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An expose on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America\'s credit crisis The collapse of America\'s credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S.

history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street\'s Bluff is the story of Bill Ackman\'s six-year campaign to warn that the $2.

5 trillion bond insurance business was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Branded a fraud by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and investigated by Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman later made his investors more than $1 billion when bond insurers kicked off the collapse of the credit markets.

Unravels the story of the credit crisis through an engaging and human drama Draws on unprecedented access to one of Wall Street\'s best-known investors Shows how excessive leverage, dangerous financial models, and a blind reliance on triple-A credit ratings sent Wall Street careening toward disaster Confidence Game is a real world «Emperor\'s New Clothes,» a tale of widespread delusion, and one dissenting voice in the era leading up to the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression.

Color Confidence is a practical, results-oriented book that gives photographers the knowledge they need to manage color effectively from capture to output. Digital imaging expert Tim Grey designed this book for busy photographers who want to get results without wading through tons of information about color science–distilling the most important concepts into real-world use.

He teaches only the theory that photographers must know to understand how color management works, and focuses on the practical information they need to make decisions when working with their images: the actual processes that achieve the best results possible. In this new edition of the very first practical guide to color management, readers will find out how to quickly get predictable color results across all devices–from cameras, monitors, and printers, to scanners and raster image processors (RIPs).

Updated with new information on Photoshop, RIP technology, and calibration, this results-oriented book is a must for all serious photographers.