Author: United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Country Data Book: Iceland
Author: United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Geography of Bliss
Author: Eric Weiner
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 0446511072
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 0446511072
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
Country Statistical Profile: Greece
Country Data Book
Author: United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Iceland Country Profile
Iceland
Author: David Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Útrásarvíkingar!
Author: Alaric Hall
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1950192695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: “raiding vikings.” This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland's exponential financialisation. Yet within a few days in October 2008, Iceland saw all its main banks collapse beneath debts worth nearly ten times the country's GDP.Hall charts how Icelandic novelists and poets grappled with the Crash over the ensuing decade. As the first English-language monograph devoted to twenty-first-century Icelandic literature, it provides Anglophone readers with an introduction to one of the world's liveliest literary scenes. It also contributes a key case study for understanding global artistic responses to the early twenty-first century crisis of runaway, unregulated capitalism, exploring the struggles of writers to adapt realist forms of art to surreal times.As Iceland's biggest crisis since their independence from Denmark in 1944, the effect of the Crash on the national self-image was as seismic as its effects on the economy. This study analyses the centrality of whiteness and the abjection of the “developing world” in Iceland's post-colonial identity, and shows how Crash-writing explores the collisions of Iceland's traditional, nationalist medievalism with a dystopian, Orientalist medievalism associated with the Islamic world.The Crash in Iceland was instantly recognised as offering important economic insights. This book shows how Iceland also helps us to understand the cultural convulsions that have followed the Financial Crisis widely in the West.
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1950192695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: “raiding vikings.” This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland's exponential financialisation. Yet within a few days in October 2008, Iceland saw all its main banks collapse beneath debts worth nearly ten times the country's GDP.Hall charts how Icelandic novelists and poets grappled with the Crash over the ensuing decade. As the first English-language monograph devoted to twenty-first-century Icelandic literature, it provides Anglophone readers with an introduction to one of the world's liveliest literary scenes. It also contributes a key case study for understanding global artistic responses to the early twenty-first century crisis of runaway, unregulated capitalism, exploring the struggles of writers to adapt realist forms of art to surreal times.As Iceland's biggest crisis since their independence from Denmark in 1944, the effect of the Crash on the national self-image was as seismic as its effects on the economy. This study analyses the centrality of whiteness and the abjection of the “developing world” in Iceland's post-colonial identity, and shows how Crash-writing explores the collisions of Iceland's traditional, nationalist medievalism with a dystopian, Orientalist medievalism associated with the Islamic world.The Crash in Iceland was instantly recognised as offering important economic insights. This book shows how Iceland also helps us to understand the cultural convulsions that have followed the Financial Crisis widely in the West.
Country report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Website providing access to online versions of periodical reports issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit under the general title Country report. Each report presents an overview and analysis of key political and economic factors in a country. Sections include political outlook, economic policy outlook, and economic forecast. Reports also include statistical data.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Website providing access to online versions of periodical reports issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit under the general title Country report. Each report presents an overview and analysis of key political and economic factors in a country. Sections include political outlook, economic policy outlook, and economic forecast. Reports also include statistical data.
Iceland
Author: Great Britain. Embassy (Iceland)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description