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In Pacific Rift, the best-selling author of Liar's Poker aims his skewering wit at the so-called cultural clash between Japan and the United States. The result is a very different kind of book on U.S.-Japanese business relations. In search of answers, Michael Lewis hits the road to report on the travails of two businessmen: one a rollicking American insurance agent who works in Tokyo, the other a Harvard-educated Japanese man employed by Mitsu...

Since the first edition of this volume was published in 1976, interest in the problem of intelligence in general and infant intelligence in particu­ lar has continued to grow. The response to the first edition was hearten­ ing: many readers found it a source of information for the diverse areas of study in infant intelligence. Because of the success of that volume, we have decided to issue a second edition. This edition is in many ways both si...

When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didna (TM)t feel, and to do things that he couldna (TM)t see the point of doing. At first, this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up. Michael decided to keep a written record ...

When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. In this New York Times bestseller, Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Lewis paints the mood and market factors leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts to show what people thought was happening at the time, and, with the luxury of hindsight, an...

How are we to understand the complex forces that shape human be­ havior? A variety of diverse perspectives, drawing on studies of human behavioral ontogeny, as well as humanity's evolutionary heritage, seem to provide the best likelihood of success. It is in an attempt to synthesize such potentially disparate approaches to human development into an integrated whole that we undertake this series on the genesis of behav­ ior. In many respects, t...

The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the contentious and polarizing political events in American history. In an attempt to understand what happened during these historic elections, this text recreates the classic from 1960, "The American Voter".

When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up. Lewis decided to keep a written record of what actu...

This book attempts to dispel some of the myths attached to the Bayeux Tapestry

Michael Lewis' bahnbrechendes und viel diskutiertes Werk The Lexical Approach bietet noch immer interessante und revolutionäre Einsichten zum Lehren und Lernen von Fremdsprachen. Kernthese seines Werkes ist, dass Sprache nicht als lexikalisierte Grammatik, sondern vielmehr als grammatikalisierte Lexik funktioniert. Dem Wortschatz - und nicht der Grammatik - wird also die maßgebliche Rolle beim Spracherwerb zugeschrieben, was zahlreiche Konsequ...

Introduces the history and methods of Phenomenology through the study of four key thinkers: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear, in any case, they weren't talking. Mic...

The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ?29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade. In these trenchant, often hilarious true tales we meet the colorful movers and shakers (or did th...

The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ?29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade. In these trenchant, often hilarious true tales we meet the colorful movers and shakers (or did th...

A complete and unabridged reading on four CDs. Read by Michael York. Readership level: 7 - 9 years.

Michael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bestseller Liar's Poker, he packed his mighty pen and set out on the 1996 campaign trail. As he follows the men who aspire to the Oval Office, Lewis discovers an absurd mix of bravery and backpedaling, heroic possibility and mealy-mouthed sound bytes, and a process so ridiculous and unsavory that it leaves him wondering if everyone involved-from the...

Frank Furness' energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture.

Die wahre Geschichte hinter der großen Finanzkrise - spannend wie ein KrimiDas ganze Geld ist nicht weg - es hat nur die Besitzer gewechselt. Was genau sich kurz vor der großen Finanzkrise hinter den Kulissen der Wall Street abspielte, erzählt der ehemalige Investmentbanker und heutige Bestsellerautor Michael Lewis auf eindrucksvolle Weise. In der wahren Geschichte über Gier und Maßlosigkeit im Herzen der Finanzwirtschaft legt er die zynischen...

While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.