Beating the Big One

Literature & Fiction

Holkham, Tony

Contemporary

Brick Tower Press

"The Oxygen Plan was a life-changer simply because it put me in control of my choices, while giving me structure to define and categorize my issues." -Lorraine Lucciola, freelance writer Why Oxygen? Oxygen supports life. We don't think about the science of breathing, of simply inhaling and exhaling, because we do it naturally, every minute of every day. The explanation is so simple that we forget it's even happening. We're part of a process called photosynthesis, the reciprocal exchange between plant life and humans. We involuntarily emit carbon dioxide; plants take it in, and produce oxygen for us to breathe. The cycle continues to sustain life on earth. I get it. Try it now. Inhale. Exhale. There. You've just put the very first step of The Oxygen Plan into motion. Oxygen and the Stress Connection: No One is Immune The Oxygen Plan focuses on the universal, common denominator that applies to everyone: STRESS. The Oxygen Plan offers viable behavioral tools and professional support for abundant happiness, fulfillment and maximized potential, by exploring the foundations of stress, which are different for each of us, and by presenting new methods of managing it. Our goal is to usher you into the green, by presenting a multi-faceted understanding of what being healthy-physically, emotionally, socially and behaviorally-feels like. Optimism is its own self-fulfilling prophecy. Optimism embraces our hope, our strength and our perseverance. One positive thought or action engenders the next positive thought or action. Optimism is powerful and persuasive. It tells your brain that you can do great things. And you can. Author Eric Lucas, the founder and chief executive of The Oxygen Plan Corporation, is a marketing executive with a long track record of creating breakthrough innovations and leading them to success. Prior to creating and leading The Oxygen Plan, Lucas spent 22 years with General Mills, rising to the level of corporate officer, vice-president of marketing and head of New Ventures for the 31,000 employee Fortune 200 Company. He also led promotional campaigns for the 1996, 2000, and 2002 Olympic Games, Disney, NFL, NBA, and MLB for General Mills.

The Oxygen Plan

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lucas, Eric

Alternative Medicine

Ever since the earliest days of commerce, businesspeople have organized themselves into partnerships. They formed groups with a common interest and worked together as a single unit, assuming both the risks and rewards of the business. It was a natural way of achieving a common goal. If the business succeeded, all of the partners made money. If it flourished, the partners even sometimes became rich. However, success wasn't assured and if the business failed, they all suffered together. In addition to a multitude of other industries, this was the model that dominated how Wall Street firms operated up until the 1980's. Beginning in the 1980's, it was not uncommon to find that a freshly-hired trainee - a kid literally right out of college - knew more about the new financial instruments than the CEO of the firm that hired him. In some instances, the kids were learning about the finer points of newly-invented instruments before their managers knew they even existed. These were the new breed of traders scattered across the trading desks. The individuals whose stories compose the contents of this book are some of the smartest people you'll ever read about. They had an intimate understanding of the markets and how best to make money from them, but they also had an equally in-depth knowledge of some of the flaws in the markets. Or sometimes, flaws in the systems at the banks themselves. They used their knowledge to make money. And when that failed, they often used their knowledge of how they system was structured to hide their losses. And when that failed, there was no turning back. Scott E.D. Skyrm is one of the leading figures in the repo and securities finance markets today, and regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Bloomberg News Service, Reuters, Market News, and Dow Jones. He is highly regarded as a former salesman, trader, trading desk manager, and global business head in fixed-income, securities finance, and securities clearing and settlement. He recently left Newedge, where he was their "Global Head of Repo, Money Markets, and Fixed Income Clearing." He now is writing commentaries on the repo market, the short-end of the Treasury market, Federal Reserve policy and general Wall Street topics. He has worked on Wall Street for over 22 years and has taken billion-dollar risks on the trading floor, managed a multi-billion dollar balance sheet, and consistently ran one of the most profitable trading groups at every firm where he worked. Prior to Newedge, he managed the repo desk at ING Barings, worked summers at Shearson Lehman/American Express and started his full-time career at The Bank of Tokyo.

Rogue Traders

Biographies & Memoirs

Skyrm, Scott E. D.

Professionals & Academics

The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of Honor and every other medal offered by the United States to the foot soldier for combat heroism. As a young man, he wanted to have a career in the military, but his father, President Theodore Roosevelt, discouraged this. Ted went to Harvard, and dreamed of one day following his father into the White House. Things did not go well for him politically; he had only two one-year terms in the New York State Assembly and a failed run for the New York Governorship. Other positions held in his working life included: carpet salesman, bond salesman, investment banker, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, big game hunter, Governor General of Puerto Rico, Governor General of the Phillipine Islands, and editor and VP at Doubleday Publishing Co. Yet the army was where his niche obviously lay: he served as Battalion Commander in WWI; after the Armistice, he and four other non-career officers founded The American Legion, as it exists today. After seeing combat in North Africa, Sicily and Italy (under Eisenhower) during WWII, he assisted in the preparation for D-Day. On Utah Beach in Normandy, under enemy fire for hours, Roosevelt served as assistant Division Commander of the 4th Infantry Division. His death, some weeks after D-Day, came just before he was to be promoted to Major General, an unheard-of-honor for any reserve officer. Robert Wells Walker was born and raised in the small city of Florence, Alabama. After attending the local public schools, a BS degree from the University of Alabama and a two-year stint as a lieutenant in the Army preceded his admission to Law School at Emory University. After earning an LLB degree and passing both the Alabama and Georgia bar exams, he returned to Florence, where he practiced law and raised cattle for the next 36 years. Now retired from law, he still has cattle and cherishes his time spent with his children and grandson. Other pleasures include playing duplicate bridge and fishing in the beautiful Tennessee River. For this biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Walker did extensive research in New York State and Texas, uncovering personal documents and photographs which are available to the public for the first time in THE NAMESAKE.

Walker, Robert W.

Humor & Entertainment

The World We Wish

"The World We Wish takes the reader inside the stark realities of the Chinese communist system. A fascinating and intriguing story that seems too real to be fiction." 
-Bill Gertz, journalist and author of Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy.\n"Drenched in black humor, The World We Wish offers insight into a nation that echoes history's most notorious regimes... Its greatest strength may be its knack for revealing what's kept at arm's length from us via the media and academia." 
-Christian Toto, author, editor of HollywoodinToto.com\nThe World We Wish continues the love-hate dichotomy among Hui Jen-Sho, China's architect of Artificial Intelligence, who sees the metaverse as a new world to conquer; Henry, the American wunderkind who betrayed his birthland; and the woman they both covet, the ravishing Ma-lin Cho. Just as in today's China, where the only truth comes from the Communist Party - Socialism with Chinese characteristics -- in the metaverse, nothing is what it seems.\nThe World We Wish, the gripping, passion-filled and danger-laden sequel to Of Course They Knew, Of Course They.., will make readers think twice about what they wish for, lest it come true.

Moody, John

RULER OF THE SEAS-An Admiral's Diary

Mazzella, Don

Genre Fiction

Just Another Country

Ready, Set...Risk!

"Ready, Set...Risk! will leave you embracing professional risk taking as an energizing road to realizing your professional and personal potential!" -Catherine Moy, Chief People Officer, BDO USA, LLP  "Levitt probes the challenges that are unique to women as they face decisions in their lives, and provides warm insights and encouraging anecdotes to help guide us through those decisions." -Kathryn Hayley, Former CEO, Aon Consulting Worldwide  "Daniella offers important insight and suggestions on the very important element of risk taking." -Wayne Berson, CEO, BDO USA, LLP  "Ready, Set...Risk! raises a number of important issues for both women striving to make the most of their careers, and for organizations like ours, that want to attract and retain female talent." -Trisha Conley, Head of Talent & Resourcing, Downstream, BP  "Daniella has compiled a diverse and distinct set of experiences and views as she helps the reader assess perspectives in risk." -Connie Lindsey, Executive Vice President,  Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Diversity and Inclusion, Northern Trust  "Every time a woman chooses security and the safe bet over something new, she is missing the opportunity to achieve greater success and fulfillment in work and in life. Ready, Set...RISK! is filled with real-life stories that are engaging and inspiring....a very practical guide to developing the confidence and the ability to take calculated risks that lead to great reward." - Debbie Storey, Senior Vice President, Talent Development and Chief Diversity Officer, AT&T In general, women approach career-related decisions that entail risk differently than men do, and take fewer risks in their careers than men do. Are you the type of person who regularly takes career risks but is disappointed with returns, or someone who does not take career risks because you are concerned about the consequences? Do you only have an appetite for limited risk so need every career risk to count, or are you a serial career risk taker who wishes to set new highs in your risk-taking returns as you progress in your career? In this book Daniella Levitt explores why risk taking is an essential part of any woman's career management and advancement strategy. Ready, Set...RISK! is the indispensable 'how to' of successful risk taking in your career. Daniella Levitt grew up in South Africa. Her passion is empowering transformational change. When she was twenty-six, Daniella moved to the United States. After eleven years with Deloitte Consulting she decided to leave in the year she was up for Partner, and joined Aon Consulting as a Senior Vice President. After Aon, Daniella founded two successful companies. Ovation Global Strategies assists corporations with complex transformational change initiatives, and Daniella Levitt Enterprises focuses on development and advancement of women in the workplace-specifically leveraging strategies around risk taking and cross-generational collaboration.

Business & Money

Levitt, Daniella T.

Job Hunting & Careers

""Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney"" traces the fascinating trajectory of a Massachusetts Brahmin who was president of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1930s. ""Whitney fought every attempt by the Federal Government to regulate the exchange back then because it was ""perfect"" as it was. Widely regarded even by patrician friends as an insufferable snob, with a background from Groton, Harvard, and New Jersey foxhunting country, after Prohibition he bet all his money on a company called Distilled Liquors Corporation whose principal product was ""New Jersey lightning"" - hard cider. When lightning failed to strike, this symbol of Wall Street integrity tried to support his company's stock price by borrowing money and secretly stealing clients' assets to cover his mounting debts until the scheme finally collapsed and he went off to prison. A self-righteous confidence man - he couldn't get away with that today, could he? Read this spellbinding book, which repeatedly takes your breath away, and learn that some things never change."" -Craig R. Whitney, author of ""Living with Guns: A Liberal's case for the Second Amendment."" ""From the opening scene of Richard Whitney striding on to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Black Thursday, 1929 Malcolm Mackay had me hooked. The story of Whitney's rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the great untold stories of American financial history no more. A fascinating book about one of the biggest scandals and scoundrels in American finance. Malcolm Mackay's tale of Richard Whitney's descent from Master of the fox hunt to prisoner at Sing Sing reads like a novel, but is unbelievably true!"" -Consuelo Mack, Anchor and Executive Producer, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack ""Malcolm MacKay has succeeded at the seemingly impossible task of writing a charming and sympathetic account of an utterly unsympathetic scoundrel. MacKay writes with an insider's knowledge of Richard Whitney (whom he personally knew) and the world in which Whitney lived and worked. The happy result is financial history at its most vivid and readable. "" - James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer ""That Richard Whitney's extraordinary life of hubris and deceit hasn't been the subject of a book of nonfiction is a bewildering oversight. Malcolm MacKay has filled the void with an irresistible account that he was uniquely qualified to write."" -G. Bruce Knecht, author of Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It IMPECCABLE CONNECTIONS is both a biography of an important figure and an excellent primer on the reasons for securities regulations that are in today's headlines. Malcolm MacKay is a lawyer and businessman who, as a boy and young man, knew Richard Whitney in his post-prison years. MacKay has thought about Whitney, and why he did what he did, all his life. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Impeccable Connections: The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitney

MacKay, Malcolm

Presentation S.O.S.: From Perspiration to Persuasion in 9 Easy Steps

Wiskup, Mark

Skills

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