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Dragon Age - Dawn of the Seeker (DVD)
Luci Christian, Christopher Sabat, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Brina Palencia, J. Michael Tatum, …
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R31
Discovery Miles 310
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Animated fantasy adventure featuring the voices of Colleen
Clinkenbeard and Brina Palencia. The land of Orlais' religious
order, the Chantry of Andraste, is under threat. It is up to the
Seeker, Cassandra (Clinkenbeard), to overcome this threat and
restore order to the realm while battling foes and clearing her
name along the way.
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Treasures (Hardcover)
Sarah Klaiber; Illustrated by Jeffrey Scott Perdziak
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R630
Discovery Miles 6 300
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Shortly after the tragedy that we now know as '9-11', Bryce Ross
flew across the country to bare witness to his aunt's last will and
testament. The choices he made, as well as the resulting events
that followed, changed his life and our futures forever.
His determination to expose questionable facts and circumstances
involving the Kennedy Assassination provided him with the
motivation to adhere to the passionate and obsessive terms of a
substantially funded trust that was created by his late uncle.
Freedom is a choice that we all take for granted. A government
of the people is what fosters our liberties and protects them from
coming under the control of others. Bryce considers whether wealth
should be allowed to continue its dominance over our trusted and
elected officials when the pressure reveals itself to be
life-threatening."
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Beautiful You (Hardcover)
Sarah Klaiber; Illustrated by Jeffrey Scott Perdziak
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R666
Discovery Miles 6 660
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A century ago, Chinese organized criminals were involved
symbiotically with the politics, economics, and social life of the
Chinese-American community, infiltrated the larger American
society, and victimized Chinese and non-Chinese alike. Remarkably,
they did this in the face of difficult language and cultural
barriers and rampant institutional racism. Organized crime in the
Chinese-American community is a long-term historical phenomenon
that can be attributed to fundamental contradictions in the
society, politics, and economics that created opportunities for
professional criminals of all backgrounds, often specifically for
those of Chinese descent. For example, the illegal traffic of
women, laborers, and opium were consequences of the anti-Chinese
laws. Despite a hostile, racist climate, however, Chinese criminals
were able to purchase protection and some semblance of economic and
political equality from corrupt politicians, police officers, and
bureaucrats. While other Chinese-Americans worked diligently and
bravely to remove racist laws and regulations, Chinatown gangsters
instead saw opportunity for profit and power. This study tests the
conventional wisdom of academics, the media, and the government
about Chinese organized crime against the historical record and
seeks to establish whether it is emerging, nontraditional, or both,
and whether it personifies a new international criminal threat to
the United States. The analysis of the historical perspective of
Chinese organized crime is augmented by detailed accounts of
individual gangsters and events. The research is accumulated from
contemporary histories and sociological treatments of New York's
Chinatown and tong warfare, as well as from newspapers, reform
pamphlets, travel guides, and municipal reports. There is a void in
the history, criminology, ethnic studies, and sociological fields
that this unique book will surely fill.
This Volume of "Advances in Econometrics" contains a selection of
papers presented initially at the 7th Annual Advances in
Econometrics Conference held on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana during November 14-16, 2008. The theme of the conference
was 'Nonparametric Econometric Methods', and the papers selected
for inclusion in this Volume span a range of nonparametric
techniques including kernel smoothing, empirical copulas, series
estimators, and smoothing splines along with a variety of
semiparametric methods. The papers in this Volume cover topics of
interest to those who wish to familiarize themselves with current
nonparametric methodology. Many papers also identify areas
deserving of future attention. There exist survey papers devoted to
recent developments in nonparametric nance, constrained
nonparametric regression, miparametric/nonparametric environmental
econometrics and nonparametric models with non-stationary data.
There exist theoretical papers dealing with novel approaches for
partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects,
xed effects semiparametric panel data models, functional
coefficient models with time series data, exponential series
estimators of empirical copulas, estimation of multivariate CDFs
and bias-reduction methods for density estimation. There also exist
a number of applications that analyze returns to education, the
evolution of income and life expectancy, the role of governance in
growth, farm production, city size and unemployment rates,
derivative pricing, and environmental pollution and economic
growth. In short, this Volume contains a range of theoretical
developments, surveys, and applications that would be of interest
to those who wish to keep abreast of some of the most important
current developments in the field of nonparametric estimation.
In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and
annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It
is a special source that provides evidence for understanding
early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the
western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and
continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of
this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly
seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English
translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and
reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.
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The Santa Incident (DVD)
Ali Lyons, Ione Skye, Sean McConaghy, Jonathan Kerrigan, Michael McElhatton, …
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Discovery Miles 880
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Yelena Lanskaya directs this festive comedy starring James Cosmo
and Ione Skye. While on his way to deliver the world's presents on
Christmas Eve Santa (Cosmo)'s sleigh is shot down by American
military agents for fear he is an imposter from outer space. As
Santa is taken in to Homeland Security headquarters for questioning
he has to try to convince the disbelievers of his existence in
order to save Christmas.
Cross-Cultural Psychology combines quantitative and qualitative
research with anecdotal material to examine multicultural issues
and capture the richness of diverse cultures in relation to
psychology. This Canadian edition delivers first-person narrative
accounts by people in Canada of all ages and cultural backgrounds
to illustrate compelling topics such as communication, racial and
cultural identity, development, racism, worldviews, and immigration
within our national context and beyond.
""Nonparametric Econometrics" by Li and Racine is a must for any
serious econometrician or statistician who is working on
cutting-edge problems. The theoretical treatment of nonparametric
methods is remarkably complete in its coverage of mainstream and
relatively arcane topics. I particularly like Li and Racine's
general treatment of continuous and discrete regressors and of
specification testing, topics that I have not seen handled in such
a comprehensive fashion. I will certainly use this in my graduate
econometrics courses and in conducting my own research."--Robin
Sickles, Rice University
"Very few studies have tried to apply the nonparametric
techniques to analyze real data. The lack of applications of those
techniques is perhaps attributable to the lack of a good textbook
that explains intuitively how and why those techniques work. This
book by Li and Racine serves both applied researchers and graduate
students. It is written in plain language so that it can be
understood by anyone with basic econometrics but zero knowledge of
nonparametric methods. And it contains enough specifics that
clearly spell out steps to implement those methods."--Chunrong Ai,
University of Florida
"This book represents a very significant contribution to the
field of econometrics. It provides an extremely thorough coverage
of our knowledge in the area of nonparametric and semiparametric
methods as they apply to economic models and economic data. And it
makes accessible, for the first time, a body of relatively new
material relating to discrete and 'mixed' data. There is a good
balance of theoretical material and applications. Apart from
serving as a superb teaching text in graduate-level courseswhere
the students have a strong econometrics/statistics preparation, I
believe this book will become a must-have reference resource for
many researchers."--David E. Giles, University of Victoria
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