Download or read book Amassing Greed A Dark Mafia Romance written by Gwyn McNamee and published by Gwyn McNamee. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've committed every sin in the book. Spent years killing and stealing and doing whatever it takes. Anything to reach the top. Damn the consequences to my soul. I'll deal with those when I'm dead. Now, my goal is within my reach. So close, I can smell it. Only one thing stands in my way. The woman who also reawakened the heart I thought long-dead. She's a complication I can't afford. A problem to be eliminated. But when the time comes to finally have it all... It will mean losing something even more valuable. ***Amassing Greed is the eighteenth book in The Deadliest Sin Series about organized crime in Chicago. This series is best read in order, as the stories are chronological and each sin builds on the events of the previous one.***
Download or read book The Complete Book of Greed written by M. Hirsh Goldberg and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author of The Blunder Book and The Book of Lies is back - with his most entertaining "human foible" book yet! The Complete Book of Greed romps through the history of human avarice to expose a trove of unimaginable extravagance." "From the ancient Egyptian pharaohs - who filled their massive burial pyramids with gold in hopes of "taking it with them" - to today's oil sheiks and corporate chieftains, Goldberg humorously details the bizarre lifestyles of the rich and greedy down through the ages, including the wife who was awarded the largest divorce settlement in history - $950 million plus property; the billionaire who installed a pay telephone in his mansion for use by his guests; the maharajah who made his six Rolls-Royces into garbage trucks; the spectacular swindle that caused Barbara Walters, Alan Alda, Barbra Streisand, and the chairmen of Pepsico, Citicorp, and General Electric to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars; and the $100 million party that was held in 62 tents spread over 160 acres." "With the droll style and amusing caricatures that Goldberg's readers enjoy, The Complete Book of Greed is an entertaining odyssey through the annals of conspicuous consumption."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Greed is Good written by Matthew Robinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Centered on the concept of "Maximization," Matthew B. Robinson and Dr. Daniel S. Murphy offer a new theory of elite deviance and corporate crime called contextual anomie/strain theory. Exploring how simultaneous use of legitimate (i.e., legal) and illegitimate (i.e., deviant or illegal) means of opportunity in pursuit of one's goals, Greed is Good explains various forms of elite deviance and corporate crime." "Contextual anomie/strain theory posits that although everyone in American society experiences stress and frustration association with American Dream, there are certain contexts in American society that produce even greater stress, frustration, and pressures toward crime. One such context is the corporate workplace. This book affirms how deviance and criminality have become normal in big business due to pressure to produce massive profits at the expense of all other considerations."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Deadliest Sin Series Collection Books 16 18 Greed A Dark Mafia Romance written by Gwyn McNamee and published by Gwyn McNamee. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you survive greed? I've committed every sin in the book. Spent years killing and stealing and doing whatever it takes. Anything to reach the top. Damn the consequences to my soul. I'll deal with those when I'm dead. This three-book collection includes Greed, Capturing Greed, and Amassing Greed, books 16-18 in the Deadliest Sin Series. Dive into the world of organized crime in this dark mafia romantic suspense collection. ***This series DOES need to be read in order, so please make sure to start with the Wrath Trilogy.***
Download or read book The Psychology of Money written by Morgan Housel and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
Download or read book Rethinking the Economics of War written by Cynthia J. Arnson and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays questions the adequacy of explaining today's internal armed conflicts purely in terms of economic factors and re-establishes the importance of identity and grievances in creating and sustaining such wars. Countries studied include Lebanon, Angola, Colombia and Afghanistan.
Download or read book The Deadliest Sin Series Collection Books 16 18 written by Gwyn McNamee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you survive greed? I've committed every sin in the book. Spent years killing and stealing and doing whatever it takes. Anything to reach the top. Damn the consequences to my soul. I'll deal with those when I'm dead. This three-book collection includes Greed, Capturing Greed, and Amassing Greed, books 16-18 in the Deadliest Sin Series. Dive into the world of organized crime in this dark mafia romantic suspense collection. ***This series DOES need to be read in order, so please make sure to start with the Wrath Trilogy.***
Download or read book Circle of Greed written by Patrick Dillon and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron. Now, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees has fallen prey to the same corrupt impulses of his enemies, and is paying the price by serving time in federal prison. If there was ever a modern Greek tragedy about a man and his times, about corporate arrogance and illusions and the scorched-earth tactics to not only counteract corporate America but to beat it at its own game, Bill Lerach's story is it.
Download or read book Reckless Endangerment written by Gretchen Morgenson and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner—who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records—Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco. Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster. Character-rich and definitive in its analysis, and with a new afterword that brings the story up to date, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must read.
Download or read book Greed written by Salman Akhtar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though references to it are scattered in the writings of Klein and Winnicott, the topic of greed has drawn meagre attention from contemporary psychoanalysts. This book fills that lacuna. Noting that the inconsolable, relentless, and coercive dimensions of such hunger have profoundly destructive impact upon the self and its objects, Greed: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms sheds light on the emotion's myriad manifestations as well as its camouflage by the ego's defensive operations. Issues of childhood deprivation, adolescent novelty-seeking, and clinging to the object-world toward the end of life are examined. The avarice that prevails in today's business world is discussed, as is the deleterious impact of greed upon marital relations. More to the clinician's interest, the book highlights the various ways in which greed makes its appearance during treatment, taking into account the tabooed topic of the analyst's own greed for money, prestige, and intellectual prowess. A remarkable contribution, indeed!
Download or read book Two Essays written by Edmund Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deadliest Sin Series Complete Collection Spicy Dark Mafia Romance written by Gwyn McNamee and published by Gwyn McNamee. This book was released on with total page 1774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five crime families of Chicago rule with quick trigger fingers and don't hesitate to spill rivers of blood to maintain their stranglehold on the city. But what they have is never enough. No sin is off the table if it means ultimate power and control. The only question is, who will survive the deadliest sin? The Deadliest Sin Series Complete Collection contains all 22 books in the Deadliest Sin Series about the Albanian, Irish, Russian, Italian, and Colombian organized crime families in Chicago battling for control of the city.
Download or read book Ethics and Hidden Greed written by Rob Docters and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust. Loyalty. Friendship. These were once the building blocks of good business relationships. Today, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know whom to trust. The authors demonstrate how to recognize the patterns employed by greedy players and provide tactics for combatting all of them.
Download or read book Catholicism For Dummies written by Rev. John Trigilio, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and definitive guide to the Catholic faith Whether you're a member of the faith or just interested in it, Catholicism For Dummies, 3rd Edition offers a casual, straightforward introduction to the ins and outs of the contemporary church. It explores the moral foundations of Catholicism and explains such sacraments as weddings, Baptisms, funerals, Confirmations, and First Communions. It also covers the basics of Catholic belief, including the story of creation, the origin of sin, and even the end of the world. New to this edition, the book covers the succession of Pope Francis, the "People's Pope," whose message of reconciliation among religions and focus on social issues like poverty and inequality have made him immensely popular, even among non-Catholics. Explains where the church and the Pope stand on important moral and social issues Covers modern questions of moral importance to Catholics, like gay marriage, abortion, and the death penalty Reveals what modern life is like in the priesthood Written by the co-hosts of the popular weekly television program "Crash Course of Catholicism" In this accessible guide, you'll take a full and rich look at this diverse and vibrant religion and understand what it is to be a Catholic today.
Download or read book The American Journal of Sociology written by Albion W. Small and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.
Download or read book Greed written by A. Brassey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial markets during the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal explanation is the single word 'greed'. This is a subject which can at once be seen as the disease at the heart of society and the motivating force behind the progress of mankind.
Download or read book Crack written by David Farber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.
