Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century

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This is the story of America's most famous street, Wall Street. No other place is so inextricably linked to the nation's history, the development of capitalism and the dramatic highs and lows of the financial markets. No other place has provoked such mythology, or has been the subject of so many dreams and illusions.

Howard Watchel's book provides a fascinating account of the origins of this famous street. Exploring its development through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he charts its dramatic transformation, offering a window on the past that helps us understand how it became the center of world finance that we see today. Drawing on original archive research, and illustrated throughout with photographs, "Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts" is lively and informative narrative that reads not only as a popular history of one of America's great icons, but also as a critical assessment of Wall Street's role in the political, economic and cultural evolution of the country in the nineteenth century.

Watchel looks at the key characters -- both better-known and lesser-known -- who shaped the course of Wall Street's early years; he traces its wider social history and its physical development and architecture; he focuses on the New York Stock Exchange as the most important institution on the street, including a wider history of banking houses and competing exchanges; he explores how Wall Street has influenced politics, and how it has been shaped by larger political forces around it; and he examines its love-hate relationship with two other streets -- Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street -- the forces of government and the people of America.

Customer Reviews:

Why Am I the First?.......2003-08-13

I can hardly believe that I'm the first person to comment on this book. What with the way I see finance guys follow the stock market like a casino room, you'd think more of them would want to know the history of the street. I'll make the assumption that they don't and this shows you that history truly repeats itself.

The little money I have invested in Wall Street is in a company 401k. recently I've looked into ways of investing without the craziness that surrounds much of the market; the speculation is insane at times. I was looking into vanilla index funds and equity-linked funds. In the research process I saw this book and decided to get a quick primer on what the street is about.

That's what you get here, a crash course in the economic history of the United States. It was interesting and surprising to learn that "bubbles" have occurred over the last 200 years. And it's always the same jumping on the bandwagon of new technologies or financial instruments that drives them.

And then there is the inside info that's behind the major wealth of the street. Wall Street, and the book shows this, is really one big clubhouse, if your not in the club don't count on getting cheese on your crackers.. as a matter of fact you won't get crackers at all, you'll get the 5-7% crumb at the end of the year and think you're in the big time.

No complaints. I see this as how the game is played. The thing is to know the rules and realize what your getting into, know the risk involved and how the engine operates.

Without pointing fingers at conspiracy theories and laboring that point, it shows how the system has worked in the past and continues to this day.

It's a good read, especially if you have money in the market.

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This collection of original essays examines the social and political consequences of the globalization of the apparel industry in Asia, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The contributors analyze the countries' trade policies, the apparel industry's network of capital ad labor, working conditions in garment factories, and the role of workers, especially women. Written by scholars of various nationalities and from different disciplines, this volume provides a look at the industry from the perspective of participants within each country and illustrates a general trend toward the internationalization of production and global economic restructuring.

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This text is the first truly comprehensive guide to fundraising management, uniquely blending current academic knowledge with the best of professional practice. Much more than a how-to guide, the text is grounded in the critical issues of fundraising to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of modern fundraising planning and practice. The authors offer key analysis of the critical issues of fundraising as well as acting as a useful tool for the practical side of planning fundraising campaigns.

Topics covered include:

* Individual giving
* Trusts and foundations
* Corporate fundraising
* Direct marketing
* Community marketing
* Campaign Integration

The text includes examples and cases from both the UK and the US, bringing the theory to life. Campaigns discussed include high-profile examples from companies as diverse as RSPCA, Greenpeace, Barnados and the American Cancer Society. In addition, the text works through the planning stages of fundraising to give readers a rounded understanding of fundraising management.

A truly groundbreaking new text in this area, Fundraising Management is essential reading for students of fundraising and nonprofit professionals alike.

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Discover all you need to know about renting and buying property, finding work and starting a business in Portugal. Gain insight into government programs, recreation and education as well. There's even a comprehensive list of useful contacts and a few phrases to help you get started. Previously published as How to Live and Work in Portugal.

Customer Reviews:

Like a big lemon with little juice.......2004-01-30

This book tries to impress but the truth is that it is rather basic. You have to read lots of pages with information that is pretty obvious before you get some juice out of it. I prefer Live and Work in Spain and Portugal, by Victoria Pybus and Joshua White. It is much more to the point. It does not waste your time with irrelevant prose.

Written for EU Citizens.......2000-07-27

This book could be useful if you are a EU citizen relocating for a job. I have read books that don't apply to me at all and still found them very interesting, but this one is a very factual, and not very inspiring.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent, easy-to-read advise.......1999-03-24

This is one of the easiest books to read regarding financial advise and associated/related matters. Her examples are very realistic and easy to understand. This is the best book on financial matters that I have ever seen, for men or women.

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Through a series of essays and annotated references, The Greening of Industry Resource Guide and Bibliography presents analysis and commentary drawn from a variety of sources that examine critical issues today's changing environment. Following a general overview and introduction to the field are chapters that address specific economic, social, and technical issues, including:

environmental performance assessment
cleaner production
strategic cooperation and product life cycle management
organizational learning and personal development
leadership for greening in developing countries

It is a valuable guide to the most respected and useful research on industrial sustainability, and can provide the basis for effective policies, strategies, and actions for both business leaders and policy makers.

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FIVE WHYS BEFORE ONE HOW !

Thorough, enagaging - useful for new researchers as well as experienced professionals. Great basis for team workshopping.

Qualitative Market Research: Principle & Practice

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`An ideal resource for people aiming for a qualitative market research career, for academics interested to know more about an important field of application for qualitative research methods, or for those who are already engaged in the field and who wish to update their skills and reflect on their practice and profession' - Nigel Fielding, University of Surrey

Qualitative Market Research is a landmark publishing event. The seven volumes provide, for the first time, complete coverage of qualitative market research practice, written by experienced practitioners, for both a commercial and academic audience. The set fills two important market gaps: it offers commercial practitioners authoritative source texts for training and professional development; and provides students and researchers with an account of qualitative research theory and practice in use today. Each book cross-references others in the series, but can also be used as a stand-alone resource on a key topic.

The seven books have been carefully structured so as to be completely accessible in terms of language, use of jargon and assumed knowledge. Experienced market researchers will find the tools to help them critically evaluate their own work. Those new to market research will be provided with a complete map of qualitative market research theory and practice (including brands and advertising theory) and the stimulation to discuss and learn more with tutors and practitioners.

Qualitative Market Research will be an invaluable resource for academic and professional libraries, commercial market researchers, as well as essential reading for students in market research, marketing and business studies.

Customer Reviews:

FIVE WHYS BEFORE ONE HOW !.......2007-09-09

The break-through Japanese management researcher Ishikawa,What Is Total Quality Control?: The Japanese Way (Business Management) whose work was popular in the West in the 1960's as the 'Fish Bone' Diagramme, had a rule. Before you asked 'how'(you were to do anything) first you exhausted the 'why' (it should be done at all or on a particular project or at a particular time).

We have to disclose up-front that One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ has been training and educating managements around the globe at board level in the Ishikawa philosophy for two decades... as it applies to marketing research, creative branding and intergrated R&D. We are biased. No doubt about that.Guide to Quality Control Ishikawa has legs into the 21st century !

This Ishikawa focus, highlights the flaw of this otherwise quite decent novice guide to marketing research in its so called 'qualitative' guise. Too much 'how' and not nearly enough 'why'.

Wendy Gordon's Good Thinking: A Guide to Qualitative Research is much more to the point... and much more in line with Ishikawa skepticism. For skeptical researchers with a few hundred projects behind their focus groups, observation windows and discussion panels and open-ended questionnaires, Gordon stands out as a veteran consumer researcher who tackles the really tough 'WHY' issues beyond the run-of-the-mill 'HOW'. Other than that, we have no quarrel with the Miriampolski content such as it is. For the beginners it is an OK starter, before you graduate to Gordon and tough-test your thinking.

The key question is not so much as 'HOW' to apply one other research technique in the tool-box. The really critical issue is 'WHY' should one or other research project be done at all ! Gordon digs much deeper than Miriampolski in trying to answer the 'WHY'.

Thorough, enagaging - useful for new researchers as well as experienced professionals. Great basis for team workshopping........2006-01-16

Hy Mariampolski is an inspiring man - and both generous and energetic in spreading the word about qualitative techniques and ethnography. It is refreshing to read such a well-written guide without having all the self-promotional baggage that litters too many practitioners handbooks.

For a start, I find his history of qualitative techniques a great place to start this volume. As a synopsis of our professional history this is colourful, accurate and useful in contextualising why researchers do what they do.

He then rolls through the big questions - when to use qualitative research, which techniques to choose, the planning of projects (including a thorough section of choosing & screening respondents) and then the juicy section: running interviews or focus groups.

Here, Mariampolski makes us feel right at home. He's instructive without being didactic, and he speaks in a common-sense manner, peppering his advice with pertinent examples and a few illustrations. He includes a very useful chapter on the special considerations of youth research, multicultural research, interviewing business executives and covering particularly sensistive topics.

The final main section is on the analysis of qualitative information, and the presentation of this. Again, Mariampolski speaks directly and usefully.

Overall I'd say the book is pitched mostly at newer researchers, and at those who are contemplating a typically fascinating career in qualitative research, but this shouldn't stop a more senior researcher from going through the easily read 300 pages and making notes: even to check their own techniques and consider new ideas.

The book is current (2001) and would make an excellent basis for a set of in-house training workshops for the research team. It is well worth the purchase. I wish all research texts were this clear.

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From a Brazilian who read this book.......2003-12-06

It is very small and quick to read. However, it was amazing how much quality information the author could pack into such a small space. She lived 18 years in Brazil, and as a Brazilian reading the book, I can tell she knows what she was talking about. It was also curious for me to learn about things that I always took for granted, or that I thought were specific to my personality rather than from the culture. Unfortunately it is out of print as of this writing (Dec 2003). I hope it gets reprinted soon.

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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities, regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.

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