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The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

From Snow White to WALL-E

By: Mr David Whitley

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The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

From Snow White to WALL-E

By: Mr David Whitley

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial importance to their child viewers. Beginning with Snow White, Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animations, in which images of wild nature are central to the narrative. He challenges the notion that the sentimentality of the Disney aesthetic, an oft-criticized aspect of such films as Bambi, The Jungle Book, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Finding Nemo, necessarily prevents audiences from developing a critical awareness of contested environmental issues. On the contrary, even as the films communicate the central ideologies of the times in which they were produced, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that underlie these dominant values. In distinguishing among the effects produced by each film and revealing the diverse ways in which images of nature are mediated, Whitley urges us towards a more complex interpretation of the classic Disney canon and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role popular art plays in shaping the emotions and ideas that are central to contemporary experience.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409479382

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9781409479383

Multimod Mark III

The Core Dynamic and Steady State Model

By: Mr.Hamid Faruqee,Mr.Peter Isard,Mr.Douglas Laxton,Mr.Eswar Prasad,Mr.Bart Turtelboom

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Multimod Mark III

The Core Dynamic and Steady State Model

By: Mr.Hamid Faruqee,Mr.Peter Isard,Mr.Douglas Laxton,Mr.Eswar Prasad,Mr.Bart Turtelboom

This study describes the Mark III version of MULTIMOD, the IMF's multi region macroeconomic model. Mark III version of MULTIMOD differs from its predecessor in several important respects. New features include a core steady-state analogue model, a new model of teh inflation-unemployment nexus, and extended non-Ricardian specification of consumption-saving behavior, and improved specifications and estimates of investment behavior and international trade equations. In addition, the introduction of a new solution algorithm has greatly increased the robustness, speed of convergence, and accuracy of the simulations.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557757224

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9781557757227

Safeguarding Financial Stability

Theory and Practice

By: Mr.Garry J. Schinasi

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Safeguarding Financial Stability

Theory and Practice

By: Mr.Garry J. Schinasi

How is finance related to economic processes, and why should it be viewed as a public good requiring policy action? This book provides an answer. The book develops a practical framework for safeguarding financial stability, which encompasses both prevention and resolution of problems. It also examines on-going and future challenges to financial stability posed by globalization, a growing reliance on derivatives and their markets, and the capital market activities of insurers and reinsurers.

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332

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International Monetary Fund

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1589064402

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9781589064409

The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power

The Perils of Missing the Human Domain

By: Valtteri Vuorisalo,Mr Juha Käpylä,Professor Mika Aaltola

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The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power

The Perils of Missing the Human Domain

By: Valtteri Vuorisalo,Mr Juha Käpylä,Professor Mika Aaltola

Global commons are domains that fall outside the direct jurisdiction of sovereign states - the high seas, air, space, and most recently man-made cyberspace - and thus should be usable by anyone. These domains, even if outside the direct responsibility and governance of sovereign entities, are of crucial interest for the contemporary world order. This book elaborates a practice-based approach to the global commons and flows to examine critically the evolving geopolitical strategy and vision of United States. The study starts with the observation that the nature of US power is evolving increasingly towards the recognition that command over the flows of global interdependence is a central dimension of national power. The study then highlights the emerging security and governance of these flows. In this context, the flows and the underlying global critical infrastructure are emerging as objects of high-level strategic importance. The book pays special attention to one of the least recognized but perhaps most fundamental challenges related to the global commons, namely the conceptual and practical challenge of inter-domain relationships-between maritime, air, space, and cyber-flows that bring about not only opportunities but also new vulnerabilities. These complexities cannot be understood through technological means alone but rather the issues need to be clarified by bringing in the human domain of security.

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183

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409464237

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9781409464235

The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the European Union

What Are the Differences?

By: Mr.Ramana Ramaswamy,Mr.Torsten Sloek

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The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the European Union

What Are the Differences?

By: Mr.Ramana Ramaswamy,Mr.Torsten Sloek

The main finding of this paper is that the European Union (EU) countries fall into two broad groups according to the effects of monetary policy adjustments on economic activity. Estimates based on a vector autoregression model indicate that the full effects of a contractionary monetary shock on output in one group of EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, and United Kingdom) take roughly twice as long to occur, but are almost twice as deep as in the other group (Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden). The paper discusses the implications of these results for the effective conduct of monetary policy in the euro area.

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1451857713

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9781451857719

The Globalization of Corporate Governance

By: Mr Alan Dignam,Mr Michael Galanis

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The Globalization of Corporate Governance

By: Mr Alan Dignam,Mr Michael Galanis

The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets have become increasingly integrated since WWII, has placed huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the world's 'insider' stakeholder oriented corporate governance systems. Insider corporate governance systems in countries such as Germany, so the argument goes, should converge or be transformed by global product and capital market pressures to the 'superior' shareholder oriented 'outsider' corporate governance model prevalent in the UK and the US. What these pressures from globalization are, how they manifest themselves, whether they are likely to cause such a convergence/transformation and whether these pressures will continue, lie at the heart of the exploration in this volume. The Globalization of Corporate Governance provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the key corporate governance systems in the UK, the US and Germany from the perspective of the development of economic globalization. As such it is a valuable resource for those interested in how economic and legal reforms interact to produce change within corporate governance systems.

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513

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1409496651

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9781409496656

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

From Snow White to WALL-E

By: Mr David Whitley

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From Snow White to WALL-E

By: Mr David Whitley

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The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

Multimod Mark III

Multimod Mark III

Safeguarding Financial Stability

Safeguarding Financial Stability

The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power

The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power

The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the European Union

The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the European Union

The Globalization of Corporate Governance

The Globalization of Corporate Governance

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

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