Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football. What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.332 LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: "For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.9 LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science LewisLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Money LewisLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: "When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 LEW1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 LEW
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BANKMAN-FRIED LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 330.9 LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents a narrative account of the post-2016 election chaos that took over Washington to reveal how a small number of uninformed Trump appointees are triggering devastating world consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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Summary: Explores the revolutionary changes wrought by the advent of the Internet and examines the potential effects of the dismantling of power structures--economically, politically, and otherwise--which the Internet makes possible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4834 LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: The author examines the causes of the U.S. market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
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Summary: Details the life of University of Mississippi football player Michael Oher, who was raised by a crack addicted mother and adopted at the age of sixteen by a wealthy family, and explores the rising importance and salary of the offensive left tackle in the game of football.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 LewCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.3320 LEWSummary: Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoLewis, Michael
Summary: An analysis of five financial upheavals in recent history includes coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, the Internet bubble, and the sub-prime mortgage crisis, in a report that reveals how public knowledge differed from what was actually taking place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.542 LEWSummary: Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blind 2010Summary: The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jared Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021