Wetfeet “The WetFeet Insider Guide to Careers in Information Technology"
Wetfeet (September 1, 2003) | ISBN:1582073287 | PDF | 55 pages | 1,1 Mb
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (July 2003) | 300 pages | ISBN-10: 1576752607 | 1 Mb
Nace nurtured Peachpit Press from a home-based operation, writing and publishing computer guides, to a business worthy of acquisition by the Pearson conglomerate. The experience inspired him to study the nature of corporate power. He offers a breezy summary of the legal history surrounding the formation of corporations and the parameters of their power, putting an anti-corporate spin on the American Revolution and discussing how the early republic limited corporate power by enabling state governments to issue restrictive charters. But the tight controls didn't remain in place: after the Supreme Court's decision in an 1886 case involving the Santa Clara Railroad, corporations were assumed to be the legal equivalent of people entitled to equal protection under the law and, in subsequent cases, were guaranteed a growing range of constitutional rights. One of Nace's central arguments is that Santa Clara doesn't mean what everybody thinks it means: the original decision doesn't take any stand on whether corporations have constitutional rights; the question comes up in a subsequent version of the decision, but the Chief Justice acts as if it had been resolved in earlier decisions. Although Nace blames the Court's reporter for the shift in emphasis, he illustrates how another justice, Stephen Field, was already buttressing politicians' and financial titans' efforts to eliminate all restraints on corporate power, making their legal supremacy inevitable. Later chapters examine how corporations continue to wield their influence to prevent the government from regulating them too closely, but while the book offers plenty of details about the problem's existence and deftly introduces it, it offers little more than generalities about where to go from there.
Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change
Oxford University Press, USA (July 20, 2006) | 344 pages | ISBN:0199284539 | 1 Mb
Gili S. Drori is a lecturer in Stanford University's programs on International Relations and International Policy Studies. She is the author of several papers and chapters on science and development, comparative science education, political discourse, and the role of policy regimes in worldwide governance. She is senior author of Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization (with John W. Meyer, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer, Stanford University Press, 2003). John W. Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of many books and papers on comparative sociology, organizations, world society, and the sociology of education, including National Developments in the World System (with M. Hannan, Chicago, 1979), Institutional Environments and Organizations (with W. R. Scott, Sage, 1994), and Science in the Modern World Polity (with Gili S. Drori, F. Ramirez, and E. Schofer, Stanford University Press, 2003).
Doug Henwood “Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom"
Verso | May 1998 | ISBN:0860916707 | PDF | 372 pages | 1,1 Mb
Day DeMark, Thomas DeMark “DeMark On Day Trading Options"
McGraw-Hill | 1999-01-01 | ISBN: 9197069450 | PDF | 358 pages | 16,8 Mb
Iwonna Dubicka, Margaret O'Keeffe “Market Leader Advanced (Coursebook and CD)"
Longman | 2006 | ISBN: 058285461X | PDF + mp3 | 176 pages | 18,4 + 87 Mb
