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A clear look at the many good individuals and companies in the fitness industry.
Author : Stephen Grisanti
Publisher : Stephen Grisanti
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780972069519
A clear look at the many good individuals and companies in the fitness industry.
Author : Andreas Reckwitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509545719
We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion. It is only now that we can see clearly the real scope and structure of the profound shifts that Western societies have undergone over the last 30 years. Classical industrial society has been transformed into a late-modern society that is molded by polarization and paradoxes. The pervasive singularization of the social, the orientation toward the unique and exceptional, generates systematic asymmetries and disparities, and hence progress and unease go hand in hand. Reckwitz examines this dual structure of singularization and polarization as it plays itself out in the different sectors of our societies and, in so doing, he outlines the central structural features of the present: the new class society, the characteristics of a postindustrial economy, the conflict about culture and identity, the exhaustion of the self resulting from the imperative to seek authentic fulfillment, and the political crisis of liberalism. Building on his path-breaking work The Society of Singularities, this new book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with the great social and political issues of our time.
Author : David A. Cook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520232655
This volume examines the development of film and the film industry during the 1970s and the political and economic background that influenced it.
Author : Martin S. Fridson
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 1993-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
What the experts are saying about INVESTMENT ILLUSIONS "One of the most entertaining, readable, and well-informed books on personal investing that I have seen. With erudition and wit, Fridson takes aim at the shibboleths, sacred cows, and snakeoil salesmen of the personal investing industry. Investment Illusions is a practical and engaging 'how-not-to' guide." --Stuart C. Gilson, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University. "Investment Illusions presents much good financial advice and a great deal of financial history, especially recent financial history, in an easy-to-read style. I enjoyed it." --Harry M. Markowitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Marvin Speiser Professor of Finance and Economics, Baruch College. "Once in a while, you read a book which makes you think, 'I wish I'd read this book ten years ago.' Investment Illusions is such a book. I found it highly entertaining as well as instructive--the kind of book you pass on to a friend." --Richard Lehmann, President, Bond Investors Association. "Illusions can seem tangible and yet be fallacious. As usual, Marty Fridson uncovers minefields in some of the most important investment fundamentals in a clever and intuitive fashion." --Tony Kao, Director of Investment Research, General Motors Investment Management Corporation.
Author : Russ Kick
Publisher : Red Wheel Weiser
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1609258789
The third of Russ Kick’s bestselling Disinformation Guides gathers another all-star line-up of exposés: Juries have ruled in recent trials that Watergate was really about a Democratic Party prostitution ring. Ignored in the U.S. and distorted elsewhere, the Milosevic tribunal hasn’t gone the way authorities were anticipating. (We present exclusive first-hand reporting from the trial). Most theologians don’t believe in the physical Resurrection of Jesus. In 2001, the U.S. uncovered the biggest spy ring in the country since WWII, yet most people never heard about it. The U.S. is engaging in bioweapons research that violates international treaties and federal law. (The New York Times knows about this but refuses to report it). Teddy Roosevelt and Wall Street created Panama for profit. Gandhi wasn’t so wonderful, after all. These are just some of the revelations in the third of our all-star anthologies. Following up on bestsellers You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, editor Russ Kick has again assembled a line-up of leading investigative journalists, academics, activists, commentators, and independent researchers, covering CIA assassinations, the anthrax attacks, fluoride, TWA 800, Abraham Lincoln, child protective services, the tobacco industry, forgotten uprisings, the government's missing trillions, even more revelations about 9/11 and much more. Contributors include Gary Webb, Greg Palast, Noreena Hertz, Howard Zinn, Douglas Valentine, Jim Hougan, Kristina Borjesson, Arianna Huffington and many more well-known writers—some of whom you’ll be extremely surprised to see in these pages!
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Graham Smith
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0345322630
A behind-the-scenes look at the world of special effects discusses a wide range of ingenious techniques--from computer graphics and optical compositing to matte printing and model construction--used in such films as "Star Wars," "Poltergeist," and "Raider
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher :
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Labor unions
ISBN :