Why centrist politics in France is bound to fail This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working classes, leaving behind on the one hand, craftsmen, shop owners and small entrepreneurs disappointed by the timidity of the reforms of the neoliberal right and, on the other hand, workers and employees hostile to the neoliberal and pro-European integration orientation of the Socialist Party. The Presidency of François Hollande was less an anomaly than the definitive failure of attempts to reconcile the social base of the left with the so-called "modernisation" of the French model. The project, based on the pursuit of neoliberal reforms, did not die with Hollande's failure; it was taken up and radicalised by his successor, Emmanuel Macron. This project needs a social base, the 'bourgeois bloc", designed to overcome the right/left divide by a new alliance between the middle and upper classes. But this, as we have seen recently on the streets of Paris and elsewhere, is a precarious process.
Bargain - everyone loves a bargain, and "Joe Bruno's Mobsters - Six Volumes" is a bargain that's hard to beat. This tome, which consists of six volumes by International Best-Selling true crime writer Joe Bruno, starts with "Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps - Volumes 1, 2, and 3, " All three books were once ranked No. 1 in the Amazon book category "Gangs," and all three books are consistently ranked in the top 25 in Amazon's categories of "Organized Crime," "Hoaxes & Deceptions," and "Law Enforcement Biographies & Memoirs." The 4th book - "Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple - From the Black Hand to Murder Incorporated" details the progression of New York City gang murder machines from 1900-1940. It starts with the Italian Black Hand, and cruises through the Boys from Brooklyn, which later became part of the most deadly American alliance ever: Murder Incorporated. The fifth book is "The Wrong Man," the story of his crooked NY City police lieutenant Charles Becker was framed and put to death for the murder of small-time gambler Herman Rosenthal. To cap off this six-book boxed set there's "Mob Wives - Fuhgeddaboudit!" - a clever critique of the VH1 TV program Mob Wives. To get your copy Click on the "buy" link
This book focuses on what makes people happy. The author explains methods for measuring subjective life satisfaction and well-being by discussing economic and sociodemographic factors, as well as the psychological, cultural and political dimensions of personal happiness. Does higher income increase happiness? Are people in rich countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, happier than those living elsewhere? Does losing one’s job make one unhappy? What is the role of genetic endowments inherited from our parents? How important are physical and emotional health to subjective life satisfaction? Do older people tend to be happier, or younger people? Are close social relationships necessary for happiness? Do political conditions, such as respect for human rights, democracy and autonomy, play a part? How can governments contribute to the population’s happiness? This book answers these questions on the basis of extensive interdisciplinary research reflecting the current state of knowledge. The book will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the various dimensions of personal well-being beyond the happiness-prosperity connection, as well as to policymakers looking for guidance on how to improve happiness in societies.
Have you ever wanted to know how to properly handle those nunchucks you got for yourself? Or, did you think it might be fun and rewarding to be able to learn a proper bo staff form? Beginner or advanced, student or instructor, this manual will help you understand the different types of chucks and bo staffs you can purchase, the proper techniques and formal training methods that you can learn and apply just like in a martial arts studio, but at your own pace. This manual was created by Masters Guy and BJ Bruno, both high-ranking black belts in WTF Taekwondo and founders of the World Martial Arts Weapons Alliance (WMAWA), to assist their students in learning how to handle the nunchakus and the bo staff . The manual also includes a classroom format laid out for interested instructors to effectively teach others in these traditional and time honored martial arts weapons. This manual has over 200 black and white graphics to help give you a clear view of the stances, blocks, strikes, and positions necessary to learn the forms. We also have coordinating DVD's available to use in conjunction with the manual that show the same things, only in action. Please see this site for more information. Don't set your chucks or bo staff up on the shelf to gather dust! Get this manual, pick up your nunchucks or bo staff, turn up the music and learn to have fun with them! Use them in your daily workout, and you will have a great, non-boring way to get in shape and stay in shape! NOTE: This manual is recommended for students and instructors currently or interested in becoming members in the World Martial Arts Weapons Alliance. It isn't necessary that you have prior knowledge in the martial arts, but it will be greatly helpful to you prior to the purchase of this manual.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Wirtschaftsgeographie, Note: 1,7, Universität zu Köln (Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Economic Geography of the EU, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The relational approach goes beyond a mere geographical point of view by emphasizing its focus on the varying forms of relations (e.g. social, cultural) among actors and structures that effect dynamic changes in the spatial organization of economic activities. Its research topics are economic innovations, cross-company forms of organization and processes of collective-institutional learning.1 Hence, core elements of the relational approach are organization (e.g. cluster), evolution (e.g. historical structures), innovation (e.g. technological development) and interaction (e.g. learning, mutual trust) in and between structures and actors.2 Following the relational approach, a research of the development of the aerospace industry is of particular interest, due to its concentration as “an assembly and high-technology industry that inevitably involves a high level of inter-company collaboration”3, its internationalized character and its different development in various regions, which has been significantly influenced by organizational, structural and innovatory changes. The study reviews those changes by emphasizing on the evolutionary development of the aerospace industry in Toulouse, Seattle and North-west England in terms of historical achievements and internal and external changes. By linking relational perceptions and empirical results, the study aims to clarify if regional competition in the aerospace industry can be seen as a „relational‟ problem. Therefore, I will first give a brief proposal to amplify the relational approach, based on the work of Yeung (2005). Thereafter, I will present the empirical findings concerning aerospace-related research institutes, processes of internationalization and specification, and the creation of regional and inter-regional networks. This part is based mainly on the works of Hickie (2006) and Niosi/Zhegu (2005), as well as on Internet presentations of the different aerospace-related alliances, firms and locations of the three regions. The results of the study are going to be presented in a brief conclusion that shows how the ideas of the relational approach can be conceived concerning the aerospace industry of our three regions.
A fierce critique of productivity and sovereignty in the world of labor and everyday life, Bruno Gullì’s Earthly Plenitudes asks, can labor exist without sovereignty and without capitalism? He introduces the concept of dignity of individuation to prompt a rethinking of categories of political ontology. Dignity of individuation stresses the notion that the dignity of each and any individual being lies in its being individuated as such; dignity is the irreducible and most essential character of any being. Singularity is a more universal quality. Gullì first reviews approaches to sovereignty by philosophers as varied as Gottfried Leibniz and Georges Bataille, and then looks at concrete examples where the alliance of sovereignty and capital cracks under the potency of living labor. He examines contingent academic labor as an example of the super-exploitation of labor, which has become a global phenomenon, and as such, a clear threat to the sovereign logic of capital. Gullì also looks at disability to assert that a new measure of humanity can only be found outside the schemes of sovereignty, productivity, efficiency, and independence, through care and caring for others, in solidarity and interdependence.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Wirtschaftsgeographie, Note: 1,7, Universität zu Köln (Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Economic Geography of the EU, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The relational approach goes beyond a mere geographical point of view by emphasizing its focus on the varying forms of relations (e.g. social, cultural) among actors and structures that effect dynamic changes in the spatial organization of economic activities. Its research topics are economic innovations, cross-company forms of organization and processes of collective-institutional learning.1 Hence, core elements of the relational approach are organization (e.g. cluster), evolution (e.g. historical structures), innovation (e.g. technological development) and interaction (e.g. learning, mutual trust) in and between structures and actors.2 Following the relational approach, a research of the development of the aerospace industry is of particular interest, due to its concentration as "an assembly and high-technology industry that inevitably involves a high level of inter-company collaboration"3, its internationalized character and its different development in various regions, which has been significantly influenced by organizational, structural and innovatory changes. The study reviews those changes by emphasizing on the evolutionary development of the aerospace industry in Toulouse, Seattle and North-west England in terms of historical achievements and internal and external changes. By linking relational perceptions and empirical results, the study aims to clarify if regional competition in the aerospace industry can be seen as a "relational‟ problem. Therefore, I will first give a brief proposal to amplify the relational approach, based on the work of Yeung (2005). Thereafter, I will present the empirical findings concerning aerospace-related research institutes, processes of internationalization and specification,
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