How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today
This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt.
Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Silber, Nina, Название: This war ain`t over : ISBN: 1469646544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469646541 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 44290.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's ""A Lincoln Portrait,"" it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime. At the heart of this book is an examination of how historical memory offers people a means of understanding and defining themselves in the present. Silber reveals how, during a moment of enormous national turmoil, the events and personages of the Civil War provided a framework for reassessing national identity, class conflict, and racial and ethnic division. The New Deal era may have been the first time Civil War memory loomed so large for the nation as a whole, but, as the present moment suggests, it was hardly the last.
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Автор: John Silber Название: Kant`s Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will ISBN: 161451075X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614510758 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 210690.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Kant is commonly regarded as a deontologist, and duty, rather than the good, is placed at the center of his ethics. By a comprehensive examination of Kant's views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant's ethics and to replace it with a richer understanding that gives proper emphasis to the central importance of the good, restoring the balanced relationship Kant intended between duty and the good. The Enlightenment, by undermining the religious foundations of morality, prompted Kant to offer a new foundation for ethics based not on religion but on reason. This book is highly relevant to the contemporary discussion of Kant. Its emphasis on the importance of the concept of the good in Kant's ethics represents an important alternative to most interpretations advanced today.
Автор: John Silber Название: Kant`s Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will ISBN: 1614510717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614510710 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 161100.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By a comprehensive examination of Kant`s views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant`s ethics and to replace it with a richer understanding that gives proper emphasis to the central importance of the good, restoring the balanced relationship Kant intended between duty and the good.
Автор: Silber Joan Название: Improvement ISBN: 1911630075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911630074 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 9490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A bold and piercing novel about a young single mother, her eccentric aunt and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
Автор: Silber Andy Название: Adaptive Project Management: Leading Complex and Uncertain Projects ISBN: 163492150X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634921503 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the Digital Practitioner Foundation Study Guide for the DPBoK Part 1Examination. It gives an overview of every learning objective included in the DigitalPractitioner Foundation syllabus, and provides in-depth coverage on preparing andtaking the DPBoK Part 1 Examination. It is specifically designed to help individualsprepare for certification.This Study Guide is excellent material for:¢ Senior digital business professionals who need an increased awareness of digitalpractices¢ Mid-career IT professionals who need to stay relevant and validate their digitalSubject Matter Expert (SME) status in specific domain areas¢ Entry-level computing and digital business professionals¢ College-level students and computing and digital business majorsIt covers the following topics:¢ An introduction to DPBoK Foundation certification, including the DPBoK Part 1Examination¢ Key terminology, key concepts, and the structure of the Body of Knowledge¢ Basic concepts employed by the Digital Practitioner¢ The capabilities of digital infrastructure and initial concerns for its effective, efficient,and secure operation¢ The objectives and activities of application development¢ Why product management is formalized as a company or team grows, and thedifferences between product and project management¢ The key concerns and practices of work management as a team increases in size¢ The basic concepts and practices of operations management in a digital/IT context¢ How to coordinate as the organization grows into multiple teams and multipleproducts¢ IT investment and portfolio management¢ Organizational structure, human resources, and cultural factors¢ Governance, risk, security, and compliance¢ Information and data management on a large scale¢ Practices and methods for managing complexity using Enterprise Architecture
Автор: Nina Silber Название: Gender and the Sectional Conflict ISBN: 1469627078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469627076 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their ""causes"" and obligations in wartime. Despite important similarities, says Silber, differing gender ideologies shaped the way each side viewed, participated in, and remembered the war.Silber finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home. Consequently, although in different ways, women on both sides took up new roles to advance the wartime agenda. At the same time, both Northern and Southern women were accused of waning patriotism as the war dragged on, but their responses to such charges differed. Finally, noting that our postwar memories are often dominated by images of Southern belles, Silber considers why Northern women, despite their heroic contributions to the Union cause, have faded from Civil War memory. Silber's investigation offers a new understanding of how Unionists and Confederates perceived their reasons for fighting, of the new attitudes and experiences that women - black and white - on both sides took up, and of the very different ways that Northern and Southern women were remembered after the war ended.
Автор: Silber Jere Название: Up in the Sky ISBN: 0692652140 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692652145 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Silber Joan Название: Improvement ISBN: 1911630067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911630067 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15830.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A bold and piercing novel about a young single mother, her eccentric aunt and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
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