The Implications of Changing Employment Relations for Worker's Compensation

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Since around the turn of the millennium there has been a general acceptance that one of the more practical improvements one may make in the light of the shortfalls of the classical Black-Scholes model is to replace the underlying source of randomness, a Brownian motion, by a Lévy process. Working with Lévy processes allows one to capture desirable distributional characteristics in the stock returns. In addition, recent work on Lévy processes has led to the understanding of many probabilistic and analytical properties, which make the processes attractive as mathematical tools. At the same time, exotic derivatives are gaining increasing importance as financial instruments and are traded nowadays in large quantities in OTC markets. The current volume is a compendium of chapters, each of which consists of discursive review and recent research on the topic of exotic option pricing and advanced Lévy markets, written by leading scientists in this field.

In recent years, Lévy processes have leapt to the fore as a tractable mechanism for modeling asset returns. Exotic option values are especially sensitive to an accurate portrayal of these dynamics. This comprehensive volume provides a valuable service for financial researchers everywhere by assembling key contributions from the world's leading researchers in the field. Peter Carr, Head of Quantitative Finance, Bloomberg LP.

This book provides a front-row seat to the hottest new field in modern finance: options pricing in turbulent markets. The old models have failed, as many a professional investor can sadly attest. So many of the brightest minds in mathematical finance across the globe are now in search of new, more accurate models. Here, in one volume, is a comprehensive selection of this cutting-edge research. Richard L. Hudson, former Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, and co-author with Benoit B. Mandelbrot of The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

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The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea of culture has come under attack. The growth of cultural studies has played an important role in redefining culture by including popular culture and questions of social stratification, power and social conflict.

Law and legal studies are relative latecomers to cultural studies. As scholars have come to see law as not something apart from culture and society, they have begun to explore the connections between law and culture. Focusing on the production, interpretation, consumption and circulation of legal meaning, these scholars suggest that law is inseparable from the interests, goals and understandings that deeply shape or compromise social life. Against this background, Law in the Domains of Culture brings the insights and approaches of cultural studies to law and tries to secure for law a place in cultural analysis. This book provides a sampling of significant theoretical issues in the cultural analysis of law and illustrates some of those issues in provocative examples of the genre. Law in the Domains of Culture is designed to encourage the still tentative efforts to forge a new interdisciplinary synthesis, cultural studies of law.

The contributors are Carol Clover, Rosemary Coombe, Marjorie Garber, Thomas R. Kearns, William Miller, Andrew Ross, Austin Sarat, and Martha Woodmansee.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy, Amherst College.

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Dr. Frye explores the biology of several invertebrate species which are frequently kept in captivity. Invertebrates may be kept as pets, research subjects, study animals, or as live prey for higher animals. Whatever the reason for keeping captive invertebrates, it is important to understand how to care for them properly. Topics in this volume include caging requirements, feeding, reproduction, and medical disorders of captive invertebrates. This book also includes guidelines for those who wish to culture invertebrates as prey species.

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Origins of Plastids looks at symbiosis and symbiogenesis as a mechanism of evolution. This theory of endosymbiotic evolution postulates that photosynthetic prokaryotes living as endosymbionts within eukaryotic cells gradually evolved into the organelle structures called chloroplasts. The theory is controversial but has been strongly advocated by Lynn Margulis. Based on a colloquium held at the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory of the University of California at Davis, Origins of Plastids reviews recent data on this most basic problem in plant evolution. In it, leading researchers in the field apply the theory of endosymbiotic evolution to plastid origins, producing an important new reference work for both professionals and graduates interested in the origins of life, the origins of the eukaryotic cell and its organelles, and the evolution of the higher plants in general. Origins of Plastids represents the state-of-the-art in its field. It should find a place on the bookshelves of people interested in microbiology, plant science, phycology, cell biology, and evolution.

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The nature of the chemical bond, and the structure of molecules and crystals: An introduction to modern structural chemistry (The George Fisher Baker non-resident ... in chemistry at Cornell University)
Linus Pauling
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One of the Masterpiece.......2003-08-24

This book is one of the Masterpiece in Chemistry.
You simply can not rate this book in stars values. It is one of the EPIC in Chemistry.
I should say it is a bible or Bhagavad-Gita for chemists,

An all time classic.......2001-05-13

"It is better to foresee, even without certainty, than not to foresee at all", writes Linus Pauling in the preface of this book, which has become a bible for chemists.When I first read this book, I thought that it was unnecessarily detailed.But then, as I patiently went through the chapters, I realised that Pauling has truly "foreseen with certainty" in his career and discoveries, which is slowly but surely revealed in this book.I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in how a few simple scientific ideas lead to the explanation of literally hundreds of phenomena.In this book, the two times Nobel Prize winner has beautifully demonstrated how his classic 'Valence Bond Theory' can be applied to explain the bewildering array of atoms, molecules and crystals around us.In each chapter, the author introduces certain classic principles like resonance, electronegativity,partial ionic character of bonds, partial double bond character, and hybridization.These concepts are today the cornerstone of the description of thousands of simple molecules. It should be noted that the valence bond approach has its drawbacks, which Pauling does not discuss.It is also true that the Molecular Orbital Theory has replaced his theory in making quantitative calculations.However, Pauling's masterly style of writing and the insights which almost each and every page of this book give the reader, are unparalleled.Even though the book would perhaps not prove useful as a modern chemistry book, I think it should be read by each and every chemist and chemistry student as the ultimate example of simplicity,variety and beauty.It is one of the finest examples of how one extraordinary scientist tries to explain diverse chemical phenomena with a few simple ideas.

The Chemist's Guide to Valence Bond Theory

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Intended for chemists who are not necessarily experts on theory, but have some background in quantum chemistry, The Chemist's Guide to Valence Bond Theory is designed to teach chemists how to use VB theory to think concisely and rigorously and how to use VB computations. It familiarizes readers with the various VB-based computational tools and methods available today and their use for a given chemical problem. The book provides samples of inputs/outputs and instructs the reader on how to interpret the results. Applications discussed in the book include bonding problems, organic reactions, inorganic/organometallic reactions, and bioinorganic/biochemical reactions.

Classics in the Theory of Chemical Combination

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A series of papers by the following authors: Wohler, Liebig, Laurent, Williamson, Frankland, Kekule, Couper, van't Hoff, and le Bel. From the back cover: "The papers collected here represent the major chapter in the development of the valence concept in chemistry."

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Electronic structure of metals
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In this day of digitalization, you can work within the technology of optics without having to fully understand the science behind it. However, for those who wish to master the science, rather than merely be its servant, it's essential to learn the nuances, such as those involved with studying fringe patterns produced by optical testing interferometers. When Interferogram Analysis for Optical Testing originally came to print, it filled the need for an authoritative reference on this aspect of fringe analysis. That it was also exceptionally current and highly accessible made its arrival even more relevant. Of course, any book on something as cutting edge as interferogram analysis, no matter how insightful, isn't going to stay relevant forever. The second edition of Interferogram Analysis for Optical Testing is designed to meet the needs of all those involved or wanting to become involved in this area of advanced optical engineering. For those new to the science, it provides the necessary fundamentals, including basic computational methods for studying fringe patterns. For those with deeper experience, it fills in the gaps and adds the information necessary to complete and update one's education. Written by the most experienced researchers in optical testing, this text discusses classical and innovative fringe analysis, principles of Fourier theory, digital image filtering, phase detection algorithms, and aspheric wavelength testing. It also explains how to assess wavefront deformation by calculating slope and local average curvature.

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Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism by reading reports of libertine activities and texts of libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and William Wycherley. Webster argues that libertines, both real and imagined, performed traditionally secretive acts, including excessive drinking, sex, sedition, and sacrilege, in the public sphere. This eruption of the private into the public challenged a Stuart ideology that distinguished between the nation's public life and the king's and his subjects' private consciences. Although this eruption was contained by the early 1680s, the libertine performances this book analyzes nevertheless played an important part in the history of English radicalism.

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the (ambiguous) libertine: corrupter, reformer, or something else altogether ?.......2006-12-12

Focusing on the five most famous or infamous libertines of the 1660's and 1670's (Rochester, Sedley, Etherege, Wycherley, and George Villiers duke of Buckingham) Webster reads this selective group of libertine's real-life performances and their libertine plays as attempts by their authors to both fashion themselves and fashion new kinds of characters (often based on real-life libertines) to contest normative codes of subjectification. Webster focuses on the political aims and effects of libertine self-fashioning/performance, but the libertines are slippery figures and libertine drama can be read in many ways and made to mean many contradictory things.

Since each dramatist or poet uses the libertine discourse in a different way for different ends it is very difficult to say anything about libertinism that applies to all libertines. For instance the most famous play of the Restoration, _The Man of Mode_,was written by one libertine, Etherege, but loosely based on the exploits of another, Rochester. But Webster does not consider to what extent the play is simply a means for Etherege to make money off of his more famous friend's notoriety. For Rochester writing and libertinism were both socially marked aristocratic activities; but for those who were not born to the aristocratic class and who made their living by their pen, like Etherege and Wycherely, the practice of libertinism could be interpreted as a means to an end; the end being social advancement at court, and a steady income from the theatre. Though each libertine had a separate political agenda, some were Whigs and some Tories, none of them were interested in toppling a political system upon which their status depended. So the libertine was political, but not a political radical as Webster contends. The libertines like everyone else at this time were caught up in the debate as to where power should reside: with the people or with a monarch or somehwere inbetween (ie parliament). Interestingly enough it was the libertines who had the least status that were most loyal to Charles II while the libertines with titles tended to side with the Whigs. To me this seems to be the most interesting of the many libertine paradoxes but Webster leaves it largely unexplored.

Webster is convinced that libertinism waned because the critics of Charles II began to view his libertine friends and the libertine theatre that he sponsored as agents of disorder (a misperception in Webster's view) instead of as agents of reform. The villainizing of the libertine began in the late 1670's and continued throughout the long 18th century. Webster contends that the libertines were very influential but since they never mounted anything like a united front or offered anything in the way of clear political directives (George Villiers would be the exception here as he did have clear political ideas and ambitions) its difficult to see exactly how they could have been perceived as politically influential. They were friends with each other and with Charles II but friends with important differences. Their individualism and their individual applications of a philosophy that was never strictly defined makes it very difficult to say exactly what libertinism meant to any particular libertine at any given time or exactly what the political ramifications of libertinism, if any, might have been. The libertines certainly were very popular in the aesthetic sphere but it is not clear how this kind of popularity translated into political influence.

What makes the libertine seem so attractive in some of the plays is that he appears to be a political free agent capable of determining his own life and unlike the other characters he seems capable of seeing life for what it is, but, in actuality as Webster reminds us, the libertine is very much a part of the social world and must maneuver within that world as it exists. Thus in many of the plays the libertine is portrayed as a strategist (or as Webster calls him a "trickster"). But he's also (often though not always) a character that realizes the limits of his own self-serving practices and at least gestures toward some kind of reform. The extent to which this gesture toward self-reform was a political comment on the reign of Charles II (and if it was a political coment what kind of comment it was) remains unclear. It is also unclear whether this gesture toward reform is genuine or strategic; the ultimate aim of the libertine is never spelled out. Critical reception of libertine plays has been as controversial as the plays themselves. For three centuries a debate has raged over whether the plays were meant to celebrate vice and folly or expose it and censor it.

As far as audience response to the libertine Webster has a theory for that too but very little real evidence to support just how the audience perceived libertinism as it was performed on stage. Webster argues that the character made people conscious of themselves as judges of their social and politicial worlds and of themselves and this is certainly possible and various versions of this view have been argued and forwarded by others, but its also possible that the public wanted quick fix solutions and were not particularly interested in the theatre as a forum for public debate but were more interested in the theatre as a place offering escape from the complexity and confusion of the social world, and the fantasy/illusion of independence that is roguish romance would have offered an attractive few hours of entertainment. Whether the plays offered a relief from subjectification or an analysis of it or both is uncertain. To what extent these plays are an accurate representation of the social world and to what extent they exagerrate or distort the social world and with what purposes/intentions those exagerrations/distortions are made, if that is in fact what they are, is unclear. These uncertainties inform all studies of the Restoration stage. Audience response like authorial intention is purely a matter of speculation.

Libertinism is effective as a critique of norms and status and power but it really offers nothing in the way of solutions to the age's anxieties about the unstable nature of these abstractions/constructions on which society rests and relies and with which it legitimizes itself; and thus the plays often end ambiguously. In his conclusion Webster discusses Jeffreys' 1994 play and the 2005 movie version of _The Libertine_. Even though the play and film end as ambiguously as the original libertine plays often did (as it is unclear whether Rochester's repentance at the end of the play/film is genuine or just a mock repentance) Webster elides this ambiguity which has been central not just to Rochester's mythos but to the libertine mythos in general. Webster does not acknowledge that there is ambiguity in this ending; he simply avoids it altogether and ends his book with the generality that the lasting appeal of the libertine is his unapologetic pursuit of pleasure which unnerves a society that is obsessed with containing sexuality in moral codes. This tendency to sweep away ambiguity with generality seems to be a habit of mind that informs many of his readings, including his reading of the ending of _The Man of Mode_.

*Webster is arguably more comfortable with his theoretical armature than with the plays themselves. Plus the omission of poetry (where sexual topics were treated with much more candor than was permitted on stage) leaves this study feeling curiously incomplete and shallow. Theres a lot of information here but also a lot of speculation. I found this book valuable because it does raise a lot of interesting issues even if I do not always agree with the readings of the individual plays or the much too pat conclusions.

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