Whether you’re a student or an executive, in an upper income bracket or operating on a tight budget, you need this manual of personal financial management. Whatever your level of income and education, building personal wealth requires a sound knowledge of the 33 basic principles of sound money management covered in this book. It will tell you in clear and colorful language the four most important words you will ever hear about handling your personal finances: How to make credit work for you instead of against you; how to beat the banks at their own game; places you should NEVER put your cash. You’ll be surprised; how to avoid costly scams that are fleecing unwary victims every day; how to make every dollar you earn work for you; how to minimize Uncle Sam’s piece of your pie; how to recognize “rules” that were made to be broken; how to prepare for and enjoy a comfortable retirement. You’ll treasure Money as a valuable permanent reference to help you travel the bumpy road to personal wealth.
How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning.
A groundbreaking examination of the colonial legacy and future of Ireland, showing how Ireland’s story is linked to and informs anti-imperialism around the world. Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. And as Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston argue, Ireland’s experience is central to understanding the history of colonization and anti-colonial politics throughout the world. Part history, part analysis, Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution charts the centuries of Irish colonial history, from England’s proto-imperial engagement with Ireland in 1155 to the Union in 1801, and the subsequent struggles for Irish independence and the legacies of partition from 1921. A century later, the plate tectonics of Irishness are shifting once again. The Union is in crisis and alternatives to partition are being seriously considered outside the Republican tradition for the first time in generations. These significant structural changes suggest that the coming times might finally see the completion of the decolonization project – the finishing of the revolution. In the words of the revolutionary Pádraig Pearse: Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh – now the summer is coming.
Kate Bush started her career at the top, the spellbinding ‘Wuthering Heights’ giving her a number one hit single with her first release. Yet from there, artistically at least, the only way has been up. For while the sales of both singles and albums over the five decades since have had their peaks and troughs, every new release has seen Bush refuse to be boxed in by past success but instead continue to take the musical chances that have characterised her career from day one. Across ten studio albums, including director’s cut reassessments of two of them, and a live record of the 2014 Hammersmith Apollo residency, Kate Bush has constantly sought new ground, reinventing her sound time and again. She has often strayed from the commercial path of least resistance to examine the less travelled musical byways that have provided the inspiration for an extraordinary body of work - quite unlike anyone else’s. With a string of platinum albums and hit singles to her credit, Kate’s is a fascinating journey. This book examines her entire recorded catalogue from The Kick Inside through to Before The Dawn, hoovering up all the B-sides and the rarities along the way. It’s a comprehensive guide to the extraordinary music of Kate Bush. Bill Thomas was born in the mid-1960s, and after leaving the bright lights and romance of management accountancy behind him, he has carried on what he optimistically calls ‘a career’ in both music and football over the course of the last 30 years. Since he couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket and has concrete feet, that career has been limited to nothing more than writing about both disciplines, which is about as close as he is ever going get. He lives in Shropshire, UK.
First published in 1994, Putting the Family First is a study of better-off couples that clarifies the relationship between individualism and family values. Partners’ cultural practices focus on "making something of themselves", being "supportive" of each other, and spending "quality time" with children. But their economic strategies are directed towards competition for positional goods, especially higher education and good jobs for their offspring. The authors argue that, although these strategies are rational for individual families, they are collectively wasteful and mutually frustrating, and construct a narrow and exclusive version of citizenship. Such private morality depletes civic culture, and is socially costly. This revealing study provides a valuable text for students, with considerable appeal for courses in sociology, social policy, gender and cultural studies. It will be of broader interest to others connected to avoid the unravelling of our social fabric.
Whether you’re a student or an executive, in an upper income bracket or operating on a tight budget, you need this manual of personal financial management. Whatever your level of income and education, building personal wealth requires a sound knowledge of the 33 basic principles of sound money management covered in this book. It will tell you in clear and colorful language the four most important words you will ever hear about handling your personal finances: How to make credit work for you instead of against you; how to beat the banks at their own game; places you should NEVER put your cash. You’ll be surprised; how to avoid costly scams that are fleecing unwary victims every day; how to make every dollar you earn work for you; how to minimize Uncle Sam’s piece of your pie; how to recognize “rules” that were made to be broken; how to prepare for and enjoy a comfortable retirement. You’ll treasure Money as a valuable permanent reference to help you travel the bumpy road to personal wealth.
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