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UNIORUON00275113 |
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SANCHEZ-ALBORNOZ, Claudio |
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L'Espagne musulmane / Claudio Sanchez-Albornoz |
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[Paris], : Opu/Publisud, c1985-2001 |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910815034503321 |
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Autore |
Monod David <1960-> |
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The soul of pleasure : sentiment and sensation in nineteenth-century American mass entertainment / / David Monod |
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Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016 |
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1-5017-0398-6 |
1-5017-0399-4 |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Performing arts - United States - History - 19th century |
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Amusements - United States - History - 19th century |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Enter Sentimentality: The Origins of the Entertainment Revolution -- Chapter 2. Laugh and Grow Fat: Minstrelsy and Burlesque -- Chapter 3. Looking Through: Sentimental Aesthetics -- Chapter 4. The Democratization of Entertainment: The Concert Saloons -- Chapter 5. Any Dodge Is Fair to Raise a Good Sensation: The Danger and Promise of Sensationalism -- Chapter 6. Art with the Effervescence of Ginger Beer: The Creation of Vaudeville -- Chapter 7. Spectacle and Nostalgia on the Road: Traveling Shows -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment. The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture-minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows-and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America's first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment's variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure. |
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UNINA9911019308703321 |
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Thompson James R (James Robert), <1938-> |
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Simulation : a modeler's approach / / James R. Thompson |
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9786612307638 |
9781282307636 |
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9780470317068 |
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9780470317907 |
0470317906 |
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1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Wiley series in probability and statistics. Applied probability and statistics |
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Experimental design |
Mathematical models |
Mathematical statistics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Simulation A Modeler's Approach; Contents; Preface; 1 The Generation of Random Numbers; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. The Generation of Random Uniform Variates; 1.3. Latticing and Other Problems; Problems; References; 2 Random Quadrature; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Hit-or-h.iiss Monte Carlo; 2.3. Sample Mean Monte Carlo; 2.4. Control Variate Sampling; 2.5. Importance Sampling; 2.6. Stratification; 2.7. Antithetic Variates; 2.8, Least Squares Est.imators; 2.9. Evaluation of Multidimensional Integrals; 2.10. Stratification in Multidimensional Integration; 2.11. Wiener Measure and Brownian Motion |
ProblemsReferences; 3 Monte Carlo Solutions of Differential Equations; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Gambler's Ruin; 3.3. Solution of Simple Differential Equations; 3.4. Solution of the Fokker-Planck Equation; 3.5. The Dirichlet Problem; 3.6. Solution of General Elliptic Differential Equations; 3.7. Conclusions; Problems; References; 4 Markov Chains, Poisson Processes, and Linear Equations; 4.1. Discrete Markov |
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hfodeling; 4.1.1. The Basic Model; 4.1.2. Saving the King; 4.1.3. Screening for Cancer; 4.2. Poisson Process Modeling; 4.3. Solving Systems of Linear Equations |
4.3.1. An Inefficient Procedure4.3.2. An Algorithm Based on Jacobi Iteration; Problems; References; 5 SIMEST, SIMDAT, and Pseudoreality; 5.1. Computers Si, Models No; 5.2. The Bootstrap: A Dirac-Comb Density btimator; 5.3. SIh4DAT: 4 Smooth Resampling Algorithm; 5.3.1. The SIhIDAT Algorithm; 5.3.2. An Empirical Justification of SIMDAT; 5.4. SIMEST: .4n Oncological Example; 5.4.1. An Exploratory Prelude; 5.4.2. Model and Algorithms; Problems; References; 6 Models for Stocks and Derivatives; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Ito's Lemma; 6.3. A Geometric Brownian Model for Stocks; 6.4. Diversification |
6.5. Negatively Correlated Portfotios6.6. Bear Jumps; 6.7. Options; 6.8. Getting Real: Simulation Analysis of Option Buying; 6.9. Conclusions; Problems; References; 7 Simulation Assessment of Multivariate and Robust Procedures in Statisticai Process Control; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. A Cont.amination Model for SPC; 7.3. A Compound Test for Higher-Dimensional SPC Data; 7.4. Rank Testing with Higher-Dimensional SPC Data; 7.5. A Robust Estimation Procedure for Location in Higher Dimensions; Problems; Referencas; 8 Noise and Chaos; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. The Discrete Logistic Model |
8.3. A Chaotic Convection Model8.4. Conclusions; Problems; References; 9 Bayesian Approaches; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. The EM Algorithm; 9.3. The Data Augmentation Algorithm; 9.4. The Gibbs Sampler; 9.5. Conclusions; Problems; References; 10 Resampling-Based Tests; 10.1. Introduction; 10.2. Fisher's Analysis of Darwin's Data; 10.3. A Bootstrap Approximation to Fisher's Nonparametric Test; 10.4. The Classical Randomization Test; 10.5. A Resampling-Based Sign Test; 10.6. A Resampling Approach to Confidence Intervds; 10.7. Resampling for Regression Model Selection |
10.8. The Bootstrap as an All-Purpose Tool |
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A unique, integrated treatment of computer modeling and simulation ""The future of science belongs to those willing to make the shift to simulation-based modeling,"" predicts Rice Professor James Thompson, a leading modeler and computational statistician widely known for his original ideas and engaging style. He discusses methods, available to anyone with a fast desktop computer, for integrating simulation into the modeling process in order to create meaningful models of real phenomena. Drawing from a wealth of experience, he gives examples from trading markets, oncology, epidemiology, statist |
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UNINA9911019375403321 |
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Titolo |
International corporate governance after Sarbanes-Oxley / / edited by Paul U. Ali and Greg N. Gregoriou |
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Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley, c2006 |
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9786610409136 |
9781118161128 |
1118161122 |
9781119201885 |
1119201888 |
9781280409134 |
1280409134 |
9780471788423 |
0471788422 |
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1 online resource (609 p.) |
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AliPaul A. U |
GregoriouGreg N. <1956-> |
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Corporate governance |
Corporate governance - Law and legislation |
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Published simultaneously in Canada. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-564) and index. |
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Framework of corporate governance -- Corporate governance and the global financial markets -- Share ownership and shareholder control rights -- Accountability of directors and executives -- Responsibilities to stakeholders, and other emerging trends in corporate governance. |
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""The Sabanes-Oxley Act has been one of the most significant developments in corporate and securities regulation since the New Deal. This collection of important articles would be a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand Sabanes-Oxley's far-reaching effects on corporate governance in the United States and elsewhere.""-Jesse Fried, coauthor of Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley ""The editors have assembled the latest cutting- |
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edge research on international corporate gov |
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