Analyzes accounting practices that led to scandals at such companies as Enron and WorldCom, profiling the American bull market that began in 1982 and tracing the events and deceptions that culminated in misleading Wall Street quarterly reports. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.[...]
Victor Gruen (1903-1980) is the commercial architect who became renowned in the 1950s America as the "pioneer of shopping center", then by his urban redevelopement projects as the "saviour of the downtowns", and by the mid-1960s as the "architect of environment". This book will focus on Gruen's theo[...]