books about: white-collar     books:     White-collar      The Informant: A True Story Kurt Eichenwald Broadway, 2001 If this was fiction - it'd be faulted for being implausible! International conspiracy, never-ending twists and turns, high-tech spy gadgets, cladestine meetings, wild plotting and scheming and larger than life characters - make this an "I can't stand to put it down" book. Eichenwald has done a masterful job of taking a real ...             You Want Fries with That: A White-Collar Burnout Experiences Life at Minimum Wage Prioleau Alexander Arcade Publishing, 2008 A really funny read This was a really funny book that got me in trouble on an early morning flight out of town. I save some things to read when traveling, and this seemed just the sort of book. I cracked it just after take-off and began having a tough time controlling my cackles of ...             The Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort Bantam, 2007 keeps your interest I had heard Jordan Belfort talk on Donnie Bonaduce's radio show, and wanted to read the book right away. This guy has no shame and he'll tell you - all the drugs he's taken- all the money he made (mostly illegally) and spent, how he treated people and how they treated ...             Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story Kurt Eichenwald Broadway, 2005 The Backroom Story of Ethics Failure This book gives sobering data, while reading like a best-selling mystery--quite the feat! The book is particularly relevant when we fit the story of Enron into the larger picture: Geo. W. Bush's longtime personal friendship with Enron head Ken Lay; Bush's own ...             Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams Alfred Lubrano Wiley, 2005 Blue-Collar Dreams, White-Collar Nightmares I've bought nearly a dozen copies of this book (used!) and sent them to friends. Lubrano's "reporting" on "the imposter syndrome" makes for a great read that is almost therapeutic for anyone who, like me, finds himself on every page. The dark side of the American ...             Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream Barbara Ehrenreich Holt Paperbacks, 2006 If you want to know the truth, read this book . . . Barbara Ehrenreich is right: there really is a crisis going on, a "hidden" crisis if you will, although I'm beginning to think this is more of a case of sheer denial. I can't imagine why any person, knowing the odds, would choose to work in the white-collar ...             Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime In Contemporary Society (Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and ... David O. Friedrichs Wadsworth Publishing, 2006 By far the best.... As a college professor, and researcher/student of white collar crime, Friedrichs' Trusted Criminals is by far the best text available on the topic. His extensive coverage of the wide array of actions constituting white collar crime provides readers with a better ...             Profit Without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America (4th Edition) Stephen M. Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell, ... Prentice Hall, 2006 A great book! PROFIT WITHOUT HONOR combines immaculate scholarship, penetrating insight, and a witty and engaging style of writing. Readers will find material that will trigger righteous indignation, and insights that will make them nod in agreement and wonder why they hadn't ...             Corporate and Governmental Deviance: Problems of Organizational Behavior in Contemporary Society M. David Ermann, Richard J. Lundman Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 It was for school and now it's for me I had only bought this book for a course in university but we only had to do the first five chapters. I had to go on with it though. The cases are all extremely well written and did an amazing job of showing me how insane the corporate world can be. It's a great book ...             The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America Alex Berenson Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004 Equity investors out to know this material (and then some) Mr. Berenson takes a very interesting approach to explaining the rise of the 90s bubble economy. The book opens with a wonderfully apt quote from Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding ...             Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend Mitchell Zuckoff Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 The Power of Appearance This is a great biography of Charles Ponzi who, as we all know, gave his name to the scheme whereby an investment fund pays profits directly from the pooled receipts rather than utilizing receipts to produce any real income. Banks make their money by taking money from ...             Federal White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials (American Casebook) Julie R. O'Sullivan Thomson West, 2007 This law school casebook addresses substantive and procedural areas of importance in white-collar criminal practice. The book covers a variety of substantive crimes, including perjury, false statements, false claims, obstruction of justice, mail and wire fraud, public corruption, insider trading, conspiracy, RICO, and money laundering. It then ...             Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition Rosabeth Moss Kanter Basic Books, 1993 In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by ...             Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs (George Gund ... Deirdre A. Royster University of California Press, 2003 Right on, Dr. Sistagirl! Since so many conservatives think that racism no longer exists, the market will cure all evils, and blacks do poorly because of individual rather than social failures, Dr. Royster puts these ideas to the test. She interviews 25 white men and 25 black men who studied ...             Elite Deviance (9th Edition) David R. Simon Allyn & Bacon, 2007          products you might be interested in search for books blue-collar, contemporary, experiences, governmental, organizational, white-collar      toavi.com    web we recommend The Backroom Story of Ethics Failure randomly chosen book: Water: Use Less-Save More: 100 Water-Saving Tips for the Home (The Chelsea ...