Category Archives: NEEB

Chart of the Day: Nebraska Book Holdings

According to Yahoo!Finance, “Nebraska Book Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in the college bookstore industry in North America. It sells used textbooks to college bookstore operators; buys them back from students or college bookstores at the end of college semester; and resells them to college bookstores.”

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The Study of Failure

"That failure, its threat and its occurrence, is endemic to social organization and social life is a truism about which both sociologists and laymen alike can concur. Yet, as a socially problematic phenomenon it is one to which sociologists themselves, as in the case of sport generally, have given relatively scant attention or consideration (Ball, Donald W. “Failure in Sport.” American Sociological Review, vol. 41, no. 4, 1976, pp. 726–739. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2094846.)."