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  • Serious Money

    Walking Plutocratic London

    de Caroline Knowles ...
    **'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times**London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Uneasy Streets

    How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain

    de Caroline Knowles ...
    At the high tide of UK-China relations, Chinese investors pumped billions into British property and projects each year, promising urban renewal and economic prosperity. But as political tides turned in both countries, the money dried up. A decade on, we live in the ruins of this "golden era." Caroline Knowles explores China's global influence from the bottom up. Focusing on London and Manchester, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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    Serious Money

    Walking Plutocratic London

    de Caroline Knowles ...
    Narrado por Caroline Knowles ...

    Completo

    12 hora 3 minutos

    Brought to you by Penguin.London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead?To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Flip-Flop

    A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads

    de Caroline Knowles ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    *Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015*This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation.Rather ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Race, Discourse and Labourism

    de Caroline Knowles ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Race, Discourse and Labourism argues that the commonwealth of socialism is founded upon a well-concealed history of brutality and repression. Caroline Knowles details the historical conditions of the emergence of race through Labour's dealings with Indian independence negotiations and anti-semitism in the thirties, and the effects of this on the conceptions of black citizenship, multi-racialism ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Race and Social Analysis

    de Caroline Knowles ...
    ′This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research′ - Ethnic and Racial Studies′The book is well laid out with glossaries of significant new terms and summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, extensive notes and a very useful bibliography. Knowle′s book is a welcome contribution to our ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Bedlam on the Streets

    de Caroline Knowles ...
    What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go?This hard-hitting and controversial new book traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, shopping centres and fast food outlets. This social geography of madness is situated within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • 我所看到的上流生活：社會學家的金權倫敦踏查報告:深入挖掘特權、財富、金融投機與嚴密階級高牆共同掩蔽的都會實景

    Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London

    de 卡若琳．諾斯, Caroline Knowles ...
    Series series 臉譜書房
    一部財富與富人們隱密棲地的實地踏查報告都會中財閥勢力與富豪特權的暗黑民族誌洪敬舒 臺灣勞工陣線協會研究部主任黃克先 國立臺灣大學社會學系教授、《危殆生活》作者盧郁佳 作家丹尼．道靈（Danny Dorling） 《大減速》（Slowdown）作者——推薦貧窮與超乎想像的富裕並存於同一時空，甚至往往就在倫敦同一條街上，街道兩端連起超級富豪坐擁的萬貫家財，以及窮人在當中愈陷愈深的赤貧跟剝奪。究竟是什麼，讓屬於公眾的都市變成這副模樣？在倫敦這座國際大都市，有錢人的數量及資產規模正以驚人速度增長。超級富豪是這座城市最令人不安也最神祕的存在。他們過著不論在社會、政治或環境層面上，都不具永續性的生活，也成了我們這時代亟待解決的問題。上世紀至今的歷代英國政府蓄意建構一種政經生態系，去支撐匯集於私人手中的極端財富；主政者稱之為「一道能讓大小船隻一起上漲的潮水」。實情是，貧富差距已達到難以想像的地步，<.. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Hong Kong

    Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys

    de Caroline Knowles, Douglas Harper ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography.Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper’s point of entry ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Picturing the Social Landscape

    Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination

    de Caroline Knowles, Paul Sweetman ...
    We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Work It, Girl: Beyoncé Knowles

    Rule the music scene like Queen

    de Caroline Moss ...
    Ilustraciones de Sinem Erkas ...
    Series series Work It, Girl
    Discover how Beyoncé became a superstar singer and entrepreneur in this true story of her life. Then, learn 10 key lessons from her work.When Beyoncé was a little girl, she was shy. But one dance class changed the course of her life when her teacher recognized her singing ability and star talent. After years of working hard, rehearsing, and practicing, Beyoncé hit the big time with Destiny's Child ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Rethinking American Disasters

    de Benjamin Carp, Alyssa Fahringer, Caroline Grego, Jonathan Hancock, Scott Knowles, Jane Manners, Richard Mizelle, Sarah Naramore, Ashley Rogers, Thomas Wickman ...
    Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a “natural” disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD