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By: Nicolas Billon

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An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police station—he won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket. A seemingly innocuous encounter gets stranger and stranger as we gradually realize no one is who they seem and the Balkan wars' traumas continue to play out. The "It Kid" of Canadian theater, award-winning playwright Nicolas Billon, returns with a devastating parable. Nicolas Billon's plays and translations have been produced at the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, and Canadian Stage. Fault Lines won the Governor General's Award, and his first play, The Elephant Song, is being developed into a film starring Catherine Keener.

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Fault Lines

Greenland Iceland Faroe Islands

By: Nicolas Billon

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Fault Lines

Greenland Iceland Faroe Islands

By: Nicolas Billon

In Greenland, the discovery of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island's discoverer and his family. In Iceland, set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and tenant takes an unexpected turn. A young woman's idealism is challenged by the infamous whale hunt in Faroe Islands.

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Butcher

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Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems

A Practical Primer

By: Andrew Crooks,Nicolas Malleson,Ed Manley,Alison Heppenstall

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Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems

A Practical Primer

By: Andrew Crooks,Nicolas Malleson,Ed Manley,Alison Heppenstall

This is the era of Big Data and computational social science. It is an era that requires tools which can do more than visualise data but also model the complex relation between data and human action, and interaction. Agent-Based Models (ABM) - computational models which simulate human action and interaction – do just that. This textbook explains how to design and build ABM and how to link the models to Geographical Information Systems. It guides you from the basics through to constructing more complex models which work with data and human behaviour in a spatial context. All of the fundamental concepts are explained and related to practical examples to facilitate learning (with models developed in NetLogo with all code examples available on the accompanying website). You will be able to use these models to develop your own applications and link, where appropriate, to Geographical Information Systems. All of the key ideas and methods are explained in detail: geographical modelling; an introduction to ABM; the fundamentals of Geographical Information Science; why ABM and GIS; using QGIS; designing and building an ABM; calibration and validation; modelling human behavior. An applied primer, that provides fundamental knowledge and practical skills, it will provide you with the skills to build and run your own models, and to begin your own research projects.

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SAGE

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1526454181

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The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

By: Carol Lancaster,Nicolas van de Walle

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The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

By: Carol Lancaster,Nicolas van de Walle

In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, regime type matters when it comes to deciding on a course of development to follow. Further, political institutions matter. When a government's institutional capacity is low, the chances of success severely decline, regardless of the merits of the development plan. In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development, two of America's leading political scientists on the issue, Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, have assembled an international cast of leading scholars to craft a broad, state-of-the-art work on this vitally important topic. This volume is divided into five sections: major theories of the politics of development, organized historically (e.g. modernization theory, dependency theory, the Washington consensus of 'policies without politics,' etc.); key domestic factors and variables; key international factors and variables; political systems and structures; and geographical perspectives, inclusive of regional dynamics. A comprehensive and cross-regional examination on key issues of political development, this Handbook not only provides an authoritative synthesis of past scholarship, but also sets the agenda for future research in this discipline.

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Oxford University Press

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0199981817

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Lawless

The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives

By: Nicolas P. Suzor

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The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives

By: Nicolas P. Suzor

Because social media and technology companies rule the Internet, only a digital constitution can protect our rights online.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108481221

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Monetary Policy Rule in Theory and Practice

Facing the Internal vs External Stability Dilemma

By: Nicolas Barbaroux

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Monetary Policy Rule in Theory and Practice

Facing the Internal vs External Stability Dilemma

By: Nicolas Barbaroux

This new volume sheds new light on current monetary issues, in particular the debate on monetary policy making, by blending theoretical economic analysis, history of economics, and historical case studies. A discretionary monetary policy refers to cases in which the central bank is free to change its policy actions or key instruments when the need arises, whilst a monetary policy rule can be defined as a commitment from (independent) central banks to reach one or several objective(s) by way of systematic policy actions. This book uses case studies from France and Sweden, and places them in the context of Keynes’ argument from his 1923 ‘Tract on Monetary Reforms’, to support the argument that the use of discretionary practices within a monetary policy rule (such as in the Gold Standard era) is the best approach. This book takes an innovative approach in combining a theoretical analysis (mainly the work of New Neoclassical Synthesis throughout Woodford's model) a history of economic thought analysis (based on the monetary works from Wicksell, Cassel and Keynes) and an historical study of central bank practices both in France (based on Bank of France archives materials) and in Sweden. The final section of the book explores the debate on monetary policy rule in light of the 2008 financial crisis. As such, the book provides a unique synthesis that will be of interest not only to scholars of history of economic thought and economic theory, but also to anyone with an interest in monetary economics and contemporary monetary policy.

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Routledge

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1135067937

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The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War

By: Nicolas Lewkowicz

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The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War

By: Nicolas Lewkowicz

‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ describes how the United States and the Soviet Union deployed their hard and soft power resources to create the basis for the institutionalization of the international order in the aftermath of World War Two. The book argues that the origins of the Cold War should not be seen from the perspective of a magnified spectrum of conflict but should be regarded as a process by which the superpowers attempted to forge a normative framework capable of sustaining their geopolitical needs and interests in the post-war scenario. ‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ examines how the use of ideology and the instrument of political intervention in the spheres of influence managed by the superpowers were conducive to the establishment of a stable international order. It postulates that the element of conflict present in the early period of the Cold War served to demarcate the scope of manoeuvring available to each of the superpowers and studies the notion that the United States and the Soviet Union were primarily interested in establishing the conditions for the accomplishment of their vital geostrategic interests. This required the implementation of social norms imposed in the respective spheres of influence, a factor that provided certainty to the spectrum of interstate relations after the period of turmoil that culminated with the onset of World War Two.

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Anthem Press

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1783088001

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9781783088003

What Happened to Haiti and What to Do About It

By: Rev. Jean Vanes Nicolas

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What Happened to Haiti and What to Do About It

By: Rev. Jean Vanes Nicolas

What Happened to Haiti and What to Do About It By: Rev. Jean Vanes Nicolas Haiti is facing a deep social, economic, and political crisis. What Happened to Haiti and What to Do About It supplies clear information to men and women in finance, economics, and politics. This book gives a quick and clear history of Haiti for the past 500 years and how the country could grow with new policies and politics.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1645301060

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Oil and Natural Gas Economy in Argentina

The case of Fracking

By: Victor Bravo,Nicolas Di Sbroiavacca

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Oil and Natural Gas Economy in Argentina

The case of Fracking

By: Victor Bravo,Nicolas Di Sbroiavacca

This book gathers four papers authored by Víctor Bravo and Nicolás Di Sbroiavacca, Oil and Natural Gas Engineers, specialized in Energy Economics. The main axis of the book is the application of the exploitation techniques of Oil and Natural Gas in Argentina, by the so-called “conventional” methods, in comparison with the so-called “Fracking”,(name massively used in the First World and particularly in the United States of America). Argentina has important Oil and Natural Gas resources in different regions of its wide geography. To develop these “non-conventional” techniques has generated endless controversies all over the world, mostly due to its estimated environmental impact and the need of significant requirement of large capitals for investment. Argentina is not out of this relevant controversy because in the mind of the maximum national authorities, fracking is one of the main factors that may contribute to generate monetary funds devoted to the payment of the immense foreign debt of this country. Other authors estimate that it is not possible to develop our country just on the basis of the massive exploitation and boundless export of natural resources. Consequently, fracking is undoubtedly a topic of National Energy Politics. In this scenario, a previous analysis of the National Energy Politics of the recent governments of Argentina, after the bloody military dictatorship of 1976-1983 and the return to democratic governments in December 1983. This analysis is done over the chapters “Analysis of the National Law No 27007 (known as the “Hydrocarbon Resources Law”) and the Oil and Natural Gas politics”, the “Oil and Natural Gas Politics of the period from 2003 to 2014” and “The Argentine Energy Politics during the 2014-2018 period”. Later on, the “Fracking” case is fully developed with two complementary analyses. One of them is basically centered on the technical and prospective scenarios for “fracking”: ”Shale Oil and Shale Gas in Argentina: Situation and Perspectives”. The other one, ”A technical opinion about Fracking”, contemplates the impacts resulting from the use of these techniques, especially those concerning the environment. Anyhow, each of the chapters are self-contained, thus permitting separate reading of any of them.

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Springer Nature

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3030655202

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Fault Lines

Greenland Iceland Faroe Islands

By: Nicolas Billon

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Greenland Iceland Faroe Islands

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

By: Nicolas Billon

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

By: Nicolas Billon

When a mysterious treasure map falls into his hands, young Jim Hawkins finds himself aboard a ship manned by a motley crew of carousers in search of buried treasure. After a vicious mutiny nearly sends them to Davy Jones's Locker, Jim and his friends discover that they're in a race against the pirates for the treasure--and their lives!--back cover.

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Fault Lines

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Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems

Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

Lawless

Lawless

Monetary Policy Rule in Theory and Practice

Monetary Policy Rule in Theory and Practice

The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War

The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War

What Happened to Haiti and What to Do About It

What Happened to Haiti and What to Do About It

Oil and Natural Gas Economy in Argentina

Oil and Natural Gas Economy in Argentina

Fault Lines

Fault Lines

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

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