Author: Peter J. Sander File Type: epub Money management is more complicated than ever - you have to deal with yo-yoing stock markets, rising health care and home prices, taxes, and employment. Everywhere you look, theres more to worry about. Where do you start? The 250 Personal Finance Questions Everyone Should Ask gives you the simple, straightforward answers you need to protect your finances. Written in a quick, easy, accessible style, this comprehensive handbook book takes you through twenty-five key financial categories, includingDaily FinancesBuilding WealthRetirementPlanning for Life EventsTaxesThe 250 Personal Finance Questions Everyone Should Ask is the personal finance guide that will answer your immediate questions - and serve as a reference for years to come.

Author: Thomas Leitch File Type: epub Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print encyclopedias and college professors, who are skeptical about whether a crowd-sourced encyclopediain which most entries are subject to potentially endless reviewing and editing by anonymous collaborators whose credentials cannot be establishedcan ever truly be accurate or authoritative. In Wikipedia U, Thomas Leitch argues that the assumptions these critics make about accuracy and authority are themselves open to debate. After all, academics are expected both to consult the latest research and to return to the earliest sources in their field, each of which has its own authority. And when teachers encourage students to master information so that they can question it independently, their ultimate goal is to create a new generation of thinkers and makers whose authority will ultimately supplant their own. Wikipedia U offers vital new lessons about the nature of authority and the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0. Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, the encyclopedia game, played online. -- Joseph Michael Reagle Jr., Northeastern University, author of Good Faith Collaboration The Culture of Wikipedia

Author: Mikl S. Szentkuthy File Type: epub Marginalia on Casanova, the first volume of the St. Orpheus Breviary, is Miklos Szentkuthys synthesis of 2,000 years of European culture. St. Orpheus is Szentkuthys Virgil, an omniscient, poet who guides us not through hell, but through all of recorded history, myth, religion, and literature, albeit reimagined as St. Orpheus metamorphosizes himself into kings, popes, saints, tyrants, and artists. At once pagan and Christian, Greek and Hebrew, Asian and European, St. Orpheus is a mosaic of history and mankind in one supra-person and veil, an endless series of masks and personae, humanity in its protean, futural shape, an always changing function of discourse, text, myth, & mentalite. Through St. Orpheus method, disparate moments of history become synchronic, are juggled to reveal, paradoxically, their mutual difference and essential similarity. Orpheus wandering in the infernal regions, says Szentkuthy, is the perennial symbol of the mind lost amid the enigmas of reality. The aim of the work is, on the one hand, to represent the reality of history with the utmost possible precision, and on the other, to show, through the mutations of the European spirit, all the uncertainties of contemplative man, the transiency of emotions and the sterility of philosophical systems. Marginalia on Casanova relives the despiritualization of the main protagonists sensual adventures, though it is less his sex life & more his intellectual mission, the sole determinant of his being, which is the focus of this mesmeric book. Through his own glittering associations and broadly spanning array of metaphors, Szentkuthy analyses and views the 18th century and its notion of homogeneity from the vantage point of the 20th century, with the full armor of someone who was, perhaps, one of the last Hungarian Europeans. While a commentary on Casanovas memoirs, it is also Szentkuthys very own philosophy of love. Passion, playfulness, irony, and a whole gamut of protean metamorphoses are what characterize Marginalia on Casanova, a work in which readers will experience both profundity and a taking to wing of essay-writing that is intellectually radiant and which is as sensual and provocative as a gondola ride with Casanova.**

Author: Karen Rodr Guez File Type: pdf This book psychoanalyzes a small Mexican city to figure out how the city makes sense of both herself and her many Others in the face of constant change. It puts the city on the couch and works through her past and present relationships, analyzing issues surrounding sexuality, the compulsion to repeat, transferences and desires. In this fascinating case study, Karen Rodriguez places the provincial city of Guanajuato on the couch and leads us though a fascinating tour of the towns back alleys, repressed drives, destructive impulses, and tales of love. Along the way, the author engages in a fascinating discussion of Julia Kristevas work and its relation to Mexican culture. A must read for those interested in contemporary Mexico. Ruben Gallo, Princeton University In the heart of Mexico lies the small city of Guanajuato. The city is unruly, constantly thwarting attempts to impose order upon her. In part, this has to do with the physical form of the city and with its awkward topography. In part, it has to do with a painful colonial past and a difficult economic present. Yet, by putting the city on the couch, Karen Rodriguez discovers how Guanajuatos desires, joys and anxieties are experienced and expressed. On the couch, Guanajuato offers Rodriguez a vast array of fascinating material to interpret from saints to the Virgin Mary, from posters to painters, from novels to t-shirts, from local legend to opera. Against the common trend to see the global city as the place to be, Rodriguez argues that it is very far from misplaced to take another look at small cities. This book is by turns, surprising, thought-provoking, funny, inventive and deeply serious. A real treat that will last long in the mind. Steve Pile, Open University, UK**