Thomas A. Bass

The Eudaemonic Pie

Pham Xuan An was a brilliant journalist and an even better spy. A friend to all the legendary reporters who covered the Vietnam War, he was an invaluable source of news and a font of wisdom on all things Vietnamese. At the same time, he was a masterful double agent. An inspired shape-shifter who kept his cover in place until the day he died, Pham Xuan An ranks as one of the preeminent spies of the twentieth century. When Thomas A. Bass set out to write the story of An’s remarkable career for The New Yorker, fresh revelations arrived daily during their freewheeling conversations, which began in 1992. But a good spy is always at work, and it was not until An’s death in 2006 that Bass was able to lift the veil from his carefully guarded story to offer up this fascinating portrait of a hidden life. A masterful history that reads like a John le Carré thriller, The Spy Who Loved Us offers a vivid portrait of journalists and spies at war.

The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game

The Spy Who Loved Us

Sbancare Wall Street. Ovvero in che modo una banda di fisici indipendenti è riuscita a far fortuna in Borsa applicando la teoria del caos

A study of the plight of the Amerasian children, abandoned by their fathers in a xenophobic society that ostracized them, discusses their difficult lives, the impact of the Amerasian Homecoming Act, their repatriation to America, and their struggle in anunfamiliar society

The War Comes Home

Vietnamerica

The author of The Eudaemonic Pie now reveals the inspiration, motivations, and aspirations of the world's greatest scientists. The scientists interviewed in this collection have changed the rules of the game--altered our perception of reality and the language used to describe it.

Conversations With The World's Leading Scientists

Reinventing The Future

Describes how two physicists, experts in the sciences of chaos and complexity, used theoretical physics to decipher the confusion of the global financial market and how they ultimately used the knowledge to amass a fortune. 50,000 first printing.

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