1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456961903321

Titolo

WHO guidelines for indoor air quality [[electronic resource] ] : dampness and mould

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Copenhagen, : WHO, c2009

ISBN

1-282-50173-9

9786612501739

92-890-4189-7

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 228 p. : ill. (some col.)

Soggetti

Dampness in buildings

Indoor air pollution

Molds (Fungi) - Control

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-131).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961389403321

Autore

Fraser Steve <1945->

Titolo

Wall Street : America's dream palace / / Steve Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612352171

9786612088629

9781282352179

1282352172

9780300145083

030014508X

9781282088627

1282088629

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

[Icons of America]

Classificazione

NW 2562

Disciplina

332.64/273

Soggetti

Capitalists and financiers - United States

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- One. The Aristocrat -- Two. The Confidence Man -- Three. The Hero -- Four. The Immoralist -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This book recounts the colorful history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Steve Fraser frames his fascinating analysis around the roles of four iconic Wall Street types-the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist-all recurring figures who yield surprising insights about how the nation has wrestled, and still wrestles, with fundamental questions of wealth and work, democracy and elitism, greed and salvation. Spanning the years from the first Wall Street panic of 1792 to the dot.com bubble-



and-bust and Enron scandals of our own time, the book is full of stories and portraits of such larger-than-life figures as J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Michael Milken. Fraser considers the conflicting attitudes of ordinary Americans toward the Street and concludes with a brief rumination on the recent notion of Wall Street as a haven for Everyman.