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Author: Susan P. Shapiro
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-03-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780300039337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts actual cases of security frauds, explains how the SEC investigates the securities market, and suggests new policies to strengthen the SEC's role as government watchdog
Author: Carol Gelderman
Publisher: Beard Books
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 2
ISBN-13: 1587982897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engrossing book is an objective biography of Henry Ford, and it reveals the full story of the man who rarely revealed his true feelings, but who had did more than any other to change the landscape, character, and experience of twentieth-century America.
Author: Dana Spiotta
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 059331249X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.
Author: Holly Wardlow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2006-05-08
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0520245601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," this work explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge.
Author: Steven A. Ramirez
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0814776493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative and exhaustive study, Steven A. Ramirez posits that the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as the global macroeconomic catastrophe it spawned, is traceable to a gross failure of law. The rule of law must appropriately channel and constrain the exercise of economic and political power. Used effectively, it ensures that economic opportunity isn’t limited to a small group of elites that enjoy growth at the expense of many, particularly those in vulnerable economic situations. In Lawless Capitalism, Ramirez calls for the rule of law to displace crony capitalism. Only through the rule of law, he argues, can capitalism be reconstructed.
Author: N. Pizzolato
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1137311703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Detroit and Turin were both sites of significant political and social upheaval. This comparative and transnational study examines the political and theoretical developments that emerged in these two "motor cities" among activist workers and political militants during these decades.
Author: Fiona Macmillan
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2003-05-30
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 184113158X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains essays and country reports from across the globe in the area of international and comparative corporate law.
Author: Bryant G. Garth
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780810114333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJustice and Power in the Sociolegal Studies asks what interdisciplinary work in the law and society tradition tells us about the relationship of law and justice, as well as the way power operates in and through law. The fundamental concepts of justice and power provide points of departure for leading scholars to explore the various domains of socio-legal research. As they note the explicitness of the engagement with issues of power and the relative silence about -- or indirectness in taking on -- questions of justice found in most law and society research, they ask how engagement with issues of power and silence about justice constituted law and society as a research field caught between a desire to have political impact and, at the same time, to maintain its scientific respectability.
Author: Gerald Mars
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 1000008355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management. The volumes includes a full-length introduction from the editor, an internationally recognized expert, and provides an authoritative guide to the selection of essays chosen, and to the wider field itself. The collections of essays are both international and interdisciplinary in scope and provide an entry point for investigating the myriad of study within the discipline.
Author: Ronald S. Burt
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007-09-06
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0191622850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations, and careers become more and more dependent on informal, discretionary relationships. The formal organization deals with accountability; Everything else flows through the informal: advice, coordination, cooperation friendship, gossip, knowledge, trust. Informal relations have always been with us, they have always mattered. What is new is the range of activities in which they now matter, and the emerging clarity we have about how they create advantage for certain people at the expense of others. This is done by brokerage and closure. Ronald S. Burt builds upon his celebrated work in this area to explore the nature of brokerage and closure. Brokerage is the activity of people who live at the intersection of social worlds, who have a vision advantage of seeing and developing good ideas, an advantage which can be seen in their compensation, recognition, and the responsibility they're entrusted with in comparison to their peers. Closure is the tightening of coordination in a closed network of people, and people who do this do well as a complement to brokers because of the trust and alignment they create. Brokerage and Closure explores how these elements work together to define social capital, showing how in the business world reputation has come to replace authority, pursued opportunity assignment, and reward has come to be associated with achieving competitive advantage in a social order of continuous disequilibrium.
