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Butterflies of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia

A Field Guide

By: Harry E. LeGrand Jr.,Jeffrey S. Pippen,Derb Carter, Jr.,Pierre Howard

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Butterflies of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia

A Field Guide

By: Harry E. LeGrand Jr.,Jeffrey S. Pippen,Derb Carter, Jr.,Pierre Howard

Few creatures are as enchanting and magnificent as the butterfly. This field guide introduces more than 200 butterfly species found in the Southeast, complete with color photographs that not only identify them but also reveal their unique beauty. What's included: * Nearly 600 full-color images of butterflies in their natural habitats * Information on structural and behavioral features, from antennae attributes to flight styles * Maps for butterfly sightings at the county level in each state—North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia * An overview of butterfly life cycles and classifications and information on diversity and more Bursting with beautiful images of butterflies, this guide offers a comprehensive catalog of species, making it a must-have for experienced butterfly watchers and beginners alike.

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UNC Press Books

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1469678578

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9781469678573

Gaza

By: Jean-Pierre Filiu

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Gaza

By: Jean-Pierre Filiu

Through its millennium–long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed while simultaneously and paradoxically enduring prolonged neglect. Jean-Pierre Filiu’s book is the first comprehensive history of Gaza in any language. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai deserts on the one hand and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, Gaza was contested by the Pharaohs, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Fatimids, the Mamluks, the Crusaders and the Ottomans. Napoleon had to secure it in 1799 to launch his failed campaign on Palestine. In 1917, the British Empire fought for months to conquer Gaza, before establishing its mandate on Palestine. In 1948, 200,000 Palestinians sought refuge in Gaza, a marginal area neither Israel nor Egypt wanted. Palestinian nationalism grew there, and Gaza has since found itself at the heart of Palestinian history. It is in Gaza that the fedayeen movement arose from the ruins of Arab nationalism. It is in Gaza that the 1967 Israeli occupation was repeatedly challenged, until the outbreak of the 1987 intifada. And it is in Gaza, in 2007, that the dream of Palestinian statehood appeared to have been shattered by the split between Fatah and Hamas. The endurance of Gaza and the Palestinians make the publication of this history both timely and significant.

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Hurst Publishers

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1805261509

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9781805261506

The Neoliberal Republic

Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France

By: Antoine Vauchez,Pierre France

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The Neoliberal Republic

Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France

By: Antoine Vauchez,Pierre France

The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the past three decades. Based on interviews with dozens of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than 200 civil-servants-turned-corporate-lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests has been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the capacity to imagine the public good.

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205

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Cornell University Press

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150175257X

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9781501752575

Economics of the Family

By: Martin Browning,Pierre-André Chiappori,Yoram Weiss

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Economics of the Family

By: Martin Browning,Pierre-André Chiappori,Yoram Weiss

The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.

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511

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Cambridge University Press

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1107728924

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9781107728929

Gaza, NEW EDITION

A History

By: Jean-Pierre Filiu

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Gaza, NEW EDITION

A History

By: Jean-Pierre Filiu

Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed, yet enduringly neglected. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai deserts and the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza was contested by everyone from the Pharaohs, Persians, Greeks and Romans to the Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans and British. And, since 1948, Gaza has been at the heart of Palestinian nationalism and history. Filiu’s book was the first comprehensive history of Gaza to be published in any language. This new, updated edition covers events since 2011, including Gaza’s renewed tragic centrality to world politics and security since the events of October 2023: history’s worst attack on Israel, provoking history’s worst war against the Palestinians.

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Hurst Publishers

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1805261983

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9781805261988

Bayesian Programming

By: Pierre Bessiere,Emmanuel Mazer,Juan Ahuactzin,Kamel Mekhnacha

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Bayesian Programming

By: Pierre Bessiere,Emmanuel Mazer,Juan Ahuactzin,Kamel Mekhnacha

Probability as an Alternative to Boolean LogicWhile logic is the mathematical foundation of rational reasoning and the fundamental principle of computing, it is restricted to problems where information is both complete and certain. However, many real-world problems, from financial investments to email filtering, are incomplete or uncertain in natur

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CRC Press

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1439880336

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9781439880333

The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity

By: Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

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The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity

By: Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First he looks at what Pliny considered to be the essential qualities of a villa. He then discusses the many buildings Pliny inspired: from the Renaissance estates of the Medici, to papal summer residences near Rome, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the home of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Equally important to du Prey's study are the many designs by architects past and present that remain on paper. These imaginary restitutions of Pliny's villas, each representative of its own epoch, trace in microcosm the evolution of the classical tradition in domestic architecture. In analyzing each project, du Prey illuminates the work of such great masters as Michelozzo, Raphael, Palladio, and Schinkel, as well as such well-known modern architects as Léon Krier, Jean-Pierre Adam, and Thomas Gordon Smith.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226173003

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9780226173009

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Butterflies of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia

Butterflies of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia

Gaza

Gaza

The Neoliberal Republic

The Neoliberal Republic

Economics of the Family

Economics of the Family

Gaza, NEW EDITION

Gaza, NEW EDITION

Bayesian Programming

Bayesian Programming

The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity

The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity

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