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Mucky Boots is a warts-and-all story of football club ownership. Raised within sight of Bramall Lane, Kevin McCabe built a global property business and bought Sheffield United. As Blades supremo, he took on the FA and, with bitter irony, lost his club in court as the Blades returned to the Premier League.
The critics unanimously agree that brilliant, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Steven Brill has written a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the first year of the September 12 era. As "the pages flutter" -- marvels one critic -- "in a race to learn the rest of the story we thought we knew so well," Brill takes us from the White House Situation Room to the living rooms of victims' families, from courtrooms to boardrooms, from border crossings to airport tarmacs. We watch as a Customs inspector struggles to protect New York harbor from a dirty bomb; a storekeeper at Ground Zero rebuilds his shoe repair shop; a Silicon Valley entrepreneur lobbies to get his baggage s...
Cob, a structural composite of earth, water, straw, clay, and sand, has been used for centuries, in virtually all parts of the world, to create homes ranging from mud huts in Africa to lavish adobe haciendas in Latin America. This practical and inspiring hands-on guide teaches anyone to build a cob dwelling.
Stress, Tests, and Success: The Ultimate Law School Survival Guide is an essential tool for anyone entering law school or considering becoming a lawyer today. Attorney Keith Essmyer has created a no nonsense guide that is full of survival tips and insider advice specifically designed to help the law student succeed in law school and as a new lawyers. The guide's easy to read and straight to the point style sets it apart from any other "how to succeed in law school" book on the market today by providing more information in a few pages then most books provide in hundreds of pages. Designed to be read in a few short hours and referenced time and time again throughout a student's law school career, Stress, Tests, and Success: The Ultimate Law School Survival Guide is a must read for any student wanting to finish at the top of his or her law school class without having to weed through hundreds and hundreds of pages of information to find out how to do it. With this guide, experiencing success in law school and as a new lawyer is only a few pages away.
After Green Gables brings to life a distinctly Canadian literary and intellectual association of writers.
Experimental Business Research includes papers that were presented at the First Asian Conference on Experimental Business Research held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), on December 7-10, 1999. The conference was organized by the Center for Experimental Business Research (cEBR) at the HKUST. The papers presented at the conference and a few others that were solicited especially for this volume contain original research on individual and interactive decision behavior in various branches of business research including, but not limited to, economics, marketing, management, finance, and accounting. Experimental Business Research is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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Trust is essential to economic and social transactions of all kinds, from choosing a marriage partner, to taking a job, and even buying a used car. The benefits to be gained from such transactions originate in the willingness of individuals to take risks by placing trust in others to behave in cooperative and non-exploitative ways. But how do humans decide whether or not to trust someone? Using findings from evolutionary psychology, game theory, and laboratory experiments, Trust and Reciprocity examines the importance of reciprocal relationships in explaining the origins of trust and trustworthy behavior. In Part I, contributor Russell Hardin argues that before one can understand trust one m...
Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life. Shows how to re-humanize the study of economics in the twenty-first century by integrating Adam Smith's two great books into contemporary empirical analysis.