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The Warren Buffetts Next Door

The World's Greatest Investors You've Never Heard Of and What You Can Learn From Them

By: Matthew Schifrin

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The Warren Buffetts Next Door

The World's Greatest Investors You've Never Heard Of and What You Can Learn From Them

By: Matthew Schifrin

A practical guide for investors who are ready to take financial matters into their own hands The Warren Buffetts Next Door profiles previously unknown investors, with legendary performance records, who are proving every day that you don't need to work for a hedge fund or have an Ivy League diploma to consistently beat the best performing Wall Street professionals. These amazing individuals come from all walks of life, from a globe drifting college dropout and a retired disc jockey to a computer room geek and a truck driver. Their methods vary from technical trading and global macro-economic analysis to deep value investing. The glue that holds them together is their passion for investing and their ability to efficiently harness the Internet for critical investment ideas, research, and trading skills. The author digs deep to find the best of the best, even finding those who are making money during these turbulent times Contains case studies that will explain to you how these great individual investors find and profit from stocks and options. Shows you how to rely on your own instincts and knowledge when making important investment decisions In an era when the best professional advice has cracked many investor nest eggs and Madoff-style frauds have shattered investor trusts, the self-empowered investors found in The Warren Buffetts Next Door offer an inspiring and educational tale.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470573783

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9780470573785

Musicians in Transit

Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

By: Matthew B. Karush

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Musicians in Transit

Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

By: Matthew B. Karush

In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alemán, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada singer Sandro, folksinger Mercedes Sosa, and rock musician Gustavo Santaolalla. As active participants in the globalized music business, these artists interacted with musicians and audiences in the United States, Europe, and Latin America and contended with genre distinctions, marketing conventions, and ethnic stereotypes. By responding creatively to these constraints, they made innovative music that provided Argentines with new ways of understanding their nation’s place in the world. Eventually, these musicians produced expressions of Latin identity that reverberated beyond Argentina, including a novel form of pop ballad; an anti-imperialist, revolutionary folk genre; and a style of rock built on a pastiche of Latin American and global genres. A website with links to recordings by each musician accompanies the book.

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Duke University Press

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0822373777

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9780822373773

Debussy Redux

The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture

By: Matthew Brown

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Debussy Redux

The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture

By: Matthew Brown

In a study that is both scholarly and highly entertaining, Matthew Brown explores pop culture's appropriations of Debussy's music in everything from '30s swing tunes, '40s movie scores, '50s lounge/exotica, '70s rock and animation, '80s action films, and Muzak. The book, however, is far more than a compendium of fascinating borrowings. The author uses these musical transfers to tackle some of the most fundamental aesthetic issues relevant to the music of all composers, not just Debussy." David Grayson -- Book jacket.

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Indiana University Press

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0253357160

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9780253357168

The Warren Buffetts Next Door

The World's Greatest Investors You've Never Heard Of and What You Can Learn From Them

By: Matthew Schifrin

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The World's Greatest Investors You've Never Heard Of and What You Can Learn From Them

By: Matthew Schifrin

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470915307

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9780470915301

Taliban Narratives

The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict

By: Thomas H. Johnson,Matthew DuPee,Wali Shaaker

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Taliban Narratives

The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict

By: Thomas H. Johnson,Matthew DuPee,Wali Shaaker

Shines a light on the Taliban's propaganda arm and its impact on the course of the war in Afghanistan.

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414

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Oxford University Press

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0190840609

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9780190840600

American Artists, Jewish Images

By: Matthew Baigell

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American Artists, Jewish Images

By: Matthew Baigell

Born over a fifty-year period, the artists in this volume represent several generations of twentieth-century artists. Examining the work of such influential artists as Mark Rothko, Max Weber, and Ruth Weisberg, Baigell directly confronts their Jewish identity—as a religious, cultural, and psychological component of their lives—and explores the way in which this influence is reflected in their art. Drawing upon their common heritage, Baigell reveals the different ways these artists responded to the Great Immigration, the Depression, the Holocaust, the founding of the state of Israel, and the rise of feminism. Each artist’s varied Jewish experiences have contributed to the creation of a visual language and subject matter that reflect both Jewish assimilation and Jewish continuity in ways that inform modern Jewish history and changes in present-day America. Offering a fresh examination of well-known artists as well as long overdue attention to lesser-known artists, Baigell’s incisive observations are indispensable to our understanding of the Jewish themes in these artists' work. Written in a lively and spirited prose, this book is compulsory reading for those interested in modern American art and Jewish studies.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815630670

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9780815630678

MOVIES ARE A CONSPIRACY Selected Essays on Cinema

By: Matthew Coniam

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MOVIES ARE A CONSPIRACY Selected Essays on Cinema

By: Matthew Coniam

Matthew Coniam, author of 'The Annotated Marx Brothers' and 'Egyptomania Goes To The Movies' would dearly love to dedicate his energies to the higher things in life. But alas, cinephilia infected him at a young age and, as yet, there is no cure. In this collection of essays on movies and moviemakers culled from several years' worth of blog posts, magazine articles and book chapters, he shares some of the symptoms in the hope of spreading it further.

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362

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Lulu.com

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0244466904

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9780244466909

The Sting

A Novel Approach to Cinema

By: Matthew Specktor

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The Sting

A Novel Approach to Cinema

By: Matthew Specktor

From Melville to Madoff, the Confidence Man is an essential American archetype. George Roy Hill’s 1973 film The Sting treats this theme with a characteristic dexterity. The movie was warmly received in its time, winning seven Academy Awards, but there were some who thought the movie was nothing more than a slight throwback. Pauline Kael, among others, felt Hill’s film was mechanical and contrived: a callow and manipulative attempt to recapture the box-office success of Robert Redford and Paul Newman’s prior pairing, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Matthew Specktor’s passionate, lyric meditation turns The Sting on its head, on its side, and right-side-up in an effort to unpack the film’s giddy complexity and secret, melancholic heart. Working off interviews with screenwriter David S. Ward and producer Tony Bill, and tacking from nuanced interpretation of its arching moods and themes to gimlet-eyed observation of its dizzying sleights-of-hand, Specktor opens The Sting up to disclose the subtle and stunning dimensions—sexual, political, and aesthetic—of Hill’s best film. Through Specktor’s lens, The Sting reveals itself as both an enduring human drama and a meditation on art-making itself, an ode to the necessary pleasure of being fooled at the movies.

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Catapult

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1593762798

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9781593762797

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The Warren Buffetts Next Door

The Warren Buffetts Next Door

Musicians in Transit

Musicians in Transit

Debussy Redux

Debussy Redux

The Warren Buffetts Next Door

The Warren Buffetts Next Door

Taliban Narratives

Taliban Narratives

American Artists, Jewish Images

American Artists, Jewish Images

MOVIES ARE A CONSPIRACY Selected Essays on Cinema

MOVIES ARE A CONSPIRACY Selected Essays on Cinema

The Sting

The Sting

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