Lewis's Fifth Floor

Lewis's Fifth Floor
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : 1846312469
ISBN-13 : 9781846312465
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Lewis's Fifth Floor by :

The legendary Lewis's store in Liverpool is a landmark that retains the affections of the city. Once a famed emporium of glamour and spectacle which drew crowds from miles around and became the subject of urban myths, the store was part of a retail phenomenon that changed the way we shop and the architectural landscape of our cities: a world in miniature, where shoppers could buy everything under one roof and the staff included up to four generations of families. This book contains remarkable photographs taken on the 'lost' fifth floor of Lewis's by photographer Stephen King. They capture the remarkable history and former glory.

Liar's Poker

Liar's Poker
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 313
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393338690
ISBN-13 : 039333869X
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Liar's Poker by : Michael Lewis

The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

Next: The Future Just Happened

Next: The Future Just Happened
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 239
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393066241
ISBN-13 : 039306624X
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Next: The Future Just Happened by : Michael Lewis

The New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."—BusinessWeek With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods are crumbling. In the new order, the amateur is king: fourteen-year-olds manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Unseen forces undermine all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. With a new afterword by the author.

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 137
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781324002659
ISBN-13 : 1324002654
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by : Michael Lewis

The New York Times Bestseller, with a new afterword "[Michael Lewis’s] most ambitious and important book." —Joe Klein, New York Times Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative of the Trump administration’s botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed. The government manages a vast array of critical services that keep us safe and underpin our lives from ensuring the safety of our food and drugs and predicting extreme weather events to tracking and locating black market uranium before the terrorists do. The Fifth Risk masterfully and vividly unspools the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works.

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393244663
ISBN-13 : 0393244660
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by : Michael Lewis

Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 272
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393048131
ISBN-13 : 0393048136
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by : Michael M. Lewis

Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.

Graven Images

Graven Images
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 380
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780826430267
ISBN-13 : 0826430260
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Graven Images by : A. David Lewis

Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material—in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts—occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.

The Stalker

The Stalker
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Publisher : Crossroad Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis The Stalker by : Julia Teweles

“A frightening story told with skill and cunning… strong stuff.” – Peter Straub Featuring a new introduction by Billy Martin. Deep in the bowels of the dark, desolate warehouse, the terror lay waiting. It had waited for a hundred years. It could wait a few more days. And when the boy came—so young, so blissfully ignorant of the twisted secrets he disturbed—it would embrace him with sickening perfume and breathe unspeakable horrors into his ear! SEEDS OF DEATH! Lewis knew that something in that place wanted him—wanted to crawl into his mind. It knew his innermost fears and could twist his soul with its demented whispering. But most terrifying of all was that even as he ran screaming from its grasp, he knew he would have to go back…

C.S. Lewis in a Time of War

C.S. Lewis in a Time of War
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 340
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780060881399
ISBN-13 : 0060881399
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis C.S. Lewis in a Time of War by : Justin Phillips

C. S. Lewis is universally recognized as one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. A noted scholar, Lewis was able to reach a vast popular audience during his lifetime and continues to attract thousands of new readers every year. But how did Lewis first become a popular public figure? During the most desperate years of World War II, Lewis was asked by the British Broadcasting Corporation's recently created Home Service to give radio addresses on Christianity to a nation shaken by war. The choice was controversial. At first dismissed by critics as a layman who was unqualified to tackle such weighty issues, Lewis proved to be enormously persuasive. These radio talks were eventually published as Mere Christianity, which now ranks as one of the great classics of religious literature. This rich chapter in Lewis's life, which deals with his love-hate relationship with the "new" medium of broadcasting, has received little attention from biographers and commentators. Yet it was Lewis's work on the radio that made him a household name. By combining narrative skill and adroitly quoting from correspondence, Phillips captures Lewis's reservations, vexations, achievements, and, finally, his enormous success. C. S. Lewis in a Time of War is a fascinating look at how these talks were created and the enthusiastic response they generated at a time when bombing in London caused many radio stations to be evacuated. This book reveals a rich, previously untapped vein of Lewis's life and work that will intrigue his millions of fans.