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Current international discourse on the new state of South Sudan
seems fixated on the "state construction." This book aims to
broaden the debate by examining the character of regulatory
authority in South Sudan's borderlands in both contemporary and
historical perspective. The contributions gathered here show that
emerging border governance practices challenge the bounded
categorization of "state" and "non-state," especially in the
complex interactions between state, military, and business actors
and power structures. It thus provides a timely and sophisticated
contribution to the literature on African borderlands, examining a
new state in creation at its borders, and providing an
anthropologically and historically informed view of a rapidly
evolving situation.
People's lives can be dramatically transformed by psychoanalysis.
Yet the decision to undertake this enterprise can seem so
formidable that many deny themselves an extraordinary experience.
This book makes that decision - admittedly a complex one - better
informed, clearer, and easier. It provides seven detailed case
reports, easy to read and free of technical jargon, in which the
patients' lives -in their own judgements - were transformed. This
is not meant to imply that psychoanalysis always or even usually
yields transformative results. These case studies are intriguing in
their own right and help the reader think knowledgeably about
psychoanalysis and assess its potential as a life-changing
enterprise.
The water and power industries, including the most
capital-intensive producers of goods and services in our economy,
are exposed to financial risks of staggering proportions. With
projects that are routinely large and require long-term planning,
and with demand and supply often highly volatile, costs regularly
defy prediction. Still, there has been little explicit analysis of
financial risk in the water and power industries. In this work, C.
Vaughan Jones provides a comprehensive discussion of financial risk
and risk analysis for these utilities. Writing in clear,
straightforward language, he explores the application of risk
analysis to construction projects, rate-setting and price effects,
and customer characteristics.
In developing a method for evaluating risk, Jones brings
together material from business, engineering, economics,
demography, probability theory, computer simulation, and policy
studies. The materials are organized around risk factors affecting
costs and revenues, and support a practical analysis with
spreadsheet and simulation examples. Separate chapters present
findings relating to the variability of construction costs,
customer demand, and population growth. Together with qualitative
information about risks, these chapters offer suggestions about
quantitative representation of relevant patterns of variability of
key risk sources. The techniques are integrated in simulation
models dealing with contract risk, the evaluation of sinking funds
and amortization schedules, and long-run capacity planning. The
concluding chapters summarize major findings, consider issues of
reliability and validation, and discuss the way in which this
analysis can be applied to a variety of infrastructure investments.
Finance and investment professionals and students in business and
finance studies will find this work to be a useful reference tool.
For public and academic libraries, it will represent a valuable
addition to their collections.
Mao Zedong was not only a great strategist and politician but also
a poet, a philosopher, and calligrapher. As early as the 1940s
Mao's poetry was earning critical and popular acclaim. Mao Zedong
as Poet and Revolutionary Leader makes all of Mao's extant poems
available here for the first time in English. This comprehensive
collection offers a unique portrait of Mao's contribution to modern
China and his later frustration as he witnessed the country turning
from his revolutionary path into a gigantic bureaucracy. Far from
descending into mere hagiography, Chunhou Zhang and Edward
Vaughan's work presents a balanced picture of Mao as an individual
and as a military and political leader. These literal translations
of Mao's poetry are framed by a commentary on the meaning, pattern,
and style of the original texts--written in the classical style Mao
forbade China's youth to emulate--and presented in the context of
the social history of the time.
Notions of southern culture run deep and wide through the
American consciousness. Perhaps no region of the United States
conjures up as many images or emotions as does the American South.
Yet despite the stereotypes that resonate throughout society, it
remains nearly impossible to categorize the many shades of culture
found in the history of the southern states. Spanning from Atlantic
coastal ecosystems to the Ozark Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico,
the region is home to orange groves and Creole food; the Gothic
Revival style and the New Urbanism movement; ragtime, Piedmont
blues, and Appalachian folk songs; high school football battles and
Tobacco Road basketball rivalries; the Cajun language, the Gullah
tongue, and the famous Southern drawl. From sartorial fashions to
William Faulkner's Sartoris, this splendid volume documents
southern culture in its many colors and forms.
"The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures" is
the first rigorous reference collection on the many ways in which
American identity has been defined by its regions and its people.
Each of its eight regional volumes presents thoroughly researched
narrative chapters on Architecture; Art; Ecology & Environment;
Ethnicity; Fashion; Film & Theater; Folklore; Food; Language;
Literature; Music; Religion; and Sports & Recreation. Each book
also includes a volume-specific introduction, as well as a series
foreword by noted regional scholar and former National Endowment
for the Humanities chairman William Ferris, who served as
Consulting Editor for this encyclopedia.
This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which
set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious
liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute, shepherded it
through a decade-long struggle to adoption, and included it in his
epitaph (along with the Declaration of Independence and the
founding of the University of Virginia). The Statute's history
reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of
religious conscience; and the separation of church and state. Both
principles remain lively topics of debate on the contemporary
religious and political scene. Papers collected here were presented
at a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and
Public Policy. Among the contributors are several of America's most
prominent religious and political historians and experts on
jurisprudence.
Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the
interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority
in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical
perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging
governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of
"state" and "non-state."
Prime numbers are the multiplicative building blocks of natural
numbers. Understanding their overall influence and especially their
distribution gives rise to central questions in mathematics and
physics. In particular their finer distribution is closely
connected with the Riemann hypothesis, the most important unsolved
problem in the mathematical world. Assuming only subjects covered
in a standard degree in mathematics, the authors comprehensively
cover all the topics met in first courses on multiplicative number
theory and the distribution of prime numbers. They bring their
extensive and distinguished research expertise to bear in preparing
the student for intelligent reading of the more advanced research
literature. This 2006 text, which is based on courses taught
successfully over many years at Michigan, Imperial College and
Pennsylvania State, is enriched by comprehensive historical notes
and references as well as over 500 exercises.
This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute and shepherded it through a decade-long struggle for adoption. The statute reflects two key Revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience and the separation of church and state.
Prime numbers are the multiplicative building blocks of natural
numbers. Understanding their overall influence and especially their
distribution gives rise to central questions in mathematics and
physics. In particular their finer distribution is closely
connected with the Riemann hypothesis, the most important unsolved
problem in the mathematical world. Assuming only subjects covered
in a standard degree in mathematics, the authors comprehensively
cover all the topics met in first courses on multiplicative number
theory and the distribution of prime numbers. They bring their
extensive and distinguished research expertise to bear in preparing
the student for intelligent reading of the more advanced research
literature. This 2006 text, which is based on courses taught
successfully over many years at Michigan, Imperial College and
Pennsylvania State, is enriched by comprehensive historical notes
and references as well as over 500 exercises.
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