House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House of Cards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us.
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Caloriegate Why Your Low Calorie Diet Is Making You Fat And Sick And Destroying America
You counted your calories, carefully, just like they taught you.
Your reward? Hunger, misery, failure.
Why? Why have you struggled so mightily for so long? Turns out, you’ve been given bad advice. The mantra of ‘eat less move more’ to lose excess fat is not only wrong… it’s the very reason why you’re struggling!
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Tides of War
Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens’ favorite son and the city’s greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory. But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess, and ambition. Accused of crimes against the state, he was banished from his beloved Athens, only to take up arms in the service of his former enemies.
The Complete Book of Greed: The Strange and Amazing History of Human Excess Moneymania: Рассказ о том, как они рулят миром, как отдельные личности жаждут наживы, и что в деньгах сытости нет. Забавно, остроумно, и даже местами - трагично.
Goldberg reveals the quirks and characters of famous misers, gamblers, investors, spendthrifts, spenders, gold diggers, and billionaires while he talks about the reality of greed. He also philosophizes that greed is unrelenting because it's really a search for spiritual fulfillment and cannot be satisfied through the accumulation of material possessions. His anecdotal format results in an entertaining book, while his scary stories of the effect of greed almost make the reader glad not to be rich.
