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A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century AmericaIn the autumn of 1834, New York City was awash with rumors of a strange religious cult operating nearby, centered around a mysterious, self-styled prophet named Matthias. It was said that Matthias the Prophet was stealing money from one of his followers; then came reports of lascivious sexual...

Nationalism has had repercussions throughout the modern era, lying at the root of wars, revolutions, and social and cultural movements. This volume analyses and compares different forms of nationalism as they originated and developed in Europe throughout the 'long nineteenth century', and offers an original and authoritative reassessment....

There is a great deal of practice, discussion, and writing about strategy, but little investigation of the processes by which strategies actually form in organizations. This book shares the results of Henry Mintzberg's investigation into this, conducted over several decades, using case studies drawn from business and governmental organizations....

Fishes have evolved to colonise almost every type of aquatic habitat and today        they are a hugely diverse group of over 25,000 species. This book presents a current        and comprehensive overview of fish physiology to demonstrate how living fishes        function in their environment....

This valuable text provides a comprehensive introduction to VAR modelling and how it can be applied. In particular, the author focuses on the properties of the cointegrated VAR model and its implications for macroeconomic inference when data are non-stationary. The text provides a number of insights into the links between statistical econometric...