1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461129403321

Autore

Weiss Stephen L. <1955->

Titolo

The big win [[electronic resource] ] : learning from the legends to become a more successful investor / / Stephen L. Weiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2012

ISBN

1-118-23358-1

1-280-58831-4

9786613618146

1-118-22127-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

332.60973

Soggetti

Investments - United States

Portfolio management - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The legends I have met : a behind the scenes look at what makes a legend -- Follow the money : the ugly reality of whale watching -- The glass ceiling of performance : Rene Haugerud -- The boom goes bust : James S. Chanos -- Conclusion : so there you have it?.

Sommario/riassunto

A rousing and practical look at the extremely successful investments of top investors In his first book, The Billion Dollar Mistake, author Stephen L. Weiss showcased the biggest blunders of some of the world's legendary investors-which lost them billions of dollars on a single investment. Incredibly, the mistakes they made were the same mistakes made by everyday investors but for the magnitude of the loss. Weiss's second book, The Big Win: Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor, highlights financial successes, explaining how the world's most su



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Record Nr.

UNISA996247974703316

Autore

Mir Farina

Titolo

The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-282-77178-7

9786612771781

0-520-94764-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

South Asia across the disciplines ; ; 2

Disciplina

891.4/209355

Soggetti

Panjabi literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Panjabi literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 19th century

Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 20th century

Punjab (India) Intellectual life 19th century

Punjab (India) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in colonial Punjab despite British efforts to marginalize the Punjabi language. She explores topics including Punjabi linguistic practices, print and performance, and the symbolic content of qisse. She finds that although the British denied Punjabi language and literature almost all forms of state patronage, the resilience of this popular genre came from its old but dynamic corpus of stories, their representations of place, and the moral sensibility that suffused them. Her



multidisciplinary study reframes inquiry into cultural formations in late-colonial north India away from a focus on religious communal identities and nationalist politics and toward a widespread, ecumenical, and place-centered poetics of belonging in the region.