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Pub. Date
c2010
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Description
Michael Centella is a rising star at Wall Street investment bank Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until the love of his life, Ivy Layton, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Seven years later, Michael's got undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he's desperate to clear his name. He doesn't want to believe it, but the signs point to his...
2) Lamerica
Publisher
Distributed by New Yorker Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's acting "chairman", the two turn to Spiro - a prisoner of war...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
564 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
6) Tap dancing to work: Warren Buffett on practically everything, 1966-2012 : a Fortune magazine book
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 345 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"The arc of Buffett's business life is covered in this book. The editor of Fortune magazine has collected and updated the best Buffett articles published in Fortune between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. The editor has provided commentary about each major article, supplying context and her own informed point of view. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett's investment strategies...
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Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor's adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 960 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 221 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"The empowering story of Larry Hite's unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world-with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student-and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative...
Author
Publisher
Paidós (Ediciones Culturales Paidós)
Pub. Date
mayo de 2022.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Juan Diego Gómez Gómez, autor de cuatro best sellers, presenta en este sorprendente e inspirador libro, ideas sobre cómo progresar a partir de cero, tal y como él lo hizo. Con nuevas revelaciones, sugerencias prácticas y lecciones útiles, el autor te lleva de la mano a explotar tu potencial y vivir una vida más próspera y feliz. Un viaje fascinante, cargado de sabiduría y determinación, salpicado, como siempre, del buen humor y la irreverencia...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Russian business tycoon Boris A. Berezovsky. During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
13) The ivory tower
Author
Formats
Description
Unfinished at the time of James's death in 1916, the Ivory Tower utilizes a classic Jamesian theme-American innocence transformed by European experience. Here, however, there's a twist: the hero was raised abroad and returns to America with its immense Gilded Age fortunes to discover the corrupting effects of wealth and possessions.
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 414 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian--the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk-taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business."--Jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption"--Amazon.com.
A reaHife political thriller about an American-born financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the people responsible in the Kremlin. Bill Browder started out his...
16) Money monster
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
18) Money monster
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
xii, 201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars and British royalty, the mysterious self-made man who rose from blue-collar Brooklyn to the heights of luxury. But while he was flying around the world on his private jet and hosting lavish parties at his private island in the Caribbean, he also was secretly masterminding an international child sex ring-one that may have involved the richest and most...
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