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Investment Banking

Institutions, Politics, and Law

By: Alan D. Morrison,William J. Wilhelm Jr.

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Investment Banking

Institutions, Politics, and Law

By: Alan D. Morrison,William J. Wilhelm Jr.

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over it and hence is very hard to coordinate its exchange. The authors argue that investment banks help to resolve this problem by managing "information marketplaces," within which extra-legal institutions support the production and dissemination of information that is important to investors. Reputations and relationships are more important in fulfilling this role than financial capital. The authors substantiate their theory with reference to the industry's evolution during the last three centuries. They show how investment banking networks were formed, and identify the informal contracts that they supported. This historical development points to tensions between the relational contracting of investment banks and the regulatory impulses of the State, thus providing some explanation for the periodic large-scale State intervention in the operation of capital markets. Their theory also provides a technological explanation for the massive restructuring of the capital markets in recent decades, which the authors argue can be used to think about the likely future direction of the investment banking industry.

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OUP Oxford

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0191647845

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India's Forests, Real and Imagined

Writing the Modern Nation

By: Alan Johnson

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India's Forests, Real and Imagined

Writing the Modern Nation

By: Alan Johnson

As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay – widely regarded as the first Indian novelist – to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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075563411X

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9780755634118

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Public Health

By: Alan L. Melnick

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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Public Health

By: Alan L. Melnick

This clear and accessible text helps public health students and officials gain a solid understanding of geographic information systems technology. Using examples drawn from public health practice, the author shows how to best harness the opportunities of this exciting technological development.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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083421878X

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9780834218789

Fundamentals of Behavior Analytic Research

By: Alan Poling,Laura L. Methot,Mark G. LeSage

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Fundamentals of Behavior Analytic Research

By: Alan Poling,Laura L. Methot,Mark G. LeSage

By the end of his long life, B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) had become one of the most influential and best known of psychologists (Gilgen, 1982; Heyduke & Fenigstein, 1984). An important feature of the approach to the study of behavior that he championed, behavior analysis, is the intensive study of individual subjects over time. This approach, which is characterized by the use of within-subject experimental designs, repeated and direct measures of behavior, and graphic analysis of data, stands in marked contrast to the research methods favored by many nonbehavioral psychologists. Skinner discussed the advantages of his approach in a number of books (e.g., Skinner, 1938, 1953, 1979), but never devoted a book to methodology. Sidman (1960) and Johnson and Pennypack (1993b) did devote books to behavior analytic research methodology. These books are of excep tionally high quality and should be read carefully by anyone interested in behavior analysis. They are sophisticated, however, and are not easy reads for most neophyte behaviorists. Introductory-level books devoted entirely to methods of applied behavior analysis (e.g., Kazdin, 1982; Barlow & Hersen, 1984) are easier to understand, but somewhat limited in coverage.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489914366

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9781489914361

How the Incas Built Their Heartland

State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru

By: R. Alan Covey

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How the Incas Built Their Heartland

State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru

By: R. Alan Covey

In How the Incas Built Their Heartland R. Alan Covey supplements an archaeological approach with the tools of a historian, forming an interdisciplinary study of how the Incas became sufficiently powerful to embark on an unprecedented campaign of territorial expansion and how such developments related to earlier patterns of Andean statecraft."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472114786

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9780472114788

Capital Markets, Derivatives, and the Law

Positivity and Preparation

By: Alan N. Rechtschaffen

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Capital Markets, Derivatives, and the Law

Positivity and Preparation

By: Alan N. Rechtschaffen

Capital Markets, Derivatives and the Law: Positivity and Preparation investigates the impact of the financial crisis on capital markets and regulation. With an emphasis on the structure and the workings of financial instruments, it considers market evolution after the crisis and the impact of Central Bank policy. In doing so, it provides the reader with the tools to recognize vulnerabilities in capital market trading activities.

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0190879637

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9780190879631

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

By: Alan Taylor

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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

By: Alan Taylor

Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American History A Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the Year From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European empires and other independent republics on the North American continent. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The system of American slavery grew increasingly powerful and expansive, its vigorous internal trade in Black Americans separating parents and children, husbands and wives. Bitter party divisions pitted elites favoring strong government against those, like Andrew Jackson, espousing a democratic populism for white men. Violence was both routine and organized: the United States invaded Canada, Florida, Texas, and much of Mexico, and forcibly removed most of the Native peoples living east of the Mississippi. At the end of the period the United States, its conquered territory reaching the Pacific, remained internally divided, with sectional animosities over slavery growing more intense. Taylor’s elegant history of this tumultuous period offers indelible miniatures of key characters from Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Fuller. It captures the high-stakes political drama as Jackson and Adams, Clay, Calhoun, and Webster contend over slavery, the economy, Indian removal, and national expansion. A ground-level account of American industrialization conveys the everyday lives of factory workers and immigrant families. And the immersive narrative puts us on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Mexico City, Quebec, and the Cherokee capital, New Echota. Absorbing and chilling, American Republics illuminates the continuities between our own social and political divisions and the events of this formative period.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324005807

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9781324005803

Performance of Metals and Ceramics in Total Hip Arthroplasty

By: Armando Reyes Rojas,Alfredo Aguilar Elguezabal,Alessandro Alan Porporati,Miguel Bocanegra Bernal,Hilda Esperanza Esparza Ponce

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Performance of Metals and Ceramics in Total Hip Arthroplasty

By: Armando Reyes Rojas,Alfredo Aguilar Elguezabal,Alessandro Alan Porporati,Miguel Bocanegra Bernal,Hilda Esperanza Esparza Ponce

This book offers expert guidance on materials for total hip arthroplasty (THA), providing readers with quick access to well-organized summaries on biomaterials such as metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. It also includes in-depth coverage of biocompatibility and implant problems such as necrosis, ulceration, high toxicity with metals, and allergic reactions. Coverage also emphasizes the mechanical properties of the materials used for prostheses applications, immunity to corrosion, enhanced biocompatibility, complete inertness to the body environment, and the high capacity to join with the bone and other tissues. Performance of Metals and Ceramics in Total Hip Arthroplasty is an essential reference for engineers and scientists specializing in prostheses design and manufacturing and orthopedic medical professionals. The book can also be used as a study guide for materials science and orthopedics students.

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193

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Springer Nature

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3031254201

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9783031254208

Sustainability Assessment

Pluralism, Practice and Progress

By: Alan James Bond

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Sustainability Assessment

Pluralism, Practice and Progress

By: Alan James Bond

Currently the writing on the subject is limited and comprises, for the most part, guidance documents and completed assessments.

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Routledge

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0415598486

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9780415598484

Gene Expression in Recombinant Microorganisms

By: Alan Smith

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Gene Expression in Recombinant Microorganisms

By: Alan Smith

Describing the scientific and commercial applications of microbial recombinant DNA technology, this outstanding, single-source reference offers state-of-the-art reviews of gene expression in the most important classes of recombinant microorganisms-providing numerous examples of the expression of homologous genes or heterologous gene products. Presents a unique collection of safety and regulatory considerations from around the world and addresses specific measures to be taken for large-scale industrial operations!

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CRC Press

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0824795431

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9780824795436

Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

By: Sergi, Gianluca,Lovell, Alan

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Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

By: Sergi, Gianluca,Lovell, Alan

Entertainment is seen as something that is superficial, lacking in substance - 'mere entertainment'. Taking Hollywood cinema as its main focus, this text challenges this negative account.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033522251X

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9780335222513

EBOOK: Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

By: Gianluca Sergi,Alan Lovell

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EBOOK: Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

By: Gianluca Sergi,Alan Lovell

Entertainment is a defining feature of contemporary culture, yet it is often accused of being superficial and even harmful. In this thought-provoking book, the authors challenge this negative view and argue for a reconsideration of the value of entertainment and the effect it has on the world in which we live. Taking Hollywood cinema as its central focus, this exciting book explores the range of debates that the phenomenon of cinema entertainment has aroused. It is packed with examples from modern, popular films throughout, including a whole chapter on the hugely successful film The Dark Knight. The book features interviews with Randy Thom and Walter Murch, filmmakers involved in creating some of the most successful films of recent years. There is an interesting discussion of the work and reputation of renowned filmmakers, Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock, names which have become synonymous with cinema entertainment. The authors consider what makes a film successful by looking at box office figures as well as detailed description and critique of current debates surrounding what it means to entertain and be entertained. Cinema Entertainment is important reading for film and media students as well as anyone interested in contemporary mass culture.

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0335240445

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Book's by Alan D. Morrison

Investment Banking

Investment Banking

India's Forests, Real and Imagined

India's Forests, Real and Imagined

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Public Health

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Public Health

Fundamentals of Behavior Analytic Research

Fundamentals of Behavior Analytic Research

How the Incas Built Their Heartland

How the Incas Built Their Heartland

Capital Markets, Derivatives, and the Law

Capital Markets, Derivatives, and the Law

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

Performance of Metals and Ceramics in Total Hip Arthroplasty

Performance of Metals and Ceramics in Total Hip Arthroplasty

Sustainability Assessment

Sustainability Assessment

Gene Expression in Recombinant Microorganisms

Gene Expression in Recombinant Microorganisms

Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

EBOOK: Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

EBOOK: Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers

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