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"A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall comes to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities-- a struggle...
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"The bestselling book on Warren Buffett returns, with new insights on his continued success. Often described as the greatest investor of all time, Warren Buffett grew a $100 investment in the late 1950s into an investment empire. In the process, he has become one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, and the foremost authority on investing of our generation.With over one million copies sold, The Warren Buffett Way is the definitive book on "The...
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Billionaire tycoon Maximilian West possesses a remarkable power over women. Yet for all his graces, he remains a troubled, lonely man. When his world is abruptly shattered, he is forced to confront his troubled past and the women who have protected and loved him.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Welcome to a boot camp on investing! Discover the influences that led Professor Longo to a career in finance. Then meet some of the major figures you will study in the course. Survey the key principles and strategies that built their fortunes.
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2023.
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English
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With small town New Bison's Spring Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy to continue her late great-aunt Octavia's legacy. That means scoring the top prize and transforming Baby Cakes into Southwest Michigan's must-visit bakery, even though her inexperience in the kitchen brings nightmares of humiliating tagged photos and scathing reviews. There's another reason for lost beauty sleep. A second bakery is opening in town under the...
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2009.
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English
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In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stones Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies,...
14) Kane & Abel
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2009.
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Two businessmen--William Lowell Kane, a millionaire financier, and Abel Rosnovski, a Polish immigrant who becomes the head of a vast hotel empire--act out their intense personal hatred of each other until its inevitable, and ironic, conclusion.
15) Lamerica
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New Yorker Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
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Italiano
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After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's acting "chairman", the two turn to Spiro - a prisoner of war...
16) David Golder
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Français
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David Golder thinks that money can buy everything; he does not want to help his associate who takes his own life. His wife and his daughter live in luxury and would not imagine it any other way. The daughter displays no love, no tenderness, no human emotion at all. Later when she comes back to her desperate father, she will have the same behavior.
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Yale University Press
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c2008.
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English
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A history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street uses four iconic types--the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist--to discuss the contributions of such figures as Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, and Michael Milken.
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Fantagraphics Books
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2020.
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English
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Hell was once a desolate place of fire and brimstone wherein all were miserable. And then the capitalists came and supplanted Satan's rule with the almighty power of the dollar. Now, only the poorest of sinners suffer, while rich hellions live in relative comfort and luxury. Modern conveniences now placate the masses, swanky hotels and thrilling amusement parks entice tourists and Hell has become more hellish than ever before. In 1934, the celebrated...
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[Publisher not identified]
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[2015]
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English
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A sex-addicted French financier, a fateful hotel room encounter, and a scandal that would rock the world; the mighty Gerard Depardieu gives a fearless performance in this ripped-from-the- headlines saga of sin and sleaze from boundary. Inspired by one of the most high-profile public implosions in recent memory, follows a prominent international banker as he spirals out of control during a drug and sex-fueled trip to America, culminating in a shocking...
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