Lewis Tabitha (55 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Poems and Praise. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxi, [3], 213, [3] pages. This work is based on articles that Lewis wrote for Vanity Fair magazine. Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Lewis attended Princeton University, from which he graduated. After attending the London School of Economics, he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. The experience prompted him to write his first book, Liar's Poker. Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. His 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game was his first to be adapted into a film, The Blind Side. In 2010, he released The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The film adaptation of Moneyball was released in 2011, followed by The Big Short in 2015. Lewis's books have won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and been notable selection features on the New York Times Bestsellers Lists. The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations. Derived from a Kirkus review: A world tour of nations that have collapsed financially or that played a role in the collapse of others. The author tours Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany and California to compose a broad picture of what went wrong. Like Lewis' other bestsellers, this book is alternately wry, laugh-out-loud humorous, serious and, most importantly, filled with insights. The author is a master at explaining financially complex realms by casting them as narratives of individuals. In each place, he finds people famous, infamous and nearly anonymous who can fairly be rendered as villains or heroes. Each chapter started as an article for Vanity Fair, yet the seemingly disparate features coalesce nicely in the book. Lewis is willing to generalize about the characteristics within each nation that led to unexpected consequences. The author delivers a nice balance of analysis and lucid writing. An enlightening, scary journey. From a review by The New York Times: Michael Lewis possesses the rare storyteller's ability to make virtually any subject both lucid and compelling. In his new book, "Boomerang," he actually makes topics like European sovereign debt, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank not only comprehensible but also fascinating â" even, or especially, to readers who rarely open the business pages or watch CNBC. The book could not be more timely given the worries about Europe's deepening debt crisis and the recent warning issued by Christine Lagarde, managing director of the I.M.F, that "the current economic situation is entering a dangerous phase." First Edition [stated]. Fifth printing [Stated]. Tabitha Soren (Author photograph) and Dwight Eschl (illustrator).…

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 221, [3] pages. If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system, those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night. Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University, from which he graduated with a degree in art history. After attending the London School of Economics, he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. The experience prompted him to write his first book, Liar's Poker (1989). Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. His 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game was his first to be adapted into a film, The Blind Side (2009). In 2010, he released The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The film adaptation of Moneyball was released in 2011, followed by The Big Short in 2015. Lewis's books have won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and been notable selection features on the New York Times Bestsellers Lists. What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? "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 about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it's not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do. Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. Derived from a Kirkus review: Lewis turns timely political reporting he published in Vanity Fair into a book about federal government bureaucracies during the first year of the Donald Trump presidency. At first, the author's curiosity about the relationship between individual citizens and massive federal agencies supported by taxpayer dollars did not lead him to believe the book would become a searing indictment of Trump. However, Lewis allowed the evidence to dictate the narrative, resulting in a book-length indictment of Trump's administration. The leading charge of the indictment is what Lewis terms "willful ignorance." Neither Trump nor his appointees to head government agencies have demonstrated even the slightest curiosity about how those agencies actually function. After Trump's election in November 2016, nobody from his soon-to-be-inaugurated administration visited federal agencies despite thorough preparation within those agencies to assist in a traditionally nonpartisan transition. Lewis primarily focuses on the Energy Department, the Agriculture Department, and the Commerce Department. To provide context, he contrasts the competent transition teams assembled after the previous elections of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Displaying his usual meticulous research and fluid prose, the author makes the federal bureaucracy come alive by focusing on a few individuals within each agency with fascinatingâ"and sometimes heartwarmingâ" backstories. In addition, Lewis explains why each of those individuals is important to the citizenry due to their sometimes arcane but always crucial roles within the government. As with nearly all of Lewis' books, this one succeeds on so many levels, including as a well-written primer on how the government serves citizens in underappreciated ways. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Pete Garceau (Jacket Photographs) and Tabitha Sore (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 192 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Magazine. First edition. Very Good magazine with light stress marks along the spine, light signs of handling, and light evidence of moisture exposure to one corner. The October 9, 2005, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, with: a profile of Raymond Pettibon by Michael Kimmelman and a portrait by Tierney Gearon; chapter 4 of Comfort to The Enemy by Elmore Leonard; part 4 of Building Stories, a graphic novel by Chris Ware; Michael Lewis on returning to his hometown, New Orleans, three days after Katrina, with photos by Tabitha Soren; Elizabeth Rubin on the change women can or cannot make in Afghanistan's Parliament, with photographs by Stephanie Sinclair; an interview with Noah Baumbach; Micky Wolfson and Michele Oka Doner's visual memoir of Miami Beach, by Herbert Muschamp; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 78 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

Magazine. First edition. Near Fine magazine with light signs of handling. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The April 24, 2005, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine with: baseball's obsession with home runs, by Michael Lewis with a portfolio of photographs by Tabitha Soren; today's prime-time tv shows are making you smarter, by Steven Johnson; why an autopsy is a good idea by David Dobbs with photos by Phillip Toledano; Matt Bai on the two political parties' contradictory idea of morality and politics with a photo by Constantine Manos; a fashion pictorial photographed in Bahia by Christophe Rihet; Trancoso, Brazil, photographed by Matthew Donaldson; Melanie Rehak on supersleuth Nancy Drew at 75; Richard A. Clarke on how Congress can stop identity theft; an interview with chief executive of PBS Ken Ferree; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 92 pages; color and b&w reproductions throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 192 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Magazine. The October 9, 2005, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, with: Raymond Pettibon profiled by Michael Kimmelman and photographed by Tiemey Gearon; Building Stories, Part 4, by Chris Ware; Chapter 4 of Comfort to the Enemy by Elmore Leonard; Elizabeth Rubin on the fate of Afghanistan now that female candidates have secured a place in the new Afghan Parliament with photographs by Stephanie Sinclair; Michael Lewis returns to his native New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, photographs by Tabitha Soren; Noah Baumbach interviewed by Deborah Solomon; fashion pictorial photographed by Robin Broadbent; Herbert Muschamp on Michele Oka Doner and Micky Wolfson's visual memoir of Miami Beach; Noah Feldman on Sunni Iraqis rejecting their new constitution; William Safire, On Language; True-Life Tales by Starlee Kine; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 78 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Condition: Near Fine with light signs of handling/storage. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

PF. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 6-7 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). Oblong 4to (25cm by 30cm), 44pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original laminated boards. Light rubbing to the extremities of the binding, else this book is in very good condition.