Freedom from Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina By Daniel Fridman
2016 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0804798265 | PDF | 10 MB
In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal emphasis on responsibility, individualism, and entrepreneurship binds people together with the ropes of aspiration. Freedom from Work delves into a world of financial self-help in which books, seminars, and board games reject "get rich quick" formulas and instead suggest to participants that there is something fundamentally wrong with who they are, and that they must struggle to correct it. Fridman analyzes three groups who exercise principles from Rich Dad, Poor Dad by playing the board game Cashflow and investing in cash-generating assets with the goal of leaving the rat race of employment. Fridman shows that the global economic transformations of the last few decades have been accompanied by popular resources that transform the people trying to survive―and even thrive.
Fodor's Essential Costa Rica (Full-color Travel Guide), 4th Edition by Fodor's Travel Guides
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 164097539X | 528 pages | True EPUB | 100.17 MB
Whether you want to surf in Manuel Antonio, zip-line through the Monteverde Cloud Forest, or hike around Arenal Volcano, the local Fodor's travel experts in Costa Rica are here to help! Fodor's Essential Costa Rica guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.
Fodor's Chicago (Full-color Travel Guide) by Fodor's Travel Guides
English | April 5, 2022 | ISBN: 1640974873 | 272 pages | PDF | 34 Mb
Whether you want to eat deep-dish pizza, explore the The Field Museum of Natural History, or bike along the lakefront, the local Fodor's travel experts in Chicago are here to help! Fodor's Chicago guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.
Fodor's Bahamas (Full-color Travel Guide) by Fodor's Travel Guides
English | March 29, 2022 | ISBN: 1640974849 | 336 pages | PDF | 34 Mb
Whether you want to discover 800 miles of beaches, swim with pigs in the Exumas, or relax at a top-rated resort and spa, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Bahamas are here to help! Fodor's Bahamas guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.
Pierre Bourdieu, "Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1859846580, 1565847385 | PDF | pages: 98 | 10.7 mb
Pierre Bourdieu, described by The Nation as "worthy of the militant mantle of Sartre and Foucault," here continues the themes advanced so successfully in his previous book Acts of Resistance. Firing Back is an eloquent dissection of globalization's intellectual and cultural role throughout the world, and a discussion of the ways in which effective opposition to it can be mounted. Bourdieu examines Europe's potential as a counterweight to America's globalizing policy and discusses how intellectuals and those working in the cultural sphere can create meaningful alternatives. He also raises challenging questions about the depoliticization of the academic world, arguing that scholars can no longer maintain that their research is objective or value free.
Financing Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific: A Guide for Policy Makers by Asian Development Bank
English | November 30, 2021 | ISBN: 9292626345 | 109 pages | EPUB | 3.04 Mb
This publication aims to guide policy makers and other stakeholders on how to scale up disaster risk reduction financing in developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.
Film Noir Photography by Neil Freeman
English | March 1, 2020 | ISBN: 178500607X | 160 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
Covers the equipment needed, including the cameras, lenses, and the accessories that are essential to creating high-quality film noir images. Explores the type of images that are classed as film noir, and the difference between the film noir look and standard black and white portraits. Shares tips and tricks to improve your images, keep your costs down, and make your lighting set-ups easy. Guides you through lighting set-ups in detail, especially speedlights and studio flash heads. Recreates some classic film noir images and ideas, and explains the main components of chiaroscuro light (quantity, quality, color, and direction). Explains how to shoot film noir images inside, covering lighting, setting ideas, and potential set-ups, then moves outside on location. Advises how to finish your images in a digital darkroom and achieve a true film noir look.
Schmid, "Figurally Colored Narration: Case Studies from English, German, and Russian Literature "
English | ISBN: 3110763052 | 2022 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
Die Reihe Narratologia publiziert innovative Monographien und Sammelbände zur modernen Erzähltheorie und zu ihrer fachgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion aus allen philologischen Disziplinen. Sie stellt das erste narratologische Forum dieser Art in Deutschland dar. Neben literarischen Texten stehen u. a. auch das Alltagserzählen, Wort-Bild-Texte, Erzählen im Film und in den neuen Medien sowie das Erzählen in Historiographie, Ethnologie, Medizin und Rechtswissenschaft im Fokus der Reihe.
Stuart J. McLean, "Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1517902711, 151790272X | PDF | pages: 350 | 6.0 mb
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as "evidence" to support explanations based on an appeal to social context or history but as modes of engagement with the materiality of expressive media-including language-that always retain the capacity to disrupt or exceed the human projects enacted through them.
Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture"
English | ISBN: 0226821463 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans.