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History of the Eighties

Anonim
History of the Eighties Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bank examination
ISBN : LCCN:97077644

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History of the Eighties

Anonim
History of the Eighties Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PURD:32754067907786

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Life Moves Pretty Fast

Hadley Freeman
Life Moves Pretty Fast Book PDF

Author : Hadley Freeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501130458

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"An earlier edition of this work was published in Great Britain in 2015."--Title page verso.

The History and Future of Technology

Robert U. Ayres
The History and Future of Technology Book PDF

Author : Robert U. Ayres
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Technology
ISBN : 9783030713935

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Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ancestors to communicate, both in the moment, and to posterity. A band of hunters had no chance in competition with predators that were larger and faster without this type of organization, which eventually gave birth to writing and music. The steam engine did not leap fully formed from the brain of James Watt. It evolved from a need to pump water out of coal mines, driven by a need to burn coal instead of firewood, in turn due to deforestation. Later, the steam engine made machines and mechanization possible. Even quite simple machines increased human productivity by a factor of hundreds, if not thousands. That was the Industrial Revolution. If we count electricity and the automobile as a second industrial revolution, and the digital computer as the beginning of a third, the world is now on the cusp of a fourth revolution led by microbiology. These industrial revolutions have benefited many in the short term, but devastated the Earths ecosystems. Can technology save the human race from the catastrophic consequences of its past success? That is the question this book will try to answer.

Managing the Crisis

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bank failures
ISBN : UOM:39015043145559

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Deals with the result of a study conducted by the FDIC on banking crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. Examines the evolution of the processes used by FDIC and RTC to resolve banking problems, protect depositors and dispose of the assets of the failed institutions.

History of the Eighties: Symposium proceedings, January 16, 1997

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History of the Eighties Symposium proceedings January 16 1997 Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bank examination
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049257520

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A study by the FDIC staff to examine and analyse the banking crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.

Back to Our Future

David Sirota
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Author : David Sirota
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345518804

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Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.

No Such Thing as Society

Andy McSmith
No Such Thing as Society Book PDF

Author : Andy McSmith
Publisher : Constable
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849016612

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The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial, like the revolution in fashion and music that enlivened the 1960s; nor were they quite as unsettling and joyless as the troubles of the 1970s. And yet they were irreversible. By the end of the decade, society as a whole was wealthier, money was easier to borrow, there was less social upheaval, less uncertainty about the future. Perhaps the greatest transformation of the decade was that by 1990, the British lived in a new ideological universe where the defining conflict of the twentieth century, between capitalism and socialism, was over. Thatcherism took the politics out of politics and created vast differences between rich and poor, but no expectation that the existence of such gross inequalities was a problem that society or government could solve - because as Mrs Thatcher said, 'There is no such thing as society ... people must look to themselves first.' From the Falklands war and the miners' strike to Bobby Sands and the Guildford Four, from Diana and the New Romantics to Live Aid and the 'big bang', from the Rubik's cube to the ZX Spectrum, McSmith's brilliant narrative account uncovers the truth behind the decade that changed Britain forever.