Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.
Financial risk has become a focus of financial and nonfinancial firms, individuals, and policy makers. But the study of risk remains a relatively new discipline in finance and continues to be refined. The financial market crisis that began in 2007 has highlighted the challenges of managing financial risk. Now, in Financial Risk Management, author Allan Malz addresses the essential issues surrounding this discipline, sharing his extensive career experiences as a risk researcher, risk manager, and central banker. The book includes standard risk measurement models as well as alternative models that address options, structured credit risks, and the real-world complexities or risk modeling, and provides the institutional and historical background on financial innovation, liquidity, leverage, and financial crises that is crucial to practitioners and students of finance for understanding the world today. Financial Risk Management is equally suitable for firm risk managers, economists, and policy makers seeking grounding in the subject. This timely guide skillfully surveys the landscape of financial risk and the financial developments of recent decades that culminated in the crisis. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the different types of financial risk we face, as well as the techniques used to measure and manage them. Topics covered include: * Market risk, from Value-at-Risk (VaR) to risk models for options * Credit risk, from portfolio credit risk to structured credit products * Model risk and validation * Risk capital and stress testing * Liquidity risk, leverage, systemic risk, and the forms they take * Financial crises, historical and current, their causes and characteristics * Financial regulation and its evolution in the wake of the global crisis * And much more Combining the more model-oriented approach of risk management-as it has evolved over the past two decades-with an economist's approach to the same issues, Financial Risk Management is the essential guide to the subject for today's complex world.
In our modern world of smartphones, video games, wifi hotspots, and Netflix, it's hard to imagine that, less than eighty years ago, there were people in rural Arkansas who were still scratching a living off the land. What makes this book so very special and historically relevant is simple - This book was not written by some college professor who, with clinical indifference, made an extensive study into a bygone era and then wrote down his cold musings on life in those days. Instead, the author of this book relates his own experiences with humble honesty and wit-filled humor. His fond childhood recollections are framed by the wisdom of many years as he relates what life was like for himself and his family during the 1940's.
Expert advice on all aspects of breastfeeding, including how to begin, the importance of good positioning and how to avoid problems. Baby and you will be so well cared for with this engaging and helpful new guide to breastfeeding.
Loaded with full-color images from the films and printed on high-quality antique paper stock, this new Dan Coates easy piano songbook is a must-have for any fan. The book contains 11 major themes from the blockbuster trilogy. From The Fellowship of the Ring: The Prophecy * In Dreams * Concerning Hobbits * The Black Rider. From The Two Towers: Gollum's Song * Rohan * Evenstar * Forth Eorlingas. From The Return of the King: Into the West * The Steward of Gondor * Minas Tirith.
Pop Art erreichte in den 1960er-Jahren ihren Höhepunkt. Die Bewegung, die als Revolte gegen bürgerliche Haltungen zu Kunst und Kultur begonnen hatte, wollte ergründen, was eigentlich ein Kunstwerk ausmacht, und hinterfragte schließlich die gesamte moderne Gesellschaft mit ihrer Konsumkultur sowie die Rolle des Künstlers.
Die Themen der Pop-Art-Künstler waren Materialismus, Medien und Celebrity-Kult; sie schöpften aus Quellen des Massenmarktes, von Werbung und Comics über die Gesichter von Hollywoodstars bis hin zur Verpackung von Konsumprodukten - Letzteres sollte später in Form von Andy Warhols Campbell's-Suppendosen Kultstatus erlangen. Durch die Erhöhung solcher populärer, banaler und kitschiger Bilder forderte Pop Art das Establishment heraus. Durch den Einsatz moderner Vervielfältigungstechniken wie dem Siebdruckverfahren wurde zudem die Bedeutung des einzelnen Künstlers reduziert.
Dieses Buch stellt u. a. Werke von Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg und Roy Lichtenstein vor und untersucht daran Wirkung und Einfluss einer der bedeutendsten Bewegungen der Moderne.
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Seit der ersten Veröffentlichung im Jahre 1985 hat sich die Basic Art Series zur meistverkauften Kunstbuchreihe aller Zeiten entwickelt. Jeder Titel in TASCHENs Kleiner Reihe - Genre enthält:
eine ausführliche, illustrierte Einleitung
eine Auswahl der bedeutendsten Werke der Epoche, von denen jedes auf einer Doppelseite mit ganzseitiger Abbildung, Interpretation des jeweiligen Werks, Porträt und Kurzbiografie des Künstlers vorgestellt wird
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Mexican American Baseball in the San Gabriel Valley puts on record the resounding and brilliant history of baseball and softball in this vibrant and colorful region. Since the early 1900s, baseball and softball have brought boundless joy and immense honor to their fans, families, and neighborhoods. The rich memories of baseball and softball serve as critical prisms to better understand community history; the struggle for social, educational, and cultural equality; the untold contributions of women; the critical role of immigration and labor movements; economic autonomy; political self-determination; and an unmatched love for sports. These breathtaking images and extraordinary stories shed unparalleled light on baseball and softball in this celebrated area of California.
Este gigantesco maraton sexual es un proceso de aprendizaje, de conocimiento, en el que Bukowski no escatima sarcasticas observaciones de si mismo, y en el que el machismo de textos anteriores queda seriamente erosionado; todo ello unido a incontables borracheras. Bukowski parace sugerir que las alternativas - una carrera mas respetable, literaria o la que fuese - son aun mas deshumanizadas.
Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West), Jan Morris has been dazzling readers since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved ninety-two-year-old, author of classics such as Venice and Trieste, embarks on an entirely new literary enterprise-a collection of daily diaries, penned over the course of a single year. Ranging widely from the idyllic confines of her North Wales home, Morris offers diverse sallies on her preferred form of exercises (walking briskly), her frustration at not recognizing a certain melody humming in her head (Beethoven's Pathetique, incidentally), her nostalgia for small-town America, as well as intimate glimpses into her home life.
With insightful quips on world issues, including Britain's "special relationship" with the United States and the #MeToo movement, In My Mind's Eye will charm old and new Jan Morris fans alike.
You Are Living in a New Era History's greatest Renaissance--a spiritual one--is now unfolding. In his first two "Seven Mountain" books, The Seven Mountain Prophecy and The Seven Mountain Mantle, Johnny Enlow showed how Christians are called to manifest the kingdom of God in the seven primary spheres of society: religion, education, family, government, economy, media, and celebration/arts. Now, he reveals the sweeping changes he expects to take place over the next several decades in each of these spheres as he unveils his vision and strategy through 2050. We have entered an "Era of Renaissance" that will not be complete until the nature and character of the invisible God are made visible in the world through the influence of His ambassadorial children. The first Renaissance in history showcased the achievements of man, but this new Renaissance will display the brilliance and works of God for the whole world to see. By 2050, an on-fire, loving church with a hope-filled worldview will be globally advancing, walking in unprecedented signs and wonders and supernatural manifestations of power. Many nations on earth will walk in a high level of national transformation. What is your part in this new Renaissance? Which Mountain is your primary realm of influence? As this extraordinary Renaissance progresses, you will carry God's life-changing truth and light to transform the world. There will be such an increase in the knowledge of God and His ways that life on earth will be changed forever.
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The Anxious Truth is a step-by-step guide to understanding and overcoming the anxiety problems that have plagued you for so long. At 70,000 words and 450 printed pages, the Anxious Truth goes well beyond just telling you that you can be OK. It actually tells you exactly how to do it!
You're anxious all the time, experiencing panic attacks over and over, and maybe afraid to leave your house or to be left alone for even a few minutes.. You are avoiding simple things like driving, eating in restaurants, attending family functions, or going to the supermarket. You are terrified of the next wave of anxiety or the next panic attack. Your anxiety problems are ruining your relationships, your family life, and your career.
Your anxiety problems have you afraid, confused, lost, and feeling hopeless. How did you get here? What went wrong? You've tried so many things, but nothing has cured your anxiety? What can you do now?
This book, written by a former anxiety sufferer, best-selling author of "An Anxiety Story", and host of The Anxious Truth podcast will walk you through exactly how you got to where you are today, why you are not broken or ill, and what the true nature of your anxiety disorder is. Next, the book will walk you through what it takes to solve your anxiety problems, how to make an anxiety recovery plan, then how to correctly execute that plan.
The Anxious Truth isn't always what you want to hear, but it's what you NEED to hear in order to solve this problem once and for all and move toward the life you so desperately want. Based firmly on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapies that have been shown over decades to be most effective in treating anxiety problems, the Anxious Truth will teach you how to move past your anxiety symptoms, past endless digging for hidden "root causes", and into an action-oriented plan that will help your brain un-learn the bad reaction and fear habits that have gotten you into this predicament. The Anxious Truth will take the cognitive mechanism that got you into a corner, throw it in reverse, and use it to your advantage, backing you out of this jam and into a life free from irrational fear and needless avoidance.
More than just a book, The Anxious Truth goes hand-in-hand with The Anxious Truth podcast (https: //theanxioustruth.com) and the growing and vibrant social media community surrounding it. Read the book, listen to five years worth of free podcasts chock full of helpful advice and information, and join a large online community of fellow anxiety sufferers that are done talking about this problem and ready to actually take action to solve it.
Change is possible. No matter how long you've suffered with your anxiety issues, you can get better. The Anxious Truth will tell you what you need to hear and will arm you with the information, understanding, and skills you need to get the job done.
"Think Finance" from theory to practice, and study core modern financial principles to improve your decision-making skills. Corporate Finance, 5th Edition by top researchers Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo is an industry-leading text that blends coverage of time-tested principles and latest advancements with the practical perspective of the financial manager.
A textbook ideal for MBA and graduate students taking a course in corporate finance, it uses the valuation framework based on the Law of One Price, and gives you the opportunity to "practice finance to learn finance", by solving quantitative business problems like those faced by today's professionals.
The book presents a set of simplified features and learning aids to help you master the jargon and understand practical Finance applications.
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With built-in resources and worked examples to help you master the core concepts, this leading textbook will help you develop the tools you need to solve problems like a modern practitioner and make effective financial decisions in your career.
For a streamlined book specifically tailored to the topics covered in the first one-semester course, Corporate Finance: The Core, 5th Edition is also available by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo.
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The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now an award-winning documentary film.
'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' Andrew Solomon, The Times What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - with autism is thinking and feeling?
This groundbreaking book, written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirteen, provides some answers. Severely autistic and non-verbal, Naoki learnt to communicate by using a 'cardboard keyboard' - and what he has to say gives a rare insight into an autistically-wired mind. He explains behaviour he's aware can be baffling such as why he likes to jump and why some people with autism dislike being touched; he describes how he perceives and navigates the world, sharing his thoughts and feelings about time, life, beauty and nature; and he offers an unforgettable short story. Proving that people with autism do not lack imagination, humour or empathy, THE REASON I JUMP made a major impact on its publication in English. Widely praised, it was an immediate No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller as well as a New York Times bestseller and has since been published in over thirty languages. In 2020, a documentary film based on the book received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Jerry Rothwell, produced by Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee and Al Morrow, and funded by Vulcan Productions and the British Film Institute, it won the festival's Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary, then further awards at the Vancouver, Denver and Valladolid International Film Festivals before its global release in 2021. The book includes eleven original illustrations inspired by Naoki's words, by the artistic duo Kai and Sunny.
'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox
'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari
Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.
Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
