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Book A View from Center Street

Download or read book A View from Center Street written by Mark Junge and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photographer Tom Carrigen and his wife, Eva, established their DeLuxe Studio in 1922. From that central downtown location, between two titanic world wars, Tom photographed Casperites and their environs ... He catered to the needs of his customers, but in the process he also met the needs of his own creative vision. The result of his work is not only a remarkable portrait of a community, it is a testament to small town America."--The book jacket.

Book Liquidated

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Ho
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-13
  • ISBN : 0822391376
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Liquidated written by Karen Ho and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy. Ho, who worked at an investment bank herself, argues that bankers’ approaches to financial markets and corporate America are inseparable from the structures and strategies of their workplaces. Her ethnographic analysis of those workplaces is filled with the voices of stressed first-year associates, overworked and alienated analysts, undergraduates eager to be hired, and seasoned managing directors. Recruited from elite universities as “the best and the brightest,” investment bankers are socialized into a world of high risk and high reward. They are paid handsomely, with the understanding that they may be let go at any time. Their workplace culture and networks of privilege create the perception that job insecurity builds character, and employee liquidity results in smart, efficient business. Based on this culture of liquidity and compensation practices tied to profligate deal-making, Wall Street investment bankers reshape corporate America in their own image. Their mission is the creation of shareholder value, but Ho demonstrates that their practices and assumptions often produce crises instead. By connecting the values and actions of investment bankers to the construction of markets and the restructuring of U.S. corporations, Liquidated reveals the particular culture of Wall Street often obscured by triumphalist readings of capitalist globalization.

Book Therearespacesthatbreathe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Markus Linnenbrink
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 9780578344294
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Therearespacesthatbreathe written by Markus Linnenbrink and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markus Linnenbrink's exhibit 'THEREARESPACESTHATBREATHE' at Museum of New Art Portsmouth.

Book Joliet

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. Belden
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780738551951
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Joliet written by David A. Belden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1673, Louis Jolliet and Fr. Jacques Marquette were the first Europeans to explore the Mississippi and the Illinois River valleys. Their explorations took them through what is now Joliet. Founded in 1834 as Juliet, the settlement's future was shaped by several important developments. The Des Plaines River provided an early waterway, and its power gave rise to mills and manufacturing. Native limestone rock beds helped build a 19th-century city, while Joliet quarries employed thousands of men. From the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848, to the building of the Illinois Central and Rock Island Railroads in the 1850s, to the intersecting of the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 in the 20th century, Joliet became an important hub between rural towns in Will and Grundy Counties and Chicago. Over 200 vintage postcards of Joliet reveal a unique city with a sense of community pride.

Book The Railroad at Pocatello

Download or read book The Railroad at Pocatello written by Thornton Waite and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocatello was founded as a station on the narrow-gauge Utah and Northern Railway in 1878, and it has been a railroad town ever since. Passenger and freight trains arrived and departed in all four directions of the compass, 24 hours a day. The Union Pacific also built extensive shops at Pocatello, where railroad equipment was serviced, maintained, and repaired. In addition, refrigerator cars were iced from a large icehouse, and railroad ties were treated with preservative at a tie plant. The advent of the automobile, improved roads, new technologies, and the introduction of the diesel-electric locomotives all combined to change the railroad industry, affecting Pocatello in many ways. Passenger trains were discontinued, the steam-locomotive-servicing facilities were closed, and shop buildings were torn down. However, the railroad in Pocatello remains a vital part of the local scene today, with freight trains continuing to run through the city day and night.

Book Hopkins County

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa D. Piper
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780738588056
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Hopkins County written by Lisa D. Piper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcard History Series: Hopkins County portrays the fantastic history of its cities, including Dawson Springs, as unveiled through postcards of the lavish hotels and businesses that once brought thousands of people across the nation to sample the healing water from the wells of the city in the early 1900s. Showcased are glimpses of the coal mining industry, downtown memories, institutions, and leisure activities in Earlington, Madisonville, Nebo, Hanson, Mortons Gap, and St. Charles. This book also includes information about two different businesses that were contracted by the government of the United States of America; one received an order for two million units of cigars and other visited the White House annually with a truckload of trees from Hopkins County.

Book The Northeastern Reporter

Download or read book The Northeastern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.

Book Report of the President of the Board of Education

Download or read book Report of the President of the Board of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reno s Heyday  1931 1991

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  • Author : David Lowndes
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1467124079
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Reno s Heyday 1931 1991 written by David Lowndes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 60 years starting in 1931, Reno was unarguably the place where things not possible elsewhere were its hallmarks--gambling, divorce, and uncomplicated weddings. Old promotional campaigns described two Renos--one for gambling and entertainment and one for outdoor activities. For locals, there were two other Renos. One was a beautiful city on a mountain river between towering peaks. It was a community of local businesses where people knew each other and were proud of its university. The other Reno was the city of casinos and top-name entertainment that attracted visitors. For most of those 60 years, the visitors' Reno increasingly crowded out the residents' Reno. But with the decline of the divorce and gambling businesses and the coming of new high-tech industries to Reno's economy, Reno's heyday may be just gearing up for a second wind.

Book The Descriptive Register of Genuine Bank Notes for the Detection of Spurious and Altered Bills  Containing     Descriptions of the Notes Issued by Every Bank in the United States and Canada  Etc   Gwynne   Day s Bank Note Register

Download or read book The Descriptive Register of Genuine Bank Notes for the Detection of Spurious and Altered Bills Containing Descriptions of the Notes Issued by Every Bank in the United States and Canada Etc Gwynne Day s Bank Note Register written by GWYNNE AND DAY. and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 952 pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Center

Download or read book The Jewish Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Appellate Decisions

Download or read book California Appellate Decisions written by California. District Courts of Appeal and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mammography Centers Directory

Download or read book Mammography Centers Directory written by Henry A. Rose and published by Unicol, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to over 9,000 mammography facilities includes names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and geographical and alphabetical sections. From the publishers of the "Hospital Telephone Directory."

Book Supreme Court

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1438 pages

Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of Medical Facilities

Download or read book Directory of Medical Facilities written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-11 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: