Transaction

Author : Guglielmo D'Izzia
Publisher : Essential Prose Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Sicily (Italy)
ISBN : 1771834544

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The Transaction by Guglielmo D'Izzia Pdf

"Told in a cinematic, darkly humorous, present tense, The Transaction leads De Angelis to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a straightforward real estate deal. While en route, however, the train he is on breaks down. Unable to reach his local go-between, he must spend the night in a squalid whistle stop. What follows is a tangled series of unsettling events, involving child prostitution and brazen killings, that thrust him at the centre of a murky mafia plot. Alone in a hostile village, he stumbles into a cast of despicable characters intent on preventing the ill-fated property from being sold. But De Angelis refuses to leave town. As he erratically obsesses on piecing together what went wrong with his transaction, he crosses path with Marinella, an alluring eleven-year-old girl with luscious chestnut hip-long hair, softly cascading along slender contours. The inciting chance encounter traps him in a psychological and moral cul-de-sac that leaves him with no choice but to confront the type of man he really is."--

Author : Nicholas Lemann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780374713782

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Transaction Man by Nicholas Lemann Pdf

An Amazon Best History Book of 2019 "A splendid and beautifully written illustration of the tremendous importance public policy has for the daily lives of ordinary people." —Ryan Cooper, Washington Monthly Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all this come about? In Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explains the United States’—and the world’s—great transformation by examining three remarkable individuals who epitomized and helped create their eras. Adolf Berle, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s chief theorist of the economy, imagined a society dominated by large corporations, which a newly powerful federal government had forced to become benign and stable institutions, contributing to the public good by offering stable employment and generous pensions. By the 1970s, the corporations’ large stockholders grew restive under this regime, and their chief theoretician, Harvard Business School’s Michael Jensen, insisted that firms should maximize shareholder value, whatever the consequences. Today, Silicon Valley titans such as the LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman hope “networks” can reknit our social fabric. Lemann interweaves these fresh and vivid profiles with a history of the Morgan Stanley investment bank from the 1930s through the financial crisis of 2008, while also tracking the rise and fall of a working-class Chicago neighborhood and the family-run car dealerships at its heart. Incisive and sweeping, Transaction Man is the definitive account of the reengineering of America and the enormous impact it has had on us all.

Author : Paul M. Perell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Land titles
ISBN : 0888045492

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Lectures in Real Estate Transactions by Paul M. Perell Pdf

Author : Jim Gray,Andreas Reuter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780080519555

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Transaction Processing by Jim Gray,Andreas Reuter Pdf

The key to client/server computing. Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields of databases and operating systems and are used to monitor, control and update information in modern computer systems. This book will show you how large, distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably. Using transactions as a unifying conceptual framework, the authors show how to build high-performance distributed systems and high-availability applications with finite budgets and risk. The authors provide detailed explanations of why various problems occur as well as practical, usable techniques for their solution. Throughout the book, examples and techniques are drawn from the most successful commercial and research systems. Extensive use of compilable C code fragments demonstrates the many transaction processing algorithms presented in the book. The book will be valuable to anyone interested in implementing distributed systems or client/server architectures.

Author : Peter Benson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674237599

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Justice in Transactions by Peter Benson Pdf

Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson takes another approach. He argues that contract is best explained as a transfer of rights governed by a conception of justice. The result is a comprehensive theory of contract law congruent with Rawlsian liberalism.

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351502061

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On Measuring Democracy by Herman Kahn Pdf

First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Duncan Cornell Card
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0779898095

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Information Technology Transactions by Duncan Cornell Card Pdf

Author : Zhong-Yuan Zhang,Jianguo Liu,Xiao Fan Liu,Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889767991

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Cryptocurrency Transaction Analysis From a Network Perspective by Zhong-Yuan Zhang,Jianguo Liu,Xiao Fan Liu,Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora Pdf

Author : Vijay Atluri,Pierangela Samarati
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461544616

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Security of Data and Transaction Processing by Vijay Atluri,Pierangela Samarati Pdf

Security of Data and Transaction Processing brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Security of Data and Transaction Processing serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Author : Mitu Gulati,Robert E. Scott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226924380

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The Three and a Half Minute Transaction by Mitu Gulati,Robert E. Scott Pdf

"Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu clause in cross-border sovereign debt contracts, when a Belgian court's novel judicial interpretation in Elliott Associates v. Peru rattled international finance by forcing a defaulting sovereign - for one of the first times in the market's centuries-long history - to repay its foreign creditors despite their refusal to enter into a restructuring agreement. Though neither party wanted this outcome, the vast majority of contracts subsequently issued demonstrate virtually no attempt to clarify the imprecise language of the clause. Using this case as a launching pad to explore the broader issue of 'stickiness' of contract boilerplate, Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott have sifted through more than one thousand sovereign debt contracts - dating back to the nineteenth century - and interviewed hundreds of practitioners to show that the problem actually lies in the nature of the modern corporate law firm. The financial pressure on large firms to maintain a high volume of transactions contributes to an array of problems that deter innovation and that are largely hidden from the individual lawyer tasked with drafting contracts. With the near certainty of massive sovereign debt structuring in Europe, The Three and a Half Minute Transaction speaks to critical issues facing the industry and has broader implications for contract design that will ensure it remains relevant to our understanding of legal practice long after the debt crisis has subsided"--Unedited summary from book jacket.

Author : Barry N. Malzberg
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575102477

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The Last Transaction by Barry N. Malzberg Pdf

The Last Transaction is a deep and fascinating glimpse into the memories, inner compulsions, torments, triumphs, and events in the life of a President of the United States in a world gone mad, from 1980 to 1985. Even more, it is a perceptive vision of the major issues our society will face tomorrow. Sure to be a controversial, possibly prophetic, like anything Barry Malzberg writes, this novel is an experience you will not forget.

Author : Frank K. Salter
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734029

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Risky Transactions by Frank K. Salter Pdf

Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these types of trust is examined by a leading scholar and compared with the expectations of neo-Darwinian theory, in particular the theories of kin selection and ethnic nepotism. The result is a fascinating, theoretically focused yet empirically eclectic contribution to the overlapping fields of human ethnology, evolutionary psychology, and bio-politics. The common thread uniting these diverse phenomena is a trusting relationship predicated on altruism. Chapters examine the strengths and limits of human trust under various stressers and temptations to defect. By exploring the relationship between kin and ethnic altruism and showing its sensitivity to culture, Risky Transactions recasts the evolutionary approach to ethnicity as a blend of primordial and instrumental factors.

Author : Aaron X. Fellmeth
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839107429

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Introduction to International Business Transactions by Aaron X. Fellmeth Pdf

This innovative textbook introduces the legal concepts, regimes and actors that regulate international business transactions. The book guides readers through the major aspects of international business law using state-of-the-art teaching techniques and offers comprehensive coverage on key treaties, legal aspects of international commerce and the regulation of global trade and investment.

Author : Philip A. Bernstein,Eric Newcomer
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780080948416

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Principles of Transaction Processing by Philip A. Bernstein,Eric Newcomer Pdf

Principles of Transaction Processing is a comprehensive guide to developing applications, designing systems, and evaluating engineering products. The book provides detailed discussions of the internal workings of transaction processing systems, and it discusses how these systems work and how best to utilize them. It covers the architecture of Web Application Servers and transactional communication paradigms.The book is divided into 11 chapters, which cover the following: Overview of transaction processing application and system structureSoftware abstractions found in transaction processing systemsArchitecture of multitier applications and the functions of transactional middleware and database serversQueued transaction processing and its internals, with IBM's Websphere MQ and Oracle's Stream AQ as examplesBusiness process management and its mechanismsDescription of the two-phase locking function, B-tree locking and multigranularity locking used in SQL database systems and nested transaction lockingSystem recovery and its failuresTwo-phase commit protocolComparison between the tradeoffs of replicating servers versus replication resourcesTransactional middleware products and standardsFuture trends, such as cloud computing platforms, composing scalable systems using distributed computing components, the use of flash storage to replace disks and data streams from sensor devices as a source of transaction requests. The text meets the needs of systems professionals, such as IT application programmers who construct TP applications, application analysts, and product developers. The book will also be invaluable to students and novices in application programming. Complete revision of the classic "non mathematical" transaction processing reference for systems professionals Updated to focus on the needs of transaction processing via the Internet-- the main focus of business data processing investments, via web application servers, SOA, and important new TP standards Retains the practical, non-mathematical, but thorough conceptual basis of the first edition

Author : Philip M. Lewis,Arthur J. Bernstein,Michael Kifer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Database management
ISBN : 0321210239

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Databases and Transaction Processing by Philip M. Lewis,Arthur J. Bernstein,Michael Kifer Pdf

This is a great book! This is the book I wish I had written. --Jim Gray, Microsoft Research, recipient of 1998 A.M. Turing Award for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing researchDatabases and Transaction Processing provides a complete and clear explanation of the conceptual and engineering principles underlying the design and implementation of database and transaction processing applications. Rather than focusing on how to implement the database management system itself, this text focuses on how to build database applications. To provide a solid foundation for these principles, the book thoroughly covers the theory underlying relational databases and relational query languages.To illustrate both database and transaction processing concepts, a case study is carried throughout the book. The technical aspects of each chapter applied to the case study and the software engineering concepts required to implement the case study are discussed.In addition to the more traditional material -- relational databases, SQL, and the ACID properties of transactions -- the book provides in-depth coverage of the most current topics in database and transaction processing tec