Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career by Lynn Kear, John RossmanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 8.8 MBOverview: Kay Francis came of age in the Roaring Twenties and relished the era’s hedonistic pursuits. Her career as an actress was launched at the same time, and before her death in 1968, she had appeared on many theater stages, […]
Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance by John KayRequirements: .MP3 reader, 330 MBOverview: The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector […]
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists by Kay LarsonRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 3.00 MBOverview: The first biography of composer John Cage to show how his work, and that of countless American artists, was transformed by Zen Buddhism. One of the greatest American composers of the twentieth century, […]
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier, John KayRequirements: .MP3 reader, 185 MBOverview: The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives and that prosperity and good societies come from top-down leadership has dominated politics for the last 30 years (from some perspectives, much longer).This book shows that the age […]
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers by John Kay , Mervyn KingRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.3 MBOverview: Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical uncertainty for which historical […]