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Lone Women

A Novel

By: Victor LaValle

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling. “Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country’s divides.”—Los Angeles Times ONE OF BOOKPAGE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND LOCUS AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, Vulture, Paste, Tordotcom, Book Riot, Polygon, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory. Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you’ve never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past—or redeem it.

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One World

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0525512101

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9780525512103

One Hundred Inflation Shocks: Seven Stylized Facts

By: Mr. Anil Ari,Mr. Carlos Mulas-Granados,Mr. Victor Mylonas,Mr. Lev Ratnovski,Wei Zhao

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One Hundred Inflation Shocks: Seven Stylized Facts

By: Mr. Anil Ari,Mr. Carlos Mulas-Granados,Mr. Victor Mylonas,Mr. Lev Ratnovski,Wei Zhao

This paper identifies over 100 inflation shock episodes in 56 countries since the 1970s, including over 60 episodes linked to the 1973–79 oil crises. We document that only in 60 percent of the episodes was inflation brought back down (or “resolved”) within 5 years, and that even in these “successful” cases resolving inflation took, on average, over 3 years. Success rates were lower and resolution times longer for episodes induced by terms-of-trade shocks during the 1973–79 oil crises. Most unresolved episodes involved “premature celebrations”, where inflation declined initially, only to plateau at an elevated level or re-accelerate. Сountries that resolved inflation had tighter monetary policy that was maintained more consistently over time, lower nominal wage growth, and less currency depreciation, compared to unresolved cases. Successful disinflations were associated with short-term output losses, but not with larger output, employment, or real wage losses over a 5-year horizon, potentially indicating the value of policy credibility and macroeconomic stability.

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International Monetary Fund

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ISBN 13

9798400254369

Border Culture

Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics

By: Victor Konrad,Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary

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Border Culture

Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics

By: Victor Konrad,Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary

This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation. Recent debates about the "refugee crisis" and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have politicized culture at and of borders like never before. Border culture is no longer culture at the margins but rather culture at the heart of geopolitics, flows, and experience of the transnational world. Increasingly, culture and borders are everywhere yet nowhere. In border spaces, national narratives and counter-narratives are tested and evaluated, coming up against transnational culture. This book provides an extensive and critical vision of border culture on the move, drawing on numerous examples worldwide and a growing international literature across border and cultural studies. It shows how border culture develops in the human imagination and manifests in human constructs of "nation" and "state", as well as in transnationalism. By analyzing this new and expanding cultural geography of border landscapes, the book shows the way to a fresh, broader dialogue. Exploring the nature and meaning of the intersection of border and culture, this book will be an essential read for students and researchers across border studies, geopolitics, geography, and cultural studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000818896

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9781000818895

Modern Financial Crises

Argentina, United States and Europe

By: Beniamino Moro,Victor A. Beker

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Modern Financial Crises

Argentina, United States and Europe

By: Beniamino Moro,Victor A. Beker

This book is devoted to the analysis of the three main financial crises that have marked this century: 2001 Argentina’s defaulting on its external debt, the American subprime crisis in 2008, and the current European debt crisis in Europe. The book pursues three major objectives: firstly, to accurately portray these three financial crises; secondly, to analyze what went wrong with mainstream economic theory, which was unable to foresee these types of economic turmoil; and thirdly, to review macroeconomic theory, re-evaluating Keynes’ original contribution to economic analysis and pointing out the need to rebuild macroeconomics with a view to studying economic illness rather than trying to prove the non-existence of economic problems.

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261

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Springer

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3319209914

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9783319209913

Roses in December

And Other Plays

By: Victor L. Cahn

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Roses in December

And Other Plays

By: Victor L. Cahn

Relationships in their comic and dramatic variety are at the core of this collection of what playwright Victor L. Cahn calls chamber plays. All dramatize relationships between two people: sometimes to find love, sometimes to find self-assurance or power. All are also distinguished by an elegant wit and stylistic sophistication that makes these works literary as well as theatrical delights.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1606082515

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9781606082515

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport

The Joy, Frustration, and Humor of Golf and Sport

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport

The Joy, Frustration, and Humor of Golf and Sport

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport contains Chicken Soup for the Soul’s 101 best stories and poems about golfers, golfing, and other sports. This book has fresh appeal to golfers and makes a fabulous gift. Golfers are a special breed. They endure bad weather, early wake-up calls, great expense, and “interesting” clothing to engage in their favorite sport. This is not a book about how to play golf -- it is a book about how it feels to play golf. Professional and amateur athletes contribute stories from the heart, yielding a book about the human side of golf and other sports.

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Simon and Schuster

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1611591805

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9781611591804

Hydrogeology

Principles and Practice

By: Kevin M. Hiscock,Victor F. Bense

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Hydrogeology

Principles and Practice

By: Kevin M. Hiscock,Victor F. Bense

Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of hydrogeology to enable the reader to appreciate the significance of groundwater in meeting current and future water resource challenges. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect advances in the field since 2004. The book presents a systematic approach to understanding groundwater. Earlier chapters explain the fundamental physical and chemical principles of hydrogeology, and later chapters feature groundwater investigation techniques in the context of catchment processes, as well as chapters on groundwater quality and contaminant hydrogeology. Unique features of the book are chapters on the applications of environmental isotopes and noble gases in the interpretation of aquifer evolution, and on regional characteristics such as topography, compaction and variable fluid density in the explanation of geological processes affecting past, present and future groundwater flow regimes. The last chapter discusses groundwater resources and environmental management, and examines the role of groundwater in integrated river basin management, including an assessment of possible adaptation responses to the impacts of climate change. Throughout the text, boxes and a set of colour plates drawn from the authors’ teaching and research experience are used to explain special topics and to illustrate international case studies ranging from transboundary aquifers and submarine groundwater discharge to the over-pressuring of groundwater in sedimentary basins. The appendices provide conversion tables and useful reference material, and include review questions and exercises, with answers, to help develop the reader’s knowledge and problem-solving skills in hydrogeology. This accessible textbook is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students primarily in earth sciences, environmental sciences and physical geography with an interest in hydrogeology or groundwater science. The book will also find use among practitioners in hydrogeology, soil science, civil engineering and planning who are involved in environmental and resource protection issues requiring an understanding of groundwater. Additional resources can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/hiscock/hydrogeology

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118738705

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9781118738702

The Poetics of Fire

Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands

By: Victor M. Valle

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The Poetics of Fire

Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands

By: Victor M. Valle

In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize–winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the shared cultural histories of ChicanX and LatinX peoples from preconquest Mesoamerica to twentieth-century New Mexico. Valle uses the chile as a decolonizing lens through which to analyze preconquest Mesoamerican cosmology, early European exploration, and the forced conversion of Native peoples to Catholicism as well as European and Mesoamerican perspectives on food and place. Assembling a rich collection of source material, Valle highlights the fiery fruit’s overarching importance as evidenced by the ubiquity of references to the plant over several centuries in literature, art, official documents, and more to offer a new eco-aesthetic reading—a reframing of culinary history from a pluralistic, non-Western perspective.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826365558

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9780826365552

The Aztec and Maya Papermakers

By: Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen

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The Aztec and Maya Papermakers

By: Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen

First scholarly work devoted to Aztec and Maya papermaking. Chosen by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the fifty best books of 1944, it thoroughly discusses the processes and materials used by these ancient craftsmen. Extensive editorial apparatus. Essential reading for historians, anthropologists, and students.

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Courier Corporation

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0486404749

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9780486404745

Electricity Supply

Regulating Utility Holding Companies in a Changing Electric Industry

By: Victor S. Rezendes

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Electricity Supply

Regulating Utility Holding Companies in a Changing Electric Industry

By: Victor S. Rezendes

This report concerns the adequacy of consumer & investor protection in the electric utility industry. Covers: (1) recent changes within the electric utility industry that involved utility holding co. (UHC); (2) the effect of these changes on the SEC admin. of the Public Utility Holding Co. Act (PUHCA) of 1935, as amended; & (3) the relationship between SEC, the FERC, & state regulators in protecting consumer & investor interests in the changing industry. PUHCA is designed to discourage UHC from structuring their operations so as to frustrate effective state regulation of their utility subsidiaries. The act confines a UHC¿s utility operations to a single geographic area & requires UHC to maintain simple corp. & financial structures. Charts & tables.

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DIANE Publishing

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1428988726

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9781428988729

Concepts of Particle Physics

By: Kurt Gottfried,Victor Frederick Weisskopf

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Concepts of Particle Physics

By: Kurt Gottfried,Victor Frederick Weisskopf

1. Quantum Electrodynamics2. Hadronic Spectroscopy3. Quantum Chromodynamics4. Deep Inelastic Lepton-Hadron Scattering5. The Electroweak Interaction.Appendices: Bose Fields, the Dirac Field, Causality and its Consequences, Vacuum Polarization, Solutions of Dirac's Equation in a Spherical Enclosure.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195033930

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9780195033939

Vascular Protection

Molecular Mechanisms, Novel Therapeutic Principles and Clinical Applications

By: Gabor M. Rubanyi,Victor J. Dzau,John P. Cooke

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Vascular Protection

Molecular Mechanisms, Novel Therapeutic Principles and Clinical Applications

By: Gabor M. Rubanyi,Victor J. Dzau,John P. Cooke

Vascular Protection explores advances in vascular biology and how they translate into innovations in drug therapy for vascular disease. It addresses recent advances in the knowledge of endothelial vasoactive factors and other biologically active molecules as well as gene therapy. Written by leading experts in their respective fields, each chapter e

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CRC Press

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0203166477

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9780203166475

Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul

Stories to Celebrate, Honor and Inspire the Nursing Profession

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul

Stories to Celebrate, Honor and Inspire the Nursing Profession

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

This collection of true stories champions the daily contributions, commitments and sacrifices of nurses.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453279067

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9781453279069

Preventing the Next Financial Crisis

By: Victor A. Beker

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Preventing the Next Financial Crisis

By: Victor A. Beker

The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the oldest and fourth-largest US investment bank, in September 2008 precipitated the global financial crisis. This deepened the contraction in economic activity that had already started in December 2007 and has become known as the Great Recession. Following a sluggish and uneven period of recovery, levels of private debt have recently been on the rise again making another financial crisis almost inevitable. This book answers the key question: can anything be done to prevent a new financial crisis or minimize its impact? The book opens with an analysis of the main elements responsible for the 2007/2009 financial crisis and assesses the extent to which they are still present in today ́s financial system. The responses to the financial crises - particularly the Dodd-Frank Act, the establishment of the Financial Stability Board, and attempts to regulate shadow banking – are evaluated for their effectiveness. It is found that there is a high risk of a new bubble developing, there remains a lack of transparency in the financial industry, and risk-taking continues to be incentivised among bankers and investors. Proposals are put forward to ameliorate the risks, arguing for the need for an international lender of last resort, recalling Keynes’ idea for an International Clearing Union. This book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of financial crises, financial stability, and alternative approaches to finance and economics.

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Routledge

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1000375293

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9781000375299

Vic Knight's Florida

By: Knight, Victor M.

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Vic Knight's Florida

By: Knight, Victor M.

Experience the real history of the Sunshine State as told with the wit and wisdom of a 10th-generation native son.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455613592

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Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs

By: Ruben Vardanyan,Victor Hruby

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Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs

By: Ruben Vardanyan,Victor Hruby

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs is a key reference guide for all those involved with the design, development, and use of the best-selling drugs. Designed for ease of use, this book provides detailed information on the most popular drugs, using a practical layout arranged according to drug type. Each chapter reviews the main drugs in each of nearly 40 key therapeutic areas, also examining their classification, novel structural features, models of action, and synthesis. Of high interest to all those who work in the captivating areas of biologically active compounds and medicinal drug synthesis, in particular medicinal chemists, biochemists, and pharmacologists, the book aims to support current research efforts, while also encouraging future developments in this important field. - Describes methods of synthesis, bioactivity and related drugs in key therapeutic areas - Reviews the main drugs in each of nearly 40 key therapeutic areas, also examining their classification, novel structural features, models of action, and more - Presents a practical layout designed for use as a quick reference tool by those working in drug design, development and implementation

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Academic Press

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0124115241

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9780124115248

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870

By: Victor B. Howard

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Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870

By: Victor B. Howard

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870 is a study of the interplay of religion and politics during the Civil War era. More specifically, it examines the extent to which religion set the moral tone of the North during the period of 1860 through 1870. Howard focuses on the growing influence of the evangelical and liberal churches during the period. This influence was largely exerted through the agency of the radical Republicans, a faction that took an extreme position on war measures and on reconstruction after the war. This book examines the degree to which radicalism was inspired by moral motivation and the action that followed the moral commitment.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813161444

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9780813161440

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