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Debt markets and analysis / by Johnson, R. Stafford

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the financial system -- Overview and guide to the Bloomberg system -- Bond value and return -- The level and structure of interest rates -- Bond risk -- Bond investment strategies -- Corporate debt securities -- Government securities and markets : Treasury, agencies, municipals, and sovereign debt securities -- Intermediary debt securities, investment funds, and markets -- Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities and securitization -- Bond and interest rate futures contracts -- Bond and interest rate option contracts -- The valuation of bonds with embedded options and debt options--the binomial interest rate tree -- Interest rate and credit default swaps.…”
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Reading fiction in antebellum America : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 / by Machor, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Historical hermeneutics, reception theory, and the social conditions of reading in antebellum America ; Interpretive strategies and informed reading in the antebellum public sphere -- pt. 2. …”
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Health promotion : throughout the life span /

Table of Contents: “…Health promotion, protection, and prevention -- Emerging populations and health -- Health policy and the delivery system -- The therapeutic relationship -- Ethical issues related to health promotion -- Health promotion and the individual -- Health promotion and the family -- Health promotion and the community -- Screening -- Health education -- Nutrition counseling for health promotion -- Exercise -- Stress management -- Complementary and alternative strategies -- Overview of growth and development framework -- The prenatal period -- Infant -- Toddler -- Preschool child -- School-age child -- Adolescent -- Young adult -- Middle-age adult -- Older adult -- Health promotion for the twenty-first century : throughout the life span and -- Throughout the world.…”

Myiasis in humans and other animals, including applied applications in larval therapy & forensic entomology

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Typical larval infestations -- The importance of myiasis-causing flies -- Defining myiasis -- Classification of myiasis -- Blowflies and screwworm flies -- Comparison of blowfly lifecycles -- Economic impact of myiasis -- Furuncular & Sanguinivorous larvae -- Flesh flies: Sarcophagidae -- Bot and warble flies: Oestridae -- Other flies and the rat-tailed maggot -- Evolution of parasitism in myiasis-causing flies & of myiasis -- Breeding strategies influencing myiasis control -- Myiasis control: traps, targets and insecticides -- Disease ecology -- Distribution of New World screwworm fly -- SIT programme in North and Central America -- Climate data, models and control -- Larval therapy.…”
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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865 / by Machor, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Historical hermeneutics, reception theory, and the social conditions of reading in antebellum America ; Interpretive strategies and informed reading in the antebellum public sphere -- pt. 2. …”
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A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative

Table of Contents: “…Unnatural stories and sequences / Brian Richardson -- The whirligig of time : toward a poetics of unnatural temporality / Rüdiger Heinze -- Unnatural spaces and narrative worlds / Jan Alber -- Naturalizing and unnaturalizing reading strategies : focalization revisited / Henrik Skov Nielsen -- Unnatural minds / Stefan Iversen -- Unnatural metalepsis and immersion : necessarily incompatible? …”
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A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative /

Table of Contents: “…Unnatural stories and sequences / Brian Richardson -- The whirligig of time : toward a poetics of unnatural temporality / Rüdiger Heinze -- Unnatural spaces and narrative worlds / Jan Alber -- Naturalizing and unnaturalizing reading strategies : focalization revisited / Henrik Skov Nielsen -- Unnatural minds / Stefan Iversen -- "Unnatural" metalepsis and immersion : necessarily incompatible? …”
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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America : Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865 / by Machor, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Historical hermeneutics, reception theory, and the social conditions of reading in antebellum America ; Interpretive strategies and informed reading in the antebellum public sphere -- pt. 2. …”
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China : The Struggle for Power 1917–1972 / by Thornton, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…To build a Communist movement in China, 1917-1927 -- The "Soviet" experiment, 1927-1931 -- Defeat in Kiangsi, 1931-1934 -- From the long march to the united front, 1934-1937 -- The road to war, 1937-1941 -- World War II, the United States and China, 1941-1944 -- The United States, the Soviet Union and China, 1945 -- Strategies in conflict, 1946-1949 -- The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic, 1949-1959 -- The polarization of Communist politics, 1959-1965 -- The great proletarian cultural revolution II: protracted crisis, 1967-1968 -- China, the unsettled dragon, 1969-1972.…”
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A matter of faith religion in the 2004 presidential election /

Table of Contents: “…Jackson -- Moral values : media, voters, and candidate strategy / D. Sunshine Hillygus -- Evangelicals and moral values / Scott Keeter -- Microtargeting and the instrumental mobilization of religious conservatives / J. …”
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Caribbean land and development revisited

Table of Contents: “…-- "Squatting" as a strategy for land settlement and sustainable development / Jean Besson -- The triumph of the commons: Barbuda belongs to all Barbudans together / David Lowenthal and Colin Clarke -- The contested existence of a peasantry in Martinique: scientific discourses controversies and evidence / Christine Chivallon -- The waxing and waning of land for the peasantry in Barbados / Janet Momsen -- Agro-biodiversity as an environmental management tool in small scale farming landscapes: implications for agro-chemical use / Balfour Spence and Elizabeth Thomas-Hope -- Landscape, migration and development -- Arboreal landscapes of power and resistance / Mimi Sheller -- From the pre-colonial to the virtual: the scope and scape of land, landuse and landloss on Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner -- "Leave to come back": the importance of family land in a transnational Caribbean community / Beth Mills -- Collateral and achievement: land and Caribbean migration / Margaret Byron.…”
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From socialism to capitalism eight essays / by Kornai, János

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The coherence of the classical system -- Introduction -- The main line of causality -- The affinity among elements of the system -- The prototype and the national variations -- The Soviet effect -- Verification -- The viability of the classical system -- The inner contradictions of reform socialism -- Introduction -- Transformation without a strategy -- The evolution of a private sector -- The persistence of bureaucracy -- Alternative forms of social organization -- The weakness of "third forms" -- Normative implications -- Market socialism? …”
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Analyzing intelligence origins, obstacles, and innovations /

Table of Contents: “…Treverton -- Enduring challenges -- The art of strategy and analysis / Roger Z. George -- Foreign denial and deception: analytical perspectives / James B. …”
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Soft power superpowers cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Crowell -- Japan does soft power : strategy and effectiveness of its public diplomacy in the United States / Agawa Naoyuki -- Mr. …”
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Contested constitutionalism reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms /

Table of Contents: “…Manfredi and Antonia Maioni -- National security and the Charter / Kent Roach -- Canadian language rights : liberties, claims, and the national conversation / Graham Fraser -- Explaining the impact of legal mobilization and judicial decisions : official minority language education rights outside Quebec / Troy Riddell -- Reference re same-sex marriage : making sense of the government's litigation strategy / Matthew Hennigar -- Bills of rights as instruments of nation building in multinational states : the Canadian Charter and Quebec nationalism / Sujit Choudhry -- The internal exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter / Guy Laforest -- The road not taken : aboriginal rights after the re-imaging of the Canadian constitutional order / Kiera L. …”
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New directions in development ethics essays in honor of Denis Goulet /

Table of Contents: “…Jameson -- Building social capital in postcommunist Romania : the new horizons foundation and experiential education / Roland Hoksbergen -- Mexico's development strategy since 1983 : results and challenges / Jaime Ros.…”
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Self-organizing networks self-planning, self-optimization and self-healing for GSM, UMTS, and LTE /

Table of Contents: “…This is presented mainly from a technology point of view, but also covers some critical business aspects, such as the ROI of the proposed SON functionalities and Use Cases.Key features: Follows a truly Multi-Technology approach: covering not only LTE, but also GSM and UMTS, including architectural considerations of deploying SON in today's GSM and UMTS networks Features detailed discussions about the relevant trade-offs in each Use Case Includes field results of today's GSM and UMTS SON implementations in live networks Addresses the calculation of ROI for Multi-Technology SON, contributing to a more complete and strategic view of the SON paradigm This book will appeal to network planners, optimization engineers, technical/strategy managers with operators and R&D/system engineers at infrastructure and software vendors. …”
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Competitive intelligence and decision problems

Table of Contents: “…Onifade, Odile Thiery et Gerald Duffing -- Multimedia information retrieval and access based on the process of competitive intelligence / Hanene MaghrebI -- Strategies for the analysis of chinese information sources within the framework of competitive intelligence / Nadege Guenec, Clement Paoli -- Tagging strategy based on the semio-contextual approach of corpus for the elaboration of controlled databases / Lise Verlaet -- Design and development of generating and exploiting annotation model in the context of economic intelligence / Olusoji Okunoye -- Contribution of cognitive sciences for document indexing for scientific, technical and competitive watch, for competitive intelligence / Elisabeth Paoli-Scarbonchi et Nadege Guenec -- Competitive intelligence and governance -- Integration of competitive intelligence and watch in an academic research laboratory / Jacky Kister et Henri Dou -- The junction of e-health with competitive intelligence (economic intelligence) and societal and territorial intelligence in france / Christian Bourret -- Short term governance and development of products within competitive poles : the example of commercial application fire -- henri dou -- Competitive intelligence and enterprise universities / Claudia Camelo, Miguel Rombert Trigo, Luc Quoniame, Joao Casqueira Cardoso -- Towards the emergence of new functions for supervising competitive intelligence (economic intelligence in regions) / Audrey Knauf -- Attractivity of territories and territorial intelligence : what indicators for what attractivity ? …”
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Thucydides between history and literature

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- The distribution of character judgments in Thucydides / Matthieu de Bakker -- Ascribing motivation in Thucydides : between historical research and literary representation / Melina Tamiolaki -- The causes of the Athenian pestilence and the plague / Paul Demont -- Representations of time and space: The presence of the past in Thucydides / Jonas Grethlein -- The Cylon conspiracy : Thucydides and the uses of the past / Tim Rood -- Katâ ethne kai kata poleis : from the catalogues to the archaeologies / Roberto Nicolai -- In the shadow of Pericles: Athens' Samian victory and the organization of the Pentekontaetia / Marek Węcowski -- Transformations of landscapes in Thucydides / Vassiliki Pothou -- Thucydides and politics: "Reading" Athens : foreign perceptions of the agency of leaders and demos in Thucydides / Sarah Brown Ferrario -- Thucydides and the masses / Suzanne Saad -- Thucydides' Pericles : between historical reality and literary representation /Panos Christodoulou -- Aspects of the narrative: The balance of power and compositional balance: Thucydides, book I / June Allison -- Blurring the boundaries of speech: Thucydides and indirect discourse / Paula Debnar -- The narrative strategy: observations on the 7th book of Thucydides / Anna Lamari -- "The dot on the i" : Thucydidean epilogues / Hans-Peter Stahl -- The narrative legacy of Thucydides: Polybius book 1 / Nikos Miltsios -- The language of Thucydides: The litotes of Thucydides / Pierre Pontier -- History as presence : time, tense and narrative modes in Thucydides / Rutger J. …”
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Motor neuron diseases causes, classification and treatments /

Table of Contents: “…Atkin -- Motoneuron specific calcium dysregulation and perturbed cellular calcium homestasis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : recent advances gained from genetically modified animals and cell culture models / Manoj Kumar Jaiswal -- Treatment of ALS utilizing a stem cell strategy / Xiufang Guo, James J. Hickman -- Tdp-43-immunoreactive pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP proteinopathy (FTLD-TDP) with and without associated motor neuron disease (MND) / R.A. …”
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