books about: streets     books:       The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made ...26 reviews Gregory Zuckerman Broadway Business, 2009 Excellant account of housing crisis The Greatest Trade Ever, has been the best book I have read about the housing crisis and Wall Street's take on the counter-argument to the booming real estate market. Zuckerman brings in multiple players from across the country all betting against the housing market and how their trades panned out. After reading House of Cards and A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, I believe Zuckerman's ...             The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide73 reviews Elisabeth Hasselbeck Center Street, 2009 The author is a lightning rod, but this book shouldn't be. I came across this book by accident while trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with me and my gut. I read it, and decided to give gluten free living a try. Boy howdy, I'm glad I did. And I'm glad I had this book to help me. I don't know whether or not I have celiac disease, but I have no intention of eating gluten for a very long time as I'm experiencing so much relief from symptoms I ...             The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global ...33 reviews Charles Gasparino HarperBusiness, 2009 Well Written Well Researched... I work in the industry and see Charles more often than not on my CNBC feed. Charles was to me a sort of fellow who was pretty even keel. When I received a copy of the book I was both interested and wondering if Charles would go over the top in terms trying to get your attention. What I read was an impressive book. The writing style was intelligent and not flamboyant. This book was neither in ...             Where Are the Customers' Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)33 reviews Fred Schwed Wiley, 2006 Great classic What a funny book describing to readers the way Wall Street and its customers behave, think, and act. Even thought it was written in 1940, I still found it relevant today because people never change as far as temptation, fear, and greed are concerned. This book really shows true reality of stock market investing. Customers are excited about the possible riches investing can generate and Wall ...             Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales23 reviews Clarence Clemons, Don Reo Grand Central Publishing, 2009 This book, like the E Street Band, ROCKS!!! This is the most rockin', raunchy, soulful rock book I've read since Rock Scully's Living With The Dead. Yah, so every word may not be true. Springsteen's Santa Claus rap during Santa Claus is Coming to Town isn't true either -- does that make it any less rock 'n roll? F*(% the negative reviews -- get this book dammit! It's a blast, and you'll love The Big Man even more after you read it.             The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History15 reviews Robert M. Edsel Center Street, 2009 WWII Insight - European Treasures A fabulous insight into what else went on during WWII. Most instructive about the treasures of Europe. And the evilness of the Germans at the time. We thought we knew a lot about the treasures, but the book really opened our minds. J&J             A Walk Down Sesame Street: Pop-Up Book (Sesame Street Books)2 reviews Sesame Street Candlewick, 2009 Wonderful work, stunning, a real delight, This is a beautiful book. It truly does live up to expectations. We laughed at the wiggling Elmo and smiled and remembered at how fun Bert and Ernie are and Big Bird has an impressive paper design, though I personally love the end pages, it was a little treat to see all the gang together - it's not everyone, but the principle Muppet cast are present and that is enough to spark stories and games ...             Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and ...68 reviews Andrew Ross Sorkin Viking Adult, 2009 Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown How does a global economy become crippled when so many supposedly savvy power brokers are calling the shots? In rehashing the worst ecomonic meltdown since The Great Depression, Andrew Sorkin's riveting recollection describes a chilling scenario filled with outrageously bad judgment, greed and hubris; in the end, Wall Street fell to its knees in stunning magnitude. In the wreckage, some of ...             Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street7 reviews Louise A. Gikow Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2009 History of Sesame Street-40 years! This book is excellent! I just received it on 11/19/09 and I am very pleased with my purchase! I really have enjoyed knowing the history of this educational children's TV program and I've enjoyed watching it myself! READING about it is even better, though! That way I have a clearer idea of how this program all came about and the people who put this program together! I thank you for putting ...             The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street55 reviews Justin Fox HarperBusiness, 2009 A lot of history.... There has been great debate over time whether the market can be predictable or if somehow there is a way to enlarge our future. That is the answer everyone wants to know. Many great people have tried to figure this out over time. John Bogle, Michael Jensen, Fischer Black, Eugene Fama, Milton Friedman, Harry Markowitz are just a few big players mentioned in this book. They all played a role in ...             House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street78 reviews William D. Cohan Doubleday, 2009 Too gossipy and too many second string characters This book needs more analysis and fewer stories written with a "novelistic verve". It is a chilling story but the "trove of colourful tidbits" tends to be distracting.             Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street246 reviews Michael Lewis Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 Wall Street in the '80's While it has been some time since I read Liars Poker it still brings a smile to my face by bringing back fond memories. What has renewed my interest and motivated me to write more of a validation than a review of Liars Poker was my current reading of one of Michaels other books - The money Culture. Having spent 42 years in municipal finance with, 23 of those years as a municipal bond ...             Wall and Piece71 reviews Banksy Random House UK, 2007 Inspirational! Banksy is a REAL artist! My favorite quote from the book: "Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head." Real art should be FREE! Free of conceit, free to let the viewer interpret, free of profit as a motivation and free ...             Street Game (Game/Ghostwalker) Christine Feehan Jove, 2009 The new GhostWalker novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Years ago, GhostWalkers Mack McKinley and Jaimie Fielding were lovers. Now they've been reunited on the violent streets by a ruthless common enemy who could destroy them both.             Elmo Loves You! (Sesame Street)20 reviews Sarah Albee Dalmatian Press, 2007 Elmo book Got this book when got the throwing kisses Elmo doll. Grand daughter loves it and it goes so nicely with the talking Kisses Elmo doll. Very cute!             Urban Dictionary: 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar (Day to Day Calendar) Aaron Peckham Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009 The Urban Dictionary 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar culls from the popular, user-created Web site UrbanDictionary.com as well as from the two Urban Dictionary books to give readers each day one of the funniest, wittiest, and most provocative phrases that define the modern slang scene. The Urban Dictionary 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar is perfect for those who want to expand their vocabulary with words like "chubby chaser" and "lego hair," while also ...             Cowboy Ethics33 reviews James P. Owen, David R. Stoecklein Stoecklein Publishing, 2005 Cowboy UP This is a book for every office jock, wall street geek and average guy who thinks he knows something. What a treat it was to read and the photos are artistically well arranged. Horse lover or not the point is made, just do it right the first time. There is really no romance in this job, just a lot of hard rewarding work and at the end of the day you still like yourself. Go get this for every guy ...             What Makes You Giggle? (Sesame Street (Dalmatian Press))3 reviews P. J. Shaw Dalmatian Press, 2007 Fun book to read over and over My daughter is 2 1/2 and she loves this book. Some nights she will want me to read it 5 times in a row. The pictures are colorful and catch her attention and she loves to study them. The rhyming in the book also is fun and she likes to help say the last words of each section. The book is also very inexpensive so I have found it to be a great buy. There is not too much wording on each page, ...             It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street11 reviews Nomi Prins Wiley, 2009 Great Overview of the 2nd Great Financial Depression The author has provided us with an extensive rogues' gallery of crooks, thieves, and incompetents that have led us to our country's present financial disaster. She points out that the US taxpayer is already on the hook for $13 trillion of inadequately collateralized loans, financial securities hardly worth the paper they are printed on, and general financial trash scooped up by the federal ...             Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, ...2 reviews Timothy P. Carney Regnery Press, 2009 A Primer on Rhetoric v. Reality "Obamanomics" is the title of two books on the economic platform of the Obama administration. Apparently the phrase has a nice catch to publishers. But in the hands of Timothy Carney, author of this book, "Obamanomics" is shorthand for corporatism; the use of big government regulations to support corporate profits. This, of course, is not how most commentators see the new administration. They ...              search for books backroom, bailouts, bankrupting, behind-the-scenes, celebration, classics, corporate, customers, dalmatian, day-to-day, delusion, destroyed, dictionary, enriching, financial, ghostwalker, gluten-free, government, greatest, investment, lobbyists, mismanagement, monuments, obamanomics, rational, themselves, treasure, washington, wreckage, wretched books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: ROSA BLANCA [NTSC/MULTI-REGION DVD. Import-Latin America] BY: Lopez Tarso we recommend Wow! You really can create animations! But read this for input device recommendation home  impressum - about us