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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (187 Seiten)

ISBN: 9783030585099

Series Statement: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being Ser

Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources , Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 What Constitutes a Good Life? -- Income -- Happiness -- Well-Being and Capabilities -- 2 Why This Book? -- Structure of the Book -- Why a New Dataset? -- Some Preliminary Methodological Comments -- 3 Is the Conventional Family Still the Cornerstone of Society? -- Which Family Types Are Found in Belgium? -- Are There Differences Between the Regions? -- Age and Family Type -- Well-being Involves Many Different Aspects -- 4 How Unequally Are Our Incomes Distributed? -- A Parade of Dwarves and Giants -- A Spoke in the Wheel? -- Inequality Measured -- 5 Who Is Poor in Our Society? -- Risk of Poverty -- Material Deprivation -- How Many Belgians Are Both on a Low Income and Materially Deprived? -- 6 How Healthy Are We? -- What Is Health? -- General Health -- Functional Limitations -- Chronic Diseases -- Emotional Well-Being -- Physical Well-Being -- Who Is Ill? -- Are Poorer People Sicker? -- How Sick Are the Elderly? -- Are the Flemish Healthier? -- 7 What Makes Us Sick? -- Lifestyle, Living Environment and Job Characteristics -- Lifestyle -- Living Environment -- Job Characteristics -- Emotional Well-Being -- The Shadow of the Past -- 8 Can People Afford Their Healthcare? -- The Use of Healthcare -- Financial Consequences of Illness -- Postponement of Care -- People with Chronic Illnesses -- 9 Do We Find the Job of Our Dreams? -- Who Works and Who Doesn't? -- Which Types of Jobs Are Carried Out? How Much Do People Work? -- The Job of My Dreams, an Unattainable Ideal? -- 10 What Do We Spend Our Money on? -- What Do the Consumption Patterns of Belgian Families Look Like? -- Expenditure Patterns per Income Quartile -- Expenditure Patterns by Level of Education -- 11 Do We Live Comfortably and in a Pleasant Environment? -- The Quality of Our Housing -- Tenants and Owners , Elderly People and Young People -- 12 How Do We Spend Our Time? -- Time Use of Men and Women by Family Type -- Time Use of Men and Women by Level of Education -- An Insight into Families -- 13 Who Forms a Couple with Whom? -- How Did Partners First Meet? -- Like Seeks Like? -- Is Like-Seeks-Like Behaviour Age-Related? -- 14 How Do Partners Within Couples Spend Their Time? -- Time Use of Partners Across All Types of Couples -- Time Use of Working Couples with and Without Children Living at Home -- Time Use of Partners by Level of Education -- 15 What Do Partners in Couples Spend Their Money on? -- Expenditure Within Couples with and Without Children -- Expenditure Within Couples According to Total Expenditure -- Expenditure Within Couples According to Level of Education -- 16 Who Wears the Trousers? -- Distribution of Time and Money Between Partners -- Distribution of Time and Money in Relation to Relative Hourly Wage -- Distribution of Time and Money in Relation to Full Family Income -- Marriage Market -- Who Deserves Special Attention? -- 17 Is Life Harder for Single-Parent Families? -- Who Are the Parents in Single-Parent Families? -- Do Parents in Single-Parent Families Have Lower Levels of Well-Being? -- Which Dimensions of Well-Being Make the Difference? -- Are There Differences When It Comes to the Children? -- 18 Which Children Grow up in Poverty? -- Poverty Is Hard -- Health and Housing Quality -- How Much Do Parents Invest in Their Children? -- As Long as They're Happy ... -- 19 A Nice Retirement? -- How Many Older People Are There? -- The Situation of the Elderly -- Towards a Measure of Individual Well-being -- 20 Who Suffers from Cumulative Deprivation? -- How Much Cumulative Deprivation Is There in Belgium? -- Who Suffers from Cumulative Deprivation? -- 21 How Happy Are We? -- Happiness and Life Satisfaction , What Makes Belgians Satisfied with Their Lives? -- (Dis)satisfaction with a Partial Aspect of Life -- 22 As Long as We're Happy ...? -- Personality and Life Satisfaction -- Level of Education and Expectations -- Poor but Happy -- 23 How Do We Measure Well-Being? -- An Example of the Alternative Approach -- Different Opinions on the Good Life: Willingness to Pay -- Equivalent Income -- 24 Who Has the Lowest Levels of Well-Being? -- How Do We Measure Willingness to Pay? -- Equivalent Incomes for Health and Housing -- 25 Conclusion -- Just Looking at Averages Can Be Misleading -- Income Is Not a Good Measure of Well-being -- Happiness Is Not a Good Measure of Well-being -- Well-being Is Best Measured in a Multidimensional Way -- References

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Format: XVI, 261 S. , Ill., Kt.

ISBN: 0226313670

Content: "David Halle's idea was simple but radical: to connect culture to everyday life by showing how people actually use the artifacts of culture - paintings, photographs, sculpture - in the most intimate of all settings: the home." "In the first book of its kind, Halle gives a fascinating account of the uses and meaning of art for those who buy it and live with it. His study ranges from the affluent town houses on Manhattan's Upper East Side and row houses in blue-collar Brooklyn to middle- and upper-middle class suburbs on Long Island, resulting in an unprecedented portrait of the meanings of art for its primary audience." "Are there differences in artistic preferences between social classes or races or between urban and suburban homes? Similarities? How do choices in art works - and the way we display them - speak to our dreams, desires, pleasures, and fears? And what do they say about the real cultural boundaries between elite and popular, high and low?" "Halle examines landscapes, both priceless heirlooms and mass-produced sunsets; abstract paintings and prints; "primitive" sculpture; and the vibrantly colored portraits of religious art. He also discusses the gatherings of family photographs that fill every home." "Inside Culture also explores the architecture and design of the houses, from the eclipse of the formal dining room to the landscape of urban backyards." "Refusing easy generalizations about culture and class, Halle shows that art has a different set of meanings outside the rarefied air of museums and galleries. He challenges received opinion about the role of the audience in the history and reception of twentieth-century art to show that the experience of art isn't always what artists and critics say it is."

Content: "With floor plans, drawings, and dozens of photographs, this lively book can be enjoyed on many levels. It describes for the first time the way a broad cross section of people live with art. It records for the first time the astonishing variety of artistic experience. And it permanently changes our ongoing conversation about what culture contains, what it controls, and what the products called "art" really mean."--BOOK JACKET

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: USA ; Kunst ; Soziale Klasse ; USA ; Kunstsoziologie ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; USA ; Hausbau ; Geschichte 1900-2000

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 254 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme

ISBN: 9781350112919 , 9781350112902 , 9781350112896

Content: "Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home just how much urban design can affect our mental health ? and created an imperative to seize this opportunity. Restorative Cities explores a new way of designing cities, one which places mental health and wellness at the forefront. Establishing a blueprint for urban design for mental health, it examines a range of strategies ? from sensory architecture to place-making for creativity and community ? and brings a genuinely evidence-based approach that will appeal to designers and planners, health practitioners and researchers alike - and provide compelling insights for anyone who cares about how our surroundings affect us. Written by a psychiatrist and public health specialist, and an environmental psychologist with extensive experience of architectural practice, this much-needed work will prompt debate and inspire built environment students and professionals to think more about the positive potential of their designs for mental well-being."--

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-3501-1288-9

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-3501-1287-2

Language: English

Subjects: Engineering , Geography , Ethnology , General works

Keywords: Stadtplanung ; Stadtgrün ; Stadtgestaltung ; Psychische Gesundheit ; Wohlbefinden ; Electronic books

DOI: 10.5040/9781350112919

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource

Series Statement: Other papers

Content: This research study identified replication opportunities and white spaces across focus sectors of agriculture, healthcare, and renewable energy. These include short-term opportunities in trade, technology transfer, and strategic alliances to cater to immediate demand for products such as solar home systems and services such as healthcare for non-communicable diseases. Long-termopportunities include addressing demand that arises from changing socio-economic scenarios and improving market efficiencies, such as organic farming and domestic manufacture of solar industry components. While increasing cooperation among South Asian countries might present different trends in the future, most current replication activities are focused on India-Bangladesh replication in the sectors of agriculture and healthcare. Finally, the study also recommends a way forward for scaling the intra-South Asia replication of inclusive businesses with the involvement of stakeholders such as donors, investors, incubators, advisors, academia, and policy makers. Given the inherent challenges in replication and nascent state of inclusive business ecosystems in most countries, their early catalytic involvement is crucial. Specific action steps are proposed for each category of stakeholder, but from past evidence of what works' in building supporting ecosystems for inclusive businesses, these organizations will be most effective when they work together to draw out opportunities for replication and address the key hurdles of doing business in developing countries

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/25792

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 v)

ISBN: 9781784716127

Note: The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings , Recommended readings (Machine generated): Luigi Guiso, Michael Haliassos and Tullio Jappelli (2003), 'Household Stockholding in Europe: Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go?' -- Dimitris Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos and Michael Haliassos (2013), 'Differences in Portfolios Across Countries: Economic Environment Versus Household Characteristics' -- European Central Bank (2013), 'The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey: Results from the First Wave' -- Irwin Friend and Marshall E. Blume (1975), 'The Demand for Risky Assets' -- N. Gregory Mankiw and Stephen P. Zeldes (1991), 'The Consumption of Stockholders and Nonstockholders' -- Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton and William F. Samuelson (1992), 'Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life Cycle Model' -- Michael Haliassos and Carol C. Bertaut (1995), 'Why Do So Few Hold Stocks?' -- Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli and Daniele Terlizzese (1996), 'Income Risk, Borrowing Constraints, and Portfolio Choice' -- , William R.M. Perraudin and Bent E. Sørensen (2000), 'The Demand for Risky Assets: Sample Selection and Household Portfolios' -- John Heaton and Deborah Lucas (2000), 'Portfolio Choice and Asset Prices: The Importance of Entrepreneurial Risk' -- Luis M. Viceira (2001), 'Optimal Portfolio Choice for Long-Horizon Investors with Nontradable Labor Income' -- Michael Haliassos and Alexander Michaelides (2003), 'Portfolio Choice and Liquidity Constraints' -- Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (2003), 'Perspectives on Behavioral Finance: Does "Irrationality" Disappear with Wealth? Evidence from Expectations and Actions' -- Harvey S. Rosen and Stephen Wu (2004), 'Portfolio Choice and Health Status' -- João F. Cocco, Francisco J. Gomes and Pascal J. Maenhout (2005), 'Consumption and Portfolio Choice Over the Life Cycle' -- Francisco Gomes and Alexander Michaelides (2005), 'Optimal Life-Cycle Asset Allocation: Understanding the Empirical Evidence' -- John Y. Campbell (2006), 'Household Finance' -- , Steven J. Davis, Felix Kubler and Paul Willen (2006), 'Borrowing Costs and the Demand for Equity Over the Life Cycle' -- Nicholas Barberis, Ming Huang and Richard H. Thaler (2006), 'Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles, and Stock Market Participation: A Case for Narrow Framing' , Karen E. Dynan, Jonathan Skinner and Stephen P. Zeldes (2004), 'Do the Rich Save More?' -- Nikolai Roussanov (2010), 'Diversification and Its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status' -- Jessica A. Wachter and Motohiro Yogo (2010), 'Why Do Household Portfolio Shares Rise in Wealth?' -- Daniel Bergstresser and James Poterba (2004), 'Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances' -- John Y. Campbell, Yeung Lewis Chan and Luis M. Viceira (2003), 'A Multivariate Model of Strategic Asset Allocation' -- Robert M. Dammon, Chester S. Spatt and Harold H. Zhang (2004), 'Optimal Asset Location and Allocation with Taxable and Tax-Deferred Investing' -- Francisco Gomes, Alexander Michaelides and Valery Polkovnichenko (2009), 'Optimal Savings with Taxable and Tax-Deferred Accounts' -- , Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean (2000), 'Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors' -- Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean (2001), 'Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment' -- Brigitte C. Madrian and Dennis F. Shea (2001), 'The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior' -- Mark Grinblatt and Matti Keloharju (2001), 'What Makes Investors Trade?' -- Christian Gollier and Richard J. Zeckhauser (2002), 'Horizon Length and Portfolio Risk' -- Julie Agnew, Pierluigi Balduzzi and Annika Sundén (2003), 'Portfolio Choice and Trading in a Large 401(k) Plan' -- Rob Alessie, Stefan Hochguertel and Arthur van Soest (2004), 'Ownership of Stocks and Mutual Funds: A Panel Data Analysis' -- Markus K. Brunnermeier and Stefan Nagel (2008), 'Do Wealth Fluctuations Generate Time-Varying Risk Aversion? Micro-Evidence on Individuals' Asset Allocation' -- , Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell and Paolo Sodini (2009), 'Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors' -- Mark Grinblatt and Matti Keloharju (2009), 'Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence, and Trading Activity' -- Yannis Bilias, Dimitris Georgarakos and Michael Haliassos (2010), 'Portfolio Inertia and Stock Market Fluctuations' -- George M. Korniotis and Alok Kumar (2011), 'Do Older Investors Make Better Investment Decisions?' , Mark Grinblatt, Matti Keloharju and Juhani T. Linnainmaa (2012), 'IQ, Trading Behavior, and Performance' -- Andrew B. Abel, Janice C. Eberly and Stavros Panageas (2013), 'Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transactions Costs' -- Robert B. Barsky, F. Thomas Juster, Miles S. Kimball and Matthew D. Shapiro (1997), 'Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Study' -- Luigi Guiso and Monica Paiella (2008), 'Risk Aversion, Wealth, and Background Risk' -- Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde (2010), 'Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?' -- Morgan Kelly (1995), 'All Their Eggs in One Basket: Portfolio Diversification of US Households' -- Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler (2001), 'Naive Diversification Strategies in Defined Contribution Saving Plans' -- , Valery Polkovnichenko (2005), 'Household Portfolio Diversification: A Case for Rank-Dependent Preferences' -- Stijn van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp (2010), 'Information Acquisition and Under-Diversification' -- Joshua D. Coval and Tobias J. Moskowitz (1999), 'Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios' -- Gur Huberman (2001), 'Familiarity Breeds Investment' -- Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli (2005), 'Awareness and Stock Market Participation' -- Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell (2007), 'Baby Boomer Retirement Security: The Roles of Planning, Financial Literacy, and Housing Wealth' -- Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell and Paolo Sodini (2007), 'Down or Out: Assessing the Welfare Costs of Household Investment Mistakes' -- Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell and Paolo Sodini (2009), 'Measuring the Financial Sophistication of Households' -- Dimitris Christelis, Tullio Jappelli and Mario Padula (2010), 'Cognitive Abilities and Portfolio Choice' -- , James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian (2011), ' , Lauren E. Willis (2011), 'The Financial Education Fallacy' -- Esther Duflo and Emmanuel Saez (2002), 'Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices' -- Harrison Hong, Jeffrey D. Kubik and Jeremy C. Stein (2004), 'Social Interaction and Stock-Market Participation' -- Markku Kaustia and Samuli Knüpfer (2012), 'Peer Performance and Stock Market Entry' -- Dimitris Georgarakos, Michael Haliassos and Giacomo Pasini (2014), 'Household Debt and Social Interactions' -- Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani (2009), 'Misselling through Agents' -- Daniel Bergstresser, John M.R. Chalmers and Peter Tufano (2009), 'Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Brokers in the Mutual Fund Industry' -- John Y. Campbell, Howell E. Jackson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Peter Tufano (2011), 'Consumer Financial Protection' -- Andreas Hackethal, Michael Haliassos and Tullio Jappelli (2012), 'Financial Advisors: A Case of Babysitters?' -- , Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani (2012), 'Financial Advice' -- Utpal Bhattacharya, Andreas Hackethal, Simon Kaesler, Benjamin Loos and Steffen Meyer (2012), 'Is Unbiased Financial Advice to Retail Investors Sufficient? Answers from a Large Field Study' -- Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales (2006), 'Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?' -- Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales (2008), 'Trusting the Stock Market' -- Una Okonkwo Osili and Anna L. Paulson (2008), 'Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from International Migrants in the United States' -- Amir Barnea, Henrik Cronqvist and Stephan Siegel (2010), 'Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior?' -- Laurent E. Calvet and Paolo Sodini (2014), 'Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios' -- Sanford J. Grossman and Guy Laroque (1990), 'Asset Pricing and Optimal Portfolio Choice in the Presence of Illiquid Durable Consumption Goods' -- , Michael C. Fratantoni (2001), 'Homeownership, Committed Expenditure Risk, and the Stockholding Puzzle' -- Marjorie Flavin and Takashi Yamashita (2002), 'Owner-Occupied Housing and the Composition of the Household Portfolio' , Maria Concetta Chiuri and Tullio Jappelli (2003), 'Financial Market Imperfections and Home Ownership: A Comparative Study' -- John Y. Campbell and João F. Cocco (2003), 'Household Risk Management and Optimal Mortgage Choice' -- João F. Cocco (2004), 'Portfolio Choice in the Presence of Housing' -- Rui Yao and Harold H. Zhang (2005), 'Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Choices with Risky Housing and Borrowing Constraints' -- Todd Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles (2005), 'Owner-Occupied Housing as a Hedge Against Rent Risk' -- Raj Chetty and Adam Szeidl (2007), 'Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences' -- Atif Mian and Amir Sufi (2009), 'The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis' -- Ronel Elul, Nicholas S. Souleles, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Dennis Glennon and Robert Hunt (2010), 'What Triggers Mortgage Defaults' -- Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales (2013), 'The Determinants of Attitudes Toward Strategic Default on Mortgages' -- Atif Mian and Amir Sufi (2011), 'House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing and the US Household Leverage Crisis' -- David B. Gross and Nicholas S. Souleles (2002), 'Do Liquidity Constraints and Interest Rates Matter for Consumer Behavior? Evidence from Credit Card Data' -- David B. Gross and Nicholas S. Souleles (2002), 'An Empirical Analysis of Personal Bankruptcy and Delinquency' -- Scott Fay, Erik Hurst and Michelle J. White (2002), 'The Household Bankruptcy Decision' -- David Laibson, Andrea Repetto and Jeremy Tobacman (2001), 'A Debt Puzzle' -- Carol C. Bertaut, Michael Haliassos and Michael Reiter (2008), 'Credit Card Debt Puzzles and Debt Revolvers for Self-Control' -- Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger (2010), 'Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing' -- Irina A. Telyukova (2013), 'Household Need for Liquidity and the Credit Card Debt Puzzle' , Since its emergence in the 1980s, the subject of Household Finance has rapidly grown into a critical area of economic focus. Research, policy and practitioner interest has increased as household portfolios have become more complicated in response to financial innovation and new challenges in retirement financing. Whilst the earliest research was initially focussed on the limited tendency to hold stocks and diversify risk, recent work has developed into a broader exploration of the challenges posed by limited financial literacy, cognition, behavioural biases and cultural predispositions, and the ways to overcome them through financial education, advice, institutional reform and regulation. Including an original introduction by the editor, Household Finance brings together the most essential papers on the subject together in a comprehensive three-volume collection, and will be an invaluable resource for researchers - including practitioners with an interest in research - and students alike

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.4337/9781784716127

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Format: 352 S.

ISBN: 9781594486104

Content: "From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class-descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China-find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan's journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind"--

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

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Format: xi, 276 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm

ISBN: 9781588346681

Content: "Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale of the challenges and rewards of bringing a nationally acclaimed new institution to life"--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Preface -- What happens to a dream deferred? -- You end as you begin -- Now that you have it, what you gonna do with it? -- Designing a dream -- Finding the stuff of history -- Realizing a dream takes money -- Befriending presidents and managing Congress: a long way from New Jersey -- Exhibiting American history through an African American lens: making a way out of no way -- All in the family: building a community of caring colleagues -- Filling the hole: the challenge of building on the National Mall -- Welcoming America home: The opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture -- A first year of surprise and wonder: helping America to remember -- Epilogue

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-588-34677-3

Language: English

Keywords: Washington, DC ; National Museum of African American History and Culture ; Gründung

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Format: vi, 328 Seiten

ISBN: 9780525428084

Content: Becoming -- Cognifying -- Flowing -- Screening -- Accessing -- Sharing -- Filtering -- Remixing -- Interacting -- Tracking -- Questioning -- Beginning

Content: An expert tech writer discusses the forces and trends that will revolutionize daily life through the upcoming technological advances of the next thirty years. -- Provided by publisher

Content: From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends interacting, cognifying, flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits. Kellys bright, hopeful book will be indispensable to anyone who seeks guidance on where their business, industry, or life is heading what to invent, where to work, in what to invest, how to better reach customers, and what to begin to put into place as this new world emerges. -- Provided by publisher

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-698-18365-0

Language: English

Subjects: Engineering , Economics

Keywords: Neue Technologie ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Arbeitswelt ; Futurologie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Autorenbiografie

URL: Verlagsangaben

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317372/the-inevitable-by-kevin-kelly/

Author information: Kelly, Kevin 1952-

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Format: VIII, 286 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 1559702753

Content: One of the most remarkable and stirring episodes of World War II involved a young Swede from a distinguished banking family named Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg had watched the progress of the war and the treatment of the Jews from his neutral country with growing horror and the burning ambition to do something. When in June of 1944 he was approached to oversee a rescue operation of Hungarian Jews being deported to the death camps by Adolf Eichmann, he accepted this clearly perilous and probably hopeless mission without hesitation. Hurriedly accorded diplomatic status by his own government, Wallenberg arrived in Budapest in early July of 1944. By the time of his arrest by the Soviet army on January 17, 1945, roughly six months later, he had helped to save the lives of over 100,000 people

Content: Gathering together several elements of Wallenberg's written record, Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944 marks the fiftieth anniversary of his tragic and still mysterious disappearance and offers some answers. At the heart of this collection is the correspondence between Raoul and his paternal and sternly patrician grandfather Gustaf Wallenberg, who had pledged to support his fatherless grandson so long as Raoul studied and worked outside of Sweden. He urged Raoul to go to America. In the fall of 1931, Raoul matriculated at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to study architecture and spent four years observing and admiring a country lifting itself up from the depths of the Depression. He also hitchhiked to California, studied New York's skyscrapers, worked at the World's Fair in Chicago, and drove a pickup truck to Mexico City, all the while engaged in a spirited exchange of ideas and impressions with his grandfather

Content: Gustaf's plan was for Raoul to distinguish himself abroad and then, using contacts he himself would supply at the right moment, to go back to Sweden and begin a career. Dutiful though increasingly restless, Raoul obeyed his grandfather's directives and worked in South Africa, then at a bank in Palestine, waiting for his foreign apprenticeship to end. When Gustaf died in 1937 his grand design for his beloved grandson died with him, and for several years after his return home Raoul struggled to find his way. The War Refugee Board's offer to send him to Budapest was an opportunity Wallenberg could not refuse, and from the instant of his arrival he worked like a man inspired. As the dispatches in this volume attest, Wallenberg rapidly set up an organization that used any and all available means to save lives

Note: Aus dem Schwed. übers.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Wallenberg, Raoul 1912-1945 ; Ungarn ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichte 1939-1945 ; Quelle ; Ungarn ; Deportation ; Juden ; Geschichte 1944 ; Quelle ; Briefsammlung ; Quelle

Author information: Wallenberg, Raoul 1912-1945

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Format: Online-Ressource (viii,112[i.e.111],[1]p) , 8°

Edition: Online-Ausg. Farmington Hills, Mich Cengage Gale 2009 Eighteenth Century Collections Online Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web

Uniform Title: Modern husbandman. Part 7

Note: English Short Title Catalog, T178056 , P. 111 misnumbered 112 , Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford) , Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web

Language: English

URL: Volltext  (Full text online)