Tulip Fever

Author	: Deborah Moggach
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-03-31
ISBN 10	: 9781446485958
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (464 users)

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Download or read book Tulip Fever written by Deborah Moggach and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gorgeous novel' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception... Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble. Now a major film starring Oscar winners Dame Judi Dench, Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz and adapted for the screen by Sir Tom Stoppard.

Spotlight Science Teacher Support Pack 9

Author	: Keith Johnson
Publisher	: Nelson Thornes
Release Date	: 2014-11
ISBN 10	: 9780748774777
Pages	: 650 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (487 users)

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Download or read book Spotlight Science Teacher Support Pack 9 written by Keith Johnson and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Framework Edition Teacher Support Pack offers support and guidance.

Bubbles and Machines

Author	: Micky Lee
Publisher	: University of Westminster Press
Release Date	: 2019-05-23
ISBN 10	: 9781912656011
Pages	: 164 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (126 users)

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Download or read book Bubbles and Machines written by Micky Lee and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital’s gendered aspect – even – the ideology of a ‘crisis’. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of ‘screens’, Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable they should be recognized as technological.

Cryptocurrency Glossary Tips

Author	: Marc Pairon
Publisher	: Vior Webmedia
Release Date	: 2018-10-22
ISBN 10	: 9789491218132
Pages	: 231 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (912 users)

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Download or read book Cryptocurrency Glossary Tips written by Marc Pairon and published by Vior Webmedia. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are interested in cryptocurrency or want to become a successful crypto-investor, understanding the basic concepts of crypto language and the customs of the crypto community is essential. Whomever doesn't possess this basic knowledge is particularly vulnerable in an unregulated Cryptoland. Marc Pairon (° 1959), Flemish author, aphorist and art connoisseur, wrote the first comprehensive crypto lexicon worldwide as a guideline.

Tulipmania

Author	: Anne Goldgar
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Release Date	: 2008-09-15
ISBN 10	: 9780226301303
Pages	: 446 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (263 users)

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Download or read book Tulipmania written by Anne Goldgar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age. “Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times

Seven Flowers

Author	: Jennifer Potter
Publisher	: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date	: 2013-10-03
ISBN 10	: 9781782390374
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (823 users)

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Download or read book Seven Flowers written by Jennifer Potter and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. Where and when did these flowers originate? What is the nature of their power and how was it acquired? What use has been made of them in gardens, literature and art? These are both histories and detective stories, full of incident, unexpected revelations, and irony. The opium poppy, for example, returned to haunt its progenitors in the West; and while Confucius saw virtue and modesty in his native orchids, the ancient Greeks saw only sex. These are flowers of life and death; of purity and passion; of greed, envy and virtue; of hope and consolation; of the beauty that drives men wild. All seven demonstrate the enduring ability of flowers to speak metaphorically - if we could only decode what they have to say. Please click on this link to view the full reference notes to Seven Flowers: http://atlantic-books.co.uk/content/notes-seven-flowers

Spores

Author	: Maria Lodovica Gullino
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2021-08-17
ISBN 10	: 9783030699956
Pages	: 289 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Spores written by Maria Lodovica Gullino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to describe, though in a quite light way, the social role of plant diseases, letting the reader know the topical importance of plant pathology, as well as the role of plant pathologists in our society. Plant diseases caused, in the past, significant economic losses, deaths, famine, wars, and migration. Some of them marked the history of entire countries. One example among many: the potato late blight in Ireland in 1845. Today plant diseases are still the cause of deaths, often silent, in developing countries, and relevant economic losses in the industrialized ones. This book, written with much passion, neither wants to be a plant pathology text. On the contrary, it wants to describe, in simple words, often enriched by the author's personal experience, various plant diseases that, in different times and countries, did cause severe losses and damages. Besides the so-called “historical plant diseases”, in the process of writing this book, she wanted to describe also some diseases that, though not causing famine or billions of losses, because of their peculiarity, might be of interest for the readers. Thus, this book has not been conceived and written for experts, but for a broader audience, of different ages, willing to learn more about plant health and to understand the reasons why so many people in the past and nowadays choose to be plant pathologists. This is because plants produce most of the food that we consume, that we expect to be healthy and safe, and because plants make the world beautiful. The title “Spores” is evocative of the reproduction mean of fungi. Spores are small, light structures, often moving fast. The chapters of this book are short and concise. Just like spores!

From Tulips to Bitcoins

Author	: Torsten Dennin
Publisher	: Greenleaf Book Group
Release Date	: 2019-06-04
ISBN 10	: 9781632992284
Pages	: 348 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (329 users)

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Download or read book From Tulips to Bitcoins written by Torsten Dennin and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Centuries of Speculation and Commodity Markets From Tulips to Bitcoins is a fascinating look at big events in commodity and crypto markets from the Dutch Tulip Mania to Bitcoins today. It covers the Silver Thursday and the Hunt Brothers, the doom of Amaranth Advisors and Brian Hunter, Copper and the Congo, Gold, Rare Earths, Energy Metals, and Bitcoins, which rose from below 1,000 USD to above 20,000 USD within a year. These markets are on a crossroad of investing mega trends like demographics, climate change, electrification, and digitalization. By studying and learning from our past, we can make better decisions about the future. As Benjamin Franklin said, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

Imagining Global Amsterdam

Author	: Marco de Waard
Publisher	: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date	: 2012-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9789089643674
Pages	: 632 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (896 users)

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Download or read book Imagining Global Amsterdam written by Marco de Waard and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Global Amsterdam gaat over het beeld van Amsterdam in film, literatuur, visuele kunst en in het moderne stedelijke discours, in het bijzonder in de context van de mondialisering. De essays gaan onder andere dieper in op Amsterdam als een lieu de mémoire van de vroeg-moderne wereldhandel. Wat betekent deze herinnering in de hedendaagse cultuur? Waarom verwijzen zo veel contemporaine films en romans naar dit verleden terug? Ook het (inter)nationale imago van Amsterdam als een multicultureel en ultra-tolerant ‘%x;global village’%x; komt aan bod. Waarom is dit beeld zo persistent, en hoe heeft het zich in de loop van de laatste decennia ontwikkeld? Tot slot wordt ingegaan op de vraag hoe mondialiseringsprocessen ingrijpen in de stadscultuur, zoals in het prostitutiegebied op de Wallen en via de erfgoedindustrie. Hoe manifesteert de mondialisering zich in de stad, en welke rol speelt beeldvorming daarbij? Deze bundel vormt een rijk geschakeerd onderzoek naar de relatie tussen Amsterdam, mondialisering en stedelijke beeldvorming. Marco de Waard is als docent literatuurwetenschap verbonden aan het Amsterdam University College.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author	: Library of Congress
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2011
ISBN 10	: OSU:32435078789997
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (243 users)

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Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel

Author	: Madelena Gonzalez
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2009-12-14
ISBN 10	: 9781443818391
Pages	: 255 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel written by Madelena Gonzalez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary aesthetics is characterized by generic mixing on the level of both form and content. The barriers between different media and different genres have been broken down in all literary art forms, whether it be theatre, poetry, or the novel. While the publishing industry is increasingly keen to label novels according to genre or sub-genre (“Chick Lit”, “Lad Lit”, “Gay fiction”, “Scottish fiction”, “New Historical Fiction”, “Crime fiction”, “Post-9/11 Fiction”), the novel itself (and novelists) persist in resisting generic categorizations as well as inviting them. Is this a move towards a new artistic liberty or does it simply testify to a confusion of identity? The “aesthetic supermarket” evoked by Lodge in 1992 does indeed seem to sum up the variety of choices open to writers of fiction today and a literary landscape characterized by crossover and hybridization. The familiar dialectic of realism versus experimentation has segued into a middle ground of consensus which is neither radical nor populist, but both at the same time. The techniques of postmodernism have become selling points for novels, and the Postmodern Condition itself seems little more than a narrative posture marketed for an increasingly wide audience. Whether they have recourse to a “repertoire of imposture” (Amis, Self, Winterson), as Richard Bradford would have it (The Novel Now, 2007), in other words “the abandonment of any obligation to explain or justify their excursions from credulity and mimesis”, or, like the New Puritans, make use of narrative minimalism in order to foreground their own peculiarities, contemporary novelists consistently draw attention to the fundamental instability of narrative process and genre. The much-feared apocalypse of the novel has failed to take place with the arrival of the new millennium, but generic game-playing and flickering, narrative hesitation and uncertainty continue to pose the question of what constitutes a novel today and to challenge its identity in a world where all culture is increasingly public, increasingly contested and increasingly multifarious. Thanks to theoretical approaches as well as analyses of specific works, this collection of essays aims to examine the concepts of generic instability and cross-fertilization, of narrative postures and impostures, and their constant redefinition of identity, which contaminates the very concept of genre. It demonstrates the diversity of generic practices in the novel today and furnishes us with undeniable evidence of how generic instability is fundamentally constitutive of the contemporary novel’s identity.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author	: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015079817071
Pages	: 1924 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

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Bulbs and Bulb Culture

Author	: David Taylor Fish
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1877
ISBN 10	: OXFORD:590370625
Pages	: 498 pages
Rating	: 4.R/5 (5 users)

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Business Transformation through Blockchain

Author	: Horst Treiblmaier
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2018-12-30
ISBN 10	: 9783319990583
Pages	: 372 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (199 users)

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Download or read book Business Transformation through Blockchain written by Horst Treiblmaier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of this edited collection offers a number of contributions from leading scholars investigating Blockchain and its implications for business. Focusing on the transformation of the overall value chain, the sections cover the foundations of Blockchain and its sustainability, social and legal applications. It features a variety of use cases, from tourism to healthcare. Using a number of theoretical and methodological approaches, this innovative publication aims to further the cause of this ground-breaking technology and its use within information technology, supply chain and wider business management research.

The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1834
ISBN 10	: PRNC:32101050722238
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (321 users)

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The Home friend a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction

Author	: Society for promoting Christian knowledge
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1853
ISBN 10	: OXFORD:555012945
Pages	: 644 pages
Rating	: 4.R/5 (5 users)

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Unexpected lessons in business management

Author	: Tiziano Vescovi
Publisher	: libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni
Release Date	: 2016
ISBN 10	: 9788862927840
Pages	: 96 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (629 users)

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