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Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White
Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history. For decades,
writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors
of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the
dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP
elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American
centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as
Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle. From Colonial
America’s founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the
present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American
WASPs—their profound accomplishments and egregious
failures—through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and
their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the
Bradford, Randolph, Morris, Biddle, Sanford, Peabody and Whitney
clans progress, prosper and periodically stumble, defining aspects
in the four-century sweep of American history emerge: our wide,
oft-contentious religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery,
genocide, and intolerance; the creation and sometime mis-use of
astonishing economic and political power; an enduring belief in the
future; an instinct to offset inequity with philanthropy; an equal
capacity for irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. “American
society was supposed to be different,” writes Gross, “but for
most of our history we have had a patriciate, an aristocracy, a
hereditary oligarchic upper class, who initiated the American
national experiment.” In previous acclaimed books such
as 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery, Gross has
explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding the
canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four
centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and consequential
contribution to American history.
Bald leben mehr als eine Million (!) Waschbaren in unseren Waldern
und nicht nur da sie kommen uns auch in den Stadten "besuchen". Die
putzigen Kerlchen konnen nichts dafur, denn wir sind an ihrer
Verbreitung Schuld, da wir das okologische Gleichgewicht der Natur
gestort haben. Doch was genau ist eigentlich Okologie jenseits von
Okostrom und Okolabel? Hightech-Ameisen, hochintelligente Krahen
und der Urzeit-Ginkgo Alles hangt mit allem zusammen: Gerat ein
okologisches Teilsystem aus dem Gleichgewicht, lost das oft eine
Kettenreaktion aus. In dem Teil Zusammen leben fragt Michael Gross
u. a., ob Schutzgebiete wirklich die bedrohten Arten schutzen,
erzahlt uber die Wanderschaft von Pflanzenschadlingen, die sich
durch weltweite Handelsnetze auch global verbreiten, oder stellt
einen Uberlebenden der Dinosaurierzeit vor: den Ginkgo. Warum
uberlebte er damals das Massensterben der Arten?
Kohlendioxidschwaden, Vibrationen, Magnetismus, Pedometer und noch
vieles mehr: All das besitzt z. B. ein sehr kleines Lebewesen die
Ameise. Sie findet mit dieser "Ausstattung" sogar in der Wuste
wieder zu ihrem Nest zuruck. Im Teil Aktiv leben stellt uns Gross
diese kleinen tierischen Wunderwerke vor, berichtet aber auch von
den hochintelligenten Krahen oder erzahlt, wie das Krokodil seine
Zahne bekam. Im Abschnitt Weiter leben gibt er einen Ausblick auf
die unmittelbare Zukunft des Lebens auf der Erde, die immer starker
von menschlichen Aktivitaten gepragt wird: das Zeitalter des
"Anthropozan" ist angebrochen!
The changing higher education policy context, increased global
competition, pressures on the academic workforce and the dynamic
nature of student markets are some of the challenges currently
facing worldwide tourism and hospitality education. Skills
shortages are also a significant issue that affect the capacity of
the tourism industry to develop and innovate. Tourism and
hospitality education programs have an important role in addressing
this issue, by producing graduates with the knowledge, skills,
creative problem solving and adaptive capacities to operate in
increasingly complex and challenging environments. This book
examines such current debates, controversies and questions in the
field of tourism and hospitality education. It takes as its central
focus a dynamic curriculum space shaped by internal and external
factors from global to local scales, a variety of values and
perspectives contributed by a range of stakeholders, and shifting
philosophies about education policy, pedagogy and teaching
practice. Developed from specifically commissioned original
contributions from recognised authors in the field the Handbook is
interdisciplinary in coverage and is also international in scope
through its authorship and content. The 'start of the art' critical
review of the development of conceptual and theoretical approaches
to tourism and hospitality education using the depth and breadth of
the curriculum space as a central theme means that the book will be
a benchmark for future curriculum design and development. Providing
a systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and
hospitality education and its future direction this is essential
reading for students, researches and academics if Tourism,
Hospitality, Events, Recreation and Leisure Studies.
From the author of "House of Outrageous Fortune"
For seventy-five years, it's been Manhattan's richest apartment
building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world.
One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working
fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at
one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is
steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only
imagine, until now.
The last great building to go up along New York's Gold Coast,
construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has been
home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most powerful
families, some of America's (and the world's) oldest money--the
kind attached to names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Bouvier,
Chrysler, Niarchos, Houghton, and Harkness--and some whose names
evoke the excesses of today's monied elite: Kravis, Koch, Bronfman,
Perelman, Steinberg, and Schwarzman. All along, the building has
housed titans of industry, political power brokers, international
royalty, fabulous scam-artists, and even the lowest scoundrels.
The book begins with the tumultuous story of the building's
construction. Conceived in the bubbling financial, artistic, and
social cauldron of 1920's Manhattan, 740 Park rose to its dizzying
heights as the stock market plunged in 1929--the building was in
dire financial straits before the first apartments were sold. The
builders include the architectural genius Rosario Candela, the
scheming businessman James T. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's
grandfather), and a raft of financiers, many of whom were little
more than white-collar crooks and grand-scale hustlers.
Once finished, 740 became a magnet for the richest, oldest families
in the country: the Brewsters, descendents of the leader of the
Plymouth Colony; the socially-registered Bordens, Hoppins,
Scovilles, Thornes, and Schermerhorns; and top executives of the
Chase Bank, American Express, and U.S. Rubber. Outside the walls of
740 Park, these were the people shaping America culturally and
economically. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of the
Seven Deadly Sins.
As the social climate evolved throughout the last century, so did
740 Park: after World War II, the building's rulers eased their
more restrictive policies and began allowing Jews (though not to
this day African Americans) to reside within their hallowed walls.
Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people whose
fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way
in.
At its core this book is a social history of the American rich, and
how the locus of power and influence has shifted haltingly from old
bloodlines to new money. But it's also much more than that: filled
with meaty, startling, often tragic stories of the people who lived
behind 740's walls, the book gives us an unprecedented access to
worlds of wealth, privilege, and extraordinary folly that are
usually hidden behind a scrim of money and influence. This is,
truly, how the other half--or at least the other one hundredth of
one percent--lives.
Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins
of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology
is updated with the latest findings. Informed by the discoveries
and analyses of extrasolar planets and the findings from recent
robotic missions across the solar system, scientists are rapidly
replacing centuries of speculation about potential extraterrestrial
habitats with real knowledge about the possibility of life outside
our own biosphere-if it exists, and, if so, where. Casting new
light on the biggest questions there are-how did we get here, and
who else might be out there?-this third edition of Kevin W. Plaxco
and Michael Gross's widely acclaimed Astrobiology incorporates a
decade's worth of new developments in space to bring readers the
most comprehensive, up-to-date, and engaging introduction to the
field available. Plaxco and Gross examine the factors that make our
Universe habitable, from the origin of chemical elements and the
formation of the first galaxies and stars to the birth and
composition of the planets. They describe the latest thinking about
the origins of life, explain the evolution of metabolism and the
development of complex organisms. In order to assess the limits for
life elsewhere, they also explore life in extreme habitats and
reveal how it informs the search for potential extraterrestrial
habitats-ones that might support extraterrestrial life. New and
updated illustrations enhance the book throughout. Sharing
fascinating findings from the comet mission Dawn, the visit of New
Horizons to Pluto, and the work of the Deep Carbon Observatory,
which has revealed an incredible underground biosphere within our
own planet, Plaxco and Gross weave together cosmology,
astrophysics, geology, biochemistry, biophysics, and microbiology.
From neutron star mergers to the survival skills of tardigrades,
this fascinating book is an ideal primer for students or anyone
curious about life and the Universe.
The Go-To Option-Selling Guide--Updated for Today's Manic
MarketsInvesting today is more complicated and unpredictablethan
ever before. The strategy of buy-and-hold has been replaced by
buy-and-hope. Trying to grow your assets means worrying about how
the next geopolitical crisis or government announcement will affect
your portfolio. In an age of stunted economics and uncertain
interest rates, attempting to guess market direction can seem
futile. The good news is, you don't have to anymore. There isa
better way to invest. It's time to borrow a page fromthe pros and
radically change your entire philosophy to building a solid,
high-yielding portfolio. The Complete Guide to Option Selling takes
you through the process step by step. Updated to help you
drawsteady, high profits in an age of skittish markets, thisclassic
text covers the ins and outs of: The Fundamentals of Option Selling
Why writing options works so well, what kind of investor writes
options, and how futures options could be the missing piece to your
puzzleOption-Selling Strategy and Risk Management Choosing the
right options to sell, the most powerfulspread strategies, the
mechanics of selling, and protecting yourself from downside risk
like a proMarket Analysis and Writing Options How to find the best
markets to take premium, the secret of seasonal trends, and tips on
building your premium ladder You don't need a fancy Greek
calculator to succeed in writing options. All you need is a little
knowledge, a lot of common sense, and The Complete Guide to Option
Selling. PRAISE FOR THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO OPTION SELLING:"A
must-read. Cordier and Gross have covered all the bases in this
book about the (arguably) best option strategy--writing options."
-- LAWRENCE MCMILLAN, bestselling author of Options as a Strategic
Investment and editor of The Option Strategist Newsletter and Daily
Volume Alerts "The Complete Guide to Option Selling offers
investors a truly unique, practical, and valuable perspective into
another dimension of option strategy. A very cool book and
interesting angle!" -- JARED A. LEVY, risk manager and author of
Your OptionsHandbook and The Bloomberg Visual Guide to Options
"James and Michael not only have an excellent ability to analyze
market fundamentals, but more importantly, to design the
appropriate option strategy to take advantage of their market
outlook." -- DANIEL P. COLLINS, editor-in-Chief, Futures Magazine
"The Complete Guide to Option Selling is an excellent reminder that
selling options is less stressful and more forgiving than
traditional direction trading strategies. This book has what it
takes and is valuable to both novice and experienced traders." --
JACK WALKER, author of Volatility Trading Digest "Cordier and Gross
comprehensively and convincingly demonstrate how options selling
strategies can function not only as a facile income-producing
technique but also as a performance-based investment strategy all
on their own." -- GIL MORALES, Managing director of MoKa investors,
LLC, and coauthor of the bestselling books Trade Like an O'Neil
Disciple, How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short, and In the
Cockpit with the O'Neil Disciples
Dieses Buch prasentiert 70 Merkwurdigkeiten der
"Ausgeforscht"-Glossen der Nachrichten aus der Chemie von Michael
Gross. Obskure Aspekte und Meldungen aus der Wissenschaft werden
aufgespiesst und die Lesenden damit sowohl zum Schmunzeln als auch
zum Nachdenken angeregt. Eingehend analysiert, in Kakao inkubiert
und in Heiterkeit aufgeloest wird dabei auch die Wechselwirkung
zwischen Wissenschaft und Technologie, dem menschlichen
Alltagsleben und Konsumverhalten: von stinkenden Socken bis hin zu
den perlenden Gasblasen des Champagner. Der wissenschaftliche
Hintergrund der Glossen erstreckt sich von der Biologie uber die
Chemie bis hin zur Quantenmechanik - der alltaglich-kuriose
Vordergrund von neumodischen, voellig uberflussigen Erfindungen bis
hin zu traditionellen Grundnahrungsmitteln wie Bier und Wein. Der
Autor Michael Gross studierte Chemie und erforschte am Oxford
Centre for Molecular Sciences die biophysikalische Chemie der
Proteine. Heute lebt er als freier Wissenschaftsjournalist in
Oxford und schreibt regelmassig Sachbucher und Beitrage u.a. fur
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Chemie in unserer Zeit und Nachrichten
aus der Chemie. 2014 wurde er von der Gesellschaft Deutscher
Chemiker mit dem GDCh-Preis fur Journalisten und Schriftsteller
ausgezeichnet.
In 1979, a movie was released that was to capture the imagination of the world, and become a science fiction classic... Alien. 25 years later, the Alien franchise is stronger than ever. The Book of Alien is the definitive companion to the movie, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2004.
Taking you right behind the scenes of the production, there are interviews with the key people involved, including legendary designer HR Giger and director Ridley Scott. Lavishly illustrated with scores of stunning design paintings, production art and film stills unpublished elsewhere, the book covers every creative stage, and graphically demonstrates just why the movie won an Oscar for its visual effects. Simply a must-have for any Alien fan.
These 200+ images show you the spectacular views from hundreds of
New York Citys finest residences. Everyone loves an amazing view,
and some pay millions for a property with views across Central
Park, the East River, the Hudson River, or the Midtown skyline. In
the jungle of glass, stone, and steel that is New York City, it is
impossible to overstate the value of an incredible view. Tauber, a
Manhattan-based independent photographer, shot these images over
the last decade while shooting New York Citys finest properties for
real estate firms, architects, interior designers, developers, and
magazines. This collection reflects the shimmering pull of New York
City views through the seasons, from morning light over Central
Park to twilight over the Hudson.
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Why music doesn't add up, what The Simpsons can teach us about
science, whether Juana la Loca wasn't crazy after all, and what's
behind the gaseous veil of Saturn's moon Titan - these are just
some of the questions addressed in the more than 70 reviews and
essay reviews from the years 2000 to 2009 collected in this volume.
They cover books about science, ranging from the academic to the
popularized kind, but there are also books about cultural topics
and even a few novels scattered in for good measure. Most of these
books reviewed haven't found a massive amount of attention,
although some of them should have, at least in the reviewer's
opinion. And even if the book under review wasn't all that good,
the format of an essay review allows the author to have a go at
presenting the subject matter his own way. All in all, a reflection
of what happened during the noughties in the worlds of science and
culture, and off the beaten track.
Informed by new planetary discoveries and the findings from
recent robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, scientists
are rapidly replacing centuries of speculation about potential
extraterrestrial habitats with real knowledge about the possibility
of life outside our own biosphere--if it exists, and where. This
second edition of Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross's widely
acclaimed text incorporates the latest research in astrobiology to
bring readers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and engaging
introduction to the field available.
Plaxco and Gross expand their examination of the origin of
chemical elements, the developments that made the Universe
habitable, and how life continues to be sustained. They discuss in
great detail the formation of the first galaxies and stars, the
diverse chemistry of the primordial planet, the origins of
metabolism, the evolution of complex organisms, and the feedback
regulation of Earth's climate. They also explore life in extreme
habitats, potential extraterrestrial habitats, and the current
status of the search for extraterrestrial life.
Weaving together the relevant threads of astronomy, geology,
chemistry, biophysics, and microbiology, this broadly accessible
introductory text captures the excitement, controversy, and
progress of the dynamic young field of astrobiology. New to this
edition is a glossary of terms and an epilogue recapping the key
unanswered questions, making "Astrobiology" an ideal primer for
students and, indeed, for anyone curious about life and the
Universe.
There are at least two Ralph Laurens.
To the public he's a gentle, modest, yet secure and purposeful
man. Inside the walls of Polo Ralph Lauren, though, he's seen by
some as a narcissist, an insecure ditherer, and, at times, a
rampaging tyrant.
Michael Gross, author of the bestseller "Model," lays bare the
truths of this fashion emperor's rise, and reveals not only the
secrets of his stunning success in marketing our shared fantasies
but also a darker side that's hidden behind the chic patrician
facade.
Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive
technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss
"them": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these
technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not
devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by men. So
often the input of women is neither sought nor listened to. The
privileged insights and perspectives that women bring to the
consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject
of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of
a Workshop on "Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology:
Analysis by Women" (EIRTAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop,
90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse
occupations and personal histories, different races and classes,
varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and
scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and
sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each
session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for
women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.
Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive
technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss
Itthem ": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these
technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not
devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by of women
is neither sought nor listened to. The men. So often the input and
perspectives that women bring to the privileged insights
consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject
of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of
a Workshop on "Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology:
Analysis by W omen" (EIR TAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop,
90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse
occupations and personal histories, different races and classes,
varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and
scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and
sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each
session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for
women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.
Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive
technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss
"them": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these
technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not
devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by men. So
often the input of women is neither sought nor listened to. The
privileged insights and perspectives that women bring to the
consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject
of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of
a Workshop on "Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology:
Analysis by Women" (EIRTAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop,
90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse
occupations and personal histories, different races and classes,
varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and
scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and
sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each
session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for
women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.
Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive
technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss
Itthem ": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these
technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not
devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by of women
is neither sought nor listened to. The men. So often the input and
perspectives that women bring to the privileged insights
consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject
of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of
a Workshop on "Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology:
Analysis by W omen" (EIR TAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop,
90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse
occupations and personal histories, different races and classes,
varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and
scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and
sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each
session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for
women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.
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