Often considered mandatory reading for anyone contemplating a career on a trading desk, Liar’s Poker is Michael Lewis’s vivid recollection of his youth working as a bond salesman at a premier Wall Street firm. Starting in the Salomon Brothers’ training room in New York and ending on the firm’s trading floor in London, Lewis offers ...

Investment Madness is an excellent introductory overview to the field of behavioral finance, serving as an introduction to a number of books that further expand upon the applications and evidence of the science. It is a quick read, and its focus on behavioral finance as applied to the average investor makes its content applicable to the vast majority of r...

There is no question that Michael Dell has played a significant role in the evolution of the computer industry. In, Direct from Dell, Michael tells the tale of how he turned a college startup into one of the largest, and arguably the best, computer companies in the world. He gives readers an insider’s perspective of how Dell’s corporate struct...