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The accidental investment banker

inside the decade that transformed Wall Street

If "investment banking" gives you visions of stodgy New York geezers harumphing and gufawwing in a black-suited gaggle, Knee's look at high finance in the '90s will change that. A thumping ride across deep waters, Knee evokes the precarious, risky thrills courted by businesspeople ...

A kingdom of priests

ancestry and merit in ancient judaism

According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is ...

The Cambridge history of Russia

This is a definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the successor states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Volume I encompasses developments before the reign of Peter I; volume II covers the 'imperial era', from Peter's time to ...

Creating East and West

Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman turks

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks; epic ...

Environmental and resource valuation with revealed preferences

a theoretical guide to empirical models

Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing the environment and natural resources that use information on what people do, not what they say. The authors have worked on models ...

Legal capital in Europe

Table of Contents: Marcus Lutter: Legal capital of public companies in Europe - Executive summary of considerations by the expert group on "Legal Capital in Europe" Horst Eidenmuller/Barbara Grunewald/Ulrich Noack: Minimum Capital in the System of Legal Capital Andreas Pentz/Hans-Joachim Priester/Andre Schwanna ...

International environmental Law

fairness, effectiveness, and world order

This book analyzes the law and policy for the management of global common resources. As competing demands on the global commons are increasing, the protection of environment and the pursuit of growth give rise to all sorts of conflicts. It also analyzes issues in the ...

Mio Cid Campeador

Incluimos en este tomo tres obras medievales muy distintas entre sí, que están vinculadas por la figura de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, conocido como el Cid Campeador. La presencia de este famoso héroe es muy abundante en las páginas literarias, desde entonces hasta nuestros días ...

L'accesso ai documenti

limiti, procedimento, responsabilità: aggiornato con il regolamento sull'accesso (d.p.r. 12 aprile 2006, n. 184)

I problemi dell'accesso ai documenti amministrativi sono diventati più importanti e riguardano molte notizie sulle persone, sull'attività e sull'organizzazione amministrativa. Le nuove disposizioni della Legge 241/1990, il Codice della Privacy ed il recente regolamento sull'accesso (D.P.R. 184/2006 ...

Introducción al Derecho penal

Tres pautas o exigencias metodológicas constituyen, a mi modo de ver, las señas de identidad de la presente introducción: la pretensión de completar y enriquecer el análisis jurídico-normativo de los diversos problemas con un enfoque empírico criminológico e interdisciplinario de los mismos; una actitud de ...

Motivación en el trabajo de la administración

INTRODUCCIÓN. GESTIONAR A LAS PERSONAS AL SERVICIO DE LAS ADMINISTRACIONES PÚBLICAS. El modelo de burocracia administrativa y su cuestionamiento. La evolución de la estrategia de gestión de personas en la Administración Pública. La nueva gestión de recursos humanos en la Administración Pública. LIDERAZGO Y MOTIVACIÓN ...

La colaboración público-privada en la financiación de las infraestrusturas y servicios públicos

una aproximación desde los principios jurídicos-financieros

En la primera parte hace un análisis de la cuestión a la luz de los principios jurídico-financieros. La 2ª parte expone los modelos de colaboración público-privada en la financiación de infraestructuras y servicios públicos (sistema español, alemán y británico),luego hace una análisis jurídico-financiero de ...

Leading people

expert splutions to everyday challenges

Today's leaders don't use command-and-control. Instead, they leverage their communication, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills to inspire employees to ever higher levels of performance. Packed with practical tools and expert advice, "Leading People" shows managers how to bring out the best in their team.

The new capitalists

how citizen investors are reshaping the corporate agenda

Thanks to the rise of mutual funds and retirement plans, the actual owners of the world's corporate giants are no longer a few wealthy families. Rather, they're the huge majority of working people who have their pensions and life savings invested in shares ...

Prova legale e libero convincimento del giudice

L'opera affronta la tematica dei rapporti tra principio del libero convincimento e prova legale, con riguardo sia al processo civile sia al processo penale, partendo da un approccio storico e ponendo soprattutto in risalto le linee di contrasto che tuttora caratterizzano le posizioni di ...

Dictionnaire de la franc-maçonnerie

Qu'est-ce que la franc-maçonnerie ? Comment devient-on franc-maçon ? Pourquoi parle-t-on de sociétés secrètes, de rites mystérieux, d'initiés ? Qu'est-ce qu'une obédience, une loge, un grand maître ? Pourquoi la franc-maçonnerie a-t-elle suscité tant de haines, une mise à l'index et encore, de nos ...

Global price fixing

The book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. It provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. A deeper understanding of the phenomenon is afforded by intensive case studies of collusion in ...

De l'oeuf à l'éternité

le sens de l'évolution

Cent cinquante ans après l'ouvrage fondateur de Charles Darwin, L'Origine des espèces, la théorie de l'évolution laisse un certain nombre de questions sans réponse. Pourquoi sommes-nous dotés de bras et de jambes ? Pourquoi les oiseaux ont-ils des ailes ? Pourquoi tant d'animaux ...

The mystical origins of hasidism

CONTENTS: The origins of Hasidism. The Hasidic library. Mystical societies and the spread of Hasidism : internalizing and reviving the Kabbalistic myth. The Hasidic concept of language : the window in the word. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov's uniqueness : myth, bibliography, facts, and image. The Hasidic ...

En torno al canon

aproximaciones y estrategias. VII Encuentro Internacional sobre Poesía del Siglo de Oro

INDICE: La difusión y recepción de la "Antología Griega" en el Siglo de Oro. Sobre el estatuto teórico de la poesía lírica en el Siglo de Oro. Los procesos de canonización en la preceptiva literaria renacentista. Algunas consideraciones sobre los procesos de canonización en la ...