Published Indexes
Short List Sampling
Filter by genre:
Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork (The Metropolis and Modern Life) 1st Edition
The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key aspects of ethnographic research, Ethnography and the City will expose readers to important works in the field, while also guiding students to the study of method as they embark on their own work.
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices
A collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments in the field as well focuses on practicing cultural studies with essays devoted to Italian hip hop culture, postcolonial Italy and queer diaspora, Occidentalism in Japan, Italian racism and colonialism.
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times
During his career at the New York Times, Harrison Salisbury served as the bureau chief in post-World War II Moscow, reported from Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and in retirement he witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre firsthand. Davis and Trani's engaging biography of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist makes use of Salisbury's personal archive of interviews, articles, and correspondence to shed light on the personal triumphs and shortcomings of this preeminent reporter and illuminates the twentieth-century world in which he lived.
China and East Asia's Post-Crises Community
A Region in Flux 1st Edition
China and East Asia's Post-Crises Community: A Region in Flux, by Wei Liang and Faizullah Khilji, explores how an East Asian community is taking shape as a result of China's emergence as a global economic power and the shocks of the financial crises emanating from the globalized financial system. Today's East Asia shows a sharp break from the East Asia of the Cold War era, in both basis and orientation. Important elements in this shift include the regional economic integration propelled by China's emergence as a processed manufacturing center in the world economy, the common problems posed by the working of the dollar-based international financial system, and the desire to develop institutions that help to formalize the economic integration and financial cooperation that is taking place, and may thus help protect and safeguard economic prosperity in the region. Liang and Khilji show how the approach to regional economic cooperation and developing institutions comes from the bottom up, lacking any leader nation, grand vision, or ideology. The manner in which the region comes to work together also has implications for the governance of the world economy, in particular the economic model that underlies policy formulation, the working of the international financial system, and the approach to the multilateral trading system.From a security oriented US-centric regional structure characterized as the hub and spokes system set up after the Second World War, this region is now more nearly an informal economic community, which increasingly appears to be China-centric. China and East Asia's Post Crises Community presents one of the first attempts to weave together different strands of the current discussion to develop a framework for understanding a rapidly evolving East Asia region.
Dollars and common Sense - Investing for success in the tumultuous 21st century
Dollars and Common Sense provides an unusually clear blueprint for managing your own money, with or without a financial professional. Although the Financial Panic of 2008 changed the rules for investing, most of us failed to change our investing behavior. This illustrated book shows you how our modern financial system functions today, and how to make it work to your benefit. The tools you need to step out on the path to financial freedom are right here.
Development and Migration in America and Beyond: The Economic Life of American Jewry (Economic Structure and Growth of Euro-American Jewry) 1st Edition
Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets, famous as the founder of modern empirical economics, pioneered the quantitative study of the economic history of the Jews. Yet until now his most important work on the subject was unpublished. These volumes bring to the public, for the first time, the most important work written on Jewish economic history since that of Werner Sombart a century ago.
In the first volume, Kuznets uses extensive, original data to trace trends in the economic life of American Jews. He measures quantitatively for the first time the legendary economic success of American Jews and discusses the foundations of these achievements. Tracing their distinctive concentration in the professions, he exposes the causes of the extreme inequalities in American Jewish economic life. The immigrant origin of nearly all American Jews offers a unique case study in the process of assimilation that made American Jewry the ultimate American success story. This offers an ideal prelude to the second forthcoming volume, Comparative Perspectives on Jewish Migration.
The volume's editors also provide a unique perspective on Kuznets' work. In the introduction, Weyl shows that many of Kuznets' most influential ideas, were inspired by his study of the economic history of the Jews. Through careful analysis of shared themes, and dozens of hours of detailed interviews, Lo and Weyl reveal a new dimension of Kuznets' thought to historical inquiry.
Securing Your Financial Future
Complete Personal Finance for Beginners
When it comes to personal finance, the rules may have changed, but the time-tested principles of sound personal financial management haven't. Those starting out on their paths to financial security just need to learn them better and apply them earlier than ever before - ideally, right from the start.
Previous generations have had some help in achieving financial security that young people can't count on today: generous employer pensions, steady housing price increases, and a well-funded Social Security program, to name a few. In short, the old "muddle through" approach won't cut it anymore - not even close. A steady income is still a must, but parlaying this into long-term financial security is now an entirely different proposition than ever before. The institutions of the past can no longer be relied upon to handle the process; each person now needs to manage the long-term financial planning and decision making on their own.
Fortunately, though, anyone just starting out can still achieve a very strong financial future from almost any income level - but only by doing the right things to make it happen. Those things aren't particularly hard to understand or to do, but it is important to do them right, to do them consistently, and to do them in the right order. Most importantly, if you get an early start, the risks are minimal and the payoff is substantial. But each year that passes, the risks go up and the payoff goes down. If you have just started out in your financial life, or if you are just about to, and you want a complete and practical education in the fundamentals of personal finance for a secure future, then this book is for you. Chris Smith guides readers through the basics of saving, investing, and financial planning in language that is clear, accessible, and lively, making difficult concepts understandable to the novice, and enjoyable to those who already have some understanding. He shows readers how to apply this knowledge, and to avoid the most common pitfalls, to insure the best possible outcome for long-term financial security.
10 Ways Anyone Can Graduate from College Debt Free
A Guide to Post-College Freedom
founder of mydebtfreecollege.com, kevin y. brown, author of 10 ways anyone can graduate from college debt-free: a guide to post graduate freedom reflects back on his college experience . . . "if i have to take out a loan for college, i?m dropping out!" is what he said to his dormitory hall director, a few days in to college. with zero knowledge of the college, financing system kevin took it upon himself to be proactive and take control of his college finances. upon graduation, kevin proved to have kept his promise to himself and today he is free of any college debt.
With approximately 37 million student loan borrowers having outstanding student loans and people in the 18 to 24--age bracket spending nearly 30% of their monthly income on student loan debt repayment there is a need for a guide to help students navigate the financial aspects of college life and avoid the pitfalls of student loans and related college debt.
Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier in 10 Days
Take Charge of Your Health with the Master Cleanse
The author is uniquely qualified to write this book (the first new book on the Master Cleanse in nearly 30 years). He put up the first Master Cleanse forum on the Internet in 2003, which has grown to more than 33,000 members; has personally done the Master Cleanse more than 18 times from 10 to 28 days; has coached thousands of people on the Master Cleanse; and has been interviewed for NBC's Today Show, CBS National Sunday News, The New York Times, The London Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Us Magazine. This book has been translated into Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish, Korean and Croatian!
The Princess Plan
Shrink your waist. Expand your beauty.
The only weight loss book for women written by a physician who has conquered obesity! Jump start your success in just one weekend with scientific beauty tips to help you look your best while making small changes to feel your best. Learn the secrets to maximize the relationship between weight and hormone cycles, sleep, stress and sex. Get answers to your most intimate questions that only a doctor who has been there can answer! You are just pages away from turning frumpy into fabulous! Ready for refined weight loss and redefined success? Welcome, Princess!
Making sense of a disease that doesn't make sense
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) derailed her life! Lauri L. Wolf's insightful memoir chronicles the game changing physical, emotional, and social challenges of her twenty-year experience with this progressive neurological disease. The book speaks to readers on two levels--personal and professional--and honestly examines the impacts on her body, mind, parenting, and attitude in living with a debilitating illness. Wolf's candor, humor, and scientific knowledge make The BS of my MS a valuable guide for trying to cope with the ravages of a disabling condition.
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Advice from a Gynecologist on Your Choices Before, During, and After Surgery
In this new, updated version of the groundbreaking book, gynecologist and leading women's health expert Dr. Lauren Streicher--who in a direct, clear, and often humorous way--reveals the following: What your doctor isn't telling you; robotic hysterectomy and why it is becoming so popular; new nonsurgical ways to control heavy bleeding; the latest on hormone therapy, including bioidentical hormones; how to decrease your risk of uterine or ovarian cancer without removing your uterus or ovaries; new methods for treating fibroids; and a comprehensive guide to websites and resources.
If you'd like to know what some of history's greatest thinkers and achievers can teach you about awakening your inner genius, and how to find, follow, and fulfill your journey to greatness, then you want to read this book today. You can score in the highest ranges of IQ...and fail to succeed in life. You can work incredibly hard...and never realize your dreams.
You can stumble across beautiful opportunities...only to watch them wither and die. There's something else-something considered unfathomable by many-that lies behind greatness. And in Awakening Your Inner Genius, you're going to be taken on an adventure to discover what that is, and how you can use it to transform your life.
Vladimir Jankélévitch and the Question of Forgiveness
The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankélévitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of moral philosophy in relation to his work as a whole, his relationship to contemporary French thought, and the backgrounds of classical Judaic tradition and world literature. The centerpiece of this tableau is Jankélévitch's book Le Pardon (Forgiveness).
Chief among the distinguishing characteristics is its rigorous defense of what might be termed a forgiveness free of the entanglements that taint the common understanding of forgiveness--what Jankélévitch refers to as pseudo-forgiveness. The advocacy of forgiveness in the name of political or social expediency, as well as the psychological benefit for the victim, are similarly repudiated.
In their place, Jankélévitch substitutes a radical forgiveness that is "initial, sudden, spontaneous" . . . not able to erase the past, but able to create a new future and, thereby, a new relationship to the past. He does not permit even this future, however, to serve as forgiveness's justification. For him, beyond all justifications, beyond justice itself, forgiveness is a gift akin to love.
Rétif de la Bretonne, Sexuality, and Pornography
Bad Books reconstructs how the eighteenth-century French author Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne and his writings were at the forefront of the development of modern conceptions of sexuality and pornography. Although certain details are well known (for example, that Rétif's 1769 treatise on prostitution, Le Pornographe, is the work from which the term pornography is derived, or that he was an avid foot and shoe fetishist), much of this story has been obscured and even forgotten including how the author actively worked to define the category of obscenity and the modern pornographic genre, and how he coined the psycho-sexual term "fetish" and played a central role in the formation of theories of sexual fetishism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus this book is also about literary history and how it is written: it explores how Rétif, perceived as a bad author in both senses of the term, and his contributions were glossed over or condemned, such that the originality of his texts has still not been fully established.
Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change
With the global economy in a precarious position, nurturing new entrepreneurial high-technology firms is likely to comprise a key component of any policy to encourage economic growth, both in developed and developing countries. Recent high-technology ventures -- such as retailing in the music industry -- have shown how entrepreneurs can radically change, or even replace, the structure of existing industries.
High-Technology Entrepreneurship introduces and analyzes all the major aspects of high-technology small-firm formation and growth. Locational and functional aspects of the process, as well as how contexts for development may vary between developed and developing economies are also discussed.