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“The most entertaining and insightful look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker.”'Paul Tudor Jones II*Welcome to the world of Martin “Buzzy” Schwartz, Champion Trader'the man whose nerves of steel and killer instinct in the canyons of Wall Street earned him the well-deserved name “Pit Bull.” This is the true story of how Schwartz became the best of the best, of the people and the places he discovered along the way, and the trader's tricks and techniques he used to make his millions. With great verve and style, Schwartz makes us a part of the action as we follow his career from his first gut-wrenching day trading options on the American Stock Exchange to his enormous successes trading futures, his pursuit of secretive foreign money for his hedge fund, his night trading bonds during the invasion of Iraq (during that first tumultuous night, he made $1.2 million by dawn), to the often painful yet valuable personal lessons he learned the hard way.It's a high-pressure, high-stakes world rarely seen by outsiders, and rarely written about by its inhabitants. Here, fortunes are made and lost in moments, and nobody brings it to life better than Marty Schwartz, the man Barron's calls “the best there is.” His stories are irresistible, and his candid accounts of his smart moves and blunders alike are priceless. Whether you want to play the markets yourself, wish to know how the buccaneer traders of Wall Street make'and lose'their money, or simply want to be entertained by a rollicking good story, Pit Bull is the audio you won't want to miss.Martin S. Schwartz is a legendary Wall Street trader who made his fortune successfully trading stocks, futures, and options. He has been profiled in Barron's and in the national bestseller Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager. David Morine and Paul Flint have been writing together for over ten years. They are the authors of two books and numerous articles and stories for a variety of magazines, including Sports Illustrated and Field and Stream.
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In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos.
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Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in its subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your college-level course. From Middle English through the modern writers, English Literature covers the key themes, quotations, and literary terms.
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Ladies Who Launch is the first company to define the feminine approach to launching a business and to make the connection between starting a business and bringing creativity into your life with self-esteem and happiness. Available for the first time in book form, the four-step incubator process gives women the courage to follow a cherished but unfulfilled dream. Ladies Who Launch provides a proven approach to catapulting a lifestyle, relationship, or occupation to an infinitely higher level.
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A New York Times editor sets out to answer the peculiarly marvelous questions of his precocious young son. Blending a charming father-son journey with the surprising, sometimes hilarious questions and answers it spawned, Father Knows Less offers a heartwarming exploration of that childlike curiosity that lives within us all.
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Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their own language: The grammar snobs are bluffing. Half the "rules" they use to humiliate others are really just judgment calls and the rest they don't even understand themselves. In this collection of hilarious anecdotes and essays, June Casagrande delivers practical language lessons not found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the snobs.
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An enlightening collection of business wisdom from the world's most famous dealmaker, Donald Trump.
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In Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk gives anything-but-standard business advice that will help new generations of workers fly past their coworkers in the effort to get to the top. Trunk's clear, in-your-face style lends itself perfectly to such advice as using office politics to your advantage or admitting to yourself that you need to change fields because you are not good at what you do. Containing forty-five tips and one rant, Brazen Careerist asserts that you must have a take-charge attitude and Machiavellian ethics in order to rise to the top of the business world.
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On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find and kicked it into a gallop. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single, thrilling narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were.
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Uses data gathered from diverse scientific disciplines to argue that the origin and development of moral reasoning do have a biological basis. By the author of Thinking about Crime. 30,000 first printing.
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In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States, and, before being sentenced to seventy years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City.In American Gangster, Mark Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas joins other tales of New York City from the past thirty years. The collection features a number of Jacobson's most famous essays, as well as previously unpublished works and more recent articles. Together, they create a vibrant, many-layered portrait of the most fascinating city in the world, by one of the most acclaimed journalists of our time.
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In this hard-hitting inside story, Norman Pearlstine shows that confidentiality has become a weapon in the White Housea (TM)s war on the press. Pearlstine calls on Congress to pass a federal shield law protecting journalists from the needless intrusions of government; at the same time, he calls on the press to name its sources whenever possible. Off the Record is a powerful argument, with the vividness and narrative drive of the best long-form journalism.
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See it. Hear it. Speak it.
Turn your iPod into a portable translator and put 1,500 Spanish phrases in your pocket.
Instead of just listening to the latest hits, you can use your iPod to hear and see 1,500 essential Spanish phrases. It's as simple as listening to a song by your favorite artist:
- Go to “Artist”--Choose the theme you want.
- Go to “Album”--Select your topic within the theme.
- Select the phrase you want to hear—you will not only hear the phrase but see it on your iPod screen!
Traveling has never been so easy nor sounded so good!
Designed for use with iPod.
Also compatible with Zune and most MP3 players. See manual for details.
Contains one MP3 audio disc and 64-page booklet.
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Senator Christopher J. Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg.
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