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Convenient Terrorist : Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies (9781510711648)

by Kiriakou, John; Hickman, Joseph  · 13 Jun 2017  · 123pp  · 34,936 words

The Rough Guide to Portugal (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 1 Mar 2023  · 919pp  · 252,171 words

The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi

by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke and Lindsey Lacz  · 11 Jul 2016  · 304pp  · 97,603 words

Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

by Dani Rodrik  · 12 Oct 2015  · 226pp  · 59,080 words

Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy

by Daniel Gross  · 7 May 2012  · 391pp  · 97,018 words

Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel

by Josh Riedel  · 17 Jan 2023  · 287pp  · 85,518 words

Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values

by Sharon Beder  · 30 Sep 2006  · 273pp  · 34,920 words

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

by Hubert Joly  · 14 Jun 2021  · 265pp  · 75,202 words

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

by William Easterly  · 4 Mar 2014  · 483pp  · 134,377 words

Working the Street: What You Need to Know About Life on Wall Street

by Erik Banks  · 7 Feb 2004

still has to keep the books, do the audits, and look after the technology, regardless of how business is faring. So it follows from the risk/return equation we talked about earlier that the relative lack of job security commands a higher risk premium—payable in the form of a larger bonus

The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction

by Richard Bookstaber  · 1 May 2017  · 293pp  · 88,490 words

The Rough Guide to Chile & Easter Island (Travel Guide with Free eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 15 Mar 2023  · 885pp  · 238,165 words

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

by Rowan Hooper  · 15 Jan 2020  · 285pp  · 86,858 words

Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World

by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt  · 20 Apr 2015  · 294pp  · 82,438 words

Ireland (Lonely Planet, 9th Edition)

by Fionn Davenport  · 15 Jan 2010

What Makes Narcissists Tick

by Kathleen Krajco

The Downfall of Money: Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class

by Frederick Taylor  · 16 Sep 2013  · 473pp  · 132,344 words

Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins

by Andrew Cockburn  · 10 Mar 2015  · 389pp  · 108,344 words

The Sport and Prey of Capitalists

by Linda McQuaig  · 30 Aug 2019  · 263pp  · 79,016 words

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words

Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil

by Alex Cuadros  · 1 Jun 2016  · 433pp  · 125,031 words

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

by Kevin Phillips  · 31 Mar 2008  · 422pp  · 113,830 words

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

by Richard McGregor  · 8 Jun 2010

Do You Sincerely Want To Be Rich?

by Charles Raw, Bruce Page and Godfrey Hodgson  · 16 May 2005  · 552pp  · 169,398 words

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott  · 4 Jul 2022  · 308pp  · 85,850 words

Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required

by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung  · 8 Jul 2019  · 389pp  · 81,596 words

Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World

by Paul Collier  · 30 Sep 2013  · 303pp  · 83,564 words

The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street

by Jonathan A. Knee  · 31 Jul 2006  · 362pp  · 108,359 words

The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments

by Pat Dorsey  · 1 Mar 2008  · 141pp  · 40,979 words

Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One

by Meghnad Desai  · 15 Feb 2015  · 270pp  · 73,485 words

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

by Peter Warren Singer  · 1 Jan 2003  · 482pp  · 161,169 words

Hawaii

by Jeff Campbell  · 4 Nov 2009

Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism

by Richard Brooks  · 23 Apr 2018  · 398pp  · 105,917 words

Galactic North

by Alastair Reynolds  · 14 Feb 2006  · 436pp  · 124,373 words

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression

by Richard A. Posner  · 30 Apr 2009  · 305pp  · 69,216 words

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse

by Mohamed A. El-Erian  · 26 Jan 2016  · 318pp  · 77,223 words

The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze

by Laura Shin  · 22 Feb 2022  · 506pp  · 151,753 words

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 4 Apr 2022  · 338pp  · 85,566 words

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco  · 26 Sep 2006  · 1,166pp  · 373,031 words

Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz  · 8 Jul 2024  · 259pp  · 89,637 words

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber  · 29 Oct 2024  · 292pp  · 106,826 words

The Cleaner: The True Story of One of the World's Most Successful Money Launderers

by Bruce Aitken  · 2 Mar 2017

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope

by John A. Allison  · 20 Sep 2012  · 348pp  · 99,383 words

Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

by Tom Eisenmann  · 29 Mar 2021  · 387pp  · 106,753 words

Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

by Walker Deibel  · 19 Oct 2018

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross  · 19 Nov 2020  · 197pp  · 53,831 words

All the Devils Are Here

by Bethany McLean  · 19 Oct 2010  · 543pp  · 157,991 words

What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy

by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale  · 23 May 2011  · 397pp  · 112,034 words

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

by Duff McDonald  · 5 Oct 2009  · 419pp  · 130,627 words

The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard

by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel  · 3 Oct 2016  · 504pp  · 126,835 words

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

by Bhu Srinivasan  · 25 Sep 2017  · 801pp  · 209,348 words

Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

by Robert Skidelsky  · 13 Nov 2018

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier  · 29 Mar 2017

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

by Scott Patterson  · 5 Jun 2023  · 289pp  · 95,046 words

The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . And Are Ready to Do It Again

by Nicholas Dunbar  · 11 Jul 2011  · 350pp  · 103,270 words

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

by Eswar S. Prasad  · 27 Sep 2021  · 661pp  · 185,701 words

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America)

by Louis Hyman  · 3 Jan 2011

Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

by Romeo Dallaire and Brent Beardsley  · 9 Aug 2004  · 897pp  · 210,566 words

Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

by Ronald Cohen  · 1 Jul 2020  · 276pp  · 59,165 words

Money for Nothing

by Thomas Levenson  · 18 Aug 2020  · 495pp  · 136,714 words

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

by Richard Bookstaber  · 5 Apr 2007  · 289pp  · 113,211 words

New Market Wizards: Conversations With America's Top Traders

by Jack D. Schwager  · 28 Jan 1994  · 512pp  · 162,977 words

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril

by Satyajit Das  · 9 Feb 2016  · 327pp  · 90,542 words

Rigged Money: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game

by Lee Munson  · 6 Dec 2011  · 236pp  · 77,735 words

Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager

by Lars Kroijer  · 26 Jul 2010  · 244pp  · 79,044 words

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

by Justin Fox  · 29 May 2009  · 461pp  · 128,421 words

The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers (Wiley Finance)

by Feng Gu  · 26 Jun 2016

Take the Money and Run: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Demise of American Prosperity

by Eric C. Anderson  · 15 Jan 2009  · 264pp  · 115,489 words

Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement

by Robert Clyatt  · 28 Sep 2007

Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets

by David J. Leinweber  · 31 Dec 2008  · 402pp  · 110,972 words

The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

by Mihir Desai  · 22 May 2017  · 239pp  · 69,496 words

The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals

by Daniel R. Solin  · 7 Nov 2006

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf  · 24 Nov 2015  · 524pp  · 143,993 words

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win

by Sachin Khajuria  · 13 Jun 2022  · 229pp  · 75,606 words

Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World

by Brett Chistophers  · 25 Apr 2023  · 404pp  · 106,233 words

Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai  · 25 Jul 2025

Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance

by Paul Wilmott  · 3 Jan 2007  · 345pp  · 86,394 words

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

by Harry Markopolos  · 1 Mar 2010  · 431pp  · 132,416 words

The Little Book of Hedge Funds

by Anthony Scaramucci  · 30 Apr 2012  · 162pp  · 50,108 words

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

by Satyajit Das  · 15 Nov 2006  · 349pp  · 134,041 words

Investment: A History

by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing  · 19 Feb 2016

How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite

by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter  · 30 Jun 2007

Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets

by Michael W. Covel  · 19 Mar 2007  · 467pp  · 154,960 words

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

by Peter L. Bernstein  · 19 Jun 2005  · 425pp  · 122,223 words

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 9 Jun 2010  · 584pp  · 187,436 words

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

by Satyajit Das  · 14 Oct 2011  · 741pp  · 179,454 words

Mastering Private Equity

by Zeisberger, Claudia,Prahl, Michael,White, Bowen, Michael Prahl and Bowen White  · 15 Jun 2017

The Rise of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis

by Tim Lee, Jamie Lee and Kevin Coldiron  · 13 Dec 2019  · 241pp  · 81,805 words

The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds

by Maneet Ahuja, Myron Scholes and Mohamed El-Erian  · 29 May 2012  · 302pp  · 86,614 words

Capital Ideas Evolving

by Peter L. Bernstein  · 3 May 2007

Stigum's Money Market, 4E

by Marcia Stigum and Anthony Crescenzi  · 9 Feb 2007  · 1,202pp  · 424,886 words

Risk Management in Trading

by Davis Edwards  · 10 Jul 2014

Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

by Didier Sornette  · 18 Nov 2002  · 442pp  · 39,064 words

Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in a Global Market

by Steven Drobny  · 31 Mar 2006  · 385pp  · 128,358 words

Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy J. Siegel  · 18 Dec 2007

Derivatives Markets

by David Goldenberg  · 2 Mar 2016  · 819pp  · 181,185 words

Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado  · 2 Feb 2018  · 571pp  · 105,054 words

Understanding Asset Allocation: An Intuitive Approach to Maximizing Your Portfolio

by Victor A. Canto  · 2 Jan 2005  · 337pp  · 89,075 words

Security Analysis

by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd  · 1 Jan 1962  · 1,042pp  · 266,547 words

Handbook of Modeling High-Frequency Data in Finance

by Frederi G. Viens, Maria C. Mariani and Ionut Florescu  · 20 Dec 2011  · 443pp  · 51,804 words

Investing Demystified: How to Invest Without Speculation and Sleepless Nights

by Lars Kroijer  · 5 Sep 2013  · 300pp  · 77,787 words

Mathematics of the Financial Markets: Financial Instruments and Derivatives Modelling, Valuation and Risk Issues

by Alain Ruttiens  · 24 Apr 2013  · 447pp  · 104,258 words

Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street

by Aaron Brown and Eric Kim  · 10 Oct 2011  · 483pp  · 141,836 words

The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak: The Terms You Need to Know to Talk Like Cramer, Think Like Soros, and Buy Like Buffett

by Jack (edited By) Guinan  · 27 Jul 2009  · 353pp  · 88,376 words

The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk

by William J. Bernstein  · 12 Oct 2000

Be Your Own Financial Adviser: The Comprehensive Guide to Wealth and Financial Planning

by Jonquil Lowe  · 14 Jul 2010  · 433pp  · 53,078 words

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 5 Jan 2015  · 482pp  · 121,672 words

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Taylor Larimore, Michael Leboeuf and Mel Lindauer  · 1 Jan 2006  · 335pp  · 94,657 words

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side

by Howard Marks  · 30 Sep 2018  · 302pp  · 84,428 words

The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It

by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig  · 15 Feb 2013  · 726pp  · 172,988 words

The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money

by Steven Drobny  · 18 Mar 2010  · 537pp  · 144,318 words

The Power of Passive Investing: More Wealth With Less Work

by Richard A. Ferri  · 4 Nov 2010  · 345pp  · 87,745 words

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy Siegel  · 7 Jan 2014  · 517pp  · 139,477 words

High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems

by Irene Aldridge  · 1 Dec 2009  · 354pp  · 26,550 words

Hedge Fund Market Wizards

by Jack D. Schwager  · 24 Apr 2012  · 272pp  · 19,172 words

Python for Algorithmic Trading: From Idea to Cloud Deployment

by Yves Hilpisch  · 8 Dec 2020  · 1,082pp  · 87,792 words

The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton

by Colin Read  · 16 Jul 2012  · 206pp  · 70,924 words

In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

by Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster  · 16 Aug 2021  · 542pp  · 145,022 words

Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies

by Igor Tulchinsky  · 30 Sep 2019  · 321pp

Systematic Trading: A Unique New Method for Designing Trading and Investing Systems

by Robert Carver  · 13 Sep 2015

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 10 Jan 2011  · 416pp  · 118,592 words

The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

by William J. Bernstein  · 26 Apr 2002  · 407pp  · 114,478 words

Concentrated Investing

by Allen C. Benello  · 7 Dec 2016

The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management

by Reuvid, Jonathan.  · 30 Oct 2011

Smarter Investing

by Tim Hale  · 2 Sep 2014  · 332pp  · 81,289 words

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor  · 15 Aug 2022  · 829pp  · 187,394 words

The New Science of Asset Allocation: Risk Management in a Multi-Asset World

by Thomas Schneeweis, Garry B. Crowder and Hossein Kazemi  · 8 Mar 2010  · 317pp  · 106,130 words

Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low Risk Investing

by Vijay Singal  · 15 Jun 2004  · 369pp  · 128,349 words

Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns

by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton  · 3 Feb 2002  · 353pp  · 148,895 words

Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection

by Greg N. Gregoriou, Vassilios Karavas, François-Serge Lhabitant and Fabrice Douglas Rouah  · 23 Sep 2004

Market Risk Analysis, Quantitative Methods in Finance

by Carol Alexander  · 2 Jan 2007  · 320pp  · 33,385 words

Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined

by Lasse Heje Pedersen  · 12 Apr 2015  · 504pp  · 139,137 words

Asset and Risk Management: Risk Oriented Finance

by Louis Esch, Robert Kieffer and Thierry Lopez  · 28 Nov 2005  · 416pp  · 39,022 words

Market Sense and Nonsense

by Jack D. Schwager  · 5 Oct 2012  · 297pp  · 91,141 words

All About Asset Allocation, Second Edition

by Richard Ferri  · 11 Jul 2010

Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen  · 4 Apr 2011  · 1,088pp  · 228,743 words

Principles of Corporate Finance

by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen  · 15 Feb 2014

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

by Tim Koller, McKinsey, Company Inc., Marc Goedhart, David Wessels, Barbara Schwimmer and Franziska Manoury  · 16 Aug 2015  · 892pp  · 91,000 words

Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice

by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi  · 16 Oct 2017  · 1,544pp  · 391,691 words

Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation

by Sebastien Page  · 4 Nov 2020  · 367pp  · 97,136 words

The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions

by Victor Haghani and James White  · 27 Aug 2023  · 314pp  · 122,534 words

Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

by Antti Ilmanen  · 24 Feb 2022