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Jamie Dimon is Wall Street's biggest player. Following the 11h-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, his profile has reached stratospheric levels. And while the deals and decisions he's made have usually turned out to be the right ones, his journey to the top of the financial world has been anything but easy. Now, in The House of Dimon, business writer Patricia Crisafulli goes behind the scenes to recount the amazing events that have shaped Dimon's career.

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness" in business and government since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the 20th century.

Superinvestors lays bare the investing secrets of legendary investors – from early 20th-century figures such as Benjamin Graham and John Maynard Keynes, through to more modern names such as Anthony Bolton and Warren Buffett. The investors have been picked for a variety of criteria, including their investing excellence, the different ways in which they have made money – and above all for what they can teach individual investors.

Rose Handy had a great life with a good job, great boyfriend, and was nine months pregnant. Realizing too late that her boyfriend was pocketing the rent money and they ere now being evicted, the boyfriend left and Rose was forced into giving birth in a women's shelter. Angry, frustrated and embarrassed, she decided to fight back creating a company that will hit $1 million in 2010. The shelter provided Rose with a good environment in which she could take care of her newborn while also dealing with the trauma of what had happened to her.

Sie wurden ausgesetzt oder von Lkw überfahren – und heißen nun »Pizza Man«, »Fire Chief« oder »Snowball«. Zu Hunderten haben sie Zuflucht gefunden in einem Haus in Massachusetts. In diesem Refugium für Schildkröten tritt Sy Montgomery einen Freiwilligendienst an – und lässt uns an einer lebensverändernden Erfahrung teilhaben: Wenn wir unsere Existenz mit den Augen dieser uralten, gemächlichen und langlebigen Wesen betrachten, bekommen wir eine Ahnung von dem, was uns überdauern wird.