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In the context of the waves of financial scandal to hit Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe over the past several years, Policing the Markets: Securities Enforcement and the Politics of Knowledgeability addresses the dilemmas underlying securities enforcement as a distinct regulatory enterprise.

In 1933 a Bauhaus artist's secretive actions in a Europe on the edge of war, in current time, two transatlantic lovers, Claudia, a Taos, New Mexico based photographer and Francois, a creative Paris businessman, get caught up in a tangled web of Nazi confiscated art, pursued by those who could be the leaders of a ruthless neo-Nazi resurgence. A page-turning, sensual mystery involving the two lovers, Code of the Running Cross is also a complex, ...

The proliferation of the internet has often been referred to as the fourth technological revolution. This book explores the diffusion of radical new communication technologies, and the subsequent transformation not only of products, but also of the organisation of production and business methods.

Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter. In particular, it is concerned with the "condensed" phases that appear whenever the number of constituents in a system is extremely large and the interactions between the constituents are strong. The most familiar examples of condensed phases are solids and liquids, which arise from the electromagnetic forces between ...

This book challenges the assumption that humans generally treat all animal species equally according to their need of conservation. Recent studies suggest that humans show strong preferences toward particular animal species/taxa and are willing to protect them more than others. Such understanding of human preferences is an important part of conservation strategies. Special attention has to be paid to less preferred, but endangered species. For...

The range of materials used for biomedical applications is very broad. This means that the demands on their properties are very diverse depending on various medical areas and applications. Moreover, it is often necessary to have available materials with the possibility to set the required parameters very precisely in very wide ranges. Because of the similar mechanical behaviour of hydrogels with that of living tissues and their good compatibil...

In finance, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is used to determine a theoretically appropriate required rate of return of an asset. This book presents current research in the study of financial asset pricing, including monetary policy and boom-bust cycles in asset pricing, migration dynamics of stock movements between portfolios, return calculation in international mutual funds, risk premium, market price of risk, and stochastic price mod...

This book presents and discusses research in the field of earth science, with a specific focus on the kryosphere and its relationship to the hydrosphere. Explored also are the shield volcanoes of the Siberian flood basalts and the dynamics of lava sheet formation, as well as the planetary conditions at the Hadean and Archean transition and the possible scenarios for the origin of life and oxygen genesis in the early earth atmosphere.

In a society predicated on information, the media has a pervasive presence. From government policy to leisure television, the information age touches us all. The papers collected in this book constitute some of today's leading analyses of the information industry. Together, these essays represent a needed foundation for understanding the present state and future development of the mass media. Current trends in communications as well as media i...

Jason wanted to know how his life could change so dramatically over the course of one summer. All he wanted was to get through it so he could attend his sophomore year in high school. Was that too much to ask? Instead he was plagued with devastating explosions, trigger happy bank robbers and a family in danger. Was he to blame for all of this? When he finally gets it all under control, he learns from Elijah's grandmother that Elijah is not the...

When Elijah's grandmother reveals her secret to him, his life is thrown into turmoil. Will he ever be able to forgive her? Will her admission throw Jason's life back into turmoil as well? Tough decisions will need to be made. Decisions a fifteen year old should not have to make. Will he make the right ones or will they cause further internal conflict? The car plunging off the bridge into a raging river and the tour bus forced off the highway c...

Suitable for those wanting to start a career in television journalism, this title instructs the reader on the best way to use visuals and sound, different reporting techniques, and appropriate behaviour for journalists. It provides technical and practical examples of television journalism.

The story of Ike in his finest hours as the Allies' top strategist in WWII

This volume summarizes the key elements and main features of a subsidiarity-informed model of governance and outlines an analytical framework which can be applied to other subsidiarity-informed models of governance worldwide.

This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men, ' and Ash-Wednesday.

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From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.

This book explores Sara Coleridge's critical intelligence and theoretical reach. It shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father,  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely brilliant criticism of classical and English literature.

Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.

Austin Parker is on a journey to bring truth, beauty, and meaning to his life.Austin Parker is never going to see his eighteenth birthday. At the rate he's going, he probably won't even see the end of the year. The doctors say his chances of surviving are slim to none even with treatment, so he's decided it's time to let go.But before he goes, Austin wants to mend the broken fences in his life. So with the help of his best friend, Kaylee, Aust...