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Shakespeare and Memory

By: Hester Lees-Jeffries

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Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern sources, theatre history, performance, material culture, and cognitive psychology and neuroscience in order to explore ideas about memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems. It argues that, when Shakespeare was writing, ideas about memory were undergoing a kind of crisis, as both the technologies of memory (print, the theatre itself) and the belief structures underpinning ideas about memory underwent rapid change. And it suggests that this crisis might be mirrored in our own time, when, despite all the increasing gadgetry at our disposal, memory can still be recovered, falsified, corrupted, or wiped: only we ourselves can remember, but the workings of memory remain mysterious. Shakespeare and Memory draws on works from all stages of Shakespeare's career, with a particular focus on Hamlet, the Sonnets, Twelfth Night, and The Winter's Tale. It considers some little things: what's Hamlet writing on? And why does Orsino think he smells violets? And it asks some big questions: how should the dead be remembered? What's the relationship between memory and identity? And is it art, above all, that enables love and beauty, memory and identity, to endure in the face of loss, time, and death?

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OUP Oxford

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019165597X

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9780191655975

The Evolution of Monetary Policy and Banking in the US

By: Donald D. Hester

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The Evolution of Monetary Policy and Banking in the US

By: Donald D. Hester

A concise analysis of the evolution of monetary policy and banking institutions over the past sixty years that stresses the dynamic interactions between the Federal Reserve and banking institutions that resulted from financial market innovations. Institutions were influenced by increasing competition in markets and monetary policies. The book consists of two parts, which are organized chronologically. The first has chapters that correspond with terms of chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board. It critically analyzes decisions taken by the Federal Open Market Committee in each period and argues that innovations forced changes in the design and conduct of monetary policy. The second part analyzes how banking institutions evolved from a very conservative and regulated system in 1945 to highly inventive financial firms and how this evolution has affected the distribution of credit, wealth, and income in the US.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540777946

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9783540777946

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

By: William D Brewer,Hester Davenport,Julia A Shaffer

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The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

By: William D Brewer,Hester Davenport,Julia A Shaffer

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparisons with Charlotte Smith, make her a serious figure for scholarly research.

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387

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Routledge

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1000749584

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9781000749588

The Prince's Mistress, Perdita

A Life of Mary Robinson

By: Hester Davenport

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The Prince's Mistress, Perdita

A Life of Mary Robinson

By: Hester Davenport

Mary Robinson, nicknamed 'Perdita' by the Prince of Wales after her role on the London stage, was a woman in whom showmanship and reckless behaviour contrasted with romantic sensibility and radical thinking. Born in Bristol in 1758, she moved to London with her family at a young age and was trained by Garrick for the theatre. After a royal command performance as Perdita in 'The Winter's Tale', she was hotly pursued by George, the 17-year-old Prince of Wales, and she became his first mistress. He gave her £20,000, a house in Berkeley Square, and another in Old Windsor; the popular press followed the affair with glee and gusto. But when he left her she blackmailed him for the return of his letters. A string of other high-profile lovers followed including Lord Malden, Charles James Fox and, most notably, Lt Col Tarlton. However, a miscarriage left Mary semi-paralysed and when her last lover deserted her to marry someone else, she wrote two novels in revenge. Here growing literary reputation brought in many friends, including Coleridge but her death saw the bailiffs trying to evict her from her cottage. This lively account of one of the most extraordinary women of her age is set against the social, literary, political and military background of the times.

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The History Press

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0752472046

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9780752472041

TEXPLORE: Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning for Robots and Time-Constrained Domains

By: Todd Hester

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TEXPLORE: Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning for Robots and Time-Constrained Domains

By: Todd Hester

This book presents and develops new reinforcement learning methods that enable fast and robust learning on robots in real-time. Robots have the potential to solve many problems in society, because of their ability to work in dangerous places doing necessary jobs that no one wants or is able to do. One barrier to their widespread deployment is that they are mainly limited to tasks where it is possible to hand-program behaviors for every situation that may be encountered. For robots to meet their potential, they need methods that enable them to learn and adapt to novel situations that they were not programmed for. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a paradigm for learning sequential decision making processes and could solve the problems of learning and adaptation on robots. This book identifies four key challenges that must be addressed for an RL algorithm to be practical for robotic control tasks. These RL for Robotics Challenges are: 1) it must learn in very few samples; 2) it must learn in domains with continuous state features; 3) it must handle sensor and/or actuator delays; and 4) it should continually select actions in real time. This book focuses on addressing all four of these challenges. In particular, this book is focused on time-constrained domains where the first challenge is critically important. In these domains, the agent’s lifetime is not long enough for it to explore the domains thoroughly, and it must learn in very few samples.

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Springer

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3319011685

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9783319011684

Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise

Second Edition

By: Lusha Xiang,Robert L. Hester

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Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise

Second Edition

By: Lusha Xiang,Robert L. Hester

Exercise is the act of increasing metabolic rate for the purpose of enhancing physical fitness. Exercise can be one of the most stressful physiological responses that the body undertakes. With exercise, there are increases in metabolic rate, heart rate, blood flow (hyperemia), respiration, and heat production. The increased metabolic requirement during exercise is well met by an increased blood flow (functional hyperemia) and oxygen supply to the exercising tissue, which is regulated by multiple local and systemic mechanisms. The local mechanisms (factors) are responsible for mediating the muscle homeostasis and vascular conductance to match the increased metabolic requirement, whereas the systemic mechanisms are responsible for the maintenance of blood pressure and global cardiovascular homeostasis, including the increase in and redistribution of cardiac output, which is mainly mediated by sympathetic activation. For instance, the substantial decreases in vascular resistance and resultant large increase in blood flow during exercise require higher blood pressure and more cardiac output, such that the metabolically active muscle can be perfused with adequate blood flow. This book will provide an overview of the cardiovascular responses to exercise under physiological conditions as well as some pathological circumstances.

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Biota Publishing

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1615047271

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9781615047277

The Ten Commandments

A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues

By: Joseph P. Hester

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The Ten Commandments

A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues

By: Joseph P. Hester

The founders of the United States were well aware of religious differences in the new nation. Oppression had forced varied European religious groups to seek homes elsewhere, some in the new world of America. Governmental pressures toward conformity in religion had in the past led to corruption and civil strife. Thus, Congress made a dual assertion in its First Amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." However, the ethical foundations of American society--and therefore its laws--intermingle with the moral codes of religions, including the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments. This handbook helps bring understanding and meaning to the controversies that have arisen in present day society over the application of the Ten Commandments to public law and moral problems. Applications can be logical and legal, or can violate the separation of church and state called for in the First Amendment. Part One provides background on the Ten Commandments. It gives the various versions found in the Old Testament, and explains the non-Israelite influences on those versions (the Hammurabi Code, for example). The moral thinking of the ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Hebrew cultures is examined. The modern Jewish tradition is detailed, as well as the different interpretations placed on the Ten Commandments by Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans and other Protestants. Part Two focuses on the modern controversies, assessing the differing sides of each. Among the many controversies covered are government funding of faith-based charities, posting the Ten Commandments in public buildings, science versus religion in schools, prayer in public places, blue laws, stem cell research, cloning, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion and war, racial profiling and covenant marriages.

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McFarland

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147660861X

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9781476608617

Public School Safety

A Handbook, with a Resource Guide

By: Joseph P. Hester

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Public School Safety

A Handbook, with a Resource Guide

By: Joseph P. Hester

Violence among youth in public schools is one of America’s most pressing concerns. Once thought to be something only inner-city schools faced, it has spread to suburban and rural schools. There are no easy solutions to the problem, but this book explores what administrators and other school officials can do to structure school safety programs to curb student violence. An introduction provides information and statistics about the causes of school violence. Chapter One considers government legislation and resulting initiatives to reduce youth violence and improve classroom discipline. Chapter Two covers strategies for building a school safety program, and offers recommended and tested approaches for creating safety initiatives. Chapter Three provides additional information about school-wide strategies and presents model programs that can be implemented at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Chapter Four examines character-building educational programs and discusses training for teachers and parents. Chapter Five is a directory of organizations, alliances, centers, professional development groups, publications, and websites dealing with school safety.

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207

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McFarland

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0786480823

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9780786480821

Ibrahim Pasha

By: Hester Donaldson Jenkins

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Ibrahim Pasha

By: Hester Donaldson Jenkins

Reproduction of the original: Ibrahim Pasha by Hester Donaldson Jenkins

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BoD – Books on Demand

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373401218X

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9783734012181

News Around Westminster (1888-1909)

As Reported in the Keowee Courier

By: John Ashton Hester

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News Around Westminster (1888-1909)

As Reported in the Keowee Courier

By: John Ashton Hester

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Keowee Courier always had a Westminster correspondent who would write a column each week reporting the goings-on in the town. This book contains selected items from those columns during the years 1888-1909. The reader can follow the development of the town, as wooden buildings gave way to brick buildings, horse-or-mule-drawn wagons and buggies gave way to automobiles--the first of which drove through town in 1902, stores began using gasoline engines to generate electric lighting, and industrial development included a shuttle and bobbin factory, a cotton mill, and a knitting mill. The school and churches were centers of activities. The economy largely depended on the cotton crop. Too much or too little rain could be devastating. Too much cotton on the market brought a lower price. Fortunately, the boll weevil had not yet arrived. . .This book will give the reader insight into what day-to-day life was like in Westminster during the town's early years.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796096822

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9781796096828

It Could Have Been Otherwise

Contingency and Necessity in Dominican Theology at Oxford, 1300-1350

By: Hester Gelber

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Contingency and Necessity in Dominican Theology at Oxford, 1300-1350

By: Hester Gelber

This description of Dominicans at Oxford from 1300-1350 and the theology of Hugh of Lawton, Arnold of Strelley, William Crathorn and Robert Holcot reclaims the Dominicans as highly original contributors to theology and philosophy at a time of great innovation.

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422

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BRILL

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9047405595

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9789047405597

Looking Back

A History of Sports in Oconee County, as Derived from Old Volumes of the Keowee Courier

By: John Ashton Hester

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A History of Sports in Oconee County, as Derived from Old Volumes of the Keowee Courier

By: John Ashton Hester

From the first baseball game in the 1870s until the last issue of the Keowee Courier was published on March 27, 2019, the Courier faithfully reported sports events in Oconee County on a weekly basis. This book, the 11th in the "Looking Back - A Journey Through the Pages of the Keowee Courier" series, contains some of the sports highlights over the decades. There are eight sections of the book: (1) Baseball, (2) Track and Field, (3) Town-to-Town Relay Races, (4) Basketball, (5) Football, (6) High School Sports Expand, (7) Various Other Sports, and (8) School Fair and Field Days. The book covers sports from throughout the county until about 1920. After 1920, the coverage is primarily about sports in Walhalla and surrounding areas.

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1796049530

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9781796049534

Tantamount

The Pursuit of the Freeway Phantom Serial Killer

By: Blaine L. Pardoe,Victoria R. Hester

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The Pursuit of the Freeway Phantom Serial Killer

By: Blaine L. Pardoe,Victoria R. Hester

A cold case investigation of a notorious serial killer who terrorized 1970s Washington D.C. by the New York Times bestselling true crime coauthors. In 1971 and 1972, a deadly predator stalked the streets of the nation’s capital. His targets were young girls whose fates included rape and torture before their brutalized corpses were left in plain view along busy roadways. Seven victims raging from the ages of ten to eighteen died in his hands. On one victim he left a note, taunting police and claiming the media’s name for him: The Freeway Phantom. Then, as abruptly as he started, the Freeway Phantom stopped. Decades later, Washington DC’s oldest unsolved serial killing spree is pried open with the suspects, the liars, and the evidence laid bare. Father-daughter true crime investigators Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester shed new light and provide tantalizing new clues as to who the Freeway Phantom may be.

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WildBlue Press

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1948239485

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9781948239486

Flash (Back) Forward - No Trim

By: Hester Barnard

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Flash (Back) Forward - No Trim

By: Hester Barnard

Flash (Back) Forward is a reproduction of the Flash Forward (Emerging Photographers From 2010) catalogue. The text of the Flash Forward exhibition catalogue has been reproduced accurately, but no photographs have been included. Each image or graphic device has been substituted with its linguistic equivalent.

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Lulu.com

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1304057836

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9781304057839

Six Cups of Coffee

By: Helen Campbell,Hester Poole,Mary Lincoln,Catherine Owen,Juliet Corson,Maria Parloa,Marion Harland

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Six Cups of Coffee

By: Helen Campbell,Hester Poole,Mary Lincoln,Catherine Owen,Juliet Corson,Maria Parloa,Marion Harland

Six Cups of Coffee" by Marion Harland, Helen Campbell, Catherine Owen, Mary J. Lincoln, Juliet Corson, Hester M. Poole, Maria Parloa. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Shakespeare and Memory

Shakespeare and Memory

The Evolution of Monetary Policy and Banking in the US

The Evolution of Monetary Policy and Banking in the US

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 7

The Prince's Mistress, Perdita

The Prince's Mistress, Perdita

TEXPLORE: Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning for Robots and Time-Constrained Domains

TEXPLORE: Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning for Robots and Time-Constrained Domains

Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise

Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

Public School Safety

Public School Safety

Ibrahim Pasha

Ibrahim Pasha

News Around Westminster (1888-1909)

News Around Westminster (1888-1909)

It Could Have Been Otherwise

It Could Have Been Otherwise

Looking Back

Looking Back

Tantamount

Tantamount

Flash (Back) Forward - No Trim

Flash (Back) Forward - No Trim

Six Cups of Coffee

Six Cups of Coffee

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