Tabla de Contenidos: “…Significati "festivi" nell'ebraismo e nel cristianesimo / Leo Lestingi La festa nella moderna civiltá occidentale / Antonino Drago CAPITOLO 2 / LA FESTA NELL'AMERICA LATINA E IN SPAGNA Fiesta popular y secularización: La construcción de la persona / Raúl Nieto Nel nome di Nostra Signora di Guadalupe: mediazioni politiche festive nella Sierra Nord di Puebla (Messico) / Enzo Segre Malagoli Katheri Y Guadalupe: Expresión indígena de un culto macrorregional / María Eugenia Olavarría Fazer festa no sertão brasileiro / Antonio Lopez Una festa tra cielo e terra. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Energy investment trends -- Highlights -- Global energy investment trends -- A slump in capital spending on energy, mainly due to lower costs -- Changes in relative costs will reshape markets and investment -- Energy market, macroeconomic and financing trends -- A mixed year for the world economy -- Unorthodox monetary policy continues to affect investment -- Sources of energy finance are becoming increasingly diverse -- References -- 2. Investment in end use and efficiency -- Highlights -- Overview -- Investment in energy-using assets -- Investment in industrial capacity is on the wane -- A huge wave of construction begins to break -- Household energy demand in OECD countries has peaked -- Investment in energy efficiency -- Spending on efficiency continues to grow -- Energy performance standards are driving efficiency investment -- Energy efficiency investment closely linked to consumer spending -- New sources of energy efficiency financing are emerging -- Focus on transport -- Low oil prices are encouraging people to drive more... -- ... and buy thirstier cars -- New measures are needed to accelerate fuel economy gains -- Are electric cars coming of age? …”

“…In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America, communities try to come to terms with private and public trauma and there is a need to understand what kind of person can commit such terrible acts. …”

“…The promise and perils of Chinese stocks in American stock markets Betting on China takes readers on an illuminating journey into the often confusing and poorly understood world of Chinese stock issuances in America. With insightful qualitative and quantitative analysis, it looks at the phenomenon of equity and capital exchanged between the world's two largest economies and the implications for global finance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Then your family will again reap 100 percent of the pie that corporate America bakes for you -- Chapter Two Rational Exuberance: Shareholder Gains Must Match Business Gains -- "Over time, the aggregate gains made by . . . shareholders must of necessity match the business gains of the company -- Reversion to the mean -- "It is dangerous . . . to apply to the future inductive arguments based on past experience." -- The dual nature of stock market returns -- Enter speculative return -- A return to sanity -- Combining investment return and speculative return: total stock market returns -- Accurately forecasting short-term swings in investor emotions is not possible. …”

“…The diversity of the topics testifies to the lively interest raised by the intersection of two heavyweights of area and cultural studies. What makes the relationship between “China” and “India” so remarkably interesting is that one can hardly imagine two civilisational worlds as radically different from each other, which yet managed somehow to come into contact and to interact. …”