Benjamin Asquith's Books

The Use of Hybrid Securities

Market Timing, Investor Rationing, Signaling and Asset Restructuring

By: Benjamin Kleidt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Use of Hybrid Securities

Market Timing, Investor Rationing, Signaling and Asset Restructuring

By: Benjamin Kleidt

Benjamin Kleidt analyzes why firms decide to issue hybrid securities. He provides insights into the financing behaviour of issuing firms with regard to operating and stock price performance prior and subsequent to hybrid security issues and shows that issuance motives for the use of different forms of hybrid securities are as diverse as available structures for this asset class.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

181

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3835090771

ISBN 13

9783835090774

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

By: Benjamin M. Friedman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

By: Benjamin M. Friedman

From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits. In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies–particularly of the United States since the Civil War–to demonstrate the fact that incomes on the rise lead to more open and democratic societies. He explains that growth, rather than simply a high standard of living, is key to effecting political and social liberalization in the third world, and shows that even the wealthiest of nations puts its democratic values at risk when income levels stand still. Merely being rich is no protection against a turn toward rigidity and intolerance when a country’s citizens lose the sense that they are getting ahead. With concrete policy suggestions for pursuing growth at home and promoting worldwide economic expansion, this volume is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the effects of economic growth and globalization.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

594

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307773450

ISBN 13

9780307773456

Desalination Concentrate Management

By: Bradley Ladewig,Benjamin Asquith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Desalination Concentrate Management

By: Bradley Ladewig,Benjamin Asquith

This book examines five methods used for concentrate management, namely; disposal to surface water, disposal to sewerage, deep well injection, land applications and evaporation ponds. In particular, the book focuses on the design, siting, cost, and environmental impacts of these methods. While these methods are widely practiced in a variety of settings already, there are many limitations that restrict the use of certain disposal options in particular locations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3642248527

ISBN 13

9783642248528

My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain 1780-1928

By: Benjamin Armstrong

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain 1780-1928

By: Benjamin Armstrong

Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. - Enables students to plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Consolidates knowledge with clear and focused content coverage, organised into easy-to-revise chunks - Encourages active revision by closely combining historical content with related activities - Helps students build, practise and enhance their exam skills as they progress through activities set at three different levels - Improves exam technique through exam-style questions with sample answers and commentary from expert authors and teachers - Boosts historical knowledge with a useful glossary and timeline

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Hodder Education

Published Date

ISBN 10

1510418016

ISBN 13

9781510418011

The Death of Democracy

Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Death of Democracy

Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany’s leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler’s hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

1250162513

ISBN 13

9781250162519

British Literature and the Life of Institutions

Speculative States

By: Benjamin Kohlmann

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

British Literature and the Life of Institutions

Speculative States

By: Benjamin Kohlmann

British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in dialogue with politicaltheory, philosophy, and the history of ideas, the book reclaims a substantive reformist language that we have ignored to our own loss. This reformist idiom made it possible to imagine the state as a speculative and aspirational idea--as a fully realized form of life rather than as an uninspiringensemble of administrative procedures and bureaucratic processes. This volume traces the resonances of this idiom from the Victorian period to modernism, ranging from Mary Augusta Ward, George Gissing, and H. G. Wells, to Edward Carpenter and E. M. Forster. Compared to this reformist language, theeconomism that dominates current debates about the welfare state signals an impoverishment that is at once intellectual, cultural, and political. Critiquing the shortcomings of the welfare state comes naturally to us, but we often struggle to offer up convincing defences of its principles and aims.This book intervenes in these debates by urging a richer understanding of critique: speculation, this provocative new study suggests, does not signify the cancellation of critique but an aspirational moment inherent in critique itself. If we want to defend the state, Kohlmann argues, we need tolearn to think about it again.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198836171

ISBN 13

9780198836179

Treaties, Their Making and Enforcement

By: Samuel Benjamin Crandall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Treaties, Their Making and Enforcement

By: Samuel Benjamin Crandall

Crandall, Samuel B. Treaties, Their Making and Enforcement. Washington, D.C.: John Bryne & Co., 1916. xxxii, 663 pp. Reprint available March, 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-492-4. Cloth. $140. * Reprint of the second edition. Crandall analyzes agency and the right of ratification, the essentials of validity, the reality of consent and the operation of treaties from the date they take effect to their interpretation and termination. It explores treaty-making in the United States in great depth, including treaties made before and during the Articles of Confederation era, and discusses treaty-making in Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland and other countries. This important treatise was first published in 1904. The second edition is preferable because it is a substantially expanded work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

698

Publisher

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1584774924

ISBN 13

9781584774921

The Forgotten Zionist

The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankelevitch Jacobi

By: Rodney Benjamin,David Cebon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Forgotten Zionist

The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankelevitch Jacobi

By: Rodney Benjamin,David Cebon

A fascinating story of one man's impact on history (Sir Martin Gilbert, historian; Honorary Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford). Vladimir Jabotinsky and Sioma Jacobi exchanged more than five hundred letters between 1920 and 1939. Yet Jabotinsky s right-hand man, who ran the London Revisionist bureau from 1934 until his premature death at the age of forty-two, and who nearly single-handedly managed illegal immigration to Palestine, is virtually unknown. This book resurrects the legacy of a remarkable man and awards Solomon Sioma Jacobi his rightful place in Zionist history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

262

Publisher

Gefen Publishing House Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

965229571X

ISBN 13

9789652295712

Economic Policy, Financial Markets, And Economic Growth

By: Benjamin Zycher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Economic Policy, Financial Markets, And Economic Growth

By: Benjamin Zycher

The links between economic policy and economic growth are simultaneously obvious and obscure, with many factors interacting to influence the overall process. The list of relevant parameters affecting economic growth of interest to scholars and policymakers is lengthy and expanding. Although the importance of government policy is widely recognized,

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429703341

ISBN 13

9780429703348

Encounters with Euclid

How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

By: Benjamin Wardhaugh

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Encounters with Euclid

How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

By: Benjamin Wardhaugh

A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this incomparable mathematical masterpiece, taking readers from its origins in the ancient world to its continuing influence today. In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid’s text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad to the Jesuit mission in China and the workshops of Restoration London. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space. Encounters with Euclid traces the life and afterlives of one of the most remarkable works of mathematics ever written, revealing its lasting role in the timeless search for order and reason in an unruly world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

416

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691235767

ISBN 13

9780691235769

The Nazi Menace

Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Nazi Menace

Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War—a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time. Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in eastern Europe. Some generals are unnerved by the Führer’s grandiose plan, but these dissenters are silenced one by one, setting in motion events that will culminate in the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett takes us behind the scenes in Berlin, London, Moscow, and Washington, revealing the unsettled politics within each country in the wake of the German dictator’s growing provocations. He reveals the fitful path by which anti-Nazi forces inside and outside Germany came to understand Hitler’s true menace to European civilization and learned to oppose him, painting a sweeping portrait of governments under siege, as larger-than-life figures struggled to turn events to their advantage. As in The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, Hett draws on original sources and newly released documents to show how these long-ago conflicts have unexpected resonances in our own time. To read The Nazi Menace is to see past and present in a new and unnerving light.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Macmillan + ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

1250205247

ISBN 13

9781250205247

How the Swans Came to the Lake

A Narrative History of Buddhism in America

By: Rick Fields,Benjamin Bogin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

How the Swans Came to the Lake

A Narrative History of Buddhism in America

By: Rick Fields,Benjamin Bogin

A modern classic unparalleled in scope, this sweeping history unfolds the story of Buddhism’s spread to the West. How the Swans Came to the Lake opens with the story of Asian Buddhism, including the life of the Buddha and the spread of his teachings from India to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and elsewhere. Coming to the modern era, the book tracks how Western colonialism in Asia served as the catalyst for the first large-scale interactions between Buddhists and Westerners. Author Rick Fields discusses the development of Buddhism in the West through key moments such as Transcendentalist fascination with Eastern religions; immigration of Chinese and Japanese people to the United States; the writings of D. T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, and members of the Beat movement; the publication of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki; the arrival of Tibetan lamas in America and Europe; and the influence of Western feminist and social justice movements on Buddhist practice. This fortieth anniversary edition features both new and enhanced photographs as well as a new introduction by Fields’s nephew, Buddhist Studies scholar Benjamin Bogin, who reflects on the impact of this book since its initial publication and addresses the significant changes in Western Buddhist practice in recent decades.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

587

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611804736

ISBN 13

9781611804737

Women Against Equality: A History of the Anti Suffrage Movement In the United States from 1895 to 1920

By: Anne Myra Benjamin, Ph.D.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women Against Equality: A History of the Anti Suffrage Movement In the United States from 1895 to 1920

By: Anne Myra Benjamin, Ph.D.

Anne Myra Benjamin, Ph.D. grew up in Washington, D.C. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, the University of Chicago, and received her doctorate in French Literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Women Against Equality, her sixth book, was inspired by a debate she heard in 1978 between Bella Abzug and Phyllis Schlafly on the Equal Rights Amendment. The author currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she continues to write about the history of American women.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

441

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1483418650

ISBN 13

9781483418650

Great American Lives

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams

By: Benjamin Franklin,Ulysses S. Grant,Andrew Carnegie,Henry Adams

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Great American Lives

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams

By: Benjamin Franklin,Ulysses S. Grant,Andrew Carnegie,Henry Adams

Brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable memoirs from four of the greatest minds in American history. Penned between 1771 and 1790 and published after his death, TheAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most acclaimed and widely read personal histories ever written. From his youth as a printer’s assistant working for his brother’s Boston newspaper through his own publishing, writing, and military careers, his scientific experiments and worldwide travels, his grand triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies, Franklin tells his story with aplomb, bringing to life the flesh-and-blood man behind the American icon. Completed just days before his death, Ulysses S. Grant’s Personal Memoirs is a clear and compelling account of his military career, focusing on two great conflicts: the Mexican–American War and the Civil War. Lauded for its crisp and direct prose, Grant’s autobiography offers frank insight into everything from the merits of the war with Mexico to the strategies and tactics employed by Union forces against the Confederacy to the poignancy of Grant’s meeting with General Lee at Appomattox Court House. Documenting a world of tariffs, insider deals, and Wall Street sharks as well as his stunning rise from bobbin boy to steel baron, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie opens a window into the great industrialist’s decision-making process. His insights on education, business, and the necessity of giving back for the common good set an inspirational example for aspiring executives and provide a fitting testament to the power of the American dream. The Education of Henry Adams is the Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir of a brilliant man reckoning with an era of profound change. The great-grandson of President John Adams and the grandson of President John Quincy Adams, Henry Adams possessed one of the most remarkable minds of his generation. Yet he believed himself fundamentally unsuited to the era in which he lived—the tumultuous period between the Civil War and World War I. Written in third person, this uniquely unclassifiable autobiography is the Modern Library’s number-one nonfiction book of the twentieth century. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1928

Publisher

Open Road Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1504038304

ISBN 13

9781504038300

The Story of Britain

By: Benjamin Stanford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Story of Britain

By: Benjamin Stanford

Here is the dramatic story of Great Britain in the sixteen turning points that over the centuries shaped the country's destiny: from the Magna Carta, the crude bill of rights that became the "irrepealable fundamental statue" of England law, to the Hundred Years War, which saw the power and prestige of France repeatedly humbled and the European standing of England greatly enhanced; from victories in West Africa, the West Indies, the North Atlantic, the battlefields of Europe and India, and the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec to the establishment of an empire on which the sun never set; from the slightly more than 1,000 Royal Air Force pilots - one-third of whom were killed - who saved Great Britain from invasion by Nazi Germany to the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, which marked the beginning of the end of World War II.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

152

Publisher

New Word City

Published Date

ISBN 10

1640191844

ISBN 13

9781640191846

The Circassian

A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent

By: Benjamin C. Fortna

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Circassian

A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent

By: Benjamin C. Fortna

Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire and ushered in the modern Middle East. Drawing on Esref's private papers for the first time, these pages tell the story of the making of a headstrong "self-sacrificing" officer committed to defending the empire's shrinking borders. Esref took on a string of special assignments for Enver Pasha, the rapidly rising star of the Ottoman military, first in Libya against the Italians, then in the Balkan Wars and World War I, before being captured by the forces of the Arab Revolt and turned over to the British and imprisoned on Malta. Released in 1920, he joined the national resistance movement in Anatolia but fell out with Mustafa Kemal's leadership and switched sides, earning him banishment from the Turkish Republic at its founding and exile until the 1950s. Never far from the action or controversy, Esref's dynamic story provides an important counterpoint to the standard narrative of the transition from empire to nation state.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

357

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190862688

ISBN 13

9780190862688

Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812

Volume II

By: Lossing, Benjamin J.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812

Volume II

By: Lossing, Benjamin J.

Originally published in 1868, this history features in-depth research and interviews with veterans, illuminating the events of the war in greater detail than any previous work. It also brings to view soldiers whose deeds have been overlooked by history, but whose sacrifices will forever be remembered.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

566

Publisher

Pelican Publishing

ISBN 10

1455607657

ISBN 13

9781455607655

Book's by Benjamin Asquith

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email