Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki File Type: epub On the heels of his 2010 New York Times bestseller Conspiracy of the Rich, Robert Kiyosaki takes a new and hard-hitting look at the factors that impact people from all walks of life as they struggle to cope with change and challenges that impact their financial world. In Unfair Advantage &mdash The Power of Financial Education Robert underscores his messages and challenges readers to change their context and act in a new way. Readers are advised to stop blindly accepting that they are disadvantaged people with limited options. They are encouraged to act beyond their concept of limited options and challenge the preconception that they will struggle financially all of their lives. Roberts fresh approach to his time-tested messages includes clear, actionable steps that any individual or family can take, starting with education. Education becomes applied knowledge, a powerful tactic with measurable results. In true Rich Dad style, readers will be challenged to understand two points of view, and experience how financial knowledge is their unfair advantage. Why do the rich get richer even in a financial crisis? In his new book, An Unfair Advantage, Robert confirms his message and challenges readers to change their context and act in a new way. Readers are advised to stop blindly accepting that they are disadvantaged people with limited options and challenge the notion that they will struggle, financially, all their lives. What does school teach you about money? In most cases, the answer is Not much. If there is any financial education, the courses are taught by financial planners and bankers the agents of Wall Street and the big banks, the very people that caused and profited from the financial crisis. This book is about real financial education. This book is about how debt and taxes make the rich richer &hellip and why debt and taxes makes the poor and middle class struggle. This book explains why the rich get richer, paying less in taxes, while the middle class shrinks &mdash with many losing jobs, homes, and retirement &mdash and paying more in taxes. This book is about the five unfair advantages a real financial education offers. The Unfair Advantage of Knowledge The Unfair Advantage of Taxes The Unfair Advantage of Debt The Unfair Advantage of Risk The Unfair Advantage of Compensation These five unfair advantages are the outcomes of real financial education. ** On the heels of his 2010 New York Times bestseller Conspiracy of the Rich, Robert Kiyosaki takes a new and hard-hitting look at the factors that impact people from all walks of life as they struggle to cope with change and challenges that impact their financial world.In Unfair Advantage &mdash The Power of Financial Education Robert underscores his messages and challen...more

Author: Thomas Bernhard File Type: epub Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as Austrias finest postwar writer and by George Steiner as one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. Faber Finds is proud to reissue a selection of four of Bernhards finest novels.Wittgensteins Nephew (1982) opens in 1967 as two men lie bedridden in separate wings of a Viennese hospital. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their once-casual friendship quickens, these eccentric men begin to see in each other a possible antidote to their feelings of hopelessness and mortality, on the unexpected strength of what they hold in common.Furious, obsessive, scathing, absolutely hilarious and oddly beautiful. Claire Messud, SalonA memento mori that approaches genius. Richard Locke, Wall Street Journal**

Author: Rebecca Shumway File Type: pdf Ghana-for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years-remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading. The work assembled in this collection explores the history of slavery in Ghana and its legacy for both Ghana and the descendants of people sold as slaves from the Gold Coast? in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. The volume is structured to reflect four overlapping areas of investigation the changing nature of slavery in Ghana, including the ways in which enslaved people have been integrated into or excluded from kinship systems, social institutions, politics, and the workforce over time the long-standing connections forged between Ghana and the Americas and Europe through the transatlantic trading system and the forced migration of enslaved people the development of indigenous and transnational anti-slavery ideologies and the legacy of slavery and its ongoing reverberations in Ghanaian and diasporic society. Bringing together key scholars from Ghana, Europe and the USA who introduce new sources, frames and methodologies including heritage, gender, critical race, and culture studies, and drawing on archival documents and oral histories, Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora will be of great interest to scholars and students of comparative slavery, abolition and West African history. **Review This volume is a critical reference for anyone who is interested in the history of slavery and its legacy in Ghana. It contributes to the existing literature on the African diaspora and to a well-established history of slavery that seeks to emphasize the assimilative character of indigenous African slavery. * Mohammed Bashir Salau, Associate Professor of History, University of Mississippi, USA * Rebecca Shumway and Trevor Getz have assembled an excellent team of scholars whose expertise and research in slavery and Ghanaian studies are combined to provide an excellent documentation and analysis of a difficult subject. For students and scholars interested in learning more about the nature and challenges of slavery and its abolition on the Gold Coast, this is the book for you. * David Owusu-Ansah, Professor of History, James Madison University, USA * Engaging and provocative, this is an essential text, not just for specialists in the history of slavery in Ghana and its Diaspora, but for anyone interested in the history of West Africa and its relations to the wider Atlantic world. * Manuel Barcia, Professor of Latin American History, University of Leeds, UK * The essays collectively achieve the complex task of confronting the related and yet distinct histories of slavery that connect to Ghana. Readers are encouraged to understand the lexicon of terms and varied experiences of slaves in Ghana, as well as the connections between Western African and wider-world understandings of slavery that often prioritise the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Importantly, the collection also speaks to how these sensitive issues continue to play out within Ghanaian societies today. * Victoria Ellen Smith, Lecturer, University of Ghana, Ghana * About the Author Rebecca Shumway is Assistant Professor of History at the College of Charleston, USA. She is the author of The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2011). Trevor R. Getz is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Abina and the Important Men (2011), winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize.

Author: Mara Marin File Type: pdf Saying that political and social oppression is a deeply unjust and widespread condition of life is not a terribly controversial statement. Likewise, theorists of justice frequently consider our obligation to not turn a blind eye to oppression. But what is our culpability in the endurance of oppression? In this book, Mara Marin complicates the primary ways in which we make sense of human and political relationships and our obligations within them. Rather than thinking of relationships in terms of our intentions, Marin thinks of them as open-ended and subject to ongoing commitments. Commitments create open-ended expectations and vulnerabilities on the part of others, and therefore also obligations. By this rationale, our actions sustain oppressive or productive structures in virtue of their cumulative effects, not the intentions of the actors.When we violate our obligations we oppress others. Over the chapters of her book, Marin applies her model of commitment to caregivers, marriage, and bargaining power between labor and employers, and examines three types of social relations political-legal relations, intimate relations of care, and work relations. By linking habitual action to obligation, Marin argues that we should see our responsibilities within such relationships as political and as creating norms for behavior over time. Commitment both points to the support our actions give to oppressive structures and to the ways in which our actions can weaken the same structures. Connected by Commitment examines our obligations to transform structures of oppression and offers commitment as a model for solidarity across race, gender, and class.