King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

CAREY, David

Morris, John. E.

Crown Business

The story of Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone, and a financial revolution, King of Capital is the greatest untold success story on Wall Street. In King of Capital, David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and ‘barbarians at the gate’ into disciplined, risk-conscious investors while the financial establishment—banks and investment bankers such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley—were recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels and driving the economy to the brink of disaster. Now, not only have Blackstone and a small coterie of competitors wrested control of corporations around the globe, but they have emerged as a major force on Wall Street, challenging the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for dominance. Insightful and hard-hitting, filled with never-before-revealed details about the workings of a heretofore secretive company that was the personal fiefdom of Schwarzman and Peter Peterson, King of Capital shows how Blackstone and private equity will drive the economy and provide a model for how financing will work in the years to come.

Business & Money

Biography & History

Crown Currency

Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador

In the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to expand Western medicine within their countries, with the goals of addressing endemic diseases and improving infant and maternal health. These efforts often clashed with indigenous medical practices, particularly in the rural highlands. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, historian David Carey Jr. shows that indigenous populations embraced a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, the governments of both nations encouraged--or at least allowed--such a synthesis, yet they also attacked indigenous lifeways, going so far as to criminalize native medical practitioners and to conduct medical experiments on indigenous people without consent. &nbsp; Health in the Highlands traces the experiences of curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, and nurses--and the indigenous people they served. Carey interrogates the relationship between "progressive" public health policy and indigenous well-being, offering lessons from the past that remain relevant in the present. Our best way forward, this history suggests, may be a compassionate syncretism that joins indigenous approaches to healing with science and a pursuit of environmental and social justice. &nbsp;

History

Americas

University of California Press

Beauties of the Modern Poets: In Selections From the Works of Byron, Moore, Scott, Campbell, Barry Cornwall, Southey, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Croly, ... Bird, Rogers, Alaric Watts, Miss. Baill

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Note: The title no longer comes with a DVD. The video content to be used with the book is now an on-line resource. Web Address enclosed in the book. 
This practical workbook and Online content helps actors to fully develop expressive voice skills to communicate thoughts and feelings with precision and power. At the heart of the book are practical projects, with examples supplied on the accompanying Online content, which enables you to: -connect your breath with your voice -meet the demands of your performance -use your voice expressively with pitch and range 
Each chapter consists of an introductory Framework; Explorations; Exercises; Follow Up work; Suggested Texts; and Further Reading: a unique, student-centred approach not found in other voice books. 
The Vocal Arts Workbook + Videois a complete learning programme drawing on the work of a wide range of practitioners to be used at home, as a course text, or as a way to integrate 20-30 mins of voice work into an acting class.
The Online content contains: 85 mins of video and 38 physical exercises. Download them to your ipod and copy the movements as you go along.

Vocal Arts Workbook and Video: A practical Course for Developing the Expressive Range of Your Voice, Vol. 1 (Performance Books)

Arts & Photography

Clark Carey, Rebecca

Music

Methuen Drama

The Motor Car (Ladybird How It Works Books)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Story of the Motor Car (Ladybird Achievements Books)

Ayton, Robert

Motor cars (Ladybird book)

Wills & Hepworth

Commercial Vehicles

Children's Books

Ladybird Books, Ltd.

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