Author: J. Walker Smith File Type: epub Generation Agelessan authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby BoomersThink Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. Yankelovich actually coined the term Baby Boomer back in the late 1960s, when they first started collecting data on this influential generation. Now, more than thirty years later, they have the most complete information on Boomers ever assembled. And they have put it all together in this groundbreaking look at Americas largest and most powerful generation. In Generation Ageless, Yankelovich president J. Walker Smith, Ph.D., and senior partner Ann Clurman, Boomers themselves, dig deep into what makes this generation tick. With fresh, original data and a wide-ranging look at everything about Boomers, they dissect Boomers into six major segmentsStraight Arrows, Due Diligents, Maximizers, Sideliners, DissContenteds, and Re-Activiststo provide new insights into the worlds most talked-about generation. The results show key imperatives invaluable to anyone selling a product, service, or idea to this 78-million strong group.Boomers are the dominant generation in America. Their values and aspirations set the tone for everyone. Advances in medicine and health mean that this youth-obsessed generation is now focused on an everlasting prime of life. They are literally middle ageless holding onto their position at the top of the pyramid for as long as possible, and not fading away to their golden years. Todays fifty- and sixty-year-old Boomers are not eagerly anticipating lives of disengaged retirement. Instead, middle ageless Boomers expect another twenty or thirty years of impact and influencealbeit in a variety of ways reflective of a surfeit of agendas and ambitions they have yet to fulfill.
Author: Alistair Cameron Crombie
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A.C. Crombie sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of Science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which he describes and analyses.
Author: Bruno de Nicola
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div id=description_1 margin padding orphans 2 text-align left text-indent widows 2h4 margin 1 padding Explores the political, economic and religious role of women in Mongol Iranh4p margin padding Bruno De Nicola investigates the development of womens status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and contextualise the evolution of the role of women in medieval Mongol society. The arrangement serves as a starting point from where to draw comparison with the status of Mongol women in the later period. Exploring patterns of continuity and transformation in the status of these women in different periods of the Mongol Empire as it expanded westwards into the Islamic world, the book offers a view on the transformation of a nomadic-shamanist society from its original homeland in Mongolia to its settlement in the mostly sedentary-Muslim Iran in the mid-13th century.div id=description_2 margin 1em padding orphans 2 text-align left text-indent widows 2h4 margin 1 padding Key Featuresh4ul margin 1 padding list-style discli margin 25px padding The first book-length academic study of women in the Mongol Empirelli margin 25px padding Provides a comprehensive study of women in medieval Mongol society, thematically organisedlli margin 25px padding Discusses processes of acculturation and Islamisationlli margin 25px padding Centres on the evolution of womens role in Mongolia, Central Asia and Iranlli margin 25px padding Draws comparisons with other geographical areas such as Russia, Europe, India, the Middle East and Chinalul
Author: David Dayen
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In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American historya scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it. Fiscal Times columnist David Dayen recounts how these ordinary Floridians challenged the most powerful institutions in America armed only with the truthand for a brief moment they brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees. **ReviewPraise for Chain of Title Chain of Title is a careful documentation of the mortgage fraud at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. . . If youre looking for a book to read over Labor Day weekend one that will that will get your heart pumping and your blood boiling and that will remind you why were in these fights add this one to your list. Senator Elizabeth Warren Prepare to be surprised, and angry the homeowners stories are emotional roller coasters. Dayen skillfully narrates a slow reveal and sprinkles in some lively metaphors. The New York Times Book Review Enraging and enlightening. Philadelphia Inquirer An inspiring, well-rendered, deeply reported, and often infuriating account. Kirkus Reviews (starred) Hitchcockian... Meticulously researched, enthralling, and educational, this addition to the literature of the Great Recession calls out for its own big-screen adaptation. Publishers Weekly This is the story, one of its characters tells us, of an unlikely crime scene the real estate courts of Florida, where professional fraudsters greased the skids to kick people out of their houses in order to prop up Wall Streets profits, while judges looked the other way. And, it is the story of a prairie firebegan by ordinary Americans who brilliantly and courageously fought back when our leaders refused to do so. All in all, it is one of the best books about the law and American life that I ever have read. Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge In the wake of the devastating 2008 financial crisis, David Dayen has become one of the nations most knowledgeable, astute and important voices in identifying the culprits and documenting the efforts to protect them. His new book is one of the most important yet written on the causes of that crisis, the abject failures of the political class to punish the wrongdoers, and the dangerous refusal on the part of the nations elite to safeguard against future and even worse meltdowns. Glenn Greenwald Chain of Title is a sweeping work of investigative journalism that traces the arc of a criminally underreported story in America, the collapse of the rule of law in the home mortgage industry. By following three victims of illegal foreclosure practices, Dayen humanizes and brilliantly illuminates a vast scam unseen by the public because its been indecipherable to everyone but a few industrious housing lawyersas he shows, even judges dont understand it. The nightmare scavenger-hunt pursued by homeowners like Lisa Epstein leads to a horror-ending behind the dream of home ownership lies a lawless jungle, owned and operated by banks, where there are no rules to protect families and their property. Matt Taibbi, author of The Divide David Dayen first wrote about foreclosures as a scruffy blogger and consistently beat almost every established financial reporter to the story. Now he has written the best history of that shameful period. The mortgage industry spent untold millions to spread the story they created from whole cloth after the crisis hit families who lost their homes were mostly undeserving spendthrifts trying to shirk just debts. Chain of Title tells the real story and the real story should offend the sense of justice of every American with a conscience. Former congressman Brad Miller (D-NC), original co-author of the section of the Dodd-Frank Act that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau About the Author David Dayen is a contributing writer to Salon and a weekly columnist for the Fiscal Times, and he writes for publications including the New Republic, the American Prospect, The Guardian, Vice, The Intercept, and the the Huffington Post. He lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.
Author: Macha Louis Rosenthal
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In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the most important critics of twentieth-century poetry, leads us through the lyric poetry and poetic drama of our centurys greatest poet in English. His readings shed new, vivid light on Yeatss daring uses of tradition, his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of revolution and civil war. Running to Paradise describes Yeatss whole effort--sometimes leavened by wild humor--to convey, with high poetic integrity, his passionate sense of his own life and of his chaotic era.Himself a noted poet, Rosenthal stresses Yeatss artistry and psychological candor. The book ranges from his early exquisite lyrical poems and folklore-rooted plays, through the tougher-minded, more confessional mature work (including the sublime achievement of The Tower), and then to the sometimes mad yet often brilliant tragic or comic writing of his last years. Quoting extensively from Yeats, Rosenthal charts the gathering force with which the poet confronted his major life-issues his arts demands, his persistent but hopeless love for one woman, the complexities of marriage to another woman at age 52, and his distress during Irelands Troubles. Yeatss deep absorption in female sensibility, in the cycles of history and human thought, and in supernaturalism and the dead comes strongly into play as well.**
Author: Neil Levy
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Neil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience and psychology provide a great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by information of which we are not conscious some psychologists have concluded that we are actually conscious of very few of the facts we respond to. But most people seem to assume that we need to be conscious of the facts we respond to in order to be responsible for what we do. Some thinkers have argued that this naive assumption is wrong, and we need not be conscious of these facts to be responsible, while others think it is correct and therefore we are never responsible. Levy argues that both views are wrong. He sets out and defends a particular account of consciousness--the global workspace view--and argues this account entails that consciousness plays an especially important role in action. We exercise sufficient control over the moral significance of our acts to be responsible for them only when we are conscious of the facts that give to our actions their moral character. Further, our actions are expressive of who we are as moral agents only when we are conscious of these same facts. There are therefore good reasons to think that the naive assumption, that consciousness is needed for moral responsibility, is in fact true. Levy suggests that this entails that people are responsible less often than we might have thought, but the consciousness condition does not entail that we are never morally responsible.**
Author: Madeleine Leonard
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This book provides a timely and necessary response to the neglect of the perceptions and experiences of young people growing up in post conflict societies. Despite a great deal of research on the social, economic and political consequences of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, few studies have examined young peoples attitudes to and experiences of living in a post-conflict society. We still know relatively little about how young people relate to concepts such as space, place and territory in divided societies. This book addresses this vacuum. By presenting a detailed rich ethnographic account of how teenagers living in segregated localities in Belfast access and use local and city centre space, this book contributes to knowledge about the role of young people in both sustaining conflict and overcoming divisions. Teenagers spatial practices provide insight into how the regenerated, rebranded, repackaged, post conflict city is experienced, perceived, negotiated and imagined by a group whose voices are often absent or regarded as peripheral. While the book presents a case study of Belfast, its appeal is not limited to those interested in Ireland. Rather, through this detailed case study, the book aims to address wider questions concerning the role of young people in politically contested societies. The book underlines the need to take on board young peoples perspectives and contributes to knowledge regarding appropriate ways to engage young people in research.
Author: Richard Lawson
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Successfully scrape data from any website with the power of Python ul lA hands-on guide to web scraping with real-life problems and solutionsl lTechniques to download and extract data from complex websitesl lCreate a number of different web scrapers to extract informationlul This book is aimed at developers who want to use web scraping for legitimate purposes. Prior programming experience with Python would be useful but not essential. Anyone with general knowledge of programming languages should be able to pick up the book and understand the principals involved. ullExtract data from web pages with simple Python programmingl lBuild a threaded crawler to process web pages in parallell lFollow links to crawl a websitel lDownload cache to reduce bandwidthl lUse multiple threads and processes to scrape fasterl lLearn how to parse JavaScript-dependent websitesl lInteract with forms and sessionsl lSolve CAPTCHAs on protected web pagesl lDiscover how to track the state of a crawllul The Internet contains the most useful set of data ever assembled, largely publicly accessible for free. However, this data is not easily reusable. It is embedded within the structure and style of websites and needs to be carefully extracted to be useful. Web scraping is becoming increasingly useful as a means to easily gather and make sense of the plethora of information available online. Using a simple language like Python, you can crawl the information out of complex websites using simple programming. This book is the ultimate guide to using Python to scrape data from websites. In the early chapters it covers how to extract data from static web pages and how to use caching to manage the load on servers. After the basics well get our hands dirty with building a more sophisticated crawler with threads and more advanced topics. Learn step-by-step how to use Ajax URLs, employ the Firebug extension for monitoring, and indirectly scrape data. Discover more scraping nitty-gritties such as using the browser renderer, managing cookies, how to submit forms to extract data from complex websites protected by CAPTCHA, and so on. The book wraps up with how to create high-level scrapers with Scrapy libraries and implement what has been learned to real websites. This book is a hands-on guide with real-life examples and solutions starting simple and then progressively becoming more complex. Each chapter in this book introduces a problem and then provides one or more possible solutions.
Author: John Dagenais
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Taking the controversial fourteenth-century Libro de buen amor as his point of departure, John Dagenais maintains that many interpretive difficulties with this text have arisen simply because concepts such as work and text, which medievalists have tended to consider unproblematic, simply do not function in the medieval manuscript context. The traditional philological practice of reducing the multiplicity of manuscript evidence to a single critical edition, founded on notions of work, authorial intention, and coherent texts, inevitably distorts, and ultimately suppresses, the true nature of the medieval scriptum - the unique, physical manuscript text with all its glosses, marginal notes, pointing hands, illuminations, incidental scribblings, scribal errors, and lost leaves. In relying too heavily on the critical edition, we lose our ability to grasp the way medieval literature managed to go on functioning in its own chaotic and error-prone world. But Dagenais shows that medieval culture also escapes post-structuralist notions of text in another important way through a peculiar ethics of reading. The medieval reader engaged the manuscript text rhetorically, with the idea that it would speak to him or her in a way that was not only personal but also dynamically responsive to his or her personal needs at the moment of reading. Using the manuscripts of the Libro and of other Iberian texts, Dagenais sketches a series of methodological approaches that can lead to an enhanced understanding of the interactions among medieval authors, readers, scribes, and texts, and the dynamic process of lecturature in which they are engaged. In the process, he offers a critique of aspects ofboth traditional philological approaches and the New Philology.