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UNINA9910461129403321 |
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Autore |
Weiss Stephen L. <1955-> |
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Titolo |
The big win [[electronic resource] ] : learning from the legends to become a more successful investor / / Stephen L. Weiss |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2012 |
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1-118-23358-1 |
1-280-58831-4 |
9786613618146 |
1-118-22127-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Investments - United States |
Portfolio management - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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?. |
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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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UNISA996247974703316 |
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Autore |
Mir Farina |
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The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-77178-7 |
9786612771781 |
0-520-94764-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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South Asia across the disciplines ; ; 2 |
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Disciplina |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion. |
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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 |
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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. |
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