"In a forty-year business career we won't go through a period like we went through in the last five years."
-Kevin Ryan, CEO, DoubleClick
The commercial and cultural explosion of the digital age may have been born in California's Silicon Valley, but it reached its high point of riotous, chaotic exuberance in New York City from 1995 to 2000 -- in the golden age of Silicon Alley. In that short stretch of time a generation of talented, untested twentysomethings deluged the city, launching thousands of new Internet ventures and attracting billions of dollars in investment capital. Many of these young entrepreneurs were entranced by the infinite promise of the new media; others seemed more captivated by the promise of infinite profits. The innovations they launched -- from online advertising to 24-hour Webcasting -- propelled both the Internet and the tech-stock boom of the late '90s. And in doing so they sent the city around them into a maelstrom of brainstorming, code-writing, fundraising, drugs, sex, and frenzied hype…
until April 2000, when the NASDAQ zeppelin finally burst and fell at their feet. 
In the pages of Digital Hustlers, Alley insiders Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss have captured the excitement and excesses of this remarkable moment in time. Weaving together the voices of more than fifty of the industry's leading characters, this extraordinary oral history offers a ground-zero look at the birth of a new medium. Here are entrepreneurs like Kevin O'Connor of DoubleClick, Fernando Espuelas of StarMedia, and Craig Kanarick of Razorfish; commentators like Omar Wasow of MSNBC and Jason McCabe Calacanis of the Silicon Alley Reporter; and inimitable Alley characters like party diva Courtney Pulitzer and Josh Harris, the clown prince of Pseudo.com. Together they describe a world of sweatshop programmers and paper millionaires, of cocktail-napkin business plans and billion-dollar IPOs, of spectacular successes and flame-outs alike. 
Candid and open-eyed, bristling with energy and argument, Digital Hustlers is an unforgettable group portrait of a wildly creative culture caught in the headlights of achievement.

Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley

Biographies & Memoirs

Weiss, Stephen

Kait, Casey

Professionals & Academics

Harper Business

Raising the Stakes: 3 (Vietnam Experience)

History

Boston Publishing Company

Maitland, Terrence

Americas

Addison-Wesley

In Origami Zoo, two of the world's finest paper folders invite you to create your own menagerie with this exciting how to make origami animals book. Robert J. Lang and Stephen Weiss's collection of original papercraft creatures, ranging from the exotic to the familiar, the elegant to the whimsical, will both inspire the beginner and challenge the most accomplished folder.
Across the animal kingdom, from land, sea, and air, you can choose to make a dolphin, penguin, swan, owl, goose, kangaroo, praying mantis, or even the mythical Pegasus or extinct wooly mammoth. Each of these thirty-seven projects is true origami--folded from a single piece of paper with no cutting or gluing--and is complete with clear step-by-step diagrams, instructions, and a photograph of the finished model.
As children's toys or decorations, the fun and artistic projects in Origami Zoo is a perfect gift--a do-it-yourself paper folding crafts book for aspiring artists.

Origami Zoo: An Amazing Collection of Folded Paper Animals

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Lang, Robert J.

Crafts & Hobbies

St. Martin's: Griffin

This deilghtful book shows how to make thirty two origami (folded paper) models that really fly. All designs are made simply by folding squares or rectangles of paper (and even dollar bills!) without cutting, gluing, taping, or weighting. Included are: Manta Ray Blackboard Bomber Astro Tube Flying Bat Mach III Jet Dollar Bills Gilders Swooping Hawk Origami Kite Flying Nun SST Gliding Swan Maple Seed Monoplane Seagull Delta Jet Penta-Flinger Flying Fish Art Deco Wing and many more! Wings &amp; Things is great fun and will challenge and inspire beginning and expert folders alike-perfect for anyone who ever tossed a paper airplane.

Wings and Things: Origami That Flies

Hait, Casey

Diane Pub Co.

UNHEDGED is a fast-paced thriller set in a seductive world of incredible wealth and insatiable greed, where no price is too high to pay for getting to and staying on top. Topical and all too realistic, the excitement builds from the very first page and doesn't release the reader from its grip until the very last. Who would you be willing to sacrifice and how much of your soul would you be willing to trade to become a billionaire? Legendary investor Vernon Albright is the founding partner of Parthenon Capital, a $20 billion hedge fund that counts among its investors some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful individuals. Albright, a billionaire himself, owes his success not just to investment acumen but also to his relationship with shadowy oilman Buck Hendricks. After an unauthorized trade goes horribly wrong, and fearful of having to swap his pinstripes for prison stripes, Albright cuts a deal with Hendricks that would make Faust blush. Hendricks is Parthenon's largest investor yet Jeremy Cranford, Albright's younger partner and moral antithesis, has never met him, only finding out about the financier by accident. Who is this person and why has Albright kept his existence a secret? Conflict, suspense and danger abound as Cranford delves deeper into the mystery. His concerns quickly become more than financial as he learns of threats against his loved ones, threats that come from multiple and unknown sources. Top selling author, hedge fund veteran and CNBC personality Stephen L. Weiss is just the right person to take you through the twists and turns of the gripping journey in UNHedged.

Unhedged: A Killing in the Market

Literature & Fiction

West 26th Street Press

Discusses the development of Vietnam's fight for independence from France and analyzes the origins of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Passing the Torch (Vietnam Experience Series)

Doyle, Edward

Lipsman, Samuel

Military

Time-Life Education

Recounts the Tet Offensive, describes the origins of the peace movement in the U.S., and looks at attempts to start peace negotiations

Nineteen Sixty-Eight (Vietnam Experience)

Dougan, Clark

Looks at My Lai, population relocation programs, illegitimate Army children, American influence on the Vietnamese economy, and U.S. Army bases in Vietnam

A Collision of Cultures/the Americans in Vietnam, 1954-1973 (Vietnam Experience)

Recounts the American withdrawal from South Vietnam, the Communist conquest of Saigan, and the plight of South Vietnamese refugees who tried to flee in boats

The Fall of the South (Vietnam Experience)

Fulghum, David

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