Fiasco

Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201401
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiasco written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • One of the Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year • Time's 10 Best Books of the Year • USA Today's Nonfiction Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book "Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The best account yet of the entire war." —Vanity Fair The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq Fiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq through mid-2006, now with a postscript on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account—explosive, shocking, and authoritative—of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393336816
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book F.I.A.S.C.O. written by Frank Partnoy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's top Wall Street investment firms, Partnoy recounts his experience during the annual drunken skeet-shooting competition where he and his colleagues sharpen the killer instincts they're encouraged to use against competitors, clients, and each other.

Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544080106
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiasco written by Stanislaw Lem and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel” from the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris (The New York Times). The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth’s excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first contact with an alien civilization, and to use the expansive space technology developed by humanity to seek new worlds, friendships, and alliances. But what its crew discovers on the planet Quinta is nothing like they had hoped. Locked in a seemingly endless cold war among themselves, the Quintans are uncommunicative and violent, refusing any discourse—except for the firing of deadly weapons. The crew of the Hermes is determined to accomplish what they had set out to do. But the cost of learning the secrets hidden on the silent surface of Quinta may be grave. Stark, startling, and insightful, Fiasco has been praised by Publishers Weekly as “one of Lem’s best novels.” It is classic, thought-provoking hard science fiction, as prescient today as when it was first written.

Author : Imre Kertész
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612193293
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiasco written by Imre Kertész and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Fiasco as Imre Kertesz himself has said, "is fiction founded on reality"—a Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forced into the army and assigned to escort military prisoners, the protagonist decides to feign insanity to be released from duty. But meanwhile, life under the new regime is portrayed almost as an uninterrupted continuation of life in the Nazi concentration camps-which, in turn, is depicted as a continuation of the patriarchal dictatorship of joyless childhood. It is, in short, a searing extension of Kertesz' fundamental theme: the totalitarian experience seen as trauma not only for an individual but for the whole civilization—ours—that made Auschwitz possible.

Author : Ann Whitford Paul
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430130024
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiesta Fiasco written by Ann Whitford Paul and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brian and Rosi Amador perform the story with energy and a smile, giving distinct voices to each character and presenting the Spanish-language words (nicely defined in the text and in an accompanying glossary) with brío. Light original music with a Mexican flavor dances in the background. A delightful production." -School Library Journal

Author : James Robert Parish
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470358645
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiasco written by James Robert Parish and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years, such as Cleopatra, The Cotton Club, and Waterworld. He recounts, in every gory detail, how enormous hubris, unbridled ambition, artistic hauteur, and bad business sense on the parts of Tinsel Town wheeler-dealers and superstars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Clint Eastwood, and Francis Ford Coppola, conspired to engender some of the worst films ever.

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN 13 : 9781484726365
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cookie Fiasco (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!) written by Mo Willems and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four friends. Three cookies. One problem. Hippo, Croc, and the Squirrels are determined to have equal cookies for all! But how? There are only three cookies . . . and four of them! They need to act fast before nervous Hippo breaks all the cookies into crumbs!

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140278796
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiasco written by Frank Partnoy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't understand them. In his behind-the-scenes look at the trading floor and the offices of one of the world's top investment firms, Partnoy recounts the macho attitudes and fiercely competitive ploys of his office mates. And he takes us to the annual drunken skeet-shooting competition, FIASCO, where he and his colleagues sharpen the killer instincts they are encouraged to use against their competitiors, their clients, and each other. FIASCO is the first book to take on the derivatves trading industry, the most highly charged and risky sector of the stock market. More importantly, it is a blistering indictment of the largely unregulated market in derivatives and serves as a warning to unwary investors about real fiascos, which have cost billions of dollars.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393115348
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FIASCO: Blood in the Water on Wall Street written by Frank Partnoy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Businessweek Bestseller "You fail to read F.I.A.S.C.O. at your peril." —Los Angeles Times F.I.A.S.C.O. is the best-selling account of Frank Partnoy's education in the jungle of high finance from 1993 to 1995. It follows the young Morgan Stanley salesman as he learns to navigate a marketplace where billions of dollars are made and lost in the creation and trading of derivatives, a type of security that almost nobody fully understands. Seen in relief against the financial meltdown of 2008, F.I.A.S.C.O. appears ever more prescient, and in a new epilogue written for this edition, Partnoy connects his story to the central role derivatives played in that crisis.

Author : Joshua Davis
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608939979
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gelato Fiasco written by Joshua Davis and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Davis and Bruno Tropeano, two guys right out of college, felt that something was amiss. People in Maine created some of the best of everything in the world — higher education, ships, television doctors, winter boots. But the gelato of which they dreamt could not be found here in Maine, or anywhere else in the United States. Josh and Bruno sensed both a responsibility and an opportunity and set off to rediscover the lost art. Imagining a long-forgotten Red Spoon Society of superior gelato artisans, they learned the techniques and practices of the old masters of gelato. They used those techniques as a foundation for creating an even better gelato experience: make lots of creative flavors for discerning guests, serve them in a way that invites discovery and delight, and never compromise on quality. In 2007, the doors to their first gelato store opened. Josh and Bruno named it Gelato Fiasco as a hedge against trend-pursuers, treasure hunters, and impostors, for only a true food lover, guided by his or her own sense of adventure, would dare enter a store with that name. And as they loved it, they would share with their families and friends, who would share with theirs. Gelato Fiasco is a book brimming with humor, Maine values, mouth-watering color photographs, and, most importantly, delicious recipes (out of 1500 in the “flavor vault” the book will include 100 or so) for making your own gelato at home, plus recipes sauces, cones, and other treats to enjoy with your gelato.