1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452330503321

Autore

Ohl Vicki <1950->

Titolo

Fine & dandy [[electronic resource] ] : the life and work of Kay Swift / / Vicki Ohl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-281-73059-9

9786611730598

0-300-13039-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

780/.92

B

Soggetti

Composers - United States

Women composers - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes list of works (p. 243-250), bibliographical references (p. 279-284), and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelude -- Professional and personal choices -- Highbrow/lowbrow in New York City -- Fine and dandy -- Stagestruck : the ballet to Radio City -- Gershwin obsession -- New frontiers -- She'll have Manhattan -- Challenges -- The show won't fold in Philadelphia -- Keep on keepin' on -- Finale.

Sommario/riassunto

Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Best known as George Gershwin's assistant, musical adviser, and intimate friend, Swift was in fact an accomplished musician herself, a pianist and composer whose Fine and Dandy (1930) was the first complete Broadway musical written by a woman. This fascinating book-the first biography of Swift-discusses her music and her extraordinary life.Vicki Ohl describes Swift's work for musical theater, the ballet, Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes, and commercial shows. She also tells how Swift served as director of light music for the 1939 World's Fair, eloped with a cowboy from the rodeo at the fair, and abandoned her native New York for Oregon, later fashioning her experiences into an autobiographical



novel, Who Could Ask for Anything More? Informed by rich material, including Swift's unpublished memoirs and extensive interviews with her family members and friends, this book captures the essence and spirit of a remarkable woman.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791780503321

Titolo

Islamic economics and finance [[electronic resource] ] : an epistemological inquiry / / edited by B.H. Baltagi, E. Sadka, Masudul Alam Choudhury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, U.K., : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2011

ISBN

1-283-01641-9

9786613016416

0-85724-722-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Collana

Contributions to economic analysis, , 0573-8555 ; ; v. 291

Altri autori (Persone)

BaltagiBadi H (Badi Hani)

SadkaEfraim

ChoudhuryMasudul Alam <1948->

Disciplina

330.91767

Soggetti

Business & Economics - Economics - General

Business & Economics - Economics - Comparative

Economics

International economics

Islam - Economic aspects

Economics - Religious aspects - Islam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-362) and index.

Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. Introduction : a technical insight / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 2. The moral foundation of socio-scientific episteme / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 3. The epistemic universe of Islamic economics and finance / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 4. The socio-scientific universe according to the Islamic scholastics / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 5. Morality, ethics, and the world-system : comparative perspectives / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 6. The



nature of ethics in Islamic socio-scientific order / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 7. Endogeneity of ethics : the Islamic economic and finance system / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 8. Overlapping generation model for Islamic asset-valuation : a phenomenological application / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 9. Pointwise application of circular causation in the Islamic valuation model / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- 10. Circular causation relations using Malaysian data on money and real GDP / Noreha Halid, Mohammad Saleh Ahmed, Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 11. Interest-free microcredit to microentrepreneurs : an institutional network approach / Mohammed Nurul Alam and Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 12. So thirty years after : where do Islamic economics, finance, and banking stand? / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 13. The demise of mainstream economic reasoning and the alternative : a generalized system-model of money, real economy, finance, and sustainability / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 14. The Islamic panacea to global financial predicament : a new financial architecture / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 15. The economic queen has soured : it's time for change / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- ch. 16. Conclusion : contributions to economic analysis / Masudul Alam Choudhury.

Sommario/riassunto

Islamic Economics and Finance: An Epistemological Inquiry is a scholarly work on the foundations of the role that the moral and ethical law plays on human enterprise comprising economics, finance, society and science. Divided into three parts, theoretical, empirical and application, the study covers a vast area of socio-scientific investigation and is extensively comparative in perspective. Its methodology is a mix of a textual, analytical, diagrammatic, mathematical and applied nature spanning various problems of Islamic economics, finance, society and science within a general-system worldview of unity of knowledge. This book presents multidimensional general-system conception, construction, formalism, application and inference as empirically viable and explainable and uses the language of philosophy of science and applied mathematical models alongside policy analysis. At a time when an epistemological study of the foundations of Islamic economics, finance, society and science is receiving crucial attention worldwide this text is equally accessible to the informed reader and the specialized one.