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Multinational Corporations And Foreign Direct Investment: Avoiding Simplicity, Embracing Complexity
Par Stephen D. Cohen. 2007
Foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs)--for better and worse--play a large and growing role in shaping our world.…
The integrating thesis of this book is the inevitability of heterogeneity in FDI and MNCs and, accordingly, the imperative of disaggregation. Large companies doing business on a global basis increasingly dominate the production and marketing of the world's goods and services. The importance of these companies continues to grow while the debate about their nature and effects remains mired in a long-standing stalemate couched in strong black and white terms. Stephen D. Cohen seeks to reconcile this impasse by analyzing multinational corporations and foreign direct investment in an eclectic, nuanced manner. The core thesis is that an accurate understanding of the nature and impact of these phenomena comes from acknowledging the dominance of heterogeneity, perceptions, and ambiguity and the paucity of universal truths. This approach should contribute significantly to both a better academic understanding and a more productive policy debate of an increasingly important element of the world economy.Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Ser.)
Par Gustave. Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall, Michèle Roberts. 2003
The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious…
banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. It includes a preface by Michele Roberts. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.In The Margins: On The Pleasures Of Reading And Writing
Par Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein. 2021
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among…
authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women’s truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others. Here is a subtle yet candid book by “one of the great novelists of our time” about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins.Doing Christian Ethics From The Margins
Par Miguel A. De La Torre. 2014
Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance Of The Afro-frontier, 1900-1930 (Grover E. Murray Studies In The American Southwest Ser.)
Par Timothy E. Nelson, Herbert G. Ii Ruffin. 2023
Blackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about thirty years. In this book, Timothy E. Nelson situates the township’s…
story where it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico’s Northern Frontier. Dr. Nelson illuminates the set of conscious efforts that helped Black pioneers develop Blackdom Township into a frontier boomtown. “Blackdom” started as an inherited idea of a nineteenth-century Afrotopia. The idea of creating a Blackdom was refined within Black institutions as part of the perpetual movement of Black Colonization. In 1903, thirteen Black men, encouraged by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, formed the Blackdom Townsite Company and set out to make Blackdom a real place in New Mexico, where they were outside the reach of Jim Crow laws. Many believed that Blackdom was simply abandoned. However, new evidence shows that the scheme to build generational wealth continued to exist throughout the twentieth century in other forms. During Blackdom’s boomtimes, in December 1919, Blackdom Oil Company shifted town business from a regenerative agricultural community to a more extractive model. Nelson has uncovered new primary source materials that suggest for Blackdom a newly discovered third decade. This story has never been fully told or contextualized until now. Reoriented to Mexico’s “northern frontier,” one observes Black ministers, Black military personnel, and Black freemasons who colonized as part of the transmogrification of Indigenous spaces into the American West. Nelson’s concept of the Afro-Frontier evokes a “Turnerian West,” but it is also fruitfully understood as a Weberian “Borderland.” Its history highlights a brief period and space that nurtured Black cowboy culture. While Blackdom’s civic presence was not lengthy, its significance—and that of the Afro-Frontier—is an important window in the history of Afrotopias, Black Consciousness, and the notion of an American West.Communicating With Data: The Art Of Writing For Data Science
Par Deborah Nolan, Sara Stoudt. 2021
Communication is a critical yet often overlooked part of data science. Communicating with Data aims to help students and researchers…
write about their insights in a way that is both compelling and faithful to the data. General advice on science writing is also provided, including how to distill findings into a story and organize and revise the story, and how to write clearly, concisely, and precisely. This is an excellent resource for students who want to learn how to write about scientific findings, and for instructors who are teaching a science course in communication or a course with a writing component.Angels: A Novel
Par Denis Johnson. 1983
“A terrifying book, a mixture of poetry and obscenity. . . [the characters] are people who can’t be ignored. Mr.…
Johnson has written a dazzling and savage first novel.”—Alice Hoffman, New York Times Book Review The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson's novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays—a runaway wife toting along two kids—and Bill Houston—ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con—on a Greyhound Bus for a dark, wild ride cross country. Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange, fascinating, and dangerous fringe of American life. Their tickets may say Phoenix, but their inescapable destination is a last stop marked by stunning violence and mind-shattering surprise. Denis Johnson, known for his portraits of America's dispossessed, sets off literary pyrotechnics on this highway odyssey, lighting the trek with wit and a personal metaphysics that defiantly takes on the world.Audition For Your Career, Not The Job: Mastering The On-camera Audition
Par Tim Phillips, Stephanie Gunning. 2011
You’ve got a big audition lined up for a role in a film or on a television series. What do…
you do now? AUDITION FOR YOUR CAREER, NOT THE JOB covers steps you can take and specific skills you can put to use immediately to feel more confident about your performance in your next audition and make a great and lasting impression on casting directors and producers. If your work is consistently first-rate and memorable, then every on-camera audition is an opportunity to advance your acting career. This book will teach you techniques that improve your ability to read and interpret the sides quickly, helping you to trust your instincts and craft strong, bold, specific acting choices, and setting you up for an active and profitable career.To Everything There Is A Season: Pete Seeger And The Power Of Song (New Narratives In American History Ser.)
Par Allan M. Winkler. 2009
Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and…
"Turn, Turn, Turn," Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the United States. In "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler describes how Seeger applied his musical talents to improve conditions for less fortunate people everywhere. This book uses Seeger's long life and wonderful songs to reflect on the important role folk music played in various protest movements of the twentieth century. A tireless supporter of union organization in the 1930s and 1940s, Seeger joined the Communist Party, performing his songs with banjo and guitar accompaniment to promote worker solidarity. In the 1950s, he found himself under attack during the Red Scare for his radical past. In the 1960s, he became the minstrel of the civil rights movement, focusing its energy with songs that inspired protestors and challenged the nation's patterns of racial discrimination. Toward the end of the decade, he turned his musical talents to resisting the war in Vietnam, and again drew fire from those who attacked his dissent as treason. Finally, in the 1970s, he lent his voice to the growing environmental movement by leading the drive to clean up the Hudson RiverThe Retreat Of The State: The Diffusion Of Power In The World Economy (Cambridge Studies In International Relations Ser. #Series Number 49)
Par Susan Strange, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Steve Lamy, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny, Joseph Grieco, A. J. R. Groom, Steve Smith, Richard Higgott, G. John Ikenberry. 1996
Who is really in charge of the world economy? Not only governments, argues Susan Strange in The Retreat of the…
State. Big businesses, drug barons, insurers, accountants and international bureaucrats all encroach on the so-called sovereignty of the state. Professor Strange examines the implications of this rivalry and points to some new directions for research in international relations, international business and economics.The Contract And Domination
Par Carole Pateman, Charles Mills. 2007
Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or…
abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to the Western political tradition. But gender justice is neglected and racial justice almost completely ignored. Carole Pateman and Charles Mills's earlier books, The Sexual Contract (1988) and The Racial Contract (1997), offered devastating critiques of gender and racial domination and the contemporary contract tradition's silence on them. Both books have become classics of revisionist radical democratic political theory. Now Pateman and Mills are collaborating for the first time in an interdisciplinary volume, drawing on their insights from political science and philosophy. They are building on but going beyond their earlier work to bring the sexual and racial contracts together.Religion and Popular Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach
Par Chris Klassen. 2014
Looking at the intersection of religion and popular culture through a theoretical lens, this new text offers an insightful treatment…
of this topical area of study. Each chapter outlines different theories and explores how key ideologies inform and interact with aspects of popular culture, including television, film, music, and the Internet.Pandora Gets Jealous
Par Carolyn Hennesy. 2008
13-year-old Pandora Atheneus Andromaeche Helena (or Pandy, for short) has no idea what she'll bring for her school project. By…
accident she discovers a simple box, said to contain something so terrifying and horrible that no one must ever, ever touch it for fear of inflicting all of mankind with the wrath of the Gods and Goddesses. This, of course, makes the box the perfect thing for Pandora to bring for her school project. Unfortunately, things don't go quitethe way she was hoping, and the box accidentallygets opened, unleashing all kinds of evil and misery into the world. Hauled before Zeus, Hera and the rest of immortals, Pandy's given the task of collecting all the evils within a year's time.Fundamentals Of College Admission Counseling (fifth Edition): A Textbook For Graduate Students And Practicing Counselors
Par National Association for College Admission Counseling. 2019
Completely updated, the textbook is the definitive classroom resource for graduate education programs in secondary school counseling. It is also…
a must-read for practicing counselors, particularly those new to the profession. The textbook includes 26 chapters authored by leading practitioners as well as researchers and higher education faculty. The text includes information on counseling foundations and theory, ethics and practice, student pathways and options, serving diverse student populations, and more. This edition also includes the following new Foundations of Standardized Admission Testing Advising Students and Families About Paying for College Counseling First-Generation Students and Families Technology Tools for the Savvy School Counselor Serving Undocumented Students Counseling International Students at US High Schools Advising the Transnational ApplicantGeneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, professional learning, and…
classroom instruction. Gay has made many important revisions to keep her foundational, award-winning text relevant for today’s diverse student population, including: new research on culturally responsive teaching, a focus on a broader range of racial and ethnic groups, and consideration of additional issues related to early childhood education. Combining insights from multicultural education theory with real-life classroom stories, this book demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through students’ own cultural experiences. This perennial bestseller continues to be the go-to resource for teacher professional learning and preservice courses.Classical Traditions In Science Fiction
Par Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. 2015
or all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and,…
surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection in English dedicated to the study of science fiction as a site of classical receptions, offering a much-needed mapping of that important cultural and intellectual terrain.Between Power And Plenty: Foreign Economic Policies Of Advanced Industrial States
Par Peter J. Katzenstein. 1977
This volume analyzes how the domestic structures of advanced industrial states shape political strategies in the international political economy. Early…
outlines and preliminary drafts of papers were prepared for a panel of the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in Toronto in February 1976 and for a workshop held at Cornell University in June 1976. Full drafts were discussed at a conference held at Harvard University in October 1976. (Conference on Domestic Structures and the Foreign Economic Policy of Advanced Industrial States.) In light of these discussions the papers were extensively revised once more prior to publication. This has been a collaborative effort from the very beginning. The contribu¬tion which the authors have made extends far beyond their individual essays. The arguments in the introductory and in the concluding essays incorporate many of the central themes in our discussions.The Last Word: A twisty new mystery from the bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries.
Par Elly Griffiths. 2024
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday TimesWords can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill...Natalka and…
Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy investigation to come the agency's way. Then a murder case turns up. Local writer, Melody Chambers, is found dead and her family are convinced it is murder. Edwin, a big fan of the obit pages, thinks there's a link to the writer of Melody's obituary who pre-deceased his subject. The trail leads them to a slightly sinister writers' retreat. When another writer is found dead, Edwin thinks that the clue lies in the words. Seeking professional help, the amateur investigators turn to their friend, detective Harbinder Kaur, to find that they have stumbled on a plot that is stranger than fiction.The unmissable new novel from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries.*****************************Praise for The Last Word'Outstanding and hugely entertaining' Irish Independent 'Twisty' Crime Monthly'The characters show real light and shade and there are ample comedic one-liners' Belfast Telegraph'This mystery will have you hooked' Candis'Kept me guessing to the end' SagaHorse in Danger: A Tack Ranch Story (Tack Ranch #7)
Par Glenn Balch. 1960
Two men from nearby Bar-B rode in to Tack Ranch in an angry mood. They accused King, the black stallion,…
of raiding their brood mares. And, if Vince Darby didn't do something about it-since King carried his brand-they'd have to shoot. King was the leader of the largest band of wild horses that roamed the wild and rugged Twin Buttes country. He was more than just a horse to Ben and Dixie Darby and to Gaucho, the Argentine trainer who had such a way with horses. King was a leader and a fine herd sire, so they had to prove, if possible, that he had not raided the ranchers' herds. What happens in the big rugged ranch country of Idaho and Nevada when these three Tack riders start out to look for the missing colts makes a fast-moving and exciting mystery, written with the same fine understanding for horses that all of the many readers of Glenn Balch's books have come to expect.Winter Horse: A Tack Ranch Story (Tack Ranch #4)
Par Glenn Balch. 1951
A sequel to Lost Horse of last year, this story about the rescue of starving wild horses, misses none of…
the excitement and suspense of the other. When Ben and Dixie Darby, staying in Boise to attend school, realize that the West is passing through the worst blizzard in years, they immediately think of the wild stallion King and his band of mares wintering outside the Darby ranch and beyond help. In spite of the protests of their parents, Ben and Dixie trek through the snow with their friend Gaucho and after days of heart-breaking labor, witnessing terrible deaths of horses, protecting the last survivors, including King, from wolves, they are at last able, through a miracle, to save the remnants of the band.