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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A close look at the music and culture of dance clubs and the "rave" phenomenon..   Publisher Summary 2 Focusing on youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves in Great Britain and the U.S., Sarah Thornton highlights the values of authenticity and hipness and explores the complex hierarchies that emerge within the domain of popular culture. She portrays club cultures as "taste cultures" brought together by micro-media like flyers and listings, transformed into self-conscious "subcultures" by such niche media as the music and style press, and sometimes recast as "movements" with the aid of such mass media as tabloid newspaper front pages. She also traces changes in the recording medium from a marginal entertainment in the 50s to the clubs and raves of the 90s. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Thornton coins the term "subcultural capital" to make sense of distinctions made by "cool" youth, noting particularly their disparagement of the "mainstream" against which they measure their alternative cultural worth. Well supported with case studies, readable, and innovative, Club Cultures will become a key text in cultural and media studies and in the sociology of culture.  

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简介：     When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In "North and South", Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A personal and readable review of how plants and animals colonize islands.   Publisher Summary 2 New or recently sterilized islands (for example through volcanic activity), provide ecologists with natural experiments in which to study colonization, development and establishment of new biological communities. Studies carried out on islands like this have provided answers to fundamental questions as to what general principles are involved in the ecology of communities and what processes underlie and maintain the basic structure of ecosystems. These studies are vital for conservation biology, especially when evolutionary processes need to be maintained in systems in order to maintain biodiversity. The major themes are how animal and plant communities establish, particularly on 'new land' or following extirpations by volcanic activity. This book comprises a broad review of island colonization, bringing together succession models and general principles, case studies with which Professor Ian Thornton was intimately involved, and a synthesis of ideas, concluding with a look to the future for similar studies.  

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简介：　　 　　tor classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. all editions are complete and unabridged, and feature introductions and afterwords. 　　this edition of [i]the call of the wild[/i] includes a foreword, biographical note, and afterword by dwight swain. 　　kidnapped form his safe california home. thrown into a life-and-death struggle on the frozen artic wilderness. half st. bernard, half shepard, buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the leash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. and the greatest lesson he learns from his last owner, john thornton: the power of love and loyalty. 　　yet always, even at the side of the human he loves, buck feels the pull in his bones, an urge to answer his wolf ancestors as they howl to him. 　　

TheTop10InvestmentsfortheNext10Years:InvestingYourWaytoFinancialProsperity下一个10年的10大投资

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Jim Mellon and Al Chalabi demystify the process of investment and let you in on a few of their BigIdeas - whilst you work out a few of your own:
Real Estate – can the hot housing markets really continue to generate 20% annual increases?
　　Stocks & Mutual Funds – the hardest of all investment classes to operate in, so where are the opportunities?
　　Bonds & Cash – not as boring as you may think, and with the capacity to make you a lot of money!
　　The ‘BRIC’ Economies – how do the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China stack up against the four key determinates of growth?
　　Commodities & Collectables – learn the five reasons why commodities are an investment vehicle set to grow and grow.
　　‘Green’ Investments – how can we turn the challenges of green and eco-needs into monetary returns on investment?
　　Given a bit of strategic thinking and proper planning these BigIdeas can turn into MoneyFountains, meaning your financial worries for the future are over before they’ve begun.
　　“The DIY manual for building lasting wealth” Ross O’Brien, The Economist Group
　　“Many powerful City pundits would give an arm and a leg for thirty minutes with Jim Mellon. Simply divide your portfolio into 10 equal amounts and invest them in his 10 BigIdeas - the advice in this book will beat most professional fund managers by leaps and bounds.” Sven Lorenz, market commentator, author & investor, and columnist for Money Week
　　“Packed with wise, practical advice, this book puts in plain English what every investor needs to know.” Alexandra Harney, former South China Correspondent, The Financial Times
　　“If fund managers are so smart why do they sit opposite me? As an investor who backs his own judgement with cash, Jim Mellon sits on the same side, I only wish I had met him many many, years ago!” Peter Simon, owner and founder, Monsoon & Accessorize
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Jim Mellon is an investor with interests in several industries. After leaving Oxford in 1978, where he studied PPE, he worked in Asia and the US in two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. This now has two components – a listed fund management company - Charlemagne Capital - and an Asian mining group, Regent Metals. In addition, Jim is the controlling shareholder and a director of Conister Trust, an Isle of Man based bank, Speymill Group, a property business, and Betinternet,. He is a co-founder of Uramin and Red Dragon Resources, both listed mining groups. Burnbrae, his private company, is a substantial landlord in Germany and in the Isle of Man, and also owns outright the hotel chain Sleepwell Hotels. Jim spends most of his time working on startup ideas and on investing. His book, 'Wake Up!' was published last year. Jim lives in the Isle of Man and in Ibiza.

Mrs. Peter Rabbit

作者：  Thornton

出版社：Dover Publications 1996年12月

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Mrs. Peter Rabbit

作者：  Thornton

出版社：Dover Publications 1996年12月

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预见危机：透过摩天大楼指数看商业周期

作者：  马克·桑顿(Mark Thornton)

出版社：中信出版社 2022-09-30

简介：探究全球经济繁荣与萧条的真正原因，抓住未来十年红利。摩天大楼指数旨在衡量世界上最高的建筑物和商业周期之间的相关性。1999年,安德鲁·劳伦斯(Andrew Lawrence)最先提出该理论，它的主要内容是：世界第一高楼的完工通常意味着经济衰退的到来。作者从“摩天大楼诅咒”切入，对奥派商业周期理论做出解释，并将其运用于历史及当前案例的分析中，对主流经济学观点和美联储的货币政策进行了反驳。本书向人们展示了奥派经济学家如何利用奥派商业周期理论看待问题，例如，为什么会出现商业周期，商业周期期间会发生什么现象，为什么经济繁荣最终不可避免地会变成一场经济衰退或经济危机，如何最好地应对经济衰退以及应该避免哪些行为，如何永久地结束商业周期，等等。这本书的价值在于它强调了市场经济的作用，阐述了市场化改革的前景，指出了如何更好地应对下一次经济危机，对于货币银行制度如何回归正常状态提出了建议。摩天大楼指数是一个独特的经济指标，对近些年处于高楼热的中国经济很有参考和警示意义。同时随着新冠肺炎疫情的发展以及美联储对低利率、企业救助和个人刺激支出的回应，经济学家预计，经济衰退即将来临。本书是对奥地利商业周期理论的及时回顾，读者阅读这本书，以便为下一次经济衰退做好准备。