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Fallen giant

the amazing story of hank greenberg and the history of AIG

This book offers a unique insider view into the recent AIG crisis and Hank Greenberg. For nearly 40 years, Maurice 'Hank' Greenberg was one of the most powerful CEOs in America. He built American International Group (AIG) from a second-rate insurer with a great Chinese ...

Volatility-based technical analysis

strategies for trading the invisible

This book offers a framework for creating volatility-based technical analysis and trading it for profit. "Volatility-Based Technical Analysis" bridges the advantage gap between resource rich institutions and individual traders. It is a no-calculus, plain-English text that reveals original, highly technical, mathematical-based volatility indicators, complete with ...

Fair value accounting

new global risk and detection techniques

This book offers essential guidance on the new fair value rules for accounting managers, auditors, and fraud investigators. Fair Value accounting is emerging as the next prime opportunity for financial statement fraud. Explaining the many complex applications of fair value accounting in the preparation of ...

The housing boom and bust

The inimitable Thomas Sowell casts a critical eye at the bubble that shattered the world economy - a cautionary tale that will be sure to spark controversy. Scary headlines and scarier statistics tell the story of a financial crisis on a scale not seen in decades ...

Icons of life

a cultural history of human embryos

Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting ...

Jose Joaquín de Clararrosa y su Diario Gaditano (1820-1822). Ilustración, periodismo y revolución en el Trienio Liberal

VI EDICIÓN DEL PREMIO DEL CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CONSTITUCIONALES 1812 (2007). Acercamiento a la prensa del Trienio Liberal a través de la biografía de José Joaquín de Clararrosa/Juan Antonio Olavarrieta, que servirá para contextualizar su Diario Gaditano, que marcará el periodismo del bando liberal ...

Rogue economics

capitalim's new reality

What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China's fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life ...

After Adam Smith

a century of transformation in politics and political economy

Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. "After Adam Smith" looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered in the century following the publication of Smith's "Wealth of Nations". It considers how ...

The sense of dissonance

accounts of worth in economic life

What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting ...

Globalization

a short history

'Globalization' has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages. But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this ...

Civil Code of Spain = Código Civil de España

The management myht

why the experts keep getting it wrong

Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a management consultant. But soon he was telling experienced managers how to run their companies. Striking fear into the hearts ...

Lope de Vega

pasiones, obra y fortuna del 'monstruo de naturaleza'

Se cumplen ahora cuatrocientos años de la mayor revolución en el teatro popular desde los antiguos griegos. Félix Lope de Vega Carpio (1562- 1635), a quien Cervantes calificara de «monstruo de naturaleza » y hoy, con castiza familiaridad, todos llamamos Lope, se encargó de que las ...

La batalla del Somme

la batalla más sangrienta de la Primera Guerra Mundial

Trad., Silvia Furió. Contiene ilustraciones. La batalla del Somme se cuenta entre los conflictos más sangrientos de todos los tiempos. Con todo, y a pesar de los horrores y la destrucción de la batalla, ésta se caracterizó por la increíble valentía individual de quienes la ...

La fama

iconos de la religión mediática

Prol., Salvador Giner. La fama es un instrumento moral, el premio es la celebridad, el castigo el anonimato y los famosos-de políticos a estrellas musicales y deportistas-son los santos de la comunicación global. Los medios, a su vez, son quienes se encargan de administrar la ...

Rusia dinamitada

tramas secretas y terrorismo de Estado en la Federación Rusa

Traducción de Carlos Milla y Isabel Ferrer. La muerte por envenenamiento en noviembre de 2006 del ex agente de los servicios secretos rusos Aleksandr Litvinenko sacudió a la opinión pública mundial. La publicación en 2003 de Rusia dinamitada, co-escrito con el historiador Yuri Felshtinski, destapó ...

El ruido eterno

escuchar al siglo XX a través de su música

Ésta es la historia del siglo XX a través de su música, desde la Viena de antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta el París de los años 20; desde la Alemania de Hitler o la Rusia de Stalin al Nueva York de los años ...

Management by lies

mitos y mentiras en la dirección de empresas

Libro provocador e irónico que describe sin tapujos grandes mitos y mentiras aceptados y puestos en práctica sin ningún rubor en el ámbito de la dirección de empresas. A partir del analisis de numerosos casos reales, fruto de 40 años de experiencia como directivo en ...

Emprendedores

25 casos de éxito en el mundo empresarial

Desde el año 2000, Pedro Meyer está al frente del programa de RNE Emprendedores, un programa emblemático en el que se dan cita personajes de toda índole que narran sus experiencias como emprendedores. El autor ha reunido en este libro algunas de esas entrevistas, tratando ...

China and India in the age of globalization

The rise of China and India is the story of our times. The unprecedented expansion of their economic and power capabilities raises profound questions for scholars and policymakers. What forces propelled these two Asian giants into global pacesetters, and what does their emergence mean for ...