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Memoirs of Aaron Burr

By: Matthew L. Davis

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The grandfather of Colonel Aaron Burr, the subject of these memoirs, was a German by birth, and of noble parentage. Shortly after his arrival in North America, he settled in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he purchased a large tract of land, and reared a numerous family. A part of this landed estate remained in the possession of his lineal descendants until long after the revolutionary war. During Colonel Burr's travels in Germany, in the year 1809, various communications were made to him, orally and in writing, by different branches of the Burr family, some of whom were then filling high and distinguished scientific and literary stations. His father, the Rev. Aaron Burr, was born in Fairfield, on the 4th day of January, 1715, and was educated at Yale College. In a manuscript journal which he kept, and which has been preserved, he says, "In September, 1736, with many fears and doubts about my qualifications (being under clouds with respect to my spiritual state), I offered myself to trials, and was approved as a candidate for the ministry. My first sermon was preached at Greenfield, and immediately after I came into the Jerseys. I can hardly give any account why I came here. After I had preached for some time at Hanover, I had a call by the people of Newark; but there was scarce any probability that I should suit their circumstances, being young in standing and trials. I accepted of their invitation, with a reserve, that I did not come with any views of settling. My labours were universally acceptable among them, and they manifested such great regard and love for me, that I consented to accept of the charge of their souls.

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9633819415

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Ecology and Existence

Bringing Sartre to the Water's Edge

By: Matthew C. Ally

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Ecology and Existence

Bringing Sartre to the Water's Edge

By: Matthew C. Ally

This study explores the increasingly troubled relationship between humankind and the Earth, with the help of a simple example and a complicated interlocutor. The example is a pond, which, it turns out, is not so simple as it seems. The interlocutor is Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, philosopher, and, despite his several disavowals, doyen of twentieth-century existentialism. Standing with the great humanist at the edge of the pond, the author examines contemporary experience in the light of several familiar conceptual pairs: nature and culture, fact and value, reality and imagination, human and nonhuman, society and ecology, Earth and world. The theoretical challenge is to reveal the critical complementarity and experiential unity of this family of ideas. The practical task is to discern the heuristic implications of this lived unity-in-diversity in these times of social and ecological crisis. Interdisciplinary in its aspirations, the study draws upon recent developments in biology and ecology, complexity science and systems theory, ecological and Marxist economics, and environmental history. Comprehensive in its engagement of Sartre’s oeuvre, the study builds upon his best-known existentialist writings, and also his critique of colonialism, voluminous ethical writings, early studies of the imaginary, and mature dialectical philosophy. In addition to overviews of Sartre’s distinctive inflections of phenomenology and dialectics and his unique theories of praxis and imagination, the study also articulates for the first time Sartre’s incipient philosophical ecology. In keeping with Sartre’s lifelong commitment to freedom and liberation, the study concludes with a programmatic look at the relative merits of pragmatist, prefigurative, and revolutionary activism within the burgeoning global struggle for social and ecological justice. We learn much by thinking with Sartre at the water’s edge: surprising lessons about our changing humanity and how we have come to where we are; timely lessons about the shifting relation between us and the broader community of life to which we belong; difficult lessons about our brutal degradation of the planetary system upon which life depends; and auspicious lessons, too, about a participatory path forward as we work to preserve a habitable planet and build a livable world for all earthlings.

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Lexington Books

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0739182897

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9780739182895

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives

By: Tony Lee,Jonathan L. Davis,Matthew Dow Smith,Al Davison

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives

By: Tony Lee,Jonathan L. Davis,Matthew Dow Smith,Al Davison

Archive adventures with the Tenth Doctor! When the TARDIS is attacked, the Tenth Doctor is propelled into a desperate race against time to locate the missing console room, before coming face to face with an army of angry trees in Greenwich ¨C and all the while his adversary, the Advocate, is plotting a terrifying terraforming conflict and the ultimate downfall of the Doctor! Featuring two full-length epics, this third Tenth Doctor omnibus also boasts a handful of stunning short stories! Collects Doctor Who (2009) #7-16, and Doctor Who Annual (2010).

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Titan

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1785851284

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Direction and Socio-spatial Theory

A Political Economy of Oriented Practice

By: Matthew Hannah

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Direction and Socio-spatial Theory

A Political Economy of Oriented Practice

By: Matthew Hannah

The embodied directedness of human practice has long been neglected in critical socio-spatial theory, in favor of analyses focused upon distance and proximity. This book illustrates the absence of a sense for direction in much theoretical discourse and lays important groundwork for redressing this lacuna in socio-spatial theory. Many accounts of the social world are incomplete, or are increasingly out of step with recent developments of neoliberal capitalism. Not least through new technological mediations of production and consumption, the much-discussed waning of the importance of physical distance has been matched by the increasing centrality of turning from one thing to another as a basic way in which lives are structured and occupied. A sensibility for embodied processes of turning, and for phenomena of direction more generally, is urgently needed. Chapters develop wide-ranging and original engagements with the arguments of Sara Ahmed, Jonathan Beller, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Virginia Held, Bernard Stiegler, Theodore Schatzki, Rahel Jaeggi, Hartmut Rosa and David Harvey. This book reinterprets practice, embodiment, alienation, reification, social reproduction and ethical responsibility from a directional perspective. It will be a new valuable resource and reference for political and social geography students, as well as sociologists and anthropologists.

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Routledge

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1351668919

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Signs of Light

French and British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 1648–1789

By: Matthew Lauzon

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Signs of Light

French and British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 1648–1789

By: Matthew Lauzon

In Signs of Light, Matthew Lauzon traces the development of very different French and British ideas about language over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates how important these ideas were to emerging notions of national character. Drawing examples from a variety of French and English language works in a wide range of areas, including language theory, philosophy, rhetoric, psychology, missionary tracts, and literary texts, Lauzon explores how French and British thinkers of the day developed arguments that certain kinds of languages are superior to others. The nature of animal language and British and French understandings of the languages of North American Indians were vigorously debated. Theories of animal language juxtaposed the apparent virtues of transparency and wit; considerations of savage language resulted in eloquence being regarded as an even higher accomplishment. Eventually, the French language came to be prized for its wit and sociability and English for its simple clarity and vigor. Lauzon shows that, besides concerns about establishing the clarity of introspective representations, questions about the energetic communication of sincere emotion and about the sociable communication of wit were crucial to language theories during this period. A richly interdisciplinary work, Signs of Light is a compelling account of a formative period in language theory.

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Cornell University Press

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080145770X

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives #35

2010 Special

By: Jonathan. L Davis,Matthew Dow Smith,Tony Lee

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives #35

2010 Special

By: Jonathan. L Davis,Matthew Dow Smith,Tony Lee

Ground Control’: The TARDIS is grounded by a safety officer who accuses the Doctor of using it as a weapon. 'The Big, Blue Box’: A human who remembers a "big blue box' appearing at important times in his life learns his true origins when he finally encounters the Doctor himself. 'To Sleep, Perchance to Scream’: The Doctor's anxieties and guilt manifest themselves during a surreal dream. 'Old Friend’: The Doctor answers a summons from a one-time companion named Barnaby Edwards, now elderly and in a nursing home, who carries out the Doctor's orders and delivers a package to the Doctor. Only problem is the Doctor hasn't met this companion yet in his time stream.

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Titan Comics

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1785850490

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Bacillus thuringiensis

A Cornerstone of Modern Agriculture

By: Matthew Metz

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Bacillus thuringiensis

A Cornerstone of Modern Agriculture

By: Matthew Metz

Make the right decisions when it comes to pest control in agriculture! Bacillus thuringiensis: A Cornerstone of Modern Agriculture explores the impact that one of the most prominent biologically based pesticides has had on pest control technologyand the issues that surround its use. The book examines the development, use, and management of technologies derived from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), addressing the health, economic, environmental, and social concerns generated by the deployment of genetically engineered crops. Authors representing a diverse cross section of the international scientific community contribute review articles and research findings that address the use of Bt in microbial formulations and transgenic crops, technological advances in the genetic engineering of plants, advances in methodologies, and improved agricultural practices and productivity through the use of Bt cotton. Bacillus thuringiensis: A Cornerstone of Modern Agriculture examines the vital issues surrounding this Gram-positive bacterium. Contributors from academia, government, and industry address the safety of Bt for human consumption, its effects on non-target organisms, the role of microbial Bt products in crop production in the United States, and the utility and management of transgenic plants. The book also explores: engineering Bt transgenic rice for insect pest protection the Bt potato in developing countries Bt expression in sugarcane and cauliflower a comparative analysis of Bt cotton in Argentina the ecological impact, gene expression, and current resistance management requirements of Bt cotton in the United States and much more! Bacillus thuringiensis: A Cornerstone of Modern Agriculture is an essential resource for advanced students and technical specialists working in agriculture, biotechnology, entomology, pest management, and crop sciences. Stakeholders will also find it invaluable in regulatory decision making about genetically engineered crops, pesticide use, and crop protection.

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1040288871

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The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'

Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner

By: Matthew Gelbart

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The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'

Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner

By: Matthew Gelbart

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.

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1139466089

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Effective School Interventions

Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Student Outcomes

By: Matthew K. Burns,T. Chris Riley-Tillman,Natalie Rathvon

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Effective School Interventions

Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Student Outcomes

By: Matthew K. Burns,T. Chris Riley-Tillman,Natalie Rathvon

This indispensable course text and practitioner resource, now fully revised, has helped tens of thousands of readers implement evidence-based interventions to improve students' academic achievement and behavior in PreK–12. The volume presents best-practice guidelines and step-by-step procedures for 83 interventions that can easily be implemented by teachers and other school-based professionals. It is a go-to book for those working in a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) or response-to-intervention (RTI) framework. User-friendly features include recommended print and online resources and 10 reproducible forms. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition: *Updated throughout to reflect current research-based best practices. *20 new interventions. *Chapter on important skills for intervention success. *The intensity of each intervention (classwide, small-group, and/or individual) is now specified. *Behavior chapter has been reorganized for easier use. *Downloadable reproducible tools.

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Guilford Publications

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1462531482

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Dangerous Ideas on Campus

Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK

By: Matthew C. Ehrlich

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Dangerous Ideas on Campus

Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK

By: Matthew C. Ehrlich

In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job. Matthew Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values--a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come. An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America's hot-button issues.

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025205315X

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Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence

Vol. II

By: Matthew Davis

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Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence

Vol. II

By: Matthew Davis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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3385609488

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Law and Society

By: Matthew Lippman

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Law and Society

By: Matthew Lippman

“This is a well-rounded book that seems more interesting to students than other books I have used. It provides information on some cutting-edge themes in law and society while staying well grounded in the theories used by law and society practitioners.” —Lydia Brashear Tiede, Associate Professor, University of Houston Law and Society, Second Edition, offers a contemporary, concise overview of the structure and function of legal institutions, along with a lively discussion of both criminal and civil law and their impact on society. Unlike other books on law and society, Matthew Lippman takes an interdisciplinary approach that highlights the relevance of the law throughout our society. Distinctive coverage of diversity, inequality, civil liberties, and globalism is intertwined through an organized theme in a strong narrative. The highly anticipated Second Edition of this practical and invigorating text introduces students to both the influence of law on society and the influence of society on the law. Discussions of the pressing issues facing today’s society include key topics such as the law and inequality, international human rights, privacy and surveillance, and law and social control. Log in at study.sagepub.com/lippmanls2e for additional teaching and learning tools.

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1506395422

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The Changing Racial Regime

By: Matthew Holden

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The Changing Racial Regime

By: Matthew Holden

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as described by Matthew Holden in his introduction, is to "lead to new information, insights, and findings" into the social and political status of African Americans. The volume is not exclusionist or narrow. It integrates essays that could stand alone, as they initially were written, according to the method and theory of the author in question. As presented here, however, they also lend themselves to a broader treatment of race and the political order. The present volume combines essays expressly focused on African Americans, Africa, and the African diaspora. At the same tune, it contains essays about broad generic subjects such as budgeting and interest groups, written with no explicit racial relevance. Holden integrates these essays under the theme of the changing racial regime. The integrating concept is the old word "regime," which political scientists have used in many situations before to define such more or less persistent, though not necessarily permanent, orders of precedence. If no significant benefits and no significant burdens could be forecast by knowledge of the social identity called race, then the regime could be seen as non-racial. In American experience, the regime was, at one time, purposeful and sustained white advantage. The "white race" and its preferential standing, was central to virtually all institutional practice public and private. The significant contemporary question is the degree of change hi the racial regime. Some proceed with the assumption that a large degree of change has occurred in the American political system. The view of other contributors is that the system still sustains racial stratification. In its very internal dialogue, this volume presents a panorama of current work by political scientists, African American and other, on the character of the American political system. Contributors include: Cedric Robinson, Charles Henry, Edward J. Muller, Marjorie Lewis, Katherine A. Hinckley and Bette S. Hill, Nancy Haggard-Gilson, and Vernon Johnson. The Changing Racial Regime is an essential resource for political scientists, black studies specialists, and scholars and policy analysts of race relations in the United States.

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1351305107

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Roadshow!

The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

By: Matthew Kennedy

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The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

By: Matthew Kennedy

A brilliant and colorful history of the downfall of the American musical Offers an inside account of the making of lavish musicals in the late 1960s and early 1970s, from stars to cost overruns Situates the musical and the roadshow--an event-based promotional program--in the decade's revolutionary cultural changes

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Memoirs of Aaron Burr

Memoirs of Aaron Burr

Ecology and Existence

Ecology and Existence

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives

Direction and Socio-spatial Theory

Direction and Socio-spatial Theory

Signs of Light

Signs of Light

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives #35

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives #35

Bacillus thuringiensis

Bacillus thuringiensis

The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'

The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'

Effective School Interventions

Effective School Interventions

Dangerous Ideas on Campus

Dangerous Ideas on Campus

Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence

Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence

Law and Society

Law and Society

The Changing Racial Regime

The Changing Racial Regime

Roadshow!

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