Getting a Cut provides a perspective on nonstandard compensation that demonstrates the process by which commissions impact the experiences of workers. Understanding this under-researched perspective reveals a great deal about the process by which the interaction of structure, culture, and craft that define management practices shape the experiences of the sales force and have the potential to enhance organizational performance.
Though women constitute 52 percent of US voters, only 10 percent of the members of Congress and one of the 50 state governors are women. This book presents research and analysis on women as both candidates and voters in US politics, using numerous empirical sources of data.
[One] of the greatest writers of the twentieth century...Richard Stark, real name Donald Westlake...His Parker books form a genre all their own." --John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. In Nobody Runs Forever, Parker and two cohorts stole the assets of a bank in transit, but the police heat was so great they could only escape if they left the money behind. In this follow-up novel, Parker and his associates plot to reclaim the loot, which they hid in the choir loft of an unused country church. As they implement the plan, people on both sides of the law use the forces at their command to stop Parker and grab the goods for themselves. Though Parker's new getaway van is an old Ford Econoline with "Holy Redeemer Choir" on its doors, his gang is anything but holy, and Parker will do whatever it takes to redeem his prize, no matter who gets hurt in the process. .
Digby Bradenton was a pillar of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant community. He was the best of the WASP tradition that traces its roots to the colonies. As an eminent lawyer, he was knowledgeable and had practices in a wide range of the specialties of law. In his early days, he had done criminal and domestic relations work, but now he was mostly doing real estate and business work. He was also on the way to doing trust and estates work. As such, he followed the path of most in the legal profession in those days when a good lawyer by experience in all areas of the law during his career became a consummate generalist who could see a legal problem from many different practice angles and truly represent his client. As a result, his clients came from many walks of life.
Winner of the 2000 Spur Award for Best Western Novel. "This is classic Wheeler, a solid story about real people told with wit, compassion and a bit of whimsy." - Publishers Weekly. The year is 1919 and Bat Masterson - lawman, gambler, and crony of Wyatt Earp - is working as a sports columnist on the New York Morning Telegraph and enjoying his last legal whiskey as Prohibition looms. Though Bat is bothered by the passage of the Volstead Act, he's even more concerned about the legends that have grown about him. His life has been so notoriously overblown that Bat decides to head West with his wife and straighten out his own history.
This taut southwestern thriller twists through a maze of corruption, prejudice, and brutal murder as a WWII vet-turned-lawyer fights to save a Native American on trial for his life. A Bureau of Indian Affairs attorney, Joshua Rabb finds himself caught in a war between the Papago tribe he's sworn to represent and a rich politician after valuable tribal mineral rights.
When a DEA drug raid on a New Jersey warehouse goes fatally wrong it shouldn't be that big a deal. But who's pulling the strings behind the scenes and what is the connection to Raffair, a mysterious company that's just gone public? As Raffair's stock goes through the roof, more bodies begin to pile up.The outgoing President has decided to strike up an odd relationship with a CIA analyst. Has the President decided to mount an eleventh-hour attack on Cure? Remo and Chiun are sent to untangle a mess that runs from the White House to the Mob and to a small maximum security prison cell, where America's infamous Mafia don has hatched the ultimate scheme of vengeance and profit....
The elegant, witty, and gay Burton Raider, devoted to living with eclat, produces a film in the grand style, while carrying on various love affairs and fending off religious fanatics and bigots.
There are some secrets the government would kill to protect.... No door is locked.... Gregory Picaro lives in the shadows and works in the dark, finding his way into the most exclusive homes in the world and methodically taking away their treasures one precious item at a time. A man who has made safecracking an art form, who has never met a lock he couldn't pick, Picaro is at the top of his field. But he has just opened the wrong safe. No treasure is secure.... Suddenly Picaro, in the company of a beautiful woman reporter, is on a harrowing cross-country odyssey in pursuit of a truth too extraordinary to guess, dodging enemies who want him dead--and want their evidence back. For over fifty years a mysterious organization has been guarding a secret that will change everything you have believed about our government. And the only person who can tell the truth is a master safecracker--holding the key to a mind-boggling revelation.... Nobody's Safe.
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