Selasa, 23 Februari 2016

Money, Morals, and Manners

Money, Morals, and Manners
By:"Michèle Lamont"
Published on 1992-10-15 by University of Chicago Press

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class - the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider essential in separating themselves - and their class - from everyone else. For Lamont, the boundaries of class are not marked by economics alone. She goes beyond crude categories of status and simple measures of taste, wealth, and possessions to reveal the role of moral and cultural distinctions in setting the boundaries between the upper-middle class and those above and below. Central to her analysis - and to the identity of the men she interviewed - is the idea of a virtuous or worthy person: members of the upper-middle class constantly define themselves and others by making distinctions along this moral dimension. There are important differences, however, within the upper-middle class and between national cultures. Living in a cosmopolitan city like New York or Paris is different than living in a more provincial center like Indianapolis or Clermont-Ferrand; those working in the profit sector hold very different values than do those working for nonprofit organizations; and American men place more emphasis on financial success than do their French counterparts, who value personal integrity and cultural refinement more. Unprecedented in its comparative reach, Money, Morals, and Manners is an ambitious and sophisticated attempt to illuminate the nature of social class in modern society. For allthose who downplay the importance of unequal social groups, it will be a revelation.

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword money.

Minggu, 21 Februari 2016

Value for Money

Value for Money
By:
Published on 1976 by Hoover Press

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword money.

Minggu, 14 Februari 2016

Value Added Tax and Direct Taxation

Value Added Tax and Direct Taxation
By:"Michael Lang","Peter Melz","Eleonor Kristoffersson","Thomas Ecker"
Published on 2009 by IBFD

This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword tax.

Jumat, 12 Februari 2016

Gold

Gold
By:"Ruth Kassinger"
Published on 2003 by Twenty-First Century Books

Discusses the history of gold, relates some of the myths associated with this precious metal as well as some of its uses, how it reacts, and its importance in our lives.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword gold.

Kamis, 11 Februari 2016

The Alchemy of Finance

The Alchemy of Finance
By:"George Soros"
Published on 2003-08-01 by John Wiley & Sons

Why is the brain important in eating disorders? This ground–breaking new book describes how increasingly sophisticated neuroscientific approaches are revealing much about the role of the brain in eating disorders. Even more importantly, it discusses how underlying brain abnormalities and dysfunction may contribute to the development and help in the treatment of these serious disorders. Neuropsychological studies show impairments in specific cognitive functions, especially executive and visuo–spatial skills. Neuroimaging studies show structural and functional abnormalities, including cortical atrophy and neural circuit abnormalities, the latter appearing to be playing a major part in the development of anorexia nervosa. Neurochemistry studies show dysregulation within neurotransmitter systems, with effects upon the modulation of feeding, mood, anxiety, neuroendocrine control, metabolic rate, sympathetic tone and temperature. The first chapter, by an eating disorders clinician, explains the importance of a neuroscience perspective for clinicians. This is followed by an overview of the common eating disorders, then chapters on what we know of them from studies of neuroimaging, neuropsychology and neurochemistry. The mysterious phenomenon of body image disturbance is then described and explained from a neuroscience perspective. The next two chapters focus on neuroscience models of eating disorders, the first offering an overview and the second a new and comprehensive explanatory model of anorexia nervosa. The following two chapters offer a clinical perspective, with attention on the implications of a neuroscience perspective for patients and their families, the second providing details of clinical applications of neuroscience understanding. The final chapter looks to the future. This book succinctly reviews current knowledge about all these aspects of eating disorder neuroscience and explores the implications for treatment. It will be of great interest to all clinicians (psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, dieticians, paediatricians, physicians, physiotherapists) working in eating disorders, as well as to neuroscience researchers.

This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword finance.

Rabu, 10 Februari 2016

Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe

Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe
By:"Peter Spufford"
Published on 1989-09-21 by Cambridge University Press

This is a full-scale study of the history of money, not merely of coinage, to have been written for medieval Europe. The book is not limited to one country, or to any one period or theme, but extracts the most important elements for the historian across the broadest possible canvas. Its scope extends from the mining of precious metals on the one hand, to banking, including the use of cheques and bills of exchange, on the other. Chapters are arranged chronologically, rather than regionally or thematically, and offer a detailed picture of the many and changing roles played by money, in all its forms, in all parts of Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Thus money is seen as having differing values for differing parts of individual societies. The book shows money moving and changing as a result of war and trade and other political, economic and ecclesiastical activities without regard for national barriers or the supposed separation between 'East' and 'West'.

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword money.

Minggu, 07 Februari 2016

Teeline Gold Word List

Teeline Gold Word List
By:"Mavis Smith","Anne Tilly"
Published on 1992 by Heinemann

This Teeline Gold edition of the Word List has doubled in size and contains recommended Teeline outlines for over 12,000 words which might be expected to occur frequently in non-technical material. New appendices of legal and medical words are included.

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword gold.

Rabu, 03 Februari 2016

Practical Gold-mining

Practical Gold-mining
By:"Charles George Warnford Lock"
Published on 1889 by

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword gold.