New Releases by Michael Lewis

The life of Sam Bankman-Fried up until a little after FTX/Alameda Research exploded.

"Operations Management (OM) is a multi-faceted blend of myriad academic and practical disciplines - from engineering and economics via mathematics and marketing, to systems and psychology. To present a state of the art, the book presents contemporary scholarship as an imaginary exhibit, each chapter a thematic 'gallery') curated to illustrate the breadth of the field and connect with its extended lineage. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book provides an inspirational introduction to contemporary scholarship in one of the oldest business and management disciplines; OM builds on fundamental, universal, human and organizational principles. To offer the reader a thought-provoking point of entry into the selected OM sub-fields (process; planning and control; people; strategy and measurement; technology) each chapter, or gallery, is introduced by a description of some extraordinary artwork, artefacts, paintings, sculptures and architecture. The content has been curated around three principles intended to be benefit to the casual reader and both new and established OM scholars. First, it incorporates works that build on, or help to distinguish, fundamental tenets from more transitory fads. Second, the text makes significant efforts to try and better balance non-manufacturing (i.e., given the gravitational pull of the factory, not an accurate representation of the majority of the field) and three, to try to keep managerial rather than technical/analytical concerns to the fore. This concise book provides a useful overview of current and classic OM research. Written by a leading authority, it is intended to be valuable and engaging resource for both students and scholars of business"--

Stories of skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19. The profiles include a local public-health officer and a group of doctors nicknamed the Wolverines.

The #1 *New York Times* bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, 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. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling *Liar’s Poker*. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely—really unlikely—heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.

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.