Search Results - BCFM~

Taxation, the state and society the fiscal sociology of interventionist democracy / by Leroy, Marc, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The importance of multidisciplinary fiscal sociology -- The fiscal state and interventionist democracy -- Tocqueville pioneer of fiscal sociology -- Tocqueville and the expenditures of democracy -- Finance, centralization, and revolution -- The founders of fiscal sociology -- The Austrian founders -- Pareto's fiscal sociology -- The Italian school (strictu sensu) -- Fiscal sociology as a social science -- The factors of institutional recognition -- Fiscal sociology viewed as a social science -- The relation of fiscal sociology to other disciplines -- The political logic of the evolution of the tax state -- The tax genesis of the modern state in Western Europe -- The modern tax state in the history of ideas (an outline) -- Typological approach of the tax state -- The public finance system -- The systemic analysis of tax revenue -- Public revenue and expenditure in the OECD -- The case of developing countries -- The elemental factors of fiscal policy -- The influence of ideas -- The institutional shaping -- Socio-economic groups -- The left-right division -- Obstacles to fiscal democracy -- Against the determinism of contectual factors -- The distorted configuration of fiscal public action -- Bureaucratic regulation -- Fiscal bureaucracy in France -- The organization of tax control -- The individual's logic in the face of taxes -- The factors involved in tax revolts -- The concrete rationality of taxpayer -- The citizen's contribution-tax -- Fiscal deviance becoming commonplace -- The phenomenon of fiscal deviance -- The deviation of fiscal state regulation -- The destabilization of the functions of the interventionist tax state -- The financial function -- The economic function -- The social function -- The ecological territorial function -- The political function -- Globalization, Europe, and taxation -- Durkheim's model of economic anomie -- Neo-liberal globalization of the economy -- The insufficiencies of the European response.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Samuel de Champlain before 1604 Des Sauvages and other documents related to the period /

Table of Contents: “…Early biographies of Champlain : extracts = Anciennes biographies de Champlain : extraits ; Personnel and pay records from the garrisons in Brittany, 1595-1597 = Paiement dans l'armée royale de Bretagne, 1595-1597 ; Gift from Guillermo Elena to Samuel de Champlain = Donación de Guillermo Elena a Samuel de Champlain ; Factum of the merchants of Saint-Malo against Champlain, [January 1613] = Factum des marchands de Saint-Malo contre Champlain, [1613] ; Decrees and commissions preparatory to the Voyage of 1603 = Arrêts et commissions pour le traffique du Canada, le 13 mars 1603 ; Excerpts from Champlain's works related to events before 1604 = Extraits des Œuvres de Champlain avant 1604 ; Des sauvages, or, Voyage of Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 = Des sauvages, ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 -- Of the French who have become accustomed to being in Canada : summary of Des sauvages by Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 = Des François qui sont habituez en Canada : sommaire de Des sauvages par Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 ; The voyage of Samvel Champlaine of Brouage, made unto Canada in the yeere 1603 -- Appendices. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Built environments, constructed societies inverted spatial analysis / by Vis, Benjamin N.

Table of Contents: “…Along Disciplinary Lines -- Foundations of Human Geography -- New Geography, New Archaeology -- Present and Future Discource -- Social Evolutionism -- Culture History, Culture Areas -- Chapter 3. Processes of Becoming -- Time-geography and Structuration -- Introducing Allan Pred, Criticising Anthony Giddens -- Place and the Social -- Place beyond Structuration -- Towards Place as Historically Contingent Process -- What about the Built Environment? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

China and the world balance, imbalance and rebalance /

Table of Contents: “…/ Huang Haizhou, Li Zhiyong, and Wang Hui -- Structural changes of global economy and new challenges of emerging economy / Zhu Min -- Chinese national security : its missions, sequences, and major characteristics / Wang Yizhou -- Japan's search for a national identity and its historical reflections / Li Wei -- Overcome the fear of RMB appreciation / Yu Yongding -- RMB's internationalization under the system of limited exchange rate and capital account control / Zhang Bing and Xu Qiyuan -- How can RMB become an international currency? : enhancing the status and the role of SDRs in the international monetary system : prospects for the Renminbi joining the SDR basket / Qiao Yide, Xu Mingqi, Li Rui, Ge Jiafei, and Shi Qing -- China and the United States in the next decade / Zhang Weiying, He Huaihong, Huang Haizhou, Yuan Yaxiang and Wang Jisi.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Income inequality economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries /

Table of Contents: “…Grabka -- Income and wealth inequality in Japan / Colin McKenzie -- Income inequality in boom and bust : a tale from Iceland's bubble economy / Stefán Ólafsson and Arnaldur Sölvi Kristjánsson -- Horizontal and vertical inequalities in India / Reeve Vanneman and Amaresh Dubey -- Post-apartheid changes in South African inequality / Murray Leibbrandt, Ingrid Woolard and Arden Finn.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

From foraging to farming in the Andes new perspectives on food production and social organization /

Table of Contents: “…Radiocarbon dates from the study area; Appendix 2. Dry forests and biomes of the coastal valleys and lower western slopes of northwestern Peru Patricia J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Reconceptualizing children's rights in international development living rights, social justice, translations /

Table of Contents: “…Inclusive universality and the child-caretaker dynamic Eva Brems; 11. Do children have a right to work? Working children's movements in the struggle for social justice Manfred Liebel; 12. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Interrogating human origins : decolonisation and the deep human past /

Table of Contents: “…Matthews -- IMHO : inventing modern human origins / Iain Davidson -- Modern colonial ontologies of the 'more-than-animal' human : provincialising humanism for the present day / Kay Anderson -- Colonialism and narratives of human origins in Asia and Africa / Sheela Athreya and Rebecca Rogers Ackermann -- Primordialising Aboriginal Australians : colonialist tropes and Eurocentric views on behavioural markers of modern humans / Ian J McNiven -- Old flames : rekindling ideas of fire, humanity and representation through creative art practice / Ursula K Frederick -- Orientalism and origins : the search for firsts in the 'Cradle of Civilization' / Allison Mickel -- The beast without : becoming human in the science fiction of H.G. Wells / John McNabb -- The temporality of humanity and the colonial landscape of the deep human past / Martin Porr -- The Far West from the Far East : decolonisation and human origins in East Asia : the legacy of 1937 and 1948 / Robin Dennell -- Interpretative shifts in understanding the prehistoric settlement of the Indian subcontinent : comparing Western and Indian historical perspectives / Parth R Chauhan -- Our earliest ancestors : human and non-human primates of North America / Paulette F Steeves -- "If we are all African, then I am nothing" : hominin evolution and the politics of identity in South Africa / Amanda Esterhuysen -- Naming the sacred ancestors : taxonomic reification and Pleistocene genomic narratives / Jonathan Marks -- Traditional owner participation in genetic research : a researcher perspective / Craig Muller and Joe Dortch.…”
Taylor & Francis
OCLC metadata license agreement

The new political sociology of science institutions, networks, and power /

Table of Contents: “…Woodhouse -- When convention becomes contentious: organizing science activism in genetic toxicology / Scott Frickel -- Changing ecologies: science and environmental politics in agriculture / Christopher R. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Buy gold now how a real estate bust, our bulging national debt, and the languishing dollar will push gold to record highs / by McGuire, Shayne, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- Why the world continues lending (most of its savings) to us -- Relying on foreigners: our economic future may be out of our hands -- Our homes: the epicenter of American economic risk -- Real estate, this decade's economic driver, could drive us into recession -- The negative amortization mortgage loan is born -- Tighter lending standards and no help from the fed -- The great American equity cash-out is coming to an end -- Financial culture shock: real estate investment can have a negative return -- Our economy: the longest economic boom ever is probably ending -- Balance sheet recession: we could be heading in a Japanese direction -- Smiling on the lawnmower: affluent poverty -- When the fed cuts rates again, will the dollar finally collapse? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The serpent's gift gnostic reflections on the study of religion / by Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The other tree ; The forbidden fruit ; "When He becomes troubled, He will be astonished" ; The flaming sword and the bridal chamber.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

East Asian cinemas exploring transnational connections on film /

Table of Contents: “…Infernal affairs and Kung fu hustle : panacea, placebo and Hong Kong cinema / Leung Wing-Fai -- Contemporary South Korean cinema : 'national conjunction' and 'diversity' / Chris Howard -- The language of the blockbuster : promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese film culture / Rayna Denison -- pt. 3.,Made in translation--transnational identities. Suriyothai becomes Legend : national identity as global currency / Adam Knee -- Last life in the universe : nationality, technology, authorship / Brian Ruh -- From Three godfathers to Tokyo godfathers : signifying social change ina transnational context / David Scott Diffrient -- Transnational noir : style and substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The most terrible time in my life / Theresa L. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Leadership in turbulent times : cultivating diversity and inclusion in the higher education workplace /

Table of Contents: “…The algorithm arm race: How justice became a business in post-covid higher education / Jessica Jennrich -- Chapter 2. …”
Get full text

Soilborne microbial plant pathogens and disease management. by Narayanasamy, P., 1937-

Taylor & Francis
OCLC metadata license agreement

Models of charitable care Catholic nuns and children in their care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002 / by Heijst, Annelies van

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- History of the problem -- A history of care -- Charity as a historical care practice -- History and ethics -- Care and faith -- Method and purpose -- Definitions of care -- Caring for roosje -- Reconstruction of a life story -- Tribute to a mother -- Construction of a complaint -- An appropriate and yet contestable judgement on care -- Men in association : class and charity -- Catholic care provision in Amsterdam -- Bishop van Vree -- Father Frentrop, Doctor Cramer and their association of municence -- Father Hesseveld, a secular priest -- Activities of the in terms of care -- An instrumental model of charity -- Ladies and housemaids : gender and charity Catholic caring women in historiography -- Education for girls -- The servants' issue -- Beyond the thesis of the 'civilisation offensive' -- Gender, class, and religion -- Powerful and empowering care : confession and charity -- Approach and definitions -- Benevolence as both care and power -- Humanising Protestantism -- Prison reform by Fry -- Butler's dedication to prostitutes -- Influence of Fry and Butler on the Netherlands -- The inner mission movement -- Conceptual comments -- From the viewpoint of care receivers -- Evelina's memoirs -- The very beginning -- The arrival of Mietje Stroot -- A controversial first communion -- Institutional expansion -- Nursemaids become real sisters -- A charitable care practice experienced from within -- Civilisation offensive, charitable solidarity, or caring power -- Tronto's fourth phase revised : two responses to care -- Care leavers and their opposite judgements -- The care vision in the normative texts -- Normative writings and daily life -- History of the church and history of religion -- Principles and a name -- The rule -- Instructions for the upbringing of the children -- The constitutions of 1882 -- The sisterly care vision : a referential and a replacement view -- The purpose of the congregation in terms of care solidarity with strangers because of metaphorical kinship -- Caring for the children of God.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

What's so great about Christianity by D'Souza, Dinesh, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Natural law and divine law : the objective foundations of morality -- The ghost in the machine : why man is more than matter -- The imperial "I" : when the self becomes the arbiter of morality -- Opiate of the morally corrupt : why unbelief is so appealing -- The problem of evil : where is atheism when bad things happen? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Women and language essays on gendered communication across media /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women and oral culture -- Spoken spaces : the historicization, evolution, and gendering of "gossip" -- Pandora's voice-box : how woman became the "gossip girl" / Giselle Bastin -- Just like a woman : misogynistic gossip in the correspondence between John Chamberlain and Sir Dudley Carleton / Emily Ross -- "Paper cannot blush" : Martha Fowke, an 18th-century abandoned woman / Earla Wilputte -- Literary spaces : the convergence of orality and print in women's writing -- Delete as appropriate : writing between the lines of female orality in the wife's lament / Miriam Muth -- Voicing the feminine and the (absent) masculine in the concealed fancies / Lindsay Yakimyshyn -- The wartime diaries of Dang Thuy Tram : extolling and gendering the heroine's voice in postwar Vietnam and beyond / Hanh N. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The first decade of EU migration and asylum law by Guild, Elspeth

Table of Contents: “…/ Ryszard Cholewinski -- The good, the bad and the ugly in EU migration law : is the European Parliament becoming bad and ugly? (the adoption of Directive 2008/115 : the returns directive) / Diego Acosta Arcarazo -- Detention of foreigners / Galina Cornelisse -- The impact of the Treaty of Lisbon over EU policies on migration, asylum and borders : the struggles over the ownership of the Stockholm programme / Sergio Carrera -- Common EU standards on asylum : optional harmonisation and exclusive procedures? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Divine multiplicity trinities, diversities, and the nature of relation /

Table of Contents: “…Wesley Ariarajah -- PART I : PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS: DIVINITY, DIVERSITY, DEPTH -- The God Who Is (Not) One: Of Elephants, Blind Men, and Disappearing Tigers / Philip Clayton -- God's Vitality: Creative Tension and the Abyss of Diff erance within the Divine Life / Eric Trozzo -- Polyphilic Pluralism: Becoming Religious Multiplicities / Roland Faber and Catherine Keller -- PART I I : INTERRELIGIOUS EXPLORATIONS: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND DIVINE MULTIPLICITY -- Abhinavagupta's Theogrammatical Topography of the One and the Many / Loriliai Biernacki -- One and the Many: The Struggle to Understand Plurality within the Indian Tradition and Its Implications for the Debate on Religious Plurality Today / S. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view