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This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has
established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports
ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore
sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into
sports broadcasting and editorial coverage, sports marketing and
promotions, and even into the very sports themselves with athletes
and teams using the activities to draw fans further into the sports
experience. This edited collection invites leading scholars and
sports professionals from several different fields to share
historical and emerging perspectives on the importance of fantasy
sports as an artifact of theoretical and empirical importance to
larger issues of sport and society. \
Maths but not as you know it; a fresh take that develops
problem-solving skills with new and innovative resources that place
contemporary contexts at the centre of learning to maximise student
potential. - Supports a wide ability range with challenges for all
levels. - Provides assessment practice and guidance with practice
questions and worked examples to help each student to reach their
potential by boosting the skills they need to understand the
demands of the new AQA Level 3 Certificate in Mathematical Studies
specification. - Saves you time with a variety of new ideas for use
in the classroom and at home. - Places mathematical problems into
real life contexts helping your students to apply their knowledge
across subjects. - Supports the non-specialist or less-confident
teacher.
This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of
the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games,
outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional,
physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers
to current research on video games. The diverse array of
contributors in this volume offer bleeding-edge perspectives on
both current and emerging scholarship. The chapters here contain
radical approaches that add to the literature on electronic media
studies generally and video game studies specifically. By taking
such a forward-looking approach, this volume aims to collect
foundational writings for the future of gaming studies.
It's 1976. Bud Salem, 18-years-old, is fleeing his mother's TV
church and meets a woman pitching oranges in the Mojave. She's
Sylvia Cushman, a 45 year-old housewife, who loves driving alone
through the desert. They traverse through western motels and Apache
gas stations where Sylvia gives long lectures about Emily Dickinson
and drags Bud up into the mesas to search for petroglyphs. After
continuing adventures in Detroit, New York, and Amherst, the
travelers part... In many ways Let the Dog Drive is an askew
detective novel - when a character dies under strange circumstances
in Texas, Bud goes to the Panhandle to uncover what happened. His
strange narration does contain pleasures of the genre: a shootout
inside an aquarium; a faked death; another shootout on a chicken
farm in Texas . . . But Let the Dog Drive is also a freewheeling
merging of many other genres and concerns - Hollywood, hardboiled
novels of the 1930's, Emily Dickinson's white dress, hallucinatory
cacti, the Book of Luke... And dogs. Sylvia is married to an auto
engineer in Detroit, and this man studies auto accidents by letting
dogs drive the cars. Literally. The drivers are often Dalmatians .
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This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of
the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games,
outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional,
physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers
to current research on video games. The diverse array of
contributors in this volume offer bleeding-edge perspectives on
both current and emerging scholarship. The chapters here contain
radical approaches that add to the literature on electronic media
studies generally and video game studies specifically. By taking
such a forward-looking approach, this volume aims to collect
foundational writings for the future of gaming studies.
Thousands of musical terms are defined in Volume 1 (the
Dictionary), illustrated with 274 specially prepared scores in
Volume 2 (the Music Examples), and, in Volume 3, 274 recorded
extracts on three compact disks. Every definition is followed by
reference to at least one score and recording. Additional
cross-references to eight chapters on the elements of music place
the definitions in broader musical and historical contexts. This
unique publication brings music terminology to life through sound
and is aimed at enthusiastic listeners, students, teachers and
professional musicians.
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Set in the 1950's, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant
and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy
assassination. Where were you when you first heard President
Kennedy had been shot? This is a question most people can answer,
even if the answer is "I wasn't born yet." In this epic novel,
David Bowman makes the strong case that the shooting on November
22nd, 1963 was the major, defining turning point that catapulted
the world into an entirely new stratosphere. It was the second big
bang. In this hilarious, lightning-fast historical novel, Bowman
follows the most famous couples of the decade as their lives are
torn apart by post-war's new normal. We see Lucille Ball's bizarre
interrogation by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and
Jackie Onassis' moonlight cruise with Frank Sinatra . We follow
Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller as they attempt to get quickie
divorces together at a loophole resort in Nevada and watch a young
Howard Hunt snoop around South America with the newly founded CIA.
A young Jimi Hendrix, now the epitome of counterculture cool, tries
his luck as a clean cut army recruit. Written with an almost
documentary film like intensity, BIG BANG is a posthumous work from
the award-winning author of Let the Dog Drive. A riotous account of
a country, perhaps, at the beginning of the end.
Prior to the recent financial crisis, one of the most prominent
examples of unconventional monetary stimulus was Japan's
"quantitative easing policy" (QEP). Most analysts agree that QEP
did not succeed in stimulating aggregate demand sufficiently to
overcome persistent deflation. However, it remains unclear whether
QEP simply provided little stimulus, or whether its positive
effects were overwhelmed by the contractionary forces in Japan's
post-bubble economy. In the spirit of Kashyap and Stein (2000) and
Hosono (2006), this paper uses bank-level data from 2000 to 2009 to
examine the effectiveness in promoting bank lending of a key
element of QEP, the Bank of Japan's injections of liquidity into
the interbank market. We identify a robust, positive, and
statistically significant effect of bank liquidity positions on
lending, suggesting that the expansion of reserves associated with
QEP likely boosted the flow of credit. However, the overall size of
that boost was probably quite small. First, the estimated response
of lending to liquidity positions in our regressions is small.
Second, much of the effect of the BOJ's reserve injections on bank
liquidity was offset as banks reduced their lending to each other.
Finally, the effect of liquidity on lending appears to have held
only during the initial years of QEP, when the banking system was
at its weakest; by 2005, even before QEP was abandoned, the
relationship between liquidity and lending had evaporated.
"Raymond Chandler merges with Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez," said the New York Times Book Review of David Bowman's first novel, Let the Dog Drive. "Now that David Bowman has emerged, it will be interesting to see where his surrealistic, hard-boiled intelligentsia style takes him next." Where it has taken him is Bunny Modern-a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future where electricity has disappeared and fertility is on the wane, but human passions are as messy as ever. This is the story of Clare, a nanny who packs a Glock and guards babies from childless kidnappers. Clare has undergone the standard aversion therapy to keep her from bonding with the infants she protects. But despite all her training, Clare finds herself helpless to resist the big eyes and droolly charms of her latest charge, an ineffably lovable baby named Soda. Bunny Modern is the strange saga of Clare and Soda, as told by Dylan, an investigator who's fallen in love with Clare while looking into a connection between Soda's parents and the disappearance of electricity years earlier. First admiring Clare from afar and then joining her in a series of adventures on Manhattan's gaslit streets, Dylan unfolds a tale in which Lit Wear (Melville trousers, Jane Eyre blouses), carrier pigeons, fertility monuments, a drug called Vengeance, and the Jersey Bounce Dance Studio all figure with mysterious coherence. Seamlessly interweaving elements of the noir thriller with hallucinogenic flourishes that are all his own, David Bowman has written a novel that is mesmerizing, hilarious, and utterly captivating.
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