Tobias Buck's Books

I Had Gave Up

By: Mr. Xavier Tobias Thornton

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The Main Thing: The relationship between family structure and crime is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between poverty and crime. This conclusion shows up time and again in the literature. Fatherlessness in America and most pervasively among young African American Males is devastatingly genocidal to the health and sustainability of the Black Family. I HAD GAVE UP, a poignant true story told in his own vernacular unfortunately is the death chant of millions of people of a darker hue across this nation. Xavier Tobias Thornton's depiction of himself as a toddler watching his father loading his truck with his stuff, but mostly taking away with him Xavier's only chance at transcending the tragedy of being born black, male and poor in America. It is my prayer that through this biographical account of a bright, "uneasily broken" child of God's horrendous ascension toward wholeness, an epiphany of humanity is realized. It is my hope that this book and other literary documentaries will serve as cadence in the march of a time when collectively we faced and conquered a plaque on our nation and reaped the fruits of restored families. "I'D Had Gave Up- Is about this author who spent almost 11 years of his life behind Bars, by the age of 28 years old he'd existed almost half of his life in prison." It is also about the 65 million fatherless incarcerated males like him and the millions to follow, if we don't find the social antidote to end the social travesty of fatherlessness.

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1469168057

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Thomas Mann's War

Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters

By: Tobias Boes

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Thomas Mann's War

Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters

By: Tobias Boes

In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Cornell University Press

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150174500X

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Assessing Risk to the National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change

By: Michelle E. Miro,Andrew Lauland,Rahim Ali,Edward W. Chan,Richard H. Donohue,Ecola,Timothy R. Gulden,Liam Regan,Karen M. Sudkamp,Tobias Sytsma,Michael T. Wilson,Chandler Sachs

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Assessing Risk to the National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change

By: Michelle E. Miro,Andrew Lauland,Rahim Ali,Edward W. Chan,Richard H. Donohue,Ecola,Timothy R. Gulden,Liam Regan,Karen M. Sudkamp,Tobias Sytsma,Michael T. Wilson,Chandler Sachs

National Critical Functions (NCFs) are government and private-sector functions so vital that their disruption would debilitate security, the economy, public health, or safety. Researchers developed a risk management framework to assess and manage the risk that climate change poses to the NCFs and use the framework to assess 27 priority NCFs. This report details the risk assessment portions of the framework.

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Rand Corporation

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1977409067

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9781977409065

Strategy, Structure and Performance in a Transition Economy

An Institutional Perspective on Configurations in Russia

By: Tobias Weigl

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Strategy, Structure and Performance in a Transition Economy

An Institutional Perspective on Configurations in Russia

By: Tobias Weigl

Based on the results of 177 survey responses, Tobias Weigl shows that the simple transfer of managerial and organizational skills, techniques, values and culture from developed countries to Russia is a false assumption among academics and practitioners.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3835055623

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9783835055629

Marine Pollution

New Research

By: Tobias N. Hofer

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Marine Pollution

New Research

By: Tobias N. Hofer

Marine pollution is the harmful effect caused by the entry into the ocean of chemicals or particles. An associated problem is that many potentially toxic chemical's adhere to tiny particles which are then taken up by plankton and benthos animals, most of which are either deposit or filter feeders, concentrating upward within ocean food chains. Also, because most animal feeds contain high fish meal and fish oil content, toxins can be found a few weeks later in commonly consumed food items derived from livestock and animal husbandry such as meat, eggs, milk, butter and margarine. One common path of entry by contaminants to the sea are rivers. Many particles combine chemically in a manner highly depletive of oxygen, causing estuaries to become anoxic. This book presents the latest research in the field from around the world.

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Nova Publishers

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1604562420

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Transmedia Character Studies

By: Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde

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Transmedia Character Studies

By: Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde

Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media. This highly innovative work offers new perspectives on how to interrelate production discourses, media texts, and reception discourses, and how to select a suitable research corpus for the discussion of characters whose serial appearances stretch across years, decades, or even centuries. Each chapter starts from a different notion of how fictional characters can be considered, tracing character theories and models to approach character representations from perspectives developed in various disciplines and fields. This book will enable graduate students and scholars of transmedia studies, film, television, comics studies, video game studies, popular culture studies, fandom studies, narratology, and creative industries to conduct comprehensive, media-conscious analyses of characters across a variety of media.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000860388

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9781000860382

Integrated Wide-Bandwidth Current Sensing

By: Tobias Funk,Bernhard Wicht

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Integrated Wide-Bandwidth Current Sensing

By: Tobias Funk,Bernhard Wicht

This book provides readers with a single-source reference to current sensing integrated circuit design. It is written in handbook style, including systematic guidelines and implementation examples. The authors focus on the implementation of wide-bandwidth current sensing on a single microchip, toward usage in applications such as sensing, control and optimization of the energy flow in growth areas like industrial electronics, renewable energies, smart grids, electromobility and the Internet of Things. Provides readers with a comprehensive, all-in-one source for current sensing integrated circuit design, including implementation examples; Discusses modeling and optimization of on-chip Rogowski coil and Hall sensor in both lateral and vertical orientation; Includes noise reduction techniques, such as auto-zeroing and chopping; Covers open-loop and closed-loop sensor front-end design; Presents the first on-chip current sensor with a planar coil placed besides a power line to measure internal signal currents and the first off-chip current sensor with a helix-shaped coil for external signal currents in the multi-MHz region.

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Springer Nature

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303053250X

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9783030532505

Migrants Before the Law

Contested Migration Control in Europe

By: Tobias G. Eule,Lisa Marie Borrelli,Annika Lindberg,Anna Wyss

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Migrants Before the Law

Contested Migration Control in Europe

By: Tobias G. Eule,Lisa Marie Borrelli,Annika Lindberg,Anna Wyss

This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book provides knowledge of how European migration law is implemented, used, and challenged by different actors, and of how it lends and constrains power over migrants’ journeys and prospects. An ethnography of law in action, the book contributes to socio-legal scholarship on migration control at the margins of the state. “This book is a major achievement. A remarkable and insightful study that through close analysis of the practices of migration control in 8 European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland) provides powerful new insight into the power of the state at its margins and over those that are marginalised.” - Andrew Geddes, Director, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute “Migrants Before the Law provides a much-needed account of the dizzying legal labyrinth that migrants navigate as they seek to survive in Europe. Based on multi-sited ethnography in detention centres, migration offices, police stations, and non-governmental organizations as well as on interviews with key government actors, advocates, and migrants themselves, this book explores the systems of control and forms of migrant precarity that operate along Europe’s internal borders, in multiple national and transnational contexts. Readers will come away with a deepened understanding of the perverse workings of power, the ways that the uncertainty and unpredictability of law foster both despair and hope, the degree to which the immigration “crisis” is both manufactured and experienced as real, and the ingenuity of migrants themselves in the face of Kafkaesque state practices.” - Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA “Migrants Before the Law is an excellent exposition of the dispersed sites of the law and the hinges and junctions through which this apparatus is actualized in the lives of migrants facing deportation, contesting their status as illegal migrants or seeking to regularize their precarious position. Written with great sensitivity and an eye to minute details this book is also an achievement in furthering the method of collaborative ethnography and new ways of staging comparisons.” - Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, USA

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3319987496

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The History and Adventures of an Atom

By: Tobias George Smollett

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The History and Adventures of an Atom

By: Tobias George Smollett

In the novel, a London haberdasher relates extraordinary tales of ancient Japan as dictated to him by an omniscient atom that has lived within the bodies of great figures of state. This edition is the first to appear since 1926 and provides a carefully prepared text, historical annotations, and an accurate key to personages and places.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820346063

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9780820346069

Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature

Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney

By: Ronald B. Tobias

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Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature

Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney

By: Ronald B. Tobias

With his square, bulldoggish stature, signature rimless glasses, and inimitable smile—part grimace, part snarl—Theodore Roosevelt was an unforgettable figure, imprinted on the American memory through photographs, the chiseled face of Mount Rushmore, and, especially, film. At once a hunter, explorer, naturalist, woodsman, and rancher, Roosevelt was the quintessential frontiersman, a man who believed that only nature could truly test and prove the worth of man. A documentary he made about his 1909 African safari embodied aggressive ideas of masculinity, power, racial superiority, and the connection between nature and manifest destiny. These ideas have since been reinforced by others—Jesse “Buff alo” Jones, Paul Rainey, Martin and Osa Johnson, and Walt Disney. Using Roosevelt as a starting point, filmmaker and scholar Ronald Tobias traces the evolution of American attitudes toward nature, attitudes that remain, to this day, remarkably conflicted, complex, and instilled with dreams of empire.

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1628951664

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Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"

By: Tobias Smollett

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Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"

By: Tobias Smollett

The poems, plays, and political writings in this volume are essential to an understanding of Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In his introductions to the sections, Gassman traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820346098

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9780820346090

Federal Reserve's Commercial Paper Funding Facility

By: Tobias Adrian

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Federal Reserve's Commercial Paper Funding Facility

By: Tobias Adrian

The Federal Reserve (FR) created the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) in the midst of severe disruptions in money markets following the bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. on Sept. 15, 2008. The CPFF finances the purchase of highly rated unsecured and asset-backed commercial paper from eligible issuers via primary dealers. The facility is a liquidity backstop to U.S. issuers of commercial paper, and its creation was part of a range of policy actions undertaken by the FR to provide liquidity to the financial system. This report documents aspects of the financial crisis relevant to the creation of the CPFF, reviews the operation of the CPFF, discusses use of the facility, and draws conclusions for lender-of-last-resort facilities. Charts and tables.

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1437929303

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Book's by Tobias Buck

I Had Gave Up

I Had Gave Up

Thomas Mann's War

Thomas Mann's War

Assessing Risk to the National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change

Assessing Risk to the National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change

Strategy, Structure and Performance in a Transition Economy

Strategy, Structure and Performance in a Transition Economy

Marine Pollution

Marine Pollution

Transmedia Character Studies

Transmedia Character Studies

Integrated Wide-Bandwidth Current Sensing

Integrated Wide-Bandwidth Current Sensing

Migrants Before the Law

Migrants Before the Law

The History and Adventures of an Atom

The History and Adventures of an Atom

Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature

Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature

Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"

Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"

Federal Reserve's Commercial Paper Funding Facility

Federal Reserve's Commercial Paper Funding Facility

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