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Immigration law and the US-Mexico border ¿sí se puede? / by Johnson, Kevin R.

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Open spaces : voices from the Northwest /

Table of Contents: “…Harris -- No longer a hunter / John Struloeff -- Salmon and the Northwest / Roy Hemmingway -- The Endangered Species Act: thirty-eight years on the ark / Jeff Curtis and Bob Davison -- Night lights / Robert Sack -- The power of wind, sun, and falling water / Angus Duncan -- Sunshine / Scott Siegel -- Good driver! / James Opie -- Second thoughts about rail transit in America / Emory Bundy -- Science and public policy: the twain must meet / William D. …”
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Machine Scoring of Student Essays : Truth and Consequences /

Table of Contents: “…/ Beth Ann Rothermel -- Why less is not more : what we lose by letting a computer score writing samples / William Condon -- More work for teachers? …”
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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

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Machine Scoring of Student Essays : Truth and Consequences /

Table of Contents: “…/ Beth Ann Rothermel -- Why less is not more : what we lose by letting a computer score writing samples / William Condon -- More work for teachers? …”
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Adolescents and war how youth deal with political violence /

Table of Contents: “…Olsen -- Mozambican child soldier life outcome study / Neil Boothby, Jennifer Crawford, and Agostinho Mamade -- Tasting the world : life after wartime for Bosnian teens in Chicago / Stevan Weine ... [et al.] -- Making sense and no sense of war : issues of identity and meaning in adolescents' experience with political conflict / Brian K. …”
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The small worlds of corporate governance

Table of Contents: “…Lazzarini, Jordan Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina -- Ownership networks and new institutional forms in the transition from communism to capitalism / Doug Guthrie, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Roger Schoenman, and Zhixing Xiao -- Structural breaks and governance networks in Western Europe / Fabrizio Ferraro, Raffaele Corrado, Gerhard Schnyder, Eelke M. …”
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The small worlds of corporate governance

Table of Contents: “…Lazzarini, Jordan Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina -- Ownership networks and new institutional forms in the transition from communism to capitalism / Doug Guthrie, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Roger Schoenman, and Zhixing Xiao -- Structural breaks and governance networks in Western Europe / Fabrizio Ferraro, Raffaele Corrado, Gerhard Schnyder, Eelke M. …”
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Taiwan and China : Fitful Embrace /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lowell Dittmer -- Taiwan's national identity and cross-strait relations / Yi-Huah Jiang -- Changing identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- Paths crossed but never merged: changes and continuities of Taiwanese in Mainland China / Shu Keng & Ruihua Lin -- Chinese national identity under reconstruction / Gang Lin & Weixu Wu -- Chinese youth nationalism in a pressure pot / Rou-lan Chen -- Varieties of state capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: a comparison and its implications / Chih-shian Liou -- The nature and transition of Taiwanese investment in China: business orientation, profit seeking, and politicization / Chung-min Tsai -- Cross-strait economic relations and China's rise: the case of the IT sector / Tse-Kang Leng -- Social entrepreneurialism in post-developmental state Taiwan / You-Tian Hsing -- Pivot, hedger, or partner: strategies of lesser powers caught between hegemons / Yu-Shan Wu -- A farewall to arms? …”
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Queer Korea /

Table of Contents: “…Ritual specialists in colonial drag: Shamanic interventions in 1920s Korea / Merose Hwang -- Telling queer time in a straight empire: Yi Sang's "Wings" (1936) / John Whittier Treat -- Problematizing love: the intimate event and same-sex love in colonial Korea / Pei Jean Chen -- Femininity under the wartime system and the symptomacity of female same-sex love / Shin-ae Ha (translated by Kyunghee Eo) -- A female-dressed man sings a national epic: the film Male Kisaeng and the politics of gender and sexuality in 1960s South Korea / Chung-kang Kim -- Queer lives as cautionary tales: female homoeroticism and the heteropatriarchal imagination of authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. …”
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Adolescents and war how youth deal with political violence /

Table of Contents: “…Olsen -- Mozambican child soldier life outcome study / Neil Boothby, Jennifer Crawford, and Agostinho Mamade -- Tasting the world : life after wartime for Bosnian teens in Chicago / Stevan Weine ... [et al.] -- Making sense and no sense of war : issues of identity and meaning in adolescents' experience with political conflict / Brian K. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Taiwan and China : Fitful Embrace /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lowell Dittmer -- Taiwan's national identity and cross-strait relations / Yi-Huah Jiang -- Changing identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- Paths crossed but never merged: changes and continuities of Taiwanese in Mainland China / Shu Keng & Ruihua Lin -- Chinese national identity under reconstruction / Gang Lin & Weixu Wu -- Chinese youth nationalism in a pressure pot / Rou-lan Chen -- Varieties of state capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: a comparison and its implications / Chih-shian Liou -- The nature and transition of Taiwanese investment in China: business orientation, profit seeking, and politicization / Chung-min Tsai -- Cross-strait economic relations and China's rise: the case of the IT sector / Tse-Kang Leng -- Social entrepreneurialism in post-developmental state Taiwan / You-Tian Hsing -- Pivot, hedger, or partner: strategies of lesser powers caught between hegemons / Yu-Shan Wu -- A farewall to arms? …”
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Queer Korea /

Table of Contents: “…Ritual specialists in colonial drag: Shamanic interventions in 1920s Korea / Merose Hwang -- Telling queer time in a straight empire: Yi Sang's "Wings" (1936) / John Whittier Treat -- Problematizing love: the intimate event and same-sex love in colonial Korea / Pei Jean Chen -- Femininity under the wartime system and the symptomacity of female same-sex love / Shin-ae Ha (translated by Kyunghee Eo) -- A female-dressed man sings a national epic: the film Male Kisaeng and the politics of gender and sexuality in 1960s South Korea / Chung-kang Kim -- Queer lives as cautionary tales: female homoeroticism and the heteropatriarchal imagination of authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. …”
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Dual citizenship in Europe from nationhood to societal integration /

Table of Contents: “…The fixed and porous boundaries of dual citizenship / Thomas Faist -- 'We are all "republican" now' : the politics of dual citizenship in Germany / Jürgen Gerdes, Thomas Faist and Beate Rieple -- The end of multiculturalism : the end of dual citizenship? …”
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Dual citizenship in Europe from nationhood to societal integration /

Table of Contents: “…The fixed and porous boundaries of dual citizenship / Thomas Faist -- 'We are all "republican" now' : the politics of dual citizenship in Germany / Jürgen Gerdes, Thomas Faist and Beate Rieple -- The end of multiculturalism : the end of dual citizenship? …”
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The Arab world facing the challenge of the new millenium by Azzam, Henry T., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 The Arab world: preparing for a new era of growth 1 -- 2 Challenges and opportunities in the new millennium 13 -- 3 The new economy and its impact on the Arab region 36 -- 4 Arab bond markets: moving from the embryonic stage to the take-off stage 50 -- 5 Arab stock markets: facing up to new challenges 64 -- 6 Drivers of change affecting Arab banks 79 -- 7 Arab currencies: fix or float? 95 -- 8 North Africa 106 -- 9 Levant 136 -- 10 The GCC countries 167 -- 11 The Arab world: a vision for growth 207.…”
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Advanced derivatives pricing and risk management theory, tools and hands-on programming application / by Albanese, Claudio

Table of Contents: “…Pricing theory -- Fixed-income instruments -- Advanced topics in pricing theory : exotic options and state-dependent models -- Numerical methods for value-at-risk -- Project : arbitrage theory -- Project : the Black-Scholes (lognormal) model -- Project : quantile-quantile plots -- Project : Monte Carlo pricer -- Project : the binomial lattice model -- Project : the trinomial lattice model -- Project : Crank-Nicolson option pricer -- Project : static hedging of barrier options -- Project : variance swaps -- Project : Monte Carlo value-at-risk for Delta-Gamma portfolios -- Project : covariance estimation and scenario generation in value-at-risk -- Project : interest rate trees : calibration and pricing.…”
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