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  • Human Capital in the New Legal Ecosystem

    by Michael Roster, Jon Whittle, Jennifer Johnson, Erin Meszaros, Susan Saltonstall Duncan, Bree Buchanan, Renee Branson, Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Clare Harman Clark, Chris Marston, Chris Boyd, Allison Blixt, Jullia Carretta, Timothy B Corcoran ...
    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed working practices across the globe. It has been predicted that as much as 80 percent of the legal workforce will remain transient or permanently working from home after the COVID-19 crisis ends, with only around a fifth as full-time office workers. Although law firms typically weather downturns better than the overall economy, revenues, working practices, and ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

    Revised Edition

    by Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta ...
    Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent CarrettaAn exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrativerecounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Complete Writings

    by Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta ...
    The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a formerly enslaved woman turned published poetIn 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a ship of enslaved people, was sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Risk Culture in Banking

    by Franco Fiordelisi, Paola Schwizer, Alessandro Carretta ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores risk culture in banks following the financial crisis. It analyses the role of national and institutional risk culture, market competitiveness, organisational systems and institutional practices that led to a weakening of risk culture in financial institutions leading up to the financial crisis. It addresses how to assess and measure risk culture, and analyse the impact on ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Equiano, the African

    Biography of a Self-Made Man

    by Vincent Carretta ...
    This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano’s greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. A key document of the early movement to ban the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Structure of Matter

    An Introductory Course with Problems and Solutions

    by Pietro Carretta, Attilio Rigamonti ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This textbook, now in its third edition, provides a formative introduction to the structure of matter that will serve as a sound basis for students proceeding to more complex courses, thus bridging the gap between elementary physics and topics pertaining to research activities. The focus is deliberately limited to key concepts of atoms, molecules and solids, examining the basic structural aspects ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko

    by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan, Ana de Freitas Boe, Erik Bond, Keith M. Botelho, VIncent Carretta, Ashley Cross, Laura Doyle, Karen Gevirtz, Derek Hughes, Scott J. Juengel, Thomas W. Krise, Joyce Green MacDonald, Roberta C. Martin, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Jane Milling, Jessica Muns, Holly Faith Nelson, Bill Overton, Leslie Richardson, Laura J. Rosenthal, Margarete Rubik, Laura L. Runge, Jane Spencer, Laura M. Stevens, James Grantham Turner, Rose Zimbardo ...
    Series Book 127 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography.Part ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

    by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano ...
    A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slaveryBorn in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Phillis Wheatley Peters

    Biography of a Genius in Bondage

    by Vincent Carretta ...
    This new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrity by the time she was in her early twenties, only to fall into relative obscurity when she died in 1784 at barely the age of thirty.Introduced to Benjamin Franklin in London, praised by her ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Igbo in the Atlantic World

    African Origins and Diasporic Destinations

    by Audra A. Diptee, John K. Thornton, Kenneth Morgan, A.E. Afigbo, Gloria Chuku, Nwando Achebe, Hannah N. Eby Chukwu, Gendolyn Midlo Hall, Paul E. Lovejoy, Douglas B. Chambers, Chima J. Korieh, Vincent Carretta, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Robert W. Nicholls, Waibinte Elekima Wariboko, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ogbu U. Kalu ...
    The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Asset Pricing, Real Estate and Public Finance over the Crisis

    Edited by A. Carretta, G. Mattarocci ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The current financial crisis started from the US real estate market and after, though the increase of risk premium requested by investors and due to the lack of liquidity of all financial markets, it became a world financial crisis. A detailed analysis during the crisis focuses attention on asset management, the real estate and public sector. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Financial Systems in Troubled Waters

    Information, Strategies, and Governance to Enhance Performances in Risky Times

    Edited by Alessandro Carretta, Gianluca Mattarocci ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This collection considers the financial crisis from a managerial perspective, focussing on the business implications for the financial industry. Topics examined include governance, information needs and strategy of financial intermediaries and investors. The contributions build on the existing literature and present some unique insights on governance, credit quality evaluation and performance ... Read more

    $57.99 USD