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Regional Integration in West Africa

Is There a Role for a Single Currency?

By: Eswar Prasad,Vera Songwe

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Regional Integration in West Africa

Is There a Role for a Single Currency?

By: Eswar Prasad,Vera Songwe

Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union Leaders of the fifteen-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have set a goal of achieving a monetary and currency union by late 2020. Although some progress has been made toward achieving this ambitious goal, major challenges remain if the region is to realize the necessary macroeconomic convergence and establish the required institutional framework in a relatively short period of time. The proposed union offers many potential benefits, especially for countries with historically high inflation rates and weak central banks. But, as implementation of the euro over the past two decades has shown, folding multiple currencies, representing disparate economies, into a common union comes with significant costs, along with operational challenges and transitional risks. All these potential negatives must be considered carefully by ECOWAS leaders seeking tomeet a self-imposed deadline. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how ECOWAS could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent.

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0815738544

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Dwell Differently

Overcome Negative Thinking with the Simple Practice of Memorizing God's Truth

By: Natalie Abbott,Vera Schmitz

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Dwell Differently

Overcome Negative Thinking with the Simple Practice of Memorizing God's Truth

By: Natalie Abbott,Vera Schmitz

Change the way you think, one verse at a time What if you had God's words with you all the time? Not just on your phone, but deep in your soul and on the tip of your tongue? It may sound daunting, or even impossible. Knowing how hard Scripture memorization can be, Dwell Differently founders Natalie Abbott and Vera Schmitz created a simple, creative, and smart way to memorize Scripture and keep God's promises in your heart. Natalie and Vera not only reveal the importance of having a mind built on God's Word, they actually give you the tools necessary to defeat negative thoughts. In doing so, they help you: · fight lies with truth · replace fear with peace · focus your heart on what really matters In a world filled with negative voices competing for our attention, just one word from God is more powerful than any other. It's time to store up a wealth of them. "Dwell Differently is an invitation we all need--to know, love, and apply God's Word to our everyday lives."--RUTH CHOU SIMONS, Wall Street Journal bestselling author

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Baker Books

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1493446746

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Acting in Musical Theatre

A Comprehensive Course

By: Joe Deer,Rocco Dal Vera

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Acting in Musical Theatre

A Comprehensive Course

By: Joe Deer,Rocco Dal Vera

Acting in Musical Theatre is the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It is the first to combine acting, singing and dancing into a comprehensive guide, combining what have previously been treated as three separate disciplines. This book contains fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft. Drawing on decades of experience in both acting and teaching, the authors provide crucial advice on all elements of the profession, including: fundamentals of acting applied to musical theatre script, score and character analysis personalizing your performance turning rehearsal into performance acting styles in the musical theatre practical steps to a career. Acting in Musical Theatre’s chapters divide into easy-to-reference units, each containing related group and solo exercises, making it the definitive textbook for students and practitioners alike.

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1135978409

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Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008

18th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2008, Proceedings

By: Vera Kůrková

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Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008

18th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2008, Proceedings

By: Vera Kůrková

This two volume set LNCS 5163 and LNCS 5164 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, held in Prague Czech Republic, in September 2008. The 200 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 300 submissions. The first volume contains papers on mathematical theory of neurocomputing, learning algorithms, kernel methods, statistical learning and ensemble techniques, support vector machines, reinforcement learning, evolutionary computing, hybrid systems, self-organization, control and robotics, signal and time series processing and image processing.

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Acting in Musical Theatre

A Comprehensive Course

By: Rocco Dal Vera,Joe Deer

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Acting in Musical Theatre

A Comprehensive Course

By: Rocco Dal Vera,Joe Deer

Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It covers fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft. Updates in this expanded and revised second edition include: A brand new companion website for students and teachers, including Powerpoint lecture slides, sample syllabi, and checklists for projects and exercises. Learning outcomes for each chapter to guide teachers and students through the book’s core ideas and lessons New style overviews for pop and jukebox musicals Extensive updated professional insights from field testing with students, young professionals, and industry showcases Full-colour production images, bringing each chapter to life Acting in Musical Theatre’s chapters divide into easy-to-reference units, each containing group and solo exercises, making it the definitive textbook for students and practitioners alike.

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1317911962

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Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

The Uses of Nostalgia

By: Vera Dika

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Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

The Uses of Nostalgia

By: Vera Dika

The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this study, Vera Dika explores this phenomenon from a broad range of critical perspectives, examining works of art and film that resist the pull of the past. Dika provides an in-depth analysis of works in several media, including performance, photography, Punk film, and examples from mainstream American and European cinema. Proclaiming the renewed importance of the image and of genre, she investigates works as diverse as Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, Amos Poe's The Foreigner, Terence Malick's Badlands, and Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart. Her study positions avant-garde art work within the context of contemporary mainstream film practice, as well as in relationship to their historical moment.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521016312

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THE POWER OF BEGINNING

By: VERA CORDEIRO

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THE POWER OF BEGINNING

By: VERA CORDEIRO

The Power of Beginning is the story of how a social entrepreneur, Vera Cordeiro, a physician working in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, came to understand the inextricable relationship between poverty, inequality, and health and how her life and work as a doctor was changed finding a way to bring health and human development to extremely vulnerable families. The book covers a period between 1991 to this day. It was written and revised by Dr. Vera Cordeiro and the journalist, Roberta Pennafort and is an account of how making a life changing decision brings with it tremendous energy and power to make positive social transformation.

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Digitaliza Conteudo

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8571740771

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9788571740778

The Holy Longing

By: Vera Graziadei

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The Holy Longing

By: Vera Graziadei

The Holy Longing is a debut collection from a powerful new voice. These confessional poems by Vera Graziadei celebrate the wonder and mystery of everyday experience, from the marvels of solitude and creativity, to the trials and joys of human relationships, to moments of spiritual reflection and enlightenment. The Holy Longing encourages readers to realise the momentous role that passion can play in our lives, as a source of inner strength, of healing, and of personal discovery. Graziadei’s rich and evocative verse finds wisdom in love and sensuality, in pain and loss, and in the majesty of the natural world. Her lyrical poetry is intimate and universal, elegant and wild, sensual and visceral, brimming with energy and emotion. Graziadei’s restlessness and curiosity makes The Holy Longing a compelling and life affirming collection, recognising imaginative possibilities in the places we least expect to find them.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1789015677

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Billy Vera: Harlem to Hollywood

By: Billy Vera

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Billy Vera: Harlem to Hollywood

By: Billy Vera

(Book). Although he's a showbiz lifer, Billy Vera is cut from a wholly different cloth than his peers. If an artist is measured by their devotion to their craft, Harlem to Hollywood may be the purest treatise on the subject ever produced. All the better, it's also an astounding story. Born into a white, suburban family, Vera fell for black music as a child and started down a winding performer's path that would buoy him the rest of his life. In the sixties, Vera paid his bills by songwriting (for other artists) through the day and playing mobbed up clubs at night. By 1967, as Newark burned on the other side of the Hudson, he and gospel singer Judy Clay, the first interracial duet to perform at the Apollo, tore the house down with a little ditty he wrote for himself: "Storybook Children," a commercial hit produced by Atlantic Records. Through the seventies, popular taste shifted drastically. As blue-eyed soul went out of fashion, Vera, like many other musicians, found himself scrounging for survival gigs, but one crucial difference set him apart: he abstained from the drugs and drink that fueled and eventually claimed so many of his contemporaries. As that decade sputtered to a close, a woman by the name of Dolly Parton recorded Vera's "I Really Got the Feeling" and hit number one on the charts. Riding the tide of this unexpected attention, Vera hightailed it to Los Angeles, formed a new band, Billy and the Beaters, and charted twice before the close of 1981 with songs from their eponymous album recorded live at the Roxy. Five years later, one of these minor hits, "At This Moment," was featured in several episodes of NBC's Family Ties . The song rocketed up the charts and a 42-year-old Vera found himself with his very own number one single. Nine visits to Carson and an American Bandstand appearance later, Vera tasted many other flavors of success: acting both on- and off-camera, producing records, and reissuing his own work. Today, with a star on the Hollywood Walk and Fame and a Grammy in tow, he's finally prepared to share his journey (did we mention that he's also a photographer and music historian who documented every step of career?). To sit down with Billy Vera is to take a personalized tour through nearly fifty years of entertainment history. Won't you come along for the ride?

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1617136948

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Because You Died

Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After

By: Vera Brittain

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Because You Died

Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After

By: Vera Brittain

This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in London, Malta, and France, and illustrates her growing conviction of the wickedness of all war. Illustrated with many extraordinary photographs from Brittain's own albums, and edited with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge, Because You Died is an elegy to men who lost their lives in a bloody conflict, and a volume of remembrance to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice.

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Virago

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0748118411

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9780748118410

Qualify

By: Vera Nazarian

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Qualify

By: Vera Nazarian

Enjoy this exciting FREE series starter by two-time Nebula award Finalist and Dragon Award Finalist author Vera Nazarian! The Atlantis Grail has been optioned for development as a feature film series and/or TV series. You have two options. You die, or you Qualify. The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help. But there's a catch. They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth's population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify. Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family. Because there's a loophole. If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted… Such as curing your mother's cancer. There is only one problem. Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she's a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she's come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard. This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition—including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she's been crushing on, and who doesn't seem to know she exists. Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea. You Qualify or you die. QUALIFY is Book One of The Atlantis Grail series.

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Norilana Books

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1607621487

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Spirit Speaks-Are You Listening?

The Transformative Journey and Teachings of Spiritual Intuitive Valerie Croce Stiehl

By: Vera Haldy-Regier

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Spirit Speaks-Are You Listening?

The Transformative Journey and Teachings of Spiritual Intuitive Valerie Croce Stiehl

By: Vera Haldy-Regier

Spirit Speaks. Are You Listening? follows the remarkable spiritual journey of a woman who knew from early childhood that she had a wise and true voice within that spoke to her from realms beyond. Valerie Croce Stiehl outlines a life path every one of us can take if we long for inner peace and fulfillment. Hers are words to live by, road signs that can be followed readily no matter where you are on your path. She tells of her early years as the suddenly single mother of five children; years of deprivation as she worked and went to school and struggled to put food on the table for her family; a later executive career in Manhattan; a transforming Near Death Experience as a result of a devastating car crash; and a decade living on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. Those experiences forged a woman of towering strength, love and purpose guided surely by Spirit. It has been said of her by a spiritual teacher that she lives in a state of grace. This book confirms the fact. Enlightened, deeply spiritual, and most welcome, Spirit Speaks' fulfills the seeker's quest for truths both mundane and ethereal. Swami Bhimasen - Sivanda Ashram, India Valerie shares with us connectedness to the universe, not unlike Nicholas Black Elk, who, like her, left behind a comfortable world to seek truth and beauty in the natural spiritualism of Native American culture. Don Wigal, Ph.D. - Experiences in Faith (1970)

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iUniverse

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1462049931

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Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters

By: Vera Rubin

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Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters

By: Vera Rubin

In 1965, Vera Rubin was the first woman permitted to observe at Palomar Observatory. In the intervening years, she has become one of the world's finest and most respected astronomers. This particular collection of essays is compiled from work written over the past 15 years and deals with a variety of subjects in astronomy and astrophysics, specifically galaxies and dark matter. The book also contains biographical sketches of astronomers who have been colleagues and friends, providing a stimulating view of a woman in science. About the Author Since 1965 Vera Rubin has been a staff member at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Rubin has authored nearly 200 papers on the structure of our galaxy, motions within other galaxies, and large scale motions in the universe. She has been a distinguished visiting astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory in Chile; a Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; a President's Distinguished Visitor at Vassar College; and a Beatrice Tinsley visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1563962314

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9781563962318

Survive

By: Vera Nazarian

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Survive

By: Vera Nazarian

The End is Here, in a Fiery Cosmic Apocalypse! Gwen Lark knows how to Qualify, Compete, and Win… The time has come to Survive. The Games of the Atlantis Grail have come to a ground-shaking halt and Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, survived the remarkable ordeal, for the time being. But the worst is yet to come! Now, both the colony planet Atlantis and Earth are under a threat of annihilation, and everything is up in the air, including dire and stunning wonders in the Atlantean skies. Will there be a Wedding? Will there be a future for Gwen Lark, her beloved, and all their families, friends, and loved ones? Is Gwen’s rare and powerful talent, the Logos voice of creation, enough to resolve the greatest mystery of the Kassiopei Imperial Dynasty and its role in the events of deepest antiquity since the dawn of time? The fate of the entire human species is at stake, and now there can be no respite, not a moment to lose. The final battle is here, and Gwen, and everyone she knows and loves, are in for the greatest fight of their lives. It is time to survive. SURVIVE is the fourth and final book in The Atlantis Grail series, now an international cross-genre phenomenon, optioned for film.

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Norilana Books

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1607621649

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9781607621645

Behold

The Bridegroom Cometh

By: Evangelist Vera Nailing

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Behold

The Bridegroom Cometh

By: Evangelist Vera Nailing

Behold! The Bridegroom Cometh is written as a warning to all to make preparation for the coming of Christ. In the Old Testament of the Bible, it was prophesied that a savior would come. He came in the New Testament! He declared that he (Jesus) would return. He is coming back again! When he comes it will be for those that are expecting him. The ones that have accepted him as their savior. God is not a man that he should lie. If he spoke it, it will surely come to pass! Get Ready! Hes Coming!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499030649

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9781499030648

Voice: Onstage and Off

By: Robert Barton,Rocco dal Vera

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Voice: Onstage and Off

By: Robert Barton,Rocco dal Vera

Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in different types of performance. This highly adaptable course of study empowers performers of all levels to combine and evolve their onstage and offstage voices. This second edition is extensively illustrated and accompanied by an all-new website, full of audio and text resources, including: extensive teacher guides including sample syllabi, scheduling options, and ways of adapting to varying academic environments and teaching circumstances downloadable forms to help reproduce the book’s exercises in the classroom and for students to engage with their own vocal development outside of lessons audio recordings of all exercises featured in the book examples of Voiceover Demos, including both scripts and audio recordings links to useful web resources, for further study. Four mentors - the voice chef, the voice coach, the voice shrink and the voice doctor - are on hand throughout the book and the website to ensure a holistic approach to voice training. The authors also provide an authoritative survey of US and UK vocal training methods, helping readers to make informed choices about their study.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136854762

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9781136854767

Strong on Music

The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1: Resonances, 1836-1849

By: Vera Brodsky Lawrence

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Strong on Music

The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 1: Resonances, 1836-1849

By: Vera Brodsky Lawrence

In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."—Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."—Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly

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University of Chicago Press

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0226470091

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9780226470092

Kinder Capers

By: Vera Refines

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Kinder Capers

By: Vera Refines

Contains a variety of traditional and original activities designed around thematic units for use in early childhood programs during the spring semester.

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156234076X

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