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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)
Download or read book 50 Jahre Oesterreichische Postsparkasse written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jürgen Backhaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319100556
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Great Nations at Peril written by Jürgen Backhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was prompted by the current, lingering financial crisis, which has its basis in the disorderly financial practices of the United States. These practices have resulted in an accumulated debt which now requires the United States to run financial policies at artificially low interest rates. In principle, these low interest rates should flood the markets with ready money. Since the spread for banks is very thin, however, and they must carefully discriminate between available risks and finance only those propositions with no risk, credit is not abundantly available. With staggering foreign debt and a myriad of other perils looming, this great nation is at peril for sure. In the tradition of the Heilbronn Symposium, the authors look at historical cases as a means of understanding the current situation and informing possible solutions to a problem that continues to affect the global economy. The volume analyzes cases such as Prussia, Greece, Italy, Estonia, and the European Union. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of economic history as well as policy makers who may benefit from an historical understanding of the economic challenges their countries currently face.
Author : Stathis Gourgouris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550022
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Perils of the One written by Stathis Gourgouris and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler, a transcendental deity, or an Event, which they embrace with unquestioned devotion. Such obsessions precipitate contempt for the worldliness of real bodies in real time and refusal of responsibility and agency. In The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of “monarchical thinking”: the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political, moral, theological, or secular. In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, intellectual and passionate, Gourgouris reads across politics and theology, literary and art criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism in a critique of both political theology and the metaphysics of secularism. He engages with a range of figures from the Apostle Paul and Trinitarian theologians, to La Boétie, Schmitt, and Freud, to contemporary thinkers such as Clastres, Said, Castoriadis, Žižek, Butler, and Irigaray. At once a broad perspective on human history and a detailed examination of our present moment, The Perils of the One offers glimpses of what a counterpolitics of autonomy would look like from anarchic subjectivities that refuse external ideals, resist the allure of command and obedience, and embrace otherness.
Author : Robert Benton Seeley
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Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Perils of the Nation written by Robert Benton Seeley and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte Elizabeth
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Perils of the nation written by Charlotte Elizabeth and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061187
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Promise and Peril written by Christopher McKnight Nichols and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.
Author : Thomas Fleming
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061870102
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Perils of Peace written by Thomas Fleming and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. But the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear. A 13,000 man British army still occupied New York City, and another 13,000 regulars and armed loyalists were scattered from Canada to Savannah, Georgia. Meanwhile, Congress had declined to a mere 24 members, and the national treasury was empty. The American army had not been paid for years and was on the brink of mutiny. In Europe, America's only ally, France, teetered on the verge of bankruptcy and was soon reeling from a disastrous naval defeat in the Caribbean. A stubborn George III dismissed Yorktown as a minor defeat and refused to yield an acre of "my dominions" in America. In Paris, Ambassador Benjamin Franklin confronted violent hostility to France among his fellow members of the American peace delegation. In his riveting new book, Thomas Fleming moves elegantly between the key players in this drama and shows that the outcome we take for granted was far from certain. Not without anguish, General Washington resisted the urgings of many officers to seize power and held the angry army together until peace and independence arrived. With fresh research and masterful storytelling, Fleming breathes new life into this tumultuous but little known period in America's history.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780530061580
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Perils of the Nation written by Anonymous and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David Cay Johnston
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589236
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Divided written by David Cay Johnston and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the super–rich. The Occupy movement made the plight of the 99 percent an indelible part of the public consciousness, and concerns about inequality were a decisive factor in the 2012 presidential elections. How bad is it? According to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Cay Johnston, most Americans, in inflation–adjusted terms, are now back to the average income of 1966. Shockingly, from 2009 to 2011, the top 1 percent got 121 percent of the income gains while the bottom 99 percent saw their income fall. Yet in this most unequal of developed nations, every aspect of inequality remains hotly contested and poorly understood. Divided collects the writings of leading scholars, activists, and journalists to provide an illuminating, multifaceted look at inequality in America, exploring its devastating implications in areas as diverse as education, justice, health care, social mobility, and political representation. Provocative and eminently readable, here is an essential resource for anyone who cares about the future of America—and compelling evidence that inequality can be ignored only at the nation’s peril.
Author : L.P. Hoffman
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1935375059
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Third Peril written by L.P. Hoffman and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1777, General George Washington experienced a divine visitation at Valley Forge. “Three great perils will come upon this nation.” An angelic being describes the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, but warns, “The Third Peril will be the worst.” Today, this message is revisited. Five-year-old Connor Hays, son of the Chief Economic Advisor to the President of the United States, insists that an angel told him, “War is coming to America!” But who will believe a child?
Author : Gary D. Rhodes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144113610X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Perils of Moviegoing in America written by Gary D. Rhodes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema.
Author : Eric A. Posner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226675920
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Perils of Global Legalism written by Eric A. Posner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first months of the Obama administration have led to expectations, both in the United States and abroad, that in the coming years America will increasingly promote the international rule of law—a position that many believe is both ethically necessary and in the nation’s best interests. With The Perils of Global Legalism, Eric A. Posner explains that such views demonstrate a dangerously naive tendency toward legalism—an idealistic belief that law can be effective even in the absence of legitimate institutions of governance. After tracing the historical roots of the concept, Posner carefully lays out the many illusions—such as universalism, sovereign equality, and the possibility of disinterested judgment by politically unaccountable officials—on which the legalistic view is founded. Drawing on such examples as NATO’s invasion of Serbia, attempts to ban the use of land mines, and the free-trade provisions of the WTO, Posner demonstrates throughout that the weaknesses of international law confound legalist ambitions—and that whatever their professed commitments, all nations stand ready to dispense with international agreements when it suits their short- or long-term interests. Provocative and sure to be controversial, The Perils of Global Legalism will serve as a wake-up call for those who view global legalism as a panacea—and a reminder that international relations in a brutal world allow no room for illusions.
Author : John MACLEOD (D.D., Minister of Kilmarnock.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Dependence on God, the best security of nations amidst the perils of war. A sermon, preached to the third regiment of Ayrshire local militia, in the parish church of Kilmarnock, on the 10th of June 1810 written by John MACLEOD (D.D., Minister of Kilmarnock.) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Edward Leuchtenburg
Publisher : [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226473697
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32 written by William Edward Leuchtenburg and published by [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that transformed America from an agrarian, primarily decentralized, moralistic, isolationist nation into an industrial, urban morally liberalized nation involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself. Beginning with Wilson and the entrance of the United States into World War I, Mr. Leuchtenburg covers the range of subsequent events: the fight over the League of Nations; the postwar Red scares and Palmer raids; the politics and foreign policy of the Harding and Coolidge administrations; the fate of progressivism in the twenties; the revolution in morals; the impact of the prosperity of the twenties on American character; the "political fundamentalism" which resulted in immigration restriction, the Scopes trial, Prohibition, and the Ku Klux Klan; Hoover and the early years of the depression--all reflecting the conflict between rural and urban attitudes that reached its crisis in the presidential campaign of 1928 and was finally settled as an aftermath of the collapse of 1929."--Back cover.
Author : John Moffat
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Nation's Peril and the Way of Escape written by John Moffat and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perils of the Nation an Appeal to the Legislature, the Clergy, and Higher and Middle Classes written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Geschiere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226289664
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Perils of Belonging written by Peter Geschiere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being told that we now live in a cosmopolitan world, more and more people have begun to assert their identities in ways that are deeply rooted in the local. These claims of autochthony—meaning “born from the soil”—seek to establish an irrefutable, primordial right to belong and are often employed in politically charged attempts to exclude outsiders. In The Perils of Belonging, Peter Geschiere traces the concept of autochthony back to the classical period and incisively explores the idea in two very different contexts: Cameroon and the Netherlands. In both countries, the momentous economic and political changes following the end of the cold war fostered anxiety over migration. For Cameroonians, the question of who belongs where rises to the fore in political struggles between different tribes, while the Dutch invoke autochthony in fierce debates over the integration of immigrants. This fascinating comparative perspective allows Geschiere to examine the emotional appeal of autochthony—as well as its dubious historical basis—and to shed light on a range of important issues, such as multiculturalism, national citizenship, and migration.
