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THE BUNAU-VARILLA BROTHERS AND THE PANAMA CANAL
This book unravels the secrets of the Bunau-Varilla brothers' fortune, made in the construction of the French Canal in Panama in 1886-1889. It also asks why Philippe Bunau-Varilla is not recognised by Panamanians as the man who helped their republic to be born - without him, the Panama Canal would have been in Nicaragua.
White Shoe
The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world “Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal • “Insightful and revealing."—Kirkus • “Captivating.”—BookPage The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for fairness and justice before a judge and jury. But by the year 1900, a new type of lawyer was born, one who understood business as well as the law. Working hand in glove with their clients, over the next two decades these New York City “white shoe” lawyers devised and...
Donegan and the Panama Canal
Donegan and the Panama Canal is a fictionalized, first person story of why and how the United States built a canal in Panama in 1903. This story is a sequel to Mr. Morrisseys previous novel of the Spanish-American War, Donegan and the Splendid Little War. No one had previously written an historical novel of either of these events. The title character of Donegan and the Panama Canal is Patrick Donegan (1875-1958), the son of Irish immigrants to Philadelphia. Donegan belatedly wrote this memoir in 1953, but his grandson Thomas Morrissey did not publish it for another fifty years. Patrick Donegan had previously served on a Spanish merchant ship for two years before its captain stranded him in S...
The Money Kings
The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from the New York Times best-selling author of Sons of Wichita Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind were Solomon Loeb and Marcus Goldman, among the “Forty-Eighters” fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. These industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling t...
El miedo dental en la infancia y adolescencia
En el ámbito de odontopediatría el miedo a ir al dentista tiene características específicas y conlleva efectos perjudiciales de especial gravedad. Por ejemplo, la presencia de miedo dental en niños y adolescentes se asocia a peores niveles de salud bucodental, observándose entre quienes sufren este problema una mayor incidencia de caries. En esta monografía se analizan las características de la ansiedad dental en niños y adolescentes, así como sus repercusiones para la salud oral. Se revisan los diferentes elementos implicados en el origen y mantenimiento de esta problemática y los principales modelos explicativos que se han desarrollado hasta el momento. Además, con un énfasis en lo aplicado, se proporcionan orientaciones para el manejo del miedo dental en las consultas odontopediátricas, el diseño de programas preventivos y el desarrollo de intervenciones para la reducción de la ansiedad ante los tratamientos dentales.
TR's Last War
A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt’s impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied “Americanism,” a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line combat, a gingerly rapprochement with GOP power brokers—and, yes, perhaps, even another presidential campaign. Roosevelt is a towering Greek god of war. But Greek gods begat Greek tragedies. His own entreaties to don the uniform are rebuffed, and he remains stateside. But his four sons fight “over there” with heartbreaking consequences: two a...
Finanziers in Sehnsuchtsräumen
Wie treffen Bankiers ihre Entscheidungen? Wie identifizieren und managen sie Risiken? Wie funktioniert der Aufbau von Vertrauen im Bankgewerbe? Die Studie untersucht diese Fragen am Fallbeispiel Griechenlands und zeichnet die Integration dieses peripheren Finanzmarktes in den europäischen zwischen 1820 und 1914 nach. Ausgehend von methodischen Anregungen der Behavioural Finance analysiert sie in neun Fallbeispielen (u.a. Auslandsanleihen, die Gründung der Nationalbank, die Trockenlegung von Sumpfgebieten, der Kanal von Korinth, die internationale Finanzkommission, der Handel) die Risikoperzeption und das Investitionsverhalten britischer, französischer, deutscher und schweizerischer Bankie...
Feminist Ethics and Social Policy
As national borders become more permeable, women are increasingly on the move, travelling from poor to rich countries to take up jobs as care workers. The struggle to maintain a healthy work/care balance in Western countries is creating a care deficit in the developing world. Feminist Ethics and Social Policy links ethics to the social politics of care by revealing the implications of the feminization of migrant labour and the shortcomings of social policy at the national level. Drawing on innovative theories of gender and race, global justice and neocolonialism, and care and masculinity, renowned and emerging scholars examine recent policy developments and debates in Canada, Sweden, Korea, and Japan and their effects on the lives of female care workers. They show that a truly feminist ethics of care must be grounded in the concrete activities of real people working in transnational webs of social relations.
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