Altschuller (5 results)

Condition: Good. 2014 Bloomberg BNA / Bureau of National Affairs (Arlington, Virginia), 8 3/4 x 11 inches tall wire spiral bound paperback in tan covers, mixed pagination. Partly removed call number label to front cover - the only evidence that this portfolio was a former corporate or law library copy. Title page and a couple of other pages very slightly creased. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this useful legal practice guide. Bloomberg BNA Corporate Practice Series Portfolio No. 93. ~RRR~ Focuses primarily on the social impacts of business activities, beginning with an overview of specific roles and responsibilities of the board of directors in overseeing a company's approach to corporate social responsibility. The portfolio provides practical advice concerning emerging new business forms that represent a 'hybrid' between traditional for-profit corporate enterprises and nonprofit business entities established to pursue a public benefit. There is also discussion of the key liability concerns for companies and key international standards and benchmarks against which corporate activities are frequently evaluated by key stakeholders. Finally, the portfolio provides guidance on new and emerging disclosure and transparency requirements that require companies to provide public information regarding the social and environmental impacts of their activities. The portfolio also contains Practice Tools, including a corporate social responsibility roadmap and list of publicly available tools. Contents: Introduction; The role of board of directors; Hybrid business entities; Domestic and foreign direct liability; International standards and benchmarks; Transparency and disclosure; The extractive sector : approaches to social and environmental challenges; The ICT sector : approaches to social and environmental challenges; Conclusion and practical guidance.

Condition: Gut. Jahr: 1984. Einband: Heft. Beschreibung: Papier etwas gebräunt. Gut und sauber erhalten. Sprache: ru. 116 S.

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. 8vo, br. ed. 240pp. The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy-one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"-but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll-and the outraged reception to it-in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks with originating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. In addition, rock celebrated romance and sex, rattled the reticent by pushing sexuality into the public arena, and mocked deferred gratification and the obsession with work of men in gray flannel suits. And it delighted in the separate world of the teenager and deepened the divide between the generations, helping teenagers differentiate themselves from others. Altschuler includes vivid biographical sketches of the great rock 'n rollers, including Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly-plus their white-bread doppelgangers such as Pat Boone. Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paper wraps bindings. |2 volumes. 319/294 pages. Unread-looking, tight and unmarked matched pair. Yellowing to spines, exceptional condition otherwise. Russian language only.

Condition: as is. M. Dobuzhinsky (illustrator). 381, wraps, address stamps on several pages, covers quite worn and soiled, spine quite worn and torn, binding split at p. 48. Large red crayon numbers in lower corner of last few pages. Text is in Russian. Cover illustration by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957), a Russian-Lithuanian artist noted for his cityscapes. This book is a novel about Peter the Great.