Rich Pictures, Bell, Simon

Автор: Schimpfцssl Elisabeth
Название: Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie
ISBN: 019752379X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197523797
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Цена: 61140.00 T
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Описание: The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular fascination. Having achieved their riches over the course of a single generation, the top 0.1 percent of Russian society have become known for ostentatious lifestyles and tastes. Nevertheless, as Elisabeth Schimpf�ssl shows in this book, their stories reveal a bourgeois existence that is distinct in its circumstances and self-definition, and far more complex than the caricatures suggest.

Rich Russians takes a deep and unprecedented look at this group: their personal stories, trajectories, ideas about life, and how they see their role and position both on top of Russian society as well as globally. These people grew up and lived through a historically unique period of economic turmoil and social change following the collapse of the Soviet Union. But when taken in a wider historical context, their lives follow a familiar path, from new money to respectable money; parvenus becoming part of Society. Based on interviews with millionaires, billionaires, their spouses and children, Rich Russians concludes that, as a class, they have acquired all sorts of cultural and social resources which help consolidate their personal power. They have developed distinguished and refined tastes, rediscovered their family history, and begun actively engaging in philanthropy. Most importantly, they have worked out a narrative to justify why they deserve their elitist position in society--because of who they are and their superior qualities--and why they should be treated as equals by the West. This is a group whose social, cultural, and political influence is likely to outlast any regime change. As the first book to examine the transformation of Russia's former robber barons into a new social class, Rich Russians provides insight into how this nation's newly wealthy tick.

Автор: Wilbur C. Rich
Название: The Transformative City: Charlotte`s Takeoffs and Landings
ISBN: 082035676X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820356761
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the twentieth century Charlotte, North Carolina saw the emergence of a pro-growth coalition active in matters of the city`s ambience, race relations, business decisions, and use of grants-in-aid. In this book, Wilbur Rich examines the complex interrelationships of these factors to illustrate the uniqueness of North Carolina`s most populous city.

Автор: Chiara Certom?; Mark Dyer; Lorena Pocatilu; France
Название: Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
ISBN: 3319479032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319479033
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 130430.00 T
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Описание: The book will appeal to all those who are interested in the required transformation in the planning, management, and operations of data-rich cities and the ways in which such cities can employ the latest technologies to use data efficiently, promoting data access, data sharing, and interoperability.

Автор: Thorndike Joseph J.
Название: Their Fair Share: Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR
ISBN: 0877667713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780877667711
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Joseph J. Thorndike's history of the U.S. federal tax system from the 1920s until the end of World War II might feel familiar: the president with a progressive reputation who proves more pragmatic than his ardent supporters hoped, the legislators who serve the media apoplectic rhetoric, the magnates who pay no income tax and defend themselves with the perfectly true argument that doing so is 100 percent legal, and the public interested seeing everyone pay their fair share. Thorndike mines governmental and popular media archives to explore both the scholarship of taxes and the way we feel about paying them.

Автор: Wilbur C. Rich
Название: The Transformative City: Charlotte`s Takeoffs and Landings
ISBN: 0820356751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820356754
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 89630.00 T
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Описание: Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American cities. Simply put, Charlotte leaders invested in the future and took advantage of its opportunities. In the twentieth century Charlotte, North Carolina, underwent several generational changes in leadership and saw the emergence of a pro-growth coalition active in matters of the city’s ambience, race relations, business decisions, and use of state and federal government grants-in-aid. In The Transformative City , Wilbur C. Rich examines the complex interrelationships of these factors to illustrate the uniqueness of North Carolina’s most populous city and explores the ways in which the development and success of Charlotte Douglas International Airport has in turn led to development in the city itself, including the growth of both the financial industries and political sectors. Rich also examines the role the federal government had in airport development, banking, and race relation reforms. The Transformative City traces the economic transformation of Charlotte as a city and its airport as an agent of change.

Автор: Ashford Norman, Bell William G., Rich Tom A.
Название: Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Handicapped Persons
ISBN: 0367745747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367745745
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Originally published in 1982 and contributed to by a range of international authors and experts in the field of transport accessibility, this volume discusses the position of urban and rural transport problems of the elderly and disabled a variety of countries.

Автор: Certomа Chiara, Dyer Mark, Pocatilu Lorena
Название: Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City
ISBN: 3319838539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319838533
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 139750.00 T
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Описание: The book will appeal to all those who are interested in the required transformation in the planning, management, and operations of data-rich cities and the ways in which such cities can employ the latest technologies to use data efficiently, promoting data access, data sharing, and interoperability.

Автор: David Erickson
Название: The Fifth Freedom: Guaranteeing an Opportunity-Rich Childhood for All
ISBN: 081573963X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815739630
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Imagining a smarter social safety net for America's children

The status quo doesn't work for millions of Americans, and the consequences of millions of failures are expensive for everyone else. There has to be a better, fairer, and more cost-effective way of helping people achieve success. That is what this book is all about.

The United States now spends trillions of dollars on chronic disease, incarceration, educational failures, and lost productivity—among the many problems of the current system.

Instead, this book argues for better, more targeted spending that could guarantee an opportunity-rich childhood for all.

The “guardrails” of the title are the aspects of a well-functioning neighborhood that help children become thriving adults: good schools, well-funded libraries, safe streets and public spaces, quality health care, churches and other spiritual homes, and transportation and other public services.

“Airbags” are timely interventions at the individual level that help avert lasting damage from bad events. Examples include drug treatment or psychological counseling for troubled young people.

The United States can afford both better guardrails and airbags for kids to help them become healthy and productive adults who will be effective parents for the next generation.

This book advocates a smarter social safety net that will catch kids heading in the wrong direction before they are harmed, and society will pay for those upstream investments and reap the benefits of healthier and more productive generations to come.