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Reviews

• Books
• Theater
• Musicals
• Opera

Books:

• The Saga of Cimba (reviewed by Bo Keeley, 08/07/2006)
• Cause and Correlation in Biology (reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer, 06/11/2006)
• Betting on Myself: Adventures of a Horseplayer and Publisher (reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer, 05/31/2006)
• How To Be Rich (reviewed by Hany Saad, 5/20/2006)
• Secrets of Professional Turf Betting (reviewed by Kedrick Brown 4/12/2006)
• Letters of From a Self-Made Merchant To His Son (reviewed by Martin Lindkvist, (3/24/2006)
• Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus (reviewed by James Sogi, 3/24/2006)
• A History of Interest Rates, by Homer and Sylla, (reviewed by Dennis Vako, 3/21/2006)
• Winning Ugly (reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer 3/12/2006)
• A Review of a Review of Ed Spec by Nicholas Taleb
• Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy (reviewed by Steve Wisdom 2/21/2006)
• The Origin of Species (reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer 2/15/2006)
• The Normans in the South, 1016-1130 (reviewed by Tom Ryan 1/25/2006)
• The Way Life Works (reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer 1/14/2006)
• Rational Herds (reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer 1/10/2006), with comment by Peter Gardiner
• Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners (reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer 11/29/2005)
• The Red Badge of Courage (reviewed by J.T. 12/02/2005)
• Tape Reading and Market Tactics, by Humphrey B. Neill (Jeff Sasmor) 10/16/2005
• My Last Breath (Laurence Glazier) 9/29/2005
• The Last Lion (Yishen Kuik) 9/22/2005
• In Denial (Bo Keeley) 9/13/2005
• Hardball, Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win (Vince)
• Freakonomics (Jean-Paul Schmetz, 4/25/05)
• How to Become a Professional Con Artist (Victor Niederhoffer and Kim Zussman, 3/25/05)
• Creating Modern Capitalism (Victor Niederhoffer, 3/25/05)
• The Big Con (Victor Niederhoffer, 3/13/05)
• Investments (Russell Sears, 2/24/05)
• Inefficient Stock Mark (Phililp McDonnell, 2/17/05)
• Running Money (Michael Pomada, 2/9/05)
• Competitive Strategy (Victor Niederhoffer, 2/5/2005)
• Shadow Divers (Rob Wincapaw, 1/29/05)
• How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short (Allen Gillespie, 01/26/2005)
• FM 21-76: U.S. Army Survival Manual, reviewed by Wil Kenney
• Writings of Marty Whitman, value investor (Victor Niederhoffer, 12/26/04)
• Juncture Recognition in the Stock Market (Alex Castaldo, 12/26/04)
• Casino Gambling for the Winner (Steve Ellison, with comment by Phillip McDonnell 12/03/04)
• The Romance of Commerce (Victor Niederhoffer, 11/27/04)
• The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (Stephen Wisdom, 11/22/04
• The Reverse of the Medal (Victor Niederhoffer, 11/08/04)
• Amarillo Slim (James Tar, 11/08/04)
• On the Edge of Nowhere (Tom Ryan, 10/19/04)
• Hondo (Victor Niederhoffer, 10/15/04)
• My Life as a Quant (J.T. 9/28/04)
• Elementary Stochastic Calculus (Alex Castaldo, 9/27/04)
• Running Money and Tiger in the Land of Bulls and Bears (Tim Melvin, 9/27/04)
• Review of Mathematical Ecology by Mark Kot (Victor Niederhoffer, 9/7/04)
• Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution, by Haim Ofek (Victor Niederhoffer, 7/5/04)
• Trend Following (Victor Niederhoffer, 6/25/04)
• Testosterone Inc.: CEOs Gone Wild, by Christopher Byron (Laurel Kenner, 6/19/04)
• Wars of the Ancient Greeks, by Victor Davis Hanson; The Peloponnesian War, by
• Donald Kagan (James Goldcamp, 6/11/04)
• Economics and Prosperity, by James W. Gwartney (Victor Niederhoffer, 5/31/04)
• Investment Fables, by Aswath Damodaran (Tim Melvin, 5/25/04)
• The Art of Deception, by Nicholas Capaldi (Saurabh Singal, 5/24/04)
• The Lady Tasting Tea (Victor Niederhoffer 5/9/04)
• Bull: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles, by Maggie Mahar (Victor Niederhoffer, 4/26/04)
• Art of War, by Sun Tzu (Andrew Moe)
• Quantitative Trading Strategies: Harnessing the Power of Quantitative Techniques to Create a Winning Trading Program, by Lars Kestner (Duncan Coker)
• Flatland, by Edwin Abbott (James Sogi, 4/4/04)
The Crisis of Islam, by Bernard Lewis (Steve Wisdom, 4/9/04)
• Ecological Stoichiometry, by Sterner and Elser (Victor Niederhoffer, 3/270/4)
• Give Me a Break, by John Stossel (Laurel Kenner, 3/31/4)
• Market Panic, by Stephen Vines (London: Profile Books, 2003). (Laurel, 3/28/04)
• Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies, by Singal (Oxford U Press, 2004). Steve Wisdom finds the book a workmanlike, if sometimes naive, effort.

• Dave Gorman's Googlewhack! Adventure (Victor Niederhoffer, 11/1/4)
• David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (Victor Niederhoffer, 6/12/5)

• Dirty Rotten Souncdrels(Victor Niederhoffer, 3/13/5)
• Pacific Overtures (Alex Castaldo, 11/13/4)

Opera:

Few places are better for observing the interrelations of finance and culture than the Metropolitan Opera.
• Rigoletto; Market Lessons from Verdi (Victor Niederhoffer, 1/29/06)
• The Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky's portrait of a gambler. (Laurel Kenner, 2/9/4)
• Boris Godunov, masterpiece of the Russian musical empiricist Modest Mussorgsky. (Laurel Kenner, 1/27/4)