Priest, Politics and Society in Post-Famine Ireland: A Study of County Tipperary 1850-1891

James O'Shea

Wolfhound Press

The is the account of how 250 billion dollars was stolen and squandered in a scandal described by "Newsweek" as "the biggest financial mess in US history". In 1981, a Texan real estate developer, Don Dixon, bought a Savings & Loan bank in the small, hard-working town of Vernon (population 12,500) in Northern Texas. This is the story of what happened in Vernon, and of its ramifications round the country, as this local S&L became Dixon's personal piggy bank: how Dixon flew the Vernon Board of Directors out to San Diego for a moonlight cruise in the harbour with beautiful young women, how Dixon sought to buy off hostile legislation by political VIPs on the company yacht and, ultimately, how Dixon and his colleagues perpetrated the financing and refinancing of unneeded commercial real estate.

The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Millions Sank a Texas S&L

Simon Schuster Ltd

Daisy Chain

Business & Money

Pocket_Books

<p>Dangerous Company chronicles the successes, failures, and practices of the biggest and most influential firms in the consulting industry. O'Shea and Madigan chronicle such stories as the one involving the consultant who provided state's evidence and landed his client behind bars, the Fortune 500 company that was billed over $75 million in consulting fees yet was left on the brink of bankruptcy, and the role played by consultants in the rejuvenation of Sears.</p>

Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin

Charles Madigan

Industries

Crown Business

The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as the logical space of reasons, the myth of the given, and the manifest and scientific images, have become standard philosophical terms. Often, however, recent uses of these terms do not reflect the richness or the true sense of Sellars original ideas. This book gets to the heart of Sellars philosophy and provides students with a comprehensive critical introduction to his lifes work.   The book is structured around what Sellars himself regarded as the philosophers overarching task: to achieve a coherent vision of reality that will finally overcome the continuing clashes between the world as common sense takes it to be and the world as science reveals it to be. It provides a clear analysis of Sellars groundbreaking philosophy of mind, his novel theory of consciousness, his defense of scientific realism, and his thoroughgoing naturalism with a normative turn. Providing a lively examination of Sellars work through the central problem of what it means to be a human being in a scientific world, this book will be a valuable resource for all students of philosophy.

Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Polity Press

The Deal from Hell

Business Culture

PublicAffairs

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