In March 2012, the Financial Times carried a front page story headlined ‘Years of struggle for a jinxed generation’. It stated that ‘For the first time in half a century, young Britons embarking on their careers cannot expect to be any better off than their parents…’ Before and since, there have been numerous reports, articles and books all highlighting the gloomy future ahead, and most, like the article above, with little qualification or equivocation. In fact, the prevailing consensus since 2007 has been that the economic world is in a dire state, and been hit by ‘one damned thing after another’. But are things really as bad as all that, or is investor and media sentiment, focused on short term disappointing growth and volatile markets masking some more positive economic indicators - for it is true to say that living standards have on whole, continued to improve… Making Sense of Markets makes the case that received wisdom is still far too pessimistic, and that investment opportunities have been missed as a result. It will suggest that the great panic of 2008 had its roots in finance, not a flawed global economy, and it will tackle some popular concerns - debt, demography, Western decadence for example - head-on, and show succinctly why they have been overdone, and show us the reality of our economic situation. The book will then explain how investors can take advantage of these insights in building a long-term investment portfolio, with particular reference and consideration given to behavioral influences such as the interaction of media and market sentiment. It will focus on the practical aspects of valuing securities, and will argue that it may be conventional financial analysis, not investors’ living standards, that are the long-term casualty of the latest seizure in capital markets. The recent gloom is understandable, but mistaken. Our children will likely be better off than we are and it’s still worth investing. The long-term casualty of the la …|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/4f3fabe8/making-sense-of-markets-kevin-gardiner-9781137471383.jpg|9781137471383|Making Sense of Markets : Hardback : Palgrave Macmillan : 9781137471383 : 28 Jul 2015 : Since the financial crisis, there have been numerous reports, articles and books highlighting the gloomy future ahead. Making Sense of Markets makes the case that …|new|1|1|10|27.99|0|GBP|Kevin Gardiner|Palgrave Macmillan|28 Jul 2015|Investment & securities 9781137460509|Psychiatric Hegemony|94.99|https://wordery.com/psychiatric-hegemony-bruce-m-z-cohen-9781137460509|This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through historical and contemporary analysis of psy-professional knowledge-claims and practices, Bruce Cohen shows how the extension of psychiatric authority can only be fully comprehended through the systematic theorising of power relations within capitalist society. From schizophrenia and hysteria to Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, from spinning chairs and lobotomies to shock treatment and antidepressants, from the incarceration of working class women in the nineteenth century to the torture of prisoners of the ?war on terror’ in the twenty-first, Psychiatric Hegemony is an uncompromising account of mental health ideology in neoliberal society.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/bc066183/psychiatric-hegemony-bruce-m-z-cohen-9781137460509.jpg|9781137460509|Psychiatric Hegemony : Hardback : Palgrave Macmillan : 9781137460509 : 02 Dec 2016 : This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-g …|new|1|1|999|99.99|0|GBP|Bruce M. Z. Cohen|Palgrave Macmillan|02 Dec 2016|Medical sociology 9781137471642|Conceiving Strangeness in British First World War Writing|50.74|https://wordery.com/conceiving-strangeness-in-british-first-world-war-writing-c-buck-9781137471642|This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain’s history as an imperial nation. Rereading canonical war writers Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, alongside war writing by Enid Bagnold, E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Roly Grimshaw and others, the book makes clear that the Great War was more than a European war.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/f5749ead/conceiving-strangeness-in-british-first-world-war-writing-c-buck-9781137471642.jpg|9781137471642|Conceiving Strangeness in British First World War Writing : Hardback : Palgrave Macmillan : 9781137471642 : 09 Apr 2015 : This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain’s history as an imperial nation. Rereading canonical war wri …|new|1|1|999|55|0|GBP|C. Buck|Palgrave Macmillan|09 Apr 2015|Literary studies: from c 1900 - 9781137471932|Theatre and The Rural|11.36|https://wordery.com/theatre-and-the-rural-jo-robinson-9781137471932|How has theatre represented the rural? And how does a re-viewing of theatre of and in the rural help to build and complicate our sense of place? Theatre & the Rural explores the different ways in which theatre has performed the rural from the medieval to the contemporary, and examines the changing relationships between place, performance and audience when theatre is staged in rural communities. The book argues that theatre has a key role to play in both producing and potentially changing understandings of the rural, challenging dominant views of the relationships between city and country which can affect the political, social and cultural lives of the nation.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/9c0e1750/theatre-and-the-rural-jo-robinson-9781137471932.jpg|9781137471932|Theatre and The Rural : Paperback : Red Globe Press : 9781137471932 : 15 Jul 2016 : This exploration of theatre and the rural argues that the reality of the lived rural is overlaid with external representations, often coloured by nostalgia, which are …|new|1|1|22|7.99|0|GBP|Jo Robinson|Bloomsbury Publishing PLC|15 Jul 2016|Music, film & drama books 9781137471673|Islam and Controversy|22.99|https://wordery.com/islam-and-controversy-a-mondal-9781137471673|Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses? Were the protestors right to have protested? What about the Danish cartoons? Is giving offence simply about the right to freedom of expression, and what is really happening when people take offence? Using case studies of a number of Muslim-related freedom of speech controversies surrounding (in)famous, controversial texts such as The Satanic Verses, The Jewel of Medina, the Danish cartoons of Muhammed and the film Submission by Theo van Gogh, this book examines the moral questions raised by such controversies, questions that are often set aside at the time, such as whether the authors and artists involved were right to have done what they did and whether those who protested against them wereright to have responded in such a way. In so doing, it argues that the giving and taking of offence are political performances that struggle to define and re-define freedom, and suggests that any attempt to establish a language of inter-cultural communication appropriate to multicultural societies is an ethical as opposed to merely political or legal task, involving dialogue and negotiation over fundamental values and principles. Overall, this important book constitutes a sustained critique of liberal arguments for freedom of speech, in particular of the liberal discourse that took shape in response to the Rushdie controversy and has, in the twenty-five years since, become almost an orthodoxy for many intellectuals, artists, journalists and politicians living and working in Britain (and elsewhere in the West) today. “–
