Az Murder Goes...Artful

Az Murder Goes...Artful
Author: Barbara G Peters
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1615951520

Raymond Chandler called it “The Simple Art of Murder, ” but It never has been simple to write mysteries. This volume explores the crimes in novels that are rooted in the worlds of art, architecture, and antiquities.

100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors

100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors
Author: Bernard A. Drew
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2005-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This reference can be used by adult and teen readers seeking information about their favorite writers, and is a useful source for student reports and research papers."--BOOK JACKET.

We Should Soon Become Respectable

We Should Soon Become Respectable
Author: Elizabeth Elkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780826504487

A brief biography of Nashville's French fur-trading founder and the women who loved him

Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements

Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements
Author: Shearon Roberts
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2020-03-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793604029

In the late 2000s, the Walt Disney Company expanded, rebranded, and recast itself around “woke,” empowered entertainment. This new era revitalized its princess franchise, seeking to elevate its female characters into heroes who save the day. Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements analyzes the way that the Walt Disney Company has co-opted contemporary social discourse, incorporating how audiences interpret their world through new media and activism into the company’s branding initiatives, programming, and films. The contributors in this collection study the company’s most iconic franchise, the Disney princesses, to evaluate how the company has addressed the patriarchy its own legacy cemented. Recasting the Disney Princess outlines how the current Disney era reflects changes in a global society where audiences are empowered by new media and social justice movements.

The Welfare State as Piggy Bank

The Welfare State as Piggy Bank
Author: Nicholas Barr
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2001-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191529893

Of the many functions of the welfare state, two are particularly prominent: the 'Robin Hood' function - the provision of poverty relief, the redistribution of income and wealth, and the reduction of social exclusion; and the 'piggy bank' function - ensuring mechanisms for insurance and for redistribution over the life cycle. The piggy-bank function, unlike the redistributive purpose of the welfare state, has received relatively little attention, and is not widely understood. This book redresses the balance. Nicholas Barr's central contention is that—-contrary to popular opinion—-the welfare state exists for reasons additional to poverty relief. These reasons - encapsulated by the piggy-bank function - arise out of pervasive problems of imperfect information, risk, and uncertainty. Even if all poverty and social exclusion could be eradicated, people would still need to insure themselves and to redistribute over the life cycle. As a result, Barr argues, the welfare state is here to stay, since twenty-first century developments do nothing to undermine these reasons. He also explores ways in which the welfare state can and will adapt to economic and social change, including specific, and sometimes novel, solutions. The analysis in "The Welfare State as Piggy Bank" is international, applying to advanced industrial countries, as well as addressing post-communist countries, and touching upon middle-income developing countries. Barr's approach is contemporary and forward-thinking. His discussion ranges over a number of topics of central relevance to life in the twenty-first century, including genetic screening and its impact on insurance; the convergence of private and social insurance; how to finance long-term care; pension reform in the light of fluid family structures and a mobile workforce; loans for financing investment in human capital; and new ways of involving private finance in tertiary education.