![]() ![]() ![]() But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself. When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the personalities of Long-Term’s partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise and their fall. ![]() hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management. In this business classic-now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis-Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of the Greenwich, Ct. The emblematic market meltdown story-how the smartest hedge fund ever failed. Purchase: IndieBound | Amazon | Barnes &Noble THE RISE AND FALL OF LONG-TERM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Nathanael returns to university and meets the daughter of one of his professors, a beautiful but strange girl named Olimpia. While he sometimes appears to have forgotten about Coppelius and Coppola, he has periods where it is all he will think or talk about, even coming close to a duel with Lothar after he attacks Clara for calling his story insane. Upon telling Clara and Lothar of this, they attempt to convince him that it is a childish delusion, and continue to hope he will come to his senses while at home. Nathanael has come upon a man, Coppola, at university, whom he believes to actually be that same evil man from his childhood. This man once attacked Nathanael, threatening to take his eyes, and later killed his father before disappearing. Nathanael describes a childhood fear of a creature called The Sandman who was said to come at night and steal the eyes of children, which intermingled with a the appearance of a man named Coppelius in his father's room some nights to work on what appears to have been alchemy. The story begins with a series of letters between Nathanael, his fiancée Clara, and her brother Lothar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ideally, the two have numerous similarities in their works of literature despite one concentrating on poetry while the other focused on novels. Further, it will highlight the ways in which the writers managed to arouse their reader’s dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in Palestine.Ĭontrary to common belief, literature may also serve as a channel of addressing societal ills facing society as significantly shown by Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Kanafani. Therefore, this essay will delve into the roles of the two literature gurus through the analysis of their written works of literature. ![]() In essence, the two leaders had much in common, as they both sought to liberate themselves from Arab prejudice and degradation through the use of poetry and literature. At the time of his demise, he was thirty-two where he died alongside his niece in a car bomb explosion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harvey accuses the captain, Disko Troop of taking his money (which we later learn was found on the deck he fell from.) Disko Troop, captain of the We're Here, bloodies his nose but takes him in as a boy on the crew until they return to port. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego, California. Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times of 23 November 1892. The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Captains Courageous is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. ![]() ![]() As if that weren't enough, she finds herself sitting in a bar staring up into the faces of the bizarre wax heads of the infamous citizens of the city of Deadwood-where her bullheaded sister Agatha has dragged her to drink off her pain. Struggling with the risks and pressures of her career and the nostalgia of home, a heartbroken Liv questions whether or not she has made the right choices in life. She finds herself back home in Rapid City, South Dakota, far from her closest friend and colleague, Streeter Pierce, and her trusted dog, Beulah. ![]() Liv has been forced to take a leave of absence from her job at the FBI following the tragic death of her love, Jack Linwood. ![]() 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist Her boyfriend is dead and a grieving Liv is in no mood to solve a mystery. ![]() ![]() Their mom came out and said, "Quiet down, I'm trying to listen to the TV." Marty told her that they could not find Becky. When they went to find Becky, they could not find her, so they yelled her name. Another time, Marty, Dara Lynn, and Becky were playing hide - and - seek. Just before Judd shot, Marty yelled "NO!", David pushed Marty's head down and covered his mouth and said, "Be quiet!" A couple days after that, somebody knocked down his mail box. A minute later the other squirrel peeked down and Judd raised his gun and shot the other squirrel. A few seconds later he raised his gun shot one of the squirrels. Judd saw two squirrels in the tree in front of him. Judd was sitting on his porch in a lawn chair with his gun on his lap. ![]() They went behind the bushes in Judd's front yard to see if anyone would do something to his things. One day when Marty came home Judd Travers called and asked "Who put the scratch on my truck?" Marty did not do it. Marty was a boy who worked real hard to have Shiloh for his own. Judd Travers bought a new beagle named Shiloh. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life-and perhaps even love-again.īut then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. On Lydia’s twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. They’d been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. Written with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life’s crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them. ![]() What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”-Jodi Picoult “I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December . ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. ![]() ![]() His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.īrilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Įxpected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl. ![]() ![]() ![]() She went to a series of boarding schools and convents, but her strangeness eclipsed her chances of staying at any of them for long (she once described herself as having an “allergy” to education). Tales of enchantment and the divine entered into Carrington’s life at a young age: her Irish mother and grandmother would captivate the young Leonora with Celtic myths and told her that she was directly descended from a race of Irish fairy people called the Sidhe. Her parents were nouveau riche, and she and her three brothers were raised in a looming gothic mansion called Crookhey Hall, located not far from where the Pendle witch trials took place. Leonora Carrington was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England to a strict Catholic family. She had all the makings of an icon, and yet she did not find acclaim or notoriety until after her death in 2011. ![]() ![]() She was a surrealist painter, a magic practitioner, a runaway, and a debutante. Her wild life was marked by adventure, rebellion, and an irrepressible desire to create. Long before Sephora started selling “ Starter Witch Kits” and books with titles like Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive became mainstream, the Mexican-British surrealist painter, Leonora Carrington, was conjuring her own magical realms with the help of paint and the written word. ![]() ![]() Hundreds of additional photos, charts, maps, and diagrams, plus 35 tables of the most essential facts, figures, and formulas-from Planck's constant to the laws of thermodynamics, from quantum energy levels to Avogadro's number-make The Scientific Companion an ideal desktop reference. More than 50 new illustrations appear throughout-from stunning aerial shots of Earth's topography to striking close-ups of the moon provided by NASA. Emiliani traces the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the present, explaining the nature of the galaxy, the Earth, inorganic and organic matter, and the development of scientific thought. This new edition of the critically acclaimed Scientific Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the physical sciences: physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, meteorology, biology, atmospheric science, and oceanography. infuses into the reader the conviction that science is exciting and can be understood by everyone." -American Scientist ![]() |