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The Accidental Investment Banker:Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Jonathan A. Knee had a ringside seat during the go-go, boom-and-bust decade and into the 21st century, at the two most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an industry in free fall, Knee captures an exhilarating...
Corruption
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know®, renowned scholars Ray Fisman and...
The Enigma of Capital:And the Crises of Capitalism
and the Crises of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s,...
Wall Street
A History, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself--from the days when the wall was...
by Mark R. McNeilly
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1996
To hand down the wisdom he had gained from years of battles more than two millennia ago the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military strategy The Art of War. Because business like warfare is dynamic fast-paced and requires an effective and efficient use of scarce resources modern...
Unanticipated Gains
Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? Unanticipated Gains argues that the practice and structure of the churches, colleges,...
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find...
Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated...
One Nation, Uninsured
Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly...
The Sports Strategist
Developing Leaders for a High-Performance Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Today's high-performance sports business is more complex than ever before and presents new challenges to the industry at all levels. Sports organizations are fighting hard for the money and engagement of fans, media, and sponsors while facing unprecedented competition both domestically and internationally....
Funded!
Successful Grantwriting for Your Nonprofit
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Funded! leads readers from knowing nothing about writing grants to having a complete grant proposal. Based on personal experience and the experiences of dozens of professional nonprofit grantwriters, students learn about writing grants by completing exercises at the end of each chapter, moving from...
The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy
Why Strategic Superiority Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation...
The Tools of Government
A Guide to the New Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and...
Re-Creating the Corporation
A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers,...