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The second edition of Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics approach to the economic modelling of ill-behaved inverse problems. Particular attention is paid to national account-based general equilibrium models known for their relative complexity. This new proposed approach could extend the frontier of theoretical and applied econometrics.

About the Author -- Copyright -- Title -- Introduction -- Second Strayans -- Fresh fleet -- A deakin in the darkness -- The flag that never was -- Crushed beneath the sails -- Capital punishment -- Ace in the noll -- Second Adventurers -- Buzz has it -- Dogs in space -- Drake's circle -- Scott what it takes -- Heart to earhart -- Peak performance -- Second Sports -- Gone with the wind -- On the boyle -- Standing for something -- The tears of a tiger -- Second Breakthroughs -- For whom the bell tolls -- The Mainz Event -- The dame of double helix -- The uncle of evolution -- Epilogue: And the winner almost was … -- Acknowledgements.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Expecting: Prologue -- 1. 'There's going to be a baby': A brief history of jealousy -- 2. Bad is stronger than good: On the birth of the second child and the resilience of the first -- 3. Again, again: On the joy of repetition and the wonder of reminiscence -- 4. A fly buzzing around my ear: On siblings and only children -- 5. A pack, a tornado: Scenes from a family of four -- 6. Thou shalt not compare: How we measure our children against one another -- 7. Typical second child: On the myth of the birth order effect -- 8. Shall we read a story together?: What parents do differently second time round -- 9. Time is a currency: Raising children costs time, but whose time? -- 10. Long days, short years: How children transform time -- 11. The siren song of the easy baby: On whether we have children and how many -- On expectations: Epilogue -- Afterword and further reading -- References -- Acknowledgements.

He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish. The emotion comes when sight returns; like a child he discovers the world anew--the intensity of colors, the sadness of faces grown older, the renewed excitement of sex and the body. With the understanding and insights that come from living on both sides of the divide, Hine ponders the meaning of blindness. His search is enriched by a discourse with other blind writers, humorist James Thurber, novelist Eleanor Clark, poet Jorge Luis Borges, among others. With them he shares thoughts on the acceptance and advantages of blindness, resentment of the blind, the reluctance with sex, and the psychological depression that often follows the recovery of sight. Hine's blindness was the altered state in which to learn and live, and his deliverance from blindness the spur to seek and share its lessons. What he found makes a moving story that embraces all of us--those who can see and those who cannot.