The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, … and continues on to the last country Zimbabwe, Lonely Planet has put together an extraordinary travel book that brings us to every country in the world. Listed alphabetically from A-Z, each country occupies 2 pages with vivid pictures and some impression of the lands. Even tiny Pacific islands get the same amount of space as everybody else, regardless of their size and popularity in tourism. Using a more liberal concept of ‘country’, it brings the total number to 230. Read more »

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley Investment Classics)

Literary critics are often asked, “If you were stranded on a tropical island and you only had one book to read for the rest of your life which book would you choose?” Well, if you posed that same question to the world’s professional traders the response “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin LeFevre” would be the most frequent response, and by a large margin.
Despite being written in the early 1920’s, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator continues to be the most useful and most-loved book ever written on the subject of trading and speculation. In this novel, LeFevre brilliantly describes the life and times of the book’s protagonist, Larry Livingston, a pseudonym for Read more »