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Losers
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00Michael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bestseller Liar's Poker, he packed his mighty pen and set out on the 1996 campaign trail. As he follows the men who aspire to the Oval Office, Lewis discovers an absurd mix of bravery and backpedaling, heroic possibility and mealy-mouthed sound bytes,... more...
Derrida and Lacan
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 129.99Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing argues that Jacques Derrida's philosophical understanding of language should be supplemented by Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic approach to the symbolic order. Lacan adopts a non-philosophical, genetic or developmental approach to the question of language and in doing so isolates a dimension that Derrida cannot... more...
American Wilderness
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99Ch. 1. American Wilderness--An Introduction, Michael Lewis. Ch. 2. American Wilderness and First Contact, Melanie Perreault. Ch. 3. Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness, Mark Stoll. Ch. 4. Farm Against Forest, Steven Stoll. Ch. 5. Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean. Ch. 6. The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape... more...
Heidegger and the Place of Ethics
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 140.00Heidegger and the Place of Ethics is a groundbreaking contribution to the study of both Heidegger and ethics in the Continental philosophical tradition. Despite Heideggers identifying his own thought with ethics in the most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised both for its supposed ignorance of the role... more...
Shame
Free Press 1995; US$ 18.95Shame, the quintessential human emotion, received little attention during the years in which the central forces believed to be motivating us were identified as primitive instincts like sex and aggression. Now, redressing the balance, there is an explosion of interest in the self-conscious emotion. Much of our psychic lives involve the negotiation... more...
Liar's Poker
Hodder & Stoughton 2006; US$ 20.83From 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 Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless... more...
Liar's Poker
Hodder & Stoughton 2006; Not AvailableFrom 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 Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless... more...
Home Game
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not Available?Small children are ungrateful; to do one a favour is, from a business point of view, about as shrewd as making a subprime mortgage loan.? Here, with his remorseless eye for the truth, the bestselling author of Liar?s Poker turns his sights on his own domestic world. The result is a wickedly enjoyable cautionary tale. Lewis reveals his own... more...
The Big Short
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not Available'We fed the monster until it blew up ...' While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks... more...
Boomerang
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableHaving made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short , Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to... more...









