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Home Bodies : Tactile Experience in Domestic Space / by Krasner, James

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Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process /

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Poetry in Speech : Orality and Homeric Discourse / by Bakker, Egbert J.

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Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

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Green energy materials handbook / by Lin, Ming-Fa, Hsu, Wen-Dung

Table of Contents: “…Perspective on Battery Research </P><P>Index</P>…”
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Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis of medical treatments / by Moreno, Elías, Vázquez Polo, Francisco José, Negrín-Hernández, Miguel Angel

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Bayesian inference in the social sciences /

Table of Contents: “…Recessions 181 Rui Liu and Ivan Jeliazkov 7.1 Introduction 181 7.2 Methodology 183 7.3 Results 188 7.4 Conclusions 191 Appendix: Data 192 References 192 8 What Difference Fat Tails Make: A Bayesian MCMC Estimation of Empirical Asset Pricing Models 201 Paskalis Glabadanidis 8.1 Introduction 202 8.2 Methodology 204 8.3 Data 205 8.4 Empirical Results 206 8.5 Concluding Remarks 212 9 Stochastic Search For Price Insensitive Consumers 227 Eric Eisenstat 9.1 Introduction 228 9.2 Random utility models in marketing applications 230 9.3 The censored mixing distribution in detail 234 9.4 Reference price models with price thresholds 240 9.5 Conclusion 244 References 245 10 Hierarchical Modeling of Choice Concentration of US Households 249 Karsten T. …”
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Pathways to peace : the transformative power of children and families /

Table of Contents: “…Fox, Heidi Keller, Dario Maestripieri, Paul Odhiambo Oburu, and Hiltrud Otto -- Challenges in society -- Mental health and development among children living in violent conditions : underlying processes for promoting peace / Raija-Leena PunamÃñki -- Structural violence and child development / Andrew Dawes and Amelia van der Merwe -- Promoting the capacity for peace: perspectives from research on resilience in children and families / Ann S. …”
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Waddenland Outstanding : History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region /

Table of Contents: “…15 Yeoman capitalism and smallholder liberalismProperty rights and social realities of early modern Schleswig marshland societies; Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen; 16 Drowned by the Grote Mandrenke in 1362; New geo-archaeological research on the late medieval trading centre of Rungholt (North Frisia); Hanna Hadler, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Annika Fediuk, Peter Fischer, Michaela Schwardt, Timo Willershäuser, Wolfgang Rabbel and Andreas Vött; 17 Reinterpreting nature; A brief environmental history of trilateral conservation in the Wadden Sea region; Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Hans-Peter Ziemek.…”
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Political (Dis)Engagement : The Changing Nature of the 'Political' / by Manning, Nathan

Table of Contents: “…Political engagement among ethnic minority young people: exploring new grammars of action -- Introduction -- A crisis of participation? -- Research design -- Changing political participation -- New grammars of action -- New technologies, global engagement and DIY activism -- DIY ethnicity, reflexive religiosity and political activism -- Conclusion -- 9. …”
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Numerical structural analysis / by O'Hara, Steven E., Ramming, Carisa H.

Table of Contents: “…Roots of algebraic and transcendental equations -- 1.1 Equations -- 1.2 Polynomials -- 1.3 Descartes' rule -- 1.4 Synthetic division -- 1.5 Incremental search method -- 1.6 Refined incremental search method -- 1.7 Bisection method -- 1.8 Method of false position or linear interpolation -- 1.9 Secant method -- 1.10 Newton-Raphson method or Newton's tangent -- 1.11 Newton's second order method -- 1.12 Graeffe's root squaring method -- 1.13 Bairstow's method -- References --…”
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Applying for jobs and internships in museums : a practical guide / by Schloetzer, Martha M.

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Democratic political tragedy in the postcolony : the tragedy of postcoloniality in Michael Manley's Jamaica and Nelson Mandela's South Africa / by Graham, Greg A.

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Interwar Itineraries : Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing / by Wittman, Emily Ondine, 1971-

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Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe / by Rogers, Richard, 1965-

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Healthcare Value Proposition : Creating a Culture of Excellence in Patient Experience. by Omachonu, Vincent K.

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Requiem or revival? the promise of North American integration /

Table of Contents: “…North American immigration : the search for positive-sum returns / Tamara M. Woroby -- 14. …”
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Collapse of an empire lessons for modern Russia / by Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)

Table of Contents: “…The grandeur and the fall of empires -- Modern economic growth and the era of empires -- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires -- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires -- The yugoslav tragedy -- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability -- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism -- The instability of authoritarian regimes -- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism -- The oil curse -- The Spanish prologue -- Resource wealth and economic development -- Specifics of the oil market -- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century -- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela -- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing -- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s -- Growing problems and bad decisions -- Food supply problems -- Food shortages-a strategic challenge -- The USSR as the largest importer of food -- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation -- A drop in oil prices: the final blow -- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives -- The ussr and the drop in oil prices: the essence of the choice -- A series of mistakes -- Mounting problems in the soviet economy -- The hard currency crisis -- Economic and political liberalization against the background of the hard currency and financial problems -- Development of the crisis of the socialist system -- Political credits -- The price of compromise -- The crisis of the empire and the nationality question -- Loss of control over the economic and political situation -- The currency crisis -- From crisis to catastrophe -- "Extraordinary efforts" instead of reforms -- On the brink of default -- On the path to state bankruptcy -- The grain problem -- Prices skyrocket -- Money and the fate of the empire -- The fall -- The political economy of the failed coup -- Political death throes -- Political disintegration: economic consequences -- A civilized divorce.…”
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Animals and agency an interdisciplinary exploration /

Table of Contents: “…Clark -- Speaking for animals -- Representing the experimental animal : competing voices in victorian culture / Jed Mayer -- Forms of life : the search for the simian self in ape language experiments / Rebecca Bishop -- Animals, agency, and absence : a discourse analysis of institutional animal care and use committee meetings / Debra Durham and Debra Merskin -- Humanimals and other marginal species -- "To abandon the colonial animal" : "race," animals, and the feral child in Kipling's Mowgli stories / Dipika Nath -- At the top of the hierarchical ladder : were-animals in Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and chocolate and Patrice Kindl's Owl in love / Cat Yampell -- The microgeography of infestation in relationship spaces / Matthew Candelaria -- Crossing over : (dis)ability, contingent agency, and death in the marginal genre work of Temple Grandin and Jim Harrison / Ryan Hediger -- Envoi towards a philosophy of the polyp / Laurence Simmons.…”
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