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Jellybeans, published here on paper for the first time, is the
story of three very strange houses- the Murder Cabin, the House of
the Full Moon, and the House of Flies -all three of which have one
very disturbing thing in common: Kiana Mast. Kiana comes from a
very odd east Tennessee family and she knows things. When she sends
her high school boyfriend Adam on midnight ventures to each of
three very mysterious houses out in the boonies, he has no idea
what he's in for. Moreover, Adam has no idea that Kiana has an
irresistible and sinister influence over him that is growing more
powerful and frightening by the day . . . and night.
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Boss (Paperback)
C. Heath Johnson
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A coming-of-age novel loosely based upon true events during one of
America's most colorful periods, the golden age of Vaudeville, Boss
recalls the experiences of young Peter Converse, a musical prodigy
from Duluth, Minnesota. When Peter, along with his best friend Glen
Haley, is forced to run away from home for unexpected and shocking
reasons, he must survive on his own with no money, no direction,
and no promise he'll survive at all. Two boys- one with a
second-hand banjo, the other a stolen trumpet -and a pair of dark,
deeply disturbing secrets, Peter and Glen are determined to reach
New York City and become professional musicians on the Vaudeville
circuit. But the harsh realities of big city life, plus Peter's
bloodline and the social prejudices against Glen, who is black,
stack the odds against them.
The foundation for the subject of mathematical finance was laid
nearly 100 years ago by Bachelier in his fundamental work,
""Theorie de la speculation"". In this work, he provided the first
treatment of Brownian motion. Since then, the research of
Markowitz, and then of Black, Merton, Scholes, and Samuelson
brought remarkable and important strides in the field. A few years
later, Harrison and Kreps demonstrated the fundamental role of
martingales and stochastic analysis in constructing and
understanding models for financial markets. The connection opened
the door for a flood of mathematical developments and growth.
Concurrently with these mathematical advances, markets have grown,
and developments in both academia and industry continue to
expand.This lively activity inspired an AMS Short Course at the
Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego (CA). The present volume
includes the written results of that course. Articles are featured
by an impressive list of recognized researchers and practitioners.
Their contributions present deep results, pose challenging
questions, and suggest directions for future research. This
collection offers compelling introductory articles on this new,
exciting, and rapidly growing field.
This novel achieved immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex and the role of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and articulates a fundamental experience of the postromantic, commerical-industrial, democratic period. He explains how Madame Bovary represents Flaubert's intense personal engagement with the tragedy of bourgeois culture, while at the same time exemplifying the author's commitment to the impersonality of art and the transcendence of style.
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