Author: David Rakoff
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: fraud
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-05-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 038550084X
ISBN-13: 9780385500845

You’ve heard him on This American Life! Now read his book!Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, playing an evil modeling agent on a daytime soap opera, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff doesn’t belong. Nor does he try to. Still, he continually finds himself off in the far-flung hinterlands of our culture, notebook or microphone in hand, hoping to conjure that dyed-in-the-wool New York condescension.A

Author: David Rakoff
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: essays, fraud
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-04-23
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0767906314
ISBN-13: 9780767906319

From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to. In his debut collection of essays, Rakoff uses his razor-sharp wit and snarky humor to deliver a barrage of damaging blows that, more often than not, land squarely on his own jaw–hilariously satiri

Author: David Rakoff
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: olive, artisanal, quest, oil, first, problems, world, ending, count, coach, indignities, comfortable, class, torments, thread, low, don
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-09-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0767916034
ISBN-13: 9780767916035

David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shoot—where he is provided with his very own personal manservant—rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating

Authors:Jed S. Rakoff, Jonathan S. Sack,
Publisher: Law Journal Seminars Press
Keywords: mitigation, sentencing, compliance, corporate, guidelines, formerly, federal
Number of Pages: 900
Published: 1993-12-06
List price: $295.00
ISBN-10: 1588520587
ISBN-13: 9781588520586

"Corporate Sentencing Guidelines" also brings you comprehensive coverage of subjects such as: determination of sentences, including aggravating and mitigating factors like exceptional circumstances or the "character" of an organization (with references to relevant case law and commentary); compliance programs in the global context; SEC and judicial initiatives to make corporate directors liable for compliance lapses; advocacy strategies when dealing with prosecutors, judges and probation officers; environmental offenses and objections to self-audit laws adopted by many states; special rules re

Author: Joanna Smith Rakoff
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: novel, fortunate
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-04-07
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1416590773
ISBN-13: 9781416590774

Like The Group, Mary McCarthy’s classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff ’s richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century. There’s Lil, a would-be scholar whose marriage to an egotistical writer initially brings the group back together (and ultimately drives it apart); Beth, who struggles to let go of her

Authors:David Jessop, David Jones, Peter Baily, David Farmer,
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Keywords: management, principles, purchasing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-01-13
List price: $89.50
ISBN-10: 0273646893
ISBN-13: 9780273646891

Providing a proactive managerial view of the purchasing function, this text meets the needs of the modern manager as a practical guide and satisfies the requirements of students of purchasing management, whether functional, specialist or general. Suitable for undergraduate Business or Engineering students taking a module in Purchasing and Supplies Management, MBA and CIPS students.

Authors:Joyce E. Penner, David Lister, David J. Griggs, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: report, special, atmosphere, global, aviation
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521664047
ISBN-13: 9780521664042

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report is the most comprehensive assessment available on the effects of aviation on the global atmosphere. The report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft that modify the chemical properties of the atmosphere, leading to changes in radiative properties and climate change, and modification of the ozone layer, leading to changes in ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth. This volume provides accurate, unbiased, policy-relevant information and is designed to serve the aviation industry and the expert and policymaking