Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls

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The first complete Who's Who in the history of the world's best-known financial street
Charles D. Ellis and James R. Vertin have crafted a window on Wall Street that investors won't want to miss. These two Wall Street insiders provide detailed profiles of dozens of the most fascinating, influential, and talked-about financial luminaries ever to light up the dark and cavernous purlieus of the world's most famous street. Related here are intriguing tales of money won and lost, amazing coups, brazen cons of financial brilliance, and untrammeled greed and blind ambition. This compelling series includes profiles of the biggest names today: Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, Larry Tisch, Jim Rogers, Sanford Weill, and George Soros-as well as investment losers like Ivan Boesky and Nicholas Leeson.
Charles D. Ellis (Greenwich, CT) is a Managing Partner of Greenwich Associates, the international financial consulting firm. Now fully retired, James R. Vertin (Menlo Park, CA) was a principal of Alpine Counselors, a financial consulting firm.

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Too brief a bibliography, too historical a trading or inv bk.......2002-11-01

I understoodd that it would be stupid to expect something close to the "Market Wizard" standard from a 342 page book covering over 80 big names intriguing enough for 180 more books. However, I did expect a summary or two about the life, trading or investment methods of the people covered in the book. The passage devoted to Bernard Baruch is a rare exception to the above. A pity that it was mostly copy and paste from the work of other authors. Even worse, the content is not timely. For e.g., the article of Robertson was written nearly a decade before the Tiger Fund got drown in Russia. It would be much better if the author had written several volumes and covered more and timely of each guru.

Insightful!.......2001-08-29

Writing with James R. Vertin, author Charles D. Ellis presents brief profiles of 85 Wall Street leaders who contributed to the growth of the world's major financial marketplace. The authors divide these individuals - all men, which tells a tale right there - into four slightly arbitrary groups: masters of investing, movers and shakers, business builders, and wisemen and rascals. The collection is drawn from the other writers' pieces about these men, and includes occasional articles the featured financiers wrote themselves. Apart from a few brief notes about some patterns that the author observed, these excerpts from various sources stand alone, with no overarching theme or exposition. We [...] keenly feel the lack of a few analytical essays that might have pulled the collection together and integrated it thematically, but even so, this serves as a useful research tool and an interesting introduction to a unique confluence of powerful men.

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Ralston, Jackson H. International Arbitration from Athens to Locarno. Stanford University Press, 1929. xvi, 417 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-396-2. ISBN-10: 1-58477-396-0. Cloth.

* Ralston [1857-1945] was an American diplomat and scholar of international law. Written from the perspective of a professional, this study is notable for its deep understanding of history and the nature of international arbitration. The first part outlines general principles of judicial settlement between nations. The second part is a historical survey of international arbitration from antiquity to the Treaty of Locarno (1925).

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Biochemie: Lernen leicht gemacht

Der Inhalt:
-Die Moleküle des Lebens
-Molekulare Genetik
-Stoffwechsel
-Zellen und ihre Umgebung
-Molekulare Physiologie
-Biochemische Methoden

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- 40 in sich geschlossene Lerneinheiten von 10-15 Seiten
- Übersichtlich, kurz, umfassend und didaktisch ausgefeilt

Biochemie: So macht Lernen Spaß

Gentle Bridges: Architecture, Art and Science

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Gentle Bridges: Architecture, Art and Science
R. Anthony Hyman , Gerhard Mack , and Juhani Pallasmaa
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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ASIN: 3764367504

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Das Forschungsinstitut für 300 internationale Spitzenwissenschaftler in der "Biopolis" Dresden bildet den idealen Rahmen für die Begegnung von Avantgarde-Architektur, zeitgenössischer Kunst und avancierter Naturwissenschaft. die renommierten finnischen Architekten Heikkinen & Komonen, die u.a. die Botschaft ihres Landes in Washington bauten, entwarfen hier einen "Ort, an dem das postgenomische Zeitalter beginnen soll" (DIE ZEIT). Der Berner Künstler George Steinmann, der mit seinen auf die Vernetzung natürlicher Systeme gerichteten Arbeiten vor allem in Nordeuropa, Kanada und der Schweiz präsent ist, hat die naturwissenschaftlichen Vorgänge in Form mehrerer Medien in einem "Metalog" aufgegriffen. Nicht zuletzt erscheinen zelluläre Vorgänge in den heute möglichen Visualisierungen als kongeniale Kunstwerke. In den großformatigen Abbildungen und den Texten der international renommierten Autoren werden die zahlreichen faszinierenden Verbindungen zwischen den beteiligten Disziplinen erkundet.

Molekulare Zellbiologie (Springer-Lehrbuch)

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Molekulare Zellbiologie (Springer-Lehrbuch)
Gerald Karp
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540238573

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Ein Muss für alle Biologiestudenten

- Einführung in die Grundlagen der Zellbiologie

- Umfassende Darstellung der Molekularen Zellbiologie mit weiterführender Literatur für Fortgeschrittene

Prüfungsrelevantes Kompaktwissen für folgende Fachrichtungen: Molekulare Medizin, Humanmedizin, Molekulare Immunbiologie, Biotechnologie, Bioinformatik, Biologie-Lehramt

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- Komprimiert, übersichtlich, vollständig

- Didaktisch unschlagbar (Themenboxen, Zusammenfassungen, Lernfragen)

- Spannend und super gut zu lesen

- Topaktuell

Lernen leichtgemacht!

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Molekulare Zellbiologie
James Darnell
Manufacturer: Walter De Gruyter Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 311011934X

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The research papers in this book were presented as part of the Fourth International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements. The purpose of the conference was to present current knowledge of the sources, pathways, behavior and effects of trace elements in soils, waters, plants and animals. Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in Coal and Coal Combustion Byproducts is for a variety of readers, including public health and environmental professionals, industrial hygienists, consultants, waste management professionals, and academicians. It may also prove valuable to scientists conducting research on coal and coal combustion byproducts.

Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in Coal and Coal Combustion Byproducts

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Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in Coal and Coal Combustion Byproducts
International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements 1997
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSV22S

E Verdaguer, Classical & Quantum Gravity, 1995

... the book should interest a wide audience of readers. The main lectures are good authoritative reviews of the field and are written in a non technical language. Physicists with a broad interest in cosmology and particle theory and also historians of science should find this book useful.

The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures Volume 3

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The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures Volume 3

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This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today. In a form accessible to the interested general physicist, it covers topics ranging from the use of field-theoretical methods in different contexts via duality symmetries between various field theories, to the Ads/CFT correspondence and cosmology.

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The title, as Dave Barry admits, is not entirely accurate. To be sure, this collection of articles does contain what the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author calls "an unusually high (for me) level of factual content." But there is also an abundance of goofy reportage, fart jokes (see "It's A Gas"), and Barry's long-overdue thoughts on natural childbirth.

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You can't make this stuff up! Dave Barry would never lie--and here are the real life, laugh-out-loud stories from across America to prove it: a U.S. Supreme Court justice shares his remedy for preventing gas ("I had not realized that this was a matter of concern in the highest levels of government"); a newspaper headline in Ohio announces the combustibility of strawberry Pop-Tarts ("A story that can really help you gain a better understanding of how you can be killed by breakfast snack food"); the frightening fact that snakes have mastered the pipelines leading directly to your toilet--and they're not shy ("Many women might view this as a fair punishment for all the billions of times that guys have left the seat up").

So get up-close with Dave as he swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth . . . so God help you!

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Other Books.......2007-09-03

A collection of amusing anecdotes from the American writer, humorist and columnist Dave Barry. He finds all sorts of weird, crazy, stupid and funny stuff that people do, say or come up with all across the United States of America, and puts them into print.

Dave doesn't mind a drop of the droll, Dave doesn't.

comedy at its best.......2007-08-28

I have read nearly all of Dave's books, and it never ceases to amaze me that he can be hilarious on each and every occasion. He doesn't duplicate any annecdotes, he simply uses his comic genius to make up new ones.. you will never be bored with Dave's ability to make you rush to the toilet to save wetting the floor, or laughing so hard you feel sick, and the back of your head hurts. This book is my favourite. Every story is funny, clever, and even sometimes sentimental. Please buy this one, you won't regret it. He's on top form.

not my style.......2007-07-12

Sorry, my husband and I listened to this for quite a bit and did not find it funny at all and didn't even want to continue listening to it, it just seemed long and boring--I guess we have a different sense of humor than most of the other reviewers.

Unique sense of humor and easy reading.......2007-05-24

This is an incredibly funny writer who is able to dramatise everyday events into a comical prose. Dave Barry had me laughing out loud in public places with some of the essays in this book. The only thing I would say is that this is one of those books that you can't read cover to cover...you need to take a break now and then before jumping back in.

Dave Barry is one funny dude!.......2007-02-21

Dave Barry is one of my favorite columnists ever, and I was deeply saddened by his decision to retire. Luckily, he has all these great collections of his past articles, and this is the first one I've read. He has so many seemingly random things to write about, and every one of them is absolutely hilarious. A particular favorite of mine is how he speculates on how he could make it rich quick by writing a John Grisham-esque legal novel. His parody of that style of book is a riot, especially since I'm familiar with some of those books. Other highlights include an article about loud obnoxious passengers on airplanes, a poll on the worst songs ever recorded, and several narratives about his expeditions on his not-so-trusty boat Buster. A must-have for humor enthusiasts everywhere.

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Dave Barry is not Making This Up
Dave Barry
Manufacturer: Crown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IRKVXQ

Dave Barry is Not Making This Up. Signed book.

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Dave Barry is Not Making This Up. Signed book.
Dave. BARRY
Manufacturer: See notes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WETLNG

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Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up
Dave Barry
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVQM84

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Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up
Dave Barry
Manufacturer: Fawcett Columbine
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ASIN: B000K1KU86

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