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Saving for Retirement

Intention, Context, and Behavior

By: Gordon L. Clark,Kendra Strauss,Janelle Knox-Hayes

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Saving for Retirement

Intention, Context, and Behavior

By: Gordon L. Clark,Kendra Strauss,Janelle Knox-Hayes

Understanding the ways in which people save for their retirement is an urgent issue. So much has changed in the last 10 to 15 years, especially in the area of the provision of pensions and retirement income. Around the world, greater and greater responsibility is being allocated to individuals while governments discount their contributions to social security and employers retreat from the provision of supplementary retirement income. This book explores the behavioral revolution and its implications for understanding financial decision-making and saving for the future. Recognizing the profound implications of this research program, it goes beyond issues of risk aversion, framing, and decision-making to consider how social identity and the resources due to people by virtue of their place in society figure in savings behavior. It gives considerable attention to the context of the environment in which people make financial decisions, arguing that this allows a better understanding of the coexistence of sophistication and naivety apparent in patterns of retirement saving. Utilizing databases from the UK, the book provides an empirical foundation to its theoretical arguments, demonstrating how an integrated approach to individual financial decision-making is necessary if we are to address the apparent shortfall in many people's planning for the future. The book concludes by setting the agenda for the design, governance, and regulation of pension savings schemes consistent with delivering cost-effective solutions to pension adequacy. In these ways, it sets forth a strategy for rethinking individual behavior as well as the design of retirement income systems.

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OUP Oxford

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0191618993

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9780191618994

The Art Songs of Louise Talma

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

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The Art Songs of Louise Talma

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

Appendix 1: Sources on the Vocal Works of Louise Talma -- Appendix 2: The Compositions for Voice by Louise Talma -- Appendix 3: Recordings of Talma's Vocal Works -- Index 1: Individuals, Places, and Ideas -- Index 2: Titles of Musical Compositions

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303

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Taylor & Francis

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1351782177

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9781351782173

Shakespeare, Madness, and Music

Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

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Shakespeare, Madness, and Music

Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

Shakespeare's three political tragedies_Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear_have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and expectation, political unrest, and, ultimately, truth, as excavated by characters so afflicted. Music has long been associated with madness, and was often used as an audible symptom of a victim's disassociation from their surroundings and societal rules, as well as their loss of self-control. In Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations, Kendra Preston Leonard examines the use of music in Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear. Whether discussing contemporary source materials, such as songs, verses, or rhymes specified by Shakespeare in his plays, or music composed specifically for a film and original to the director's or composer's interpretations, Leonard shows how the changing social and scholarly attitudes towards the plays, their characters, and the conditions that fall under the general catch-all of 'madness' have led to a wide range of musical accompaniments, signifiers, and incarnations of the afflictions displayed by Shakespeare's characters. Focusing on the most widely distributed and viewed adaptations of these plays for the cinema, each chapter presents the musical treatment of individual Shakespearean characters afflicted with or feigning madness: Hamlet, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, King Lear, and Edgar. The book offers analysis and interpretation of the music used to underscore, belie, or otherwise inform or invoke the characters' states of mind, providing a fascinating indication of culture and society, as well as the thoughts and ideas of individual directors, composers, and actors. A bibliography, index, and appendix listing Shakespeare's film adaptations help complete this fascinating volume.

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165

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Scarecrow Press

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0810869586

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9780810869585

Rosie's Daughters

The "first Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story

By: Matilda Butler,Kendra Bonnett

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Rosie's Daughters

The "first Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story

By: Matilda Butler,Kendra Bonnett

Meet Rosie's Daughters in this collective memoir of American women born during World War II, precursors of the Baby Boom generation. Their stories will inform, entertain, and surprise you. In these in-depth interviews, they are declaring their place in history.

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Iaso Books

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0979306191

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9780979306198

Hole in the Middle

By: Kendra Fortmeyer

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Hole in the Middle

By: Kendra Fortmeyer

For every reader who grew up loving R.J. Palacio’s Wonder comes a hilarious, heartbreaking, and magical YA debut about what it means to accept the body you’re given. What if the empty space was what made you whole? Morgan Stone was born with a hole in her middle: a perfectly smooth, sealed, fist-sized chunk of nothing near her belly button. After seventeen years of hiding behind lumpy sweaters and a smart mouth, she decides to bare all. At first she feels liberated . . . until a few online photos snowball into a media frenzy. Now Morgan is desperate to return to her own strange version of normal—when only her doctors, her divorced parents, and her best friend, Caro, knew the truth. Then a new doctor appears with a boy who may be both Morgan’s cure and her destiny. But what happens when you meet the person who is—literally—your perfect match? Is being whole really all it’s cracked up to be?

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300

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Soho Press

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1616959576

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9781616959579

The New Asian Home

By: Kendra Langeteig

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The New Asian Home

By: Kendra Langeteig

The New Asian Homeby Kendra Langeteig profiles 23 fascinating and original American homes inspired by the ancient architectural traditions of Asia. Designed by some of today's foremost architects and designers, principles fundamental to the serene aesthetics of classic Asian design - balance, harmony, connection with nature - are reinterpreted for the Western home.

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196

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Gibbs Smith

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1423610369

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9781423610366

Louise Talma

A Life in Composition

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

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Louise Talma

A Life in Composition

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book analyses Talma’s works in the context of her life, focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult, under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger, and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis, feminist and queer musicology, and women’s autobiographical theory to examine Talma’s body of works, comprising some eighty pieces, this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer. Exploring Talma’s compositional language, text-setting practices, and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works using her own letters, sketches, and scores, as well as a number of other relevant documents, this book positions Talma’s contributions to serial and atonal music in the United States, considers her role as a woman composer during the twentieth century, and evaluates the legacy of her works and career in American music.

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289

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Routledge

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1317103203

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9781317103202

Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity

By: Kendra Coulter

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Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity

By: Kendra Coulter

In this thought-provoking and innovative book, Kendra Coulter examines the diversity of work done with, by, and for animals. Interweaving human-animal studies, labor theories and research, and feminist political economy, Coulter develops a unique analysis of the accomplishments, complexities, problems, and possibilities of multispecies and interspecies labor. She fosters a nuanced, multi-faceted approach to labor that takes human and animal well-being seriously, and that challenges readers to not only think deeply and differently about animals and work, but to reflect on the potential for interspecies solidarity. The result is an engaging, expansive, and path-making text.

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208

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Springer

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1137558806

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9781137558800

Music for Silent Film

A Guide to North American Resources

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

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Music for Silent Film

A Guide to North American Resources

By: Kendra Preston Leonard

Between 1895 and 1929, more than 15,000 motion pictures were made in the United States. We call these works “silent films,” but they were accompanied by an enormous body of music, including works adapted or arranged from pre-existing works, as well as newly composed pieces for theater orchestras, organists, or pianists. While many films and pieces are lost, a considerable amount of material remains extant and available for use in research and performance. Music for Silent Film: A Guide to North American Resources is a unique resource on North American archives and English-language materials available in for those interested in this repertoire. Part I contains information about archives of primary source materials including full and compiled scores, sheet music, published anthologies of music, interviews with cinema musicians, periodicals, and instruction books. Part II surveys the English-language scholarship on silent film music in articles, book chapters, essay collections, and monographs through 2015. The book is fully indexed for ease of access to these important sources on film music.

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A-R Editions, Inc.

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0895798352

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9780895798350

Saving for Retirement

Intention, Context, and Behavior

By: Gordon L. Clark,Kendra Strauss,Janelle Knox-Hayes

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Intention, Context, and Behavior

By: Gordon L. Clark,Kendra Strauss,Janelle Knox-Hayes

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Book's by Kendra Strauss

Saving for Retirement

Saving for Retirement

The Art Songs of Louise Talma

The Art Songs of Louise Talma

Shakespeare, Madness, and Music

Shakespeare, Madness, and Music

Rosie's Daughters

Rosie's Daughters

Hole in the Middle

Hole in the Middle

The New Asian Home

The New Asian Home

Louise Talma

Louise Talma

Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity

Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity

Music for Silent Film

Music for Silent Film

Saving for Retirement

Saving for Retirement

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