Karen Ho: 5 books

Book cover of Liquidated

Liquidated

An Ethnography of Wall Street

by Karen Ho
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009

Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how...
Book cover of Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Political Economy of Gender

by Angela Nieves-Xavier de Brito, Rosa M. Cañadell, Norma Chinchilla
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published...
Book cover of Christian Higher Education

Christian Higher Education

Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition

by Bruce Ashford, Paul Bialek, Peter Cha
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018

Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education. Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
Book cover of McGraw-Hill's U.S. Citizenship Test
by Karen Hilgeman, Kristin D. Sherman, Winifred Ho
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2009

For the more than 600,000 who apply for U.S. citizenship each year-an innovative program for success on the new N-400 application Thousands apply for United States citizenship annually and face the challenge of doing well not only topics of American history and government, but also on oral...
Book cover of Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis
by Mike Alvarez, David Boromisza-Habashi, Charles A. Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...
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