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An Introduction to Distress Investing is a comprehensive guide to distress investing around the world. Increasingly, corporate rehabilitation is more interesting than corporate liquidation to governments and capital markets. And increasingly a mezzanine industry of mutual funds, hedge funds, and private investors has stepped up to fill the role of the traditional corporate lender. This book covers distress investing from theoretical underpinnings to practical applications. It features cases studies of some of the biggest distress investing situations including Kmart and Pacific Gas & Electric. From the recent changes to U.S. bankruptcy code to creditor rights to cash bailouts, readers will learn how to analyze distressed situations including pricing issues, arbitrage opportunities, political and tax disadvantages to deal expenses and reorganization funding plans. Written by the leading practitioner of distress investing and co-authored by teaching academics, this book is certain to become the bible on the topic for professional investors and students..
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A neighborhood bookie peddles athletes to college coaches and develops a sport betting operation centered on high school games. He recruits an accomplice to execute his last bet, one that could set them up financially for life but is fraught with danger. The Chicago Police investigate the greedy gamblers who might try to manipulate a high school basketball playoff game. A chance meeting between the father of a mediocre student-athlete and the bookie puts in motion a sequence of events transforming the player into a Division 1 prospect using unorthodox basketball training methods. Corrupt adults, who selfishly engage in risky and exploitive behaviors, surround the athlete: gangland profiteers, win-at-all-cost coaches, greedy street agents, shoe company representatives, college recruiters, disloyal lovers, and others. Advantage Disadvantage examines the motivations that drive the surrounding adults to corruption, betrayal, and greed..
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This nonfiction work contains 17 elegant and provocative essays, never before printed in book form. Nock (1870-1945) explores some of his most cherished themes..
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What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with broad empirical studies, including interviews conducted for the purpose of this book, Wolff and de-Shalit show how taking theory and practice together is essential if the theory is to be rich enough to be applied to the real world, and policy systematic enough to have purpose and justification.
The book is in three parts. Part 1 presents a pluralist analysis of disadvantage, modifying the capability theory of Sen and Nussbaum to produce the 'genuine opportunity for secure functioning' view. This emphasizes risk and insecurity as a central component of disadvantage. Part 2 shows how to identify the least advantaged in society even on a pluralist view. The authors suggest that disadvantage 'clusters' in the sense that some people are disadvantaged in several different respects. Thus identifying the least advantaged is not as problematic as it appears to be. Conversely, a society which has 'declustered disadvantaged'--in the sense that no group lacks secure functioning on a range of functionings--has made considerable progress in the direction of equality. Part 3 explores how to decluster disadvantage, by paying special attention to 'corrosive disadvantages'--those disadvantages which cause further disadvantages--and 'fertile functionings'--those which are likely to secure other functionings.
In sum this books presents a refreshing new analysis of disadvantage, and puts forward proposals to help governments improve the lives of the least advantaged in their societies, thereby moving in the direction of equality..
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Highly respected contributors focus on the challenges to the educational system posed by children and young people who experience a variety of social and economic disadvantages. Suggestions are made for tackling exclusionary practice..
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The Parent-Child Home Program is a low-cost pre-preschool intervention to help parents prepare their toddlers for school. Over four decades of experimental research have supported the program's hypothesis that children's best preparation for school is their early participation in cheerful, casual exchanges of concept-building play and conversation with their parents at home. The Parent-Child Home Program is a social program aimed at ameliorating many of the challenges of a low-income environment. In this updated new edition, Phyllis Levenstein's daughter, Susan, continues her mother's labor of love, confirming the fact that with a solid theoretical base, elbow grease, and perseverance it is possible to carry a good idea a good long way..
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