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Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity /

Table of Contents: “…: Language Ideologies and Audience Imaginaries in a Dubbing Studio in Mumbai / Tejaswani Ganti -- The Digital Devine: Postproduction of Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree (2005) / Ramyar D. Rossoukh -- Journalists as Cultural Vectors: Film as the Building Blocks of News Narratives in India / Amrita Ibrahim -- "This is Not a Film": Industrial Expectations and Film Criticism as Censorship at the Bangladesh Film Censor Board / Lotte Hoek -- "This Most Reluctant of Romantic Cities": Dis-location Film Shooting in the Old City of Sana'a / Steven C. …”
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Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction to the SAMPLES Approach -- Chapter 2 Targeting Landscapes to Identify Mitigation Options -- Chapter 3 Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals Associated with Land Use and Land Cover Change -- Chapter 4 Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Managed and Natural Soils -- Chapter 5 A Comparison of Methodologies for Measuring Methane Emissions from Ruminants -- Chapter 6 Quantifying Tree Biomass Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes -- Chapter 7 Methods for Smallholder Quantification of Soil Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes -- Chapter 8 Yield Estimation of Food and Non-Food Crops in Smallholder Production Systems -- Chapter 9 Scaling Point and Plot Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Balances and Intensities to Whole Farms and Landscapes -- Chapter 10 Methods for Environment-Productivity Trade-off Analysis in Agricultural Systems.…”
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Discovering the South : One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s / by Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn

Table of Contents: “…We so-called free moderns : Raleigh, North Carolina -- This division between faith in democracy and power descending from authority : from Raleigh to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee -- The demand for justice will not be a cause furthered only by radicals : Scottsboro, Alabama -- A quaint and quixotic group of gentlemen : Nashville, Tennessee -- Tenants are able to hold their heads a little higher : Memphis, Tennessee -- Naked and hot as if she were stripped in the sun : Marked Tree, Arkansas -- The most interesting man I met : from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Tuskegee, Alabama -- As furious as the last horseman of a legion of the bitter-end : Birmingham, Alabama -- A red-headed woman immaculate and immediate from the beauty parlor : Atlanta, Georgia -- The newly exciting question of the possibility of democracy : from Atlanta to Raleigh, North Carolina.…”
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Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity /

Table of Contents: “…: Language Ideologies and Audience Imaginaries in a Dubbing Studio in Mumbai / Tejaswani Ganti -- The Digital Devine: Postproduction of Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree (2005) / Ramyar D. Rossoukh -- Journalists as Cultural Vectors: Film as the Building Blocks of News Narratives in India / Amrita Ibrahim -- "This is Not a Film": Industrial Expectations and Film Criticism as Censorship at the Bangladesh Film Censor Board / Lotte Hoek -- "This Most Reluctant of Romantic Cities": Dis-location Film Shooting in the Old City of Sana'a / Steven C. …”
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Narrative, interrupted the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /

Table of Contents: “…David Herman: Toward a zoonarratology: storytelling and species difference in animal comics -- Markku Lehtimäki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema -- Maria Mäkelä: Navigating "making sense" interpreting (the reader behind La jalousie) -- Mari Hatavara: History impossible: narrating and motivating the past -- Jan Alber: Unnatural temporalities: interfaces between postmodernism, science fiction, and the fantastic -- Sanna Katariina Bruun: The imperfect is our paradise: intertextuality and fragmentary narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- Jakob Lothe: Fragile narrative situations: Conrad compared to Sebald -- Shadow of a tail: problems of authorship. …”
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A sneetch is a sneetch and other philosophical discoveries finding wisdom in children's literature / by Wartenberg, Thomas E.

Table of Contents: “…: is it okay for adults to deceive kids? -- The giving tree: how can it be wrong to give someone what they want? …”
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Season of terror the Espinosas in central Colorado, March/October 1863 / by Price, Charles F., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas -- "If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her": the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Sønches -- "I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off": Tom Tobin ends the terror -- "The brightest success rewarded them for their toils": Tobin brings in the heads -- "Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?"…”
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Narrative, interrupted the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /

Table of Contents: “…David Herman: Toward a zoonarratology: storytelling and species difference in animal comics -- Markku Lehtimäki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema -- Maria Mäkelä: Navigating "making sense" interpreting (the reader behind La jalousie) -- Mari Hatavara: History impossible: narrating and motivating the past -- Jan Alber: Unnatural temporalities: interfaces between postmodernism, science fiction, and the fantastic -- Sanna Katariina Bruun: The imperfect is our paradise: intertextuality and fragmentary narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- Jakob Lothe: Fragile narrative situations: Conrad compared to Sebald -- Shadow of a tail: problems of authorship. …”
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A sneetch is a sneetch and other philosophical discoveries finding wisdom in children's literature / by Wartenberg, Thomas E.

Table of Contents: “…: is it okay for adults to deceive kids? -- The giving tree: how can it be wrong to give someone what they want? …”
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Season of terror the Espinosas in central Colorado, March/October 1863 / by Price, Charles F., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas -- "If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her": the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Sønches -- "I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off": Tom Tobin ends the terror -- "The brightest success rewarded them for their toils": Tobin brings in the heads -- "Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?"…”
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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England / by King, Peter

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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England / by Hurren, Elizabeth T.

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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England / by King, Peter

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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England / by Hurren, Elizabeth T.

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Options, futures and other derivatives / by Hull, John, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mechanics of futures markets -- Hedging strategies using futures -- Interest rates -- Determination of forward and futures prices -- Interest rate futures -- Swaps -- Mechanics of options markets -- Properties of stock options -- Trading strategies involving options -- Binomial trees -- Wiener processes and Ito's Lemma -- The Black-Scholes-Merton model -- Employee stock options -- Options on stock indices and currencies -- Options on futures -- Greek letters -- Volatility smiles -- Basic numerical procedures -- Value at risk -- Estimating volatilities and correlations for risk management -- Credit risk -- Credit derivatives -- Exotic options -- Insurance, weather, and energy derivatives -- More on models and numerical procedures -- Martingales and measures -- Interest rate derivatives : the standard market models -- Convexity, timing and quanto adjustments -- Interest rate derivatives : models of the short rate -- Interest rate derivatives : HJM and LMM -- Swaps revisited -- Real options -- Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them.…”

The poem of a life a biography of Louis Zukofsky / by Scroggins, Mark, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…A Lower East Side youth, 1904-1920 -- An ernster mensch at Columbia, 1920-1924 -- The lean twenties, 1924-1928 -- A thousand fiddles playing Bach, 1928-1930 -- "A"-1 through "A"-7 -- "Objectivists" : 1930-1931 -- At the helm of an avant-garde, 1932-1933 -- Politics and poetry, 1934-1935 -- Culture and design, 1936-1940 -- "A"-8 and first half of "A"-9 -- The home front, 1940-1945 -- A new life, 1946-1951 -- "A"-9 (second half) through "A"-12 -- The great world, 1952-1957 -- Going westward, 1958-1960 -- The darker world, 1961-1963 -- Short poems : contingencies and sequences -- Becoming a classic, 1964-1966 -- "A"-13 through "A"-20 -- Retiring, 1966-1969 -- At port, 1970-1978 -- "A"-21 through "A"-24 -- 80 flowers and "Gamut, 90 trees" -- Afterword : 1978-1980.…”
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Recounting migration political narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda / by Clark-Kazak, Christina R., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Politicizing Approaches to Refugee Young People -- Maps and Methods: Migration Narratives in Context -- Innocente's Story: The Daily Politics of Belonging -- James's Story: 'For Us Nande, a Tree Is Planted for Our Grandfather'--Roots and Routes along the Ugandan-Congolese Border -- Rose's Story: The Politics of Administrative Categorization: Vulnerability, Agency, and Power Relations -- Augustin's Story: 'I Was Supposed to Be a Prince'--Discourses on Leadership and Realities of Decision-Making Opportunities -- Lucie's Story: Riches to Rags--Negotiating Power Reversals in Refugee Contexts -- Amani's Story: Of Marriageable Age--Cross-Border Extended Family Politics -- Bondeko's Story: Social Networks and 'Passive' Resistance -- Jacob's Story: Respect and Respectability in Post-Migration Intergenerational and Intragenerational Relationships -- Paul's Story: Morphologie douteuse and the Musicality of Body Politics -- Marie's Story: Diploma for life? …”
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The poem of a life a biography of Louis Zukofsky / by Scroggins, Mark, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…A Lower East Side youth, 1904-1920 -- An ernster mensch at Columbia, 1920-1924 -- The lean twenties, 1924-1928 -- A thousand fiddles playing Bach, 1928-1930 -- "A"-1 through "A"-7 -- "Objectivists" : 1930-1931 -- At the helm of an avant-garde, 1932-1933 -- Politics and poetry, 1934-1935 -- Culture and design, 1936-1940 -- "A"-8 and first half of "A"-9 -- The home front, 1940-1945 -- A new life, 1946-1951 -- "A"-9 (second half) through "A"-12 -- The great world, 1952-1957 -- Going westward, 1958-1960 -- The darker world, 1961-1963 -- Short poems : contingencies and sequences -- Becoming a classic, 1964-1966 -- "A"-13 through "A"-20 -- Retiring, 1966-1969 -- At port, 1970-1978 -- "A"-21 through "A"-24 -- 80 flowers and "Gamut, 90 trees" -- Afterword : 1978-1980.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Recounting migration political narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda / by Clark-Kazak, Christina R., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Politicizing Approaches to Refugee Young People -- Maps and Methods: Migration Narratives in Context -- Innocente's Story: The Daily Politics of Belonging -- James's Story: 'For Us Nande, a Tree Is Planted for Our Grandfather'--Roots and Routes along the Ugandan-Congolese Border -- Rose's Story: The Politics of Administrative Categorization: Vulnerability, Agency, and Power Relations -- Augustin's Story: 'I Was Supposed to Be a Prince'--Discourses on Leadership and Realities of Decision-Making Opportunities -- Lucie's Story: Riches to Rags--Negotiating Power Reversals in Refugee Contexts -- Amani's Story: Of Marriageable Age--Cross-Border Extended Family Politics -- Bondeko's Story: Social Networks and 'Passive' Resistance -- Jacob's Story: Respect and Respectability in Post-Migration Intergenerational and Intragenerational Relationships -- Paul's Story: Morphologie douteuse and the Musicality of Body Politics -- Marie's Story: Diploma for life? …”
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Options, futures and other derivatives / by Hull, John, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mechanics of futures markets -- Hedging strategies using futures -- Interest rates -- Determination of forward and futures prices -- Interest rate futures -- Swaps -- Mechanics of options markets -- Properties of stock options -- Trading strategies involving options -- Binomial trees -- Wiener processes and Ito's Lemma -- The Black-Scholes-Merton model -- Employee stock options -- Options on stock indices and currencies -- Options on futures -- Greek letters -- Volatility smiles -- Basic numerical procedures -- Value at risk -- Estimating volatilities and correlations for risk management -- Credit risk -- Credit derivatives -- Exotic options -- Insurance, weather, and energy derivatives -- More on models and numerical procedures -- Martingales and measures -- Interest rate derivatives : the standard market models -- Convexity, timing and quanto adjustments -- Interest rate derivatives : models of the short rate -- Interest rate derivatives : HJM and LMM -- Swaps revisited -- Real options -- Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them.…”