Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Doing Business in 2006
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Doing Business in 2006

This publication is the third in a series of annual reports giving a comparative analysis of business regulations and their enforcement across 155 countries and over time. Comparable data indicators are given for 10 topics: starting a business, dealing with licences, hiring and firing workers, registering property, getting credit, investment protection, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business. These indicators are used to assess socio-economic outcomes including levels of unemployment and poverty, productivity, investment and corruption; and to identify which regulatory measures enhance business activity and those that work to constrain it. This is a co-publication of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.

Doing Business 2012
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Doing Business 2012

Ninth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies, Doing Business 2012 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business dealing with construction permits employing workers registering property getting credit protecting investors paying taxes trading across borders enforcing contracts closing a business getting electricity The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2011, ranks countries on their overall "ease of doing business", and analyzes reforms to business regulation identifying which countries are strengthening their business environment the most. Doing Business 2012 includes a new set of indicators on the ...

I Don't Belong Here
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 135

I Don't Belong Here

Sixteen-year-old Tamara Khoury just wants to live a normal teenage existence. Unfortunately, her strict Lebanese-Catholic upbringing instigated by her tyrannical father is prohibiting her from fully experiencing adolescence. In her bedroom-the one place where she finds peace-Tamara dreams of the day when she will be free of her dysfunctional family, culture, and her cruel father. Tamara's father rules his household with tyranny. Despite this, or perhaps in spite of it, Tamara meets Adrian and shares her first real kiss with him. She continues to disobey her father's rules, even after he learns of her tryst. To complicate matters even more, Tamara meets a different young man. His mysterious ways entice and draw her to him. Tamara's relationship with both men draws her into a series of temptations that include drugs, alcohol, and the possibility of losing her virginity. But everything will change when her mother unveils her deepest, darkest secret. I Don't Belong Here is the young adult tale of a teenage girl who is conflicted between her desire to have a normal life and her strict culture as she learns the true meaning of family, friendship, and love.

World Days
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 743

World Days

List of World Days and International Action Days. List and descriptions of world days. Indicating the date, name and description of the day. "This list includes World Days and International Days of Action, ie annual, global or multi-country celebrations and awareness-raising days proclaimed by various international organizations on a current topic: eg UN Thematic Awareness Days, Trade Day Days and other one-day events. , events of international significance. "

The Children of Harvey Milk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

The Children of Harvey Milk

Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. Featuring LGBTQ icons from America to Ireland, Britain to New Zealand; Reynolds documents their successes and failures, heartwarming stories of acceptance and heartbreaking stories of ostracism, demonstrating the ways in which an individual can change the views and voting behaviors of those around them. The book also includes rare vignettes of LGBTQ leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean who continue to fight for equality in spite of threats, violence, and homophobia. A touchstone narrative of the tumultuous journey towards LGBTQ rights, The Children of Harvey Milk is a must-read for anyone with an interest in social change

A Path to Diversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

A Path to Diversity

A Path to Diversity: LGBTQ Participation in the Working World investigates the current state of employment markets around the world for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, two-spirit, or gender fluid (LGBTQ) community. Included is a discussion of equality in the workplace and why it is important to both the employer and employee, the wage gap, which professions are attractive to LGBTQ individuals and why, and the role of unions and government legislation. A survey of seventy five professions provides a status report for each, and seventy two biographies of influential LGBTQ professionals from around the world is included.

Imposed Morality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 591

Imposed Morality

The book “Imposed Morality” is written from a multidisciplinary perspective and in this sense is totally different from other books dealing with human sexuality and particularly homosexuality. While other books usually present only one point of view such as medical, psychiatric, psychological, social or legal this book present a total and multidisciplinary view. It also includes a discussion of the present views of homosexuality both in the western countries as compared to some non-western societies which do not seem to take the many important aspects of this practice recently discussed and evaluated by western scientists in consideration, and continue to criminalize homosexuality leading to death sentences and executions of gay people or them being stoned publicly to death.

Art as experience of the living body / L’art comme experience du corps vivant
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 793

Art as experience of the living body / L’art comme experience du corps vivant

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2024-01-23
  • -
  • Publisher: Vernon Press

This book analyses the dynamic relationship between art and subjective consciousness, following a phenomenological, pragmatist and enactive approach. It brings out a new approach to the role of the body in art, not as a speculative object or symbolic material but as the living source of the imaginary. It contains theoretical contributions and case studies taken from various artistic practices (visual art, theatre, literature and music), Western and Eastern, the latter concerning China, India and Japan. These contributions allow us to nourish the debate on embodied cognition and aesthetics, using theory–philosophy, art history, neuroscience–and the authors’ personal experience as artist...

Images and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Images and Human Rights

This book explores issues of creation, distribution, and control of images through official and unofficial sources, asking what impact that has had on human rights and what the ethical implications are. The volume includes research from healthcare advocates, human rights scholars and activists, photographers, and visual anthropologists who see a need for more careful contextual interpretation of images in global and local settings. It represents diverse forms of scholarship and the ever-changing field of research methodologies, and it examines how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual works to communicate these issues with the public. As such, this collection will be useful for researchers studying in the fields of visual culture and human rights.

Now That You Are Gone From This World
  • Language: en

Now That You Are Gone From This World

Poems of Grief, Loss, and The Search for Healing…Now That You Are Gone from This World Readers who love poetry collections will want to immerse in the delicate variety of poems contained in this new compilation “Now That You Are Gone from This World”. With engaging and heartwarming poetry that will keep you turning pages, this collection brings an emotionally intense, and yet fascinating sense of healing, through the loving and fond memories inside these pages. Here’s a short list of the poems you’ll find: See You. The Weeping Willow. July 7 The Amber Line The Silent Hills of Memory And more! Take the journey alongside an eclectic group of poets as they help you acknowledge, understand, and accept the grieving process at the very high spiritual and emotional level that only poetry can achieve. Find the support and hope you need for your soul during those painful moments by the hand of the poetic words of people who understand.