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Fixed and Variable Costs
Theory and Practice in Electricity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Fixed and Marginal Costs in Electricity Markets lays out clear cost methodologies for understanding marginal price structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.
Volatile Capital Flows in Korea
Current Policies and Future Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Volatility in Korean Capital Markets summarizes the Korean experience of volatile capital flows, analyzes the economic consequences, evaluates the policy measures adopted, and suggests new measures for the future.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend
Examining Its Suitability as a Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.
Risk and Return in Asian Emerging Markets
A Practitioner’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Risk and Return in Asian Emerging Markets offers readers a firm insight into the risk and return characteristics of leading Asian emerging market participants by comparing and contrasting behavioral model variables with predictive forecasting methods.
Globalization and Self-Regulation
The Crucial Role That Corporate Codes of Conduct Play in Global Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Corporate strategy expert Prakash Sethi takes an in-depth look at global structures and how regulation works from a corporate perspective, providing case studies of several industries and governments who have begun implementing voluntary codes of conducts, including Equator Principles, ICMM, and The Kimberly Process.
Breakthrough Marketing Plans
How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Almost every company creates a marketing plan each year, and many spend hundreds of employee hours researching, preparing and presenting their tomes to senior executives. But most marketing plans are a waste of time; they are too long, too complicated and too dense. They end up sitting on a shelf,...
Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education
Teachers and Researchers in Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Duncan and Conner demonstrate how collaborative research on early childhood education results in gains for educators, researchers, and children alike. Drawing on examples of successful partnerships from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, they set out the successes, struggles, insights, and opportunities that come from such partnerships.
by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century.
American Writers in Europe
1850 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
These essays explore the impartial critical outlook American writers acquired through their experiences in Europe since 1850. Collectively, contributors reveal how the American writer's intuitive sense of freedom, coupled with their feeling of liberation from European influences, led to intellectual independence in the literary works they produced.
by J. Frick
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
The American Bourgeoisie
Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
by S. Ercolino
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity.
Cinema after Fascism
The Shattered Screen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the fascist era and delves into issues of gender certainties and spectatorship. In this period of film, familiar structures of epistemology and historiography reappear as ghostly imprints...
Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde
On the Abuse of Technology and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication and how they aimed at creating a media ecology based on and inspired by technologies such as the radio and the photo cell.