The Cost Of Living

Author : Deborah Levy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780735236523

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together." Crystalline, witty and audacious, The Cost of Living addresses itself to the dual experiences of writing and of womanhood, examining what is essential in each. Following the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, which reflected deeply on the nature of gender politics and a life in letters, The Cost of Living returns to the same subject and to the same life, to find a writer in radical flux. If a woman dismantles her life, expands it and puts it back together in a new shape, how might she describe this new composition? "Words have to open the mind. When words close the mind you can be sure that someone has been reduced to nothingness." In this elegiac second instalment of her "living autobiography", Deborah Levy considers what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure. The Cost of Living is a vital and astonishing testimony, as distinctive, wide-ranging and original as Levy's acclaimed novels.

Author : Carmen Wong Ulrich
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101446041

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Every decision, from buying a home to grabbing a daily latte, has costs and benefits-personal as well as financial. The Real Cost of Living helps you make better decisions, both big and small- decisions that involve money, but aren't all about money. Well-known personal finance expert Carmen Wong Ulrich makes personal finance personal and takes into account that we all have motivations that go way beyond number crunching. From marriage and family to career, investing, and more, Carmen examines the "real cost" of the choices we all make every day. *Is deciding whether to go back to work full-time after you have a child really all about money? Should it be? *Is prepaying a mortgage a smart-money move, or is it really about craving security and stability-and which means more to you? *How much do your bad habits really cost you? And is saving thousands of dollars enough of a motivation to get you to stop? *Are college degrees really worthwhile? And if so, how can you maximize the odds of gaining all the benefits of a degree, both personally and financially? *Is becoming your own boss the answer to your career malaise? Can you handle the costs? The Real Cost of Living is a rare melding of personal psychology and personal finance at an important time when we have discovered that having more money may not bring more happiness, but knowing what really will make you happy can be worth any cost. Watch a Video

Author : Martyna Majok
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822236542

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Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating accident. John, a brilliant and witty doctoral student, hires overworked Jess as a caregiver. As their lives intersect, Majok’s play delves into the chasm between abundance and need and explores the space where bodies—abled and disabled—meet each other.

Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Dams
ISBN : 9780002571876

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From the bestselling author of "The God of Small Things" comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things," Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and the detonation of India's first nuclear bomb, with all its attendant Faustian bargains. Merging her inimitable voice with a great moral outrage and imaginative sweep, Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath. For those who have been mesmerized by her vision of India, here is a sketch, traced in fire, of its topsy-turvy society, where the lives of the many are sacrificed for the comforts of the few.

Author : Martin Parr,Robert Chesshyre
Publisher : Aperture
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0893814393

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A photographic essay portrays the new middle classes of England at home, at parties and meetings, shopping, and going about their everyday life.

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408817940

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'In this collection, we witness the miracle of a great writer's birth and brisk maturation, a blossoming incapable of withering, and that remains masterful and truthful today' Jhumpa Lahiri 'Gallant is one of the great short-story writers of our time' Michael Ondaatje Mavis Gallant is admired and beloved as one of the masters of the modern short story. Selected from early collections and the New Yorker, where many of the author's stories have appeared over the last fifty years, and with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Cost of Living reveals a writer coming into her own. The stories span the first twenty years of a long career, from the poise and poignancy of her very first published story, 'Madeleine's Birthday' (1951), to the masterly exploration of the passage of time in the long story 'The Burgundy Weekend' (1971) that appears here in book form for the first time. Gallant's sensibility has always been cosmopolitan and these stories take us from Quebec to postwar Europe, via New York and New England, before settling, like their author, in Paris. Everywhere the book reveals Gallant's subtly penetrating psychological insight, wit and unsentimental sympathy for the excluded and the exiled, not to mention her wonderfully wicked sense of humour.

Author : Robert A. Pollak
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195058703

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The Theory of the Cost-of-living Index by Robert A. Pollak Pdf

Providing a valuable resource for government economists, academics, and research libraries, this volume contains twelve papers by Robert Pollak--four previously unpublished--that explore the theory of the cost of living index. In addition to Pollak's classic paper, "The Theory of the Cost of Living Index," the volume includes papers on subindexes, the intertemporal cost of living index, welfare comparisons and equivalence scales, the social cost of living index, the treatment of "quality," and consumer durables in the cost of living index.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015078638437

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Congressional Oversight of Administrative Agencies (the Cost of Living Council) by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers Pdf

Author : United States. Works Progress Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D035968355

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Intercity Differences in the Cost of Living by United States. Works Progress Administration Pdf

Author : Ashesh Mukherjee
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442621619

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The Internet Trap by Ashesh Mukherjee Pdf

Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the Internet pervades our professional and personal environments. The Internet has revolutionized our lives, but at what cost? In The Internet Trap, Ashesh Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy. The book uses everyday examples to explain these costs including how surfing the Internet anonymously can encourage bad behavior, using social media can make us envious and unhappy, and doing online research can devalue the product finally chosen. The book also provides actionable solutions to minimize these costs. For example, the book reveals how deciding not to choose is as important as deciding what to choose, setting up structural barriers to temptation can reduce overspending on e-commerce websites, and comparisons with others on social media websites needs to be cold rather than hot. The Internet Trap provides a new perspective on the dark side of the Internet, and gives readers the tools to become smarter users of the Internet.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045172272

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Stabilizing the Cost of Living, Hearings Before ..., 77-2 on S.J. Res. 161 ..., September 15 and 16, 1942 by United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee Pdf

Author : United States. War Information Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112105141813

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Information Program on Economic Stabilization to Keep Down the Cost of Living by United States. War Information Office Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : UIUC:30112086083836

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Description of the Cost of Living Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Consumer price indexes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021470930

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Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living by United States. Congress. Senate. Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index Pdf

Author : James Kennaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Scottish fiction
ISBN : 0582101174

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The Cost of Living Like this by James Kennaway Pdf