“No, the Vladeck. Building A, apartment 678. It's where my sister used to live before she went into the hospital. I been holding onto it in case she got better.” Moodrow repressed a smile. The Vladeck Houses were a block.
In 1957, a young cop boxes his way to a gold shield, and finds corruption everywhere he turns.
Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films like In the Heat of the Night, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Super Fly, Claudine, and Blue Collar, this volume considers how issues of race and labor played out ...
A comprehensive examination of the money revolution in America since the 1950s examines the acquisition of financial power by the middle class through credit cards and mutual funds, the Age of Inflation, the 1987 crash, and the current bull ...
In this entertaining chronicle, Nocera illuminates how the vision and ambition of pioneers like Charles Merrill, Gerry Tsai, Dee Hock, and Peter Lynch reshaped the American economy and brought the rewards--and risks--of financial ...
... a fun way to help Lucinda do her job. The staff, wine glasses and beer bottles in hand, scoffing from bowls of crisps and dips, hoot and howl as she delivers ... A piece of the action: employee ownership, equity pay and the knowledge economy.
A Piece of the Action: A Novel
A Piece of the Action is an important piece of financial and social history, and with a new introduction, Nocera’s 2013 critique of the uses of the revolution is a powerful warning and admonition to understand what is at stake before we ...
The story takes several twists and turns and occurs in countries such as U.K.Thailand,Canary Islands,Singapore etc.With characters from the U.S.,Switzerland,Australia, and U.K.it all combines to be a real page turner with a surprise ...