Charles Powers Editor (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 214 pp., xvi. NO printing or number line provided: presumed First Printing. Contents divided into 4 Parts and 10 Essays: : Part I: CORPORATIONS, THEIR SHAREHOLDERS, AND THE COMMONWEAL: PROGLEGOMENA TO A QUESTION OF INVESTOR CRITERIA [1] Robert S. Potter, "Investment Responsibilities of Boards Concerned About Human Welfare: A Response to the Threshold Objections to the Notion of Social Investment"; [2] "a collage of views": "Does Corporate Responsibility Need the Shareholder?"; [3] "comments by and discussion with two commissioners, one new and one recently retired": A Perspective from the Securities and Exchange Commission"; Part II: THE SEARCH FOR INVESTMENT CRITERIA [4] Charles W. Powers, "Case Studies in the Pursuit of Ethical Criteria for Social Investment Activity"; [5] "a discussion": "Intuitive Integrity? Criteria? or Both?"; [6] "Once Around the Room on a Corporate Contributions Proposal"; Part III: INVESTOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE [7] Jack N. Behrman, "Social Investment Issues Raised by Foreign Operations of Multinational Enterprises"; [8] "a discussion transcript": "The Roots of the Legitimacy of the Multinational Enterprise and Its Shareholders"; [9] "a discussion transcript": "The Case of gulf Oil and Angola: A Manager, His Critics, and His Supporters"; [10] Jon P. Gunnemann, "Convergence Around Corporate Disclosure"; Part IV "A Statement of Ethical Guidelines for Social Investment Policy"; Appendix: Texts of stockholder proposals found in the Powers paper ; Index, pp. 209-214. Glossy black wrappers with two rows of "gingerbread men"-cutouts from stock market newspaper page superimposed over black background, with Title lettering in red letters and Subtitle in smaller white letters superimposed on an upward diagonal across middle front cover. 1/4" x 1/2" light stain at mid-point inside front cover (NO corresponding stain on front cover); micro-wear across spine ends and at lower cover corners only (else square: NO bumps or curls); p.7/8 once dogeared (now flat): describes much worse than it is, but there you have it. Essentially As New: Tight binding (NO creases); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Unusually fine condition for a Paperback more than 50 years old. The way to read an Ethical Investing Classic still relevant to current discussion. Solid Copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Powers, Richard (illustrator). First Edition. 1st edition, July 1959. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Cover by Richard Powers. Reading crease, light edgewear else a near fine copy. Masochism and Sadism / seething with hatred / driven by desire / blind with jealousy / ridden by fear. Driven by forces stronger than themselves they find fulfillment in the climax of violence. Here are their stories--twelve electryfing experiences probed by some of the finest writers of our time--twelve revelations that strip bare the dark reaches of human passion. Includes : William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Robert M. Coates, Flannery O'Connor, Paul bowles, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Beaumont, Shirley Ann Grau, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Moore, Villiers De I'Isle-Adam and Ellis St. Joseph. Paperback Original.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Richard Powers (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) 1962 Ballantine F 680 in Fine, unread condition. Only book publication and a little uncommon in condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 293 pages. 9.25x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3 volumes bound together in pictorial hardcovers, approximately 120 pages, oversized, photos, these 3 volumes were published separately as they happened. The DIvision at Camp Pendleton, on Iwo Jima and on Occupation duty in Japan at the end of the War. This is a SCARCE USMC WWII IWO JIMA item !!!!