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Note: For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Is it really grounded in credible methods and data? Is thereconsistency in the determinants of happiness across countries and cultures? Are happiness levels innate to individuals or c , Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-240) and index , List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Economics of Happiness; CHAPTER 2 The Happiness and Income Debate: Substance, Methodology, and the Easterlin Paradox; CHAPTER 3 The Determinants of Happiness around the World; CHAPTER 4 Does Happiness Matter?; CHAPTER 5 Happiness and Health across Countries and Cultures; CHAPTER 6 Economic Growth, Crises, Inequality, and More; CHAPTER 7 Adapting to Good and Bad Fortune: How Friends, Freedom, Crime, and Corruption affect Happiness; CHAPTER 8 Happiness around the World: Lessons -- and Questions -- for Policy

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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-220) and index , Introduction -- Ten precepts for the social studies of finance -- Assembling an economic actor -- Derivatives : the production of virtuality -- The material sociology of arbitrage -- Measuring profit -- Constructing emissions markets -- Conclusion : opening the black boxes of finance

Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-266) and index , The dynamics of European society -- Constructing markets and politics: the formation of the European Union, 1958-2004 -- The economics transformation of Europe -- The creation of markets: the cases of the defense, telecommunications, and football industries -- Who are the Europeans? -- What is European society? -- The structure of European politics -- Conclusions , "This book presents evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been reorganized. The changes in the economy have been accompanied by dramatic changes in how people from different societies interact. This book argues provocatively that these changes have produced a truly transnational - European - society." "The book explores the nature of that society and its relationship to the creation of a European identity, popular culture, and politics. Much of the current political conflict around Europe can be attributed to who is and who is not involved in European society. Business owners, managers, professionals, white-collar workers, the educated, and the young have all benefited from European economic integration, specifically by interacting more and more with their counterparts in other societies."--Jacket

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Note: Übers. aus dem Sanskrit. - Originaltitel: Mahabharata

Note: Originally published: 2005 , Includes bibliographical references. - Originally published: 2005

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 168-180 , Angekündigt u.d.T.: Comparing Western and Islamic political thought

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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index , Ritual and the subjunctive -- Ambiguity, ambivalence, and boundaries -- Ritual, play, and boundaries -- Ritual and sincerity -- Movements of ritual and sincerity

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Originally published: 2006. - Erscheint Nov. 2007

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Note: Publisher's no. CLONE. - Includes index. - Bibliography: p. 289-294. - Originally published: 2000

Note: This book was previously published in paperback as Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144) and index

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Note: "A Council on Foreign Relations Book." , Includes bibliographical references and index , 1. Anti-Globalization: Why? -- 2. Globalization: Socially, Not Just Economically, Benign -- 3. Globalization Is Good but Not Good Enough -- 4. Non-Government Organizations -- 5. Poverty: Enhanced or Dimished? -- 6. Child Labor: Increased or Reduced? -- 7. Women: Harmed or Helped? -- 8. Democracy at Bay? -- 9. Culture Imperiled or Enriched? -- 10. Wages and Labor Standards at Stake? -- 11. Environment in Peril? -- 12. Corporations: Predatory or Beneficial? -- 13. The Perils of Gung-ho International Financial Capitalism -- 14. International Flows of Humanity -- 15. Appropriate Governance: An Overview -- 16. Coping with Downsides -- 17. Accelerating the Achievement of Social Agendas -- 18. Managing Transitions: Optimal, Not Maximal, Speed -- 19. And So, Let Us Begin Anew

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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-207) and index , Imams for a new generation -- The child-bride of the Dix Mosque -- The roots of Islam in America -- Taking it to the streets -- Muslim voices -- Women in the changing mosque -- Heeding the call -- The future of the faith

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Contributors ; 1.Thinking globally about religion , pt. 4.Christian cultural region ; 24.Thinking globally about Christianity , pt. 5.Islamic cultural region ; 39.Thinking globally about Islam , pt. 1.Indic cultural region ; 2.Thinking globally about Hinduism , 3.Traditional Brahmanical society , 4.Popular Hindu movements , 5. TheSikh community , 6. TheJain community , 7.Hindu communities abroad , pt. 2.Buddhist/Confucian cultural region ; 8.Thinking globally about Buddhism , 9.Theravada Buddhist societies , 10.Tibetan Buddhist society , 11.Vietnamese religious society , 13.Popular religion in mainland China , 14.Traditional Japanese religious society , 15.Japanese new religious movements , 16.Korean religious society , 17.Buddhist communities abroad , pt. 3.Jewish cultural region ; 18.Thinking globally about Judaism , 19.Jewish communities in Israel , 20.Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East , 21.Jewish communities in Europe , 22.Jewish communities in the Americas , 23.Jewish communities in Asia , 25.Western European Catholic societies , 26.Eastern European Catholic societies , 27.European Protestant societies , 28.Orthodox Christian societies , 29.Religious communities in Russia , 30. TheCoptic community , 31.Latin American Catholic societies , 32.North American religious communities , 33.Evangelical Christian community in North and South America , 34.African Christian communities , 35.Christian communities in South Asia , 36.Christian communities in China , 37.Christian communities in Southeast Asia , 38.Mormon communites around the world , 40.Arab Islamic societies , 41.North African Islamic societies , 42.Sub-Saharan African Islam , 43.European Islam , 44.Shi'a Islamic societies , 45.Islamic communities in Central Asia , 46.Islamic communities in South Asia , 47.Islamic societies in Southeast Asia , 48.Chinese Islamic communities , 49.American Islamic communities , 50.Religious movements with Islamic origins , pt. 6.African cultural region ; 51.Thinking globally about African religion , 52.Traditional African religious society , 53.Afro-Caribbean religious societies , pt. 7.Local religious societies ; 54.Thinking globally about local religious societies , 55.Native American religious societies , 56.Australian Aboriginal societies , 57.Pacific Islands religious communities , pt. 8.Understanding global religion ; 58.Religion in global perspective , 59.Anti-global religion? , 60. Theglobal future of religion , Index.

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Note: First published 2005 , Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 832-943

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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-356) and index , Kamikaze, 1943-5 , Tamil tigers, 1987-2002 , Palestinians, 1981-2003 , Al-Qaeda, September 11, 2001 , Dying without killing : self-immolations, 1963-2002 , Killing without dying : the absence of suicide missions , Motivations and beliefs in suicide missions , Can we make sense of suicide missions?

Note: Originally published: 2003 , Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction - Karin Knorr Cetina - Alex Preda -- - SECTION I. INSIDE FINANCIAL MARKETS -- - The embeddedness of electronic markets: the case of global capital markets - Saskia Sassen -- - How are global markets global? The architecture of a flow world - Karin Knorr Cetina -- - How a superportfolio emerges: long-term capital management and the sociology of arbitrage - Donald MacKenzie -- - How to recognize opportunities: heterarchical search in a trading room - Daniel Beunza - David Stark -- - Emotions on the trading floor: social and symbolic expressions - Jean-Pierre Hassoun -- - Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction - Barbara Czarniawska -- - SECTION II. THE AGE OF THE INVESTOR -- - The investor as a cultural figure of global capitalism - Alex Preda -- - The values and beliefs of European investors - Werner De Bondt -- - Conflicts of interests in the US brokerage industry - Richard Swedberg -- - SECTION III. FINANCE AND GOVERNANCE -- - Interpretive politics at the Federal Reserve - Mitchel Y. Abolafia -- - The return of bureaucracy: managing dispersed knowledge in global finance - Gordon L. Clark - Nigel Thrift -- - Enterprise risk management and the organization of uncertainty in financial institutions - Michael Power -- - Managing investors: how financial markets reshaped the American firm - Dirk Zorn ... [et al.] -- - Nothing but net? Networks and status in corporate governance - Gerald Davis - Gregory Robbins

Note: Titelzusatz auf dem Cover: "Meta-theoretical perspectives"

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-211 , Includes bibliographical references and index

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Aniconism versus iconism in Thai Buddhism , The modernization of Sinhalese Buddhism as reflected in the Dambulla cave temples , Varying the vinaya : creative responses to modernity , Master Hongyi looks back : a modern man becomes a monk in twentieth-century China , Transitions in the practice and defense of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism , Won Buddhism : the historical context of Sot'aesan's reformation of Buddhism for the modern world , Abbreviation or aberration : the role of the Shushōgi in modern Sōtō Zen Buddhism , "By imperial edict and shogunal decree" : politics and the issue of the ordination platform in modern lay Nichiren Buddhism , The making of the western Lama , "Liberate the Mahabodhi temple!" : socially engaged Buddhism, Dalit-style

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-142) and index , Thinking globally about religion / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Global religions. Christianity / Harvey Cox -- Islam / Said Amir Arjomand -- Judaism / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Hinduism / T.N. Madan -- Buddhism / Gananath Obeyesekere -- African religion / Jacob Olupona -- Local religious societies / Juha Pentikäinen -- Religion in a global age. Religion in global perspective / Martin Riesebrodt -- Anti-global religion / Roland Robertson -- The global future of religion / Ninian Smart , The essays collected here provide brief and accessible introductions to the major world religions in their global contexts. The volume begins with an introduction to the globalization of religion by Mark Juergensmeyer, and is followed by individual essays on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and local religious societies. The book concludes with three essays reflecting on the global religious scene. Taken together, these essays provide a concise and authoritative introduction to the state of worldwide religion in the 21st century

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Note: "The papers in this volume were presented at a conference at the South Seas Plantation in December 1999"--P. xi , Includes bibliographical references and index

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