Authors:Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux,
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: cornell, studies, money, works, really, havens, globalization, tax
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2010-01-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801476127
ISBN-13: 9780801476129

From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike. In recent years government regulators, hoping to remedy economic crisis by diverting capital from hidden channels back into taxable view, have undertaken sustained and serious efforts to force tax havens into compliance. In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux provide an up-to-date evaluation of the role and funct

Author: Duncan McCargo
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: southern, thailand, legitimacy, islam, apart, land, tearing
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2008-09
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 080147499X
ISBN-13: 9780801474996

Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government’s harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary Thai politics, is the first fieldwork-based book about this conflict. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the region, hundreds of interviews conducted during a year’s research

Author: Eric Naiman
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: perversely, nabokov
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-06-03
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0801448204
ISBN-13: 9780801448201

In an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s work and the moral peril to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov’s insistence on bringing the issue of art’s essential perversity to the fore. Nabokov’s fiction is notorious for the interpretive panic it occasions in its readers, the sense that no matter how hard he or she tries, the reader has not gotten Nabokov ’right.’ At the same time, the fictions abound with characters who might be labeled perverts, and questions of sexuality lurk

Author: James G. March
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: lectures, messenger, experience, ambiguities
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0801448778
ISBN-13: 9780801448775

In The Ambiguities of Experience, James G. March asks a deceptively simple question: What is, or should be, the role of experience in creating intelligence, particularly in organizations? Folk wisdom both trumpets the significance of experience and warns of its inadequacies. On one hand, experience is described as the best teacher. On the other hand, experience is described as the teacher of fools, of those unable or unwilling to learn from accumulated knowledge or the teaching of experts. The disagreement between those folk aphorisms reflects profound questions about the human pursuit of inte

Author: Dominick LaCapra
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: auschwitz, memory, history
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1998-03
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0801484960
ISBN-13: 9780801484964

Author: Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: greece, culture, art
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1988-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 080149401X
ISBN-13: 9780801494017

Author: Steven Mailloux
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: conventions, interpretive
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1982-07
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0801414768
ISBN-13: 9780801414763