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Tearing Down the Walls : How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All (Wall Street Journal Book)

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He is one of the world's most accomplished figures of modern finance. As chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, Sanford "Sandy" Weill has become an American legend, a banking visionary whose innovativeness, opportunism, and even fear drove him from the lowliest jobs on Wall Street to its most commanding heights. In this unprecedented biography, acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Monica Langley provides a compelling account of Weill's rise to power. What emerges is a portrait of a man who is as vital and as volatile as the market itself.

Tearing Down the Walls tells the riveting inside story of how a Jewish boy from Brooklyn's back alleys overcame incredible odds and deep-seated prejudices to transform the financial-services industry as we know it today.

Using nearly five hundred firsthand interviews with key players in Weill's life and career -- including Weill himself -- Langley brilliantly chronicles not only his success and scandals but also the shadows of his hidden self: his father's abandonment and his loving marriage; his tyrannical rages as well as his tearful regrets; his fierce sense of loyalty and his ruthless elimination of potential rivals. By highlighting in new and startling detail one man's life in a narrative as richly textured and compelling as a novel, Tearing Down the Walls provides the historical context of the dramatic changes not only in business but also in American society in the last half century.

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"The very night that Sanford ""Sandy"" Weill, the chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, was being feted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as CEO of the Year, the television screens above the floor were flashing danger: A congressional panel was tearing into Jack Grubman, the $20-million-a-year telecommunications analyst who worked for Sandy. Had Grubman and Citigroup favored corporate clients at the expense of average investors? Was Citigroup recommending stocks of troubled companies to get their business? The worst scandal of Sandy Weill's long career was breaking around him. Here, from its very beginning, is the riveting inside story of how a rough-edged kid from Brooklyn overcame incredible odds and deep-seated prejudice to put together Citigroup, the world's largest financial empire, and to transform financial services in America -- for better or worse. Tearing Down the Walls provides an unprecedented look at how business and finance are conducted at the highest levels, with extraordinary insight into the character and motivations of powerful men and women.

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Could have been better.......2007-04-07

This is a very well written book and is full of details about Sandy Weill but the entire book plays on him being an undertrodden jew, but he fails to take into account that you don't have to be jewish to be the underdog - take Frank Lowrys Pushing the Limits he was jewish lived in the ghetto and there was not one mention that he was a victim he just got on with life and made the best of it. Again this is a very good book just read past the constant comments about how he was always being victimised jew.

Another potential title.......2007-03-06

Another potential title for this book is "Jew-boy from Brooklyn done good". This story does a great job demonstrating how Sandy Weill fought his way to the top, battled anti-semitism, encouraged diversity, and reached a level of success that few can compare to. An excellent read and interesting history lesson of Wall Street during its technology expansion phase.

Fascinating book.......2006-10-26

Whether you like Sandy Weil or not is not the issue here. This is just a fascinating book and one of the best books I have read in a while. You will not regret the time that you spend reading this.

Sandy Weill is a testament to belief in delivering value.......2006-08-01

This book could be considered a corner stone foundation marker in understanding what makes people relevant, even when they are not.

Sandy Weill shows how consistentcy and planning directed to delivering real value for others will result in producing positive results. Monica Langley describes well how a strong basis in fundamental value wins over adversity and fills in a vacume.

The book does a good job in reflecting the transition from family to business and the process of creating an icon that Sandy Weill became with his challenges as a broker, American Express, Travelers and Citibank. As a reader, you can see how these companies needed Sandy's pivotal instincts to solve their problems and evolve.

finished the whole book overnight.......2005-05-24

As a person used to work in Wall Street and live now in China, I read the Chinese version of this book. It was as if I lived, breathed, angered, and cheered with Weill, Dimon, Prince.... One of the best books about wall street of past 10 years. I ordered this book in English and will read it again, for at least once.

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In recent years, the interdisciplinary perspective of therapeutic jurisprudence — which focuses on the law's impact on emotional life and psychological well-being — has increasingly moved from the academic world into the world of judging and law practice.

The psychological sensitivity and insights provided by the `lens' of therapeutic jurisprudence have mixed with the pragmatic procedures of related perspectives — such as preventive law — to allow interested lawyers to truly `practice' therapeutic jurisprudence.

Stolle, Wexler, and Winick designed this volume — covering civil and criminal contexts and courtroom and law office settings — for practicing lawyers as well as for use in clinical courses, in legal counseling courses, and in courses on `new directions' in lawyering. It will be of value and interest to those engaged in preventive law, collaborative law, restorative justice, holistic lawyering, mediation and alternative dispute resolution, and indeed to all who seek to humanize the law and its practice — and to enrich the lives of lawyers. With this volume, law can take its rightful place as a legitimate member of the helping professions.

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These three volumes present essential engineering technologies most often used for design and evaluation of the best practices in agricultural production and postharvest processing operations. The choices, requirements, procedures, and expected performances are expertly supported with equations, data tables, illustrations, charts, graphs, and data conversion factors for SI units. Written by highly qualified and experienced agricultural engineers, the chapters emphasize field machines and practices, irrigation engineering, drainage and erosion control, and waste management. Also included is information on electrical systems and electric motors, design of structures, ventilation and lighting systems, and livestock and poultry production. This volume is especially written for engineers of all types, agricultural scientists, extension specialists, ag-industry managers, and engineering students. VOLUME I: CROP PRODUCTION ENGINEERINGVOLUME II: SOIL AND WATER ENGINEERING VOLUME III: ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

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The earth's biodiversity currently faces an extinction crisis that is unprecedented. Conservationists attempt to intervene in the extinction process either locally by protecting or restoring important species and habitats, or at national and international levels by influencing key policies and promoting debate. Reliable information is the foundation upon which these efforts are based, which places research at the heart of biodiversity conservation. The role of research in such conservation is diverse. It includes understanding why biodiversity is important, defining 'units' of biodiversity, priority-setting for species and sites, managing endangered and declining populations, understanding large-scale processes, making predictions about the future and interfacing with training, education, public awareness and policy initiatives. Using examples from a wide range of bird conservation work worldwide, researchers consider the principles underlying these issues, and illustrate how these principles have been applied to address actual conservation problems for students, practitioners and researchers in conservation biology.

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The book covers the problems related to the hierarchy of defects in solids, the kinetics of chemical reactions in solids, and the reactions in solid matrices. It also considers in some detail various types of heterogeneous reactions, homogeneous reactions and chemical reactions in organic solids. Special chapters are devoted to the application of solid state reactions in inorganic synthesis and the manufacture of new materials.

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A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the physical basis of the human mind. Penrose contends that some aspects of the human mind lie beyond computation. This is not a religious argument (that the mind is something other than physical) nor is it based on the brain's vast complexity (the weather is immensely complex, says Penrose, but it is still a computable thing, at least in theory). Instead, he provides powerful arguments to support his conclusion that there is something in the conscious activity of the brain that transcends computation--and will find no explanation in terms of present-day science. To illuminate what he believes this "something" might be, and to suggest where a new physics must proceed so that we may understand it, Penrose cuts a wide swathe through modern science, providing penetrating looks at everything from Turing machines (computers programmed from artificial intelligence) to the implications of Godel's theorem maintaining that conscious thinking must indeed involve ingredients that cannot adequately be stimulated by mere computation. Of particular interest is Penrose's extensive examination of quantum mechanics, which introduces some new ideas that differ markedly from those advanced in The Emperor's New Mind, especially concerning the mysterious interface where classical and quantum physics meet. But perhaps the most interesting wrinkle in Shadows of the Mind is Penrose's excursion into microbiology, where he examines cytoskeletons and microtubules, minute substructures lying deep within the brain's neurons. (He argues that microtubules--not neurons--may indeed be the basic units of the brain, which, if nothing else, would dramatically increase the brain's computational power.) Furthermore, he contends that in consciousness some kind of global quantum state must take place across large areas of the brain, and that it within microtubules that these collective quantum effects are most likely to reside. For physics to accommodate something that is as foreign to our current physical picture as is the phenomenon of consciousness, we must expect a profound change--one that alters the very underpinnings of our philosophical viewpoint as to the nature of reality. Shadows of the Mind provides an illuminating look at where these profound changes may take place and what our future understanding of the world may be.

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Mind's Shadows illuminated.......2007-10-03

Another stunning book by Sir Roger Penrose. It's really a five star book discounted here by one star because those lacking physics and mathematics will find some passages hard work, even though the author is being as kind as possible in a book of this calibre.
The book is a neat sequel to his "The Emperor's New Mind", extending the central theme that our little-understood human consciousness allows us to think way beyond the computational and mindless world of artificial intelligence.
In doing so, we have a marvellous survey of classical and modern physics, including the mysteries of the quantum world.
Sir Roger raises the question 'Will we ever be able to truly understand our own Nature-provided brain and its processes in terms of our own science?', and argues that, somewhere out there beyond our present reach, there is a unifying Platonic view of the Universe.
This book is a tour de force on several planes. Highly recommended.

Penrose has an agenda.......2007-09-27

Roger Penrose is confident that consciousness can't be explained without some kind of "new physics". He's not very explicit here, as to what this "new physic" should be.

Penrose spends a lot of effort describing paradoxes of quantum physics, so we should assume that "new physics" would have something to do with those paradoxes. He also spends a lot of effort trying to prove that consciousness can't be produced by any kind of Turing machine. He presses this point very hard, giving examples of non-computable problems, but I do not find him to be really persuasive.

Here's a good example of his style, on pg. 290: "I am going to suppose that detector itself can also be assigned a quantum state... This is the usual practice in quantum theory. It is not altogether clear to me that it really makes sense to assign a quantum-mechanical description to a classical-level object, but this is not normally questioned in the discussions of this kind."

What's this "not normally questioned"? I don't think he can persuade anybody with this kind of non-logic. Another problem with his book - Roger Penrose is really fighting windmills. He has invented some stupid AI person who says "ok, here's our wonderful Big Iron and our wonderful team of hackers - they would feed their Beautiful Macaroni Code into this Big Iron - and voilà! you got a real smart strong AI robot to chat with about everything you like. No Turing test needed"

Whereas everybody in AI, strong or not, understands that just as life itself is a process - so is an intellect, and consciousness and awareness. It has to grow, and develop, and learn. May be it can grow and develop fast, but still - it needs to grow, and learn. And yes - make mistakes, like Turing said.

The book is very vague (except chapters on Goedel theorem, where Penrose at least stays within his area of expertise). Also it reads more like a religious tract where the author has a preconception and would try anything and everything to confirm it.

An illuminated exposition on the nature of consciousness and how it emerges from certain properties of the nervous system.......2006-12-01

This book explains how personal consciousness develops from processes of the nervous system. There are structures along nerves and brain cells that have superconductive properties which can process information consistent with how the mind works. The magician will gain an understanding of what the aura is and how magical phenomena follow from the nature of these properties of the nervous sytem.

Too complex!.......2006-01-12

I'm sorry, but this book went way over my head. Was this the plan, or am I just not up to all this?

Fascinating and rewarding, but not entirely satisfying.......2005-08-04

I read this book as part of a personal effort, stretching back over a decade, to find answers to some of the deeper mysteries surrounding that gray area of minds, brains, computers, and souls. An explanation for consciousness is central to such an undertaking. This book, like so many others on this subject, served to raise a lot of fascinating questions, illuminate a little around the edges, but ultimately leave the big mysteries undisturbed.

In some ways a sequel to "The Emperor's New Mind", the present volume is much more focused and ambitious. It can be read as a stand-alone, though a familiarity with mathematics, physics, and philosophy of the mind are most helpful. A lot of the material is deeply technical, by the very nature of the author's task. The material is broadly divided into two parts, the first being a logical proof that whatever it is human minds do, it cannot (even in principle) be entirely replicated by a computer. The proof itself is as fascinating as it is demanding, sort of a Cantor's diagonal argument on steroids. The main point is to establish with strict mathematical rigor that there is something profoundly special about human mental processes (i.e., it is "non-algorithmic", to use the jargon), that could be a clue in our search for the soul.

If you are convinced by (or are willing to accept) Part 1, then second part of the book tries to explore the physical (or material) basis for non-algorithmic processes in the brain. The author starts out with a straight summary of the relevant aspects of modern physics and the anatomy of the brain. He then concludes that existing science cannot furnish the mechanism he is looking for, and sets out to speculate about what kind of new science might fill in the gap. The argument is compelling and makes a strong case. However, if we step back a little, the conclusions and speculations don't quite add up to a satisfying picture: "an edifice built on sand," wrote another reviewer.

Still, this was a fascinating and worthwhile read. It was a very rewarding exercise to work through the proof in Part 1, and Part 2 served to clarify much of what lies on the current frontier of knowledge in the science of the mind. Penrose, a direct successor to Isaac Newton in a chaired professorship at Cambridge, is a brilliant and accomplished scientist. As I noted above, however, books on the subject of minds, brains, and related philosophical issues don't provide answers to the ultimate questions. Rather, they tell us about what is already known (relatively little), raise interesting questions, challenge the reader with clever arguments, and speculate about what might be discovered someday. Readers derive more from the journey than the destination. Maybe that is all we can hope for in this genre.

SHADOWS OF THE MIND - a Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

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Roger Penrose
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Throughout her lifetime, Marianne Moore was an avid editor of her own verse. The bulk of her poems appear in numerous, at times vastly different published versions. For Moore, no text was ever stable or finished; each opportunity to publish offered an opportunity to revise. Becoming Marianne Moore gives scholars and readers access to the multiple variant versions of Moore's poems published between 1907 and 1924. An innovative, deeply contextualized facsimile edition of the poet's published early verse, it brilliantly demonstrates that modernist textuality is not a fixed, static product but an ongoing, fluid process.
Becoming Marianne Moore offers readers a full facsimile reprint of the first edition of Observations (1924), the book that garnered Moore the Dial Award for Literature and solidified her reputation as a modernist poet of note. The reprint is followed by a collection of facsimiles that presents each of Moore's poems published between 1907 and 1924 as it first appeared in a modernist little magazine. Each facsimile is accompanied by a variorum table that gives scholars quick access to all of the published changes that Moore made to each poem and a series of brief bibliographical notes that supply information about the immediate publication contexts of all of the presentations of the poem. These notes, in turn, point readers to narrative accounts of Moore's associations with her early publishers that offer a range of historical, contextual, biographical, and bibliographic information about the publication events of Moore's poems and explore her attempts to shape her literary career in concert with some of her most famous modernist peers--Richard Aldington, H.D., Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.
A wonderful fusion of historical research and critical sensitivity, Becoming Marianne Moore will change the way people think about Moore's verse and modernist textuality in general. A powerful intervention into Moore studies, it gives readers a broader sense of the poet's complex and brilliant career.

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