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The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

This edited collection brings together a team of top industry experts to provide a comprehensive look at the entire media workflow from start to finish. The Media Workflow Puzzle gives readers an in-depth overview of the workflow process from production to distribution to archiving. Pulling from the expertise of twenty contributing authors and editors the book covers topics including content production postproduction systems media asset management content distribution and archiving and preservation offering the reader an understanding of all the various elements and processes that go into the media workflow ecosystem. It concludes with an exploration of the possibilities for the future of media workflows and the new opportunities it may bring. Professionals and students alike looking to understand how to manage media content for its entire lifecycle will find this an invaluable resource. | The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

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The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

Mixed martial arts (MMA)—unarmed fighting games permitting techniques derived from a variety of martial arts and combat sports— has exploded from the fringes of sport into a worldwide phenomenon a sport as controversial as it is compelling. This is the first book to pay MMA the serious philosophical attention it deserves. With contributions from leading international scholars of the philosophy of sport and martial arts the book explores topics such as whether MMA qualifies as a martial art the differences between MMA and the traditional martial arts the aesthetic dimensions of MMA the limits of consent and choice in MMA and whether MMA can promote moral virtues. It also explores cutting-edge practical and ethical topics including the role of gender in MMA and the question of whether trans athletes should be allowed to compete in the women’s divisions. The contributors to this anthology take down ground and pound and submit many essential questions about this fascinating recent development in the culture of sport and spectacle. This is important reading for anybody with an interest in combat sports martial arts or the philosophy sociology culture or history of sport. | The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

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Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture physical facility changes and – most importantly – the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility from an engineering and workflow perspective. Fully updated this second edition covers the technological evolutions and changes in the media broadcast industry including the new standards and specifications for live IP production the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards the necessity of protecting against cyber threats and the expansion of cloud services in opening new possibilities. It provides users with the necessary information for planning organizing producing and distributing media for the modern broadcast facility. Key features of this text include: Strategies to implement a cost-effective live and file-based production and distribution system. A cohesive big-picture viewpoint that helps you identify how to overcome the challenges of upgrading your plant. The impact live production is having on the evolution to IP. Case studies serve as recommendations and examples of use. New considerations in engineering and maintenance of IP and file-based systems. Those in the fields of TV cable IT engineering and broadcast engineering will find this book an invaluable resource as will students learning how to set up modern broadcast facilities and the workflows of contemporary broadcasting. | Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

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Analytical Peace Economics The illusion of war for peace

Analytical Peace Economics The illusion of war for peace

The Middle East is at an unprecedented crossroads between the established Euro-centric system and the emerging Asian powerhouses like India and China. Their economies policies and social structures are a half-way-house between these two dominant groups and are an important case study to examine in order to highlight future prospects and problems of the global system. The Middle East is an important missing piece in a huge global puzzle. This book makes a significant step towards understanding that puzzle and offers solutions for how to fully integrate this missing jigsaw piece into the global economic system. Analytical Peace Economics: The Illusion of War for Peace focuses on three critical issues in the Middle East that dominate discussions about their place in the global political economy: conflict oil and (regional) development. Examining economic and social development in juxtaposition with conflict and peace this book adapts develops and applies historical geographical economic and psychological methods creating a nuanced approach to the collective understanding of the economic and social dynamics in the region. By developing theoretical models and analysing empirical research this book offers an economic analysis of the attempt to find peace through war and seeks to find alternative solutions. This book will be of interest to researchers policy makers and doctoral students of economics finance and social sciences as well as advanced undergraduate students of peace economics and development studies. | Analytical Peace Economics The illusion of war for peace

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The Baseball Mysteries Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

The Baseball Mysteries Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles logical baseball puzzles. To jump in all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts. The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules). Unlike legal arguments however a solution must reach an unassailable conclusion. There are many puzzle books. But there’s nothing remotely like this book. The puzzles here while rigorously deductive are firmly attached to actual events to struggles that are reported in the papers every day. The puzzles offer a unique and scintillating connection between abstract logic and gritty reality. Actually this book offers the reader an unlimited number of puzzles. Once you’ve solved a few of the challenges here every boxscore you see in the papers or online is a new puzzle! It can be anywhere from simple to complex to impossible. For anyone who enjoys logical puzzles. For anyone interested in legal reasoning. For anyone who loves the game of baseball. Jerry Butters has a BA in mathematics from Oberlin College and an MS in mathematics and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He taught mathematics for two years at Mindanao State University in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer. He taught economics for five years at Princeton University. For most of his career he worked on consumer protection cases and policy issues at the Federal Trade Commission. In his retirement he has become a piano teacher and performer. He enjoys hobbies ranging from reading Chinese to practicing Taiji. This book is an outgrowth of another of his hobbies—his love of designing and solving puzzles of all sorts. Jim Henle has a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College and a PhD from M. I. T. He taught for two years at U. P. Baguio in the Philippines as a Peace Corps volunteer two years at a middle school as alternative service and 42 years at Smith College. His research is primarily in logic and set theory with additional papers in geometry graph theory number theory games economics and music. He edited columns for The Mathematical Intelligencer. He authored or co-authored five books. His most recent book The Proof and the Pudding compares mathematics and gastronomy. He has collaborated with Jerry on puzzle papers and chamber music concerts. | The Baseball Mysteries Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

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The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting skills were widely available contrary to previous scholarly assumptions. The majority of the Lower Niger Bronzes which we know number in the thousands are of subjects not found elsewhere such as leopard skull replicas grotesque bell heads ritual objects and humanoid figures. Important puzzle pieces are now in place to permit a more complete reconstruction of southern Nigerian history. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history African studies African history and anthropology. | The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

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Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education

Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education

This volume aims to expand knowledge about the history of comparative education. It explores new scholarship on key actors and ways of knowing in the field. It aims to raise awareness on the positionality of historical narratives about this field of inquiry and offers a re-think of its histories. Since comparative education has always been embedded within a global field of power what would the changing world order’s implications be for the institutional and intellectual histories of the field? This book offers diverse perspectives for re-theorising the histories of comparative education. It suggests casting a far-sighted and panoramic look at the field’s origins. The volume concludes with a puzzle for future work on a global history of comparative education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education. | Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour

From David Hume’s famous puzzle about the missing shade of blue to current research into the science of colour the topic of colour is an incredibly fertile region of study and debate cutting across philosophy of mind epistemology metaphysics and aesthetics as well as psychology. Debates about the nature of our experience of colour and the nature of colour itself are central to contemporary discussion and argument in philosophy of mind and psychology and philosophy of perception. This outstanding Handbook contains 29 specially commissioned contributions by leading philosophers and examines the most important aspects of philosophy of colour. It is organized into six parts:The Importance of Colour to PhilosophyThe Science and Spaces of ColourColour PhenomenaColour OntologyColour Experience and EpistemologyLanguage Categories and Thought. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology epistemology metaphysics and aesthetics as well as for those interested in conceptual issues in the psychology of colour.

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Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films television animation and video games the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting. Featuring over 20 contributions the volume surveys the art of screen narrative and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting film theory philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling modern blockbusters puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons Gravity Falls) David Greenberg (Stomping Ground Used to Love Her) Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru. Ideal for students of Screenwriting and Screen Narrative as well as aspiring screenwriters wanting to provide theoretical context to their craft. | Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

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Dance Legacies of Scotland The True Glen Orchy Kick

Dance Legacies of Scotland The True Glen Orchy Kick

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like. The authors also explain what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from Scottish dancing practices. Their research draws together fieldwork references from historical sources in English Scots and Scottish Gaelic and insights drawn from the authors’ practical knowledge of dances. They portray the complex network of dance dialects that existed in parallel across Scotland and share how remnants of this vibrant tradition have endured in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora to the present day. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Dance and Music and its relationship to the history and culture of Scotland. | Dance Legacies of Scotland The True Glen Orchy Kick

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Play and playfulness for public health and wellbeing

Play and playfulness for public health and wellbeing

The role of play in human and animal development is well established and its educational and therapeutic value is widely supported in the literature. This innovative book extends the play debate by assembling and examining the many pieces of the play puzzle from the perspective of public health. It tackles the dual aspects of art and science which inform both play theory and public health policy and advocates for a ‘playful’ pursuit of public health through the integration of evidence from parallel scientific and creative endeavors. Drawing on international research evidence the book addresses some of the major public health concerns of the 21st century – obesity inactivity loneliness and mental health – advocating for creative solutions to social disparities in health and wellbeing. From attachment at the start of life to detachment at life’s ending in the home and in the workplace and across virtual and physical environments play is presented as vital to the creation of a new ‘culture of health’. This book represents a valuable resource for students academics practitioners and policy-makers across a range of fields of interest including play health the creative arts and digital and environmental design. | Play and playfulness for public health and wellbeing

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Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autocratic regimes goes hand in hand with a lack of systematic research on the results of the political and substantive policy performance of variants of autocratic regimes. The contributions in this second volume of Comparing Autocracies are united by the assumption that the performance of political regimes and their persistence are related. Furthermore autocratic institutions and the specific configurations of elite actors within authoritarian regime coalitions induce dictators to undertake certain policies and that different authoritarian institutions are therefore an important piece of the puzzle of government performance in dictatorships. Based on these two prepositions the contributions explore the differences between autocracies and democracies as well as between different forms of non-democratic regimes in regard to their outcome performance in selected policy fields; how political institutions affect autocratic performance and persistence; whether policy performance matter for the persistence of authoritarian rule; and what happens to dictators once autocratic regimes fall. This book is an amalgam of articles from the journals Democratization Contemporary Politics and Politische Vierteljahresschrift. | Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

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Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze Perspectives on gender class and politics in the Heptaméron

Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze Perspectives on gender class and politics in the Heptaméron

Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559 has long been an interpretive puzzle. De Navarre (1492-1549) sister of King Francis I of France was a controversial figure in her lifetime. Her evangelical activities and proximity to the Crown placed her at the epicenter of her country’s internecine strife and societal unrest. Yet her short stories appear to offer few traces of the sociopolitical turbulence that surrounded her. In Marguerite de Navarre’s Shifting Gaze however Elizabeth Zegura argues that the Heptaméron’s innocuous appearance camouflages its serious insights into patriarchy and gender social class and early modern French politics which emerge from an analysis of the text’s shifting perspectives. Zegura’s approach which focuses on visual cues and alternative standpoints and viewing positions within the text hinges upon foregrounding les choses basses (lowly things) to which the devisante (storyteller) Oisille draws our attention in nouvelle (novella) 2 of the Heptaméron using this downward archaeological gaze to excavate layers of the text that merit more extensive critical attention. While her conclusions cast a new light on the literature life and times of Marguerite de Navarre they are nevertheless closely aligned with recent scholarship on this important historical and literary figure. | Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze Perspectives on gender class and politics in the Heptaméron

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Latin American Economic Development

Latin American Economic Development

Latin America is one of the most intriguing parts of the world. The region’s illustrious history culture and geography are famous internationally but in terms of economics Latin America has been generally associated with problems. For many the combination of a resource-rich region and poor economic conditions has been a puzzle. This extensively revised and updated third edition of Latin American Economic Development continues to provide the most up-to-date exploration of why the continent can be considered to have underperformed how the various Latin American economies function and the future prospects for the region. The book addresses the economic problems of Latin America theme by theme. Changes and new features in this new edition include: a new chapter on economic growth that reflects the new understanding of slow growth in the region; two new appendices on basic microeconomics and macroeconomics; expanded coverage on new commodities such as lithium and quinoa; a number of new boxes and updates to existing boxes; for instructors PowerPoint presentations and an extensive test bank are available. The book provides a comprehensive text for undergraduate economics courses on Latin America and is also suitable for use by students in other disciplines looking for a wide-ranging guide to the region. This book will continue to be an invaluable resource for undergraduates looking at Latin American economics growth and development.

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Engaging in Narrative Inquiry

Engaging in Narrative Inquiry

In Engaging in Narrative Inquiry Second Edition D. Jean Clandinin a pioneer in narrative research updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry clarifying extending and refining methods. This updated edition looks at changes and developments in the field since the publication of the first edition in 2013 exploring how narrative inquiry explores human lives through a narrative lens that honors experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. The book includes several exemplary cases with the author’s critique and analysis of the work. The following are new to this edition: New exemplary cases including Menon’s autobiographical narrative inquiry as the starting point for framing a research puzzle and justifying a study Chung’s account of a study that begins with living alongside participants and a paper from Swanson’s autobiographical narrative inquiry An expanded discussion of the philosophical grounding of narrative inquiry An expanded discussion of relational ethics in narrative inquiry that highlights links to a relational ontology An updated account of the field of narrative inquiry that highlights future directions including the necessity of response groups and questions of responsibility and community The increasing interest in narrative inquiry as research methodology across disciplines makes this book an essential guide and an excellent text for graduate courses in qualitative inquiry education and nursing research sociology and all courses in autobiographical and narrative research and inquiry.

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How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop Challenges and Opportunities

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop Challenges and Opportunities

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work learning developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives. Based on a study of 100 non-permanent workers in Singapore it offers a model to guide thinking about workers’ learning and development in terms of an ‘integrated practice’ of craft entrepreneurial and personal learning-to-learn skills. The book considers how strategies for continuing education and training can better fit with the realities of non-permanent work. Through its use of case studies the book exams the significance of non-permanent work and its rise as a global phenomenon. It considers the reality of being a non-permanent worker and reactions to learning opportunities for these individuals. The book draws these aspects together to present a conceptual frame of ‘integrated practices’ challenging educational institutions and training providers to design and deliver learning and the enacted curriculum not as separate pieces of a puzzle but as an integrated whole. With conclusions that have wider salience for public policy responses to the rise of non-permanent work this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of adult education educational policy and lifelong learning. | How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop Challenges and Opportunities

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The Political Economy Of Argentina Power And Class Since 1930

The Political Economy Of Argentina Power And Class Since 1930

Economic developments in Argentina over the last half-century present a puzzle to observers: Before World War II the nation's per capita income and standard of living were comparable to those in countries like Canada and Australia; today Argentina is submerged in deep economic social and political crises. In analyzing the events that led to this reversal the author enhances our understanding of the phenomenon of arrested economic development in Argentina and similar developing countries. Dr. Peralta-Ramos approaches the problem with a dialectical interpretation of contemporary Argentinian history examining crucial economic and political developments since 1930 from the standpoint of class interests in conflict. She discusses early government strategies for industrialization and their consequences for economic growth and institutional stability maintaining that state policies generated a struggle for the appropriation of income and ultimately for control of the state not only between the middle classes and the urban working class but also between the agrarian and industrial sectors of the bourgeoisie. The ensuing political instability led to further fluctuations in economic policy to an erosion of institutional legitimacy and eventually to state terrorism. Ongoing political crisis war and military rule as well as soaring speculation and dwindling capital hastened the downward spiral of the Argentinian economy. Dr. Peralta-Ramos offers in this book an innovative theoretical approach for examining how power relations can inhibit economic development and produce a fragile institutional system that threatens democracy. | The Political Economy Of Argentina Power And Class Since 1930

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Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive Using Theory to Strengthen Practice

Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive Using Theory to Strengthen Practice

Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive provides a unique approach to preparing prospective education leaders by combining theory research and practice. Grounded in organizational and leadership theory this book helps leaders understand their schools and districts from multiple perspectives and develop their own leadership aspirations approaches and missions. Well-known authors Brazer Bauer and Johnson present authentic practical problems illuminate them with appropriate theory and research and give readers opportunities to solve common puzzles as a means to grow wisdom about how to lead especially when confronted with complex challenges. This book is an invaluable resource for aspiring leaders one that readers will reference as they proceed through their leadership coursework and keep close at hand throughout their leadership career. Special Features: eResources—complementary resources for instructors and students including a set of authentic role-playing scenarios accessible from https://www. routledge. com/9781138039100 Vignettes—introduce the reader to real-life dilemmas that impact teaching and learning and provide a central reference point for discussions of theory research and practice. Theory and Research—frameworks and examples inform common leadership challenges helping readers expand their knowledge and experience base to explore situations similar to their own contexts. Puzzles—real-world situations test knowledge and provide opportunities to practice ideas for effective leadership. Thought Partner Discussions (TPCs) and Extended Web Activities (EWAs)—additional thought activities opportunities for reflection and suggestions for discussion provoke puzzle solving. | Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive Using Theory to Strengthen Practice

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Development in Nigeria Promise on Hold?

Development in Nigeria Promise on Hold?

This book unravels the trajectories and dilemmas of development in Nigeria since its independence in 1960. Despite enormous human and material resources development progress in Nigeria has not met expectations. By delving into the various factors that have influenced development efforts and initiatives Development in Nigeria: Promise on Hold? aims to draw out lessons to help the country to achieve its potential. In many ways Nigeria typifies the African puzzle of near-misses a never-ending drive towards development with enormous promise but no real practical output. As in many states within Africa these failures can be traced to structural inadequacies and the perennial weakness of public institutions. Problems which collectively undermine sustainable development and growth include political corruption ethnicity failure of public institutions distributional injustice fiscal centralism in a purported federal state faulty democratic traditions malevolent elite class religious and social conflicts among others. By taking a comprehensive panoramic overview of the country’s historical experience as both a military dictatorship and democracy Edlyne Eze Anugwom presents a nuanced comprehensive and contemporary interrogation of the ever-dynamic forces and factors in Nigeria’s development project. This book’s incisive examination of Nigeria’s development aspirations over time will be of interest to students of Development and African Studies as well as to practitioners and multilateral agencies involved in development planning and intervention in Nigeria who are looking for strategies for overcoming the challenges facing the country. | Development in Nigeria Promise on Hold?

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Mathematical Conundrums

Mathematical Conundrums

Want to sharpen your mathematical wits? If so then Mathematical Conundrums is for you. Daily Telegraph enigmatologist Barry R. Clarke presents over 120 fiendish problems that will test both your ingenuity and persistence. Between these covers are puzzles in geometry arithmetic and algebra (there is even a section for computer programmers). And for the smartest readers who wish to stretch their mind to its limits a selection of engaging logic and visual lateral puzzles is included. Although no puzzle requires a greater knowledge of mathematics than the high school curriculum this collection will take you to the edge. But are you equal to the challenge? Features High-school level of mathematics is the only pre-requisite Variety of algebraic route-drawing and geometrical conundrums Hints section for the lateral puzzles Warm-up excercises to sharpen the wits Full solutions to every problem Barry R. Clarke has published over 1 500 puzzles in The Daily Telegraph and has contributed enigmas to New Scientist The Sunday Times Reader’s Digest The Sunday Telegraph and Prospect magazine. His book Challenging Logic Puzzles Mensa has sold over 100 000 copies. As well as a PhD in Shakespeare Studies Barry has a master’s degree and academic publications in quantum physics. He is now working on a revised theory of the hydrogen atom. Other skills include mathematics tutor filmmaker comedy-sketch writer cartoonist computer programmer and blues guitarist! For more information please visit http://barryispuzzled. com.

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Economic Indicators for Professionals Putting the Statistics into Perspective

Economic Indicators for Professionals Putting the Statistics into Perspective

We are bombarded with economic numbers: unemployment retail sales inflation GDP—the list goes on and on. Some analyst or another is constantly telling us about an obscure statistic that is the key to our future or is apparently the indicator that the Fed will be using to key off its decisions. With economic numbers playing such a central role in the national and world dialogue on policy and markets and spilling over into the political arena a broad review of what they are all about is timely. This book reviews the critical US economic data and how one may put the numbers into an intellectual structure that will depict evolving economic reality. The work is aimed at those who want and need to get some understanding about how the data contributes to a big picture of the economy and guides policy. The objective is for the reader to grasp the overall logic of the data—how each piece of the puzzle contributes to our understanding of the overall economy. This is the way the Fed looks at the numbers. There are other books that go through the economic numbers but they do so in a bottom-up fashion describing a series in some detail and adding something about how financial markets may respond to it. This book naturally has considerable discussion of series but views them as part of the overall mosaic not items of fundamental interest in themselves. | Economic Indicators for Professionals Putting the Statistics into Perspective

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Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis and informed by a lifelong experience of research in Central Africa the author challenges conventional wisdom and suggests a new perspective for making sense of the appalling brutality that has accompanied the region’s post-independence trajectories. All four states adjacent to Rwanda are inhabited by Hutu and Tutsi and thus contained in germ the potential for ethnic conflict but only in Burundi did this potential reach genocidal proportions when in 1972 in response to a local insurrection at least 200 000 Hutu civilians were killed by a predominantly Tutsi army. By widening his analytic lens the author shows the critical importance of the Burundi bloodshed to an understanding of the roots of the Rwanda genocide and in later years the significance of the mass murder of Hutu civilians by Kagame’s Tutsi army not just in Rwanda but in the Congo. The regional dimension of ethnic conflict traceable to Belgian-engineered Hutu revolution in Rwanda in 1959 three years before its independence is the principal missing piece in the genocidal puzzle of the Great Lakes region of central Africa. But this is by no means the only one. Reassembling the missing pieces within and outside Rwanda is not the least of the merits of this highly readable reassessment of a widely misunderstood human tragedy. | Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

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Child Marriage Rights and Choice Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights

Child Marriage Rights and Choice Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage. In international campaigns against child marriage there is a puzzle of agency: While international human rights institutions celebrate girls’ exercise of their agency not to marry they do not recognize their agency to marry. Child marriage usually defined as ‘any formal marriage or informal union where one or both of the parties are under 18 years of age’ is normally considered as forced – which is to say that it is assumed that are not capable of consenting to marriage. This book however re-examines this assumption through a detailed socio-legal examination of child marriage in Indonesia. Eliciting the multiple competing frameworks according to which child marriage takes place the book considers the complex reasons why children marry. Structural explanations such as lack of opportunities and oppressive social structures are important but not exhaustive explanations. Exploring the subjective reasons by listening to children’s perspectives their stories show that many of them decide to marry for love desire to belong to the community and for new opportunities and hopes. The book then demonstrates how the child marriage framework – and indeed the human rights framework in general – is constructed on too narrow a vision of human agency: One that cannot but fail to respect and promote the agency of all regardless of gender race religion and age. This book will be of interest to scholars students and practitioners in the areas of children’s rights legal anthropology and socio-legal studies. | Child Marriage Rights and Choice Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights

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Philosophy of Language 50 Puzzles Paradoxes and Thought Experiments

Philosophy of Language 50 Puzzles Paradoxes and Thought Experiments

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language. Each entry addresses a paradox a longstanding puzzle or a major theme that has emerged in the field from the last 150 years tracing overlap with issues in philosophy of mind cognitive science ethics political philosophy and literature. Each of the 50 entries is written as a piece that can stand on its own though useful connections to other entries are mentioned throughout the text. Readers can open the book and start with almost any of the entries following themes of greatest interest to them. Each entry includes recommendations for further reading on the topic. Philosophy of Language: 50 Puzzles Paradoxes and Thought Experiments is useful as a standalone textbook or can be supplemented by additional readings that instructors choose. The accessible style makes it suitable for introductory level through intermediate undergraduate courses as well as for independent learners or even as a reference for more advanced students and researchers. Key Features: Uses a problem-centered approach to philosophy of language (rather than author- or theory-centered) making the text more inviting to first-time students of the subject. Offers stand-alone chapters allowing students to quickly understand an issue and giving instructors flexibility in assigning readings to match the themes of the course. Provides up-to-date recommended readings at the end of each chapter or about 500 sources in total amounting to an extensive review of the literature on each topic. | Philosophy of Language 50 Puzzles Paradoxes and Thought Experiments

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