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Hollywood Noir
When Ronald Reagan arrived in Hollywood in the latter part of May1937 to begin his film career, it was like being cast in an epic film noir project with a DeMille cast of thousands, without having read the script, or met or known any of the principals in the project. Because of political corruption, labor racketeering, an out of control Police Department, and violent crime, writers referred to Los Angeles as the "unholy city." Much of this dark side of Los Angeles played out in the film industry and on Hollywood Boulevard. This story traces back to the early 1930s when two small time Chicago hoodlums, Willie Bioff and George Browne, formed a partnership that would shake up the film industry,...
Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine
Growing up a stone's throw away from New York City in a small house on suburban Long Island, Richard Olsen-Harbich always dreamed of being a farmer. After graduating from Cornell with a degree in viticulture, he found himself back on the Island at the heart of an emerging wine region that was struggling to find itself. Starting from the ground up with little information or experience, Olsen-Harbich began a lifelong quest to master the art and science of growing wine grapes less than 90 miles from Manhattan. In the last half-century, the North Fork's bucolic seaside towns and humble potato farms were transformed into one of this country's most compelling agricultural success stories, garnerin...
Costs and Consequences of Placing Children in Care
It costs more to place a child in the care of a local authority than it does to send a child to a top boarding school, and there are substantial variations in costs both between and within authorities. This book gets to the bottom of the costs of care and provides an insight into how these variations in cost relate to differences in children's needs, and most importantly, whether higher costs reflect better services and better outcomes for children. Costs and Consequences for Children Placed Away from Home draws from new original research, and considers the implications for best practice and future policy. It also features information about a newly pioneered resource: a fully workable decision analysis model designed for use in local authorities which uses historical data for each child to calculate the probable cost consequences of difference placement choices. This book sheds light on how to calculate the financial and social costs of care, and will be invaluable to both social work managers and policy makers working in children's services.
Parenting and Disability
Looks at seventy-five families in the United Kingdom that interact with disability with focus on promoting familial relations.
An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance
Liquid markets generate hundreds or thousands of ticks (the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down) every business day. Data vendors such as Reuters transmit more than 275,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Thus, high-frequency data can be a fundamental object of study, as traders make decisions by observing high-frequency or tick-by-tick data. Yet most studies published in financial literature deal with low frequency, regularly spaced data. For a variety of reasons, high-frequency data are becoming a way for understanding market microstructure. This book discusses the best mathematical models and tools for dealing with such vast amounts of data. This book provides a framework for the analysis, modeling, and inference of high frequency financial time series. With particular emphasis on foreign exchange markets, as well as currency, interest rate, and bond futures markets, this unified view of high frequency time series methods investigates the price formation process and concludes by reviewing techniques for constructing systematic trading models for financial assets.
Apollo Journal
Apollo Journal is a true history of the lunar landing in July 1969 that culminated 2500 years of dreaming, conflict, the struggle of ideas and finally the physical reality confronting Apollo astronauts. The genesis of space travel traces back at least to the classical Greek world of 500 B.C. when astronomers speculated about the universe's structure.Cosmology. Disputes about the structure of the universe (earth-centered or sun- centered) covered a time period of 500 B.C. to the 17th century. Violence and cruelty characterized much of this dispute. Greeks killed Greeks; Christianity adopted the earth-centered geocentric theory as gospel; which led to the Tyranny of the Church and the infamous...
Handmade Houses
Showcasing one hundred years of innovation and environmental sensitivity, Handmade Houses celebrates some of the world’s most idiosyncratic homes from Big Sur to Sardinia. Author Richard Olsen unveils the components used for their construction, including driftwood, boulders, and even old wine vats. The first study of the handmade-homes phenomenon since its inception in the late 1960s, Handmade Houses revisits the subject’s roots and history, exploring how these homes and their owners paved the way for the architectural-salvage business and the reclaimed, industrial look ever-popular today. As fascinating as the structures are themselves, their owners—professionals and amateurs who personally designed and built each residence—offer their inspirations and stories behind the convention-defying homes. Design lessons are gleaned from each home—some examples of environmentally aware construction with applicable tips for use in more mainstream scenarios. Handmade Houses is an important and relevant volume to be appreciated by anyone interested in environmentally friendly design, craft, and the expression of personal style in the home.
The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader
This is a true cross-cultural anthology which presents philosophers from different cultures in dialogue with one another. The text includes selections from both traditional and contemporary Western and non-Western philosophy: African American, Latin American, and feminist philosophers as well as Asian, African, Native American, and Islamic philosophers. The reader is organized by topic, and highlights the similarities and differences between Western and Non-Western philosophers -- it arranges selections so that authors speak to one another across cultures. Chapter introductions and section introductions within chapters guide students. The second edition includes new sections on non-Western epistemology, the question of life after death, Rawls and criticism, and understanding others' experience and points of view. The authors have revised the more difficult sections of chapter 1 and have included more African, African American, and female philosophers, and more variety in the sections on social philosophy.
We Never Left You
Embark on a journey of healing and life after death in this true story of one couple struggling to heal after the devastating loss of their two children.
