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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Book Review on '935 Lies' by Charles Lewis - 1 views

With the founding of the Center for Public Integrity in the 1980s, Charles Lewis probably did more than anyone else to launch institutional nonprofit journalism in America. So it is worth paying at...

Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Review 935 Lies by Charles Lewis

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith - 1 views

''Writing as Robert Galbraith,'' Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has suggested of her recent venture into crime fiction, has been a ''pure joy''. Judging by the bestseller lists, this is a joy sq...

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Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc A Plea: Let Some Ebook Data Flow - 1 views

This content was provided by Aptara. Historically, when all others are concentrating on lowering costs, quality wins. Publishers with a laser focus on improving the reader experience win over th...

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Clash Of The Financial Pundits - 1 views

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Brown and Macke Clash Of The Financial Pundits

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  • Aldrey Dyman on 11 Jun 14
     
    How 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
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The World's First Stock Exchange - 1 views

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc world first stock exchange

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  • Aldrey Dyman on 13 Jun 14
     
    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.
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Ebooks at Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Harper Lee agrees to ebook version of To Kil... - 1 views

Harper Lee has agreed for To Kill a Mockingbird to be made available as an ebook and digital audiobook, filling one of the biggest gaps in the digital library. In a rare public statement released ...

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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...

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Price of Fame

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  • phoebergx on 02 Aug 14
     
    Throughout her life, playwright and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce insatiably aimed for the top. In "Rage for Fame," published in 1997, Sylvia Jukes Morris traced how a beautiful and intelligent girl, born of humble origins, married a millionaire decades her senior; transformed herself as managing editor at Vanity Fair, wrote her hit play, "The Women," married again, to Henry Luce of Time Inc. "Price of Fame" continues the second half of this amazing story, clearly capturing the successes and pathos of a narcissist infused with shame and self-hate. ("Nobody could love me who really knew me.") Fame Clare now has, but with it came personal loss: the death of her only child; of her brother; the suicide of a close friend; the disappointment in her dysfunctional marriage to Luce, her love and enemy. Their extramarital affairs, along with Clare's schemes to extract millions, is told without censure. Those millions, later bequested to institutions and charities, also significantly benefited women entering the field of mathematics, science and engineering. The book opens with Clare's election in 1942 as a Republican congressman from Connecticut. The only female member of the House Military Affairs Committee, she traveled to Europe, visiting liberated Nazi concentration camps. She crossed the aisle to work with Democrats, and is credited with advancing 18 initiatives, including human rights, equal pay, and the rehabilitation of veterans, and the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission. No fan of FDR, she said he had created a nation of "hypochondriacs, introverts and psychotics." Nonetheless, she was a friend of his wife, Eleanor (both were advocates for civil rights).
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: Emerging Markets In An Upside Down World - 1 views

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc Emerging Markets In An Upside Down World

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  • sachickurb on 16 Jun 14
     
    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.
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 'What Stays in Vegas' by Adam Tanner - 1 views

If you walk through the doors of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, you'll find two ways to play the games. You can take cash from your billfold and gamble anonymously until you've had enough. Or you can...

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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...

Dyman Associates Publishing Inc. Reviews on Being Mortal Medicine & What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

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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 ...

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: 'The Literary Churchill' - 1 views

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc The Literary Churchill

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  • louielarkin on 05 Aug 14
     
    The character and career of Sir Winston Churchill are both so protean that it is not surprising that there have been studies of the great man emphasizing innumerable aspects, running the gamut from military strategist and statesman to painter and gourmand. Certainly, Churchill as a literary figure is a topic also well worth considering. What other British prime minister won the Nobel Prize for literature? (It was awarded to him in the midst of his second premiership in 1953.) Interestingly, although it was widely believed that this accolade came to him because of his magisterial history of World War II, Jonathan Rose, Kenan professor of history at Drew University, informs us that it was the autobiography "My Early Life" that impelled the (neutral in World War II) Swedes. Well-researched and clearly informed by great admiration and attunement to its subject, "The Literary Churchill" is simply crammed with interesting facts like this - and not just about his oeuvre and his accomplishments. We find out about the origins of his writing with his discovery of it as a talent and much-needed boost as an indifferent student, his literary and theatrical tastes and his affinity for melodrama.
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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc: The Book of Loco, Malthouse Theatre - 1 views

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Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc of Loco Malthouse Theatre

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  • phoebergx on 09 Aug 14
     
    Alirio Zavarce's one-man show on the nature of something he's termed "rational madness" begins in an airport. He's just flown back to Australia with a prop suitcase, and as the story reaches fever pitch, with the federal police brandishing machine guns and a gaggle of customs officials staring him down suspiciously, he stops the show. He's troubled. There's a divide between Zavarce the man and Zavarce the actor. Maybe that's the wrong place to begin. Things carry on, but it's not the last time he'll stop the show. Loco is peppered with Zavarce's asides, and the whole thing proceeds in kooky fits and starts. Jonathon Oxlade's enchanting set - a towering wall of cardboard boxes - becomes a playground. Sections fall down, some of them contain secrets, and more than a few become the canvas for Chris More's projection design. Zavarce's marriage and the twin towers of the World Trade Centre collapsed on the same day, and this is where his "rational madness" began. Everyone's a little bit loco, and sometimes we have to give in to it in order to get through. He's a beguiling, fascinating performer who's at his best engaging directly with the audience. Sasha Zahra's direction is solid, but there's a gap between the darkness and the light in these stories. These semi-autobiographical tales are told mostly in big print, and the net effect is beautifully polished, but fundamentally shallow. Like The Rabble's Room of Regret last year, this show features a plate of human faeces. But it's there to do more than just shock: it's glad wrapped, and it's a prop in a didactic little bit about the value of things.
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eReviews Dyman Associates Book Publishing Inc: Book Review - Girl in the Dark by Anna L... - 1 views

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eReviews Dyman Associates Book Publishing Inc Review: Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey

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  • louielarkin on 27 May 15
     
    This memoir is wonderfully written, beautifully arranged, and a heart-wrenching but hopeful masterpiece. "Something is afoot within me that I do not understand, the breaking of a contract that I thought could not be broken, a slow perverting of my substance." Anna was living a pleasantly ordinary life, working for the British government, when she started to develop her sensitivity to light. At first, her face felt like it was burning whenever she was in front of the computer. Soon this progressed to intolerance of artificial lights, then of sunlight itself. The reaction soon spread to her whole body. Now, when her symptoms are at their worst, she must spend months on end in a dark room covering window and door cracks, and mummified in layers of light-protectant clothing. She spent her days in the dark talking to people on the phone, watching TV during short periods out of her blacked-out room by looking at its reflection in a mirror, making word games to keep herself occupied, but usually she got through audio books. Lyndsey discovered she could go out for a walk at dawn and dusk for about an hour without it affecting her skin, and her husband made a covering of black felt for the back of the car so they can drive somewhere else, such as a forest, during daylight hours, ready for a sunset walk. Despite everything, Anna's husband named Pete stays around with her. Pete brings some light, although only of the emotional kind, into her life. She feels she should leave him, but is incapable of doing so unless he asks her to go - and thus far, he has not. "That is the miracle that I live with, every day," she writes. With gorgeous, lyrical prose, Anna brings us into the dark with her, a place where we are able to see the true value of love and the world.
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