The Devils Riches

Author : Jared Poley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785331272
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Riches written by Jared Poley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and health—each of which sought to study and channel the power of financial desire—Jared Poley shows how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.

Author : Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531507271
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil's Mile written by Alice Sparberg Alexiou and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers nicknamed it “Satan’s Highway,” “The Mile of Hell,” and “The Street of Forgotten Men.” For years the little businesses along the Bowery—stationers, dry goods sellers, jewelers, hatters—periodically asked the city to change the street’s name. To have a Bowery address, they claimed, was hurting them; people did not want to venture there. But when New York exploded into real estate frenzy in the 1990s, developers discovered the Bowery. They rushed in and began tearing down. Today, Whole Foods, hipster night spots, and expensive lofts have replaced the old flophouses and dive bars, and the bad old Bowery no longer exists. In Devil’s Mile, Alice Sparberg Alexiou tells the story of the Bowery, starting with its origins, when forests covered the surrounding area, and through the pre–Civil War years, when country estates of wealthy New Yorkers lined this thoroughfare. She then describes the Bowery’s deterioration in stunning detail, starting in the post-bellum years. She ends her historical exploration of this famed street in the present, bearing witness as the old Bowery buildings, and the memories associated with them, are disappearing.

Author : Richard J. King
Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN 13 : 1611684749
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Cormorant written by Richard J. King and published by University of New Hampshire Press. This book was released on 2013-09-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.

Author : Napoleon Hill
Publisher : Sharon Lechter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outwitting the Devil written by Napoleon Hill and published by Sharon Lechter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.

Author : Adair Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175985
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Debt and the Devil written by Adair Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t happen because banks are too big to fail—our addiction to private debt is to blame. Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not needed for economic growth—but it drives real estate booms and busts and leads to financial crisis and depression. Turner explains why public policy needs to manage the growth and allocation of credit creation, and why debt needs to be taxed as a form of economic pollution. Banks need far more capital, real estate lending must be restricted, and we need to tackle inequality and mitigate the relentless rise of real estate prices. Turner also debunks the big myth about fiat money—the erroneous notion that printing money will lead to harmful inflation. To escape the mess created by past policy errors, we sometimes need to monetize government debt and finance fiscal deficits with central-bank money. Between Debt and the Devil shows why we need to reject the assumptions that private credit is essential to growth and fiat money is inevitably dangerous. Each has its advantages, and each creates risks that public policy must consciously balance.

Author : Samrat Das
Publisher : BlueRose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devils's Way written by Samrat Das and published by BlueRose Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading this might perhaps make you wonder precisely how this book is going to help and do justice to the time you are going to invest in it. So here’s a glimpse, to help you decide when you want to read it. Be it in health, wealth, or relationships, everyone wishes to have the life they really want, but somehow they can’t. What stops them? Is it their luck? Or is it something that they are unknowingly doing to sabotage their own success? Such is the story of Raj, a 26-year-old guy who is not happy with his present life. He feels that God has been unfair to him. Out of frustration, he loses all hope and motivation to live. But then, suddenly, one night, to his horror, an extraordinary life-event unfolds, which rattles him to the core, jolts him out of his present life situation, and puts him on course towards the life that he had always dreamt of. Read on to find out what happened, and get to know "the way" to turn your life around and get the life you want.

Author : Dr. Phillip Botha
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300326743
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The devil is in the detail written by Dr. Phillip Botha and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time someone told the truth about the devil, no holds barred!! Everything that we see, touch, smell, hears, taste (eat), or drink, has an influence over us. Whether it is a innocent enough CD we buy from the Music Store or a hamburger from the corner shop, each and every thing that we are exposed to, influence the way in which we think and act, whether we want to believe it or not! This book is written with the intention of creating awareness around the devil and his plan to lead us astray, to make us believe in him rather than God. The devil plans on "winning" us over by exposing us to literally endless accounts of manipulative techniques and brainwashing, which I will discuss in full detail in this book, after all, the devil is in the detail...

Author : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679731180
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. "Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." —The Boston Globe With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.

Author : J. Dwight Pentecost
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780825434556
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Adversary, the Devil written by J. Dwight Pentecost and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an illuminating study of the devil from a veteran seminary professor and author. "This work uses the light of Scripture to expose the person and methods of Satan . . . Competent books on this subject are not plentiful. . . . Pentecost gives us a very useful survey of information on Satan."--"Christianity Today."

Author : Edward Chancellor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452281806
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil Take the Hindmost written by Edward Chancellor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day. Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed—and not changed—over the last five hundred years? In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to “stockjobbing” in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, which prompted Sir Isaac Newton to comment, “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” Here are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the “assurance of female chastity”; credit notes and lottery tickets circulating as money; wise and unwise investors from Alexander Pope and Benjamin Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton. From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, from the nineteenth century railway mania to the crash of 1929, from junk bonds and the Japanese bubble economy to the day-traders of the Information Era, Devil Take the Hindmost tells a fascinating story of human dreams and folly through the ages.