No way down. 2 agosto 2008. La più grande tragedia del K2. E-book. Formato EPUB Graham Bowley   -  Mondadori, 2011  - 

La notte del 1° agosto 2008 ben ventiquattro scalatori di quindici diverse spedizioni internazionali partirono contemporaneamente all'attacco del K2. Solo tredici di loro ritornarono al Campo base. Gli altri undici riposano per sempre nelle viscere della montagna. Quel che resta di loro è una lapide, ricavata da un piattino di latta, al Gilkey Memorial. La più grande tragedia alpinistica nella storia della vetta himalayana si consumò in quarantotto ore da brivido che tennero col fiato sospeso il pubblico di tutto il mondo, dalla Corea all'Europa, dagli Stati Uniti all'Italia, rappresentata da Marco Contortola. Le indagini giornalistiche hanno stabilito che fu una tragedia in gran parte annunciata. Il cattivo coordinamento fra i capi spedizione provocò l'errato posizionamento delle corde già sulla Spalla. Sul Collo di Bottiglia l'eccessivo numero di scalatori attardò i ritmi di ascesa. Sul Traverso alcuni di loro andarono in crisi, ma vollero comunque proseguire, esponendosi ai colpi mortali della montagna. Poi la mancanza di ossigeno, il freddo disumano, l'incedere della notte, la falce di neve e ghiaccio rilasciata dall'enorme seracco del K2 fecero il resto. 'No Way Down' racconta tutto ciò che è successo e tutto ciò che non doveva succedere in quella maledetta avventura a più di 8000 metri di quota.

The Change in the Distribution of the National Income: 1880-1913. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur L. Bowley   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The disturbances arising from the war have caused a redistribution of real income, and have brought to the front in their acutest form the old questions, how command over the purchase of material goods is obtained by individuals, why it is so obtained, whether the continual distribution of wealth on the pre-war basis is inevitable, or a new equilibrium can be established? There is no doubt that this distribution has been considerably modified since 1914, and I have several times been asked to estimate the nature and magnitude of the modifications; but it is equally certain that we have not yet arrived at equilibrium either in prices, incomes, or wages, and that a statement which might be true for January 1920 would not be applicable to a date six months before or after. I feel compelled to leave this tempting question to those who are content to make hazardous estimates, or who have better access to and more confidence in the sporadic information on which such estimates must rest. I prefer to turn to an aspect of the subject which can be surveyed with less uncertainty, from which we can at least command the whole field of phenomena, namely, the consideration of the changes which took place in the period before the war, which led to the distribution of income which I described early last year. Such a study is indeed essential if we are to have the power of determining the possibility of permanent modifications.

Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century: Notes for the Use of Students of Social. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur Lyon Bowley   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The following notes were originally prepared for the New-march Lectures at University College, London, in 1898; but since delivery they have been extended and entirely recast. Some apology is necessary for presenting this book in so unfinished a form, for in many cases it will be found that figures are left untabulated, and the means of solving a wage problem only suggested, when the solution itself might have been offered. My excuse is that the complete working up of the wage figures in any industry is an undertaking of considerable magnitude, which I am trying to carry out quarter by quarter in the Statistical Journal; and that, if I had waited till it was finished, many of the preliminary results, complete in themselves, would have been lost to those to whom they might be useful, and helpful criticism, which I trust may be evoked by these notes, lost to the author. It is hoped that in the course of no very long time it will be possible to extract from the wage records of the 19th century all that is essential, and to offer a more complete history of English wages.