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Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts.  

The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s\" evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.\" Thousands of wagers, usually of a dime or less, would be placed on a daily number derived from U.S. bank statistics. The rewards of “hitting the number,\" a 600-to-1 payoff, tempted the ordinary men and women of the Black Metropolis with the chimera of the good life. Playing the Numbers tells the story of this illegal form of gambling and the central role it played in the lives of African Americans who flooded into Harlem in the wake of World War I. For a dozen years the “numbers game\" was one of America’s rare black-owned businesses, turning over tens of millions of dollars every year. The most successful “bankers\" were known as Black Kings and Queens, and they lived royally. Yet the very success of “bankers\" like Stephanie St. Clair and Casper Holstein attracted Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, and organized crime to the game. By the late 1930s, most of the profits were being siphoned out of Harlem. Playing the Numbers reveals a unique dimension of African American culture that made not only Harlem but New York City itself the vibrant and energizing metropolis it was. An interactive website allows readers to locate actors and events on Harlem’s streets.

In 2011, seven thousand American \"baby boomers\" (those born between 1946 and 1964) turned sixty-five daily. As this largest U.S. generation ages, cities, municipalities, and governments at every level must grapple with the allocation of resources and funding for maintaining the quality of life, health, and standard of living for an aging population. InThe New Neighborhood Senior Center, Joyce Weil uses in-depth ethnographic methods to examine a working-class senior center in Queens, New York. She explores the ways in which social structure directly affects the lives of older Americans and traces the role of political, social, and economic institutions and neighborhood processes in the decision to close such centers throughout the city of New York. Many policy makers and gerontologists advocate a concept of \"aging in place,\" whereby the communities in which these older residents live provide access to resources that foster and maintain their independence. But all \"aging in place\" is not equal and the success of such efforts depends heavily upon the social class and availability of resources in any given community. Senior centers, expanded in part by funding from federal programs in the 1970s, were designed as focal points in the provision of community-based services. However, for the first wave of \"boomers,\" the role of these centers has come to be questioned. Declining government support has led to the closings of many centers, even as the remaining centers are beginning to \"rebrand\" to attract the boomer generation. However,The New Neighborhood Senior Centerdemonstrates the need to balance what the boomers' want from centers with the needs of frailer or more vulnerable elders who rely on the services of senior centers on a daily basis. Weil challenges readers to consider what changes in social policies are needed to support or supplement senior centers and the functions they serve.

En este trabajo, analizamos los factores que determinan la elección de criterio contable permitida por la Norma Internacional de Contabilidad (NIC) 40, Propiedades de Inversión. En definitiva, una investigación sobre dos características esenciales de la información financiera: relevancia y fiabilidad. Nuestros resultados empíricos son consistentes con la importancia del negocio patrimonialista en los grupos cotizados que optan por el modelo de valor razonable. Adicionalmente, nuestros resultados muestran que cuanto mayores sean los incrementos en el valor razonable de las inversiones inmobiliarias menores serán los incentivos para optar por el modelo de valor razonable. Por último, nuestros resultados ponen de manifiesto que la elección de criterio contable está relacionada con el auditor de las cuentas anuales.

En la colaboración que a continuación se desarrolla se parte del papel central que el régimen económico desempeña en la sociedad cooperativa, para acto seguido efectuar su análisis individualizado a través de las NIC y su influencia.

Immigration and Naturalization Service officers now use the language of the war on drugs. They speak of smuggling cartels trafficking in illicit cargo. William S. Slattery, director of the service's New York office, uses the language of war itself. \"Who's going to control the borders of the United States?\" he said. \"The aliens have taken control.\" \"All the overcrowded school districts today are immigrant school districts,\" said Frank Vardy, a demographer with New York's Department of City Planning. \"That's always been true, ever since immigration started. Today 42 percent of all births in the city are to immigrant mothers. Those children are all American citizens, every one.\" \"It's now so much easier to get to our doorstep on planes, on ships, on foot,\" said Mr. [Lawrence Fuchs]. \"Thousands of people show up and claim political asylum, and because we have a system of due process, it's very hard to administer. How do you ration the tickets to get in?\"