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What is happening to young adults in contemporary Europe? How
central is ethnic background to their prospects and lives? This
book provides a comparative analysis of the situation of over 2500
children of international migrants in Europe. Focussing on Britain,
France and Germany, it examines nine ethnic/nationality groups
including Pakistanis and Indians in Britain, Magrebians in France
and Turks in Germany. The book includes new empirical material on
language use, educational experiences, labour market entry,
political incorporation and cultural behaviour of young adults in
these three countries based upon a unique comparative international
survey. Roger Penn and Paul Lambert offer an antidote to the
hysteria surrounding international migrants that has become
increasingly evident in the media since 2001. Their findings
indicate that there is a widespread process of assimilation
underway in each of the three countries, alongside the maintenance
of cultural and religious identities associated with parents'
country of birth.
This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas
envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modelled it through the
creation of particular objects and places. It emphasises that
American societies did this to materialize overarching models and
templates for the shape and scope of the cosmos, the working
definition of cosmoscape. Noting a tendency to gloss over the ways
in which ancestral Americans envisioned the cosmos as intertwined
and animated, the authors examine how cosmoscapes are manifested
archaeologically, in the forms of objects and physically altered
landscapes. This volume includes case studies of cosmoscapes that
present themselves as forms of architecture, portable artifacts,
and transformed aspects of the natural world. In doing so, it
emphasises that the creation of cosmoscapes offered a means of
reconciling peoples experiences of the world with their
understandings of them.
This book contains a compact, accessible treatment of the main
mathematical topics encountered in economics at an advanced level,
moving from basic material into the twin areas of static and
dynamic optimization.
Nearly half of the book is devoted to a survey of univariate
calculus, matrix algebra and multuvariate calculus. This
fundamental material is made vigorous by the inclusion of a variety
of applications. The later chapters focus on the Lagrange
multiplier technique: when it will work, why it works and what
economic insights it yields. The properties of maximum value
functions and duality are explored, as are the Hamiltonian
conditions for dynamic problems in the optimal control format.
Dynamic programming and the calculus of variations are also
covered.
Much of the discussion proceeds at a heuristic level and by worked
example, but the theorems and proofs required by the most
analytical user are also to be found. The underlying message is
that the language of mathematics can be productive, giving
expression to the ideas and facilitating approaches from which
insights flow that may be hard to come by in other ways.
The book will be particularly useful for final year
undergraduates doing mathematics for economists courses, and
postgraduate students.
Why? This is the key question that has so far gone unanswered in
the current struggle, the United States' so-called global war on
terrorism. It is the "why" questions that can be notoriously
difficult to answer. It used to be the case in American secondary
education, when pupils were taught how to write, that they were
prompted to consider answering the traditional battery of basic
questions: who, what, when, where, how, and why. In a general
sense, the "who-what-when-wherehow" questions seem rather
straightforward; they involve description, characterization,
classification, or basic fact-finding. But the "why" question is in
a category all of its own. It can pose the thorny challenge of
uncovering more than just superficial reality. In terms of human
behavior, it probes deeper and requires the writer to explore such
concepts as meaning, truth, falsehood, intent, passion, and belief.
It demands a completely different scope and level of reasoning.
Over and above description, classification, or characterization, it
requires analysis. In the fields of study that address human
interaction-for example in ethics, politics, international affairs,
or warfare-answering "why" questions involves penetrating the
underlying cultural and metaphysical belief structures that serve
to guide both individual and collective behavior. While
"who-what-when-where-how" questions more often lend themselves to
measurement, "why" questions inevitably reach beyond the scope of
data collection and processing. The latter explore the strategic
high ground that forms the basis for understanding humanity in all
its shades, customs, cultures, and conflicts. Policy and academic
elites in the United States seem very skilled at answering the
"who-what-when-where-how" questions. In the current conflict,
apparently inaugurated by the shocking events of 9/11, policy and
academic elites have meticulously researched the answers to this
standard battery of questions. Yet few thoughtful analyses have
emerged that rise to the strategic scope of explaining why the
collective enemies of the United States continue to perpetuate
their violence. Many pundits have contributed their thirty-second
made-for-television ideological and political sound bites. What is
lacking, however, is a robust and rugged exchange of ideas, or a
substantive Lincoln-Douglas style debate about the "why" questions.
One primary reason for the absence of this strategic debate is that
today's policy and academic elites are intimidated by passionate
religious faith-and the current war is unavoidably connected to
religion. Whatever one thinks of the metaphysical realm, one cannot
escape the fact that one side clothes itself in religious rhetoric,
and often seems driven by metaphysical passion. But in the realm of
American policy and academic elites, religion is persona non grata.
To these elites, religion seems antiquated, troublesome,
pedestrian, and unsophisticated. Their Zeitgeist is defined by the
empirical rather than by metaphysical phenomena.
Sitting Is a Negative Exercise, Worse than No Exercise at All
Whether we hate exercise or whether it's our passion, we all suffer
the aches and pains that come with everyday living. In a world of
computers, television, video games, automobiles, and all the other
devices that encourage or demand that we sit, it should not
surprise us that we develop problems in our backs, necks, arms, and
legs. It's critical that we keep all our body parts working and
moving correctly. Activity keeps us young. Moving correctly keeps
us younger. Brian Lambert's book can help. Make All of the Right
Moves is a collection of unique exercises not found anywhere else.
These exercises teach you how to use your body correctly. The book
contains eight sections of exercises, plus 14 case studies that
describe people who resolved their pain problems using these
exercises to help their bodies make all of the right moves: Basic
Low Back Exercises Advanced Hip Exercises Lower Extremity/Back
Stretches Neck and Posture Exercises Advanced Abdominal Exercises
Upper Body Exercises Foam Roller Exercises Key Knee Exercises
Brian, a physical therapist with his own practice, ensures that
each exercise is approached correctly for maximum benefit and
minimum pain. "Avoid Pain " is the mantra for this book. Regardless
of your current athletic ability, Make All of the Right Moves
provides a clear, comprehensive, professional guide to exercises
that will improve your body for optimum mobility for life.
The Content Marketing Hurricane provides a common sense method for
building and maintaining a successful content marketing strategy.
Like a real hurricane, your content marketing strategy must gather
together the "disparate forces" that make up you as a person, carry
those forward with building momentum through the content creation
and distribution cycles that make up the "tropical disturbance" and
"tropical depression" stages, then bring you to "landfall" where
your target audience takes notice and, more importantly, takes
action. If you're looking for guidance in establishing and
maintaining a powerful content marketing strategy, work on your
Content Marketing Hurricane
In Part I, the author explores the American intellectual pedigree
and why it tends to constrain strategic analysis. In Part II,
Lambert compares and contrast the core doctrines of Christianity
and Islam. The rich theological doctrines of these two religions
have yielded undeniable political and historical imperatives. My
aim is to show why those imperatives result in significantly
different outcomes and that those outcomes have strategic
consequences. Part II may seem lengthy; the reader is encouraged to
persevere-Part II contains the raw data that form the essential
foundation upon which Parts III and IV are based. After
establishing this working understanding of Islamic doctrine and its
political and historical imperatives, the author then attempts to
capture the mindset of the broader Islamic faithful in Part III.
After analyzing the collective mind of the broader Islamic
faithful, the author I then focuses on the mind of our avowed
enemies in Part IV. Finally in Part V, the author offers some ideas
about how to return to strategic insight. He concludes with 7
propositions that are aimed at achieving strategic clarity.
In this volume, contributors show how stylistic and iconographic
analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the
beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual regimes, and
expressions of power in the communities that created the artwork.
Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to
pre-Columbian visual culture, these essays reconstruct dynamic
accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast.
These case studies offer innovative examples of how to use style to
identify and compare artifacts, how symbols can be interpreted in
the absence of writing, and how to situate and historicize
Mississippian imagery. They examine designs carved into shell,
copper, stone, and wood or incised into ceramic vessels, from
spider iconography to owl effigies and depictions of the cosmos.
They discuss how these symbols intersect with memory, myths, social
hierarchies, religious traditions, and other spheres of Native
American life in the past and present. The tools modeled in this
volume will open new horizons for learning about the culture and
worldviews of past peoples.
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