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The Night Before Christmas in Crochet: The Complete Poem with Easy-to-Make Amigurumi Characters
Par Clement Moore, Mitsuki Hoshi. 2015
For the first time, Clement C. Moore’s classic Christmas poem is told through adorable amigurumi-style crocheted figuresAmigurumi (which means knitted stuffed…
toy) is the Japanese art of crocheting stuffed animals. The technique results in animals with large heads and small bodies, upholding the super cute aesthetic of amigurumi animals.Jam-packed with four-color photographs of seriously cute figures based on the classic Christmas poem, The Night Before Christmas, as well as patterns and step-by-step instructions on how to make them, this book will inspire you to pick up the needle and thread like no other craft project.The book teaches crocheters: Basic crocheting techniques (perfect for beginners!) Spiral techniques to ensure stuffing will not come out Versatile uses (using thick yarn, each dog is about 3 inches long, suitable for an iPod case; using slender threads, each dog will be 1 inch long, suitable for a cell phone case) How to make cute amigurumi crochet ornaments Patterns and detailed directions for how to make a variety of characters from Clement C. Moore’s poem, including:Santa ClausReindeerA mouseA Christmas treeA catA stockingTwo children--a boy and a girlWool Appliqué the Piece O' Cake Way: Mix Wool with Cotton & Linen
Par Becky Goldsmith, Linda Jenkins. 2015
Felted wool gets the Piece O’ Cake treatment from the bestselling design team who guides you through fun projects from…
pincushions to foot warmers. Get luscious colors and textures in your quilts with 12 all-new projects from Piece O’ Cake Designs. Bestselling authors Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins add felted wool appliqué to crisp cottons and linens for added dimension on quilts and home decor. Easy to stitch and easier to love, wool appliqué has no edges to turn under, making it ideal for beginners and experienced quilters! From picking the best supplies to hand stitching methods and quilt finishing tips, you’ll learn it all. Projects include quilts, pillows, table runners, a zipper pouch, and more!“Use wool in exciting new ways! Becky and Linda have compiled 12 colorful home decor projects that combine wool with cotton and linen.” —Quiltmaker’s 100 BlocksBe Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down: A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse
Par Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss. 2010
Ultimate Fighter champ Forrest Griffin and Erich Krauss, who previously brought you the New York Times bestseller Got Fight, now…
offer a hilarious and very timely guide to surviving the coming apocalypse. Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down provides everything an aspiring Mad Max needs to know about post-apocalyptic living. Since it’s coming soon anyway, we might as well all Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down.Reconsidering the Privileged Powers of Banks: Foundations of Sovereign Money, Wealth and Real Capital for Sustainability
Par Kozo Mayumi, Ansel Renner. 2023
This book explores the privileged powers commercial banks hold, namely, their ability to create money out of nothing and then…
have that money grow in tune with a positive interest rate. Said powers defy, in an unnatural sense, the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The necessity of understanding the dual natures of money, wealth, and real capital, or, put differently, the reality that these three entities are simultaneously individual affluence and collective biophysical debt, is emphasized. The book culminates by proposing completely new foundations of money, wealth, and real capital for any society on a pathway of responsible development.Location Theory
Par J. Gabszewicz. 2001
Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town: Victorian Nottingham 1815-1900
Par Roy Church. 2006
This book was first published in 1966. The city of Nottingham grew from the nucleus of a smaller and older…
town to become one of the nation's leading industrial centres, and although it was not a product of the industrial revolution Nottingham was completely transformed by it. For most of the nineteenth century the major activities were the production of hosiery by an industry whose methods, organization, and outlook remained traditional for many decades, and the manufacture of machine-made lace, a progressive and mechanized industry which from its early years featured factory production. This text explores the relationship between the development of power based machinery and the more traditional crafts of the area.Valuing Climate Change: The Economics of the Greenhouse
Par Samuel Fankhauser. 1995
Within only a few years, global warming has emerged from scientific speculation into an environmental threat of worldwide concern. Yet…
the scientific community remains uncertain as to the long-term trends and effects of climate change, and this uncertainty has been seized on as justification for inaction by an international community reluctant to bear the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Valuing Climate Change presents concrete, economic evidence of the need for action. Fankhauser assesses the costs of a doubling of GHG emissions to be a significant percentage of gross world product; a figure which he then compares to the costs of reducing emissions. In his comparison, he looks at regional as well as global estimates of damage, and takes account of the non-climate change benefits of GHG reductions, such as a switch in the energy sector to cleaner technologies or renewable fuels, and the impacts on transport, with reduced congestion and improved air quality. It is clear that the stakes are high, and Fankhauser believes that tougher targets may be needed than those set out in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. He assesses the optimum policy responses to GHG reduction, the likely instruments for achieving it and the potential for international cooperation in dealing with the problems. This is a major contribution to the rapidly changing debate on global warming.Financial Development and Economic Growth: Theory and Experiences from Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics #No.6)
Par Robert Lensink, Niels Hermes. 1996
This collection brings together a collection of theoretical and empirical findings on aspects of financial development and economic growth in…
developing countries. The book is divided into two parts: the first identifies and analyses the major theoretical issues using examples from developing countries to illustrate how these work in practice; the second part looks at the implications for financial policy in developing countries.Wage-Fixing: Stagflation - Volume 1 (Routledge Revivals: Stagflation)
Par J. Meade. 1982
This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation -…
the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected contemporary economies across the industrially developped world in the 1970s. Professor Meade outlines the nature of the problem, contrasting the Great Slump of the 1930s with the Great Stagflation of the 1970s and comparing the Orthodox Keynesian and Monetarist approaches with the New Keynesian strategy. Various proposals for the reform of wage-fixing institutions are discussed, including the limitation of trade-union bargaining powers, an official incomes policy, labour management and ownership in business, and tax or subsidy measures to discourage inflationary rises in wages and prices. The book will be essential reading for all concerned with both the theory and policy of contemporary macroeconomics, industrial relations, labour economics and labour law. It has been written so that the general argument in the main text is accessible to the general reader as well as of interest to the professional economist.First published in 1971 this volume applies the tools of static and of dynamic analysis (outlined in The Stationary Economy…
and The Growing Economy) to the control of a dynamic economy. This involves a discussion of subjects such as the theory of indicative planning, and the planning by the government of its monetary, fiscal, and incomes policies for the purposes of the short-run stabilization of the economy and of ensuring the best long-run use of the community’s resources. Special emphasis is laid on the planning of such policies in conditions in which many future events remain inevitably uncertain. This book considers these issues in relation to a competitive, free-enterprise economy; and little or no reference is made to problems of monopoly or of distinctions between social and private costs and benefits, due to indivisibilities and externalities in economic life.Finance in Developing Countries
Par P.C.I. Ayre. 1977
First Published in 1977. This issue of the Journal is devoted to papers dealing with various features of the financial…
process in developing countries progress. While the majority of papers included deal with various aspects of the domestic financial system, a paper is included which lies in the field of international finance and there are two papers within the field of public finance as conventionally defined.Corporate Governance and Banking in China (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
Par Michael Tan. 2013
As China began its economic reforms in the late 1970s and made a transition from planned to a market economy,…
corporate governance of the banking sector became an increasingly pressing issue. Further, in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crises in the late 1990s, Chinese authorities became acutely aware of the importance of corporate governance to ensure that their banking system would not suffer similar fates to those of other Asian countries. This book examines corporate governance in city commercial banks, which are the main source of loans to the dynamic small and medium enterprises that are crucial to the development of China’s economy. By the end of 2008, there were 136 city commercial banks in China, 13 of which had foreign partners, and this book clearly demonstrates the positive effect of these foreign partnerships on corporate governance practices, in addition to financial performance. With evidence from extensive interviews with 10 city commercial banks in China, Michael Tan explores the different models of corporate governance, and in turn, asks which model is most suitable to China, how are Chinese authorities overcoming problems with corporate governance, and how do these problems compare with those in other transition economies? Whilst the primary focus of this study is on China's city commercial banks, there are lessons that apply much more broadly to the industry and it therefore will be invaluable to foreign banking institutions wishing to invest in China. This book will also be of great appeal to students and scholars of Chinese business and economics, corporate governance and banking.Regional Policy in Europe (Regions and Cities #Vol. 11)
Par S. S Artobolevskiy. 1997
Based on the author's extensive research in the field, this book analyzes regional policy for the whole of Europe. Comparing…
East and West, it offers a new model of regional policy and gives an overview of the direction that it may take in Europe as a whole. Topics covered include: the evaluation of regional policy; its main aims; its "infrastructure" in Western Europe; its form in Eastern Europe; and the development of regional policy from 1917 to the 1990s. The book is intended for professionals and academics working in the areas of regional studies, economics and policy studies.The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation (Routledge Revivals)
Par James Meade. 1978
First published in 1978, The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation presents the full findings and recommendations of the ‘Meade’…
committee set up by The Institute for Fiscal Studies. It represents the most important contemporary examination of the structure of UK taxation and direct taxation systems in general. The results of two years’ intensive research and discussion by this independent committee are presented as a report under the joint authorship of an outstanding team of tax experts. The committee brought together professional practitioners-lawyers, accountants and taxation administrators-and academic specialists in fiscal studies, and here provides a unique review of direct taxation which is comprehensive, singularly original and full of good sense.The book begins with a return to first principles, restates the objectives of a good tax system and analyses existing structures. It goes on to examine the feasibility of basic reforms which would allow the system to become more straightforward in operation and which would base taxation on what individuals take out of the economy rather than on what they put into it.Global Competition and the Labour Market (Routledge Studies in Global Competition)
Par Nigel Driffield. 1996
This study combines an industry level and a firm level analysis on the wage and employment effects of multinational companies.…
This has not been attempted in any previous work. In view of the results, important questions are raised regarding how global changes in the structure of production may affect labour markets and the organisation of work in the future.Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development.…
In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, the book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers. James also raises important issues which have been largely neglected in the literature, such as the implications for poverty in developing countries and the macroeconomics of mobile phones. The book argues that benefits from IT are captured in a different form in developing as opposed to developed countries. In the latter, gains come from technology ownership and use, whereas in the former, benefits cannot be captured as much in this way because ownership is more limited. Interestingly, the author shows that developing countries have responded to this distinction with a series of local innovations which are often low-cost and pro-poor. This finding contradicts the widely held view that poor countries are unable to generate major innovations within their own borders. Accessible and clearly written, this book will be of great interest to scholars of development economics and development studies, and is relevant to both policy-makers and academics.This fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation…
of another. Divided into two sections, it deals with elements of life such as the organization of labour, the health of the nation, rural and industrial societies, and poverty. The first section (The Expanding Economy) outlines the process by which economic growth took place and the second (The Social Impact) shows the impact this growth had on the society which both promoted and resisted it.J.C. Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England: 1814-51
Par W. O. Henderson. 1966
This book was first published in 1966. It was surprising that so small and so remote a country as Switzerland…
should have played such an important part in the industrial revolution on the Continent in the nineteenth century. A lack of natural resources and basic raw materials and population of 1,687,000 in 1817, faraway trade ports, and until 1848 no real central government with the administrative structure to support expansion of manufacturers. However, the people were hardworking, thrifty and high standards of workmanship; and had good relations with France and Germany, which saw the watchmakers, silkweavers and chocolate crafters start to thrive. Johann Conrad Fischer was typical of the entrepreneurs who laid the foundations of Switzerland's prosperity with his steelworks.Economic Behaviour: An Introduction (Routledge Revivals)
Par Colin Harbury. 1980
First published in 1980, Economic Behaviour: An Introduction has been written specifically to speed up the settling-in process of students…
new to the subject of economics. It starts at the shallow end with the family budget and proceeds via an examination of business decision-taking to the analysis of supply and demand in goods and factor markets. The second half of the book deals with the major macroeconomic aggregates, national income, employment and the price level – giving both Keynesian and Monetarist approaches a fair hearing. The book ends with two chapters on economic policy and concludes with a chapter on methods of building and testing economic models – a subject which is both interesting and useful by the time students have grasped the essence of economic analysis. Throughout, the author makes economics relevant and at the same time presents basic theoretical techniques of analysis and controversies in a manner which makes translation to one of the major standard theory texts as smooth as possible.The Two Nations: A Financial Study of English History
Par Christopher Hollis. 1935
This book was first published in 1935. An exploration of the 'two nations' looking the medieval managed currency and its…
collapse, the failure of the Stuarts through to Bishop Berkeley, the corn law revolts, Ireland and America, to the 1920s and prosperity, crisis and counter attack in 1935.