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UNINA9910463103503321 |
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Stäheli Urs <1966-> |
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Spectacular speculation [[electronic resource] ] : thrills, the economy, and popular discourse / / Urs Stäheli ; translated by Eric Savoth |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013 |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Speculation - United States - History |
Speculation - History |
Finance - Social aspects - United States - History |
Finance - Social aspects - History |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: Spektakuläre Spekulation : das Populäre der Ökonomie. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Gambling and speculation : entertaining contingency? -- The normalization of "wild contingency" : stabilizing the distinction between gambling and speculation -- Charles Mackay : the spectacle of equality -- Speculative vistas : crowds and speculation in the USA during the nineteenth century -- Alone against the crowd : the communicative techniques of the contrarians -- The eroticism of the market and the gender of speculation -- The rhythm of the market. |
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Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture. Informed by the work of Luhmann, Foucault, Simmel and Deleuze, it looks at how speculation was translated into popular knowledge and charts the discursive struggles of making speculation a legitimate economic practice. Noting that the vocabulary available to discuss the concept was not properly economic, the book reveals the underside of putting it into words. Speculation's success depended upon no |
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UNISALENTO991001335249707536 |
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Autore |
Thomas, Emery |
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Seminar on fiber spaces : lect. delivered in 1964 in berkeley and 1965 in Zurich / Emery Thomas ; Berkeley notes by J. F. Mc Clendon |
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Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 1966 |
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Lecture notes in mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 13 |
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Fiber bundles |
Fiber spaces |
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UNINA9910557403503321 |
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Autore |
Ferreira Tiago Miguel |
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Recent Advances in the Assessment of Flood Risk in Urban Areas |
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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History of engineering and technology |
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The adverse effects of flood disasters in urban areas have been increasing in severity and extent over the past years. The amount of loss resulting from these events is also increasing exponentially, particularly in highly urbanised urban areas, where the effects of intensive land use and climate change are particularly extreme-all despite that our scientific knowledge, technical competence, and computational capacity to develop highly sophisticated and accurate forecasting and simulation models are higher than ever, as is our capacity to map and analyse flood-related data. In order to tackle this global issue, it is fundamental to keep on promoting and developing fundamental and applied research that allows the better targeting of interventions to improve resilience, reduce vulnerability, and enhance recovery as well as assisting decision-makers in delivering more effective flood risk-reduction policies. This book aims to contribute to this goal by providing a space in which to share and discuss recent studies and state-of- the-art methodologies focused on the assessment and mitigation of flood risk in urban areas. It includes nine high-quality chapters authored by eminent scholars who had the tremendous generosity to join me in this editorial project. The range of topics covered by these nine studies is extraordinarily vast, reflecting the complexity of the current challenges associated with the topic. |
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