Race/Gender/Class/Media

Race/Gender/Class/Media
Author: Rebecca Ann Lind
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2023-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000846105

The fifth edition of this popular textbook considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production. The book brings together 55 readings – the majority newly commissioned for this edition – by scholars representing a variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Together, these readings provide a multifaceted and intersectional look at how race, gender, and class relate to the creation and use of media texts, as well as the media texts themselves. Designed to be flexible for use in the classroom, the book begins with a detailed introduction to key concepts and presents a contextualizing introduction to each of the three main sections. Each reading contains multiple 'It’s Your Turn' activities to foster student engagement and which can serve as the basis for assignments. The book also offers a list of resources – books, articles, films, and websites – that are of value to students and instructors. This volume is an essential introduction to interdisciplinary studies of race, gender, and class across both digital and legacy media.

Flight to Financial Freedom: Navigating Secure Futures

Flight to Financial Freedom: Navigating Secure Futures
Author: Thor McIlrath
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2024-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1506911552

While many books have been written about investing, few contain the essential information needed to make truly informative decisions. Working with people for over three decades as both personal advisor and professional financial instructor at local colleges, my passion for imparting basic financial knowledge has only grown. Once people gain a clear understanding of timeless financial concepts, they are empowered to live a life of greater abundance with less fear and stress. This typically results in a better overall quality of life, fewer divorces and less reliance on government. My hope is that the time I have spent writing this book will provide you with knowledge you can use to improve your finances, grow your self-confidence and liberate your life in the years ahead.

Economic Security Act

Economic Security Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1332
Release: 1935
Genre: Economic security
ISBN:

Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk

Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk
Author: John Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351624628

Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis. Providing both a geographically-inflected analysis and re-appraisal of the concept of performativity, it demonstrates that financial risk management has a spatiality that helps to inform understandings and imaginaries of the risks associated with money and finance. The book traces the development of understandings of risk at the Bank of England, with an analysis that spans some 1,000 reports, documents and speeches alongside elite interviews with past and present employees at the central bank. The author argues that the Bank has moved from a relatively broad-brush approach to the risks being managed in the financial sector, to a greater preoccupation with the understanding and mapping of the mobilization of financial risk. The study of financial practices from a critical social sciences and humanities perspective has grown rapidly since the Global Financial Crisis and this book will be of interest to multiple subject areas including IPE, economic geography, sociology of finance and critical security studies.

The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)

The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)
Author: Marcus Powell
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Federal aid to small business
ISBN: 9781624174827

The SSBCI provides funding to states, territories, and eligible municipalities to expand existing or to create new state small business investment programs, including state capital access programs, collateral support programs, loan participation programs, loan guarantee programs, and venture capital programs. This book examines the SSBCI and its implementation, including Treasury's response to initial program audits conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office and Treasury's Office of Inspector General. These audits suggested that SSBCI participants were generally complying with the statute's requirements, but that some compliance problems existed, in that, the Treasury's oversight of the program could be improved; and performance measures were needed to assess the program's efficacy.