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A Guy Walks Into A Bar... by Michael Lewis
21.95 NZD
Category: Humour
501 Bar Jokes, Stories, Anecdotes, Quips, Quotes, Riddles, and Wisecracks Michael Lewis has gathered a wide range of the very best and funniest bar jokes, riddles, anecdotes, and quotations in this rib-tickling (and thirst-inducing) collection. Sure to be a favorite of tipplers of all stripes - and the ...Show more
Boomerang: The Biggest Bust by Michael Lewis
26.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to p ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
50.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Eve ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
30.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller is now available in Encore at a great low price.A small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, ...Show more
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
59.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the ...Show more
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
25.99 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in Baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-bedget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. The ...Show more
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Movie Tie-In Editions Ser.
This is The New York Times best-selling book behind the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opening this autumn, Moneyball is the story of the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt). He has an epiphany: all conventional baseball wisdom is wrong. ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
32.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
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: the bond and real ...Show more
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
26.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened- ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
An investigation of how new technology affects our lives. This book explores how digital technology and the Internet has changed the way we live. It argues that not only do we have the easiest access to more information than ever before, but that this has changed our attitudes to life.
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
55.00 NZD
Category: Business
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more