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This work describes the author's experiences in both Spanish and
English literacy development. It illustrates the
bilingual/bicultural experience of acculturation and assimilation,
a process of change, both culturally and linguistically. The Eagle
and the Serpent does so in three levels: autobiographical
narratives in bi-literacy acquisition, expository reflections from
the viewpoint of a bilingual/bicultural Mexican-American adult, and
finally an analysis of the process evident in the author's
experience. Interspersed in the autobiographical elements, Palacios
reflects on his spiritual journey of religious conversion, from
Mexican Catholicism to American Evangelicalism. After discussing
immigration, acculturation, and literacy, the story ends with an
appended poem that reflects many immigrant children's lives of
metamorphosis.
A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic
approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously
considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and
other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide
insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful
Game Theory is the first book that uses soccer to test economic
theories and document novel human behavior. In this brilliant and
entertaining book, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta illuminates economics
through the world's most popular sport. He offers unique and often
startling insights into game theory and microeconomics, covering
topics such as mixed strategies, discrimination, incentives, and
human preferences. He also looks at finance, experimental
economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Soccer
provides rich data sets and environments that shed light on
universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways.
Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports
enthusiasts, Beautiful Game Theory is the first book to show what
soccer can do for economics.
This book provides a collection of articles on subordination in
English framed from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.
It covers ample areas of the history of the major subordinated
structures of English and their recent development in various
native and non-native varieties. Most contributions are based on
large electronic databases and corpora of written and spoken texts.
The book focuses on the continuum that links subordinated and
coordinated structures in a fluid way, shows their permanent state
of flux, and sheds light on the whole system's dynamic essence by
discussing a large number of explanatory principles at work in
shaping it. Many of these are well-known from the
grammaticalization and the Construction Grammar theories, such as
the concepts of attractor, multi-sourcing, inheritance, categorial
incursion, metaphorization or exaptation. This volume represents
the latest trends in the field by some of its most prestigious
specialists.
A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic
approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously
considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and
other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide
insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer. "Beautiful
Game Theory" is the first book that uses soccer to test economic
theories and document novel human behavior.
In this brilliant and entertaining book, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
illuminates economics through the world's most popular sport. He
offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and
microeconomics, covering topics such as mixed strategies,
discrimination, incentives, and human preferences. He also looks at
finance, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and
neuroeconomics. Soccer provides rich data sets and environments
that shed light on universal economic principles in interesting and
useful ways.
Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports
enthusiasts, "Beautiful Game Theory is the first book to show "what
soccer can do for economics.
?ste no es un libro de teolog?a, sino m's bien de pr?ctica para los
laicos y l?deres en las congregaciones cristianas evang?licas.
Tiene como base los Diez Mandamientos, tal como se encuentran en la
Versi?n Reina-Valera de 1960 de la Santa Biblia. Este libro de
estudio se ha utilizado en clases de escuela dominical en iglesias
conservadoras de santidad; por lo tanto tiene la perspectiva
doctrinal wesleyana-arminiana.
Este libro se puede utilizar en clases de estudios b?blicos, en la
escuela dominical, o en estudios de grupos peque?os
(preferiblemente de menos de 35 personas). Est? dise?ado
espec?ficamente para adultos o j?venes cristianos que desean saber
m's a fondo el significado y la aplicaci?n cotidiana de los Diez
Mandamientos.
In this book, ten prominent economists-including Nobel laureates
and several likely laureates-offer their ideas about what the
future might hold in 100 years. This pithy and engaging volume
shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future
than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both
theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human
interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection.
Although perhaps not as screenplay-ready as a work of fiction,
these economists' predictions are ready for their close-ups. In
this book, ten prominent economists-including Nobel laureates and
several likely laureates-offer their ideas about the world of the
twenty-second century. In scenarios that range from the optimistic
to the guardedly gloomy, these thinkers consider such topics as the
transformation of work and wages, the continuing increase in
inequality, the economic rise of China and India, the endlessly
repeating cycle of crisis and (projected) recovery, the benefits of
technology, the economic consequences of political extremism, and
the long-range effects of climate change. For example, 2013
Nobelist Robert Shiller provides an innovative view of future risk
management methods using information technology; and Martin
Weitzman raises the intriguing but alarming possibility of using
geoengineering techniques to mitigate the inevitable effects of
climate change. Contributors Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Avinash
K. Dixit, Edward L. Glaeser, Andreu Mas-Colell, John E. Roemer,
Alvin E. Roth, Robert J. Shiller, Robert M. Solow, Martin L.
Weitzman
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