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Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Sony Retreats Further From The Ebook Business - 1 views
One of the original pioneers of the ebook business is beating a hasty retreat back to its stronghold and ceding all of its customers to a rival. Sony will no longer be selling ebooks to customers ...
Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Reviews on Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in th... - 1 views
Atul Gawande, a Boston surgeon explores the issues of aging and death in this book which, among other books dealing with the same subjects, echoes the driving desire for awareness of the human cond...
Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc A Plea: Let Some Ebook Data Flow - 1 views
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Clash Of The Financial Pundits - 1 views
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Aldrey Dyman on 11 Jun 14How the Media Influences Your Investment Decisions for Better or Worse by Joshua M. Brown and Jeff Macke (McGraw-Hill, 2014) is a book by financial pundits about financial pundits. It alternates between reflections on the financial media (I assume written by Josh Brown) and interviews conducted by Jeff Macke. The interviewees are Jim Rogers, Ben Stein, Karen Finerman, Henry Blodget, Herb Greenberg, James Altucher, Barry Ritholtz, and Jim Cramer. Since both authors are members of the financial media (Brown is author of The Reform Broker blog and a regular contributor to CNBC, Macke is the host of Breakout on Yahoo Finance), the reader can't expect to be told: "just turn off the news." Instead, the authors try to explain which pundits may be worth listening to and which ones are just noise, or worse. For investors who are not intrinsically skeptical and who have no idea of how to separate the wheat from the chaff, the authors offer a few good pointers. For the rest of us-hardened, cynical folk that we are, the interviews offer some good tidbits. The book has a strange subtext, along the lines of "I once was lost but now I'm found." Jeff Macke recounts his career-killing "Car People" episode on the now defunct evening program CNBC Reports and his subsequent emotional descent and recovery. And he interviews three insiders who to a greater or lesser degree faced their own professional crises: Henry Blodget, banned from the securities industry but now the editor and CEO of Business Insider; Jim Cramer, who took a drubbing on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show; and James Altucher, who seems to specialize in failing and bouncing back-and writing about it. Whom do I personally consider worth listening to? First, those who readily admit they don't know the answer. Bob Shiller comes to mind here. Second, those who move markets, such as David Tepper. And third, those who are both
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The World's First Stock Exchange - 1 views
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In his famous book Confusión de confusions Joseph Penso de la Vega wrote: "If one were to lead a stranger through the streets of Amsterdam and ask him where he was, he would answer 'among speculators,' for there is no corner where one does not talk shares." And, Lodewijk Petram adds, "the people of Amsterdam were talking about options, too, and forward selling, quotations and prices, risk and speculation-all relating to the trade in the shares of the Dutch East India Company (the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC), which had been established in 1602. Fortunes were made and lost, and the men who engaged in this trade were wholly in thrall to it." Petram did extensive archival research, including mining the records of active traders, to shed new light on de la Vega's account of the Amsterdam stock market. The Dutch edition of his book appeared in 2011. Columbia Business School Publishing/Columbia University Press has just released the English edition, The World's First Stock Exchange, skillfully translated by Lynne Richards. It's an engrossing tale.
Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Scanner for ebook cannot tell its 'arms' fro... - 1 views
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is already one of my favourite books blogs, but editor Sarah Wendell has now raced to the top of my list for, well, everything after her amazing spot yesterday. "So if ...
Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Book Review: Prince Caspian (The Return to Narnia) - 1 views
It's always a joy to rediscover old favorites, especially something from famous novelist CS Lewis. His classic series of fantasy novels for children has already spawned three movie adaptations, b...
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 'Happy Clouds, Happy Trees' - 2 views
Bob Ross, with his big brown Afro and soothing on-screen persona, was known as the ultimate encouraging instructor to thousands who watched his PBS series "The Joy of Painting." Until he died in 19...
Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Review: Artemis Fowl - 1 views
As a Sherlock Holmes fan, I'm already partial to a character whose qualities include a calculating mind and a knack for intelligent quips. If he happens to be the main character in a heist plot, th...
Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Book Review: The Seven Dials Mystery - 1 views
Starting the year is a look-back on a classic from the Queen of Mysteries herself Agatha Christie, known for, well, great mystery novels. The Seven Dials Mystery started out lightly in a country h...
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Emerging Markets In An Upside Down World - 1 views
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Jerome Booth, a British economist, investor, and entrepreneur, has written a refreshing book. Emerging Markets in an Upside Down World: Challenging Perceptions in Asset Allocation and Investment (Wiley, 2014) is not the usual whirlwind trip around the emerging market world-"if it's Tuesday it must be sub-Saharan Africa." Rather, Booth looks at some generally accepted notions that both inform and misinform emerging market investors and tries to set the record straight. The book is, to labor the travel metaphor, a tour of ideas conducted by a knowledgeable, articulate guide.