The Occult Nineteenth Century: Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World
by Lukas Pokorny
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030553175 | 442 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer by Caitlin Murray
English | October 22, 2019 | ISBN: 1419743015 | 304 pages | EPUB | 17 Mb
"The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team has won four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set record TV ratings, drawn massive crowds, earned huge revenues for FIFA and U.S. Soccer, and helped to redefine the place of women in sports. But despite their dominance, and their rosters of superstar players, they've endured striking inequality: low pay, poor playing conditions, and limited opportunities to play in professional leagues. The National Team, from leading soccer journalist Caitlin Murray, tells the history of the USWNT in full, from their formation in the 1980s to the run-up to the 2019 World Cup, chronicling both their athletic triumphs and less visible challenges off the pitch. Murray also recounts the rise and fall of U.S. professional leagues, including the burgeoning National Women's Soccer League, an essential part of the women's game. Through nearly 100 exclusive interviews with players, coaches, and team officials, including Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Hope Solo, Heather O'Reilly, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain, Pia Sundhage, Tom Sermanni, and Sunil Gulati, Murray takes readers inside the locker rooms and board rooms in engrossing detail. A story of endurance and determination, The National Team is a complete portrait of this beloved and important team."-provided by publisher.
The Life of a Sports Agent: The Middleman by Luke Sutton
English | ISBN: 1526736993 | 128 pages | EPUB | December 11, 2020 | 0.73 Mb
There is a lot of mystery that surrounds sports agents and their roles in the lives of their high profile clients. Many perceive the life to be glamorous, spending time with celebrities and earning a lot of money for doing easy or very little work. The Life of a Sports Agent reveals how very wrong this perception is.
The Invention of Saintliness By Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
2002 | 233 Pages | ISBN: 0415267595 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning definitions of saints and saintliness in a period before the concept was crystallized in canon law. As well as discussing sources and methodology, contributions cover contextual issues, including relics and veneration, life and the afterlife, and examinations of specific sources and texts. Subjects raised include the idea of hagiography as intimate biography, perceptions of holiness in writings by and about female mystics, and bodily aspects of the Franciscan search for evangelical perfection.
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives By Patrick Vinton Kirch, Jean-Louis Rallu
2007 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 0824831349 | PDF | 4 MB
In their accounts of exploration, early European voyagers in the Pacific frequently described the teeming populations they encountered on island after island. Yet missionary censuses and later nineteenth-century records often indicate much smaller populations on Pacific Islands, leading many scholars to debunk the explorers' figures as romantic exaggerations. Recently, the debate over the indigenous populations of the Pacific has intensified, and this book addresses the problem from new perspectives. Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai`i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographers.Rather than rehash old data and arguments about the validity of explorers' or missionaries' accounts, the contributors to this volume offer a series of case studies grounded in new empirical data derived from original archaeological fieldwork and from archival historical research. Various methods are advanced for estimating local and regional population sizes as well as tracing the long-term trajectories of population change in island societies. These approaches include the application of precontact household and settlement archaeology and estimates of agricultural production. Case studies are presented for the Hawaiian Islands, Mo`orea, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, New Caledonia, Aneityum (Vanuatu), and Kosrae. They show the capacity of island populations to grow rapidly in the environmental conditions of Remote Oceania and to achieve high population densities. Such levels were closely associated with social, political, and economic transformations. Following contact with the West and the introduction of diseases for which island populations typically had little or no resistance, populations often collapsed, with major consequences for their societies.As the contributors demonstrate, the long-term demographic histories of Pacific Islands are of fundamental importance for understanding how island societies grew, developed, came into equilibrium or disequilibrium with their environments, and ultimately responded to the new challenges of contact with the West. This volume offers a fresh look at a critical topic in Pacific studies. It will be of interest to scholars in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, ethnic studies, demography, and sociology.
The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion (Student Companions to American History) by Elisabeth Israels Perry and Karen Manners Smith
English | ISBN-10: 0195156706 | October 30, 2006 | PDF | 432 pages | 45,2 mb
This Companion is an alphabetical encyclopedia of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era (GAPE) in the United States, beginning in 1877 with the end of Reconstruction and extending to 1919-20, the end of World War I and the beginning of the Harding administration.
Monty Agarwal, "The Future of Hedge Fund Investing: A Regulatory and Structural Solution for a Fallen Industry"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0470537442 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB
A detailed look at how to fix the hedge fund industry
David Parmenter, "The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit: Lean Practices to Transform Your Finance Team Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 1119286549 | 2016 | 464 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
Simplify and streamline your way to a winning legacy
The Everything Book of Horses and Ponies (Everything About Pets)
By DK
English | 2019 | ISBN : 1465480110 | 96 pages | True PDF | 43 MB
The Effective Tax Burden on Highly Qualified Employees: An International Comparison By Christina Elschner, Robert Schwager
2005 | 129 Pages | ISBN: 3790815683 | PDF | 9 MB
Taxes on the highly skilled are an important cost factor for companies competing internationally for talent. This book provides an international comparison of the effective level of taxes and social security charges imposed on highly qualified employees. Based on a newly developed inter-temporal simulation model, the attractiveness of 7 EU member states, 12 Swiss cantons, and the United States is assessed. Several compensation packages including old-age provision, fringe benefits, and long-term incentives as well as various income levels and family situations are considered in the analysis. The book also contains a comprehensive survey of social security and tax systems in the countries studied.