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An entirely revised and updated edition of the best-selling 2001 original   This collection of biographical essays, written by thirty-four noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the fifty-seven men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The book is organized chronologically into six sections that cover Alabamas years as a US territory and its early statehood, the 1840s through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the late nineteenth-century Bourbon era, twentieth-century progressive and wartime governors, the Civil Rights era and George Wallaces period of influence, and recent chief executives in the post-Wallace era.   The political careers of these fifty-eight individuals reflect the story of Alabama itself. Taken together, these essays provide a unified history of the state, with its recurring themes of race, federal-state relations, tensions between north and south Alabama, economic development, taxation, and education.   Alabama Governors expertly delineates the decisions and challenges of the chief executives, their policy initiatives, their accomplishments and failures, and the lasting impact of their terms. The book also includes the true and sometimes scandalous anecdotes that pepper Alabamas storied history. Several of the state's early governors fought duels; one killed his wife's lover. A Reconstruction era-governor barricaded himself in his office and refused to give it up when voters failed to reelect him. A twentieth-century governor, an alumnus of Yale, served as an officer in the Ku Klux Klan.   This entirely updated and revised edition includes enlarged and enhanced images of each governor. Published as Alabama prepares for its sixty-fourth gubernatorial election, Alabama Governors is certain to become a valuable resource for teachers, students, librarians, journalists, and anyone interested in the colorful history of Alabama politics.  

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Albert P. Brewer, D. Alan Harris, Lee Allen, D. Alan Harris, Margaret E. Armbrester, Samuel L. Webb, David E. Alsobrook, Leah Rawls Atkins, Hugh C. Bailey, Jonathan Bass, Michael Breedlove, Kit Carson Carter, III, Harriet E. Amos Doss, Daniel Dupre, Glenn T. Eskew, Glenn Feldman, Michael W. Fitzgerald, Wayne Flynt, Carl Grafton, Gordon E. Harvey, Harvey H. Jackson, III, III, John Mayfield, III, Mary Jane McDaniel, III, Henry Mel McKiven, III, Anne Permaloff, III, Michael Perman, III, Paul M. Pruitt, Jr., Marlene Hunt Rikard, Jr., William Warren Rogers Sr., William Warren Rogers, Jr., Jr, Randy B. Rosenburg, Jr, William Warren Rogers, Jr, William H. Stewart, III, J. Mills Thornton, III, Robert David Ward, III, Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, Margaret E. Armbrester, Samuel L. Webb

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A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman   Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many notable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional pieces from the New York Times, Preservation, and Garden & Gun, these profiles preserve the individual storiesand the individual voices within the storiesthat help to define one of the most distinctive states in the union.   Hoffman recounts his personal visits with writer Mary Ward Brown in her library in Hamburg, with photographer William Christenberry in a field in Newbern, and with storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham and folk artist Charlie Tin Man Lucas at their neighboring houses in Selma. Also highlighted are the lives of numerous alumni of The University of Alabamaamong them Mel Allen, the Voice of the Yankees from 1939 to 1964; Forrest Gump author Winston Groom; and Vivian Malone and James Hood, the two students who entered the schoolhouse door in 1963. Hoffman profiles distinguished Auburn University alumni as well, including Eugene Sledge, renowned World War II veteran and memoirist, and Neil Davis, the outspoken, nationally visible editor of the Lee County Bulletin.   Hoffman also profiles major and minor players in the civil rights movement, from Johnnie Carr, raised in segregated Montgomery and later president of the Montgomery Improvement Association; and George Wallace Jr., son of the four-time governor; to Theresa Burroughs, a Greensboro beautician trampled in the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge; and Diane McWhorter, whose award- winning book explores the trouble- filled Birmingham civil rights experience. Juxtaposed with these are accounts of lesser-known individuals, such as Sarah Hamm, who attempts to preserve the fading Jewish culture in Eufaula; Edward Carl, who was butler and chauffeur to Bellingrath Gardens founder Walter Bellingrath in Theodore; and cousins William Bolton and Herbert Henson, caretakers of the coon dog cemetery in Russellville.   Hoffmans compilation of life stories creates an engaging and compelling look into what it means to be from, and shaped by, Alabama. Alabama Afternoons, he writes in the introduction, is a small part of the even bigger question of what it means to be an American. Read an article about domestic lives by Roy Hoffman in the New York Times here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/garden/25Domestic.html    

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Examines the strengths and weaknesses of both the dramatic and cinematic arts  Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the relationship between stage and film? What are the inherent limitations of representing three-dimensional spaces in a two-dimensional one, and vice versa?   American Drama in the Age of Film examines the strengths and weaknesses of both the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate. Using widely known adaptations of ten major plays, Brietzke seeks to highlight the inherent powers of each medium and draw conclusions not just about how they differ, but how they ought to differ as well. He contrasts both stage and film productions of, among other works, David Mamets Glengarry Glen Ross, Sam Shepards True West, Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Margaret Edsons Wit, Tony Kushners Angels in America, Tennessee Williamss Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman, and August Wilsons The Piano Lesson. In reading the dual productions of these works, Brietzke finds that cinema has indeed stolen much of theaters former thunder, by making drama more intimate, and visceral than most live events.   But theater is still vital and matters greatly, Brietzke argues, though for reasons that run counter to many of the virtues traditionally attributed to it as an art form, such as intimacy and spontaneity. Brietzke seeks to revitalize perceptions of theater by challenging those common pieties and offering a new critical paradigm, one that champions spectacle and simultaneity as the most, not least, important elements of drama.  

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An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida

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Twenty-three autobiographical articles by noted African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune, comprising a late-life memoir of his childhood in Reconstruction-era Florida   T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida, lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his generation. In T. Thomas Fortune's After War Times, Daniel R. Weinfeld brings together a series of twenty-three autobiographical articles Fortune wrote about his formative childhood during Reconstruction and subsequent move to Washington, DC.   By 1890, Fortune had founded a predecessor organization to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, known as the National Afro-American League, but his voice found its most powerful expression and influence in poetry, prose, and journalism. It was as a journalist that Fortune stirred national controversy by issuing a passionate appeal to African American southerners: I propose to start a crusade, he proclaimed in June 1900, to have the negroes of the South leave that section and to come north or go elsewhere. It is useless to remain in the South and cry Peace! Peace! When there is no peace. The movement he helped propel became known as the Great Migration.   By focusing on Thomass ruminations about his disillusion with postCivil War Florida, Weinfeld highlights the sources of Fortunes deep disenchantment with the South, which intensified when the Reconstruction order gave way to Jim Crowera racial discrimination and violence. Decades after he left the South, Fortunes vivid memories of incidents and personalities in his past informed his political opinions and writings. Scholars and readers interested in Southern history in the aftermath of the Civil War, especially the experiences of African Americans, will find much of interest in this vital collection of primary writings.  

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T. Thomas Fortune, Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Dawn J. Herd-Clark, Daniel R. Weinfeld

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William Cameron Townsend, The Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945

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Cam Townsend is rightly known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators. This joint effort is now the largest Protestant mission organization in the world, a mission which has dramatically changed the culture of what used to be known as faith missions.   Townsend revolutionized Protestant missions by emphasizing that missionaries needed to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent and to live among them in order to understand their communities. His system stressed training the missionaries in public health, basic education, and agricultural skills. The demonstrated success of missionaries who followed Townsends plan led to SIL/WBT influence in the larger societies in which the organization was present. Townsend was non-dogmatic in seeking allies to pursue his objectives, including local political movements and power structures, academics, and other religious faiths, increasing the influence of his group to the point that SIL/WBT became a major factor in the national affairs of the countries in which they were active, particularly in Latin America.   The very success of Townsends methods led to trouble with his base in the United States. As conservative and evangelical financial backers and prospective missionaries saw the organization and Townsend working amicably with Roman Catholics, leftist political groups, and atheist and agnostic academics, the SIL/WBT ran into trouble at home.

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A first-hand account of the defense of Outpost Harry, a strategic position in Koreas Chorwon Valley brutally contested by the US and Chinese armies as they jockeyed for advantageous positions in anticipation of peace negotiations in Panmunjom. Evans recounts these last days of the war and savage battles for control of important local terrain features against a determined Chinese assault.  By June 1953 the Korean War, marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line between North and South Korea. At this point both sides were fighting to win a peace, to achieve incremental advantages that could be translated into gains at the peace negotiations in Panmunjom. The battle at Outpost Harry devolved into hand-to-hand combat during a period of constant, intense fighting that lasted two days. The author, although seriously wounded that night, refused evacuation and remained on the hill to successfully lead his company in defense of the outpost. It wasnt romantic; it wasnt chivalrous; and many died or were badly wounded. Some of the survivors never fully overcame the mental and physical damage they suffered during the nightmare.   With this book, one of those scarred by that experience recounts the events of the battle and his lifelong efforts to deal with the residual horrors. The Korean Conflict may be called "the forgotten war" by some, but not by those who were on the front lines.

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A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah

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A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research  Ruth Herskovits Gutmanns powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939 . Gutmanns compelling story captures many facets of the Jewish experience in Nazi Germany. She describes her early life in Hannover as the daughter of a prominent and patriotic member of the Jewish community. Her flight on the Kindertransport offers a vivid, firsthand account of that effort to save the children of Jewish families. Her memories of the camps include coming to the attention of Josef Mengele, who often used twins in human experiments. Gutmann writes with moving clarity and nuance about the complex feelings of survivorship.  A Final Reckoning provides not only insights into Gutmanns own experience as a child in the midst of the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also a window into the lives of those, like her father, who were forced to carry on and comply with the regime that would ultimately bring about their demise.

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Inventing School Desegregation As You Go

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Explores Mississippis school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacher   A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him a bit strange that he was accepted so quickly for this job while his other applications went nowhere, he was grateful for the opportunity. Beckwith reported for work to learn that he was to be assigned to an all-black school as the first step in Mississippis long-deferred school desegregation.   The nation and Mississippi alike were being transformed by war and evolving racial relations, and Beckwith found himself on the cutting edge of the transformation of American education and society in one of the most resistant (and poor) corners of the country. Beckwiths revealing and often amusing story of the year of mutual incomprehension between an inexperienced white teacher and a classroom full of black children who had had minimal contact with any whites. This is history as it was experienced by those who were thrust into another sort of front line.  

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Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins Out of the contradiction, paradox, loss, and strange beauty of contemporary warfare, Brock Jones brings us Cenotaph, a collection of poems that have as their genesis Joness deployments to Iraq in 2002 and 2005, when he was in the US Army. These are war poems, but also love poems and hate poems, poems about dying and living, poems about hope and hopelessness. These are poems that beautifully reflect Joness resignation to and rejection of the impossibility of saying anything definitive or honest about war. These are poems that strive to do what poet Bruce Weigl described as the poets job: to find some kind of miraculous way th at if you work hard enough to get the words right, that which you call horrific and wrong is defeated. Cenotaph is a poet doing the poets work: trying, hoping to get the words right.

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Todays Las Vegas welcomes 35 million visitors a year and reigns as the worlds premier gaming mecca. But it is much more than a gambling paradise. In A Short History of Las Vegas, Barbara and Myrick Land reveal a fascinating history beyond the mobsters, casinos, and showgirls. The authors present a complete story, beginning with southern Nevadas indigenous peoples and the earliest explorers to the first pioneers to settle in the area; from the importance of the railroad and the construction of Hoover Dam to the arrival of the Mob after World War II; from the first isolated resorts to appear in the dusty desert to the upscale, extravagant theme resorts of today. Las Vegasand its historyis full of surprises. The second edition of this lively history includes details of the latest developments and describes the growing anticipation surrounding the Las Vegas centennial celebration in 2005. New chapters focus on the recent implosions of famous old structures and the construction of glamorous new developments, headline-making mergers and multibillion-dollar deals involving famous Strip properties, and a concluding look at what life is like for the nearly two million residents who call Las Vegas home.

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Barbara Land, Myrick Land, Guy Louis Rocha

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The Gamblers Apprentice tells the story of a teenage boy growing up in Texas during desperate times. Willy, wise and capable beyond his years, learns the gamblers trade and experiences adventures that demand quick witsand sometimes violent actions. This is a multilayered story, full of Old West motifs such as cattle-rustling and gunfights along with more modern twists.  Starting with a cattle-rustling scheme involving his father, Willy embarks on a life of crime early, eventually landing in a Laredo jail for shooting a man. During his incarceration he meets Sonny Archer, an itinerant gambler, who teaches Willy how to be a cardsharp. Upon his release, Willy roams the country, honing his new talent and getting into more trouble. During his time in New Orleans, Willy even winds up in a confrontation with an Italian crime ring.  While all these adventures mold Willy into a clever card player and a masterful fortune-hunter, his grand ambition to be a professional gambler is thwarted when the influenza epidemic strikes. Willy is forced to return home to his familys Texas ranch, where he faces the most challenging test of his young life and begins to prove that he is far more than simply an apprentice.

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Winner, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins Randall Jarrell said that when you read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own. In [explicit lyrics], we are visitors to a world that is familiar as if the poems are occurring in our town, on the streets where we live. But the laws have changed, and what is normally important is no longer relevant. What was meaningless is now everything. As the title indicates, these poems are lyricsmusings on the small decisions required by existence in the modern world. They contain the grand themes of artlife, love, and mortalitybut not where you expect. The smallest and most mundane objects become the catalyst for reevaluating our roles in society and the world. This is not poetry as art. This is life as art, from a country where poetry is the only language.

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The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 16731804

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Winner of the 2001 Booker Worthen Literary Prize Winner of the 2002 S. G. Ragsdale Award for Arkansas History The Rumble of a Distant Drum opens in 1673 when Marquette and Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River and found the Quapaw living in the area where the Arkansas River flowed into the Mississippi. In 1686 Henri de Tonti would found Arkansas Post in this same location. It was the first European settlement in this part of the country, established thirty years before New Orleans and eighty before St. Louis. Morris S. Arnold draws on his many years of archival research and writing on colonial Arkansas to produce this elegant account of the cultural intersections of the French and Spanish with the native American peoples. He demonstrates that the Quapaws and Frenchmen created a highly symbiotic society in which the two disparate peoples became connected in complex and subtle waysthrough intermarriage, trade, religious practice, and political/military alliances.

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Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist

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Samuel Steward (190993) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared the considerable scope of his experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer whose publications ranged from scholarly articles to gay erotica (the latter appearing under the pen name Phil Andros). Perhaps his oddest authorial role was as a monthly contributor between 1944 and 1949 to the Illinois Dental Journal, an obscure trade publication for dentists, where writing as Philip Sparrow he produced a series of charming, richly allusive, and often quirky essays on a wildly eclectic assortment of topics.  In Philip Sparrow Tells All, Jeremy Mulderig has collected thirty of these engaging but forgotten columns, prefacing them with revealing introductions that relate the essays to people and events in Stewards life and to the intellectual and cultural contexts in which he wrote during the 1940s. In these essays we encounter such famous friends of Steward as Gertrude Stein, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder. We hear of his stint as a holiday sales clerk at Marshall Fields (where he met and seduced fellow employee Rock Hudson), of his roles as an opera and ballet extra in hilariously shoddy costumes, of his hoarding tendencies, his disappointment with the drabness of mens fashions, and his dread of turning forty. We go along with him to a bodybuilding competition and a pet cemetery, and together we wander the boulevards of Paris and the alleys of Algiers. Throughout, Mulderigs entertaining annotations explain the essays wide-ranging allusions and also highlight their gay subtext, which constituted a kind of private game that Steward played with his mostly oblivious audience of Midwestern dentists.  The first collection of any of Samuel Stewards writings to be republished since his death in 1993, Philip Sparrow Tells All makes these lost essays available to a broad readership that Steward imagined but never actually enjoyed when he wrote them. In doing so, it takes a major step toward documenting his important place in twentieth-century gay literature and history.

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Samuel Steward, Justin Spring, Jeremy Mulderig

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The Merck Manual 19th Edition is more comprehensive than ever before. Inside you will find expanded discussions of over 85 patient symptoms, full discussions on symptoms and topics in geriatric medicine, as well as a 16-page full-color section showing skin, eye, and oral disorders. Written by over 300 experts in their respective medical fields, The Merck Manual is one of the world's most reliable medical references. It's a must-have for any medical library, and an excellent solution for your medical information needs. 

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Fresh and Fun Quilted Projects for Your Home

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Welcome spring with country-cute quilted projects featuring the simple piecing and chunky, whimsical applique of best-selling authors Jeanne Large and Shelley Wicks of The Quilt Patch. Cultivate your senses with sensational projects that add the perfect seasonal touch to your home--yet don't take a season to make. Cozy, light, and so very right for spring!Projects include throws, table runners, tote bags, a wall hanging, a pillow, and more to decorate your home for spring or give as giftsApplique doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming--discover how fusible-applique techniques and easy machine stitching make it a breezeCreate stunning quilts with fat quarters and fat eighths in your favorite springtime hues

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Why We Need a Holistic Theory of Social Mobility

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Social mobility needs a re-boot. The narrow, economistic way of measuring it  favoured by politicians and academics is unsustainable and is contributing to rising inequality. 
This timely book provides an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how the term social mobility structures what success means and the impact that has on society.  Providing a new holistic approach that encompasses education, the economy and politics, Atherton recasts the relationship with employers, embracing radical opportunities provided by technology and rethinking what higher education means. He also goes beyond employment to incorporate progress in non-work areas of life. 
Based on the need to improve well-being, not just income or occupation, the book addresses one of the key issues facing 21st century society in a new way and provides valuable insights for policymakers and academics.

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Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or irregular) migrants living in London, and their employers. Breaking new ground, this topical  book exposes the contradictions in policies, which marginalise and criminalise these migrants, while promoting exploitative labour market policies. However, the book reveals that the migrants can be active agents in shaping their lives within the constraint of status. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, this fascinating book offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses. It will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics, as well as policy makers, practitioners and interested non-specialists.

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Embrace Loves deepest mysterythe hearts way is the bridge.
Wayfarer, it takes courage to cross a bridge. To step into the Unknown. To risk transitions threshold where past is always prologue and the futures never clear. You see the path before you only partially across. So your willingness is vital for staying the course toward a luminous Otherworld that beckons, yet cannot be perceived until youve ventured furtherletting go of the familiar, entering the heart of Love. Ecstatic poet and storyteller Cheryl Lafferty Eckl is a wise and generous guide. Now she bids you join her on the bridgeto embrace your own hearts perfect crossing and voyage to true Home.

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DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, NUMBER THEORY AND APPLICATIONS: A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF ARMIN LEUTBECHER'S 80TH BIRTHDAY

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A Festschrift in Honor of Armin Leutbecher's 80th Birthday

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This volume consists of a selection of research-type articles on dynamical systems, evolution equations, analytic number theory and closely related topics. A strong emphasis is on a fair balance between theoretical and more applied work, thus spanning the chasm between abstract insight and actual application. Several of the articles are expected to be in the intersection of dynamical systems theory and number theory. One article will likely relate the topics presented to the academic achievements and interests of Prof. Leutbecher and shed light on common threads among all the contributions.

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Thomas Hagen, Florian Rupp, Jurgen Scheurle