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Barrio Nerds Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle
When Pulitzer Prize nominated author Richard Rodriguez published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez in 1982, he received much criticism due to his views on issues such as assimilation, bilingual education, and affirmative action. Polemically, since Rodriguez’s publication, a book length revisiting of some of his ideas is for the most part non-existent. I…
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- 978-94-6300-767-2
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- VIII, 128
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- 378
Banks of the Future : Putting a Puzzle Together Creatively
This book will guide financial institutions in developing new approaches and solutions for handling perennial issues. Emphasizing the value of creativity for project management in the banking sector, the author provides new insights for all those working in banking and finance. Presenting a number of new, outside-the-box ideas, the book can be regarded as the missing spice that will creatively …
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- 978-3-319-07554-9
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- XXIII, 229
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- 332
Banking in Portugal
This book explains how banking institutions in Portugal were able to maintain their strength and solubility while undergoing a demanding Program of Financial Assistance from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission from May 2011 and May 2014.
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- 978-0-230-37142-2
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- XXI, 213
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- 332.1
Banking Crises : Perspectives from the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's the history of banking crises? With dozens of brief, non-technical articles by economists and other researchers, Banking Crises offers answers from diverse scholarly viewpoints.
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- 978-1-137-55379-9
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- XIV, 350
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- 332
Bank Funding, Financial Instruments and Decision-Making in the Banking Industry
This book provides insight into current research topics in finance and banking in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Expert authors authoritatively analyse how banks finance their activities and resolve funding issues. Chapters specifically discuss financial instruments such as corporate bonds, IPOs, sukuks and microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) in light of the importance of institutio…
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- 978-3-319-30701-5
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- XX, 284
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- 331.12
Bangladesh's Leather Industry : Local Production Networks in the Global Economy
This study provides an overview of how the Bangladeshi leather value chain is organised and governed. It analyses how the leather processing and leather goods/footwear subsectors are integrated into the global market and to what extent informal arrangements including illicit practices are conducive to global market entry. Power relations are dissected along the value chain, in order to analyse …
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- 978-3-319-22548-7
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- XVI, 286
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- 330
Banana: Genomics and Transgenic Approaches for Genetic Improvement
Bananas and plantains are among the most important food and cash crops in the world. They are cultivated in more than 135 countries, across the tropics and subtropics, with an annual global production of ca. 130 million metric tonnes. Though bananas are one of the most important components of food security in many developing countries, banana production is threatened by both abiotic and biotic …
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- 978-981-10-1585-4
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- XII, 346
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- 634.77
Methods and Models in Mathematical Biology
This book developed from classes in mathematical biology taught by the authors over several years at the Technische Universität München. The main themes are modeling principles, mathematical principles for the analysis of these models and model-based analysis of data. The key topics of modern biomathematics are covered: ecology, epidemiology, biochemistry, regulatory networks, neuronal networ…
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- 1
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- 978-3-642-27250-9
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- XIII, 711
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- Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in the Life Sciences
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Banach Spaces of Continuous Functions as Dual Spaces
This book gives a coherent account of the theory of Banach spaces and Banach lattices, using the spaces C_0(K) of continuous functions on a locally compact space K as the main example. The study of C_0(K) has been an important area of functional analysis for many years. It gives several new constructions, some involving Boolean rings, of this space as well as many results on the Stonean spa…
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- 978-3-319-32349-7
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- XIV, 277
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- 510
Bamboo : The Plant and its Uses
This book presents the state-of-the-art knowledge on bamboo. It starts with an introduction to the plant’s biology, its taxonomy, habitat, morphology and growth. The cultivation of bamboo is discussed in terms of silviculture, pests and diseases, and harvesting techniques. The book is completed by a comprehensive presentation of the properties of bamboo, its utilization and its preservation.…
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- 978-3-319-14133-6
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- IX, 356
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- 633.5
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