The Poker Face of Wall Street

Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.

Business & Money

Aaron Brown

Economics

wiley

Caleb Cross is worried his best friend, Bigger Falkirk, has lost more than his left nut after a tragic misadventure in South America. Since he got back, Bigger has been performing protests from a guide Caleb composed in high school. The guide contained a variety of recipes for sowing anarchy—recipes like the Pig Farm Prison Break and the Superstore Slash and Bash. They were all cock-sure, completely reckless, and written mainly to impress a girl. Now, however, Bigger and his gang of itinerant followers are causing major property damage and putting a great many lives at risk. Complicating things, forces seem to be driving Caleb and Bigger toward a destiny far stranger and more perplexing than either could imagine. Half-funny, half-tragic, "bigger" is a modern Orpheus tale about the perils of resurrecting abandoned dreams and the fierce magic lurking at the edges of our world.

bigger

TulipTree Publishing, LLC

The culture of Minnesotas Iron Range is transforming before the eyes of its inhabitants. Nowhere is this change captured better than in Aaron Brown s book Overburden. As a columnist for the Hibbing Daily Tribune and a father of three boys, Aaron is one of a rare breed of modern Iron Rangers who are stepping away from the blue collar work of their parents and striving to find a place in a growing economy of creativity and development. Brown delves into the history and mystery surrounding the Iron Range to explore the region s mystique and create a stunning and often hilarious biography of a people and a place he has called home nearly his entire life.

Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range

Red Step Press

An innovative guide that identifies what distinguishes the best financial risk takers from the rest From 1987 to 1992, a small group of Wall Street quants invented an entirely new way of managing risk to maximize success: risk management for risk-takers. This is the secret that lets tiny quantitative edges create hedge fund billionaires, and defines the powerful modern global derivatives economy. The same practical techniques are still used today by risk-takers in finance as well as many other fields. Red-Blooded Risk examines this approach and offers valuable advice for the calculated risk-takers who need precise quantitative guidance that will help separate them from the rest of the pack. While most commentators say that the last financial crisis proved it's time to follow risk-minimizing techniques, they're wrong. The only way to succeed at anything is to manage true risk, which includes the chance of loss. Red-Blooded Risk presents specific, actionable strategies that will allow you to be a practical risk-taker in even the most dynamic markets. <ul>
<li>Contains a secret history of Wall Street, the parts all the other books leave out</li> <li>Includes an intellectually rigorous narrative addressing what it takes to really make it in any risky activity, on or off Wall Street</li> <li>Addresses essential issues ranging from the way you think about chance to economics, politics, finance, and life</li> <li>Written by Aaron Brown, one of the most calculated and successful risk takers in the world of finance, who was an active participant in the creation of modern risk management and had a front-row seat to the last meltdown</li> <li>Written in an engaging but rigorous style, with no equations</li> <li>Contains illustrations and graphic narrative by renowned manga artist Eric Kim</li> </ul>
There are people who disapprove of every risk before the fact, but never stop anyone from doing anything dangerous because they want to take credit for any success. The recent financial crisis has swelled their ranks, but in learning how to break free of these people, you'll discover how taking on the right risk can open the door to the most profitable opportunities.

Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street

Biography & History

Beginning Lua Programming

Kurt Jung

Wrox Press

Wall Street is where poker and modern finance'and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.

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Best Of Both Worlds

Matt Price

Palmetto Publishing

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