Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, Paperback - Karen Ho

Reducere. Financial collapses--whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market--are often explained as the inevi...

Liquidated uses ethnographic research, traditionally used to study distant societies, to dissect the culture of high finance on New York's famous W...

Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behind these "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made...

Reducere. Hetty Howland Green (1834-1916), born Hetty Howland Robinson, and known in her later years as "The Witch of Wall Street, " was born in the whaling ...

DescriptionIn this novella, widely considered one of the finest works of American literature, a lawyer hires the "incurably forlorn" Bartleby as a ...

Reducere. Bartleby is a newly-hired scrivener who initially produces great work but slowly reduces his output, declining assignments and responding with: "I ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Herman MelvilleBartleby, the Scrivener is the short story by Herman Melville now brought to you in this new edition of the ...

At last, Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street - reveals how to use the Straight Line System - the proven technique for generating wealth which ...

The first ethnography of Wikipedia's organization, governance, and power structure, Common Knowledge argues that many criticisms of Wikipedia have ...

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the b...

Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal intera...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the confli...

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the f...

Reducere. 'What separates Jordan's story from others like it, is the brutal honesty.' - Leonardo DiCaprioBy day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By nig...

Reducere. DescriptionImagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity an...

A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990sPublisher: Duke University PressAuthor(s): Timothy ChoyIllustration(s): 2 figuresNu...

Reducere. The 10th anniversary edition of Maxims of Wall Street is a classic reference that you will read with delight for years to come, and an ideal gift t...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Frauke MoerikeNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 225 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, reli...

Reducere. In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring pl...

DescriptionThrough an ethnographic study of an internationally renowned NGO situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and pr...

An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europ...

Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital.Publisher: Taylor & Franc...

Reducere. Herman Melville's absurdist classic is printed anew in this presentable hardcover edition. First published in 1853, Bartleby, the Scrivener has bee...

Reducere. The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the na...

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Reducere. Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, Tenth Anniversary Edition, is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work...

Reducere. Weatherall probes an epochal shift in financial strategizing with lucidity, explaining how it occurred and what it means for modern finance. Peter ...

Reducere. Witness Ron's amazing story of how he turned a few thousand dollars into millions-- only to lose it all. Find out how God rescued Ron and put him b...

Reducere. What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price ...

Reducere. Arthur Zweig is the publisher of the influential, trend-spotting Zweig Forecast. Now in this new edition Zweig adds the latest numbers to his class...

Reducere. -How Facebook friends helped a young parent invest in the wildly successful children's show Chuggington and see her stock values climb 50 percent? ...

Reducere. Educational, imaginative, and adventurous. Mahogany goes to Wall Street is a fun-filled, inspiring story that serves as an introduction to the Fina...

Reducere. From the Financial Times's global finance correspondent, the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and end...