Author: Max Boot
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: wars, american, power, rise, small, peace, savage
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-05
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 046500721X
ISBN-13: 9780465007219

Reviewed and debated everywhere, this book has become a key volume in the case for a new policy of interventionism. America’s "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson’s expedition against the Barbary Pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketch

Author: Chris Boot
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: stories, magnum
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0714842451
ISBN-13: 9780714842455

This book explores the ‘photo story’ through 61 master classes by some of the world’s greatest photographers, all members of the international photographic agency Magnum. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt and their colleagues use the photo story as a vehicle to explain their approach to taking and editing photographs. It is about the Magnum photographers, their subjects and their approaches to photography in general and to the particular form of the photo story. The book will also comprise a history of Magnum practice and photojournalism over a 70-year period.

Authors:Anjan V. Thakor, Arnoud Boot,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: handbooks, finance, banking, intermediation, financial, handbook
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2008-06-10
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 0444515585
ISBN-13: 9780444515582

The growth of financial intermediation research has yielded a host of questions that have pushed "design" issues to the fore even as the boundary between financial intermediation and corporate finance has blurred. This volume presents review articles on six major topics that are connected by information-theoretic tools and characterized by valuable perspectives and important questions for future research. Touching upon a wide range of issues pertaining to the designs of securities, institutions, trading mechanisms and markets, industry structure, and regulation, this volume will encourage bold

Authors:M. G. Eccles, F. W. Julyan, G. Boot, J. P. van Belle,
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: computing, business, principles
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0702151572
ISBN-13: 9780702151576

Written by four prominent academics, this is one of South Africa’s best-selling computer books. It was written specifically for those managing or using computers for the first time, be they accountants, lawyers, or other business people. It is also an ideal introduction to business computing for the commerce student.

Authors:Sudipto Bhattacharya, Arnoud W. A. Boot, Anjan V.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: perspectives, models, macroeconomy, intermediation, credit
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $65.45
ISBN-10: 0199243069
ISBN-13: 9780199243068

Reviews the latest research in modern financial theory and discusses liquidity provision via banks and markets, bank runs and financial crises, regulation of financial intermediaries, comparative financial systems, and more. For researchers and practitioners. Softcover, hardcover not available.