Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Analysis of Policy Issues

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Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Analysis of Policy Issues

Manufacturer: W. E. Upjohn Institute
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Unemployment Insurance in the United States : Analysis of Policy Issues & Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing.(Review): An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Sylvie Morel
Manufacturer: Relations Industrielles
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ASIN: B0008HGA86
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Relations Industrielles on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 2892 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Unemployment Insurance in the United States : Analysis of Policy Issues & Topics in Unemployment Insurance Financing.(Review)
Author: Sylvie Morel
Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: Relations Industrielles
Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Page: 529

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This volume considers the challenges that increased commercialization has brought to microfinancing efforts in Indonesia. The implications of rapid commercialization and the remaining challenges to expanding outreach through commercial microfinance institutions are explored, with a look at the potential positive effects of microfinance on poverty reduction. Recommendations are made for positive approaches for expanding commercial microfinancing while preserving the traditional social objective of microfinance institutions to expand access to the poor for demand-driven, sustainable financial services.

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How consumption creates consumer meaning.

determinism, anyone?

You Bought the Rolex But Forgot the BMW?

Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (Midland Book)
Grant McCracken
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Book written for the intellectual elite by the intellectual elite.......2006-03-04

This is one of the many books written by professors at universities in order to get tenure. It is not written for the average reader but for other professors who already have an understanding of the subject matter. For that matter, I wonder why the author would make his book available to the general public and not make his material accessable to them. The book is dense, the author focuses more on referencing other authors rather than providing a clear, concise or original thesis to the subject. I dont not recommend this book if you are one of the billions of people out there who is not a professor at whichever universities this author was trying to impress.

How consumption creates consumer meaning........2006-02-09

This is the source to anthropological understanding on how consumption creates a brand meaning. Likewise how consumption creates consumer meaning.

determinism, anyone?.......2000-12-08

In "Culture & Consumption", McCracken takes the view that we are all beholden to our culture and that it is nearly impossible to break out of it. Unlike the reviewer who gave this volume 5 stars, I feel as though it is overly determinstic in its' approach. There is almost no room for any type of individual behavior, as this does not really exist for McCracken. The book is also heavy on a kind of behavioral pop psych dogma and he does not take any other modern consumption ideas into account. In the end, check this book out from the library if you really want to read it, otherwise you're just throwing your money away on overused dogmatic tripe.

You Bought the Rolex But Forgot the BMW?.......2000-01-09

"Man is a rebel against nature. He is prone to accept few things as they come. In all matters it is his irrepressible belief that by his tinkering he can improve upon them. His instrument is culture." Mary Ellen Roach, Dress, Adornment, and The Social Order

Recall the last time you presented a gift to someone. Was it really a gift for them, or did you only give the gift so that the recipient would assume the symbolic properties of the item, and therefore become more like the person you would like them to be? How about your last major purchase-was it a replacement for something that no longer fits your standards, now that your standards no longer fit your past purchases? An individual would be hard pressed to come up with, let alone answer questions like these without serious thought and reflection, yet these and many others come to mind while reading "Culture and Consumption" by Grant McCracken.

Mr. McCracken beckons us to question ourselves, our motives, and the whole rationale behind what we are doing when we make a purchase in the marketplace, whether it is for ourselves or someone else. While popular opinion and social scientific study purport that materialism is one of the things that is most wrong with our society, the author shows that the goods that are so often identified as the unhappy, destructive preoccupation of a materialistic society are in fact one of the chief instruments of its survival-one of the ways in which its order is created and maintained.

While Mary Ellen Roach and others like her declared that yes, man likes to control things, Mr. McCracken goes many steps forward. He disregards and even insults former theorists on consumption in an attempt to reverse the gears of thinking on modern consumption practices. Accordingly, clothing is not language. In fact, clothing is "quite unlike language and best communicates cultural meaning when it departs from the syntagmatic principle on which language operates." Also, the popular trickle down theory of diffusion is actually "an upward "chase and flight" pattern created by a subordinate group that "hunts" upper class status makers and a superordinate social group that moves on in a hasty flight to new ones." Quite modestly, the author admits that his work "begins the rapprochement. It does not pretend to accomplish it."

Mr. McCracken demonstrates that all the other theories about consumption are wrong or at least flawed. He questions them, and then points the way to a new understanding of how and why we are consumers. By his decree, our culture follows very distinct consumption patterns. With his review of the history of consumption to the present day, the author shows a consistent and lineal progression to the mass misunderstanding of today's marketplace. According to him, culture and consumption are inextricably intertwined, and he has attempted to unweave the elements of this intimate rapport for our perusal.

He casts doubt upon our forefathers with startling clarity. What is reality to us-something we sometimes feel developed in complicated, pretentious ways-is in fact only the direct result of our revolutionary, rebellious founding. Mr. McCracken demands that we reevaluate and reconstruct the history of Western Civilization. All that we were, all that we are, and all that we strive to be is dictated to us by our consumption patterns. While one would hope for free will and liberty under democracy, in reality we are slaves to consumption.

While our consumption once freed us from our past, it now entraps us and dictates our futures. What the author terms the Diderot effect sums this up nicely. Basically it states that when one takes the cultural meaning of a new good as the carrier of privileged meaning, they are forced to make all the rest of their possessions consistent with it. To fail in this capacity would make our semblance inaccurate and inconsistent. With that Rolex you had better buy a BMW. To house that BMW you had better buy a condo on the beach. To fill that condo you had better buy Ethan Allen furniture. To sit on that furniture you had better get a Shar-Pei. To pet that Shar-Pei you had better get a gorgeous and wealthy spouse. When you're through with these "common" luxuries, you better collect Rembrandts, Van Goghs, and Picassos until your lust for the obscure is satiated. By that time you'll be dead and you can leave your compulsive obsessions to your children so that they can continue the warped tradition of bridging their ways to the ever elusive displaced meaning-that gap between the real and ideal in social life-like moths to a flame.

These points deserve to be more than noted. Throughout history, anthropologists have chosen to study the supply side of the Industrial Revolution. Mr. McCracken offers a most refreshing viewpoint of the demand side of the equation. With unique insight, Mr. McCracken uses clothing as a prototypical item of contemporary culture and shows us how it has shaped and dominated our lives. Throughout this collection of essays, he tears down the old order of consumption theory and constructs a new one-one that has never seen the light of day.

For anyone ready to face the marketplace through marketing or advertising, and begin the long overdue look at how and why we consume, there could not be a more congenial conversationalist than Mr. McCracken.

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Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities
Grant David McCracken
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION: NEW APPROACHES TO THE SYMBOLIC CHARACTER OF CONSUMER GOODS AND ACTIVITIES
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In HOW TO BE HAPPY, DAMMIT best-selling author Karen Salmansohn showed even the sourest cynic how to lighten up and take those first baby steps on the road to spiritual happiness. In ENOUGH, DAMMIT she goes one step further and challenges you to stop your self-sabotaging bad behavior—and start making your dreams come true. Yes, in 44 simple life lessons you can learn how to swap negative daily patterns that lead to unhappy life circumstances for positive daily patterns that will lead you to the good life. With a barefaced, tough-love attitude and bright, kinetic graphics, this irreverent self-help guide gives you the kick in the butt you need to dump fear, pain, worry, and regret, and pursue your Dream Quest. So, what are you waiting for? Quit your whining and say ENOUGH, DAMMIT! It's time for you to finally make all your dreams come true.

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When the teacher is ready, THIS BOOK will appear!.......2007-09-22

Karen Salmenson has her finger on the pulse of what readers not only want but may need to read.

Enough, Dammit: A Cynic's Guide is a fun but meaningful read for people who need to get past the roadblocks of past experiences that programmed them for negativity and failure that they now impose on themselves.

If you recognize yourself in this, you must buy this book. It's one of the best gifts you'll ever get.

Think positive.......2007-01-09

I bought this book for my 21 yr old son, who is stuck and searching for his path in life. The book presents so many great messages about thinking positive, changing your outlook to change your life, taking personal responsibility for choices, etc. He wouldn't be caught dead with any of the "real" self-help books, so I thought this was a good way to introduce some of the concepts. My one complaint is that it is really written for women; the personal relationship stuff all assumes the reader is female and trying to date men. I just hope that doesn't turn him off because the rest of the messages are gender-nuetral. It's upbeat, catchy, a 10-minute read.

Dammit this book is Great!.......2006-03-12

I always think I like self-help books until I read one. This book however is just enough hudspah? to make it a worthwile read. I kept it in the bathroom and when in need of a little dose of reality and get up and go, i would open it up. It tells it like it is and with beautiful digital photos. This book is a great read and a great gift for anyone in a bit of a wallow.

Fabulousness.......2006-03-10

I loved this book. The lessons in it, are an owners manual for the success driven mind and a great gift for people of all ages. It's self help with the delight of a great kids book. If Tony Robbins and Pinnochio had a kid, this would be it.
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dump those bad habits, baby!.......2005-09-29

I never thought Id have funreading a self help book -- but Karen Salmansohn is not only insightful, she comes up with fun metaphors that make me laugh as I learn. She talks about how we were brainwashed by our childhood but its more like being braindirtied...and how we have to see stressful thigns wiht pain-a-ramic vision...with a 360 degree perspective that reveals the happy lesson to be learned...the gain from pain... I loved this book! And I love this author's website [...] A must read for anyone trying to break a bad pattern!

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The Cynic's Guide to Life

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A cynic's view of why the world works the way it does and the lessons taken from shear, hard experience.Humorous description of the things we do and the absurb reasons why.

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As well as being an authoritative and convenient resource for scholars, students, and performers, the Oxford Composer Companion to Bach provides the ordinary Bach/Baroque music enthusiast with information not usually found in programme or sleeve notes, exploring the life and works of Bach and the historical context in which he lived. Topics covered include: genres (eg chorales), structures (eg fugue), individual works (eg St John Passion), compositional practices and techniques, people and places, institutinos, instruments, performing practice, festivals and performers, reception of Bach's music, stylistic influence and parodies, and Bach scholarship. The main alphabetical text is supplemented by useful endmatter, including a family tree, chronology, list of works, openings of vocal works, and a glossary of specialist terms.

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The best reference book on Bach.......2005-12-05

For those curious about the life and context behind the music, there are two ways to approach a composer with such a rich life and a diverse musical output such as Bach: the first is through a biography, which tells a linear story of the man, his music, his family and his times. We can follow his life through the different cities in which he lived, and look at his music chronologically, seeing how he built on each stage of his life to create increasingly complex and beautiful music.

The other way, which is apparent in a book like the Oxford Composer Companion to Bach, is the artificial, yet none the less useful method of providing information in encyclopedic form. Here, there is no chronology, but each name, each work, each city and episode in his life is listed in alphabetical order. Granted, for readers approaching Bach's life for the first time, a biography would likely be more useful and efficient. Yet browsing a book like this, allowing chance to take over as you flip from page to page, yields a unique glimpse of Bach's life and music.

I must confess to being a book-lover, and, especially, a dictionary lover. I enjoy browsing encyclopedias and dictionaries, and have bookcases full of them. (I can trace this back to when I was about 8 years old, and my mother won an encyclopedia on the television game show, Jeopardy. I recall with great pleasure the afternoons spend leafing through the 20 volumes of that storehouse of knowledge.) While not all people may share this passion, those who do, and who are interested in Bach, will find this book to be ideal.

With entries on people, places, instruments, and, of course, all of Bach's works, this book contains everything you could want to know about Bach's life and music, and then some. Leaping from entry to entry, one can wander through an explanation of Suites to read about Minuets, how they are played Alternativement, questions of rhythm, and how Bach treats these questions. Each place Bach lived incites the reader to explore the entries for the works he composed there and the musicians he met and worked with. With more than 600 pages, this encyclopedia of all things Bach, with entries by more than thirty of the world's most esteemed Bach scholars, will delight all true lovers of his music.

Bach's key works are treated in longer articles, but there are many entries that deal with general musical questions and instruments. The book also has entries for each of Bach's cantatas (something no other currently available book has) as well as a full listing of Bach's works in an appendix.

I cannot praise this book too highly - it is the book I refer to the most when curious about any aspect of Bach's life and works, and it belongs on the shelves of all Bach-lovers.

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Traces the evolution of mythic symbols in American popular culture as shown in moview and on TV from 1939 to 1999 - a remarkable 60-year span. The book details the fictional characters who have served as mythic role models for Americans.

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Who Can Put It All Together?.......2006-04-26

For most of us, with the exception of movie aficianados, the experience of watching movies is something of a blur. We do not take notes or even remember a lot of the names of the films we liked. So what a nice service it is to find someone, a professor, who "puts it all together" in a book about leading movies and TV programs of the past twenty or so years.
I doubt whether Roger Ebert is going to buy this book and put it on his shelves. Nor are film professors at NYU. But for the moderately motivated film enthusiast, it is a delight. Even if you disagree with the author's conclusions, you can at least understand them!
Recommended for all with an interest in the archetypes and underlying motifs which make most of us compulsive viewers!

Why movies and TV shows resonate with viewers.......2001-10-11

Whenever I leave a really great movie, I find it lingers with me for days after. Now, thanks to Elizabeth Hirschman's book, I understand why. She takes a serious look at some of the most popular movies and TV shows of our time, exposing the timeless mythic elements that are at their core. The text is divided between a recounting of the storylines for the unfamiliar and a discussion of the mythic themes that are present. This book is great for fans of popular entertainment who want a unique perspective on what makes a hit a hit. It is also great for aspiring writers who can use it as a tutorial on how to create stories and characters that resonate with people.

You Have GOT to Be Kidding.......2000-09-29

I thought this book was a brilliant parody of those humorless, doctoral-thesis tomes on pop culture . . . But no, Hirschman seems to be serious. VERY serious.

She offers us deadpan pyscho-social, mytho-based treatises on Laverne and Shirley, The Beverly Hillbillies, Murphy Brown, etc. At one point she actually presents us with the sentence, "Laura Petrie also represents, of course, the Good Mother/Nurturant Goddess archetype."

At that point, I shot myself.

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The Ultament Guide To Almost Every TV Show!.......2001-01-09

This guide is great!It docoments over almost every tv show,such as Series like Gilligan's Island,Game Shows like Jeopardy,Wheel of Fortune,Jep,and Wheel of Fortune 2000,variety shows like iQue Sanco Rachon,cartoons like Powerpuff Girls and Dexters Lab,Educational Programs like 3-2-1 Contact(3-2-1 Contact is the secret,is the moment,when everythin happens) C'mon,you know the lyrics,and Specials like the Peanuts and Inspector Gadget series of specials.Every TV maniac,freak and fan will wanna own this book!

This Book is All The Rage!.......2001-01-07

This Book is All The Rage! It contains info on series like The Cyber Troopers,Mickey Mouse Club and Alvin and the Chipmunks,game shows like Wheel of Fortune 2000,Jep,and Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego,variety shows like iNadoro Diaza,cartoons like Dexters Lab and Powerpuff Girls,educational programs like 321 Contact,and tv specials like Inspector Gadget saves Christmas.If you children out there love children's tv,then this is the book for you!

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Here's the eminently practical, pocket-sized reference for Web developers and IT professionals working with XML, XSL, and XSLT. This portable guide delivers a brisk overview of XML, and quickly proceeds to such topics as DTD components, document modeling, document formatting, and XML standards-including XSL, XLink, and XPath.

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Not good.......2007-08-28

Presentation is pretty bad. Lots of errors. Inconsistent terminology used which confuses the reader significantly.

Money's worth.......2007-07-22

Pretty much what I was looking for. Relatively thin book packed with 'to the point' info, with mostly unambigious explanation. Have not found any printing mistakes yet.
Money's worth.

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This.......2005-02-18

If you are a knowledgable IT professional and need to either learn XML or increase your knowledge quickly, this book is for you. Complete, fast-paced, no dead wood, and designed with the busy IT professional in mind. It reminds me of the Wrox "Handbook" series.

It's 370 pages but half-size, so equivalent to a normal-size 185-page book. Best book purchase I've made all year. Weird for an MSPress book to be so good :-)

Take the hint, MS Press... make all of your books like this!

Buy this book!.......2005-01-14

I seldom award five stars but this book deserves it. If you can only buy one XML reference book, buy this one; if you have XML books that you're not satisfied with, buy this one: The XML Pocket Consultant is *the* XML "sleeper" title.

In my mind, I've retitled the XML Pocket Consultant "The XML Comprehensive Quick Reference." The book presents every aspect of XML and related technologies in a clear, crisp, understandable style. The book's excellent content is augmented by a professionally crafted visual style (page layout, whitespace, typeface, headings, list construction, examples) that facilitates information access and transfer; I mention this because too many books of this type look like they were designed and produced using consumer-level desktop publishing software.

I'm not normally this enthusiastic about a book, but The XML Pocket Consultant is truly a treasure: It's the single most useful, helpful, 5.5" x 8" x 1.2" compendium of XML information I've so far found.

Fantastic.......2004-03-30

"XML Pocket Consultant" is the best XML book on the market. It is really worth every penny. This book is packed with useful information. My biggest disappointment is that I had such a hard time find the book. For anyone wanting to learn XML, XSL, XPath this is the book I recommend.

XML Pocket Consultant. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Technical Communication

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XML Pocket Consultant. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Technical Communication
Barbara Jungwirth
Manufacturer: Society for Technical Communication
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 751 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: XML Pocket Consultant. (Book Reviews).
Author: Barbara Jungwirth
Publication: Technical Communication (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Society for Technical Communication
Volume: 50 Issue: 2 Page: 285(4)

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