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Power, Glamour and Angst

Author : Ilan Wiesel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811313679
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Power, Glamour and Angst written by Ilan Wiesel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods – Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful citizens. The book explores how living in these neighbourhoods shapes the lifestyles, social networks and status of Australia’s elites. The book explores the everyday rituals through which residents produce their neighbourhood's status. It maps residents’ social networks and exposes the local institutions – including schools and sports or social clubs – in which access to such high-powered networks is granted or withheld. Power, Glamour and Angst examines how the collective social and cultural capitals of elite neighbourhoods are mobilised towards varied objectives, from initiation of business connections and opportunities, through to opposition against unwanted development or traffic, both sources of ongoing angst. Deeply conservative and resistant to change at their core, despite their wealth and power these communities have not always been successful in fully repressing external pressures. In the 21st century Australian city, even elite neighbourhoods must learn to adapt to population growth, urban densification and increased cultural diversity.

The Privileged Few

Author : Clive Hamilton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509559728
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Privileged Few written by Clive Hamilton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down the scale to the distortions in the labour market when elites use their networks to secure plum jobs, not least in new domains such as professional sports. In this book, Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton show that elite privilege is not a mere by-product of wealth but an organising principle for society as a whole. They explore the practices and processes that sustain, legitimise and reproduce elite privilege and show how we are all implicated in the system, both facilitating it and tolerating its harmful effects. Building on their original fieldwork and a wide range of other sources, the authors paint a vivid picture of the micropolitics of elite privilege, highlighting in particular the vital role played by exclusive private schools. Ranging across topics as diverse as ‘glamour suburbs’, philanthropy, Rhodes scholarships and super-yachts, The Privileged Few delves beneath attempts at concealment to expose how the elites keep getting away with it.

Elite Business Schools

Author : Mikael Holmqvist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000530191
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Elite Business Schools written by Mikael Holmqvist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites: There’s a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals but also as a class. By examining elite business schools, the institutions that train and prepare people to assume important leadership and decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors, we may also learn how the economic elites are made. A key argument in this book is that elite schools are known to create powerful groups in society, offering them the intellectual and analytical means to act as leaders, but, most importantly, the social, moral and aesthetic skills that are deemed necessary to exercise power; in all essential respects elite schools consecrate people. By dominating much of higher education today, and by doing so in a way that creates and reproduces a market-based organization and control of society, elite business schools represent certain interests and ideologies that affect the lives of most people. In understanding how the modern economy is run, elite business schools, therefore, represent critical study objects. This book, based on an in-depth study of the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), offers a sociological analysis of the world of elite business schools. Specifically, this book examines the consecration of SSE’s students from a number of perspectives and in a number of situations, focusing on student union activities, school culture, faculty behavior, teaching, courses and alumni events, noting the symbolic importance of economics and particularly the school’s unique relation among the world’s business schools to the Nobel Prize. The book addresses the topics with regards to the sociology of elites, management education and organizational studies and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students also interested in business history, higher education studies, and sociology of education.

Bourdieu in the City

Author : Loïc Wacquant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509556451
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Bourdieu in the City written by Loïc Wacquant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and physical space (the built environment). On this reading, Bourdieu's topological sociology gives us the tools both to energize and also to challenge the canon of urban studies and to redraw their theoretical landscape. Compact and incisive, Bourdieu in the City will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, and social theory.

Handbook of Urban Segregation

Author : Sako Musterd
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788115600
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Urban Segregation written by Sako Musterd and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition it tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. This timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed.

Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World

Author : Richard Ronald
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784738
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World written by Richard Ronald and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate. Markets have boomed and bust and boomed again with residential property increasingly a focus of wealth accumulation practices. While analyses have largely focussed on global flows of capital and large institutions, families have served as critical actors. Housing properties are family goods that shape how members interact, organise themselves, and deal with the vicissitudes of everyday economic life. Families have, moreover, increasingly mobilized around their homes as assets, aligning household transitions and practices towards the accumulation of property wealth. The capacities of different families to realise this, however, are highly uneven with housing conditions becoming increasingly central to growing inequalities and processes of social stratification. This book addresses changing relationships between families and their homes over the latest period of neo-liberalization. The book confronts how transformations in households, life-course transitions, kinship and intergenerational relations shape, and are being shaped by, the shifting role of property markets in social and economic processes. The chapters explore this in terms of different aspects of home, family life and socioeconomic change across varied national contexts.

Fashion, Desire and Anxiety

Author : Rebecca Arnold
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813529042
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Desire and Anxiety written by Rebecca Arnold and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon both contemporary visual and written sources, this book illuminates the role that fashion plays in reflecting and shaping attitudes toward display and adornment. As traditional cultural notions of what is admissible or acceptable have fragmented, fashion has been a key site for experimentation. At both the haute couture and street level, clothing enables identities to be visualized, confronting the spectator with contradictory messages embodying the confusion of the time.Rebecca Arnold focuses on the last thirty years and places the desires and anxieties that surround fashion in their historical context. She highlights four key themes: -- Status, Power, and Display (the flaunting of wealth, the alienating power structures of good taste), -- Violence and Provocation (the rising tide of aggression in both fashion imagery and street styles), -- The Eroticized Body (the power of sex and display and the pressure to conform to ideals), and -- Gender and Subversion (the blurring of identity to disguise and confuse).This richly illustrated book always keeps its focus on the historical and ethical potential and possibilities that modern fashion embodies.

Aniventure

Author : James Talbott
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446156486
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Aniventure written by James Talbott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whole new way to enjoy roleplaying games in the media of Japanese Anime. Includes a brand new, high flying dice mechanic: The Stacks System. Covers all genres, from Shounen and Action to Romance and Comedy. Highly customisable, with hundreds of powers, mannerisms, gadgets and mecha for your character to use. Build it how you want to play it. For more details, see the blog page at http: //detarame.wordpress.com/aniventure/ This is the Paperback and PDF downloadable edition. For the more durable Hardback, http: //www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/aniventure-5/11917823

Shades of Milk and Honey

Author : Mary Robinette Kowal
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429963367
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Milk and Honey written by Mary Robinette Kowal and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had written Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer: Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love in a world where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. Jane and her sister Melody vie for the attentions of eligible men, and while Jane's skill with glamour is remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face. When Jane realizes that one of Melody's suitors is set on taking advantage of her sister for the sake of her dowry, she pushes her skills to the limit of what her body can withstand in order to set things right-and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Glamour in Glass

Author : Mary Robinette Kowal
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429987286
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Glamour in Glass written by Mary Robinette Kowal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. Shades debuted to great acclaim and left readers eagerly awaiting its sequel. Glamour in Glass continues following the lives of beloved main characters Jane and Vincent, with a much deeper vein of drama and intrigue. In the tumultuous months after Napoleon abdicates his throne, Jane and Vincent go to Belgium for their honeymoon. While there, the deposed emperor escapes his exile in Elba, throwing the continent into turmoil. With no easy way back to England, Jane and Vincent's concerns turn from enjoying their honeymoon...to escaping it. Left with no outward salvation, Jane must persevere over her trying personal circumstances and use her glamour to rescue her husband from prison . . . and hopefully prevent her newly built marriage from getting stranded on the shoals of another country's war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Somewhere in the Night

Author : Nicholas Christopher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439137617
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Somewhere in the Night written by Nicholas Christopher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film noir is more than a cinematic genre. It is an essential aspect of American culture. Along with the cowboy of the Wild West, the denizen of the film noir city is at the very center of our mythological iconography. Described as the style of an anxious victor, film noir began during the post-war period, a strange time of hope and optimism mixed with fear and even paranoia. The shadow of this rich and powerful cinematic style can now be seen in virtually every artistic medium. The spectacular success of recent neo-film noirs is only the tip of an iceberg. In the dead-on, nocturnal jazz of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the chilled urban landscapes of Edward Hopper, and postwar literary fiction from Nelson Algren and William S. Burroughs to pulp masters like Horace McCoy, we find an unsettling recognition of the dark hollowness beneath the surface of the American Dream. Acclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher explores the cultural identity of film noir in a seamless, elegant, and enchanting work of literary prose. Examining virtually the entire catalogue of film noir, Christopher identifies the central motif as the urban labyrinth, a place infested with psychosis, anxiety, and existential dread in which the noir hero embarks on a dangerously illuminating quest. With acute sensitivity, he shows how technical devices such as lighting, voice over, and editing tempo are deployed to create the film noir world. Somewhere in the Night guides us through the architecture of this imaginary world, be it shot in New York or Los Angeles, relating its elements to the ancient cultural archetypes that prefigure it. Finally, Christopher builds an explanation of why film noir not only lives on but is currently enjoying a renaissance. Somewhere in the Night can be appreciated as a lucid introduction to a fundamental style of American culture, and also as a guide to film noir's heyday. Ultimately, though, as the work of a bold talent adeptly manipulating poetic cadence and metaphor, it is itself a superb aesthetic artifact.

Glamour

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glamour written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The System of Antichrist

Author : Charles Upton
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588389
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The System of Antichrist written by Charles Upton and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The System of Antichrist examines the present religious and cultural scene from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics and critiques the New Age spiritualities within their postmodern context. Its many references to Rene Guenon and Frithjof Schuon also help introduce these important but little-known 'traditionalist' thinkers. The book presents lore relating to the 'latter days' of the present cycle from the vantage point of comparative religion, drawing upon relevant doctrines from Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, and the Native American traditions. It also speculates upon the social, psychic, and spiritual nature of that being known to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as the Antichrist, presenting him as both an individual and a system and warning those willing to be warned against the spiritual seduction and terror he represents, and against the regime which will be-and is-the social expression of that seduction and that terror. Finally, in tracing the roots of Antichrist in the fallen nature of man, the author sketches the particular quality of spirituality proper to apocalyptic times, the dangers it faces, the unique opportunities open to it. And along the way he describes his own course from the 'spiritual revolution' of the 1960s, through the world of New Age spiritualities, to the threshold of traditional esoterism and metaphysics. As he says, speaking of the angst that characterizes the modern world: 'The specific medicine for the shock of despair is the deeper shock of meaning. Nothing but the weight of eternity, breaking through the thin, brittle shell of the postmodern sky, can set us on our feet.'"

Emotional Well-being and Mental Health

Author : Digby Tantam
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473908485
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Emotional Well-being and Mental Health written by Digby Tantam and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-being is an important topic for many different professions. From health professionals to politicians, a number of fields seek to research, understand and promote wellbeing. As a concept at the heart of psychotherapeutic practice, it is essential that trainee and practising therapists understand the distinctive contribution to our understanding of well-being that each of these professions have made. In this unique text, author Digby Tantam explores the philosophical, political, economical, psychological, medical and spiritual perspectives on well-being through a psychotherapeutic lens, explaining current research data and summarising findings. Theoretical approaches are balanced with an insight into their practical applications, showing therapists how each approach can inform their practice and make a real difference to the life satisfaction and health of their clients.

Law, Wealth and Power in China

Author : John Garrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136894993
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Law, Wealth and Power in China written by John Garrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the law reforms of contemporary China in light of the Party-state’s ideological transformation and the political economy that shapes these reforms. This involves analysing three interrelated domains: law reform, power and wealth. The contributors to this volume employ a variety of perspectives and analytical techniques in their discussion of key themes including: commercial law reform and its governance of wealth and regulation of economic activity; the influence and authority of the Party-state over China’s economic activity; and the influence of wealth and the wealthy in economic governance and legal reform. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents analytical perspectives of new work, or new lines of thinking about the new wealth, power and law reforms of China. As such, critical boundaries are explored between legal and financial reforms and what these reforms signify about deeper ideological, economic, social and cultural transformations in China. The book concludes by asking whether there is a ‘China model’ of development which will produce a unique variety of capitalism and indigenous variant of rule of law, and examining the ‘winners and losers’ in the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. Law, Wealth and Power in China will be of interest to students and academics of comparative law, Asian law, Chinese economics and politics, Chinese Studies, as well as professionals in investment banking, finance and government.

Dematerializing

Author : Jane Hammerslough
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786745592
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Dematerializing written by Jane Hammerslough and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Getting what you want" today is increasingly linked to buying something. But is the purchase always enough? Picking up where "simplifying" may not satisfy, Dematerializing acknowledges the pleasures, along with the pitfalls, of living in a material world. With a sharp reporter's eye and a wry sensibility, Jane Hammerslough encourages readers to explore how a consumption-crazed culture affects their own relationships with objects. By considering what possessions can and can't do, and by exploring where belief in the magic of the material encroaches on belief in ourselves and other people, Dematerializing offers insight into the pressures of living in a possession-obsessed environment--and ways to tame materialism in our own lives. Grounded by real-world examples, research, and the author's own experience, this inspiring book is for those who appreciate having "nice things" but are also disturbed by the control "nice things" sometimes have on their lives.

Dirty Work

Author : R. Simpson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230393535
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Dirty Work written by R. Simpson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' – tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work identities are managed.