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The book chosen for review is considered to be one of the most important for understanding the complicated system of derivatives and general reasons of economic crisis. When genius failed: the rise and fall of long-term capital management is the book written by financial journalist Roger Lowenstein who has written articles for the "Wall Street Journal" for more than two years. He has published three books and also initiated various publications for "Smart Money" and "The New York Times". The work When genius failed: the rise and fall of long-term capital management provides readers with fundamental basis for deep ...

The book When genius failed: the rise and fall of long-term capital management created by Roger Lowenstein, popular financial journalist, helps reader to understand the general reasons of economic crisis. It is important to mention that the author had gained great experience in the sphere of fund market analysis before he wrote the book to be discussed. He worked for "Wall Street Journal" and wrote article for well-known magazines and newspapers initiating reports on finance. The analysis of LTCM was conducted by the author. This company had a great impact within the financial market that is why Lowenstein accepted ...

The character of Socrates in Aristophanes’s Cloud resembles the character he put across in Plato’s Apology. In both cases, Socrates is a master sophist, the ideal philosopher. He is well versed in sophistry, science, rhetoric, and atheism. He appears removed from reality, is ready to defend his stand however outrageous it sounds and refuses to give in to coercions by his critics, students and authorities. Socrates maintains the character of a model philosopher and intellect who combines simplicity with an air of importance to converse convincingly with his challengers regardless of the nature of the topic at hand.
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The book Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore is a true account of the happenings in the Gilmore family. The author is a brother to Gary Gilmore who was sentenced to death after refusing all attempts to block his execution. He instead demanded that he be put to death for the crimes that he had committed earlier on. He was therefore executed by a firing squad in 1977. After Gary’s death, Mikal was faced by some irresistible emotion of loss and dissociation from his family past. However, after some time he found it necessary to explore the dark events that ...

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s book Colored People is an extra ordinary book that captures moments in history for the African American community and all the communities which existed during the transition period in America in the second half of the twentieth century. The author portrays this unique period in the American cultural life history by focusing on one small town in West Virginia as a microcosm for what was happening in the fifties and sixties across the American racial landscape.
Piedmont was Gates home as a child and the color lines between the communities living there were almost deteriorating. ...

Yahya Hakki’s The Lamp of Umm Hashim is a tale embedded in colonialism where the Egyptian protagonist Ismail goes to Europe for higher studies. It is a quintessential tale of ‘colonized meets colonizer.’ Egypt was under colonial rule and throughout the text, there are strong current of stereotypical representations f differences that had come to characterize the dichotomy of East vs. West. While in Europe, Ismail is exposed to the scientific way of thinking as he goes about learning ophthalmology. As scientific enlightenment piles on, his traditional and religious beliefs begin to wean away. Alienation in a foreign country notwithstanding, when Ismail ...

“The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs” by Ilardi (2009) is a self-help book for people who suffer from depression that helps them make lifestyle changes associated with improvements in depression scores. The book is divided into three sections, which include understanding depression, therapeutic lifestyle change, and making the change. In understanding depression, the author begins with describing a case study of a patient he had personally treated for depression. Of course, it is noted that names throughout the books were changed to protect the patient-therapist privacy while allowing the author to build trust and expertise by writing ...

During Queen Victoria’s reign (June 1837 – January 22, 1901), there were very specific gender roles that men and women had to aspire to. Sexuality was soundly repressed, with the upper classes subscribing to the Cult of Domesticity - the idea that women were meant to be submissive, pious, pure and focused on the domestic duties of the home. Meanwhile, men were allowed to work, dominate the household and their respective marriages; women were absolutely subjugated during this time, making it even more frustrating for them to refrain from taking hold of opportunities (both sexual and economic) offered to ...

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This is a story about Richard Kuklinski, a psychopath who killed people for a living without remorse or compunction. And as he had told the book author, he liked what he did.
A hit man for the Mafia, he did jobs for the crime syndicate for two decades --murdering maybe more than a hundred people in New York and other states and in a career that spanned more than two decades.
But more than a hit man, Kuklinski, who was Polish, also killed people sometimes out of rage as he had a violent temper. He would kill people simply for disrespecting ...

The author, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, was an American writer that worked mainly as a playwright in the American theater. He also published novels, poetry, short stories, screenplays, essays, and a great volume of memoirs. He received most of the top theatrical awards for his works on the stage, with A Streetcar Named Desire receiving the great Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Up to date, he is considered among the best known classical writers in the American fields of theatre.
Most of the themes dominant his works (loneliness, desire, sickness, death, alcoholism, depression, etc) are mined from his ...