Posts Tagged ‘Society’

1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Financial Markets (ECON 252) Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative details and the topics to be discussed in each lecture. He briefly discusses the importance of studying finance and each key topic. Lecture topics will include: behavioral finance, financial technology, financial instruments, commercial banking, investment banking, financial markets and institutions, real estate, regulation, monetary policy, and democratization of finance. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Cool Society images

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Some cool Society images:

Finnish Sauna Society
Society

Image by wili_hybrid
We managed to reserve the Finnish Sauna Society’s premises in Lauttasaari for Jaakko’s stag night. Best saunas in the country. Helsinki. May 2007.

[Portrait of Sarah Vaughan, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1946] (LOC)
Society

Image by The Library of Congress
Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.

[Portrait of Sarah Vaughan, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1946]

1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.

Notes:
Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 484
Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
Purchase William P. Gottlieb
Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-
Women jazz musicians–1940-1950.
Jazz singers–1940-1950.
Café Society (Downtown)

Format: Portrait photographs–1940-1950.
Film negatives–1940-1950.

Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyrig…

Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
(reference print) Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, loc.gov/rr/perform/

Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005

General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.08791

Call Number: LC-GLB13- 0879

Kat Cure Guide in Belize 2008 Oceanic Society
Society

Image by mikebaird
Guide Kathy Cure from Oceanic Society Research Station in Blackbird Caye, Belize 2008 April
More images at picasaweb.google.com/mikebaird/20080429BelizeUnderwaterSw…

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