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Chord Changes on the Chalkboard

How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans

By: Al Kennedy

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Chord Changes on the Chalkboard

How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans

By: Al Kennedy

The world's fascination with New Orleans stems from the allure of the music of the city_music that owes its origins and development to many sources. Until now, popular and scholarly books, dissertations, and articles that attempt to explain these sources have failed to recognize the unsung heroes of the New Orleans jazz scene: the teachers in its public schools. Through more than 90 original interviews and extensive research in New Orleans' historical collections, Dr. Kennedy documents ways that public school teachers pushed an often unwilling urban institution to become an important structure that transmitted jazz and the other musical traditions of the city to future musicians. Music legends from Louis Armstrong to Ellis Marsalis Jr._who also provides the foreword_are just two of the many well-known former students of the New Orleans public schools. Chord Changes on the Chalkboard shows that, particularly after the 1920s, public school students benefited not only from the study of instrumental music and theory, but also from direct exposure to musicians, many of whom were invited to perform for the students. The impact the teachers had on generations of musicians and music fans is undeniable, yet their teaching techniques are only part of the story. In addition to the successes enjoyed with their students, the teachers' own musical experiences, recordings, and performances are also examined. The interaction between teachers and students in New Orleans public school classrooms opens a new field of research for music historians, and this book is the first to document ways in which public school teachers acted as mentors to shape the future of jazz and the music of New Orleans. An important addition to its field, Chord Changes on a Chalkboard will provide invaluable information for jazz fans and historians, music scholars and students, and it is also useful reading for any public school teacher. A must for any music library, it should also be a welcome addition to any collection supporting African-American history or popular culture.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461657466

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Quantitative Organic Microanalysis

By: Al Steyermark

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Quantitative Organic Microanalysis

By: Al Steyermark

Quantitative Organic Microanalysis, Second Edition presents the recommendations of the American Chemical Society group for specification and methods of organic microanalysis. This book is organized into 23 chapters, and starts with discussions on test samples, blank tests, second type of efficient vibration-absorbing balance table, and microchemical balances. Other general topics covered include the Kjeldahl procedures to determine nitrogen compounds; oxygen flask combustions; determination of fluorine; and microhydrogenation. The final chapters present the modification of the procedure for the determination of oxygen using gravimetry. This book will be of great value to microanalysts, researchers, and college students who wants to expand their understanding in organic microanalysis.

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Elsevier

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0323161367

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No One Sleeps in Alexandria

By: Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Majīd,Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

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No One Sleeps in Alexandria

By: Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Majīd,Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians--Muslims and Copts, northerners and southerners, men and women--as they begin to settle in Egypt's great second city, and explores how the Second World War, starting in supposedly faraway Europe, comes crashing down on them, affecting their lives in fateful ways. Central to the novel is the story of a striking friendship between Sheikh Magd al-Din, a devout Muslim with peasant roots in northern Egypt, and Dimyan, a Copt with roots in southern Egypt, in their journey of survival and self-discovery. Woven around this narrative are the stories of other characters, in the city, in the villages, or in the faraway desert, closer to the fields of combat. And then there is the story of Alexandria itself, as written by history, as experienced by its denizens, and as touched by the war. Throughout, the author captures the cadences of everyday life in the Alexandria of the early 1940s, and boldly explores the often delicate question of religious differences in depth and on more than one level. No One Sleeps in Alexandria adds an authentically Egyptian vision of Alexandria to the many literary--but mainly Western--Alexandrias we know already: it may be the same space in which Cavafy, Forster, and Durrell move but it is certainly not the same world.

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American Univ in Cairo Press

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9774249615

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Hushabye

The Mystics, the Music, and the Mob

By: Al Contrera

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Hushabye

The Mystics, the Music, and the Mob

By: Al Contrera

An original founding member of the Mystics, author Al Contrera tells the true story of how five Brooklyn teenagers went from singing on street corners to fame in the fifties with their first hit song, “Hushabye.” Contrera, provides vivid and detailed accounts of the trials and adventures of forming a rock-‘n’-roll group in a neighborhood controlled by the mob. He narrates the story of the group’s formation, their recording and touring career, as well as their successes and heartbreaks, including the story of when the Mystics’ lead singer was arrested for being an innocent witness to a holdup and accidental shooting by a neighborhood gang and was mistakenly jailed for two years. Hushabye tells about walking the fine line between the music and the mob and how peer pressure and the temptations of fame changed their lives. Contrera offers keen insight and background into the sweet sound of the street corner doo-wop harmonies of the 1950s.

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Balboa Press

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1982200286

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Gophers Illustrated

The Incredible Complete History of Minnesota Football

By: Al Pāpas

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Gophers Illustrated

The Incredible Complete History of Minnesota Football

By: Al Pāpas

Earlier versions of some of the content of this book were published as Gopher Sketchbook by Nodin Press in 1990"--T.p. verso.

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U of Minnesota Press

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081666756X

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Vegas and the Mob

By: Al W Moe

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Vegas and the Mob

By: Al W Moe

Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like you've never heard it before, from start to finish. Two of the nation's most powerful crime family bosses went to prison in the 1930's: Al Capone and Lucky Luciano. Frank Nitti took over the Chicago Outfit, while Frank Costello ran things for the Luciano Family. Both men were influenced by their bosses from prison, and both sent enough gangsters into the streets to influence loan sharking, extortion, union control, and drug sales. Bugsy Siegel worked for both groups, handling a string of murders and opening up gaming on the west coast, and that included Las Vegas, an oasis of sin in the middle of the desert - and it was legal. Most of it. The FBI watched as the Mob took control of casino after casino, killed off the competition, and stole enough money to bribe their way to respectability back home. By the 1950's, nearly every major crime family had a stake in a Las Vegas casino. Some did better than others. Casino owners watched-over their profits while competing crime families eyed each other's success like jealous lovers. Murder often followed.

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Al W Moe

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1483955559

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The World's Most Evil Serial Killers

Crimes that Shocked the World

By: Al Cimino,Jo Durden Smith,Paul Roland,John Marlowe,Victor McQueen,Charlotte Greig

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The World's Most Evil Serial Killers

Crimes that Shocked the World

By: Al Cimino,Jo Durden Smith,Paul Roland,John Marlowe,Victor McQueen,Charlotte Greig

There are few people alive who are so cruel, so heartless and so undeniably evil that they will kill again and again. Yet at any one time, there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the USA, and their chilling crimes have fascinated us since the days of Jack the Ripper. Here you will discover how these heartless killers committed their gruesome deeds, what motivated them to kill and how, eventually, they were caught. This collection features more than 50 compelling stories, including: • Ed Kemper, who dismembered the bodies of his victims once he had finished with them; • Ted Bundy, who abducted, raped and brutally killed more than 30 women; • Charles Manson, who led a cult of mayhem and murder; • Jeffrey Dahmer, who stored a human head in his freezer; • Randy Kraft, who was pulled over for drunk driving with a body in the trunk of his car; • Alexander Pichushkin, who aimed to kill a person for every square on the chessboard.

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Arcturus Publishing

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1398833673

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Sustainable Land Management for NEOM Region

By: Mashael M. Al Saud

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Sustainable Land Management for NEOM Region

By: Mashael M. Al Saud

This book is the first of its type on NEOM Region, NW of Saudi Arabia. This region has been designated in 2017 to be an international economic hub. However, no studies have been done on this region which occupies several natural resources including remarkable landscape with unique ecological species, ores and water resources. The region is also vulnerable to many aspects of threatening natural hazards. Based on her expertise, namely geomorphological processes, earth sciences, space techniques and natural risk assessment, the author made an initiative to produce this book using advanced tools, specifically satellite images and geo-information system. The book introduces several thematic maps obtained for the first time for NEOM Region. Hence, it represents a scientific guide for land management and urban planning approaches. This book is a very significant document for a variety of readers and researchers including decision makers, land managers and planners, as well as geographers and geologists. In addition, the basic concepts and new approaches attract researchers and academic teams including students, universities and research centers not only in Saudi Arabia, but in different parts of the World.

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Springer Nature

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3030576310

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Masterless Men

The Vagrancy Problem in England 1560–1640

By: A.L. Beier

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Masterless Men

The Vagrancy Problem in England 1560–1640

By: A.L. Beier

Masterless Men (1985) examines the nature of vagrancy in Tudor and Stuart England, an issue that many contemporary authorities regarded as their most serious social problems. It looks at why vagrancy was felt to be such a threat to the stability of the country, and the steps the authorities took to overcome the problem.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000967395

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The Gender Vendors

Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud

By: A. L. Jones

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The Gender Vendors

Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud

By: A. L. Jones

Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, “the seed and the soil” is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy. As metaphor for gender and procreation, seed-and-soil constructs the father as the sole generating parent and the mother as nurturing medium, like soil, for the man’s seed-child. In other words, men give life; women merely give birth. The Gender Vendors examines seed-and-soil in the context of the psychology of gender, honor and chastity codes, female genital mutilation, the taboo on male femininity, femiphobia (the fear of being feminine or feminized), sexual violence, institutionalized abuse, the early modern witch hunts, the medicalization and criminalization of gender nonconformity, and campaigns against women’s rights. The examination is structured around particular watersheds in the history of seed-and-soil, for example, Genesis, ancient Greece, early Christianity, the medieval Church, the early modern European witch hunts, and the campaigns of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against women’s suffrage and education. The neglected story of seed-and-soil matters to everyone who cares about gender equality and why it is taking so long to achieve.

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Lexington Books

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0739190970

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Chee Chee

A Study of Aboriginal Suicide

By: Alvin L. Evans,Al Evans

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Chee Chee

A Study of Aboriginal Suicide

By: Alvin L. Evans,Al Evans

Although continually cited by the United Nations as one of the best places in the world in which to live, Canada has proven deadly for many Native peoples.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773526870

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Aim for the Heart

Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV and Multimedia

By: Al Tompkins

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Aim for the Heart

Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV and Multimedia

By: Al Tompkins

Al Tompkins teaches students about broadcast journalism using a disarmingly simple truth—if you aim for the heart with the copy you write and the sound and video you capture, you will compel your viewers to keep watching. With humor, honesty, and directness, award-winning journalist and author Al Tompkins bottles his years of experience and insight in a new Third Edition that offers students the fundamentals they need to master journalism in today’s constantly evolving media environment, with practical know-how they can immediately put to use in their careers. Aim for the Heart is as close as you can get to spending a week in one of Tompkins’s training sessions that he has delivered in newsrooms around the world, from which students: • Learn how to build compelling characters who connect with the audience • Write inviting leads • Get memorable soundbites • See how to light, crop, frame, and edit compelling videos • Learn how to leverage social media to engage audiences • Gain critical thinking skills that move your story from telling the "what" to telling the "why

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CQ Press

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1506315267

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9781506315263

Violence in Families

What Every Christian Needs to Know

By: Al Miles

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Violence in Families

What Every Christian Needs to Know

By: Al Miles

Straightforward facts about a frightening issue.

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Augsburg Books

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0806642645

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The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories Volume 2

By: Bill Gaines,Al Feldstein

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The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories Volume 2

By: Bill Gaines,Al Feldstein

The classic EC series, presented as a deluxe-size trade paperback! This high-quality trade reprints the issues #7–#12 of the pulp-comic classic Shock SuspenStories! Featuring 24 stories by the all-star artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood.

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506733522

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Biology of Genus Boswellia

By: Ahmed Al-Harrasi,Abdul Latif Khan,Sajjad Asaf,Ahmed Al-Rawahi

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Biology of Genus Boswellia

By: Ahmed Al-Harrasi,Abdul Latif Khan,Sajjad Asaf,Ahmed Al-Rawahi

This book provides insight into the biology and genomics of the genus Boswellia (family Burseraceae), a natural resource used for the production of frankincense, an oleo-gum resin. The Boswellia species are ecologically, medicinally, commercially and culturally important. Significantly contributing to the paucity of comprehensive literature on this genus, this volume provides a detailed discussion on the genomics, physiology and ecology of Boswellia. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including taxonomy, distribution, genetic diversity and microbiology. The production process of frankincense and its impact on the species are presented as well. In light of the recent decline of various Boswellia populations, species propagation and conservation are discussed. Plant scholars, ecologists and conservation biologists will find this book to be an important and informative reference.

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Springer

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3030167259

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Chief of Chiefs

Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, 1915–2001

By: Al Kennedy

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Chief of Chiefs

Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, 1915–2001

By: Al Kennedy

The inspiring true story of one of New Orleans’s most beloved citizens, whose remarkable life spanned most of the twentieth century. From his birth in 1915, Robert Nathaniel Lee faced hardship and discrimination. But the man who would one day be known as Big Chief Robbe always found a way to do what he believed in?even if that meant using his fists to beat back bullies. When he saw the Mardi Gras Indians for the first time, he knew that he was going to be one of them, part of the long tradition of song and dance processions held in ceremonial attire that enliven Fat Tuesday year after year. Joining the Mardi Gras Indian community at only ten, he quickly became known for his stunning sewing and singing abilities. By the end of his life in 2001, he had been the Big Chief of four different tribes—the first and only person to be named “chief of chiefs” by the Mardi Gras Indian Council—given a lecture at Yale University, and become a role model for generations of New Orleans black youth. In this book, Al Kennedy, author of Big Chief Harrison and the Mardi Gras Indians, enhances the story of Chief Robbe’s life with extensive detail and interviews from their personal relationship, creating a biography that reflects the rich history and personality of New Orleans.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1455623806

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Chee Chee

A Study of Aboriginal Suicide

By: Al Evans

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Chee Chee

A Study of Aboriginal Suicide

By: Al Evans

Benjamin Chee Chee lived with anger and frustration for more than thirty years before he took his own life. An Ojibway artist who killed himself just as he was beginning to gain international recognition, Chee Chee is one of the thousands of aboriginal peoples in Canada who have commited suicide. Noted suicidologist and former RCMP officer Al Evans explores Chee Chee's wild, reckless, creative life to reveal how the clash between Native and White society has affected the suicide rate of young Native men and women, now among the highest in the world. Using his in-depth understanding of Native self-destructive behaviour and information from interviews with Chee Chee's mother, close friends, and fellow artists, Evans shows that understanding Benjamin's suicide requires moving beyond psychological analysis to include the damage that contact with White society has caused Native culture, heritage, status, and meaning of life. Evans argues that White society needs to understand these dynamics to be involved in the healing process of Aboriginal peoples in Canada - or to at least avoid hindering their recovery.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773571787

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9780773571785

Kentucky Cured

Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism

By: Al Smith

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Kentucky Cured

Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism

By: Al Smith

Andrew Jackson fought a duel in rural Logan County, Kentucky. Jesse James robbed a bank there, and frontier lawyers began political careers. But a resentful Al Smith knew none of this when he got off the bus at Russellville, rented a room at a shabby hotel and asked for the nearest bootlegger. After losing two newspaper jobs in New Orleans, he was the new tramp editor of Russellville's little country weekly. He was thirty-one, and his life was in shambles. Fifty sober years later, his stories tell what happened after he was cured of his negative obsessions and discovered Kentucky was a land of the second chance. From county courthouse to the White House, read all about it.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614237204

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My Comrades and Me

Staff Sergeant Al Brown's Wwii Memoirs

By: Al Brown

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My Comrades and Me

Staff Sergeant Al Brown's Wwii Memoirs

By: Al Brown

Author Al Brown, like a few million others, was a civilian one day and a serviceman the next. In My Comrades and Me: Staff Sergeant Al Brown's WWII Memoirs, he gives readers a glimpse into his life as a soldier and his personal experiences during the Second World War. In My Comrades and Me, Brown takes readers through basic infantry training where they were drilled to follow the do something, even if it is wrong rule, the longest, loneliest night of his life, his first day in combat on a dark moonless morning, January 22, 1944, when he almost drowned, and more. He also shares his comrades' stories. Brown hopes that, with these memoirs, families and descendants of WWII soldiers will find answers to their questions about their soldier's combat experiences, experiences that soldiers never revealed to their families after their return or because they never returned. Rarely did the combat soldier reveal them in letters home. Sergeant Brown notes that all infantry combat experiences are fundamentally the same. Only the dates and settings are different for different soldiers.

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FriesenPress

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1770971866

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The Fundamentals of Corrosion and Scaling for Petroleum & Environmental Engineers

By: George V Chilingar,Ryan Mourhatch,Ghazi D Al-Qahtani

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The Fundamentals of Corrosion and Scaling for Petroleum & Environmental Engineers

By: George V Chilingar,Ryan Mourhatch,Ghazi D Al-Qahtani

Scale, or deposits, can build up in the wellbore tubulars and other downhole components, causing considerable damage to the life of the well. Infrastructure provides the support for the wells system and with oil and gas consumption on the rise and transportation required to feed that demand, all petroleum and pipeline engineers must have accurate corrosion and scaling information. The Fundamentals of Corrosion and Scaling for Petroleum and Environmental Engineers will provide the quick knowledge that engineers need to not only enhance the reliability of corrosion and scale control technologies but also manage scale deposits, prevent fatigue and ensure equipment integrity.

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0127999914

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Sometimes I Did All I Could

Authentic Remembrances of Teaching

By: Jerry Worley,Margaret Morris,Al Stramiello

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Sometimes I Did All I Could

Authentic Remembrances of Teaching

By: Jerry Worley,Margaret Morris,Al Stramiello

The authenticity of being human, paradoxical remembrances, and realms of wellness are some of the themes explored in this cutting-edge, down-to-earth repertoire of essays. Teachers share vivid memories that reflect happenings that began in good faith but, from a human perspective, failed to meet expectations. Read, for example, the chapter Heads or Tails?, a lesson that celebrates the traditions of teaching from a generational vantage point. This jewel of a story emphasizes the risk-taking that all good teachers must take in order to make a difference. Take a journey with these seasoned educators as they share their stories of humility, failure, and fear; indeed, remembrances that would soon teach them well as they travel on through a maze of educational lessons.

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Mercer University Press

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0881461377

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Liver Lover: Fall in Love With Your Liver

By: Al Kimmy

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Liver Lover: Fall in Love With Your Liver

By: Al Kimmy

Does your liver need some lovin'? Then this book is for you! In 30 short lessons, designed to be implemented over the course of a month, you will develop a love and appreciation for your liver that you never imagined possible! This book is also ideal for bodyworkers, health practitioners and health educators who are looking for short simple liver-focused lessons for their clients. Transform your relationship with your liver. Is life worth living? That depends on the liver! Here are some of the topics covered inside: * How does hydration affect the liver? * How does exercise affect the liver? * Are some people just born with a "bad" or "good" liver? * Are there such things as "liver emotions?" * Is there such a thing as a "good bad" thing for the liver? * Can acupressure help to support the liver? * Does mindset affect the liver? * Can breathing help the liver? * How can posture help or hurt the liver? * How to shift your diet without "dieting" * Are "healing crystals" really a thing? * Healthy foods that most people can find for free? ...and more!

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Kim Makoi, D.C.

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Utilising Fiction to Promote English Language Acquisition

By: Suhair Al Alami

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Utilising Fiction to Promote English Language Acquisition

By: Suhair Al Alami

The teaching of English in the United Arab Emirates is based upon the communicative approach and aims to enable EFL students to employ language skills for communication purposes, as appropriate. Personal experience and the author’s colleagues’ observations, however, reveal that a number of EFL university students fail to achieve adequate communicative competence, which, in turn, does not qualify them to exploit the foreign language of English as required by their curricula as well as by today’s world. Central to university education in the United Arab Emirates is critical thinking. It seems reasonable, then, to assume that EFL university students are well-equipped to tackle a reading text and to handle a writing task, demonstrating through such activities an adequate repertoire of critical thinking skills. Personal experience and the author’s colleagues’ observations, however, indicate that this does not apply to a number of EFL university students studying in the country. Seeking an effective remedy, the author argues that utilising literature in the EFL classroom would be beneficial in terms of many essential aspects. Based on a three-year research project conducted at a private university in Dubai involving a number of EFL students, the book concludes with some suggestions with regards to what criteria to adopt when utilising literary texts. The current book, as such, is expected to be of use and interest to: applied linguists (as the study proposes an approach to integrating the teaching of language, literature, communication and critical thinking, with the ultimate goal of promoting communicative competence and enhancing critical thinking on the part of EFL learners); curricula designers (since the study introduces a course for the enhancement of communicative competence and critical thinking); and EFL instructors (because the study offers instructional material which can be adopted or adapted when teaching EFL university students).

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443851116

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Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy

By: J. Rundell,et al

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Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy

By: J. Rundell,et al

Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy brings together a range of essays concerning ways of conceptualising modernities, subjectivities, and recognition. It highlights recent developments in German critical and social philosophy and includes essays by Martin Seel, Christoph Menke, Max Pensky, Andrew Bowie, and Karl Ameriks, and critical discussions of the works of Manfred Frank, Theodor Adorno and Axel Honneth.

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BRILL

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9047406648

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9789047406648

Social Thought in England, 1480-1730

From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

By: A.L. Beier

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Social Thought in England, 1480-1730

From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

By: A.L. Beier

Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society. The book analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period. A pervasive medieval model was the "body social," which imagined a society of three estates – the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty – conjoined by interdependent functions, arranged in static hierarchies based upon birth, and rejecting wealth and championing poverty. Another model the book describes as "social humanist," that fundamentally questioned the body social, advancing merit over birth, mobility over stasis, and wealth over poverty. The theory of the body social was vigorously articulated between the 1480s and the 1550s. Parts of the old metaphor actually survived beyond 1550, but alternative models of social humanist thought challenged the body concept in the period, advancing a novel paradigm of merit, mobility, and wealth. The book’s methodology focuses on the intellectual context of a variety of contemporary texts.

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Routledge

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1317352300

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Wages and Income in the United Kingdom since 1860

By: A. L. Bowley

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Wages and Income in the United Kingdom since 1860

By: A. L. Bowley

Originally published in 1937, this book provides a statistical analysis of wages and income in the United Kingdom from 1860 onwards.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316509605

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Genocide in Iraq

The Case Against the UN Security Council and Member States

By: Abdul-Haq al-Ani,Tarik al-Ani

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Genocide in Iraq

The Case Against the UN Security Council and Member States

By: Abdul-Haq al-Ani,Tarik al-Ani

Imposing sanctions on Iraq was one of the most heinous of crimes committed in the 20th century. Yet it has received little attention in the Anglo-American world. Despite the calamitous destruction resulting from the sanctions, no serious attempts by legal professionals, academics or philosophers have been undertaken to address the full scope of the immorality and illegality of such a criminal and unprecedented mass punishment. Genocide in Iraq offers a comprehensive coverage of Iraq’s politics, its building, its destruction through aggression and sanctions, and an analysis of the legality of these sanctions from the point of view of international laws and human rights laws. It presents a detailed policy analysis indicating how, under Ba’ath rule, Iraq had risen to become-be fore 12 years of total sanctions were globally enforced-the most progressive and developed Arab nation in the Middle East. It then contrasts that rising nation to the devastated remains left in the aftermath of sanctions, which nonetheless was yet to endure, in 2003, the full force of the American “shock and awe” invasion. The book explains why, in modern times, imperialist powers felt it was necessary to occupy Baghdad. It also puts forward the uniqueness of Iraq as at the heart of both Sunni and Shi’a theology, arguing it was this very centrality of Iraq, which far outweighs the significance of Arabia in socio-economic, religious and geostrategic dimensions, that at the same time makes Iraq a target. It details the building of Iraq by the Ba’ath regime, part of which was done with remarkable speed, putting to rest the argument that other countries in the area were developed at a similar pace. It also details the devastation of Iraq by 2003 after 12 years of sanctions-a devastation so dreadful that by the UN’s own accounting, some 500,000 child deaths were due to it; a devastation so pervasive and overwhelming that two of the UN’s own key administrators of the sanctions program, Dennis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, resigned in protest.

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SCB Distributors

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098533536X

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9780985335366

Moon Guatemala

By: Al Argueta

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Moon Guatemala

By: Al Argueta

This full-color guide includes vibrant photos and detailed maps to help with trip planning. Part-time Guatemala resident Al Argueta provides travelers with an insider's view of Guatemala's best, from idyllic surf spots to popular volcanoes. Argueta offers in-depth coverage of Lake Atitlan and La Antigua, as well as Guatemala City's diverse selection of museums. With expert advice on where to eat, sleep, relax, and explore, Moon Guatemala gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

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Moon Travel

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1631211323

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9781631211324

School Inclusion in Lebanon

Integrating Research on Students with Giftedness and Learning Disabilities into Practice

By: Anies Al-Hroub,Nidal Jouni

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School Inclusion in Lebanon

Integrating Research on Students with Giftedness and Learning Disabilities into Practice

By: Anies Al-Hroub,Nidal Jouni

This book addresses the impact of inclusion on the performance of students with and without special needs in Lebanese schools. It examines the performance of regular students to the performance of students with learning disabilities (LD) and gifted students as perceived by them to identify the population that is best served by inclusion. The book investigates three domains affecting student performance in inclusive settings: management and organization. Teaching and learning, and student support and school ethos. In addition, it compares the ways in which these domains affect student performance for each population. In addition, the book presents a detailed description of the inclusive practices that affect student performance and the indicators that contribute most positively to fostering the performance of regular students, gifted students, and students with LD. Finally, it describes the inclusion model applied and proved empirically to affect the positive performance of all student groups as a response to the increasing call for inclusive schooling in Lebanon. Key areas of coverage include: Inclusive education, social justice, and equity in Lebanese schools. Student perceptions of inclusion in Lebanon. Inclusion of gifted learners and students with learning disabilities. Comparison of student performance among different populations in inclusive settings. Domains affecting student performance in inclusive settings. Proposed model of student inclusion in Lebanese schools. School Inclusion in Lebanon is an essential resource for researchers, professionals and policymakers, and graduate students in such interrelated fields as school psychology, inclusive education / educational psychology, and social work.

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Springer Nature

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303134779X

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Molecular Design

Chemical Structure Generation from the Properties of Pure Organic Compounds

By: A.L. Horvath

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Molecular Design

Chemical Structure Generation from the Properties of Pure Organic Compounds

By: A.L. Horvath

This book is a systematic presentation of the methods that have been developed for the interpretation of molecular modeling to the design of new chemicals. The main feature of the compilation is the co-ordination of the various scientific disciplines required for the generation of new compounds. The five chapters deal with such areas as structure and properties of organic compounds, relationships between structure and properties, and models for structure generation. The subject is covered in sufficient depth to provide readers with the necessary background to understand the modeling techniques. The book will be of value to chemists in industries involved in the manufacture of organic chemicals such as solvents refrigerants, blood substitutes, etc. It also serves as a reference work for researchers, academics, consultants, and students interested in molecular design.

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Elsevier

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0444596739

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Birds of Ontario: Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status

Volume 2–Nonpasserines: Shorebirds through Woodpeckers

By: Al Sandilands

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Birds of Ontario: Habitat Requirements, Limiting Factors, and Status

Volume 2–Nonpasserines: Shorebirds through Woodpeckers

By: Al Sandilands

The volumes in the Birds of Ontario series summarize life history requirements of bird species that are normally part of the ecology of Ontario. This is the second volume in the series and completes the treatment of the nonpasserine bird species occurring in Ontario on a regular basis. Information on habitat, limiting factors, and status is summarized for 83 species in this volume. These topics are covered for the three primary avian seasons: breeding, migration, and winter. Habitat, nest sites, territoriality, site fidelity, annual reproductive effort, habitat loss and degradation, environmental contaminants, and a variety of other topics are covered in the species accounts. Maps depicting breeding and wintering range are presented for most species along with drawings by Ross James. Birds of Ontario is an essential reference source for wildlife biologists, environmental consultants, and planners preparing or reviewing environmental impact statements and environmental assessments. Serious birders will find the volumes of interest as well. Although the books focus on Ontario birds, the information is highly relevant to adjacent provinces and states.

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0774843748

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Interrupting the Church's Flow

A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins

By: Al Barrett

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Interrupting the Church's Flow

A radically receptive political theology in the urban margins

By: Al Barrett

How can we develop and embody an ecclesiology, in contexts of urban marginality, that is radically receptive to the gifts and challenges of the agency of our non-Christian neighbours? Drawing on resources from political theologies, and in particular conversation with Graham Ward and Romand Coles, this book challenges our lazy understanding of receptivity, digging deep to uncover a rich theological seam which has the potential to radically alter how theologians think about what we draw from urban places. It offers a game changing liberative theology rooted not in the global south but from a position of self-critical privilege. Full Text – Description for sales people (Text)

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