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Translation and Epistemicide

Racialization of Languages in the Americas

By: Joshua Martin Price

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Translation and Epistemicide

Racialization of Languages in the Americas

By: Joshua Martin Price

Translation has facilitated colonialism from the fifteenth century to the present day. Epistemicide, which involves destroying, marginalizing, or banishing Indigenous, subaltern, and counter-hegemonic knowledges, is one result. In the Americas, it is a racializing process. But in the hands of subaltern translators and interpreters, translation has also been used as a decolonial method. The book gives an account of translation-as-epistemicide in the Americas, drawing on a range of examples from the early colonial period to the War on Terror. The first chapters demonstrate four distinct operations of epistemicide: the commensuration of worlds, the epistemic marginalization of subaltern translators and the knowledge they produce, the criminalization of translators and interpreters, and translation as piracy or extractivism. The second part of the book outlines decolonial translation strategies, including an epistemic posture the author calls “bewilderment.” Translation and Epistemicide tracks how through the centuries translation practices have enabled colonialism and resulted in epistemicide, or the destruction of Indigenous and subaltern knowledge.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816547831

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9780816547838

Principles of Macroeconomics Asia-Pacific Edition with Online Study Tool S 12 Months

By: Robin Ellen Stonecash,Jan Libich,Joshua Gans,Stephen King,N. Gregory Mankiw,Martin Byford

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Principles of Macroeconomics Asia-Pacific Edition with Online Study Tool S 12 Months

By: Robin Ellen Stonecash,Jan Libich,Joshua Gans,Stephen King,N. Gregory Mankiw,Martin Byford

The brief and student-friendly approach of this book boils economics down to its essentials, by considering what is truly important for students to learn in their first course in economics. In keeping with the authors' philosophy of showing students the power of economic tools and the importance of economic ideas, this edition pays careful attention to regional and global policies and economic issues ' including the impacts of the ongoing global financial crisis, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and monetary and fiscal policy. Continuing global financial uncertainty and the current state of the Australian economy provide a constant supply of new material, re-evaluated models, and policy changes and updates for the Principles of Macroeconomics text. The book emphasises the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy, resulting in a focus on applications and policy, and less on formal economic theory. Principles of Macroeconomics, 7e encourages students to make their own judgements by presenting both sides of the debate on five controversial issues facing policymakers: the proper degree of policy activism in response to the business cycle, the choice between rules and discretion in the conduct of monetary policy, the desirability of reaching zero inflation, the importance of balancing the government's budget, and the need for tax reform to encourage saving.

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Cengage AU

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0170382648

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The Right Price

A Value-based Prescription for Drug Costs

By: Peter J. Neumann,Joshua T. Cohen,Daniel A. Ollendorf

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The Right Price

A Value-based Prescription for Drug Costs

By: Peter J. Neumann,Joshua T. Cohen,Daniel A. Ollendorf

The prescription drug market -- Proposed solutions for rising drug prices -- Measuring the value of prescription drugs -- Measuring drug value : whose job is it anyway? -- Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) -- Other US value assessment frameworks -- Do drugs for special populations warrant higher prices? -- Improving value measurement -- Aligning prices with value -- The path forward.

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Oxford University Press

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0197512887

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The Real Price of War

How You Pay for the War on Terror

By: Joshua S. Goldstein

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The Real Price of War

How You Pay for the War on Terror

By: Joshua S. Goldstein

Calculates and expounds on the costs to individual Americans of the War on Terror Are Americans in denial about the costs of the War on Terror? In The Real Price of War, Joshua S. Goldstein argues that we need to face up to what the war costs the average American—both in taxes and in changes to our way of life. Goldstein contends that in order to protect the United States from future attacks, we must fight—and win—the War on Terror. Yet even as President Bush campaigns on promises of national security, his administration is cutting taxes and increasing deficit spending, resulting in too little money to eradicate terrorism and a crippling burden of national debt for future generations to pay. The Real Price of War breaks down billion-dollar government expenditures into the prices individual Americans are paying through their taxes. Goldstein estimates that the average American household currently pays $500 each month to finance war. Beyond the dollars and cents that finance military operations and increased security within the U.S., the War on Terror also costs America in less tangible ways, including lost lives, reduced revenue from international travelers, and budget pressures on local governments. The longer the war continues, the greater these costs. In order to win the war faster, Goldstein argues for an increase in war funding, at a cost of about $100 per household per month, to better fund military spending, homeland security, and foreign aid and diplomacy. Americans have been told that the War on Terror is a war without sacrifice. But as Goldstein emphatically states: “These truths should be self-evident: The nation is at war. The war is expensive. Someone has to pay for it.”

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NYU Press

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0814731627

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Principles of Economics Asia-Pacific Edition with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Joshua Gans,Robin Stonecash,Martin Byford,Gregory Mankiw,Stephen King, Ph.D.,Jan Libich

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Principles of Economics Asia-Pacific Edition with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Joshua Gans,Robin Stonecash,Martin Byford,Gregory Mankiw,Stephen King, Ph.D.,Jan Libich

Principles of Economics 7th edition combines microeconomics and macroeconomics into one volume for students who take a full year's course. The latest edition of this text continues to focus on important concepts and analyses necessary for students in an introductory economics course. In keeping with the authors' philosophy of showing students the power of economic tools and the importance of economic ideas, this edition pays careful attention to regional and global policies and economic issues ' such as climate change and resource taxation, the impacts of the ongoing global financial crisis, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, monetary and fiscal policy.

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0170382656

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9780170382656

International Trade and Economic Growth

By: Hendrik Van den Berg,Joshua J Lewer

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International Trade and Economic Growth

By: Hendrik Van den Berg,Joshua J Lewer

Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well-known theory on international trade, and then take the student into more recent and less well-known work, all with a careful balance between empirical and theoretical perspectives. A valuable teaching tool for courses in international economics, economic growth, and economic development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, the book uses some very modest algebra, calculus, and statistics. However, most analytical discussions are built around diagrams in order to make the text accessible to students with a variety of social science backgrounds. An Instructor's Manual is available to professors who adopt the text.

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Routledge

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1317467396

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Principles of Microeconomics

By: Joshua Gans,Stephen King,Martin Byford,Gregory Mankiw

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Principles of Microeconomics

By: Joshua Gans,Stephen King,Martin Byford,Gregory Mankiw

Principles of Microeconomics 8th edition focuses on important concepts and analyses necessary for students in an introductory economics course. The learning material follows Mankiw’s approach of providing a balance of Keynesian analyses of the short run and classical views of the long run. The table of contents focuses on the 10 core principles of economics to provide students with a clear understanding of the discipline. With an approachable, student-friendly writing style this resource allows all types of students to quickly grasp economic concepts and build a strong understand of how economics applies to the real world. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools cengage.com.au/mindtap

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Principles of Macroeconomics 9e

By: Robin Stonecash,Joshua Gans,Stephen King,Martin Byford,Kris Ivanovski,Gregory Mankiw

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Principles of Macroeconomics 9e

By: Robin Stonecash,Joshua Gans,Stephen King,Martin Byford,Kris Ivanovski,Gregory Mankiw

Principles of Macroeconomics 9th edition boils economics down to its essentials, by considering what is truly important for students to learn in their first course in economics. In keeping with the authors’ philosophy of showing students the power of economic tools and the importance of economic ideas, this edition pays careful attention to regional and global policies and economic issues – including the impacts of the contemporary macroeconomic issues, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and monetary and fiscal policy. The resource emphasises the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy, resulting in a focus on applications and policy, and less on formal economic theory. Principles of Macroeconomics, 9th edition encourages students to make their own judgements by presenting both sides of the debate on five controversial issues facing policy makers: the proper degree of policy activism in response to the business cycle, the choice between rules and discretion in the conduct of monetary policy, the desirability of reaching zero inflation, the importance of balancing the government’s budget, and the need for tax reform to encourage saving. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap

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Luxury Toys

Volume 2

By: Joshua M. Bernstein

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Luxury Toys

Volume 2

By: Joshua M. Bernstein

What if there were no limits imposed by budget or practicality? This book takes you to a world where anything is possible. Let your fantasy free with this array of ultimate consumer delights. These pages feature such objects as underwater motorcycles, personal spaceships, and every manner of gadgets and accessories. These luxury toys offer fine detailing, craftsmanship, design, and materials. Whether you feel envy or a rush of acquisitive frenzy will depend purely on you. One thing is for sure: you’ll be entertained by the spectacular photography and tantalizing descriptions.

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teNeues Digital Media GmbH

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3832796304

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These Are the Plunderers

How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson,Joshua Rosner

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These Are the Plunderers

How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson,Joshua Rosner

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity in this “masterpiece of investigative journalism” (Christopher Leonard, bestselling author of Kochland)—revealing how it puts our entire economy and us at risk. Much has been written about the widening gulf between rich and poor and how our style of capitalism has failed to provide a living wage for so many Americans. But nothing has fully detailed the outsized role a small cohort of elite financiers has played in this inequality. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Gretchen Morgenson, with coauthor Joshua Rosner, unmask the small group of celebrated Wall Street financiers, and their government enablers, who use excessive debt and dubious practices to undermine our nation’s economy for their own enrichment: private equity. These Are the Plunderers traces the thirty-year history of corporate takeovers in America and private equity’s increasing dominance. Morgenson and Rosner investigate some of the biggest names in private equity, exposing how they buy companies, load them with debt, and then bleed them of assets and profits. All while prosecutors and regulators stand idly by. The authors show how companies absorbed by private equity have worse outcomes for everyone but the financiers: employees are more likely to lose their jobs or their benefits; companies are more likely to go bankrupt; patients are more likely to have higher healthcare costs; residents of nursing homes are more likely to die faster; towns struggle when private equity buys their main businesses, crippling the local economy; and school teachers, firefighters, medical technicians, and other public workers are more likely to have lower returns on their pensions because of the fees private equity extracts from their investments. In other words: we are all worse off because of private equity. These Are the Plunderers is a “meticulous and devastating takedown of a powerful force in Western capitalism” (Brad Stone, bestselling author of Amazon Unbound) that exposes the greed and pillaging in private equity, revealing the many ways these billionaires have bled the economy, and, in turn, us.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982191309

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Armor Hunters

Harbinger

By: Joshua Dysart

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Armor Hunters

Harbinger

By: Joshua Dysart

Contains material originally published in magazine form as Armor hunters: Harbringer #1-3 and Harbringer war #1"--Indicia.

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Valiant Entertainment

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1939346509

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9781939346506

Controlling the Greenhouse Effect

Five Global Regimes Compared

By: Joshua M. Epstein,Raj Gupta

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Controlling the Greenhouse Effect

Five Global Regimes Compared

By: Joshua M. Epstein,Raj Gupta

Roughly 30 percent of the solar radiation directed toward the earth is reflected directly back into outer space. The remaining 70 percent is absorbed by earth and re-emitted outward as long-wave—or infra-red—radiation. While transparent to incoming solar radiation, certain gases--notably carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons—absorb, or "trap," this outgoing infra-red radiation near the earth's surface, producing an increase in temperature. This is the so-called greenhouse effect. The greater the concentration of these greenhouse gases, the more pronounced will be the effect. Despite uncertainties, the scientific consensus recorded at Villach, Austria, in 1985 was that "the understanding of the greenhouse question is sufficiently developed that scientists and policy-makers should begin an active collaboration to explore the effectiveness of alternatives and adjustments." The recent scientific assessment of climate change, conducted under the auspices of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has only strengthened the view that a concerted multilateral response is called for.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815707150

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9780815707158

Problems in Contract Law

Cases and Materials

By: Charles L. Knapp,Nathan M. Crystal,Harry G. Prince,Danielle K. Hart,Joshua M. Silverstein

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Problems in Contract Law

Cases and Materials

By: Charles L. Knapp,Nathan M. Crystal,Harry G. Prince,Danielle K. Hart,Joshua M. Silverstein

Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, by Charles L. Knapp, Nathan M. Crystal, Harry G. Prince, Danielle K. Hart, and Joshua M. Silverstein, includes cases with notes and explanatory text, additional commentary, essay, and short-answer problems, and multiple-choice review questions for each chapter. The cases selected are a balance of traditional and contemporary that reflect the development and complexity of contract law. Explanatory notes and text place the classic and newer decisions in their larger legal context. Questions and problems provide opportunities to practice core legal skills and encourage students to explore the relationship between theory and practice. This successful book is well known for approaching contract law and theory from multiple perspectives and using a variety of contractual settings. Adaptable for instructors with different pedagogical philosophies, Problems in Contract Law can easily be used in teaching by traditional case analysis, through problem-based instruction, or using theoretical inquiry. The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. New to the 10th Edition: Five new principal cases that reflect advances in or improved statements of contract law. One restored principal case (Oppenheimer & Co. v. Oppenheim, Appel, Dixon & Co.) that provides valuable perspectives on a fundamental area of contract law. Twelve new problems, including several shorter problems, to provide more review options for teachers and students and to add contemporary fact patterns. Eight new tables and flow charts to assist students with the conceptual structure of complicated legal subjects. Editing of note and text material to reduce length without affecting coverage and to capture new legal developments. Reorganization of text and comment material to focus comments primarily on historical developments, allowing professors greater flexibility in assigning or deleting comments. Student accessibility to deleted cases from prior editions through Casebook Connect, allowing professors the further flexibility of continuing to easily assign cases for which they have a particular preference. Professors and students will benefit from: The authors’ emphasis on making the material accessible for both students taking and professors teaching the course - rejecting a hide-the-ball approach. The continued appeal to professors with various teaching methodologies: traditional, problem-oriented, theoretical, and practical. The comprehensive nature of the contents allows professors the flexibility to teach their students the basics or conduct a more in-depth analysis of a given topic. The continued mixture of classic and contemporary cases. Review questions at the end of each chapter that are primarily designed for students to perform self-assessments of their grasp of the material. Answers with explanations are included in an appendix within the book.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543856314

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Earnings Management

Emerging Insights in Theory, Practice, and Research

By: Joshua Ronen,Varda Yaari

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Earnings Management

Emerging Insights in Theory, Practice, and Research

By: Joshua Ronen,Varda Yaari

This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387257691

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9780387257693

Armor Hunters: Harbinger TPB

By: Joshua Dysart

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Armor Hunters: Harbinger TPB

By: Joshua Dysart

Under siege... and out of control! The Harbinger Renegades are still reeling from a tragic death in their ranks, but in the face of monumental destruction they?ll find unlikely allies in a fellow group of super-powerful teenagers. But is Generation Zero here to help?or are they just looking out for themselves? Join New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (Harbinger) and rising star Robert Gill (Batgirl) as the breakout stars of last summer?s HARBINGER WARS ? the volatile psiot strike force known as Generation Zero ? step out of the shadows and into the crosshairs of a devastating extraterrestrial attack! Collecting ARMOR HUNTERS: HARBINGER #1?3, plus the landmark first appearance of Generation Zero from HARBINGER WARS #1.

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Valiant Entertainment

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1682150577

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Owned

Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom

By: Joshua A. T. Fairfield

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Owned

Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom

By: Joshua A. T. Fairfield

Owned provides a legal analysis of the legal, social, and technological developments that have driven an erosion of property rights in the digital context.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107159350

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9781107159358

Dare to Be Naive

Unleash Ripples of Impact in Life and Business

By: Joshua Berry

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Dare to Be Naive

Unleash Ripples of Impact in Life and Business

By: Joshua Berry

Did you know the best leaders choose to be naive? More and more employees, customers, and business leaders agree that how and why money is made is increasingly as important as how much money is made. In Joshua Berry’s Dare to Be Naive: Unleash Ripples of Impact in Life and Business, you’ll learn how to generate a positive Return on Investment and profound Ripples of Impact – as well as: Question why we fear naiveté and how to harness positive attributes like curiosity, trust and optimism. Understand why doing good in business is actually good for business via real-world examples of successful organizations. Evolve your limiting beliefs to achieve less stress, more success, and greater impact in your work and personal life. Gain practical exercises to put your new ideas and beliefs into action with a renewed passion for seeing the good in people and business. Here is the guide to using your influence to cultivate a better world. Can you envision all of that good in business and people? If so, let’s Dare to Be Naive. Find out more at DareToBeNaive.com

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New Degree Press

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Maps and Territories

Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel

By: Joshua Armstrong

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Maps and Territories

Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel

By: Joshua Armstrong

The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of senses of place, identity, and belonging, as once familiar, local environments are increasingly de-localized and made porous to global trends and planetary preoccupations. Maps and Territories identifies such preoccupations as a fundamental underlying impetus for the contemporary French novel. Indeed, like France itself, the protagonists of its best fiction are constantly called upon to renegotiate their identity in order to maintain any sense of belonging within the troubled territories they call home. Maps and Territories reads today's French novel for how it re-maps such territories, and for how it positions its protagonists vis- -vis the pressures of globalization, uncovering previously unseen affinities amongst, and offering fresh readings of-and offering exciting new perspectives on-a diverse set of authors: namely, Michel Houellebecq, Chlo Delaume, Lydie Salvayre, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Virginie Despentes, Philippe Vasset, Jean Rolin, and Marie Darrieussecq. In the process, it sets the literary works into dialogue with a range of today's most influential theorists of postmodernity and globalization, including Paul Virilio, Marc Aug , Peter Sloterdijk, Bruno Latour, Fredric Jameson, Edward Casey, David Harvey, and Ursula K. Heise.

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1786942011

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9781786942012

The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler

By: Joshua Piker

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The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler

By: Joshua Piker

Told by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn Whistler’s execution for killing five Cherokees speaks to the collision of European and Indian cultures, the struggle to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire on the eve of the American Revolution.

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Harvard University Press

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0674075609

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9780674075603

The Robinson-Patman Act--policy and Law

By: American Bar Association. Robinson-Patman Act Committee,Joshua F. Greenberg,Paul H. LaRue

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The Robinson-Patman Act--policy and Law

By: American Bar Association. Robinson-Patman Act Committee,Joshua F. Greenberg,Paul H. LaRue

Beginning with a summary of the legislative background of the Act, a discussion of the need, if any, for a separate price discrimination statute is discussed in volume 1 of this set. Volume 2 examines the major policy issues relating to buyer liability, brokerage allowances and services, cost-justification defense, and the measure of damages under the Robinson-Patman Act.

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American Bar Association

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0897070259

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9780897070256

Middle Powers and Regional Influence

Critical Foreign Policy Junctures for Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia

By: Joshua B. Spero

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Middle Powers and Regional Influence

Critical Foreign Policy Junctures for Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia

By: Joshua B. Spero

In the growing literature on middle powers, this book contributes by expanding case study analysis and extending international relations theory in its application to foreign policy decisions. Thus, this book builds on prominent middle power literature and aims to advance our theoretical understanding for why crucial foreign policies were made by the “pivotal middle” powers this book examines—Poland, South Korea, and Bolivia. For this book’s three case studies and their first-term leadership’s critical junctures—from first term post-communist Poland, post-authoritarian/post-ruling party South Korea, and post-colonial Bolivia—we have the antecedents for contemporary middle powers essential for realizing the regional evolution for cooperative change with greater powers systemically; we may then grasp today why those historical foreign policies, albeit not so long ago, give us crucial antecedents for adapting and trying, yet again, to resolve seemingly perennial power dilemmas regionally, peacefully. Here are why middle power impact matters, not only regionally for stronger, dominant greater power neighbours, but also for transformative middle power leaderships which proved pivotal geopolitically for their region’s challenges and changes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786609894

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9781786609892

Innovation + Equality

How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator

By: Joshua Gans,Andrew Leigh

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Innovation + Equality

How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator

By: Joshua Gans,Andrew Leigh

How to get more innovation and more equality. Is economic inequality the price we pay for innovation? The amazing technological advances of the last two decades—in such areas as artificial intelligence, genetics, and materials—have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely: we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. This contributes to a growing wealth gap; in the United States; the wealth controlled by the top 0.1 percent of households equals that of the bottom ninety percent. Is this the inevitable cost of an innovation-driven economy? Economist Joshua Gans and policy maker Andrew Leigh make the case that pursuing innovation does not mean giving up on equality—precisely the opposite. In this book, they outline ways that society can become both more entrepreneurial and more egalitarian. All innovation entails uncertainty; there's no way to predict which new technologies will catch on. Therefore, Gans and Leigh argue, rather than betting on the future of particular professions, we should consider policies that embrace uncertainty and protect people from unfavorable outcomes. To this end, they suggest policies that promote both innovation and equality. If we encourage innovation in the right way, our future can look more like the cheerful techno-utopia of Star Trek than the dark techno-dystopia of The Terminator.

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MIT Press

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026253956X

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Wrecked

How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete

By: Joshua Murray,Michael Schwartz

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Wrecked

How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete

By: Joshua Murray,Michael Schwartz

At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, automobile manufacturing was the largest, most profitable industry in the United States and residents of industry hubs like Detroit and Flint, Michigan had some of the highest incomes in the country. Over the last half-century, the industry has declined, and American automakers now struggle to stay profitable. How did the most prosperous industry in the richest country in the world crash and burn? In Wrecked, sociologists Joshua Murray and Michael Schwartz offer an unprecedented historical-sociological analysis of the downfall of the auto industry. Through an in-depth examination of labor relations and the production processes of automakers in the U.S. and Japan both before and after World War II, they demonstrate that the decline of the American manufacturers was the unintended consequence of their attempts to weaken the bargaining power of their unions. Today Japanese and many European automakers produce higher quality cars at lower cost than their American counterparts thanks to a flexible form of production characterized by long-term sole suppliers, assembly and supply plants located near each other, and just-in-time delivery of raw materials. While this style of production was, in fact, pioneered in the U.S. prior to World War II, in the years after the war, American automakers deliberately dismantled this system. As Murray and Schwartz show, flexible production accelerated innovation but also facilitated workers’ efforts to unionize plants and carry out work stoppages. To reduce the efficacy of strikes and combat the labor militancy that flourished between the Depression and the postwar period, the industry dispersed production across the nation, began maintaining large stockpiles of inventory, and eliminated single sourcing. While this restructuring of production did ultimately reduce workers’ leverage, it also decreased production efficiency and innovation. The U.S. auto industry has struggled ever since to compete with foreign automakers, and formerly thriving motor cities have suffered the consequences of mass deindustrialization. Murray and Schwartz argue that new business models that reinstate flexible production and prioritize innovation rather than cheap labor could stem the outsourcing of jobs and help revive the auto industry. By clarifying the historical relationships between production processes, organized labor, and industrial innovation, Wrecked provides new insights into the inner workings and decline of the U.S. auto industry.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610448871

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9781610448871

Beyond the Bubble

By: Michael Thomsett,Joshua Karr

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Beyond the Bubble

By: Michael Thomsett,Joshua Karr

We’ve all heard the reports -- the great housing boom that has fueled premium prices and sellers’ dreams is slowing down. The real estate market may experience ups and downs like any other, but it’s not likely to implode spontaneously. With proper planning and a little knowledge, homeowners, investors, and other stakeholders can avoid disaster and in fact profit on their properties regardless of what the market does. Beyond the Bubble takes a balanced look at what drives changes in real estate markets and how these changes affect property owners and investors. Readers will learn: * the history, nature, and dynamics of market ‘bubbles’ * how to anticipate a coming downturn and act accordingly * the regional nature of real estate market conditions * differences and similarities in residential and commercial markets * other profit strategies when selling is difficult or impossible * how to analyze the market using facts, not hype. Thorough and well-reasoned, Beyond the Bubble will help property owners maintain a strong and level foundation for their financial futures.

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AMACOM

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0814430112

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How Magicians Think

Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

By: Joshua Jay

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How Magicians Think

Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

By: Joshua Jay

The door to magic is closed, but it’s not locked. And now Joshua Jay, one of the world’s most accomplished magicians, not only opens that door but brings us inside to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history, and long-whispered-about traditions of a subject shrouded in mystery. And he goes one step further: Joshua Jay brings us right into the mind of a magician—how they develop their other worldly skills, conjure up illusions, and leave the rest of us slack jawed with delight time after time. Along the way, Jay reveals another kind of secret, one all readers will find meaningful even if they never aspire to perform sleight of hand: What does it take to follow your heart and achieve excellence? In 52 short, compulsively readable essays, Jay describes how he does it, whether it’s through the making of illusions, the psychology behind them, or the way technology influences the world of magic. He considers the aesthetics of performance, discusses contemporary masters, including David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, and David Blaine, and details how magicians hone their craft. And answers questions like: Can a magic trick be too good? How do you saw a person in half? Is there real magic in the universe? The answers, like so much in magic and life, depend on you.

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Workman Publishing Company

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1523507438

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Bridging the European Divide

Middle Power Politics and Regional Security Dilemmas

By: Joshua B. Spero

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Bridging the European Divide

Middle Power Politics and Regional Security Dilemmas

By: Joshua B. Spero

Do middle powers matter geopolitically to great powers when confronting the unconventional, twenty-first-century threats from nation-states or nonstate actors? Bridging the European Divide explores how key regional middle powers perceived and advocated their political power options in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

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0742535533

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