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  • Audiobook

    The Dial, May 1920 (UNABRIDGED)

    Narrated by Henry Jaime ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry by e.e. cummings and Louise Bryant (aka Mrs. John Reed, of "Reds" fame), a short story by Sherwood Anderson, a memoir of the late poet James Flecker, theater and book reviews by Gilbert Seldes, and other critical works. (Summary by Matt Pierard) ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Standing and Delivering

    What the Movie Didn't Tell

    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    We often hear about the need to make demands on all students, especially those of color, of different cultural backgrounds, and from low income families. A lot of educators talk the talk, but only a few have actually walked the walk. One of the few American schools that actually made substantial strides in improving education for low-income students was Garfield High school in the 1980s. The ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law

    Benefit Corporations and Other Purpose-Driven Companies

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open-access book brings together international experts who shed new light on the status of social enterprises, benefit corporations and other purpose-driven companies. The respective chapters take a multidisciplinary approach (combining law, philosophy, history, sociology and economics) and provide valuable insights on fostering social entrepreneurship and advancing the common good.In recent ... Read more

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    Corporate Law and Insurance Regulation

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, there ... Read more

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  • A Primer on Corporate Governance

    Mexico

    A Primer on Corporate Governance: Mexico describes the macro context in which Mexico is embedded, focusing on its corporate governance system: laws, regulatory bodies, code of good governance, stock market, and the peculiarities of local business groups.Mexico is a land inhabited by several indigenous civilizations and was conquered by Spain in 1521. The country is mostly a racial mix between the ... Read more

    $22.89 CAD

  • Public Sector Accounting

    As change sweeps across the public sector, a huge range of accounting and financial management challenges are created. This textbook analyses the reforms that are being introduced to deal with these challenges and their global impact on the public sector.Readers are provided with an international overview of government accounting, reporting, management control, cost accounting, budgeting and ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Nonprofits in Crisis

    Economic Development, Risk, and the Philanthropic Kuznets Curve

    Why do some countries have a vibrant nonprofit sector while others do not? Nonprofits in Crisis explores the theory of risk as a major mechanism through which economic development influences the nonprofit sector. Nuno S. Themudo elaborates this idea by focusing on Mexican nonprofit organizations, which operate and strive to survive in a risky environment. The study of these nonprofits generates ... Read more

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  • The State of Labour

    The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact

    Edited by Sharit K. Bhowmik ...
    This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • EU Competition Law and Economics

    This is the first EU competition law treatise that fully integrates economic reasoning in its treatment of the decisional practice of the European Commission and the case-law of the European Court of Justice. Since the European Commission's move to a "more economic approach" to competition law reasoning and decisional practice, the use of economic argument in competition law cases has become a ... Read more

    $261.49 CAD

  • The Applied Law and Economics of Public Procurement

    Edited by Gustavo Piga, Steen Treumer ...
    Series series The Economics of Legal Relationships
    This book explores Public Procurement novelties and challenges in an interdisciplinary way. The process whereby the public sector awards contracts to companies for the supply of works, goods or services is a powerful instrument to ensure the achievement of new public goals as well as an efficient use of public funds. This book brings together the papers that have been presented during the "First ... Read more

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  • Root-Cause Regulation

    Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century

    Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century of reform, are U.S. workers growing less safe and secure? Comparing U.S. regulatory practices to ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Mutuals and Co-Owned Business investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, worker co-operatives, mutual building societies, friendly societies, credit unions, solidarity organizations, mutual insurance companies, or employee-owned companies. Such organizations can be owned by their consumers, ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD