Author: Bruce A. Jacobs
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: northeastern, series, criminal, behavior, selling, streetcorner, crack, social, world, dealing
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1999-04-29
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1555533876
ISBN-13: 9781555533878

During the 1980s, addiction to crack cocaine escalated at an alarming rate. As the demand for crack grew, so did the economic opportunities for entrepreneurial street dealers, who developed criminal underground networks for the supply and retail sale of the high-profit substance. While crack cocaine use has since plateaued and is on the decline, hard-core dealers persist in selling the increasingly unprofitable drug in a high-risk, competitive street market.Bruce A. Jacobs bases his study on dangerous field research conducted in one of the most socially distressed and impoverished neighborhood

Author: Bruce I. Jacobs
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: market, behavior, stock, investor, crashes, option, ideas, realities, capital, replication
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-08-10
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0631215557
ISBN-13: 9780631215554

The summer and fall of 1998 witnessed some of the most turbulent financial markets the world has ever seen. The implosion of the Russian financial markets and investors’ ensuing flight to quality propelled the giant hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management, to the brink of collapse and left the investment portfolios of many of Wall Street’s major banks and brokerage houses teetering on the brink. The US equity market dropped precipitously at the end of August and continued over the next month to experience levels of volatility not seen since the major crash of October 1987.

Author: Bruce A. Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: anthology, deviance, investigating
Number of Pages: 548
Published: 2002-09-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 019533003X
ISBN-13: 9780195330038

The highly readable articles in this comprehensive anthology explore the essence of deviant behavior--its construction, explanation, commission, and control. Substantive introductions to each section and to each article allow the book’s component parts to stand on their own depending on instructional needs. Topic-specific Internet websites are also provided. Bruce Jacobs has selected an eclectic cross-section of compelling readings. The book’s theoretical coverage draws from classic as well as contemporary approaches (e.g., lifecourse, general strain, institutional anomie, feminist

Author: Molly Bruce Jacobs
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: girl, secret
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-20
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0312364067
ISBN-13: 9780312364069

For decades, a well-to-do Baltimore family guarded a secret they felt too ashamed to reveal, much less speak of among themselves.  For one daughter, that secret would haunt her for years but ultimately compel her to take surprising risks and reap unbelievable rewards--the story of which forms the stunning narrative of this remarkable memoir.  When Molly Bruce Jacobs, the family’s eldest daughter, finds herself newly sober at the age of thirty-eight, she finally seeks out and comes face-to-face with this secret: Anne, a younger sister who was diagnosed at birth with hydrocephalus ("wate

Authors:Bruce I. Jacobs, Kenneth N. Levy,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: stock, selection, analysis, quantitative, management, equity
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-01-05
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0071346864
ISBN-13: 9780071346863

Two pioneers and innovators in the money management field present their choice of groundbreaking, peer-reviewed articles on subjects including portfolio engineering and long-short investment strategy. More than just a collection of classic review pieces, however, Equity Management provides new material to introduce, interpret, and integrate the pieces, with an introduction that provides an authoritative overview of the chapters. Important and innovative, it is destined to become the "Graham and Dodd" of quantitative equity investing.

Authors:Terrence E. Burns, Bruce I. Jacobs, Henry G. Rob
Publisher: AIMR (CFA Institute)
Keywords: investing, alternative
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0935015248
ISBN-13: 9780935015249

Historically, alternative investing has produced high returns and provided outstanding diversification benefits. It can also be very risky. In this proceedings, the authors stress that knowledge is the investor’s most important tool for successful investing in this area.

Authors:Bruce I. Jacobs, Kenneth N. Levy, Mark Anso,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: finance, series, wiley, strategies, neutral, market
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0471268682
ISBN-13: 9780471268680

An inside view of what makes market neutral strategies tick and how they can be implemented Market neutral strategies have gained attention for their potential to deliver positive returns regardless of the direction of underlying markets. As these strategies have built a record of good performance in recent years, their benefits have become apparent. Market Neutral Strategies draws on the wisdom and experience of professional practitioners to describe strategies that are being utilized by some of today’s leading institutional investors. This book provides readers with an insider’s