While the maths may at times prove too technical for the lay reader, the strength of the book lies in its many individual stories and case histories.
This tension, between the force of the material world and the will of the imagination, lies at the centre of this book.
Henriques needed some of the correspondence for her 2010 book, The Wizard of Lies.
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The show is adapted from the 2005 book House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Tell You the Time, written by onetime consultant Martin Kihn.
The strength of this book lies less in its analysis of individual authors than in the way it captures an entire literary movement.
C. in August 2010 for my book The Wizard of Lies (Times Books, 2011).
He did so at the insistence of SEC regulators, after they had bungled yet another investigation of tips that Madoff was dishonest. (You can find details of that and other failed SEC investigations of Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, my book on his historic Ponzi scheme.) Unable to find any sign of fraud, regulators concluded that Madoff was merely operating as a money-manager without having registered.
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' production company Bad Robot will base the film on New York Times reporter Juliet Macur's forthcoming book Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong.
While the plot may recall other allegorical crossings (such as the one that the Knight, the Squire and the circus family undertake in Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal"), the power of Blackburn's book lies in her language and in her ability to conjure images that are at once spooky and heart-rending.
He had a segment on his show last night featuring an environmentalist, Betsy Rosenberg, and Chris Horner, the author of a book about climate change called Red Hot Lies.
One faint hope for the protestors lies with a local historian whose book claims that the Battle of Hastings was actually held on the route of the road near Crowhurst - a possibility dismissed as "ridiculous" by the council.
The real interest lies elsewhere, in the parts of Mr Stiglitz's book that are in effect a memoir of what life was like as an economic adviser, and indeed a considerable intellectual, in the bruising and often brutal world of Washington politics and policymaking.
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Oprah Winfrey's media empire is firing on all cylinders, after she beat back a firestorm of controversy by confronting author James Frey on the air over the myriad lies in his book A Million Little Pieces, which Winfrey had previously praised.
The explanation offered by the book, due for publication this October, is that he was trapped into a series of ever-escalating lies by the Guardian's determination to nail him for breaching cabinet rules on hospitality.
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