Автор: Pappos Ioannis Название: Hotel Living ISBN: 0062376365 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062376367 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1566.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание:
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for DebutFiction
Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
Recalling both the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the drifting narrator of A Single Man, Ioannis Pappos s debut novel is a portrait of privilege, aspiration, and international finance during the wayward course of the American economy between 9/11 and the 2008 Financial collapse, and is filled with surprisingly tender observations about identity, loneliness, and human connection.
I m homeless, but in First Class.
Stathis Rakis abandoned his small Greek village for a more worldly life, first in San Francisco, where the Dot Com Bubble had already burst, and then in Paris, France, where he is pursuing an MBA at an elite business school. After falling helplessly in love with a liberal New England journalist with a good conscience, who comes to campus with some scores to settle, Stathis moves to the United States to begin as a consultant for a company called Command. He spends the very few hours of the day that aren t consumed by work draining the minibar, battling insomnia, and binging on more than room service. Luxury is a given, happiness is not.
As the economy recovers and a new bubble expands in a post-9/11 world, Stathis drifts upward, baring witness to the criminal decadence that will become the 2008 financial crisis, as well as his new habits of indulgence drugs, sex, and insider trading. In a world of insiders--from corporate suits to Hollywood celebutantes Stathis remains the outsider: too foreign to be one of them, too cynical to turn back."
Описание: This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature.
Автор: Skariton Jonathan, Kontaris Ioannis Название: Seance Infernale ISBN: 1101970502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101970508 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1559.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An extraordinary debut--part thriller, part mystery, part historical novel--that follows a movie memorabilia dealer as he searches for what could be the first film ever made, S ance Infernale. Los Angeles, 2002. Alex Whitman is hired by an enigmatic collector to locate a copy of S ance Infernale. The film's creator, Augustin Sekuler, is considered by those in the know to be the true inventor of motion pictures (not the Lumi re brothers or Thomas Edison). In 1890, Sekular had boarded a Paris-bound train from Dijon, days before he was to present to the world his greatest new invention--a moving picture machine. But Sekuler never arrived at Gare de Lyon. He and his moving picture machine vanished, never to be heard from again. When Alex Whitman tracks down what might be fragments of Sekuler's famously lost film, questions are raised--about Sekuler, about what happened to him and his invention, and about the film itself. And the stakes become ratcheted up as the film's riddles lead to a darker, far more dangerous mystery.
Автор: Sokol D., Cheng Thomas, Lianos Ioannis Название: Competition and the State ISBN: 0804789398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804789394 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 10811.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Competition and the State analyzes the role of the state across a number of dimensions as it relates to competition law and policy across a number of dimensions. This book re-conceptualizes the interaction between competition law and government activities in light of the profound transformation of the conception of state action in recent years by looking to the challenges of privatization, new public management, and public-private partnerships. It then asks whether there is a substantive legal framework that might be put in place to address competition issues as they relate to the role of the state. Various chapters also provide case studies of national experiences. The volume also examines one of the most highly controversial policy issues within the competition and regulatory sphere—the role of competition law and policy in the financial sector.
This book, the third in the Global Competition Law and Economics series, provides a number of viewpoints of what competition law and policy mean both in theory and practice in a development context.
Описание: It also gives unique insight into both private and public enforcement of completion law, and offers commentary on the relationship between EU competition law and national competition law, and on the relationship between competition law and private international law.
