The Money and the Power
The Money and the Power

Author: Sally Denton

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2002-05-07

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0375414444

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Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic network of links to Wall Street, international drug traffickers, and the CIA. In doing so, they expose the disturbing connections amongst politicians, businessmen, and the criminals that harness these illegal activities. Through this lucid and gripping indictment of Las Vegas, Morris and Denton uncover a national ethic of exploitation, violence, and greed, and provide a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history. Now this neon maelstrom of ruthlessness and greed stands to not as an aberrant “sin city,” but as a natural outgrowth of the corruption and worship of money that have come to permeate American life.

National Approaches to the Administration of International Migration
National Approaches to the Administration of International Migration

Author: Peri E. Arnold

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1607505983

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Within the time frame of the 17th century to the mid 20th century, this book examines the migration experience of ten countries - Australia, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States - each with an important history of international migration.

American Commercial Banking
American Commercial Banking

Author: Benjamin Klebaner

Publisher: Beard Books

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1587981424

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Traces the evolution of commercail banking in the United States from the beginnings in the late eighteenth century until 1988. This title is a reprint.

The Paradigm of International Social Development
The Paradigm of International Social Development

Author: Murli Desai

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1135010250

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This book takes a historical approach to analyse ideologies, policy approaches and development systems that have constructed the paradigm of international social development. It aims to review the social construction of "development" by tracing the historical dynamics of the modern ideologies and political economy of industrialization, colonization, the Cold War, and globalisation; to examine the process of reconstruction of development as "social development" based on alternate ideologies and alternate policy approaches and review the roles played by the development systems; and to trace the history of social policy approaches from welfare to rights-based, universal, comprehensive and preventative social policies for social development, and identify the roles played by non-government organizations and the social work profession.