Editorial Reviews
Many people live one life. Jack Dreyfus has had two. The first was when he founded the Dreyfus Fund. He became known as “the most singular and effective personality to appear on Wall Street since the days of Joseph Kennedy and Bernard Baruch” (”Life” magazine). The author’s second life began in [...]
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Comprehensive, perceptive, instructive and entertaining…will be a valuable work of reference for those interested in banking history. — Leopold de Rothschild, Director, NM Rothschild & Sons
One of the best written and most accurate accounts of international banking politics that I’ve seen. — Padraic [...]
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A striking feature of African history is the volume of commerce and production that has been possible without the full panoply of credit, insurances, future markets, stock companies, limited liability, and other legal and financial services that make up the formal sector of modern economies. The contributions to this volume investigate [...]
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Taxes for Dummies: 1998 Edition, by Eric Tyson and David J. Silverman, is another title in the bestselling Dummies series, in which Tyson has authored four other books. Accurate and reliable in its lighthearted presentation, Taxes for Dummies includes tax-planning tips that will help you save [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
If Veeck is right, most employees in the American workplace lead lives of quiet desperation, working in mind-numbing, joyless jobs alongside uninspiring bosses and boring co-workers. In this sometimes amusing, but often repetitive, self-help guide, Veeck, part owner of six minor league baseball [...]
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Should be read by historians of women, technology, agriculture, labor, and the American West.
American Historical Review
A persuasively argued explanation of complex and important issues related to family, social, and rural history.
Annals of the American Academy
Entitled to Power offers clear narrative and analysis that will appeal to a [...]
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Should be read by historians of women, technology, agriculture, labor, and the American West.
American Historical Review
A persuasively argued explanation of complex and important issues related to family, social, and rural history.
Annals of the American Academy
Entitled to Power offers clear narrative and analysis that will appeal to a [...]
Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin’s theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection–how humans, not nature, rework [...]
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Leave work at five and don’t feel guilty! Beth Sawi, tells you how to make more time for your personal life while still enhancing the quality of your work life.The balance issue can affect anyone. Despite the hard work and dedication her job demands, Sawi [...]
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Do you want to make sure you· Don’t invest your money in the next Enron?· Don’t go to work for the next WorldCom right before the crash?· Identify and solve problems in your organization before they send it crashing to the ground? Marianne Jennings has spent [...]
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