Praise for Rocking Wall Street". . . the only four investment strategies you will ever need. . . I dare anyone to read this book and not wake up to the realities of Wall Street, and change their investing habits on the spot."—Steve Trager Watson Retired CEO and CIO of the hedge fund Watson Investment Partners, LP"A true Renaissance man and teacher, Gary Marks adeptly explores four investment strategies that can achieve strong results and pea...

European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the suprantional level of the European Union, so national governments have given subnational regions within countries more say over the lives of their citizens. At the forefront of scholars who characterize this dual process as Omulti-level governance,OLiesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks argue that its emergence in the...

The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the “crisis” of socialism. Is socialism in ideological, electoral, or organizational decline? Is the decline inevitable or can socialism be revitalized? This volume draws together historians and political scientists of Eastern and Western European politics to address these questions.The collection begins with...

Why do international organizations (IOs) look so different, yet so similar? The possibilities are diverse. Some international organizations have just a few member states, while others span the globe. Some are targeted at a specific problem, while others have policy portfolios as broad as national states. Some are run almost entirely by their member states, while others have independent courts, secretariats, and parliaments. Variation among international organizations appears as wide as tha...

This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. The book argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the preferences that people have regarding self-government. The first has to do with the character of the pub...

This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. This book sets out a measure of authority for seventy-six international organizations (IOs) from 1950, or the time of their establishment, to 2010 which can allow researchers to test expectations about the character, sources, and consequences of international...

In 1988 Gary wrote forty-seven poems in forty-seven days. He has not written anything since. His poems capture many aspects of human lifethose things we strive for in ourselves and which we seek to find in others. The poems contained in this book are quite reflective and wanting at times. They are honest and confronting. They speak from the heart and to the heart of those who read them. Despite the darkness of places we have been, there is a common thread that binds all, uniting us in frie...

Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this has changed over time.This book measures and explains the formal authority of intermediate or regional government in 42 advanced democracies, including the 27 EU member states. It tracks regional authority on an annual basis from 1950 to 2006. The measure reveals wide variation both cross-sectionally and over...

(Newly proofread)This book is a futuristic sci-fi adventure filled with action and romance and fully illustrated in Kindle form with over 50 original drawings. The second book "Nomads, The Fallen God" is now available on this site, the third part of the trilogy will be finished soon.A planetary romance set on the savage world of Gorn, an Outer Rim world that is inhabited by genetically altered humans known to the outside worlds as Nomads, possessed with an ability to know w...

RagnarokA short collection of fifteen short poems about ancient lands and heroic warriors battling monsters and fair maidens, it is a sequel to my two other fantasy adventure books on Smashwords, The Golden Hall and Asgard, the two top rated poetry books, if you like mythology, heroic adventure and just plain fun I think you will like what I have to offer.

Salem Strom a confederate captain during the civil war returns home only to be branded and killed by his father who blames him for losing the war but he is brought back to life by Old Ben a slave on his father plantation and who Strom looked upon as a second father, little did he know that Ben was steeped in the dark arts and voodoo and using his power he raised him from death and now Salem wanders the earth seeking out the old man to lift his curse for even though he can feel pain and suf...

The Fallen God is the secound book in my Nomads of Gorn three part trilogy, it continues the travels of the Almadra started in my first book "Nomads of the Gods" Arn, Andra, Osh and the rest of the tribe travel to the forests of Caltarine, there they meet the Norgonie, the people of the forest who's Queen Arn knows well, but unknown to them an ancient mechanical menace has come to Gron and it has the power to destroy them all.The book also brings back the hate filled Shadowman, bro...