Compares two agencies charged with the privatization of hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two separate crises. Cassell (political science, Kent State) chronicles the Resolution Trust Corporation created to manage assets assumed after the savings and loan failure, and the Treuhandanstalt created by Germany after unification to privatize enterprises formally owned by East Germany. The study analyzes the factors that influenced the success of both programs, and how the lessons learned can be applied by other government agencies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (American Governance and Public Policy)

Business & Money

Cassell, Mark

Economics

Georgetown Univ Pr

A supernatural novel of demons, devices, and deceit. Leo remembers little of his past. Desperate for a new life, he snatches up the first job to come along. On his second day, he witnesses a murder, and the Shadow Fabric – a malevolent force that controls the darkness – takes the body and vanishes with it. Determined to get answers, Leo has no idea where to turn. Revelations come in the most unlikely places, and secrets of witchcraft and ancient artefacts unfold. In particular, a device used in the 17th century to extract evil from witches proves key to his discoveries. With these truths long hidden from humankind, his memory unravels. Not only haunted by the past, a sinister presence within the darkness threatens Leo’s existence and he soon doubts everything and everyone...including himself. The relentless and destructive power of the Shadow Fabric compels Leo to fight not only this growing darkness, but also the entity beneath the Fabric’s surface. While these supernatural horrors rage and his world crumbles, Leo must confront his past before he can embrace his future. But the future may not exist.

The Shadow Fabric: A Supernatural Horror Novel

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Herbs House

Sinister Stitches: a collection of short horror stories (Shadow Fabric Mythos)

Shadows at the Door: An Anthology

Grant, Helen

Nixon, Mark

Goddard, K. B.

Marceau, Caitlin

Holt, Kris

Nielsen Book Services

A collection of entertaining, exciting, thought-provoking stories. Explore the relationship between humankind and technology, ponder social issues and enjoy the costuming, etiquette and gadgetry of an age that never was but might have been. To celebrate the tenth volume of the Ten Tales anthologies, this book contains two bonus stories. Featuring stories by: Rayne Hall Day Al-Mohamed Nied Darnell Jonathan Broughton Mark Cassell Liv Rancourt Kevin O. McLaughlin Bob Brown Joanne Anderton Morgan A. Pryce Kin S. Law Mark Cassell

Cogwheels: Ten Tales of Steampunk (Ten Tales Fantasy & Horror Stories)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hall, Rayne

Brown, Bob

Anderton, Joanne

Al-Mohamed, Day

Rancourt, Liv

Grey, April

Broughton, Jonathan

McLaughlin, Kevin O.

Darnell, Nied

Science Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Aging is not for the faint-hearted, yet there is little choice in the matter. You can take good care of your health, your finances, your loved ones and still life will throw a curve ball. In this anthology you will find tales of courage, of women who rise to the challenges of time in many different ways. Some stories are of women aging gracefully but their tales are still kickass because they have a lot to overcome. Other stories are humorous, because if you can’t age gracefully, then by all means age disgracefully. Indeed humor may be the best tonic and part of the wisdom of the Crone. Ten talented authors give their take on the theme of Grannies from Hell.

Hell's Grannies: Kickass Tales of the Crone

Stephens, Phillip T.

Beck, Alp

Grech, Amy

Short Stories & Anthologies

Governments throughout the world confront enormous challenges when divesting. Whether it is poor-performing bank loans in Japan and Korea, military bases in the United States, or real estate in eastern Europe, the challenge of public divestment is more than just a question of how to map a path to economic efficiency. Conventional wisdom in public management and privatization literature says that the execution of such enormous tasks as divestment is typically done poorly, and that the government strategy is likely to be inefficient. Mark Cassell argues that privatization must be understood as a political and administrative puzzle rather than simply an exercise in economic efficiency. This study of two successful divestment agencies―-the U.S. Resolution Trust Corporation and the German Treuhandanstalt―-presents a complex understanding of the two agencies' performance in privatizing hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two very different crises, the savings and loan debacle in the United States and unification in Germany. In the U.S., the worst economic problem since the Great Depression forced the government to recreate and reshape private property on an immense scale. In Germany, melding East and West Germany involved converting an entire national economy that employed more than four million people. In each case, unassuming public agencies handled two of the largest public sales of assets in this century. Cassell identifies the importance and effects of managerial structures and of national institutions-legislatures and executives―on the outcomes of the reform efforts. This book will be of interest to those interested in alternatives to traditional public-sector structures, electoral connections to bureaucracies, comparative political economy, and the historic events of the aftermath of the savings and loan crisis and German unification. It is crucial reading for policy and public administration practitioners and scholars alike.

How Governments Privatize: The Politics of Divestment in the United States and Germany (American Government and Public Policy)

Georgetown University Press

Book 4 in KJK Publishing's The Horror Collection series is a Christmas edition.Bringing you festive treats and Yuletide chills: Mark Tufo, Amy Cross, Mark Allan Gunnells, Mark Cassell, Lex H. Jones, Chris Miller, Steven Stacy, James Matthew Byers & Kevin J. KennedyWe hope your Christmas is both wonderful and terrifying.

The Horror Collection: White Edition

TUFO, MARK

Miller, Chris

Cross, Amy

Gunnells, Mark Allan

Kennedy, Kevin J.

Byers, James Matthew

Jones, Lex H.

Stacy, Steven

Independently published

Would you stop for a hitchhiking clown? Go to a diner where the coffee is literally endless? Sled with Mother Nature? Sixteen Terrifying Tales of Travel by these authors: Oliver Baer, AJ Bartholomew, Edward P. Cardillo, Mark Cassell, V Peter Collins, Tom Connair, Teel James Glenn, Amy Grech, Carol Gyzander, Rayne Hall, Joe R. Kennedy, Phillip T. Stephens, Pamela Turner, Steven Van Patten, and Jake T.S. Wryte.

Hell's Highway: Terrifying Tales of Tormented Travels (Hell's Series)

Gyzander, Carol

Glenn, Teel James

Connair, Tom

Turner, Pamela

Patten, Steven Van

This book is crammed with fertile seeds for fiction that will thrill, disturb or scare your readers. Each prompt comes with a wealth of suggestions for how you can develop it to suit the kind of story you want to write. Plant those seeds into the rich ground of your own imagination, and watch them grow.

More Horror Writing Prompts: 77 Further Powerful Ideas To Inspire Your Fiction (Writer's Craft)

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