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The ugly duckling returns
The ugly duckling finds that as a beautiful swan he can't get the right kind of publicity needed for an anti-pollution campaign, so he decides to change back to his old self to help save the forest.
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The Contagion Effect of Low-Quality Audits at the Level of Individual Auditors
This study examines the relation between the audit failures of individual auditors and the quality of other audits performed by these same auditors. Employing a Chinese setting where audit reports reveal the identities of engagement auditors, we find that auditors who have performed failed audits also deliver lower-quality audits on other audit engagements, with this \"contagion\" effect spreading both over time and to other audits performed by these same auditors in the same year. However, we find little evidence that an audit failure also casts doubt on the quality of audits performed by \"non-failed\" auditors who are same-office colleagues of a \"failed\" auditor. We further discover that the contagion effect is attenuated for female auditors, auditors holding a master's degree, and auditors with more auditing experience. Our results underscore the usefulness of disclosing the identity and personal characteristics of individual auditors to investors and regulators.
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How to be a heroine, or, What I've learned from reading too much
\"A young writer explores what some of the greatest women in literature have meant to her--and how these timeless characters still serve as a guide for the way we lead our lives\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pastures of the Empty Page
A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of
Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the
eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over
the course of his unparalleled literary life. When he died
in 2021, Larry McMurtry was one of America's most revered writers.
The author of treasured novels such as Lonesome Dove and
The Last Picture Show , and coauthor of the screenplays for
Brokeback Mountain and Streets of Laredo ,
McMurtry created unforgettable characters and landscapes largely
drawn from his life growing up on the family's hardscrabble ranch
outside his hometown of Archer City, Texas. Pastures of the
Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor the man and
his impact on American letters.
Paulette Jiles, Stephen Harrigan, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and
Lawrence Wright take up McMurtry's piercing and poetic vision-an
elegiac literature of place that demolished old myths of cowboy
culture and created new ones. Screenwriting partner Diana Ossana
reflects on their thirty-year book and screenwriting partnership;
other contributors explore McMurtry's reading habits and his
passion for bookselling. And brother Charlie McMurtry shares
memories of their childhood on the ranch. In contrast to his
curmudgeonly persona, Larry McMurtry emerges as a trustworthy
friend and supportive mentor. McMurtry was famously
self-deprecating, but as his admirers attest, this self-described
\"minor regional writer\" was an artist for the ages.
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Geography and the production of space in nineteenth-century American literature
\"In Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Hsuan L. Hsu examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces ranging from the single-family home to the globe. He focuses on authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Sarah Orne Jewett, who drew on literary tools such as rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different kinds of spaces. These authors used forms such as the regional sketch, the domestic novel, and the detective story to re-examine how local spaces and communities would change when incorporated into global economic and political networks. Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature is valuable reading for American literature scholars, and for all concerned with intersections between literature and geography\"--Provided by publisher.
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Digital storytelling. Episode 4, Character
The team at Unity discusses character formation and objectives.
Streaming Video
Portable property : Victorian culture on the move
\"Portable Property examines how culture bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels - because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property - tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works, paying particular attention to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Anthony Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. He also discusses Thomas Hardy and William Morris's vehement attack on the very notion of cultural portability. The result is a richer understanding of the role of objects in British culture at home and abroad during the Age of Empire.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging
This Symposium Issue looks at how personal traits of international judges matter in their judging. The articles selected shed light on the ways that international judges’ personality, that is, their character differences and personal backgrounds, shape, control, or modify their conduct and their rulings. The articles in the Symposium reveal that individual international judges have different personal attributes and identities that affect: (i) different aspects of judicial reasoning, problem-solving and case management; (ii) the ways judges interact, deliberate and affect each other in collectively deciding cases; and (iii) the outcomes of international trials. This Symposium, therefore, looks beyond the traditional ‘legal formalistic’ understanding (prevalent also among international judges themselves) that judges – as impartial, rational, and mechanical decision-makers – simply apply existing, recognized rules or principles of law to the facts and questions before a court in the context of concrete cases without regard to any personal leanings and biases. It examines how and to what extent judges at international courts make their choices conditioned on their personal identity characteristics, and when such characteristics exhibit greater or lesser effects on their decision-making.
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Ethical encounters : transnational feminism, human rights, and war cinema in Bangladesh
\"Reading national cinema made by and centrally about women in Bangladesh, this book is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How social identity and social diversity affect judging
Judges like to claim that they are impartial decision-makers fully capable of suppressing their personal proclivities, as the rule of law requires. But a century’s worth of studies undermines that view. Going under the name ‘judicial behaviour’, this vast literature shows that many extraneous (non-legal) factors affect the choices judges make. This article focuses on one strand of that literature – the effect of personal characteristics on judging, with emphasis on social identity and social diversity. We show that the literature is bifurcated: studies focusing on the social identity of individual judges (such as their gender, race, and nationality) generate findings consistent with in-group bias, whereas research on the social diversity of judges sitting in panels suggests that benefits can accrue from socially diverse courts. What the two sets of studies have in common, though, is just as important: both could make profound academic and policy contributions but require far more development if they are to realize their potential. We offer proposals for forward movement.
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