Largo Winch - Volume 2 - Takeover Bid

Author: Jean Van Hamme
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849189250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
A veritable secret war for power takes place behind the scenes in big financial groups. One of the most common methods of attack is the takeover bid: A would-be buyer offers to acquire all available shares of a rival at a determined price in order to control it. The W group is attacked by FENICO, a business conglomerate. As if this were not enough, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service also takes on Largo Winch. Will he lose his entire fortune? This two-volume book includes “Business Blues”.

Largo Winch - Volume 9 - The Price of Money

Author: Philippe Francq
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186340
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
A man shoots himself in front of Largo, live on TV. He was a guest on a financial talk show who had lost his company because of a Group W decision. Shocked by the knowledge that he is indirectly responsible, Winch becomes an object of hatred for the nation, and his two best friends abandon him. When suspicions arise that shady dealings led to unnecessary restructurings, he launches an investigation to identify the real culprits.

Largo Winch - Volume 10 - The Law of the Dollar

Author: Philippe Francq
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186359
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
Accused of murder and hated by an entire nation, Largo is hiding in Canada and feeling very much alone. But his friendships are stronger than his circumstances, and soon he’s able to counterattack against the various factions that are trying to bring him down. Greedy lawyers, crooked CEOs, murderous accountants, all pitted against the orphan turned billionaire... In the end, only the smartest and strongest will prevail—for such is the Law of the Dollar.

Family Entrepreneurship

Author: Matt R. Allen
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030668460
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This book provides recent ideas, insights, facts, evidence, frameworks, and perspectives on how and why entrepreneurial families are successful over generations. The book focuses on how families successfully implement entrepreneurship across generations. That success, it argues, requires entrepreneurship at the level of the family, not only in the businesses the family owns and manages. Written by noted academics and consultants who are authorities on family entrepreneurship, the chapters provide a comprehensive exploration of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurial families, their motivations, how they behave over time, and, suggestions for how business families can encourage and sustain entrepreneurship. This comprehensive look at family entrepreneurship will serve as a fundamental reference text for family business consultants, owners, and scholars.

Otto Porfiri: Drama on the Cliff

Author: Franco Saudelli
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
ISBN: 9781569716267
Category : Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Portly and good-natured, Otto Porfiri may not look the part of a hard-as-nails private eye, but don't be fooled. He may abhor violence, but when circumstances require a little mayhem, Porfiri rises to the occasion, in spades! As relentless as he is rotund, Porfiri is often drawn into the scandalous world of the decadent rich, a hidden landscape of sex, drugs, blackmail...and murder! Created by Franco Saudelli, reknowned internationally for his intricate and often highly erotic work, Otto Porfiri: Drama on the Cliff is another eye-opening Venture graphic album.

The Heir

Author: Hamme (van)
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
ISBN: 9781905460489
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Largo Winczlav, born in Yugoslavia, is an orphan. Thousands of miles away from his native town, one of the richest men in the world will change his destiny. He has the same name as him, only slightly different: Winch. This man, Nerio Winch, wants to find an heir to his empire. He adopts Largo and, when Nerio disappears in dramatic circumstances, Largo inherits the biggest conglomerate of multinationals ever owned and managed by a single man. He is now worth 10 billion dollars, which is not to everybody's taste...

John Lord

Author: Denis-Pierre Filippi
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594653267
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
An old-fashioned yet truly original noir tale set in 1920s New York where an unlikely pair of detectives pursue a mysterious killer.

The Dialectics of Citizenship

Author: Bernd Reiter
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628951621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter’s timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in search of answers. It examines the European medieval city republics, revolutionary France, and contemporary Brazil, Portugal, and Colombia. Through an innovative exploration of country cases, this study demonstrates that those who stand to lose something from true democracy tend to oppose it, making the genealogy of citizenship concurrent with that of exclusion. More often than not, exclusion leads to racialization, stigmatizing the excluded to justify their non-membership. Each case allows for different insights into the process of how citizenship is upheld and challenged. Together, the cases reveal how exclusive rights are constituted by contrasting members to non-members who in that very process become racialized others. The book provides an opportunity to understand the dynamics that weaken democracy so that they can be successfully addressed and overcome in the future.

The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018

Author: Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476636559
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist Otis Rush. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2018 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.