Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"Drawing on her personal experience as a former counselor at two for-profit colleges and interviews with students, senior executives and activists, a renowned sociologist reveals how for-profit schools have become so successful and deciphers the benefits, credentials pitfalls and real costs of a for-profit education,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning--cost-benefit analysis--to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older normative systems of Aristotelian...
Author
Publisher
Conecta
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"La ganancia es primero adopta un enfoque conductual de la contabilidad y propone la siguiente fórmula:ventas - ganancia = gastos. Al obtener beneficios en primer lugar y emplear sólo lo que queda en los gastos, transformarás al instante tu negocio de un monstruo comedinero a una máquina generadora de efectivo.Usando el sistema de Profit First aprenderás, entre muchas cosas más, que: Con cuatro principios sencillos puedes simplificar la contabilidad...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request