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Expanded and updated to include an additional 44 species, this is a handy guide to those fishes that are likely to be observed by anybody visiting or diving on the coral reefs of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific to a depth of sixty meters. Accessible to amateur marine life enthusias

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Even in the wake of the biggest financial crash of the postwar era, the United States continues to rely on Securities and Exchange Commission oversight and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This book argues that less government regulation - not more - is what's needed to ensure that managers of public companies keep their promises to investors.

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The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't a primitive forerunner of modern mathematics. This title provides an introduction to the intuitive and often-surprising art of ancient Egyptian math.

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Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us Bringing together sources from court-martial cases to literary and film cl

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In this book, William Schopf tells the story of the origins and earliest evolution of life and how that story has been unearthed.

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Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them.

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This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp method--Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless variety of rosettes, friezes, and wallpaper patterns: dazzli

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American universities serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that can create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. This title sheds light on how knowledge and politics intersect to structure the economy.

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Traces the economic and historical forces that gave rise to very distinctive regional approaches to creating wine. This book includes chapters on Europe's cheap commodity wine industry; the markets for sherry, port, claret, and champagne; and, the wine industries in California, Australia, and Argentina.

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The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China's visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion. New ideologies of creativity and creative practices have reshaped the training of a new generation of art school graduates. Creativity Class is the first book to explore how Chinese art students de

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Offers a look at the ways people fault and applaud each other and themselves. The stories gathered in this book range from the everyday to the altogether unexpected, from personal to humorous - whether it's the acceptance speech of an Academy Award winner or testimony before a congressional panel.

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Christianity and European-style monarchy - the cross and the scepter - were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. This book offers a history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation.

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Provides the exploration of college completion at America's public universities. This title sheds light on serious issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.

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Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societ

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The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, the

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Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the geopolitic

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Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. This book asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers.

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