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The little flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi
THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF ST FRANCIS IN the name of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified, and of His Virgin Mother Mary. In this book are contained certain little Flowers, namely, miracles and devout examples of the glorious poor little one of Christ, St Francis, and of some of his holy companions, to the praise of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Dodging Bullets: Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and 1…
An entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half.The late 1980s saw a huge wave of corporate leveraging. The U.S. financial landscape was dominated by a series of high-stakes leveraged buyouts as firms replaced their equity with new fixed debt obligations. Cash-financed acquisitions and defensive share repurchases also decapitalized corporat…
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- 9780262279383
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- 1 online resource (417 pages)
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Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281690
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- 1 online resource (vi, 364 pages) :illustrations
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Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge
"This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268554
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- 1 online resource (viii, 409 pages) :illustrations.
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A little book of naval wisdom
IT is held to be in the natural order of things for the British seaman to do rather than to say. For centuries he has been accomplishing mighty tasks without making much fuss about it. That is his habit. We land creatures take his work for granted in much the same way as the minutes of the previous meeting are ' taken as read.' That is our habit
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- 96 p
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Dollarization: Debates and Policy Alternatives
Theoretical and empirical analysis of de jure dollarization.With the persistent instability of international financial markets, emerging economies are exploring new ways to reduce exposure to capital flow volatility. Some analysts argue that financially open economies are best served by more flexible regimes, while others argue in favor of extreme exchange rate regimes that have a strong commit…
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- 9780262286527
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- 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) :illustrations
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Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environment…
How do international environmental standards come into being? One important way, as Elizabeth DeSombre shows in this book, is through the internationalization of regulations that one or more countries have undertaken domestically. Domestic environmental regulation, DeSombre argues, can create an incentive for environmentalists and industry--previously at odds with each other--to work together t…
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- 9780262271608
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages).
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The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depressio…
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- 9780262275491
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- 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) :illustrations, photographs.
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The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann
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- 9780262368018
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 407 pages :illustrations)
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Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.
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- 9780262287036
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