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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The 1944 Bretton Woods conference created new institutions for international economic governance. Though flawed, the system led to a golden age in postwar reconstruction, sustained economic growth, job creation, and postcolonial development. Yet financial liberalization since the 1970s has involved...
The Truth About Girls and Boys
Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett are widely acclaimed for their analyses of women, men, and society. In The Truth About Girls and Boys, they tackle a new, troubling trend in the theorizing of gender: that the learning styles, brain development, motivation, cognitive and spatial abilities, and...
Race Unmasked
Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience. Race...
The Miracle Myth
Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural Is Unjustified
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the terminally ill. Though miracles are immensely improbable, people have embraced them for millennia, seeing in them proof...
by Stephen Penman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Accounting for Value teaches investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments. The book's novel approach shows that valuation and accounting are much the same: valuation is actually a matter of accounting for value.
Laying aside many of the tools of modern finance-the...
The People’s Money
How China Is Building a Global Currency
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Many of the world's major economies boast dominant international currencies. Not so for China. Its renminbi has lagged far behind the pound, the euro, and the dollar in global circulation—and for good reason. China has long privileged economic policies that have fueled development at the expense...
by Robert Hagstrom
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Robert G. Hagstrom is one of the best-known authors of investment books for general audiences. Turning his extensive experience as a portfolio manager at Legg Mason Capital Management into valuable guidance for professionals and nonprofessionals alike, he is the author of six successful books on investment,...
by Anne Fortune, Robert Miller , Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better represent the context and complexity of social work practice. Chapters address different approaches to qualitative inquiry, applications to essential areas...
by Andrew Scobell, Andrew J. Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Despite its impressive size and population, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful rivals and potential foes. Understanding China's foreign policy means fully appreciating these geostrategic challenges, which persist even as the...
by Alfred Kadushin, Daniel Harkness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the field and the place, function, and challenges of supervision in social work practice.
This fifth edition takes into account the sizable number...
The Wise Advocate
The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Leadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no fluke: the latest research on the brain...
The Ethical Economy
Rebuilding Value After the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A more ethical economic system is now possible, one that rectifies the crisis spots of our current downturn while balancing the injustices of extreme poverty and wealth. Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen, a scholar and an entrepreneur, outline the shape such an economy might take, identifying its...
Clio Wired
The Future of the Past in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end...
The Aid Trap
Hard Truths About Ending Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector-the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the...