessica LoudisLewiss rare gift as a guide through the world of credit default swaps and sovereign debt doesnt come simply from his deep understanding of how the global financial system works . . . but also from his skill as a storyteller, his ability to tell the larger tale through fascinating human stories of greed, excess, and self-delusion. --Chuck LeddyMichael Lewis possesses the rare storytellers ability to make virtually any subject both lucid and compelling. . . . Combining his easy familiarity with finance and the talents of a travel writer, Mr. Lewis sets off in these pages to give the reader a guided tour through some of the disparate places hard hit by the fiscal tsunami of 2008, like Greece, Iceland and Ireland, tracing how very different people for very different reasons gorged on the cheap credit available in the prelude to that disaster. The book -- based on articles Mr. Lewis wrote for Vanity Fair magazine -- is a companion piece of sorts to The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, his bestselling 2010 book about the fiscal crisis. . . . Mr. Lewiss ability to find people who can see what is obvious to others only in retrospect...

-Titulo Original : Platform Revolution How Networked Markets Are Transforming The Economy And How To Make Them Work For You-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Thorough and often provocative. Jeremy G. Philips, The Wall Street JournalAn authoritative guide to the role of online platforms: what they are, how they work, and what they mean for business and economics. Platform Revolution demystifies the concept by providing clear prose, insightful examples, and practical lessons. Hal Varian, chief economist, Google, and author of Information RulesPlatforms have transformed the economy over the last two decades, but the biggest effects are yet to come. Platform Revolution provides the first comprehensive framework for platform strategy and for predicting the winners and losers of future disruptions. Susan C. Athey, Stanford University, former chief economist, MicrosoftPlatform Revolution is a manual for the disruption of your industry. You can either read it or try to keep it out of the hands of your competitors present and future. I think it’s an easy call. Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT, coauthor of The Second Machine AgePlatform Revolution provides an exceptional synthesis of cutting-edge research that makes it must-reading for my MBA students. A key insight is that platform strategies can benefit all participants when they understand the underlying economics. Read the book and share it with your business partners. You’ll be glad you did. Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School, coauthor of The Second Machine AgeIn a very cohesive and comprehensive way, the authors provide deep conceptual insights and rich practical advice on platforms, the most important business organizations of our time. Ming Zeng, chief strategy officer, AlibabaIn the digital economy, platforms are transforming industries at high speed. Platform Revolution is an inspiring guide for business leaders to transform existing businesses to platform businesses. Jim Hagemann-Snabe, former CEO of SAP A practical guide to the new economy that is transforming the way we live, work, and play.Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they launched. Today they are industry leaders. What’s the secret to their success?These cutting-edge businesses are built on platforms: two-sided markets that are revolutionizing the way we do business. Written by three of the most sought-after experts on platform businesses, Platform Revolution is the first authoritative, fact-based book on platform models. Whether platforms are connecting sellers and buyers, hosts and visitors, or drivers with people who need a ride, Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary reveal the what, how, and why of this revolution and provide the first “owner’s manual” for creating a successful platform business.Platform Revolution teaches newcomers how to start and run a successful platform business, explaining ways to identify prime markets and monetize networks. Addressing current business leaders, the authors reveal strategies behind some of today’s up-and-coming platforms, such as Tinder and SkillShare, and explain how traditional companies can adapt in a changing marketplace. The authors also cover essential issues concerning security, regulation, and consumer trust, while examining markets that may be ripe for a platform revolution, including healthcare, education, and energy.As digital networks increase in ubiquity, businesses that do a better job of harnessing the power of the platform will win. An indispensable guide, Platform Revolution charts out the brilliant future of platforms and reveals how they will irrevocably alter the lives and careers of millions. About the Author Geoffrey Parker is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College and a visiting scholar and research fellow at the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy. Before joining academia, he held positions in engineering and finance at General Electric. He has made significant contributions to the economics of network effect...

-Titulo Original : The Wall Street Journal Guide To Information Graphics The Dos And Donts Of Presenting Data, Facts, And Figures-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The definitive guide to the graphic presentation of information. In today’s data-driven world, professionals need to know how to express themselves in the language of graphics effectively and eloquently. Yet information graphics is rarely taught in schools or is the focus of on-the-job training. Now, for the first time, Dona M. Wong, a student of the information graphics pioneer Edward Tufte, makes this material available for all of us. In this book, you will learn: to choose the best chart that fits your data;the most effective way to communicate with decision makers when you have five minutes of their time;how to chart currency fluctuations that affect global business;how to use color effectively;how to make a graphic “colorful” even if only black and white are available.The book is organized in a series of mini-workshops backed up with illustrated examples, so not only will you learn what works and what doesn’t but also you can see the dos and don’ts for yourself. This is an invaluable reference work for students and professional in all fields. 2-color; 500 illustrations, 16 pages of color Review An essential reference for anyone who needs to effectively convey quantitative information using graphs. Everyone will learn something from reading this book. Joseph Tracy, executive vice president and director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkDona Wong’s outstanding new book artfully blends lessons on data analysis and graphic design. She shows us how to make our complex, confusing graphs and presentations both simple and powerful. Peter Tufano, Coleman Professor of Financial Management, Harvard Business SchoolDona Wong’s professional advice advances the art of information graphics. Gene Zelazny, director of visual communications, McKinsey & CompanyWe live in an increasingly data-driven world, and Dona Wong does a masterful job of explaining how to make data come alive and tell the truth in an engaging way. Mark Zandi, chief economist, Moody’s Economy About the Author Dona Wong began her career in visual journalism at The New York Times, became the graphics director for The Wall Street Journal in 2001, and was previously the strategy director for information design at the global consulting firm SiegelGale. Today she is Vice President, Digital and Multimedia Communications, at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Wong holds an MFA from Yale University and lives in New York City. The views expressed here are her own and do not necessarily represent those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...

-Titulo Original : The Big Short Inside The Doomsday Machine (movie Tie-in Editions)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review One of the best business books of the past two decades. Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book ReviewNo one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis…[he] does a nimble job of using his subjects’ stories to explicate the greed, idiocies and hypocrisies of a system notably lacking in grown-up supervision. Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesSuperb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance…Lewis achieves what I previously imagined impossible: He makes subprime sexy all over again. Andrew Leonard, Salon The #1 New York Times bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount PicturesFrom the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The film adaptation by Adam McKay (Anchorman I and II, The Other Guys) features Academy Award® winners Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo and Marisa Tomei; Academy Award® nominees Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling.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. Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? In this fitting sequel to Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis answers that question in a narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor. About the Author 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 wife and three children...