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Serious Money

Walking Plutocratic London

de Caroline Knowles ...

**'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times**London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we ... Leer más

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**'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times**London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we
... Leer más

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Flip-Flop

A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads

de Caroline Knowles ...

Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015*This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation.Rather ... Leer más

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*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015*This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation.Rather
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Uneasy Streets

How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain

de Caroline Knowles ...

At the high tide of UK-China relations, Chinese investors pumped billions into British property and projects each year, promising urban renewal and economic prosperity. But as political tides turned in both countries, the money dried up. A decade on, we live in the ruins of this "golden era." Caroline Knowles explores China's global influence from the bottom up. Focusing on London and Manchester, ... Leer más

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At the high tide of UK-China relations, Chinese investors pumped billions into British property and projects each year, promising urban renewal and economic prosperity. But as political tides turned in both countries, the money dried up. A decade on, we live in the ruins of this "golden era." Caroline Knowles explores China's global influence from the bottom up. Focusing on London and Manchester,
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我所看到的上流生活：社會學家的金權倫敦踏查報告:深入挖掘特權、財富、金融投機與嚴密階級高牆共同掩蔽的都會實景

Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London

de 卡若琳．諾斯, Caroline Knowles ...

Series series 臉譜書房
一部財富與富人們隱密棲地的實地踏查報告都會中財閥勢力與富豪特權的暗黑民族誌洪敬舒臺灣勞工陣線協會研究部主任黃克先國立臺灣大學社會學系教授、《危殆生活》作者盧郁佳作家丹尼．道靈（Danny Dorling）《大減速》（Slowdown）作者——推薦貧窮與超乎想像的富裕並存於同一時空，甚至往往就在倫敦同一條街上，街道兩端連起超級富豪坐擁的萬貫家財，以及窮人在當中愈陷愈深的赤貧跟剝奪。究竟是什麼，讓屬於公眾的都市變成這副模樣？在倫敦這座國際大都市，有錢人的數量及資產規模正以驚人速度增長。超級富豪是這座城市最令人不安也最神祕的存在。他們過著不論在社會、政治或環境層面上，都不具永續性的生活，也成了我們這時代亟待解決的問題。上世紀至今的歷代英國政府蓄意建構一種政經生態系，去支撐匯集於私人手中的極端財富；主政者稱之為「一道能讓大小船隻一起上漲的潮水」。實情是，貧富差距已達到難以想像的地步，<.. ... Leer más

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一部財富與富人們隱密棲地的實地踏查報告都會中財閥勢力與富豪特權的暗黑民族誌洪敬舒臺灣勞工陣線協會研究部主任黃克先國立臺灣大學社會學系教授、《危殆生活》作者盧郁佳作家丹尼．道靈（Danny Dorling）《大減速》（Slowdown）作者——推薦貧窮與超乎想像的富裕並存於同一時空，甚至往往就在倫敦同一條街上，街道兩端連起超級富豪坐擁的萬貫家財，以及窮人在當中愈陷愈深的赤貧跟剝奪。究竟是什麼，讓屬於公眾的都市變成這副模樣？在倫敦這座國際大都市，有錢人的數量及資產規模正以驚人速度增長。超級富豪是這座城市最令人不安也最神祕的存在。他們過著不論在社會、政治或環境層面上，都不具永續性的生活，也成了我們這時代亟待解決的問題。上世紀至今的歷代英國政府蓄意建構一種政經生態系，去支撐匯集於私人手中的極端財富；主政者稱之為「一道能讓大小船隻一起上漲的潮水」。實情是，貧富差距已達到難以想像的地步，<..
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Race, Discourse and Labourism

de Caroline Knowles ...

Series series International Library of Sociology
Race, Discourse and Labourism argues that the commonwealth of socialism is founded upon a well-concealed history of brutality and repression. Caroline Knowles details the historical conditions of the emergence of race through Labour's dealings with Indian independence negotiations and anti-semitism in the thirties, and the effects of this on the conceptions of black citizenship, multi-racialism ... Leer más

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Race, Discourse and Labourism argues that the commonwealth of socialism is founded upon a well-concealed history of brutality and repression. Caroline Knowles details the historical conditions of the emergence of race through Labour's dealings with Indian independence negotiations and anti-semitism in the thirties, and the effects of this on the conceptions of black citizenship, multi-racialism
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Hong Kong

Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys

de Caroline Knowles, Douglas Harper ...

Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography.Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper’s point of entry ... Leer más

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In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography.Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper’s point of entry
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Race and Social Analysis

de Caroline Knowles ...

′This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research′ - Ethnic and Racial Studies′The book is well laid out with glossaries of significant new terms and summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, extensive notes and a very useful bibliography. Knowle′s book is a welcome contribution to our ... Leer más

$93.99 USD

′This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research′ - Ethnic and Racial Studies′The book is well laid out with glossaries of significant new terms and summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, extensive notes and a very useful bibliography. Knowle′s book is a welcome contribution to our
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Bedlam on the Streets

de Caroline Knowles ...

What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go?This hard-hitting and controversial new book traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, shopping centres and fast food outlets. This social geography of madness is situated within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the ... Leer más

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What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go?This hard-hitting and controversial new book traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, shopping centres and fast food outlets. This social geography of madness is situated within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the
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Picturing the Social Landscape

Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination

de Caroline Knowles, Paul Sweetman ...

We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing ... Leer más

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We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing
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Serious Money

Walking Plutocratic London

de Caroline Knowles ...

Narrado por Caroline Knowles ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead?To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks ... Leer más

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Brought to you by Penguin.London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead?To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks
... Leer más

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Spice:The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

de 羅傑．克勞利 ...

Traducido por 鄭煥昇 ...

Series series Historia歷史學堂
最會說故事的歷史作家!!「地中海三部曲」作者羅傑．克勞利又一令人讚嘆新作氣勢磅薄、衝擊力十足!!香料，十六世紀形塑現代世界的大競賽!!香料史上的地理大發現葡、西兩國遠東大對決十六世紀最驚駭、刺激的海上長征開啟強權帝國殖民序幕專文推薦——劉慧 (國立東華大學歷史學系助理教授)讚嘆推薦——孔令偉（中研究歷史語言研究所助理研究員）江仲淵（「歷史說書人History Storyteller」創辦人）陳國棟（中研院歷史研究所教授）陸大鵬（中國歷史書專業譯者）本書將告訴你：▎推動歐洲人探索東方的動力不是絲綢，而是香料▎投效西班牙的葡萄牙人麥哲倫如何帶領探險隊經歷險惡航程▎連結起香料史上第一個牽涉到的地緣政治經濟鏈▎香料貿易促使世界貨幣統一為白銀，加速全球貿易開展▎揭開強權帝國第一次向外擴張殖民的序幕... ... Leer más

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最會說故事的歷史作家!!「地中海三部曲」作者羅傑．克勞利又一令人讚嘆新作氣勢磅薄、衝擊力十足!!香料，十六世紀形塑現代世界的大競賽!!香料史上的地理大發現葡、西兩國遠東大對決十六世紀最驚駭、刺激的海上長征開啟強權帝國殖民序幕專文推薦——劉慧 (國立東華大學歷史學系助理教授)讚嘆推薦——孔令偉（中研究歷史語言研究所助理研究員）江仲淵（「歷史說書人History Storyteller」創辦人）陳國棟（中研院歷史研究所教授）陸大鵬（中國歷史書專業譯者）本書將告訴你：▎推動歐洲人探索東方的動力不是絲綢，而是香料▎投效西班牙的葡萄牙人麥哲倫如何帶領探險隊經歷險惡航程▎連結起香料史上第一個牽涉到的地緣政治經濟鏈▎香料貿易促使世界貨幣統一為白銀，加速全球貿易開展▎揭開強權帝國第一次向外擴張殖民的序幕...
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借錢：從利息、債務到金融商品，2000年的演變真貌

Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt

de 查爾斯．蓋斯特 ...

Traducido por 蔣小虎 ...

Series Libro 15 - Sense
**從古羅馬至今，「**借錢」是怎麼一路演變成金融商品？**還原歷時兩千年的真實現場，**聚焦重大金融事件，揭露「借錢」背後的人性規律，看****借貸從罪大惡極，搖身成為繁榮商業不可或缺的金融手段工具**！**不論從道德還是法律層面，「高利貸」歷經了數世紀的口誅筆伐，然而它的豐厚盈利回報實在太過誘人，即便問題叢生，人們終於還是按捺不住！不僅以此為業，展開雙臂接受信貸、次貸，甚至以此為基礎，創造出更多金融商品。於是，「借錢」在歷史上留下了各種耐人尋味的足跡：★在自由市場與經濟正義中，借貸取利的人類活動將會如何發展？★為何複利被愛因斯坦戲稱是「世界第八大奇蹟」？★羅馬法律認為單利合理，複利有違天理？！★歐洲中古世紀教會徹底禁止利息，然而亞當．斯密（Adam Smith）卻鼓吹利率上限。★放貸收息的演進，... ... Leer más

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**從古羅馬至今，「**借錢」是怎麼一路演變成金融商品？**還原歷時兩千年的真實現場，**聚焦重大金融事件，揭露「借錢」背後的人性規律，看****借貸從罪大惡極，搖身成為繁榮商業不可或缺的金融手段工具**！**不論從道德還是法律層面，「高利貸」歷經了數世紀的口誅筆伐，然而它的豐厚盈利回報實在太過誘人，即便問題叢生，人們終於還是按捺不住！不僅以此為業，展開雙臂接受信貸、次貸，甚至以此為基礎，創造出更多金融商品。於是，「借錢」在歷史上留下了各種耐人尋味的足跡：★在自由市場與經濟正義中，借貸取利的人類活動將會如何發展？★為何複利被愛因斯坦戲稱是「世界第八大奇蹟」？★羅馬法律認為單利合理，複利有違天理？！★歐洲中古世紀教會徹底禁止利息，然而亞當．斯密（Adam Smith）卻鼓吹利率上限。★放貸收息的演進，...
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