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Loew, Katharina. Special Effects and German Silent Film. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725231.

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In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special Effects and German Silent Film, foregrounds their function as an expressive device and their pivotal role in cinema’s emergence as a full-fledged art. Special effects not only shaped the look of iconic films like Nosferatu (1922) or Metropolis (1927), but they are central to a comprehensive understanding of German silent film culture writ large. This book examines special effects as the embodiment of a “

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Cather, James Pat. Birmingham bound: Opinionated and often irreverent essays on the fifthy most important books about Alabama's largest city. Cather and Brown -- Books, 1993.

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Schneider, Florian, ed. Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463727853.

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The year 2013 saw the launch of the largest, most influential investment initiative in recent memory: China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This globe-spanning strategy has reshaped local economies and regional networks, and it has become a contested subject for scholars and practitioners alike. How should we make sense of the complex interactions that the BRI has enabled? Understanding these processes requires truly global perspectives alongside careful attention to the role that local actors play in giving shape to individual BRI projects. The contributions in Global Perspectives on China'

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Peterson, William. Asian Self-Representation at World's Fairs. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462985636.

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International expositions or "world’s fairs" are the largest and most important stage on which millions routinely gather to directly experience, express, and respond to cultural difference. Rather than looking at Asian representation at the hands of colonizing powers, something already much examined, Asian Self-Representation at World’s Fairs instead focuses on expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world’s fairs in the West after the so-called golden age of the exhibition. New modes of representation became possible as the older "exhibitionary order" of earlier fairs gave wa

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Weiss, Martin. Showcasing Science. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982246.

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Teylers Museum was founded in 1784 and soon thereafter became one of the most important centres of Dutch science. The Museum’s first director, Martinus van Marum, famously had the world’s largest electrostatic generator built and set up in Haarlem. This subsequently became the most prominent item in the Museum’s world-class, publicly accessible, and constantly growing collections. These comprised scientific instruments, mineralogical and palaeontological specimens, prints, drawings, paintings, and coins. Van Marum’s successors continued to uphold the institution’s prestige and use the collecti

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Loew, Katharina. Special Effects and German Silent Film. Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789048561766.

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In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special Effects and German Silent Film, foregrounds their function as an expressive device and their pivotal role in cinema’s emergence as a full-fledged art. Special effects not only shaped the look of iconic films like Nosferatu (1922) or Metropolis (1927), but they are central to a comprehensive understanding of German silent film culture writ large. This book examines special effects as the embodiment of a “

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Epton, Nancy. The Sound of Silence. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765108062.

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The Sound of Silence, provides an in-depth analysis of the sensory elements that are integral to cinematic narratives, asserting that silence is a fruitful enigma which encourages activity in a contemporary audience that is often all too passive. The German Expressionist era may have been brief, but the shadows cast since its end nonetheless loom large. The silhouetted, cigar-wielding men of film noir and their respectively dark, doom-laden haunts mirror the angst-inducing atmospheres of their forebearers, while also introducing the now-familiar figure of the silent hero. Considering the numer

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Publishing, One Touch. World's Most Largest Mandalas: The Ultimate Mandala Coloring Book for Meditation, Stress Relief and Relaxation. Independently Published, 2019.

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Charnow, Will. Painter's Pal: The World's Largest and Most Complete Painting How To, Secrets & General Information Painting Book. Painters Pal, 1988.

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Publishing, One Touch. World's Most Largest Mandalas: Big Mandala Coloring Book for Adults 80+ Images Stress Management Coloring Book for Relaxation, Meditation, Happiness and Relief & Art Color Therapy. Independently Published, 2019.

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publishing, Bible biggest. World's Largest BIBLE Word Search Puzzle Book: More Than 10. 000 Most Used Words in the Bible - 500 Puzzles - Large Print. Independently Published, 2020.

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World's Largest BIBLE Word Search Puzzle Book: More Than 10. 000 Most Used Words in the Bible - 500 Puzzles - Large Print. Independently Published, 2020.

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Herrmann, Francis R., and Brownlow M. Speer. Foundations of American Criminal Due Process at Trial. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780199364770.001.0001.

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Abstract The workings of the American criminal justice system are familiar to virtually the entire citizenry. Through films, television, and popular print media, its hallmark principles of fairness and protection of the rights of the accused are widely understood. The popular culture has absorbed relatively sophisticated doctrines of the criminal law, such as the right to confront accusers face to face and to remain silent when charged with a crime. The average individual knows that these and other principles of criminal justice are rooted in the Bill of Rights of the American Constitution. Th

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Harrison, Beatrice. World`s Largest Coloring Book for Adults and Teenagers: Giant Super Jumbo Mega Coloring Book Features over 700 Pages of the Most Beautiful Fairies, Creatures, Magic Forests, Landscapes, Gardens, Animals, and More for Mindfulness. Lulu Press, Inc., 2020.

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Ayres, Brenda. Silent Voices. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216014812.

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Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when published. Moreover, they reveal perspectives of 19th-century British culture not present in canonized works and therefore revise our understanding of Victorian life and attitudes. With the increasing interest in revising Victorian history and gender scholarship, especially through the rediscovery of lost

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Bell, Derrick. Silent Covenants. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195172720.001.0001.

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When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision, which declared public school segregation unconstitutional, would become the Holy Grail of racial justice. Fifty years later, despite its legal irrelevance and the racially separate and educationally ineffective state of public schooling for most black children, Brown is still viewed by many as the perfect precedent. Here, Derrick Bell shatters the shining image of this celebrated ruling. He notes that, despite the onerous burdens of segregation,

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Lupack, Barbara Tepa. Silent Serial Sensations. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501748189.001.0001.

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This book, the first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, offers a fascinating account of the dynamic early film industry. As the book demonstrates, the Wharton brothers were behind some of the most profitable and influential productions of the era, including The Exploits of Elaine and The Mysteries of Myra, which starred such popular performers as Pearl White, Irene Castle, Francis X. Bushman, and Lionel Barrymore. Working from the independent film studio they established in Ithaca, New York, Ted and Leo turned their adopted town into “Hollywood on Cayu

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Lenker, Lagretta. Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400650185.

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How can the most silent member of the family carry the message of subversion against venerated institutions of state and society? Why would two playwrights, writing 300 years apart, employ the same dramatic methods for rebelling against the establishment, when these methods are virtually ignored by their contemporaries? This book considers these and similar questions. It examines the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and Shaw wrote and then explores types of father-daughter interactions, considering each in terms of the existing power structures of society. These two dra

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Neagu, Mariela. Voices from the Silent Cradles. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447357988.001.0001.

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Shortly after the Berlin Wall came down and after the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations, images of malnourished children in institutions in Romania were broadcast by international media. They showed inhumane conditions in which children were living in residential institutions in Romania. Those visiting the institutions were surprised that the babies were silent. The so-called Romanian orphans made headlines for many years to come and they became subjects of several international research studies. To become a member of the European Union, Romania had to ref

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Bondanella, Peter, ed. The Italian Cinema Book. British Film Institute, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838711702.

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THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections: THE SILENT ERA (1895–22) THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA (1922–45) POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE (1945–59) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA (1960–80) AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION (1981 TO THE PRESENT) NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA Acutely aware of the contem

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Lu, Lerong. Towards Financial Superpower. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198948568.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is a must-read for anyone studying the practice and regulation of China’s financial industry and the country’s efforts to enhance the global influence of its financial markets and institutions. It covers the latest developments and industry practices in China’s banking sector, capital markets, and the emerging central bank digital currency (CBDC). Additionally, it examines the legal and regulatory environments underpinning China’s financial industry, including its regulatory agencies, financial safety net, and specialized financial courts. The topic of the financial industry

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Kälin, Christian H., ed. Free Global Cities. Hart Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509976447.

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This book proposes a new solution to the problem of the migration crisis engulfing the world by creating safe harbours, or Free Global Cities. In the face of the largest displacement crisis on record even the most optimistic view of the future suggests that in the years ahead, more and more people will migrate in order to survive. The world requires places where refugees and other migrants forced to leave their homes have the opportunity to work, study, create, start businesses, and rebuild new lives for themselves and their families. Free Global Cities can deal with this growing global crisis

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Cummings, Scott L. Blue and Green. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262036986.001.0001.

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This book is about the struggle over the future of work and the environment on the edge of the global economy. It traces the history of conflict in an industry that is not widely known, but sits at the epicentre for the global supply chain: short-haul trucking responsible for moving the mass of imports from enormous cargo ships to warehouses and retailers around the country. The book’s specific focus is on the largest and most important campaign at the nation’s largest and most important port complex, which straddles the border of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. Over nearly two decades

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Anderson, Eric C. Take the Money and Run. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216022152.

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In this book, an expert in the field explains why the United States is the world's largest debtor nation and how America's relationship to creditor states is of growing economic, diplomatic, and even national security concern. Foreign countries are not merely investing in U.S. corporations but are purchasing them outright: Abu Dhabi bought Citigroup securities, Kuwait purchased a large block Merrill Lynch stock, and China bought Morgan Stanley's convertible securities-and this happened before the September 2008 meltdown of Wall Street. The means by which wealthy foreign states make these purch

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Wheatley, Ben. Panzers of Prokhorovka. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472859105.

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A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history.Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon’s Grande Armée before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka, where the Soviet annihilation of Hitler’s elite SS Panzer force on 12 July 1943 in the largest armoured clash in history has traditionally been described as a key turning point in the war. The Panz

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Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, and Ion Giurgea. Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791249.001.0001.

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This book is a study of the syntax and semantics of proportional Most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Based on data drawn from around forty languages, this book reveals the existence of two semantic types of Most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a “cumulative” type, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. On the syntactic side, the most important difference is between non-partitive and partitive configurations. Certain majority quantifiers are specialized for partitive constructions, others are also all

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Crawford, Neta C. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14617.001.0001.

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How the Pentagon became the world's largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it's not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world's largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford tra

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Frey, Ulrich. Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197502211.001.0001.

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Natural resources are often overexploited. Nevertheless, there are counterexamples of sustainably using common-pool resources. This book analyses the most important factors influencing the management of natural resources. Hence, the important question—What makes some systems successful?—is answered in this book. Based on three of the world’s largest data sets on fisheries, forest management, and irrigation systems, success factors are empirically examined. The book presents a synthesis of twenty-four success factors that explain ecological success, such as participation possibilities. The anal

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Katxzburg-Yungman, Mira. Hadassah. Liverpool University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774839.001.0001.

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In February 1912, thirty-eight American Jewish women founded Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. This has become the largest Zionist organization in the diaspora and the largest and most active Jewish women's organization ever. Its history is an inseparable part of the history of American Jewry and of the State of Israel. Hadassah is also part of the history of Jewish women in the United States and in the modern world more broadly. Its achievements are not only those of Zionism but, crucially, of women, and this book pays particular attention to the life stories of the women

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Kornienko, Natalya V., ed. “I beg you to reply me to the point...” Readers’ letters to M.A. Sholokhov. 1929–1955. Scientific edition. А.М. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-6619-2.

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The book represents the collection of reader’s letters addressed to M.A. Sholokhov — it is one of the largest and most unique in the history of Russian literature. These first published readers’ letters, 1929–1955 from the archives of Moscow and Veshenskaya stanitsa (M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve and Sholokhov family archive) recreate in a new way the picture of the historical and literary process of the twentieth century, reveal the content of dialogue between Sholokhov and his readers, expanding and deepening not only the perception of the history of Russian literature of the Soviet era, but

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Ion, Grumeza. Dacia. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2009. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780761877875.

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This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians for Sarmatians, Scythians, even Slavs. This book revives the Dacian history and contributes to our understanding of the region as it is today. The wars, economy, and traditions of this Transylvanian land permeate the geopolitics of today's Balkan countries. To understand what is happening today in

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Day, Christine L. AARP. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400606014.

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This examination of the history, development, activities, successes, and limitations of the largest membership organization in the country will be of interest to anyone who belongs to or is curious about this sometimes-controversial group. AARP is one of Washington’s most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow special interests of older Americans who already consume more than their share of government benefits. To others, its advocacy encompasses everyone, including those with elderly parents and grandparents—and those who will comprise t

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Katelouzou, Dionysia, and Dan W. Puchniak, eds. Global Shareholder Stewardship. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108914819.

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This is the first in-depth comparative and empirical analysis of shareholder stewardship, revealing the previously unknown complexities of this global movement. It highlights the role of institutional investors and other shareholders, examining how they use their formal and informal power to influence companies. The book includes an in-depth chapter on every jurisdiction which has adopted a stewardship code and an analysis of stewardship in the world's two largest economies which have yet to adopt a code. Several comparative chapters draw on the rich body of jurisdiction-specific analyses, to

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Peebles, P. J. E. The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691209838.001.0001.

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An instant landmark on its publication, this book remains the essential introduction to this vital area of research. Written by one of the world's most esteemed theoretical cosmologists, it provides an invaluable historical introduction to the subject, and an enduring overview of key methods, statistical measures, and techniques for dealing with cosmic evolution. With characteristic clarity and insight, the author focuses on the largest known structures — galaxy clusters — weighing the empirical evidence of the nature of clustering and the theories of how it evolves in an expanding universe. A

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Grigg, Gordon, and David Kirshner. Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians. CSIRO Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486300679.

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Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians is a comprehensive review of current knowledge about the world's largest and most famous living reptiles.  Gordon Grigg's authoritative and accessible text and David Kirshner's stunning interpretive artwork and colour photographs combine expertly in this contemporary celebration of crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials. This book showcases the skills and capabilities that allow crocodylians to live how and where they do. It covers the biology and ecology of the extant species, conservation issues, crocodylian–human interaction and the ev

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Sulkunen, Pekka, Thomas F. Babor, Jenny Cisneros Ornberg, et al. Setting Limits. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817321.001.0001.

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Commercial gambling has developed in the past few decades into a complex enterprise that is at once a recreational activity, a global profit-making industry, and a potentially harmful behavior. New technologies, large for-profit corporations, and extended legalization, have changed the contexts and traditional roles of gambling. Using a public interest framework, this book discusses gambling policies that will best serve the public good. The book critically evaluates the scientific research on regulations designed to prevent or reduce the individual and collective harm from the activity. Effic

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Gardner, Daniel. Environmental Pollution in China. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190696115.001.0001.

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When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China’s GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled the roads; today, China is the world’s largest car market. And if forty years ago you looked out across the Huangpu River from the Bund in Shanghai, you would have seen farmland and a few warehouses and wharves; now you see the stunning, futuristic cityscape of Pudong. The material progress of the p

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Dennis, Faber, and Vermunt Niels, eds. Bank Failure: Lessons from Lehman Brothers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198755371.001.0001.

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This new book analyses the legal and practical issues experienced during the Lehman Brothers litigation, the largest and most complex bankruptcy proceedings in history. By examining the issues the work provides a useful reference source for future large scale and cross-border bankruptcy proceedings of multinational groups. The contributors include experts from the various jurisdictions in which Lehman Brothers was operative, many of whom were involved in the litigation. The chapters set out practical solutions to the issues faced, concerning, for example, the use of existing payment and settle

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Braden, Donna R. Think Like a Curator. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881846558.

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Most history museums—large and small, indoor and outdoor—have a staff member with the title of curator, or at minimum, have tasks that can be classified as curator’s work. But, understanding what is involved in doing this work is more complicated than it seems. This book will help you to “think like a curator.” Written by an author who has spent 45 years doing this type of work at one of the largest history museums in the country, this book guides the reader through curatorial methodology in today’s world with topics that include: reading objects; shaping collections; engaging in rigorous rese

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Schaflechner, Jürgen. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850524.003.0008.

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The conclusion harmonizes the overarching themes of the book, providing a final look at the dramatic relationship between identity, change, and solidification for Pakistan’s largest religious minority at its most important place of worship today. The conclusion first sketches the site’s and the residing Devi’s history as well as the pilgrimage’s ancient origin. In a second step, the author summarizes how recent infrastructural and organizational developments caused the ritual journey to undergo significant changes resulting in novel practices performed on the way to and at the shrine. Finally

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Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.001.0001.

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This book links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. The book presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city–from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. This revised and updated second edition brings Chicago's story into the twenty-first century, as it reviews the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called “the wild-garlic place” burgeon into one of the world's largest

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Zaloga, Steven J. Tanks in the Philippines 1944–45. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472859419.

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The first book to examine the Japanese and American tank forces in the Philippines campaigns, which saw the biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War. The Philippines saw the most extensive tank combat of any single theater in the Pacific War. In this book, armor expert Steven J. Zaloga explains the capabilities of the tank forces involved and how they fought. He explains how while the first tank clashes on Leyte were relatively small scale, the fighting for Luzon, including the capital Manila, saw massive use of tanks by Pacific standards, and indeed, Luzon was the only place where a Japanes

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Mo, Phyllis. Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance Measures in Major Developing Economies. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216022633.

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Tax avoidance and evasion have an important effect on the economic development of every economy. Developing economies are particularly vulnerable to tax avoidance and evasion due to inadequacies in their institutional framework and the lack of sufficient expertise and resources to monitor the intricacies of this issue. Given the far-reaching effect of revenue losses due to tax noncompliance, many developing countries have undertaken tax reforms to improve their tax administration and implemented various anti-avoidance measures to combat tax evasion. This book provides an overview of recent tax

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Stace, April. Secular Music, Sacred Space. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978731301.

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Easter Sunday, 2009, was the Sunday heard ‘round the evangelical internet: NewSpring Church, the second-largest church in the Southern Baptist Convention and among the top one hundred largest churches in the US, had begun their service with the song “Highway to Hell” by hard rock band AC/DC. They had brazenly crossed the sacred/secular musical divide on the most important Sunday of the year, and commentary abounded on the value of such a step. Many were offended at the “desecration” of such a holy day, deriding Newspring as the “theater of the absurd.” Others cheered NewSpring’s engagement wit

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Drelichman, Mauricio, and Hans-Joachim Voth. Lending to the Borrower from Hell. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151496.001.0001.

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Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. This book looks at one famous case—the debts and defaults of Philip II of Spain. Ruling over one of the largest and most powerful empires in history, King Philip defaulted four times. Yet he never lost access to capital markets and could borrow again within a year or two of each default. Exploring the shrewd reasoning of the lenders who cont

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Bandy, H. Anthony. eBooked! ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400643385.

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A comprehensive look at today's online book sites, such as Google Books and HathiTrust, that gives you the necessary knowledge, skills, and resources to get up to speed on these amazing digital resources and use them effectively in the library setting. Online book sites such as the Google Books project, the Open Library, HathiTrust, and others are transforming our thoughts on just what a library is and does, and expanding the possibilities of what a library can be. Library staff need to be knowledgeable about these sites, but unfortunately many libraries— particularly those in the public arena

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Liu, Andrew B. Tea War. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243734.001.0001.

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Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, this book challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. The book shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract, industrial conceptions

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Wright, Dale S. Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190843670.001.0001.

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Buddhism is one of the oldest and largest of the world’s religions. But it is also a tradition that has proven to have enormous contemporary relevance. Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, who came to be called the Buddha, the religion has spread from its origins in northeast India, across Asia, and eventually to the West, taking on new forms at each step of the way. Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know offers readers a brief, authoritative guide to one of the world’s most diverse religious traditions in a reader-friendly question-and-answer format. Dale Wright covers the origins and early history

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Żabiński, Grzegorz, Marcin Woźniak, Jarosław Gramacki, and Artur Gramacki. East Germanic Ironmaking in the Roman Period. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350556409.

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Making a study of East Germanic iron smelting in the Roman period, this book gives an in-depth account of the development of metallurgy in the Przeworsk Culture. Its two main ironmaking centres – the Holy Cross Mountains and Masovia – were the largest iron production regions beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. Apart from serving local demand – where it was used for artefacts of many kinds, which are abundantly found in grave furnishings – a considerable part of Przeworsk Culture iron is likely to have been exported to other territories. Despite more than 60 years of research and scholarshi

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Penny, H. Glenn. In Humboldt's Shadow. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691211145.001.0001.

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The Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected from around the globe. This book tells the story of the German scientists and adventurers who, inspired by Alexander von Humboldt's inclusive vision of the world, traveled the earth in pursuit of a total history of humanity. It also details the fate of their museum, which they hoped would be a scientists' workshop, a place where a unitary history of humanity might emerge. The book shows how these early German ethnologists assembled vast eth

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