Fashion Value Biness
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Value and Context $35 Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified. He articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge, but that it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. His exposition of a 'cognitivist contextualism' in ethics and politics builds upon contemporary work in epistemology, moralphilosophy, and political theory to fashion an argument that is relevant to current debates about culture, modernity, and relativism. |
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Aesthetic Economy Of Fashion: Markets And Value In Clothing And Modelling $9.69 Fashion is bound up with promoting the ‘new’ concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce select distribute and promote the new ideals before moving on to next season. How then are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected distributed and sold? Since there are few studies that actually examine the work that goes on inside the world of fashion we know little about these processes. This book addresses this gap in our knowledge by examining how aesthetic products are defined distributed and valued. It focuses attention on the work of some of the market agents particularly model agents or ‘bookers’ and fashion buyers shaping the aesthetics inside their markets. In analysing their work Entwistle develops a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive features of aesthetic marketplaces and the aesthetic calculations within them. |
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Value Investing $45 “As with his weekly column, James Montier’s Value Investing is a must read for all students of the financial markets. In short order, Montier shreds the ‘efficient market hypothesis’, elucidates the pertinence of behavioral finance, and explains the crucial difference between investment process and investment outcomes. Montier makes his arguments with clear insight and spirited good humor, and then backs them up with cold hard facts. Buy this book for yourself, and for anyone you know who cares about their capital!” —Seth Klarman , President, The Baupost Group LLC The seductive elegance of classical finance theory is powerful, yet value investing requires that we reject both the precepts of modern portfolio theory (MPT) and pretty much all of its tools and techniques. In this important new book, the highly respected and controversial value investor and behavioural analyst, James Montier explains how value investing is the only tried and tested method of delivering sustainable long-term returns. James shows you why everything you learnt at business school is wrong; how to think properly about valuation and risk; how to avoid the dangers of growth investing; how to be a contrarian; how to short stocks; how to avoid value traps; how to hedge ignorance using cheap insurance. Crucially he also gives real time examples of the principles outlined in the context of the 2008/09 financial crisis. In this book James shares his tried and tested techniques and provides the latest and most cutting edge tools you will need to deploy the value approach successfully. It provides you with the tools to start thinking in a different fashion about the way in which you invest, introducing the ways of over-riding the emotional distractions that will bedevil the pursuit of a value approach and ultimately think and act differently from the herd. |
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Face Value $5.99 Small-town reporter Kate Miller has never been a fashion do –until now. Kate Miller is no beauty expert. The rookie reporter from small-town England can’t walk properly in a pair of heels and doesn’t know the first thing about waxing. But then she receives an incredible phone call. Darling magazine in New York wants her to be their new beauty editor! So what if she has no idea whether gray eyeshadow is the new black kohl? Suddenly Kate-along with her deep-discount clothes and hopelessly dated hair-is in the Big Apple, being swept away by the world of fashion. But she better find a way to put a positive spin on plastic surgery for the big yearly supplement or she’ll lose everything–including the hotshot plastic surgeon-to-the-stars who thinks Kate’s beauty is way more than skin deep. |
