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Prime time attraction: Tracie's story. New York: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1987.

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Girion, Barbara. Prime time attraction: Tracie's story. New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1987.

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John, Moore. The unhandsome prince. New York: Ace Books, 2005.

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The Prince and I. London: Headline Eternal, 2015.

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Trees, Andrew S. Decoding love: Why it takes twelve frogs to find a prince and other revelations from the science of attraction. New York: Avery, 2010.

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Gail, McKeown, ed. All about ... Canadian attractions. Edmonton: Reidmore Books, 1999.

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Decoding love: Why it takes twelve frogs to find a prince and other revelations from the science of attraction. New York: Penguin Group, 2009.

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Hawkins, Karen. The Prince and I. 2015.

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Harris, LaShawn. Black Women, Urban Labor, and New York’s Informal Economy. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040207.003.0002.

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This chapter offers an overview of black women informal workers both as wage earners and entrepreneurs, positioning their experiences at the center of New York's informal labor market. It highlights working-class black women's socioeconomic conditions and the ways in which economic distress coupled with varying perceptions of urban public space and racial uplift motivated some women's attraction to nontraditional modes of labor. New York black women viewed the economic and social opportunities offered by off-the-books labor as a path toward altering the recipe of possibilities for themselves. But securing extralegal and unlicensed labor that disrupted normative gender roles and racial hierarchies and ideas about public decorum came at a price. Collateral consequences were certainly part of some black women's trajectory as underground workers and entrepreneurs. This chapter also considers the dangers and obstacles associated with self-employment and laboring for employers willing to pay them under the table.

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Hawthorne, Lesleyanne. Attracting and Retaining International Students as Skilled Migrants. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815273.003.0010.

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OECD countries compete to attract and retain international students as skilled migrants. By definition former international students are of prime workforce age, face no regulatory barriers, and have self-funded to meet domestic employer demand. Within the global ‘race for talent’ they have emerged as a priority human capital resource. This chapter examines the study-migration pathways that have evolved in the past decade within skilled migration policy frameworks. Three case studies are provided, assessing select challenges in the context of national debate. The first examines the UK’s attempt to reduce net migration flows and the impact of this on student migration. The second explores the retention of international doctoral students in the US amid concerns for labour market substitution rather than complementarity. The third defines the extent to which Australian employers value former international students compared to domestic graduates, including the impact of demand and demographic variables on early employment outcomes.

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Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús, Pablo Guerrón-Quintana, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez. Futures markets, Bayesian forecasting and risk modelling. Edited by Anthony O'Hagan and Mike West. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198703174.013.14.

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This article demonstrates the utility of the Bayesian approach in forecasting and risk modelling regarding speculative trading strategies in financial futures markets. It first provides an overview of subjective expectations that are motivated as fair prices of futures contracts before discussing the futures markets and a portfolio mean-variance efficiency generalization. In particular, it considers the critical role of hedging to ensue attractive risk-adjusted performance. It also describes general Bayesian dynamic models and specific Bayesian dynamic linear models for assessing risk models in terms of their hedging effectiveness in the context of the risk-adjusted performance of trading strategies. The article showcases applied Bayesian thinking in the context of financial investment management, highlighting the corresponding concepts of betting and investing, prices and expectations, and coherence and arbitrage-free pricing in futures markets over the period 1990–2008.

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Block, Geoffrey. From Screen to Stage. Edited by Robert Gordon. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391374.013.0016.

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Stephen Sondheim, in collaboration first with director Hal Prince and librettist Hugh Wheeler and later with director–librettist James Lapine, adapted two films to the musical stage. The first isA Little Night Music(1973), a musical based on Ingmar Bergman’s comic Swedish film masterpieceSmiles of a Summer Night(1955); the second isPassion(1994), described by Sondheim as “the world’s only epistolary musical,” based on the Italian filmPassione d’Amore(1981), adapted by director Ettore Scola from Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s epistolary novelFosca(1869). InNight MusicSondheim offers a musical counterpart to the diversity of love explored inSmiles of a Summer Night, while inPassion, he musically captures the obsessive love of the ugly and sickly Fosca, and demonstrates that obsessive and altruistic love can triumph over a more conventional romantic love based on sexual attraction.

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Austen, Jane, and Jane Stabler. Mansfield Park. Edited by James Kinsley. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199535538.001.0001.

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‘Me!’ cried Fanny … ‘Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act.’ At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse a play by way of entertainment, Fanny struggles to retain her independence in the face of the Crawfords’ dangerous attractions; and when Henry turns his attentions to her, the drama really begins… This new edition does full justice to Austen’s complex and subtle story, placing it in its Regency context and elucidating the theatrical background that pervades the novel.

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Trees, Andrew S. Decoding Love: Why It Takes Twelve Frogs to Find a Prince and Other Revelations from the Science of Attraction. Andrew Trees. Hay House, 2010.

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Hanna, Jason. Applications. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190877132.003.0009.

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This concluding chapter considers some possible implications of pro-paternalism for tobacco and alcohol policy, compulsory insurance laws, and the physician–patient relationship. It is argued that pro-paternalism would probably support a gradual transition toward a prohibition on the sale of tobacco and that it would support the more stringent regulation of alcohol—for instance, through price increases. Pro-paternalism would also lend support to policies under which people are required to purchase health insurance for themselves; this result is significant, since it is argued that such policies cannot obviously be supported on wholly nonpaternalistic grounds. Finally, although pro-paternalism would not give physicians broad license to withhold information from their patients, there may be limited circumstances in which such withholding is justified. The chapter concludes that there are a number of important and arguably attractive policies that can probably be justified only on paternalistic grounds.

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Fleurbaey, Marc. Equivalent Income. Edited by Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199325818.013.15.

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The notion of equivalent income has been elaborated in the specialized context of comparing living standards of individuals in different situations regarding non-income attributes (household size, quality of life, market prices). It is defined as the income that would provide the same satisfaction as the current situation if the non-income attributes took particular reference values. Beyond the comparison of living standards, it deserves to be considered as a philosophically promising solution to the problem of interpersonal comparisons of well-being, for the context of social welfare evaluation. It appears indeed attractive when interpersonal comparisons are meant to respect individual preferences while focusing on objective functionings rather than subjective levels of satisfaction or happiness. In this chapter it is scrutinized and compared to alternative approaches: extended preferences, subjective well-being, capabilities.

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Kawakami, Akane. Patrick Modiano. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382745.001.0001.

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This book is an introduction to the work of Patrick Modiano, the Nobel-Prize-winning French contemporary author. Using a theoretical approach based on the work of Genette and Ricoeur, the study teases out the complexities of Modiano’s apparently simple narratives, showing how they skilfully weave together the fictional and historical to involve and draw the reader into the worlds of his novels, whether it be the murky labyrinth of the années noires or the amoral yet attractive landscape of the sixties. The book also discusses new aspects of Modiano’s post-2000 novels, such as the greater role played in them by women, the unexpected appearance of ideas from Nietzsche, and a meditation on the nature of time that owes much to – but is profoundly different from – that of his illustrious precursor, Proust.

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Dikanarov, George, Joseph McBride, and Andrew C. Spieler. Relative Value Hedge Fund Strategies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190607371.003.0014.

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Relative value strategies, also called arbitrage strategies, are trading strategies that exploit mispricing in the financial markets among the same or related assets. Relative value trading is a popular investment strategy among many hedge fund managers who try to achieve high returns while minimizing risk. To capitalize on the mispricing of assets, investment managers take long positions in the undervalued assets and short positions in the overvalued assets with the expectation that prices will revert to their fundamental values. When using relative value strategies, managers construct market-neutral portfolios to eliminate systematic risk. Fund managers employ leverage to maximize the low returns that individual trades yield. Relative value funds are an attractive investment for individuals seeking to diversify their portfolios with assets that are uncorrelated with the broader market. This chapter discusses the different subcategories within the relative value strategy and the different types of securities each subcategory trades.

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Saylor, Eric. Race, “Realism,” and Fate in Frederick Delius’s Koanga. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036781.003.0005.

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This chapter examines how race intersects with questions of “realism” and fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga, which features black characters as its protagonists as well as examples of African American folk music. Based on an episode from George Washington Cable's novel The Grandissimes, Koanga is a nineteenth-century story of love, jealousy, and betrayal centered on Koanga, an enslaved West African prince and voudon priest, and Palmyra, a quadroon maidservant. This chapter first provides a background on Koanga's genesis and textual variations before discussing its seeming contradiction: the dramatic portrayal of Koanga and Palmyra as a reflection of period beliefs about the Otherness of blacks; and its treatment of the exoticism of “blackness,” both physical and musical, as an attractive quality integral to achieving its dramatic and musical aims. It argues that Koanga revives many familiar tropes of racial exoticism and manifests troubling new resonances concerning questions of destiny and free will.

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Buchak, Lara, and Dean W. Zimmerman, eds. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 10. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862976.001.0001.

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This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. As with earlier volumes, these essays follow the tradition of providing a non-sectarian and non-partisan snapshot of the subdiscipline of philosophy of religion. This subdiscipline has become an increasingly important one within philosophy over the last century, and especially over the past half-century, having emerged as an identifiable subfield at the same time as other emerging subfields such as the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. This volume continues the initial intention behind the series: attracting the best work from philosophers well known for their work in philosophy of religion, while also including essays by philosophers working mainly in other subfields when their research addresses religious matters. This inclusive approach to the series provides an opportunity to mitigate some of the costs of greater specialization in our discipline, while at the same time inviting wider interest in the work being done in the subfield. Volumes also typically contain the winner of the Sanders Prize in the Philosophy of Religion and other essays submitted to that competition.

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Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190669249.001.0001.

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The book of Isaiah is without doubt one of the most important books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, as evidenced by its pride of place in both Jewish and Christian traditions as well as in art and music. Most people, scholars and laity alike, are familiar with the words of Isaiah accompanied by the magnificent tones of Handel’s ‘Messiah’. Isaiah is also one of the most complex books due to its variety and plurality, and it has accordingly been the focus of scholarly debate for the last 2000 years. Divided into eight sections, The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah constitutes a collection of essays on one of the longest books in the Bible. They cover different aspects regarding the formation, interpretations, and reception of the book of Isaiah, and also offer up-to-date information in an attractive and easily accessible format. The result does not represent a unified standpoint; rather the individual contributions mirror the wide and varied spectrum of scholarly engagement with the book. The authors of the essays likewise represent a broad range of scholarly traditions from diverse continents and religious affiliations, accompanied by comprehensive recommendations for further reading.

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