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Based on an enormously popular "derivative instruments and applications" course taught by risk expert Christopher Culp at the University of Chicago, Risk Transfer will prepare both current practitioners and students alike for many of the issues and problems they will face in derivative markets. Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, this book is an essential resource for those who want a comprehensive education and working knowledg...

Obscure Dead Celebrities is a series of humorous stories and essays about strip mall Midwestern culture. These autobiographical stories document life in Indianapolis, Indiana during the late 20th century. Chicken Skinner is an account of a chicken restaurant and the sordid inner restaurant relationships that naturally develop around dead poultry. Jockstrap delves into the sordid world of middle school boys locker rooms and the cotton brief cla...

A STAIRCASE VIEW: FAITH IN AMERICA is a collection of essays in culture criticism, centering on the need for a rebirth of faith in our nation, belief in America itself, its essentially Judeo-Christian and republican heritage. There is also the sense of an objective look back, from the perspective of older years, at the status of faith and/or culture in -within-our country in the modern era.

What if a young, inspired woman sneaks into a Catholic seminary, disguised as a man and becomes a priest? What if her approach to the priesthood is so refreshingly unorthodox that the Vatican, not knowing her gender, elects her Pope? This whimsical and at times hilarious look at the Catholic churchturned upside down by a single determined woman is sure to delight the religious as well as the nonreligious, Catholics and non-Catholics, and most ...

In this follow-up to the bestselling "Deep Change, " Quinn reveals how extraordinary leaders change their communities and organizations by transforming themselves.

I was sort of hiding from two guys who either thought we were in business together or who wanted to kill me. "Sort of hiding" because I could have left town and been relatively safe, but Las Vegas, NV has so many wonderful things to see and do that I decided to go to a topless rollerskating show instead. "Sort of hiding" because I was fairly sure that the guys in question would take Door Number Two and try to shoot me, a lot. Why me? I'm T. R....

I was sort of hiding from two guys who either thought we were in business together or who wanted to kill me. "Sort of hiding" because I could have left town and been relatively safe, but Las Vegas, NV has so many wonderful things to see and do that I decided to go to a topless rollerskating show instead. "Sort of hiding" because I was fairly sure that the guys in question would take Door Number Two and try to shoot me, a lot. Why me? I'm T. R....

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This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture.

Concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.

As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material practices of memory.

Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history, literary criticism, anthropology, studies in nationalism and ethnicity and post-colonial theory.

We The People have labored long under an ancient set of laws. They have been corrupted and manipulated to benefit the wealthy and the powerful, at the expense of the rest. For the People to be free, they must be "awake and alert, " as Jefferson wanted us to be, so we must have truth. In search of that we turn off the TV and look elsewhere. From the pages of CivilAmerica.org, this collection of essays carries the spirit of peace, not war, and t...

Yusuke Urameshi is a ghost with a mission, performing good deeds at the behest of Botan, the ferry woman of the River Styx, and Koenma, the pacifier-sucking judge of the dead. Illustrations.

30th Anniversary edition with a new introduction from the author Hannah is tired of holiday gatherings−all her family ever talks about is the past. In fact, it seems to her that's what they do every Jewish holiday. But this year's Passover Seder will be different−Hannah will be mysteriously transported into the past . . . and only she knows the unspeakable horrors that await.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award"A triumphantly moving book."...

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The renowned restaurateur behind the Bay Area's popular "the girl & the fig" restaurants serves up an inspired collection of sophisticated yet simple recipes featuring fresh, seasonal ingredients and a French country flair. 100+ recipes. 20 photos.

Does the new Catechism of the Catholic Church conflict with the teachings found in the Bible? One Protestant thinks so, and wrote his 1999 doctoral dissertation about it. Thoughtful Catholics consider his arguments and respond in this collection of essays.

Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced Caribbean history, the region's fires have almost always been caused by humans. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson explores the effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British Lesser Antilles, from the British Virgin Islands south to Trinidad. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, leading to the 1905 withdrawal of British military forces from the region, Richardson ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Diffuse oder punktuelle Einleitungen anthropogener Schadstoffe führen dazu, dass die Gewässer und deren Sedimente mit einer Vielzahl von organischen und anorganischen Nähr- und Schadstoffen stark belastet werden. Durch die unterschiedlichen Nutzungsansprüche der Gewässer (Trinkwasserreservoir, Erholungs- oder Freizeitraum, Brauchwasserquelle für Industrie und Landwirtschaft, Verkehrswege) entstehen Interessenkonflikt...