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Unhistorical Shakespeare Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film
pdf | 2.55 MB | Author :Menon, Madhavi.


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Unhistorical Shakespeare argues against the ideas of difference that underpin historicist studies of the past and its desires, offering, instead, the idea of homo-history to engage with issues of narcissism, anachronism, and recursiveness in conjunction with sexual desire.

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Corporate Governance and Finance, Volume 8 (Advances in Financial Economics, Volume 8)
pdf | 1.12 MB | Author :M. Hirschey


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Papers in this volume focus upon corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps the corporation effectively manage, administer and direct economic resources. Questions of what and how to produce become equally important as organizations strive to better serve demanding customers. As a result, the design and control of effective organizations structure has been described by the vertical and horizontal relationships among the firm, its customers and suppliers. More recently, researchers have come to understand that the efficiency of firms depends upon the ability of participants to find effective means to minimize the transaction costs of coordinating productive activity. As financial economists have learned, resource allocation will be efficient so long as transaction costs remain low and property rights can be freely assigned and exchanged. An important problem that must be addressed is the so-called agency problem resulting from the natural conflict between owners and managers. Agency costs are the explicit and implicit transaction costs necessary to overcome the natural divergence of interest between agent managers and principal stockholders. The value-maximizing organization design minimizes unproductive conflict within the firm. Papers in this volume show how corporate control mechanisms inside and outside the firm have evolved to allocate decision authority to that person or organization best able to perform a given task.

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David Bowie The Last Interview and Other Conversations
epub | 2.29 MB | English | Author :David Bowie | 2016 | Melville House


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The massive, world-wide outpouring of grief at the death of David Bowie notably focused on not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same-the same as other trending artists, or even the same as himself.

In this remarkable collection, Bowie reveals the fierce intellectualism, artistry, and humor behind it all. From his very first interview-as a teenager on the BBC, before he was even a musician-to his last, Bowie takes on the most probing questions, candidly discussing his sexuality, his drug usage, his sense of fashion, how he composed, and more.

For fans still mourning his passing, as well as for those who know little about him, it's a revealing, interesting, and inspiring look at one of the most influential artists of the last fifty years.

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Markets and Moral Regulation Cultural Change in the European Union (Themes in European Governance)
pdf | 904.18 KB | Author :Paulette Kurzer


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Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a synthesis of constructivist and institutionalist theories, Kurzer demonstrates that domestic shifts in values and attitudes, spurred along by the impact of EC/EU market integration, are in fact bringing about a convergence in European morality norms. Alcohol control policies are forced to liberalize, the Irish abortion proscription is being redefined, and Dutch drug toleration is pushed into a more punitive direction. Markets and Moral Regulation argues that a crucial agency is European law and its role as a market regulator: as market forces invade these cultural and moral spheres, protective barriers disintegrate. The result is that cultural and social domains are increasingly exposed to the influence of market competition.

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Capitalism and Environmental Collapse
pdf | 5.74 MB | Author :Samuel Alexander


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Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth's climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. Unless humanity does something beautiful and unprecedented, the ending of industrial civilisation will take the form of collapse, which could mean a harrowing die-off of billions of people.
This book is for those ready to accept the full gravity of the human predicament - and to consider what in the world is to be done. How can humanity mindfully navigate the inevitable descent ahead? Two critical thinkers here remove the rose-tinted glasses of much social and environmental commentary. With unremitting realism and yet defiant positivity, they engage each other in uncomfortable conversations about the end of Empire and what lies beyond.

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Junkyard Cats Junkyard
epub | 236.74 KB | English | Author :Faith Hunter | Lore Seekers Press


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From the author of the best-selling Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series comes a tough new heroine who is far more than she seems. Junkyard Cats is the first in a new novella series.

After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets that she has guarded for years.

This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life sho up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining-warning her of a coming attack.

With dread, Shining realizes: Someone kno who she is. Someone kno what she is guarding. Will she be able to protect the scrapyard? Will she even survive? Or will Shining have to destroy everything she loves to keep her secrets out of the wrong hands?

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Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China An International History
pdf | 1.56 MB | Author :Elleman, Bruce A.; Kotkin, Stephen.


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The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A spur line from the Manchurian city of Harbin led south to ice-free Port Arthur. Control of these two rail lines gave Imperial Russia military, economic, and political advantages that excited rivalry on the part of Japan and unease on the part of weak and divided China. Meanwhile, the effort to defend and retain that strategic hold against rising Japanese power strained distant Moscow. Control of the Manchurian railways was contested in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; Japan's 1931 invasion and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo; the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in Asia; and, the Chinese civil war that culminated in the Communist victory over the Nationalists. Today, the railways are critical to plans for development of China's sparsely populated interior. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history.

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Nature An Economic History
pdf | 1.94 MB | Author :Geerat J. Vermeij


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From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhuman evolution follow from this principle.

Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that evolution and economics are one. Powerful consumers and producers exercise disproportionate controls on the characteristics, activities, and distribution of all life forms. Competition-driven demand by consumers, when coupled with supply-side conditions permitting economic growth, leads to adaptation and escalation among organisms. Although disruptions in production halt or reverse these processes temporarily, they amplify escalation in the long run to produce trends in all economic systems toward greater power, higher production rates, and a wider reach for economic systems and their strongest members.

Despite our unprecedented power to shape our surroundings, we humans are subject to all the economic principles and historical trends that emerged at life's origin more than 3 billion years ago. Engagingly written, brilliantly argued, and sweeping in scope, Nature: An Economic History sho that the human institutions most likely to preserve opportunity and adaptability are, after all, built like successful living things.

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The Shrike & the Shado
epub | 1.12 MB | English | Author :Chantal Gadoury, A.M. Wright | The Parliament House


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"Lush and evocative..." -Publisher's Weekly
The village of Krume is plagued by a haunted wood and a hungry witch. It's been that way for as long as Hans and Greta can remember, though they have never seen the witch themselves; no one has.
When men start to disappear once again in the cover of night - their bloody hearts turning up on doorsteps - the village falls into frenzied madness.
Hans and Greta, two outcast orphans, find themselves facing accusations of witchcraft and are met with an ultimatum: burn at the stake, or leave the village forever. 
With nowhere else to go, they abandon their only home.
As they venture into the strange forest, their path is fraught with horrific creatures, wild and vivid hallucinations, and a mysterious man tied to the witch's past.
The Shrike is watching, just beyond the deep darkness of the woods.

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The Woman Who Vanished
epub | 594.23 KB | English | Author :UD Yasha | Udayan Adhye


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He hides in their house for days, watching their every move. He's patient. Calm. Calculated. A shadow over their bed. Their screams are music to his ears.

Hello again...this is just the start, there will be more.

When a serial killer leaves a message for detective Siya Rajput at the brutal crime scene of a woman's murder, she unravels a bone-chilling connection to the mystery that has tormented her since her childhood-the vanishing of her mother, who has been presumed dead for sixteen years.

The murder's crime scene is eerily similar to the work of another serial killer. Except that serial killer is in jail and serving a life sentence.

Feisty and headstrong but still reeling from horrors of...

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Tower to Tower Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture
epub | 11.15 MB | English | Author :Henriette Steiner, Kristin Veel


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A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center.The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscbangrs to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture-the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures-from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscbangr with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure.
Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical...

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Transformative Ground A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape
pdf | 70.52 MB | Author :Mclean, Ross


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Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industrial landscapes. One of the biggest contemporary challenges currently faced in the profession is how to effectively understand and work with the transformational possibilities of post-industrial landscapes, while negotiating significant spatial challenges, such as degradation and fragmentation.

Transformative Ground: A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape presents a range of theoretical perspectives and practical approaches, offering a broad scope of contemporary design strategies that deal with post-industrial landscapes. Through a series of thematic chapters, allied with precedents from leading design offices, this book identifies how the context of post-industrial landscapes has compelled shifts in fundamental ideas that underpin landscape design. As a richly illustrated account of this transformative ground, this book provides a must-have guide to help you reimagine the post-industrial landscape.

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10 Essential Herbs For Lifelong Health - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
epub | 2.63 MB | Author :Barbara L. Heller | Storey Publishing, LLC


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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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101 Family Vacation Games - Have Fun While Traveling Camping Or Celebrating At Home
pdf | 5.44 MB | Author :Shando Varda


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Playing with your offspring helps parents to meet their children as equals and to bring fun and laughter into family life. When we laugh and have fun together, tensions are dissolved, and we come fully alive. In this age of electronic media, families are simply forgetting the many wonderful ways of playing together.

101 FAMILY VACATION GAMES includes different types of games new and old and from all around the world that create a wonderful repertoire for parents to explore with their families. The author encourages parents to use games as a parenting skill and finds that parents who do this cause their families to blossom and bubble over with vitality.

Although the book focuses on games for families on vacation, the games can be used for any time when parents or other adults want to engage with children in a positive and fun-filled manner, helping the children to learn and laugh, and building lasting relationships between children and adults.

The book includes games to play at the beach, camping, in the car, on the plane, at picnics, at vacation homes, and at birthday parties. Some sample games: Word Tennis, Treasure Hunt, Pebble Pictures, Storytelling Starters.

Age level is 4 and up.

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3d Printing With Delta Printers
pdf | 10.87 MB | Author :Charles Bell


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Do you find yourself wondering what the fuss is about a delta 3D printer? Perhaps you've decided to buy one but all of your 3D printing friends are busily perfecting their Cartesian printers. Maybe you find yourself stymied by the fact that your delta printer has very different needs for setup, configuration, calibration, and maintenance than Cartesian printers.
3D Printing with Delta Printers contains detailed descriptions of the innovative delta design including unique hardware, software, and maintenance requirements. The book also covers tips for building your own delta printer as well as examples of common enhancements.
This book will enable you to build, configure, and enhance your delta printer. The topics covered will reveal the often-mysterious nuances of the delta design that will enable your printer to compete with the best of what your 3D printer friends can build.

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6 Part Beginners Lead Guitar Course - Part One - Lead Guitar Lesson Guide
pdf | 773.38 KB | Author :Guitar Head


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[b]Memorize the fretboard before you play another note! Here's why...[/b]

A fully memorized fretboard is one of the most underrated skills in the guitar world. It's not expected from a beginner, nor is it taught in the normal course of guitar learning.

But the smartest and best guitarists in the world know why fretboard knowledge can be the secret to being good at guitar.

[b]Why memorize the fretboard?[/b]

Apart from sounding extremely cool when you say "Oh, you played a C instead of a C#", it amplifies every area of your guitar playing:

Area #1: Guitar scales won't be just patterns on the neck:

Guitar scales are simply a couple notes repeated all over the fretboard. If you understand this simple concept and have the fretboard memorized, you won't need to memorize those endless patterns all over the fretboard. Simply get set and solo!

Area #2: You'll unlock 1000+ guitar chords:

Chords are combinations of specific notes too. You can hold these notes anywhere on the fretboard to get chords in different contexts. And if you know the chord formulas (which we teach in our other books) you just unlocked the gates to the world of harmony - without having to memorize them all!

But it starts with - you guessed it - fretboard knowledge.

Area #3: Song writing becomes child's play:

Break free from common chord shapes and sounds to venture into the wild west of music writing. Add your own chords to popular songs, change the key or simply be more creative.

Granted this is an advanced skill, but the shortest path to get there - fretboard memorization!

Area #4: And the biggest benefit of them all - improvisation!

Improvising is natural to a person who kno the fretboard! New note combinations, unorthodox melodies, playing fluently with a backing track or even writing new melodies. Nothing works if you can't pick out the notes on the fretboard in an instant.

So, fretboard knowledge allo you to solo better, improvise better, play better harmonies and write songs. That's a major chunk of guitar right there!

[b]Why more people don't memorize the fretboard.[/b]

It's hard! It seems impossible! It'll come with time!

And we agree with all of that. Memorizing 24 frets across 6 strings is not the easiest thing in the world. And most guitarists only ever master it after 1000s of hours on the guitar.

But we want to give you a cheat code!

Inside this book, we've simplified this process that takes a "lifetime" into 5 easy steps. Using these, absolute beginners have memorized the fretboard in less than 24 hours. Some even in as little as 5 hours!

[b]Wondering how we do it? Simple! [/b]

We combined pattern recognition with memory techniques and games to create a system that will show you patterns hidden in plain sight and give you short memory phrases like "Eddie Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddie". This will take the layout of the fretboard right to the brain - WITHOUT any sort of blunt memorization.

With over 700 5-star revie, this book has helped over 39,000 guitarists shorten their learning time and gain the skill of the guitar gods - in under 24 hours!

And it costs less than a pack of strings!

[b]So, scroll up and click 'buy now' to gain the unfair advantage of the pros in under 24 hours![/b]

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700 Places To Volunteer Before You Die - A Travelers Guide
pdf | 8.14 MB | Author :Nola Lee Kelsey


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From the author of the The Frugal Volunteer: The Give Back Traveller's Guide to Exploring the World on a Shoestring budget(Feb. 2012)
700 Places to Volunteer Before You Die offers readers the most diverse listings of global volunteer projects available in any book! • Advice from industry leaders • Tips on how to select the right volunteer project • Honest coverage of issues facing give-back travelers • Detailed listings of over 750 volunteer opportunities • Hundreds of additional sources for locating global volunteer projects • A network of supplementary resources connecting travelers, nonprofits and voluntourism travel providers Lose yourself among a wealth of options and inspirations for every style of traveler: budget, families, teens, humanitarian, wildlife, education, conservation, builders, tour combos, business, eco, skilled, unskilled, along with some of the most unusually volunteer opportunities travelers have ever encountered. • Teach tennis to the blind • Work in a wombatorium • Build an eco village in Africa • Walk among ancient mammoths • Introduce children with burns to art • Rebuild an ancient monastery in Nepal • Track snow leopards in the Altai Mountains • Translate on a cruise ship destined for peace Your journey begins here and now!

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A Molecular And Cellular View Of Protein Kinase Ck2
pdf | 9.28 MB | Author :Khalil Ahmed


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It is now generally recognized that protein kinase signaling is involved in virtually every aspect of cell function, including growth and proliferation. The field of protein phosphorylation, including the enzymes involved in this post-translational modification, continues to advance at a fascinating pace.
Since the first international meeting on this topic, held in Heidelberg in 1994, several new avenues of CK2 research have emerged despite persistent deficiencies in our understanding of the regulation of its activity. Among the significant new directions are studies related to the structure of the enzyme, especially its crystal structure, as well as an interesting aspect of CK2 function that involves its subunits as binding partners of several other proteins. In addition, new data have been gathered on the role of CK2 in transcription as well as in certain other cellular functions. To address these various aspects of the progress of CK2, a number of key scientists from different parts of the world came together at the second international meeting on `A Molecular and Cellular View of Protein Kinase CK2', held at Villard de Lans near Grenoble on September 24-26, 1997. The meeting was attended by nearly 50 participants and included 28 presentations, which provide a view of the latest progress on protein kinase CK2.

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Acct3 Financial 3rd Edition
pdf | 16.87 MB | Author :Matthew Lippman


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A book that students find interesting and instructors consider educationally valuable, this Fifth Edition of Contemporary Criminal Law combines traditional concepts with thought-provoking cases and engaging learning tools. Taking a casebook approach, the text covers both foundational and emerging legal topics such as terrorism, gangs, cybercrime, and hate crimes, illustrated by real-life examples that students connect with. Clear explanations of criminal law and defenses are complemented by provocative, well-edited cases followed by discussion questions to stimulate critical thinking and in-class discussion. The book provides a contemporary perspective on criminal law that encourages students to actively read and analyze the text. The Fifth Edition is enhanced throughout by new cases that offer the most up-to-date coverage of evolving legal opinions and developments in criminal law.
New to This Edition
  • New cases illuminate important concepts, including decisions on criminal acts, criminal intent, parties, corporate crime, kidnapping, identity theft, computer crime, prostitution, terrorism, and more.
  • One or more new You Decide sections in most chapters clarify concepts to illustrate the complexity of legal analysis and enhance the interactive character of the text. Additional hypothetical problems are available on the companion site.
  • New Crime in the Ne features look at recent events such as the criminal trial of Dylann Roof, the dark web, and the leaking of confidential government documents to help students apply important concepts to real-world scenarios. 
  • New and expanded discussions of critical topics cover the Second Amendment and gun control, the Trump administration′s stance on marijuana, sentencing guidelines, and criminal defenses.

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Action And Adventure Cinema
pdf | 2.39 MB | Author :Yvonne Tasker (edt)


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This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process.

Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has developed historically, and how it works formally. The critical reception and standing of action and adventure cinema is considered in relation to questions of national culture, violence and the 'art' of cinema.

Themes explored include genre and definitions; early action, sensation and melodrama; authorship and action; national and transnational action-adventure traditions; action aesthetics; spectacle and narrative; stars and bodies; class; gender; race and ethnicity.

Attempting to evaluate the significance of this type of filmmaking for both popular cinema and film studies, the book underlines the central place of action and adventure within film history.

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