Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People
Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People

Author: Melissa García-Lamarca

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2022-11-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0820363014

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Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untold stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward housing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa García-Lamarca’s engagement with activist research in Barcelona’s housing movement, in particular with its most prominent collective, the Platform for Mortgage-Affected People (PAH). What García-Lamarca learned from fellow activists and the movement in Barcelona pushed her to rethink how lived experiences of indebtedness connect to larger political- economic processes related to housing and debt. The book is also inspired by feminist scholars who integrate the lens of everyday life into explorations of contemporary political economy and by anthropologists who connect macroprocesses to lived experience. Distinctive in how it integrates a racialized, gendered, and decolonial perspective, García-Lamarca’s research of mortgaged lives in precarious times explores two principal phenomena: first, how financial speculation is experienced in the day-to-day and differentially embedded in the dynamics of (urban) capital accumulation, and second, how collective action can unleash the liberating possibility of indebtedness.

En Activo: Practical Business Spanish
En Activo: Practical Business Spanish

Author: Esther Santamaria Iglesias

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-06-03

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1134132190

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En Activo is a contemporary course which provides students with a structured development of written and spoken business language skills, focusing on real business people and situations from all over the Spanish-speaking world. The book consists of twenty chapters that incorporate contextual information on the business environment of Spain and Latin America, role-plays, illustrative dialogues, dedicated written exercises, relevant grammar instruction, practical communicative exercises, up-to-date practical advice, model items of written and spoken business protocol, and links to numerous carefully-selected and integrated websites. Each chapter is structured as follows: -Le Presento a...: introduction of the central individual and their working life -Escuche, por favor: extensive listening exercises and accompanying activities -Recuerde que...: grammar revision and communicative exercises -Para saber más: deepens knowledge about Spanish and Latin-American business culture and etiquette -Así se hace: hands-on section practising business situations and day-to-day tasks -¿Sabe navegar?: practices web research and web etiquette. Each fifth chapter is a revision chapter, which puts the acquired knowledge in practice via discussion groups, presentations and debates. An audio CD containing all interviews and listening comprehension exercises is available separately. At the end of this course the student will have a sound knowledge of the Spanish speaking business world and the language skills required to put this knowledge in practice.

Spatial Tensions in Urban Design
Spatial Tensions in Urban Design

Author: Ianira Vassallo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 3030840832

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This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst. Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on international case studies—from India to Europe to Latin America— the publication explores the multifaceted concept of “spatial tensions” as a lens for better understanding contemporary urban transformations. While tensions often depend on spatial dispositives and superstructures, they also offer a powerful key for design practices and strategies.

Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe
Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe

Author: Christoph U. Schmid

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-01-26

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1788113985

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Tenancy law has developed in all EU member states for decades, or even centuries, but constitutes a widely blank space in comparative and European law. This book fills an important gap in the literature by considering the diverse and complex panorama of housing policies, markets and their legal regulation across Europe. Expert contributors argue that that while unification is neither politically desired nor opportune, a European recommendation of best practices including draft rules and default contracts implementing a regulatory equilibrium would be a rewarding step forward.

Resumen Da Cero A Uno Por Peter Thiel ( Zero to One Spanish Summary)
Resumen Da Cero A Uno Por Peter Thiel ( Zero to One Spanish Summary)

Author: Thomas Francisco

Publisher: BookSummaryGr

Published: 2023-07-22

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13:

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Resumen Da Cero A Uno Por Peter Thiel "De Cero a Uno", un libro que ofrece consejos perspicaces para startups, es en esencia una recopilación de una serie de conferencias impartidas por Peter Thiel, cofundador de PayPal, en la Universidad de Stanford en 2012. Uno de sus estudiantes, Blake Masters, tuvo la visión de publicar notas de las conferencias en su propio blog, lo cual recibió una amplia atención. Thiel, un empresario abierto y cautivador, reconoció una oportunidad y, con Masters a su lado como coautor, reunió las conferencias antes de desarrollarlas en un libro coherente y estructurado. El resultado es un texto que se ha convertido en lectura esencial para cualquiera que desee iniciar su propio negocio. Peter Thiel es un multimillonario autodidacta que ha estado involucrado en numerosos negocios en algún grado. También es un autoproclamado nerd que, junto con otros "outsiders", fundó PayPal a finales de los años noventa, aprovechando la ola de la burbuja de las puntocom. Thiel y su equipo se hicieron conocidos como la Mafia de PayPal. Aunque parecían improbables como propietarios de negocios, eran personas dedicadas y meticulosas. Sobre todo, eran personas abiertas, amigables y divertidas que prosperaron en la atmósfera creada en Silicon Valley. Es este sentido de diversión y apertura el que se refleja en "De Cero a Uno", pero este es un libro que se enriquece con una perspectiva fresca y muy seria sobre ideas supuestamente concretas. A lo largo del libro, Thiel sostiene que las ideas que damos por sentado en los negocios deben ser desafiadas. Cuestiona la idea de que los monopolios son siempre malos. Minimiza las ventajas de la competencia y afirma que es lo que hace que los negocios se estanquen. Además, desmantela otros dogmas, ya que Thiel parte de la premisa de que cuanto más inusual y diferente sea el fundador, mejores serán los resultados a largo plazo. Siendo un ser humano altamente intelectual, Thiel simplifica su marco filosófico personal para que todos entendamos que un futuro "definitivamente optimista" es aquel en el que un negocio dedica todos sus esfuerzos a crear algo completamente nuevo, en lugar de simplemente modificar un producto existente.

RETRACTED BOOK: 151 Trading Strategies
RETRACTED BOOK: 151 Trading Strategies

Author: Zura Kakushadze

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 3030027929

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The book provides detailed descriptions, including more than 550 mathematical formulas, for more than 150 trading strategies across a host of asset classes and trading styles. These include stocks, options, fixed income, futures, ETFs, indexes, commodities, foreign exchange, convertibles, structured assets, volatility, real estate, distressed assets, cash, cryptocurrencies, weather, energy, inflation, global macro, infrastructure, and tax arbitrage. Some strategies are based on machine learning algorithms such as artificial neural networks, Bayes, and k-nearest neighbors. The book also includes source code for illustrating out-of-sample backtesting, around 2,000 bibliographic references, and more than 900 glossary, acronym and math definitions. The presentation is intended to be descriptive and pedagogical and of particular interest to finance practitioners, traders, researchers, academics, and business school and finance program students.

Metromarxism
Metromarxism

Author: Andrew Merrifield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1135024855

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"Metromarxism" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical chapters on figures from the Marxist tradition, including Marx, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and David Harvey. Each chapter combines interesting biographical anecdotes with an accessible analysis of each individual's contribution to an always-transforming Marxist theory of the city. He suggests that the interplay between the city as center of economic and social life and its potential for progressive change generated a major corpus of work. That work has been key in advancing progressive political and social transformations.

How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?
How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?

Author: Robert Shemin

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2009-04-07

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307395081

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Have you ever wondered why some people attract wealth while others stay financially trapped? The key is learning wealth-friendly, upside-down thinking. In this New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, Robert Shemin, one-time "idiot" and currently a multimillionaire, illustrates in a witty way how going against the grain is, in fact, the surest way to gain. Learn how to: • set only one powerful success goal—and make it a big one • play while your money goes to work • stop building someone else’s business and start building your own • live and think like a millionaire while you’re becoming one • use the power and smarts of other Rich Idiots to help you join the Rich Idiot Club Spend just a few pages with Robert and his Rich Idiot friends and you’ll be convinced that “if they could do it, I can do it.”