Merged
Merged

Author: Jim Kroepfl

Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 194867145X

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Seven of our country's most gifted teens will become Nobels, hosts for the implantation of brilliant Mentor minds, in an effort to accelerate human progress. But as the line between what's possible and what's right, draws ever blurrier, the teens discover everything has a cost. Scientists have created an evolved form of living known as Merged Consciousness, and sixteen-year-old Lake finds herself unable to merge with her Mentor. Lake, the Nobel for Chemistry and Orfyn, the Nobel for Art, are two from among the inaugural class of Nobels, and with the best intent and motivation. But when Stryker, the Nobel for Peace, makes them question the motivation of the scientists behind the program, their world begins to unravel. As the Nobels work to uncover the dark secrets of the program's origins, everyone's a suspect and no one can be trusted, not even the other Nobels. As the Mentors begin to take over the bodies and minds of the Nobels, Lake and Orfyn must find a way to regain control before they lose all semblance or memory of their former selves.

Merge Left
Merge Left

Author: Ian Haney López

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1620975653

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From the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future "Ian Haney López has broken the code on the racial politics of the last fifty years."—Bill Moyers In 2014, Ian Haney López in Dog Whistle Politics named and explained the coded racial appeals exploited by right-wing politicians over the last half century—and thereby anticipated the 2016 presidential election. Now the country is heading into what will surely be one of the most consequential elections ever, with the Right gearing up to exploit racial fear-mongering to divide and distract, and the Left splintered over the next step forward. Some want to focus on racial justice head-on; others insist that a race-silent focus on class avoids alienating white voters. Can either approach—race-forward or colorblind—build the progressive supermajorities necessary to break political gridlock and fundamentally change the country's direction? For the past two years, Haney López has been collaborating with a research team of union activists, racial justice leaders, communications specialists, and pollsters. Based on conversations, interviews, and surveys with thousands of people all over the country, the team found a way forward. By merging the fights for racial justice and for shared economic prosperity, they were able to build greater enthusiasm for both goals—and for the cross-racial solidarity needed to win elections. What does this mean? It means that neutralizing the Right's political strategy of racial division is possible, today. And that's the key to everything progressives want to achieve. A work of deep research, nuanced argument, and urgent insight, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America is an indispensable tool for the upcoming political season and in the larger fight to build racial justice and shared economic prosperity for all of us.

Merged with Him
Merged with Him

Author: Kylie Kent

Publisher: Kylie Kent

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780648998112

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This is a full length, steamy happily ever after romance. This is a standalone, no cliffhanger!! Book one in The Merge Series, all titles in this series are Standalones and can be read independently. ♥♥♥♥ A recently graduated nurse with a painful past. A hot nightclub owner with darker interest. Two souls destined to merge as one, can they hold on to each other when someone is out to keep them apart? Alyssa Summers, orphaned and raised within a broken system, is a fighter. She has focused her entire life on one goal, to graduate collage and have a stable, steady career. Her job in one of Sydney's busiest ERs keeps her busy and the last thing on her mind is love. She learned the hard way not to rely on anyone other than herself. But when her eyes are captured by a pair of emerald green ones she can't look away from, everything changes. The Merge is the place to go when looking to unwind and experience an exciting night out. The ambitious and driven owner Zac Williamson knows what he wants and how to get it, and right now? He wants the beautiful blonde who just stepped into his club. When these two meet the sparks quickly explode into so much more. But are his secrets too twisted for her to accept? And even if she could, will she stay with him when she realizes that being his has put a deadly target on her back? Merged with him is a full length instant love, steamy, suspenseful contemporary romance. This book is recommended for 18+ If you love dirty-talking alpha males and strong female leads then this is the book for you.

Our Noise
Our Noise

Author: John Cook

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1565126246

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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Merge Records, founders Mac and Laura offer first-person accounts--with the help of their colleagues and Merge artists--of their work, their lives, and the culture of making music. Hundreds of personal photos of the bands, along with album cover art, concert posters, and other memorabilia are included.

Merged Methods
Merged Methods

Author: Giampietro Gobo

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2021-10-27

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1529765811

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A new turn in mixed methods research is here: merged methods. This provocative book offers a novel analysis of current mixed methods research, complicating traditional approaches and challenging existing techniques. Moving beyond the binary quantitative-qualitative distinction, the book presents methodologically grounded ways to merge methods in social research and integrate interpretive and structural approaches in one instrument or procedure. The book: Considers the importance of merging both epistemologies and methodologies. Showcases eight merged methods research approaches, from the Delphi method to multimodal content analysis. Explores the opportunities for merging methods using computational techniques, such as text mining. This innovative book is a must-read for any postgraduate student or researcher across the social sciences wanting to develop their understanding of mixed methods research.

Merging the Deposit Insurance Funds
Merging the Deposit Insurance Funds

Author: Marge Roukema

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2001-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 075671169X

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Witnesses: Gregory Baer, Assistant Sec. for Fin'l. Institutions, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury; William Fitzgerald, Chairman & CEO, Commercial Federal Bank, Omaha, NE, on behalf of America's Community Bankers; William Isaac, Chairman, The Secura Group, & Secura Burnett Co.; Hjalma Johnson, Chairman & CEO, East Coast Bank Corp., Dade City, FL, on behalf of the Amer. Bankers Assoc.; Martin Mayer, Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution; Thomas Sheehan, Pres., Grafton State Bank, Grafton, WI, on behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of Amer.; Donna Tanoue, Chmn., FDIC; & Kenneth Thomas, Lecturer on Finance, The Wharton School, Univ. of PA.

Rethinking Merger Analysis
Rethinking Merger Analysis

Author: Louis Kaplow

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2024-11-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0262379821

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A fundamental economic reconstruction of merger analysis to strengthen our ability to determine mergers’ likely effects and improve merger regulation. Why rethink merger analysis? Because methods employed throughout the world violate basic precepts of decision analysis and economics. Fundamental principles are underdeveloped, inhibiting research, policy formulation, and merger review. In Rethinking Merger Analysis, Louis Kaplow undertakes a foundational analysis of the questions central to understanding and regulating horizontal mergers and shows why many conventional practices need to be altered or replaced. On the empirical front, Kaplow offers insights, identifies shortcomings, and proposes extensions of existing research. Altogether, merger review can be greatly improved to better identify harmful mergers and avoid thwarting beneficial ones. The correct economic analysis of anticompetitive effects conflicts sharply with the reigning market definition paradigm. This protocol is more deeply flawed than appreciated, readily produces large errors, and can result in uncertainty bounds on challenge thresholds of two orders of magnitude. Merger efficiencies are underanalyzed because of the failure to draw on relevant disciplines and pertinent industry expertise. Postmerger entry’s role is mischaracterized in merger guidelines, and its direct welfare effects are ignored. Entry induced by the prospect of a subsequent buyout has until recently been disregarded. Proper assessment requires a dynamic framing that accounts for a merger regime’s influence on the creation and capabilities of new generations of startups that are central to economic dynamism. This book eschews advocacy and instead focuses on clear thinking—indeed, rethinking—about how to improve merger policy and assessment.