Tome Of Corruption
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Author |
: Robert J. Schwalb |
Publisher |
: Black Flame |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844163091 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844163090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tome of Corruption by : Robert J. Schwalb
The world dies. A foul disease infects it, spreading its taint on the winds, in the waters, polluting the very land itself. And wherever it touches, it breeds corruption, manifesting as mutation, malformation, leaving it altered, changed, and utterly mad with the wickedness it instils. This is Chaos-the shadow that hangs over the Old World and beyond. It is the terrifying threat of the north, looming large in the minds of Men, Elves, and Dwarfs alike.
Author |
: Eric Cagle |
Publisher |
: Black Industries |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844163148 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844163144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tome of Salvation by : Eric Cagle
Tome of Salvation provides a detailed look at religion in the Empire, exploring faith's role and function within the nation's convoluted and complex society. Inside this massive sourcebook you will find new magic spells, new rituals and artifacts, new careers, and extensive details on gods, festivals, holy days, and the lives of Old World priests.
Author |
: Sudhir Chella Rajan |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2020-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674241275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674241274 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Social Theory of Corruption by : Sudhir Chella Rajan
A social theory of grand corruption from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestations are bribery and extortion, placing the onus on individuals, typically bureaucrats. Sudhir Chella Rajan argues that this understanding ignores the true depths of corruption, which is properly seen as a foundation of social structures. Not just bribes but also caste, gender relations, and the reproduction of class are forms of corruption. Using South Asia as a case study, Rajan argues that syndromes of corruption can be identified by paying attention to social orders and the elites they support. From the breakup of the Harappan civilization in the second millennium BCE to the anticolonial movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, elites and their descendants made off with substantial material and symbolic gains for hundreds of years before their schemes unraveled. Rajan makes clear that this grander form of corruption is not limited to India or the annals of global history. Societal corruption is endemic, as tax cheats and complicit bankers squirrel away public money in offshore accounts, corporate titans buy political influence, and the rich ensure that their children live lavishly no matter how little they contribute. These elites use their privileged access to power to fix the rules of the game—legal structures and social norms—benefiting themselves, even while most ordinary people remain faithful to the rubrics of everyday life.
Author |
: Mariya Omelicheva |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231188544 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231188548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Webs of Corruption by : Mariya Omelicheva
Webs of Corruption is an innovative study demonstrating that terrorist and criminal activity intersect more narrowly than is widely believed. Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz analyze the links between the drug trade and terror financing in Central Asia, finding that state security services shape the nexus of trafficking and terrorism.
Author |
: Mark Teeuwen |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2017-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231544351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231544359 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lust, Commerce, and Corruption by : Mark Teeuwen
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind. Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as Buyo Inshi, "a retired gentleman of Edo," he expressed in An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard a profound despair with the state of the realm. Seeing decay wherever he turned, Buyo feared the world would soon descend into war. In his anecdotes, Buyo shows a sometimes surprising familiarity with the shadier aspects of Edo life. He speaks of the corruption of samurai officials; the suffering of the poor in villages and cities; the operation of brothels; the dealings of blind moneylenders; the selling and buying of temple abbotships; and the dubious strategies seen in law courts. Perhaps it was the frankness of his account that made him prefer to stay anonymous. A team of Edo specialists undertook the original translation of Buyo's work. This abridged edition streamlines this translation for classroom use, preserving the scope and emphasis of Buyo's argument while eliminating repetitions and diversions. It also retains the introductory essay that situates the work within Edo society and history.
Author |
: Zdenka |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2014-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783838261737 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3838261739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Informal Relations from Democratic Representation to Corruption by : Zdenka
Informal relations have been one of the major research topics of the social sciences since the 1990s. In order to allow for meaningful comparisons between different combinations of the positive and negative effects of informal relations on democratic representation, this book focuses on post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe as a particular region where formal democratic rules have been established, but competing informal rules are still strong. A broad spectrum of related analytical concepts is discussed from different perspectives and from different academic disciplines, then empirical cases of the relationship between informal relations and democratic representation are analyzed. The contributions span the whole continuum, as we perceive it, from civil society networks seen as supporting democratic representation to the perversion of democratic representation through political corruption. The final part of the book takes a closer look at corruption through four case studies from Russia.
Author |
: Kimberly Ann Elliott |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 1997-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780881323238 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0881323233 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corruption and the Global Economy by : Kimberly Ann Elliott
The recently-adopted OECD convention outlawing bribery of foreign public officials is welcome evidence of how much progress has been made in the battle against corruption. The financial crisis in East Asia is an indication of how much remains to be done. Corruption is by no means a new issue but it has only recently emerged as a global issue. With the end of the Cold War, the pace and breadth of the trends toward democratization and international economic integration accelerated and expanded globally. Yet corruption could slow or even reverse these trends, potentially threatening economic development and political stability in some countries. As the global implications of corruption have grown, so has the impetus for international action to combat it. In addition to efforts in the OECD, the Organization of American States, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations General Assembly, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have both begun to emphasize corruption as an impediment to economic development. This book includes a chapter by the Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery discussing the evolution of the OECD convention and what is needed to make it effective. Other chapters address the causes and consequences of corruption, including the impact on investment and growth and the role of multinational corporations in discouraging bribery. The final chapter summarizes and also discusses some of the other anticorruption initiatives that either have been or should be adopted by governments, multilateral development banks, and other international organizations.
Author |
: Robert Earl |
Publisher |
: Games Workshop(uk) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2006-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844163970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844163977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Corrupted by : Robert Earl
When rogue wizard Grendl flees the Empire, a disgraced wizard and a fanatical team of witch hunters are sent to track him down. But as hunters and hunted stray into the Northern Wastes, all bets are off as the corrupting touch of Chaos starts to affect them all. Original.
Author |
: David Stockman |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 768 |
Release |
: 2013-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781586489137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1586489135 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Deformation by : David Stockman
A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state -- especially the Federal Reserve -- has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These forces have left the public sector teetering on the edge of political dysfunction and fiscal collapse and have caused America's private enterprise foundation to morph into a speculative casino that swindles the masses and enriches the few. Defying right- and left-wing boxes, David Stockman provides a catalogue of corrupters and defenders of sound money, fiscal rectitude, and free markets. The former includes Franklin Roosevelt, who fathered crony capitalism; Richard Nixon, who destroyed national financial discipline and the Bretton Woods gold-backed dollar; Fed chairmen Greenspan and Bernanke, who fostered our present scourge of bubble finance and addiction to debt and speculation; George W. Bush, who repudiated fiscal rectitude and ballooned the warfare state via senseless wars; and Barack Obama, who revived failed Keynesian "borrow and spend" policies that have driven the national debt to perilous heights. By contrast, the book also traces a parade of statesmen who championed balanced budgets and financial market discipline including Carter Glass, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Simon, Paul Volcker, Bill Clinton, and Sheila Bair. Stockman's analysis skewers Keynesian spenders and GOP tax-cutters alike, showing how they converged to bloat the welfare state, perpetuate the military-industrial complex, and deplete the revenue base -- even as the Fed's massive money printing allowed politicians to enjoy "deficits without tears." But these policies have also fueled new financial bubbles and favored Wall Street with cheap money and rigged stock and bond markets, while crushing Main Street savers and punishing family budgets with soaring food and energy costs. The Great Deformation explains how we got here and why these warped, crony capitalist policies are an epochal threat to free market prosperity and American political democracy.
Author |
: Alfonso W. Quiroz |
Publisher |
: Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages |
: 556 |
Release |
: 2008-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801891280 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801891281 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corrupt Circles by : Alfonso W. Quiroz
The pervasiveness of corruption has been aided by the readiness of both Peruvians and the international community to turn a blind eye.