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Sovereignty, Inc.

Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment

By: William Mazzarella,Eric L. Santner,Aaron Schuster

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Sovereignty, Inc.

Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment

By: William Mazzarella,Eric L. Santner,Aaron Schuster

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding—such is the new sovereignty business in which, whether one belongs to his base or not, we are all “incorporated.” Drawing on anthropology, political theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theater, William Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, and Aaron Schuster show how politics in the age of Trump functions by mobilizing a contradictory and convoluted enjoyment, an explosive mixture of drives and fantasies that eludes existing portraits of our era. The current political moment turns out to be not so much exceptional as exceptionally revealing of the constitutive tension between enjoyment and economy that has always been a key component of the social order. Santner analyzes the collective dream-work that sustains a new sort of authoritarian charisma or mana, a mana-facturing process that keeps us riveted to an excessively carnal incorporation of sovereignty. Mazzarella examines the contemporary merger of consumer brand and political brand and the cross-contamination of politics and economics, warning against all too easy laments about the corruption of politics by marketing. Schuster, focusing on the extreme theatricality and self-satirical comedy of the present, shows how authority reasserts itself at the very moment of distrust and disillusionment in the system, profiting off its supposed decline. A dazzling diagnostic of our present, Sovereignty, Inc., forces us to come to terms with our complicity in Trump’s political presence and will immediately take its place in discussions of contemporary politics.

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University of Chicago Press

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022666841X

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Landslide Ecology

By: Lawrence R. Walker,Aaron B. Shiels

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Landslide Ecology

By: Lawrence R. Walker,Aaron B. Shiels

Landslides are dangerous, fascinating phenomena: understanding their biological and ecological aspects is essential for achieving slope stability and habitat restoration.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521190525

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Beyond Faith

Exploring Judaism and Comparing It to Other Religions, Philosophies, and Disciplines

By: Aaron Minsky

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Beyond Faith

Exploring Judaism and Comparing It to Other Religions, Philosophies, and Disciplines

By: Aaron Minsky

This is an important book which should see the light of day. - Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, Orthodox Union I feel this work will be of great value to the thinking Jew. - Rabbi Yitzhak Rosenbaum, National Jewish Outreach Program There is little doubt in my mind that this encyclopedic work will be an indispensable resource. - Rabbi Tovia Singer, Outreach Judaism, Israel National Radio This book would also be beneficial to non-Jews who wish to know what Judaism thinks of them and their role in creation. - Rabbi Yisroel Fried, Chabad Lubavitch CLICK HERE to go to the author's personal website

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462832016

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Velvet Ants of North America

By: Kevin Williams,Aaron D. Pan,Joseph S. Wilson

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Velvet Ants of North America

By: Kevin Williams,Aaron D. Pan,Joseph S. Wilson

An authoritative, marvelously illustrated field guide to the velvet ants of North America Velvet Ants of North America is a beautiful photographic guide to the species of the wasp family Mutillidae found in the United States and Canada. Featuring hundreds of full-color photos, it covers nearly 460 species—representing more than 9 percent of all velvet ant species, which number in the thousands worldwide—providing comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of this spectacular group of insects. This one-of-a-kind guide serves as an invaluable reference for naturalists, scientific researchers, museum specialists, and outdoor enthusiasts. Covers nearly 460 species found in North America and throughout the world Features stunning high-resolution photos of each species Detailed species accounts and keys allow for easy and rewarding identification Sheds invaluable light on taxa from Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and beyond Provides silhouette images depicting the actual size ranges of species Includes distribution maps of nearly all diurnal species in the United States and Canada

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Princeton University Press

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069121204X

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9780691212043

Camera-cut-composition

A Learning Model

By: Aaron Sultanik

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Camera-cut-composition

A Learning Model

By: Aaron Sultanik

According to author Aaron Sultanik, the viewer's response to a film derives from three visually ascertained, dramatically realized cognitive elements: (1) the multiple points of view of a camera's placement, angle, and mobility; (2) the dynamic spatiotemporal assemblage of a film's editing; (3) and the final meaning of a film through the story's pictorial stylization.

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Associated University Presses

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0845348523

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The Second Cold War

Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy

By: Aaron Donaghy

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The Second Cold War

Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy

By: Aaron Donaghy

The compelling account of the last great Cold War struggle between America and the Soviet Union that took place between 1977 and 1985.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108838030

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Full Circle

An Exploration Into Our Spiritual Universe

By: Aaron Holmes

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Full Circle

An Exploration Into Our Spiritual Universe

By: Aaron Holmes

Live with Merlin and ride on the Dragons breath! Excalibur awaits you! With Full Circle as a guide, we, as humans and individuals, can realize our dreams by allowing magick to be part of us. Aaron hints at some of the early beginning days of spirituality and gives us some history of mystics within society, yesterday and today. As well as providing insightful contrasts between concepts like Meditation, Science and Religion, and Ritual and Ceremony, Aaron walks us step-by-step through the process of developing a strong fundamental foundation for practicing any type of spirituality or tradition. Exercises in each chapter allow for us to apply the information, creating a more personal and deeper understanding of the material. Aaron's passion for his work is quite obvious. With a style of communication that feels like he's sitting right with you, Aaron shows us how to open our eyes to the world around us with absolute comfort. This fascinating work is indeed a full circle of spiritual insight and intriguing concepts that will keep you searching for more and inspire you to make the changes in your life, that have only been waiting for You!

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iUniverse

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0595288480

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9780595288489

Film and the Holocaust

New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films

By: Aaron Kerner

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Film and the Holocaust

New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films

By: Aaron Kerner

A sweeping survey of how global filmmakers have treated the subject of the Holocaust.

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1441124187

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Rethinking Drug Use in Sport

Why the war will never be won

By: Bob Stewart,Aaron Smith

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Rethinking Drug Use in Sport

Why the war will never be won

By: Bob Stewart,Aaron Smith

Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an inexorable consequence of the nature, structure and culture of sport itself. By de-mythologising and de-moralising the assumptions that prop up current drug management controls, and re-emphasising the importance of the long-term well being and civil rights of the athlete, they offer a powerful argument for creating a legitimate space for drug use in sport. The book offers a broad ranging overview of the social and commercial pressures impelling drug use, and maps the full historical and social extent of the problem. With policy analysis at the centre of the discussion, the book explores the complete range of social, management, policy, scientific, technological and health issues around drugs in sport, highlighting the irresolvable tension between the zero-tolerance model as advanced by WADA and the harm-reduction approach adopted by drug education and treatment agencies. While there are no simple solutions, as long as drugs use is endemic in wider society the authors argue that a more nuanced and progressive approach is required in order to safeguard and protect the health, social liberty and best interests of athletes and sports people, as well as the value of sport itself.

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1135118469

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Pop Goes the Decade

The Sixties

By: Martin Kich,Aaron Barlow

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Pop Goes the Decade

The Sixties

By: Martin Kich,Aaron Barlow

Analyzing complex social and political issues through their manifestations in popular culture, this book provides readers a strong foundational knowledge of the 1960s as a decade. 1969 went out in a way that could never have been imagined in 1960. While the president at the end of the decade had been vice president at the start, the intervening years permanently changed American culture. Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties explores the cultural and social framework of the 1960s, addressing film, television, sports, technology, media/advertising, fashion, art, and more. Entries are presented in encyclopedic fashion, organized into such categories as controversies in pop culture, game changers, technology, and the decade's legacy. A timeline highlights significant cultural moments, while an introduction and a conclusion place those moments within the contexts of preceding and subsequent decades. Attention to the decade's most prominent influencers allows readers to understand the movements with which these figures are associated, and discussion of controversies and social change enables readers to gain a stronger understanding of evolving American social values.

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1440862850

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9781440862854

Leading in a Social World

By: R. Aaron Templer

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Leading in a Social World

By: R. Aaron Templer

Winner of a Nautilus Book Awards Silver Medal in the category of Business & Leadership and one of three Finalists in the Marketing and Public Relations category of the National Indie Excellence Awards! "A terrific companion read to recent bestsellers The Hype Machine (Sinan Aral) and Quantum Marketing (Raja Rajamannar), as well as classics." -Amazon Reviewer Marketers have long had their hands on the levers of social media, and have biased us into a way of thinking about online social constructs that actually stands in contrast to the way social networks generate value. Leading in a Social World exposes both the shortcomings of the tactics-focused social media marketing approach on which so many marketing professionals, leaders, organizations and brands rely, and the questionable data upon which many of their decisions are based. The better way is through building social capital—not with better marketing skills, but with stronger leadership acumen. Leading in a Social World shows you how.

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1737639726

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Leaving Other People Alone

Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction

By: Aaron Kreuter

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Leaving Other People Alone

Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction

By: Aaron Kreuter

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed Other of the Zionist project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction’s unique ability to contain multiple voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literature.

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University of Alberta

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1772126950

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9781772126952

Sport Management

By: Russell Hoye,Aaron Smith,Hans Westerbeek,Bob Stewart,Matthew Nicholson

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Sport Management

By: Russell Hoye,Aaron Smith,Hans Westerbeek,Bob Stewart,Matthew Nicholson

Sport Management: principles and applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice and what research evidence tells us about the application of a range of management principles and practices in sport. Structured in three parts it investigates: The history of the evolution of sport and the current drivers of change in the sport industry, the role of the state, non-profit and professional sectors in sport. Core management principles and their application in sport, highlighting the unique features of how sport is managed compared to other sectors of the economy. This will include discussion and insight into organisational behaviour, organisational culture, strategic planning, organisational structures, human resource management, leadership, governance, and performance management. The future management challenges facing the sport industry. Each chapter has a coherent learning structure complete with international case studies as follows: A conceptual overview of the focus for the chapter. A presentation of accepted practice supported by specific organisational examples at the community, state/provincial, national and professional level. These organisations will include examples from countries such as New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. A presentation of research findings from around the globe. A summary of guiding principles for the focus of the chapter based on a balanced view of practice and research. A section of teaching and learning resources including a reference list, lists for further reading, relevant websites, tutorial activity or study questions, potential research questions and online PowerPoint lecture slides for each chapter. It provides the foundation for introductory sport management subjects, and is ideal for first and second year students studying sport management related courses and those studying sport management within business focussed courses, human movement / physical education courses seeking an overview of sport management principles.

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Routledge

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1136364765

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The End of Greatness

Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President

By: Aaron David Miller

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The End of Greatness

Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President

By: Aaron David Miller

The Presidency has always been an implausible—some might even say an impossible—job. Part of the problem is that the challenges of the presidency and the expectations Americans have for their presidents have skyrocketed, while the president's capacity and power to deliver on what ails the nations has diminished. Indeed, as citizens we continue to aspire and hope for greatness in our only nationally elected office. The problem of course is that the demand for great presidents has always exceeded the supply. As a result, Americans are adrift in a kind of Presidential Bermuda Triangle suspended between the great presidents we want and the ones we can no longer have. The End of Greatness explores the concept of greatness in the presidency and the ways in which it has become both essential and detrimental to America and the nation's politics. Miller argues that greatness in presidents is a much overrated virtue. Indeed, greatness is too rare to be relevant in our current politics, and driven as it is by nation-encumbering crisis, too dangerous to be desirable. Our preoccupation with greatness in the presidency consistently inflates our expectations, skews the debate over presidential performance, and drives presidents to misjudge their own times and capacity. And our focus on the individual misses the constraints of both the office and the times, distorting how Presidents actually lead. In wanting and expecting our leaders to be great, we have simply made it impossible for them to be good. The End of Greatness takes a journey through presidential history, helping us understand how greatness in the presidency was achieved, why it's gone, and how we can better come to appreciate the presidents we have, rather than being consumed with the ones we want.

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1137464461

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The Art of Memory Forensics

Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory

By: Michael Hale Ligh,Andrew Case,Jamie Levy,AAron Walters

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The Art of Memory Forensics

Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory

By: Michael Hale Ligh,Andrew Case,Jamie Levy,AAron Walters

Memory forensics provides cutting edge technology to help investigate digital attacks Memory forensics is the art of analyzing computer memory (RAM) to solve digital crimes. As a follow-up to the best seller Malware Analyst's Cookbook, experts in the fields of malware, security, and digital forensics bring you a step-by-step guide to memory forensics—now the most sought after skill in the digital forensics and incident response fields. Beginning with introductory concepts and moving toward the advanced, The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory is based on a five day training course that the authors have presented to hundreds of students. It is the only book on the market that focuses exclusively on memory forensics and how to deploy such techniques properly. Discover memory forensics techniques: How volatile memory analysis improves digital investigations Proper investigative steps for detecting stealth malware and advanced threats How to use free, open source tools for conducting thorough memory forensics Ways to acquire memory from suspect systems in a forensically sound manner The next era of malware and security breaches are more sophisticated and targeted, and the volatile memory of a computer is often overlooked or destroyed as part of the incident response process. The Art of Memory Forensics explains the latest technological innovations in digital forensics to help bridge this gap. It covers the most popular and recently released versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac, including both the 32 and 64-bit editions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118824997

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Are You Living to Die or Dying to Live?

What Will Your Legacy Be?

By: Aaron Lumpkin

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Are You Living to Die or Dying to Live?

What Will Your Legacy Be?

By: Aaron Lumpkin

Are you ready to die? If there was the slightest possibility you could develop deeper insights, thoughts, and understanding, wouldnt you want to do it? This powerful, positive guide emphasizes the urgency to celebrate every day so you can create a memorable legacy. Be inspired to live with passion, courage, hope, and faith. Strengthen your desire to overcome self-defeating behavior patterns that may be holding you back from achieving the extraordinary quality of life you want. Discover insights to help you find the meaning and purpose you seek. Also included are encouraging words from Josh Lumpkin, Aarons twenty-two-year-old son, who describes the challenges of being a young person today. Discover that life is truly a celebration. Above all, you will see aspects of your life that may need to be changed, so when the end comes, you can know that you lived the best life possible.

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WestBow Press

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1490849300

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The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East

The Making of a Regional Identity

By: Aaron A. Burke

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The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East

The Making of a Regional Identity

By: Aaron A. Burke

A diachronic, yet nuanced study of Amorite identity from Mesopotamia to Egypt over a millennium of Bronze Age history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108495966

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Transformative Conversations

A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education

By: Peter Felten,H-Dirksen L. Bauman,Aaron Kheriaty,Edward Taylor

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Transformative Conversations

A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education

By: Peter Felten,H-Dirksen L. Bauman,Aaron Kheriaty,Edward Taylor

Praise for Transformative Conversations "In the 'superstorm' of writings about the crisis in higher education this little gem of a book stands out like a mindfulness bell. It calls us back to the only thing that truly matters the energy and wisdom buried in the minds and hearts of dedicated educators." Diana Chapman Walsh, president emerita, Wellesley College; trustee emerita, Amherst College; member of the MIT Corporation "This book is revolutionary! It is about transforming the very essence of higher education through the power of authentic conversation, knowing that as the people within the institution evolve, the institution will transform." Patricia and Craig Neal, The Art of Convening: Authentic Engagement in Meetings, Gatherings, and Conversations; founders, Heartland Inc. "This is a radical story about how to create a more intimate and relational culture inside the halls of higher education.... for those who long for higher education to return from the abyss of siloed isolation to its original charter as a cooperative learning institution committed to developing the whole person in service of the common good." Peter Block, Flawless Consulting and Abundant Community Transformative Conversations offers guidance to help readers create and sustain Formation Mentoring Communities, where faculty, staff, and administrators can speak openly and honestly to the heart of their work as educators and human beings.

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1118421299

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The Future is Degrowth

A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

By: Matthias Schmelzer,Andrea Vetter,Aaron Vansintjan

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The Future is Degrowth

A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

By: Matthias Schmelzer,Andrea Vetter,Aaron Vansintjan

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it. Not only in society at large, but also on the left, we are held captive by the hegemony of growth. Even proposals for emancipatory Green New Deals or postcapitalism base their utopian hopes on the development of productive forces, on redistributing the fruits of economic growth and technological progress. Yet growing evidence shows that continued economic growth cannot be made compatible with sustaining life and is not necessary for a good life for all. This book provides a vision for postcapitalism beyond growth. Building on a vibrant field of research, it discusses the political economy and the politics of a non-growing economy. It charts a path forward through policies that democratise the economy, "now-topias" that create free spaces for experimentation, and counter-hegemonic movements that make it possible to break with the logic of growth. Degrowth perspectives offer a way to step off the treadmill of an alienating, expansionist, and hierarchical system. A handbook and a manifesto, The Future Is Degrowth is a must-read for all interested in charting a way beyond the current crises.

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Verso Books

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1839765852

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Polly Platt

Hollywood Production Design and Creative Authorship

By: Aaron Hunter

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Polly Platt

Hollywood Production Design and Creative Authorship

By: Aaron Hunter

This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt. It focuses mainly on her contributions to 1970s Hollywood, but also considers her later work. Considering films such as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, The Bad News Bears, and The Witches of Eastwick, it argues that Platt’s construction of their visual palette and mise-en-scène was so creative and so comprehensive that it can be considered authorial. Chapters discuss Platt’s life and its influence on her work, her attention to detail, her role in location decisions and costume design, and her use of colour. An epilogue discusses her later career as a producer and her mentorship to young filmmakers like Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson. This is the first full-length examination of the career of one of the women practitioners whose work was so important to 1970s cinema, and provides an alternative methodology to the auteur-driven framing that so regularly defines the era.

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303082120X

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The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta

A Field Guide and Primer of Boreal Herpetology

By: Anthony Patrick Russell,Aaron M. Bauer,Wayne Lynch,Irene McKinnon

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The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta

A Field Guide and Primer of Boreal Herpetology

By: Anthony Patrick Russell,Aaron M. Bauer,Wayne Lynch,Irene McKinnon

Amphibians and reptiles (herpetofauna) are a significant but much-neglected component of the natural economy of the province of Alberta. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta, Second Edition continues both as a field guide and a comprehensive natural history, builds on the strengths of the first with a richly illustrated text and colour photographs of the species taken by renowned wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta, First Edition won an Emerald Award for Environmental Excellence and an award from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Nomenclature has been changed to reflect current thinking in the field. New photographs have been added, and maps and illustrations have been updated. This is the essential reference for Alberta herpetofauna.

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1552380386

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The Development of Modern Chemistry

By: Aaron J. Ihde

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The Development of Modern Chemistry

By: Aaron J. Ihde

From ancient Greek theory to the explosive discoveries of the 20th century, this authoritative history shows how major chemists, their discoveries, and political, economic, and social developments transformed chemistry into a modern science. 209 illustrations. 14 tables. Bibliographies. Indices. Appendices.

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0486642356

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The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

By: Aaron Mahnke

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The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

By: Aaron Mahnke

A chilling, lavishly illustrated who’s who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring stories from the Lore podcast—now a streaming television series—including “Black Stockings,” “Half-Hanged,” and “The Castle,” as well as rare material. Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood: humans who may look like us, who may walk among us, often unnoticed, occasionally even admired—but whose evil deeds and secret lives, once revealed, mark them as something utterly wicked. In this illustrated volume from the host of the hit podcast Lore, you’ll find tales of infamous characters whose veins ran with ice water and whose crimes remind us that truth can be more terrifying than fiction. Aaron Mahnke introduces us to William Brodie, a renowned Scottish cabinetmaker who used his professional expertise to prey on the citizens of Edinburgh and whose rampant criminality behind a veneer of social respectability inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Then there’s H. H. Holmes, a relentless and elusive con artist who became best known as the terror of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair when unwitting guests were welcomed into his “hotel” of horrors . . . never to be seen again. And no rogues’ gallery could leave out Bela Kiss, the Hungarian tinsmith with a taste for the occult and a collection of gasoline drums with women’s bodies inside. Brimming with accounts of history’s most heinous real-life fiends, this riveting best-of-the-worst roundup will haunt your thoughts, chill your bones, and leave you wondering if there are mortal monsters lurking even closer than you think. The World of Lore series includes: MONSTROUS CREATURES • WICKED MORTALS • DREADFUL PLACES

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1524798002

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9781524798000

A Rule of Law

Elite Political Authority and the Coming of the Revolution in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1763-1776

By: Aaron Palmer

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A Rule of Law

Elite Political Authority and the Coming of the Revolution in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1763-1776

By: Aaron Palmer

A Rule of Law: Elite Political Authority and the Coming of the Revolution in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1763-1776 by Aaron J. Palmer offers a fresh examination of how South Carolina planters and merchants—the wealthiest in the thirteen colonies—held an iron grip on political power in the province. Their authority, rooted in control of the colonial legislature’s power to make law, extended into local government, courts, plantations, and the Church of England, areas that previous political studies have not thoroughly considered. These elite planters and merchants, who were conservative by nature and fiercely guarded their control of provincial government, led the province into the American Revolution in defense of the order they had established in the colonial period.

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Deep Learning

By: Ian Goodfellow,Yoshua Bengio,Aaron Courville

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Deep Learning

By: Ian Goodfellow,Yoshua Bengio,Aaron Courville

An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives. “Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comprehensive book on the subject.” —Elon Musk, cochair of OpenAI; cofounder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowledge from experience, there is no need for a human computer operator to formally specify all the knowledge that the computer needs. The hierarchy of concepts allows the computer to learn complicated concepts by building them out of simpler ones; a graph of these hierarchies would be many layers deep. This book introduces a broad range of topics in deep learning. The text offers mathematical and conceptual background, covering relevant concepts in linear algebra, probability theory and information theory, numerical computation, and machine learning. It describes deep learning techniques used by practitioners in industry, including deep feedforward networks, regularization, optimization algorithms, convolutional networks, sequence modeling, and practical methodology; and it surveys such applications as natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, online recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and videogames. Finally, the book offers research perspectives, covering such theoretical topics as linear factor models, autoencoders, representation learning, structured probabilistic models, Monte Carlo methods, the partition function, approximate inference, and deep generative models. Deep Learning can be used by undergraduate or graduate students planning careers in either industry or research, and by software engineers who want to begin using deep learning in their products or platforms. A website offers supplementary material for both readers and instructors.

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The Idols of ISIS

From Assyria to the Internet

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

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The Idols of ISIS

From Assyria to the Internet

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq’s Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political importance of museums, and the efficacy of videos in furthering an ideological agenda through the internet. Beginning with the Islamic State’s claim that the smashed objects were idols of the “age of ignorance,” Aaron Tugendhaft questions whether there can be any political life without idolatry. He then explores the various roles Mesopotamian sculpture has played in European imperial competition, the development of artistic modernism, and the formation of Iraqi national identity, showing how this history reverberates in the choice of the Mosul Museum as performance stage. Finally, he compares the Islamic State’s production of images to the ways in which images circulated in ancient Assyria and asks how digitization has transformed politics in the age of social media. An elegant and accessibly written introduction to the complexities of such events, The Idols of ISIS is ideal for students and readers seeking a richer cultural perspective than the media usually provides.

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Up from the Depths

Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

By: Aaron Sachs

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Up from the Depths

Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

By: Aaron Sachs

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure. Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times.

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0691236941

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Whole World in an Uproar

Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972

By: Aaron Leonard

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Whole World in an Uproar

Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972

By: Aaron Leonard

How the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Seventy years since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of the era continue to resonate with our current times. Through studying these musicians and the political contexts in which their pioneering songs were birthed; amidst paranoia, psychedelic delusions, desire and civil unrest; Aaron Leonard’s Whole World in an Uproar is an important new critical history of countercultural music from the Summer of Love to the unwelcome arrival of Bob Dylan.

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1914420934

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Scenescapes

How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

By: Daniel Aaron Silver,Terry Nichols Clark

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Scenescapes

How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

By: Daniel Aaron Silver,Terry Nichols Clark

Setting the scene -- A theory of scenes -- Quantitative flânerie -- Back to the land, on to the scene : how scenes drive economic development -- Home, home on the scene : how scenes shape residential patterns -- Scene power : how scenes influence voting, energize new social movements, and generate political resources / with Christopher M. Graziul) -- Making a scene : how to integrate the scenescape into public policy thinking -- The science of scenes / with Christopher M. Graziul)

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022635699X

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Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948

By: Aaron Berman

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Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948

By: Aaron Berman

A sophisticated analysis of how the Zionist understanding of the Holocaust shaped the development of American Jewish policies and political activism. Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim credit for the successful establishment of Israel in 1948, this triumph was not without cost. Their insistence on including a demand for Jewish statehood in any proposal to aid European Jewry politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. The American Zionist response to Nazism also shaped he political turmoil in the Middle East which followed Israel’s creation. Concerned primarily with providing a home for Jewish refugees and fearing British betrayal, Zionists could not understand Arab protests in defense of their own national interests. Instead they responded to the Arab revolt with armed force and sought to insure their own claim to Palestine, Zionists came to link he Arabs with the Nazi and British forces that were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state. In the thinking of American Zionists, the Arabs were steadily transformed from a people with whom an accommodation would have to be made into a mortal enemy to be defeated. Aaron Berman does not apologize for American Jews, but rather tries to understand the constraints within which they operated and what opportunities-if any-they had to respond to Hitler. In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman’s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.

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Wayne State University Press

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The Much Too Promised Land

America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace

By: Aaron David Miller

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The Much Too Promised Land

America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace

By: Aaron David Miller

For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller records what went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we are today. Here is a look at the peace process from a place at the negotiation table, filled with behind-the-scenes strategy, colorful anecdotes and equally colorful characters, and new interviews with presidents, secretaries of state, and key Arab and Israeli leaders. Honest, critical, and often controversial, Miller’s insider’s account offers a brilliant new analysis of the problem of Arab-Israeli peace and how it still might be solved.

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Bantam

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0553384147

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When Cowboys Come Home

Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America

By: Aaron George

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When Cowboys Come Home

Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America

By: Aaron George

When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over “other-direction” and “conformity,” argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional “frontiersman” masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel From Here to Eternity; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties, including for Rebel without a Cause; and Edward Field, a bohemian poet who used poetry to explore his love for other men. Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war.

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1978821581

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Hegemonic War and Grand Strategy

Ludwig Dehio, World History, and the American Future

By: Aaron M. Zack

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Hegemonic War and Grand Strategy

Ludwig Dehio, World History, and the American Future

By: Aaron M. Zack

Ludwig Dehio advances a theory of the historical dynamic of the modern European state system (1494–1945) and its hegemonic wars. After explaining Dehio's thoughts about why none of the European Powers were successful in their attempts to conquer the Continent, the text analyzes bids for hegemony in the historical Hellenic, Hellenistic, Roman, Renaissance Italian, modern European, and western hemispheric state systems. The purpose of these analyses is to demonstrate how Dehio's thought illuminates the dynamics of hegemonic conflicts. Additionally, in these chapters we note how prior hegemonic struggles illuminate some of the dilemmas of contemporary American grand strategy. The manuscript then considers how Dehio's thoughts on hegemony enrich our understanding of contemporary challenges, such as the struggles for power in the Middle East and East Asia, the rise of China and its Western Hemispheric ambitions, and American grand strategic options. The text concludes by arguing that Dehio's thought suggests that particular grand strategies will partially determine the global system’s movement towards destructive bids for hegemony, or a viable plural order.

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Lexington Books

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1498523102

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Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

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Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

By: Aaron Lefkovitz

This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix’s transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music’s global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix’s place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.

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Springer

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3319770136

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The Lofts of SoHo

Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980

By: Aaron Shkuda

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The Lofts of SoHo

Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980

By: Aaron Shkuda

American cities changed forever when, beginning in the 1950s, artists, developers, and others looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. The area that became SoHo was the forerunner of gentrified districts in cities nationwide and introduced the idea that art might drive municipal prosperity. Without the example of SoHo, no one would have any idea what the term "creative class" refers to. Aaron Shkuda studies the transition of SoHo from industrial space to an artist enclave to an affluent residential area, focusing on the legacy of urban renewal in and around SoHo; the growth of artist-led redevelopment; the conflict between residents and property owners; and the city's embrace of loft conversions as an urban development strategy. In the process, Shkuda comes to fresh conclusions about what happened to bring about SoHo, and what it has meant for all of our cities.

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022633418X

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On Apology

By: Professor of Psychiatry University of Massachusetts Medical School Aaron Lazare M.D. Chancellor and Dean

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On Apology

By: Professor of Psychiatry University of Massachusetts Medical School Aaron Lazare M.D. Chancellor and Dean

One of the most profound interactions that can occur between people, apologies have the power to heal humiliations, free the mind from deep-seated guilt, remove the desire for vengeance, and ultimately restore broken relationships. With On Apology, Aaron Lazare offers an eye-opening analysis of this vital interaction, illuminating an often hidden corner of the human heart. He discusses the importance of shame, guilt, and humiliation, the initial reluctance to apologize, the simplicity of the act of apologizing, the spontaneous generosity and forgiveness on the part of the offended, the transfer of power and respect between two parties, and much more. Readers will not only find a wealth of insight that they can apply to their own lives, but also a deeper understanding of national and international conflicts and how we might resolve them. The act of apologizing is quite simply immensely fulfilling. On Apology opens a window onto this common occurrence to reveal the feelings and actions at the heart of this profound interaction.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198038658

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Grounded

Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines

By: Aaron Bernstein

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Grounded

Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines

By: Aaron Bernstein

The inside account of how Frank Lorenzo took over a sputtering Airlines and flew it into the ground. With access to the major players -- the guarded Lorenzo and his inner circle, former Eastern Airlines president Frank Borman, Peter Ueberroth, and union boss Charlie Bryan -- author Aaron Bernstein explains how Lorenzo brought a corporate raider's mentality to running a business, and how its failure marked a watershed in the 1980s "Age of Greed".

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Beard Books

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1893122131

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Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night

By: N. Grace Aaron

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Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night

By: N. Grace Aaron

Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night is a comprehensive appraisal of the traditional critical perspectives of mysticism: philosophical, theological, literary, and psychological. Examining the a priori limitations of these approaches, the book presents an original definition of the symbol as an integral whole of experience and expression, and concludes that night is the form - the organizing principle - of spiritual life.

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0820470953

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