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Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the 'new technology' of the time. For decades, aristocrats of the Old World and then American collectors (the latter at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries) spent countless sums on the purchase of these works, which were worth a fortune. These wealthy collectors of curiosities of all types were also most certainly great dreamers seeking a worthy setting for their dreams. Unbeknownst to them, their endeavours had much greater scope, creating and nourishing the conditions for a rare encounter between two worlds: a golden age of atypical collaboration, a combined adventure between China and Europe.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword Ripper Buyer - Beware! -- Chapter One Jack's 'Funny Little Games' -- Chapter Two The Men Who Invented Jack the Ripper -- Chapter Three 'Letters written by him, but none by me' -- Chapter Four 'Two or Three Hands of Writing' -- Chapter Five 'Dear Boss' -- Chapter Six 'Yours Truly' -- Chapter Seven 'O Have You Seen the Devil?' or -- Chapter Eight 'Surely the Lord is in this House' -- Plate Section -- Chapter Nine 'Carroty Curs' and 'Double-dyed Villains' -- Chapter Ten 'You can't catch me' -- Chapter Eleven An American in London -- Chapter Twelve The Women Who Did -- Chapter Thirteen 'Just a Few Lines …' -- Chapter Fourteen The Signs of the Zodiac -- Chapter Fifteen The Lusk Letter -- Chapter Sixteen 'Lewis Carroll was Jack the Ripper' and 'The Matrix is real - we're living in it.' -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

To many Americans, the term big pharma evokes thoughts of greedy organizations that put profits ahead of people's health. It's difficult to put a price tag on drugs that improve or save lives. It's even harder to stomach the thought of being unable to afford medicines when we may need them most. With the price of pills reaching an all-time high, we are looking for justifications and turning to our government for solutions. The articles in this collection provide valuable coverage and insights into the practices of drug manufacturers, the driving forces behind the costs we face today, and what, if anything, can be done to satiate the hunger of big pharma. Media literacy questions and terms will engage readers beyond the text and aid them in considering the many facets of this complicated issue.

Many surprises -- Organizing to challenge the mosque -- The silence of the lambs -- The ISB strikes back --The forty-one boxes -- Lawfare and its perils -- "They're here" -- The investigation begins -- The Muslim Brotherhood comes to Boston -- Boston joins the global jihad -- Foreign conflicts on Boston turf -- The infiltration of Boston's African-American Muslim community -- Overreach and under attack -- Did top Mass. cop Maura Healey facilitate terrorist financing and money laundering? -- Battle for the soul of a mosque -- The triumph of the radicals -- Make martyrdom what you seek -- The Boston cult of Lady al Qaeda -- The seventy-one rabbis -- I'm on the train! -- They plant a bomb in the heart -- Bombs will be planted in the street -- Fool me twice and three times -- Dream come true -- Violent and non-violent extremists -- Trump derangement in Boston.

"This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots, the Riots themselves, and the aftermath, and includes her interviews of people involved or witnesses, including a woman who was ten at the time. Profusely illustrated, the book includes contemporary photos, newspaper clippings among other period objects. A timely and necessary read, The Stonewall Riots helps readers to understand the history and legacy of the LGBTQ+ movement"--

The book discusses the pioneering contributions of Ralph Turner to the field of forensic science. He was a founder of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the leading professional organization in the field. His work in developing standards for driving and alcohol was also the basis for drunk driving laws in the United States. Turner established the Crime Laboratory at the Kansas City Police Department in the 1930s and '40s, before moving to Michigan State University, where he helped establish the School of Criminal Justice, one of the top such programs in the United States. Along with Michigan State University, he worked in South Vietnam on a highly controversial effort to support the South Vietnamese government. He was also one of the first persons to question the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy and was on the Robert F. Kennedy review panel.

Today, tens of millions of Americans rely on reproductive advances to help them carry out decisions more personal & far-reaching than almost any other they will ever make: They use birth control or abortion to delay or avoid having children; surrogacy or tissue donation to start or grow a family; & genetic diagnosis or embryo selection to have offspring who survive & flourish. This is no less than the medicine of miracles: It fills empty cradles; frees families from disease; & empowers them to plan a life that doesn't include parenthood. But accidents happen: Embryologists miss ailments; egg vendors switch donors; obstetricians tell pregnant women their healthy fetuses will be stillborn. The aftermaths can last a lifetime, yet political & economic forces conspire against regulation to prevent negligence from happening in the first place. This text examines this important topic.

Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Part 1. 1. Introductory 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. The Hellenistic Age and the Coming of Rome 5. The Roman Law and the Christian Fathers 6. The Middle Ages 7. Renaissance and Reformation 8. Thomas Hobbes Part 2. 9. Locke and the Social Contract 10. The American and French Revolutions: Montesquieu, Jefferson, Burke and Paine 11. The Early Utilitarians: Jeremy Bentham 12. The Later Utilitarians: James and John Stuart Mill 13. Individualists and Anarchists Part 3. 14. Jean Jacques Rousseau 15. Georg Hegel 16. The Post-Hegelian Conservatives: Carlyle to Bosanquet 17. The Post-Hegelian Conservatives: Treitschke 18. Marx and His Predecessors 19. Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin 20. Laski and Strachey 21. Internationalism and Fascism: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler Part 4. 22. Conclusion and Prospect. Index.

About his business -- The god among commodities -- The poetry of the past -- Errand into the marketplace -- The righteous friends of Mammon -- Glows and glories and final illustriousness -- God gave me my money -- The soulful corporation -- Blazers of the one true way -- The spirit of the thing -- Modern communion -- The producers' jeremiad -- The cross is bending -- The priesthood of art -- Another kingdom of being -- Business is the soul of America -- The American century and the magic kingdom -- A new order and creed -- Beauty as the new business tool -- The mysticism of numbers -- Secular prayers and impieties -- Small is beautiful -- Human divinity -- God's in his heaven, all's right with the world -- Machines of loving grace -- The new testament of capitalism -- The statues of Daedalus -- To live instead of making history -- Heaven which exists and is everywhere around us

"Dieser Band enthält eine Interpretation von Martin Luthers sog. Judenschriften, dazu erstmals eine Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte von Luthers Judenschriften vom 16. Jahrhundert über die Frühe Neuzeit bis zum Dritten Reich. Professor Dr. Johannes Wallmann führt hier weiter, was er zum 500. Geburtstag Luthers 1983 im Haus des American Jewish Committee in New York bei einer Tagung Martin Luthers Quincentenary: New Beginnings for Lutherans and Jews zur Rezeption der Judenschriften Luthers vorgetragen hat. Der Band zeigt, dass der Altprotestantismus vor dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg von Luthers antijüdischen Spätschriften, vor allem Von den Juden und ihren Lügen, geprägt war, dass sich aber der Neuprotestantismus nach dem Krieg bewusst davon abwandte. Von Pietismus und Aufklärung bis ins späte 19. Jahrhundert hat man sich an Luthers frühe judenfreundliche Schrift Daß Jesus Christus ein geborner Jude sei gehalten, jene späte Schrift kritisiert und in Vergessenheit fallen lassen. Erst in der Bewegung des Antisemitismus am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde Von den Juden und ihren Lügen wiederentdeckt. Der nationalistische Lutherkult des Kaiserreichs (Luther, der größte Deutsche) hat die Kritik an dieser Schrift verstummen lassen. Antisemiten und die völkische Bewegung, später die Nationalsozialisten haben sich für ihren Kampf gegen das Judentum auf Luther berufen. Das wird anhand einer Vielzahl teilweise unbekannter Quellen nachgewiesen. Der Band verifiziert die von Wallmann zum Reformationsfest 2013 aufgestellte These: Die Evangelische Kirche verleugnet ihre Geschichte." (Verlagsinformation)

This interdisciplinary study historicizes house music, the rhythmically focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial maroon spaces of Chicago's queer, black, and Latino social dancers. Working from oral history interviews, archival research, and performance ethnography, it argues that the remediation and adaptation of house by multiple and overlapping crossover communities in its first decade shaped the ways that contemporary Chicago house music producers, DJs, dancers, and promoters re-remember and re-animate house as an archive indexing experiences of queer of color congregation. Engaging with and extending the fields of African American studies, urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, dance studies, performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and media studies, Do You Remember House? considers house music culture's liberatory potential in relation to its flexible repertoire in motion, an ever-expanding archive of danceable sounds.

American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services, infrastructure development and improvement, and adequately funded pensions. Chicago presents an especially vivid example of these issues, as the state of Illinois's rocky fiscal condition compounds the city's daunting budget challenges.In The People's Money, Michael A. Pagano curates a group of essays that emerged from discussions at the 2018 UIC Urban Forum. The contributors explore fundamental questions related to measuring the fiscal health of cities, including how cities can raise revenue, the accountability of today's officials for the future financial position of a city, the legal and practical obstacles to pension reform and a balanced budget, and whether political collaboration offers an alternative to the competition that often undermines regional governance

Frontmatter -- Contents -- THE NORTH ATLANTIC TRIANGLE IN A CHANGING WORLD -- Introduction / McKercher, B.J.C. / Aronsen, Lawrence -- 1. Canada and the Great Rapprochement, 1902-1914 / Sarty, Roger -- 2. Strategy and Supply in the North Atlantic Triangle, 1914-1918 / Kennedy, Greg C. -- 3. The Decade of Transition: The North Atlantic Triangle during the 1920s / Johnson, Gregory A. / Lenarcic, David A. -- 4. World Power and Isolationism: The North Atlantic Triangle and the Crises of the 1930s / McKercher, B.J.C. -- 5. Not an Equilateral Triangle: Canada's Strategic Relationship with the United States and Britain, 1939-1945 / English, John Alan -- 6. From World War to Cold War: Cooperation and Competition in the North Atlantic Triangle, 1945-1949 / Aronsen, Lawrence -- 7. From the Korean War to Suez: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1950-1956 / Kitchen, Martin -- Afterword / McKercher, B.J .C. / Aronsen, Lawrence -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Preface to the Fith Edition -- Part I Option Pricing -- Derivatives -- Introduction to Option Management -- Basic Concepts of Probability Theory -- Stochastic Processes in Discrete Time -- Stochastic Integrals and Differential Equations -- Black–Scholes Option Pricing Model -- Binomial Model for European Options -- American Options -- Exotic Options -- Interest Rates and Interest Rate Derivatives -- Part II Statistical Models of Financial Time Series -- Introduction: Definitions and Concepts -- ARIMA Time Series Models -- Time Series with Stochastic Volatility -- Long Memory Time Series -- Non-Parametric and Flexible Time Series Estimators -- Part III Selected Financial Applications -- Value at Risk and Backtesting -- Copulae and Value at Risk -- Statistics of Extreme Risks -- Neural Networks and Deep Learning -- Volatility Risk of Option Portfolios -- Nonparametric Estimators for the Probability of Default -- Credit Risk Management and Credit Derivatives -- Financial econometrics of Crypto-currencies -- A Technical Appendix -- Index -- Symbols and Notations

Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "the natives." Redeeming Anthropology explores how in pursuit of a secular science sired by the Enlightenment, adherents to a "faith in mankind" have vacillated between rejecting and embracing theology, albeit in concealed and contradictory ways. Mining the biographical registers of the American, British, and French anthropological traditions, Khaled Furani argues that despite all efforts to the contrary, theological sediments remain in this disciplining discipline. Rather than continuing to forget, deny, and sequester it, theology can serve as a mirror for introspection, as a source of critique offering invaluable tools for revitalization: for thinking anew not only anthropology's study of others' cultures, but also its very own reason. --