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  Postwar Anti-racism: The United States, UNESCO, and "Race," 1945-1968

  Anthony Q. Hazard

  This book explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War II, uncovering the ways scientific and cultural discourses of 'race' continued to circulate in the early period of contemporary globalization through the lens on UNESCO.

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  Promotion de la lecture au Burkina Faso. Enjeux et défis

  Félix Compaoré, Michael J. Kevane, and Alain Joseph Sissao

  La question de la lecture occupe une place centrale dans le processus de développement de toutes les sociétés modernes. Ce livre vient combler un vide intellectuel, car il permet de montrer les vrais problèmes liés à la lecture au Burkina Faso.

  Les éditeurs Michael Kevane, Alain Joseph Sissao et Félix Compaoré ont essayé de se pencher, de façon scientifique, sur la question de la lecture en menant des enquêtes quantitatives et qualitatives dans les zones rurales mais aussi urbaines du Burkina Faso afin de cerner de plus près les habitudes réelles de lecture chez les élèves. Ils ont aussi essayé de faire de la corrélation entre la lecture et l’implantation des bibliothèques.

  Les résultats des recherches dans ce volume aboutissent de manière persistante au fait que la fréquentation de la bibliothèque a un impact important au niveau de l’acquisition permanente du savoir.

  Cet ouvrage vient donc à point nommé pour rappeler que comme les sociétés développées, la connaissance s’acquiert dans le système éducatif moderne désormais par la lecture.

  « Promotion de la lecture au Burkina Faso est l’ouvrage au titre très évocateur qui couronne les réflexions savamment menées par ce collectif d’auteurs afin de cerner les enjeux et les défis de la lecture au Burkina Faso. »

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  Religion Spirituality and Positive Psychology: Understanding the Psychological Fruits of Faith

  Thomas G. Plante

  In recent years, scholars from an array of disciplines applied cutting-edge research techniques to determining the effects of faith.Religion, Spirituality, and Positive Psychology: Understanding the Psychological Fruits of Faith brings those scholars together to share what they learned. Through their thoughtful, evidence-based reflections, this insightful book demonstrates the positive benefits of spiritual and religious engagement, both for individual practitioners and for society as a whole.
  
  The book covers Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and other major traditions across culture in two sections. The first focuses on ways in which religious and spiritual engagement improves psychological and behavioral health. The second highlights the application of this knowledge to physical, psychological, and social problems. Each chapter focuses on a spiritual "fruit," among them humility, hope, tolerance, gratitude, forgiveness, better health, and recovery from disease or addiction, explaining how the fruit is "planted" and why faith helps it flourish.

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  Saving the World: A Brief History of Communication for Development and Social Change

  Emile G. McAnany

  This far-reaching and long overdue chronicle of communication for development from a leading scholar in the field presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies can impact social change and improve human lives. Drawing on the pioneering works of Daniel Lerner, Everett Rogers, and Wilbur Schramm as well as his own personal experiences in the field, Emile G. McAnany builds a new, historically cognizant paradigm for the future that supplements technology with social entrepreneurship. McAnany summarizes the history of the field of communication for development and social change from Truman's Marshall Plan for the Third World to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Part history and part policy analysis, Saving the World argues that the communication field can renew its role in development by recognizing large aid-giving institutions have a difficult time promoting genuine transformation. McAnany suggests an agenda for improving and strengthening the work of academics, policy makers, development funders, and any others who use communication in all of its forms to foster social change.

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  She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories

  Ron Hansen

  In this new volume, comprising twelve new stories and seven pieces selected from Nebraska, the subjects of Hansen’s scrutiny range from Oscar Wilde to murder to dementia to romance, and display Hansen at his storytelling best: the craftsman described as “part Hemingway and part García Márquez . . . an all-American magic realist in other words, a fabulist in the native grain.” Readers will thrill to Hansen’s masterful attention to the smallest and most telling details, even as he plunges straight into the deepest recesses of desire, love, fury, and loss. Magisterial in its scope and surprising in its variety, She Loves Me Not shows an author at the height of his powers and confirms Hansen’s place as a major American writer.

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  The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (5th ed.)

  James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

  The 25th anniversary edition of the bestselling business classic, completely revised and updated

  For more than 25 years, The Leadership Challenge has been the most trusted source on becoming a better leader, selling more than 2 million copies in over 20 languages since its first publication. Based on Kouzes and Posner's extensive research, this all-new edition casts their enduring work in context for today's world, proving how leadership is a relationship that must be nurtured, and most importantly, that it can be learned.

  Features over 100 all-new case studies and examples, which show The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in action around the world

  Focuses on the toughest organizational challenges leaders face today

  Addresses changes in how people work and what people want from their work

  An indispensable resource for leaders at all levels, this anniversary edition is a landmark update and must-read.

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  The Right Taxi

  William Rewak

  This poetry book is divided into three parts. The first deals largely with different types of personalities, the "ghosts" referred to in the opening quote by Shakespeare. The second part, told mostly by a first-person narrator, speaks of the joys, trials, sufferings and puzzles of life. The third part is fanciful and revolves around the fun we can have in imagining animals who have more consciousness than we give them credit for. There are these ghosts, journeys and fantasies in everyone's life. They may be fearful and adventurous, and they may also be humorous and even outlandish; they often celebrate life, they come together at our common destination, death. But if we examine all of them carefully, we usually discover that they lead us to an inner spark of reality, to the point where the mundane meets the transcendent. And there we find that the mundane has more to offer than we thought: it is a pathway to meaning. These poems find their meaning, ultimately, in a God who, in the first, flush moments of creation, raised the dust of the universe to the level of spirit.

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  The Unknowable and the Counterintuitive: The Surprising Insights of Modern Science

  Aleksandar I. Zecevic

  Although classical physics provides fairly simple explanations for a wide range of phenomena, it clearly fails to describe some of the subtler workings of nature. As a result, there is widespread agreement among scientists that the Newtonian paradigm is inadequate, and must be replaced by a more sophisticated view of reality. This book examines what such an outlook might entail, and explains why we need to reevaluate some of our most deeply ingrained beliefs about the world we live in. A distinguishing feature of this book is that it combines insights from chaos theory, metamathematics, quantum mechanics, and the theory of relativity, which are seldom (if ever) united under a single title. What binds these seemingly disparate disciplines together is the recognition that each of them reveals certain counterintuitive aspects of nature, and suggests that human knowledge is inherently limited. In that respect, this book represents a natural “technical companion” to Truth, Beauty, and the Limits of Knowledge: A Path from Science to Religion (University Readers, 2012), which examines the philosophical and theological implications of modern science.

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  Truth, Beauty, and the Limits of Knowledge: A Path from Science to Religion

  Aleksandar I. Zecevic

  Is it rational for scientifically trained individuals to believe in God, and accept controversial theological claims such as the existence of miracles? Are science and theology essentially incompatible, or can their positions be reconciled on some level? This book addresses such questions by recasting certain key religious teachings in a language that is familiar to scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. It does so with the help of various science-based metaphors and analogies, whose primary purpose is to interpret theological claims in a way that is attuned to the spirit of our age. A crucial step in developing such “analogical bridges” between science and religion involves challenging the traditional Newtonian paradigm, which maintains that physical processes are generally deterministic and predictable (i.e., “well behaved”). A closer examination of recent scientific developments will show that this assumption is incorrect, and that certain aspects of nature will remain unknowable to us regardless of future technological advances. This realization opens the door to a meaningful conversation between science and theology, since both disciplines implicitly accept the premise that the true nature of “reality” can never be fully grasped by the human mind.

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  University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences, vol. 1

  Philip R. Kesten and David L. Tauck

  Authors Philip R. Kesten and David L. Tauck take a fresh and innovative approach to the university physics (calculus-based) course. They combine their experience teaching physics (Kesten) and biology (Tauck) to create a text that engages students by using biological and medical applications and examples to illustrate key concepts.

  University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences teaches the fundamentals of introductory physics, while weaving in formative physiology, biomedical, and life science topics to help students connect physics to living systems. The authors help life science and pre-med students develop a deeper appreciation for why physics is important to their future work and daily lives. With its thorough coverage of concepts and problem-solving strategies, University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences can also be used as a novel approach to teaching physics to engineers and scientists or for a more rigorous approach to teaching the college physics (algebra-based) course.

  University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences utilizes six key features to help students learn the principle concepts of university physics:

  • A seamless blend of physics and physiology with interesting examples of physics in students’ lives,

  • A strong focus on developing problem-solving skills (Set Up, Solve, and Reflect problem-solving strategy),

  • Conceptual questions (Got the Concept) built into the flow of the text,

  • “Estimate It!” problems that allow students to practice important estimation skills

  • Special attention to common misconceptions that often plague students, and

  • Detailed artwork designed to promote visual learning

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  University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences, vol. 2

  Philip R. Kesten and David L. Tauck

  Authors Philip R. Kesten and David L. Tauck take a fresh and innovative approach to the university physics (calculus-based) course. They combine their experience teaching physics (Kesten) and biology (Tauck) to create a text that engages students by using biological and medical applications and examples to illustrate key concepts.

  University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences teaches the fundamentals of introductory physics, while weaving in formative physiology, biomedical, and life science topics to help students connect physics to living systems. The authors help life science and pre-med students develop a deeper appreciation for why physics is important to their future work and daily lives. With its thorough coverage of concepts and problem-solving strategies, University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences can also be used as a novel approach to teaching physics to engineers and scientists or for a more rigorous approach to teaching the college physics (algebra-based) course. University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences utilizes six key features to help students learn the principle concepts of university physics:

  • A seamless blend of physics and physiology with interesting examples of physics in students’ lives,

  • A strong focus on developing problem-solving skills (Set Up, Solve, and Reflect problem-solving strategy),

  • Conceptual questions (Got the Concept) built into the flow of the text,

  • “Estimate It!” problems that allow students to practice important estimation skills

  • Special attention to common misconceptions that often plague students, and

  • Detailed artwork designed to promote visual learning

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  A Common Glory

  Penelope Duckworth

  Poetry. Penelope Duckworth's first full collection of poetry, A COMMON GLORY, travels the outer landscape of the natural world exploring her roots in the farmland of southern Ohio; family place as she moved west and traveled abroad; and sacred space as she explored her spiritual heritage through study and priesthood in the Episcopal Church. Her poems also chronicle the inner landscape of grief for the deaths of her sister and father; of women's lives as she probes the stories of women in scripture, as well as touching her own occasions for joy, outrage, forgiveness, and gratitude. Working both in traditional forms and free verse, this accessible collection is a strong companion to her other writings.

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  A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages

  Ian Levy, Gary Macy, and Kristen Van Ausdall

  The Eucharist in the European Middle Ages was a multimedia event. First and foremost it was a drama, a pageant, a liturgy. The setting itself was impressive. Stunning artwork adorned massive buildings. Underlying and supporting the liturgy, the art and the architecture was a carefully constructed theological world of thought and belief. Popular beliefs, spilling over into the magical, celebrated that presence in several tumultuous forms. Church law regulated how far such practice might go as well as who was allowed to perform the liturgy and how and when it might be performed. This volume presents the medieval Eucharist in all its glory combining introductory essays on the liturgy, art, theology, architecture, devotion and theology.

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  A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. economic growth

  Alexander J. Field

  This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second World War as well as for the golden age (1948-1973) that followed.

  Alexander J. Field takes a fresh look at growth data and concludes that, behind a backdrop of double-digit unemployment, the 1930s actually experienced very high rates of technological and organizational innovation, fueled by the maturing of a privately funded research and development system and the government-funded build-out of the country's surface road infrastructure. This significant new volume in the Yale Series in Economic and Financial History invites new discussion of the causes and consequences of productivity growth over the last century and a half and on our current prospects.

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  APA Educational Psychology Handbook

  Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham, and Tim Urdan

  The APA Educational Psychology Handbook reflects the broad nature of the field today, with state-of-the-science reviews of the diverse critical theories driving research and practice; in-depth investigation of the range of individual differences and cultural/contextual factors that affect student achievement, motivation, and beliefs; and close examination of the research driving current assessment, decision making, teaching skills and content, teacher preparation, and the promotion of learning across the life span and with special populations.
  
  
  
  Volume 1: Theories, Constructs, and Critical Issues addresses the definition of educational psychology, some of the most critical theories driving research and practice today, broad areas of research that educational psychology has addressed based on multiple theories and that make an important contribution to the field, and emerging and cutting-edge issues.
  
  Volume 2: Individual Differences and Cultural and Contextual Factors includes 21 chapters that examine a range of individual differences, cultural factors, and contextual factors affecting student achievement, motivation, and beliefs.
  
  Volume 3: Application to Learning and Teaching focuses on specific applications of research in educational psychology for assessment and decision making, teaching skills and content, promoting learning, and teacher preparation as well as across the life span and with special populations.

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  A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion

  Ron Hansen

  From the acclaimed author of Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy comes a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a torrid affair on an arc of murder and sexual self-destruction.

  Based on a real case whose lurid details scandalized Americans in 1927 and sold millions of newspapers, acclaimed novelist Ron Hansen’s latest work is a tour de force of erotic tension and looming violence. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Ruth Snyder is a voluptuous, reckless, and altogether irresistible woman who wishes not only to escape her husband but that he die—and the sooner the better. No less miserable in his own tedious marriage is Judd Gray, a dapper corset-and-brassiere salesman who travels the Northeast peddling his wares. He meets Ruth in a Manhattan diner, and soon they are conducting a white-hot affair involving hotel rooms, secret letters, clandestine travels, and above all, Ruth’s increasing insistence that Judd kill her husband. Could he do it? Would he? What follows is a thrilling exposition of a murder plan, a police investigation, the lovers’ attempt to escape prosecution, and a final reckoning for both of them that lays bare the horror and sorrow of what they have done. Dazzlingly well-written and artfully constructed, this impossible-to-put-down story marks the return of an American master known for his elegant and vivid novels that cut cleanly to the essence of the human heart, always and at once mysterious and filled with desire.

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  Black California: A Literary Anthology

  Aparajita Nanda

  150 years of the California African American experience

  Black California is the first comprehensive anthology celebrating black writing through almost two centuries of Californian history. In a patchwork quilt pieced from poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and memoirs, this anthology traces the trajectory of African American writers. Each piece gives a voice to the resonating rhythms that created the African American literary tradition in California. These voices speak of dreams and disasters, of heroic achievements and tragic failures, of freedom and betrayal, of racial discrimination and subsequent restoration all setting the pulse of the black California experience. Early works include a letter written by Pao Pico, the last Mexican governor of California; an excerpt from mountain man, freed slave, and honorary Crow Indian James Beckwourth; and a poem written by James Madison Bell and recited to a public gathering of black people commemorating the death of President Lincoln. More recent contributions include pieces from beat poets Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, comedian Brian Copeland, and feminists Lucille Clifton and June Jordan.

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  Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases

  Manuel G. Velasquez

  The ethical landscape of business is constantly changing, and the new edition of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization, constant technological updates, proliferating of business scandals.

  Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases introduces the reader to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions; identifies moral issues specific to a business; provides an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise; and supplies case studies of actual moral conflicts faced by businesses.

  This Books á la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class – all at a fraction of the bound book price.

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  Cambodia's hidden scars: trauma psychology in the wake of the Khmer Rouge: an edited volume on Cambodia's mental health.

  Beth Van Schaack, Daryn Reicherter, Youk Chhang, and Autumn Talbott

  The Khmer Rouge Standing Committee aimed to ensure compliance and eliminate dissent by oppressing the people through psychological dominance. The defilement of Khmer religion, Khmer art, Khmer familiar relations, and the Khmer social class structure undermined deeply-held societal assumptions. The Khmer Rouge also destabilized the mass psychology that was secure in those realities. Cambodia's psychology was thus altered in damaging and enduring ways. In societies that experience war and genocide, trauma significantly impacts the people's psychology. The ripple effects of this damage are often incalculable. There are well-established statistics demonstrating a higher prevalence of trauma-related mental health disorders in post-conflict societies. this book considers the mental health implications of the Khmer Rouge era among the Cambodia populace. Specialists in trauma mental health discuss the increased rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression, among other major mental health disorders, in the country. They also discusses the staggering burden of such a high prevalence of societal mental illness on a post-conflict society. Legal experts discuss the way in which the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia can better accommodate victims and witnesses who are traumatized to avoid re-traumatization and to ensure a meaningful experience with justice. The text also offers a set of recommendations for addressing the widespread mental health issues within the society.

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  Church Militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai

  Paul P. Mariani

  By 1952 the Chinese Communist Party had suppressed all organized resistance to its regime and stood unopposed, or so it has been believed. Internal party documents―declassified just long enough for historian Paul Mariani to send copies out of China―disclose that one group deemed an enemy of the state held out after the others had fallen. A party report from Shanghai marked “top-secret” reveals a determined, often courageous resistance by the local Catholic Church. Drawing on centuries of experience in struggling with the Chinese authorities, the Church was proving a stubborn match for the party.

  Mariani tells the story of how Bishop (later Cardinal) Ignatius Kung Pinmei, the Jesuits, and the Catholic Youth resisted the regime’s punishing assault on the Shanghai Catholic community and refused to renounce the pope and the Church in Rome. Acting clandestinely, mirroring tactics used by the previously underground CCP, Shanghai’s Catholics persevered until 1955, when the party arrested Kung and 1,200 other leading Catholics. The imprisoned believers were later shocked to learn that the betrayal had come from within their own ranks.

  Though the CCP could not eradicate the Catholic Church in China, it succeeded in dividing it. Mariani’s secret history traces the origins of a deep split in the Chinese Catholic community, where relations between the “Patriotic” and underground churches remain strained even today.

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  Expeditions in Mathematics

  Tatiana Shubin, David F. Hayes, and Gerald L. Alexanderson

  This book is the second volume based on lectures for pre-college students given by prominent mathematicians in the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures (BAMA). This book reflects the flavor of the BAMA lectures and the excitement they have generated among the high school and middle school students in the Silicon Valley. The topics cover a wide range of mathematical subjects each treated by a leading proponent of the subject at levels designed to challenge and attract students whose mathematical interests are just beginning. In addition, the treatments given here will intrigue and enchant a more mature mathematician. It is hoped that the publication of these lectures will expose students outside of the San Francisco Bay Area to interesting mathematical topics and treatments outside of their normal experience in the classroom. Mathematical educators are encouraged to offer the students in their own localities similar opportunities to come into contact with exciting adventures in mathematics.

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  Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs

  Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson

  Fascinating Mathematical People is a collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the twentieth century, many still active. The candid portraits collected here demonstrate that while these men and women vary widely in terms of their backgrounds, life stories, and worldviews, they all share a deep and abiding sense of wonder about mathematics.

  Featured here--in their own words--are major research mathematicians whose cutting-edge discoveries have advanced the frontiers of the field, such as Lars Ahlfors, Mary Cartwright, Dusa McDuff, and Atle Selberg. Others are leading mathematicians who have also been highly influential as teachers and mentors, like Tom Apostol and Jean Taylor. Fern Hunt describes what it was like to be among the first black women to earn a PhD in mathematics. Harold Bacon made trips to Alcatraz to help a prisoner learn calculus. Thomas Banchoff, who first became interested in the fourth dimension while reading a Captain Marvel comic, relates his fascinating friendship with Salvador Dalí and their shared passion for art, mathematics, and the profound connection between the two. Other mathematical people found here are Leon Bankoff, who was also a Beverly Hills dentist; Arthur Benjamin, a part-time professional magician; and Joseph Gallian, a legendary mentor of future mathematicians, but also a world-renowned expert on the Beatles.

  This beautifully illustrated collection includes many photographs never before published, concise introductions by the editors to each person, and a foreword by Philip J. Davis.

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  First And Second Chronicles

  John C. Endres SJ

  In the era in which the Chronicler writes, the pressing question is: How will Judeans reestablish themselves after the Babylonian exile? The Chronicler's answer is to encourage the people of Israel to live out of their memory of God's mercy and compassion. Knowing and cherishing the books of Samuel and Kings, the writer interprets their message differently because the people of his era face new challenges to their life and faith. This commentary highlights the special character of First and Second Chronicles by pointing out subtle ways in which the Chronicler changes the story of Israel. Many of these slight changes in wording reflect theological shifts in the postexilic era. The Chronicler sees a need for a strong spiritual center that is clearly located in the Jerusalem temple and its life of worship and prayer. Alienated northern tribes may enter this religious world by participating in temple worship. New and original materials describe the services and the roles of Levites and priests at the temple. Kings foster worship and demonstrate a spirituality of repentance. Israel can again become a people united if all join together in worship. To the discouraged, this history offers hope!

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  Global Economic System, The: How Liquidity Shocks Affect Financial Institutions and Lead to Economic Crises

  George Chacko, Carolyn L. Evans, Hans Gunawan, and Anders J. Sjoman

  Written for financial professionals, the authors thoroughly explain the modern global credit system; the roles of banks, hedge funds, insurers, central banks, mortgage markets, and other participants; and the credit-related instruments they rely on. In particular, the authors illuminate the crucial importance of liquidity, and show why liquidity failures have been the key cause of all major market crashes for the past several decades.The Global Financial System thoroughly examines economic environments in which slow de-leveraging leads to prolonged sluggish growth, and compares today's environment to other periods of deleveraging, such as the Great Depression and the Japanese economic meltdown of the '90s and '00s. It predicts potential pathways for the current crisis, and offers essential guidance to both policymakers and investment decision-makers.

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  Global media, culture, and identity: theory, cases, and approaches.

  Rohit Chopra and Radhika Gajjala

  This edited volume examines the ways that global media shapes relations between place, culture, and identity. Through the included essays, Chopra and Gajjala offer a mix of theoretical reflections and empirical case studies that will help readers understand how the media can shape cultural identities and, conversely, how cultural formations can influence the political economy of global media. The interdisciplinary, international scholars gathered here push the discussion of what it means to do global media studies beyond uncritical celebrations of the global media technologies (or globalization) as well as beyond perspectives that are a priori dismissive of the possibilities of global media.

  Some of the key questions and themes that the international contributors explore within the text include: Is the global audience of global television the same as the global audience of the internet? Can we conceptualize the global culture-media-identity dynamic beyond the discourse of postcolonialism? How does the globalization of media affect feelings of nationalism? How is the growth of a consumer "global middle class" spread, and resisted, through media? Global Media, Identity, and Culture takes a comparative media approach to addressing these, and other, issues across media forms including print, television, film, and new media

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  Idea Rights: A Guide to Intellectual Property

  Howard Anawalt

  Idea Rights presents a concise and accurate view of United States intellectual property law for the interested general reader, for attorneys, and for classes that introduce or otherwise cover the material. It contains seven chapters: 1) Intellectual property in general, 2) Patents, 3) Copyrights, 4) Trademarks, 5) Trade Secrets, 6) Other Legal Theories, and 7) Policy. The book includes an Appendix that presents a special Internet case study. Each chapter examines major statutes and cases, making the reader fully aware of context, then concludes with a one-page reference table summarizing the law. The book presents numerous relevant photos, exhibits from legal documents, and other illustrations relevant to understanding the issues. This book emphasizes application of the law in actual situations. Its coverage follows the analytical thinking done by lawyers in all phases of intellectual property problem solving. Each chapter analyzes the development of the law and areas of application, such as protection of software and controversies over the use of the Internet. Reading Idea Rights will demonstrate the power of intellectual property in the United States and the world.

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  International law in the U.S. Supreme Court: continuity and change.

  David L. Sloss, Michael D. Ramsey, and William S. Dodge

  From its earliest decisions in the 1790s, the U.S. Supreme Court has used international law to help resolve major legal controversies. This book presents a comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's use of international law from the Court's inception to the present day. Addressing treaties, the direct application of customary international law, and the use of international law as an interpretive tool, the book examines all the cases or lines of cases in which international law has played a material role, showing how the Court's treatment of international law both changed and remained consistent over the period. Although there was substantial continuity in the Supreme Court's international law doctrine through the end of the nineteenth century, the past century was a time of tremendous doctrinal change. Few aspects of the Court's international law doctrine remain the same in the twenty-first century as they were two hundred years ago.

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  La masacre de los soñadores

  Juan Velasco

  En este libro -en realidad una novela en verso-, rindo homenaje a héroes como Toro Sentado, el salvaje Oeste, e incluso a Buffalo Bill, que vienen a nosotros a través de las imágenes horribles creadas por dos niños que intentan sobrevivir a la dolorosa experiencia de su infancia. El carácter de Buffalo Bill siempre fue especialmente fascinante para mí. Para E.E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill simboliza y encarna la muerte y la destrucción. El crítico David Ray declaró que este personaje simboliza la destrucción de la tierra, la destrucción de la cultura de los indígenas, la infancia del poeta y, en muchos sentidos, Cummings, culpó a Buffalo Bill 'por decepcionar tanto sus expectativas de niñez como las de América, por su claudicación ante un mundo sórdido de valores degradados.' En mi libro de poemas, uno de los niños, Custodio, asume el papel de testigo de su peripecia y el reto de trasladar al papel esas visiones. Poco a poco, paso a paso, descubre no sólo las pesadillas de los westerns, sino que llega a un pacto con la propia realidad de su infancia. En definitiva, estos poemas son un homenaje a los supervivientes, a la escritura y al poder de la creatividad para transformar el sufrimiento en belleza, el caos en conocimiento. Ron Hansen, en la introducción del libro, escribe: 'tanto [Juan y yo] somos fans de las 'Obras Completas' de Billy el Niño, de Michael Ondaatje, que narra cómo el famoso forajido fue abatido por el sheriff Pat Garrett en 1881 en la frontera de Estados Unidos. Pero los poemas de Juan son más aterradores, trágicos y desgarradores por ser, como los sueños mismos, tan aparentemente reales como extraños y también por ser tan profundamente percibidos y sufridos a través de la imaginación desbocada de los niños.'

  In this book - actually a novel in verse - I pay tribute to heroes like Sitting Bull, the Wild West, and even Buffalo Bill, who come to us through the horrible images created by two children trying to survive the painful childhood experience. The character of Buffalo Bill was always especially fascinating to me. For E.E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill symbolizes and embodies death and destruction. Critic David Ray stated that this character symbolizes the destruction of the land, the destruction of the culture of the indigenous people, the poet's childhood and, in many ways, Cummings, blamed Buffalo Bill 'for disappointing both his childhood expectations and the of America, for its surrender to a sordid world of degraded values.' In my book of poems, one of the children, Custodio, assumes the role of witness to his adventures and the challenge of transferring those visions to paper. Little by little, step by step, he discovers not only the nightmares of Westerns, but also comes to terms with the reality of his childhood. Ultimately, these poems are a tribute to survivors, to writing, and to the power of creativity to transform suffering into beauty, chaos into knowledge. Ron Hansen, in the book's introduction, writes: 'Both [John and I] are fans of Michael Ondaatje's 'The Complete Works' of Billy the Kid, which tells how the famous outlaw was shot down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881. on the United States border. But Juan's poems are more terrifying, tragic and heartbreaking for being, like dreams themselves, as apparently real as they are strange and also for being so deeply perceived and suffered through the unbridled imagination of children.'