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Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding - and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network . Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rower...
From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires - the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off. Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestsell...
Etudiant à Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg a beau être un génie en informatique, cela ne suffit pas à le rendre populaire. Un soir, il pirate le trombinoscope de l'université et crée en quelques heures un site pour noter les plus belles filles du campus... Facebook est né. S'ensuit une de ces aventures ho...
Relates the story behind the founding of Facebook by Harvard University undergraduates, and describes how conflicting ideas for the future of the site destroyed the friendship of co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. ...
Thad Roberts est un jeune homme brillant et ambitieux dont le rêve un peu fou est de devenir astronaute. Il décide de reprendre ses études et finit par intégrer la NASA comme stagiaire. Au bout de quelques mois, il apprend qu'une partie des échantillons de pierres de Lune rapportés lors des missions...
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For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more unlikely: he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could po...
Card-counting - making a record of what cards have been dealt to enable the player to make a prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is legal, although casinos understandably ban card-counters. This title reveals a scam in which mathematicians and physicists won millions from Las Vegas casinos...
At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs. ...
Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars. ...
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Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students....
For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name was Semyon Dukatch, and stories swirled in his ...
John Malcolm is barely 30, a high school football hero and Princeton graduate, he controls a hedge fund worth $50m.He made his millions back in the early '90's, a time when dozens of elite youngAmerican graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own g...
In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall....
A gripping, real-life thriller set in the world of the most important tradeable commodity on earth: oil ...
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