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  • The Spectacle of Expertise

    Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media

    by Alex Preda ...
    Financial experts have become ubiquitous on television, radio, and social media. They provide investment advice, interpret market movements, and explain the implications of political events, wielding a great deal of power and influence through their media presence. How do these experts acquire their authority, and what makes displays of financial expertise persuasive to their audiences?Alex Preda ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Spectacle of Expertise

    Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media

    by Alex Preda ...
    Financial experts have become ubiquitous on television, radio, and social media. They provide investment advice, interpret market movements, and explain the implications of political events, wielding a great deal of power and influence through their media presence. How do these experts acquire their authority, and what makes displays of financial expertise persuasive to their audiences?Alex Preda ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Noise

    Living and Trading in Electronic Finance

    by Alex Preda ...
    We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There’s another side to finance, though—the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however, is that less than 2% of these amateur traders make a consistent profit. Why, then, do they do it?In Noise, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

    Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.**This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Off-Ramps and On-Ramps

    Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success

    by Sylvia Ann Hewlett ...
    With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway?By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate them if they’ve already left, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps answers this critical question. Working closely ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cyber-Proletariat

    Global Labour in the Digital Vortex

    by Nick Dyer-Witheford ...
    Series series Digital Barricades
    An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China and devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit, this book reveals how technology facilitates growing polarisation between wealthy elites and precarious workers.Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals the class domination ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Motley Fool Investment Guide: Third Edition

    How the Fools Beat Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too

    by Tom Gardner, David Gardner ...
    Series series An Investment Guide for Beginners
    A completely revised and updated edition of an investing classic to help readers make sense of investing today, full of “solid information and advice for individual investors” (The Washington Post).Today, anyone can be an informed investor, and once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street. The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Direct Stock Investing

    Take Charge of Your Portfolio

    by Douglas Gerlach, Lita Epstein MBA ...
    A profitable purchase for investment enthusiasts.The Pocket Idiot's Guide® to Direct Stock Investing reveals an innovative style of investment that has been steadily growing under the huge shadow of Wall Street-home investors opening a Direct Stock Purchase (DSP) or a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) now offered by hundreds of major corporations, commission free. Investment guru Douglas Gerlach, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pay

    Why People Earn What They Earn and What You Can Do Now to Make More

    by Kevin F. Hallock ...
    Billions of people throughout the world are paid for their work. This book was written to explain why they earn what they earn and, in doing so, to help readers understand how they can earn more in both the short and long run. It describes wages, wage differences across groups, wage inequality, how organizations set pay and why, executive and 'superstar' pay, the difference between pay and 'total ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Handbook of Mergers and Acquisitions

    Edited by David Faulkner, Satu Teerikangas, Richard J. Joseph ...
    With its inception at the end of the nineteenth century as a means of consolidation and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have since become quasi-institutionalized as one of the primary strategic options for organizations, as they seek to secure their position in an ever more competitive and globalizing market place. Despite the optimism surrounding M&A as strategic moves, research on ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

    The IZA World of Labor Guide 2017

    Edited by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Olga K. Nottmeyer ...
    Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations of comprehensive evidence-based research with concise ... Read more

    $27.99 USD