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The First Modern Society

Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone

By: Lawrence Stone,A. L. Beier

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The First Modern Society

Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone

By: Lawrence Stone,A. L. Beier

Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521364841

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Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Transportation and Industrial Applications

By: Haitham Abu-Rub,Mariusz Malinowski,Kamal Al-Haddad

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Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Transportation and Industrial Applications

By: Haitham Abu-Rub,Mariusz Malinowski,Kamal Al-Haddad

Compiles current research into the analysis and design of power electronic converters for industrial applications and renewable energy systems, presenting modern and future applications of power electronics systems in the field of electrical vehicles With emphasis on the importance and long-term viability of Power Electronics for Renewable Energy this book brings together the state of the art knowledge and cutting-edge techniques in various stages of research. The topics included are not currently available for practicing professionals and aim to enable the reader to directly apply the knowledge gained to their designs. The book addresses the practical issues of current and future electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and focuses primarily on power electronics and motor drives based solutions for electric vehicle (EV) technologies. Propulsion system requirements and motor sizing for EVs is discussed, along with practical system sizing examples. Key EV battery technologies are explained as well as corresponding battery management issues. PHEV power system architectures and advanced power electronics intensive charging infrastructures for EVs and PHEVs are detailed. EV/PHEV interface with renewable energy is described, with practical examples. This book explores new topics for further research needed world-wide, and defines existing challenges, concerns, and selected problems that comply with international trends, standards, and programs for electric power conversion, distribution, and sustainable energy development. It will lead to the advancement of the current state-of-the art applications of power electronics for renewable energy, transportation, and industrial applications and will help add experience in the various industries and academia about the energy conversion technology and distributed energy sources. Combines state of the art global expertise to present the latest research on power electronics and its application in transportation, renewable energy and different industrial applications Offers an overview of existing technology and future trends, with discussion and analysis of different types of converters and control techniques (power converters, high performance power devices, power system, high performance control system and novel applications) Systematic explanation to provide researchers with enough background and understanding to go deeper in the topics covered in the book

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118755502

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E-Man

Life in the Nypd Emergency Service Unit

By: Det. Al Sheppard Ret.

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E-Man

Life in the Nypd Emergency Service Unit

By: Det. Al Sheppard Ret.

Al Sheppard was on the front lines of the most difficult job in police work. E-Men risk their lives every day in many different ways. They are great cops, and Als memoir is right on the mark. Detective Sgt. Joseph Coffey, NYPD, Ret., Author of The Coffey Files Sheppard served in the NYPD during the urban warfare years and received his Baptism of Fire at the Williamsburg Siege. He was a decorated hero of the NYPD and member of the elite Emergency Service Unit (ESU). In his book E-Man, Al takes the reader on a non-stop roller coaster ride of emotions as he reveals life on the streets through the eyes of a combatant during the turbulent times and the work of the Emergency Service Unitthe same unit that the police call when they need help. Detective Lt. Vern Gelbreth, NYPD, Homicide Commander Al Sheppard is the REAL DEAL, and E-Man chronicles his years in the NYPDs Emergency Service Unit with heart-pounding excitement. Sheppard was on the front lines during the era of Vietnam, Black Power, and the Urban Drug Wars, and he survived it all to tell the tale in a book rich with insiders detail and a wry sense of humor. E-Man is the best New York cop book to come down the pike since The French Connection. T.J. English, Author of Paddy Whacked and The Westies E-Man is the breathtaking and sometimes heartbreaking memoir of one of New Yorks legendary emergency service cops. For 10 years Al Sheppard sped through the crowded New York streets to come to the aid of civilians and other police officers, always putting their needs ahead of his. E-Man is a story of adventure, courage and love.

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iUniverse

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1935278274

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American Naval Forces in the Vietnam War

By: Al Hemingway

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American Naval Forces in the Vietnam War

By: Al Hemingway

Describes the experiences of American naval forces during the Vietnam War.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

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0836857763

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9780836857764

Work-Life Advantage

Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation

By: Al James

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Work-Life Advantage

Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation

By: Al James

Work-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of ‘family-friendly’ working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms’ capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth. Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and family Addresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow ‘business case’ for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist ‘dual agenda’ Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the “ideal worker” and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitments Based on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights for professional workers and knowledge-intensive companies around the world

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John Wiley & Sons

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111894481X

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9781118944813

Theories of labour market segmentation

A critique

By: Ray Loveridge,A.L. Mok

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Theories of labour market segmentation

A critique

By: Ray Loveridge,A.L. Mok

The objectives of this book are: to review and develop a framework of key analytical concepts in the field of labour market segmentation; to develop and test these concepts against available data; to indicate weaknesses in the data in the light of the analysis; to offer a critique of manpower policies in some European countries in the light of the foregoing analysis; and to indicate areas of further research. The authors hope that this survey of the literature and the comments that accompany it will prove useful to policy makers and students alike. The authors woulp like to acknowledge the role of the Directorate General for Social Affairs of the European Community, Brussels, in initiating and supporting the production of this volume of criticism and discussion. We have especially appreciated the role of David White, on whose advice we came to rely in directing our critique upon the application of segmental theory to matters of labour market policy. Others whose help and advice we have relied on are John Morley, also of the European Community, Peta Small, who typed the several drafts, and our respective wives and families whose encouragement and discreet silences enabled us to get past the nth draft.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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146159958X

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Beyond Mobility

Planning Cities for People and Places

By: Robert Cervero,Erick Guerra,Stefan Al

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Beyond Mobility

Planning Cities for People and Places

By: Robert Cervero,Erick Guerra,Stefan Al

Beyond Mobility" also seeks to rethink how projects are planned and designed in cities and suburbs at multiple geographic scales, from micro-designs such as parklets to corridors and city-regions. The book closes with a reflection on the opportunities and challenges in moving beyond mobility, with attention to emerging technologies such as self-driving cars and ride-hailing services and social equity topics such as accessibility, livability, and affordability.

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Island Press

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1610918347

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A New Look at Place-based Philanthropy

Insights from Canada and the US

By: Jean-Marc Fontan et al.

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A New Look at Place-based Philanthropy

Insights from Canada and the US

By: Jean-Marc Fontan et al.

In this edited volume, the authors present rich case studies of place-based philanthropy in the United States and Canada that make a strong conceptual and empirical argument for the importance, and growing imperative, of place-based philanthropy in 2023 and beyond. Offering a multidisciplinary theoretical grounding in the connection between philanthropy and place, the case studies range from foundations engaged in disaster recovery, a First Nations UNESCO site, to a funder collaborative engaging seven philanthropies targeting 30 neighborhoods in Montreal, and a private foundation developing a model for holistic change that is being replicated in underserved communities throughout the U.S, among others. Collectively, the case studies bring into the conversation the meaning that individuals bring to their spaces as members of diverse communities, as public and private actors seeking to effect change in underserved communities, and the tension that may result as place is redefined through philanthropic work. The themes and lessons learned that emerge from the case studies offer insights for practitioners, scholars and students of philanthropy.

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FriesenPress

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1039196977

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9781039196971

Islam

And the Glorious Ka'abah

By: Syed Farouq M. Al-Huseini

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Islam

And the Glorious Ka'abah

By: Syed Farouq M. Al-Huseini

Islam and the Glorious Ka’abah presents a unique guide that provides the background information about Islam since the time of Prophet Ibrahim (peace upon him). It begins at the time when he came to Makkah and left his wife, Hajar, and his baby son, Ismael. Years later he journeys back to Makkah to meet his son who by then had grown to be a young man, and built with him the Ka’aba, which became the center point for the Muslims around the world, and it provides the direction for their prayers and worshipping Allah in a unified way. Author Sayed / Farouq M. Al-Husseini offers a wide range of information about the religion of Islam, its teachings and fundamental beliefs, and the worshipping acts of its believers. He explains the holy book of Islam, the Qur’an, explaining how its revelations began and what it contains. Additionally, the text includes a summary of the life of the prophet of Islam, Mohammad (peace be upon him), from his birth and early years through his receiving of the revelations and, ultimately, his prophethood. It also covers his propagation of Islam in Makkah and migration to Al Madinah, where the cradle of Islam was established. Most importantly, this guide explores his personality, his sayings, and his deeds, which have been changing the world for fourteen centuries.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490729100

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The Trail of the Serpent

By: Al E. Gateson

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The Trail of the Serpent

By: Al E. Gateson

It was a manhunt for a charismatic Islamist terrorist who was gathering thousands to his cause because he tells them that he speaks with God who has ordained him to rid the world of infidels and he has obtained four nuclear weapons illegally in Pakistan and intends to use them against four major world cities. The CIA, the Israeli Mossad, the British MI6 and the Russians all have men in the field searching for the bombs and the man who calls himself the Serpent of God. The chase takes place over much of the globe, from Spain to France, Russia and the United States. One bomb has already been detonated. Can they find the others to avert a world-wide disaster?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453573860

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University of Glasgow: 1451-1996

By: A L Brown

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University of Glasgow: 1451-1996

By: A L Brown

A history of Scotland's second oldest university from its foundation to the present.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474465455

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Tumor Diagnosis 2Ed

Practical approach and pattern analysis

By: Awatif Al-Nafussi

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Tumor Diagnosis 2Ed

Practical approach and pattern analysis

By: Awatif Al-Nafussi

Tumor Diagnosis - Practical approach and pattern analysis, Second edition, has been thoroughly revised to provide the most up-to-date information for all pathologists, histopathologists and trainee pathologists working in the diagnosis of tumors and tumor-like conditions. Following the success of its predecessor, this will once again prove the most valuable bench guide available. Every subject has been reconsidered and refined. The original parts have been retained: the first giving details of the patterns to be found, and what they indicate; the second categorizing tumors under organ systems rather than listing them all together and designed to be referred to during practical laboratory work.

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CRC Press

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0340809442

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9780340809440

Cirque Du Cootchay

By: Al Ferber

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Cirque Du Cootchay

By: Al Ferber

Hoochi Cootchay Coo. Dance and do the Cootch whenever possible. See how many you can fit in a clown car. Thus the Cirque.

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1664147004

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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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1317352319

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Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge and Innovation

By: Suliman Al-Hawamdeh

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Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge and Innovation

By: Suliman Al-Hawamdeh

Selected from the prestigious 2006 International Conference on Knowledge Management held in Greenwich, London, this volume represents much of the best and most up-to-date work by researchers and practitioners in the field of knowledge management (KM). It covers a wide range of topics that include social network analysis, innovation and creativity, KM tools and technologies, social network technologies, collaboration and knowledge sharing, issues in KM education and training, knowledge discovery (data mining, data warehousing, intelligent agents), knowledge organization (meta data, taxonomies, ontology), and social and psychological dimensions.This book has been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings? (ISTP?/ISI Proceedings)? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version/ISI Proceedings)? Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings? (ISSHP?/ISI Proceedings)? Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP CDROM version/ISI Proceedings)

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World Scientific

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9812704515

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Reflection On A Revolution

By: Shahid Al-Bilali

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Reflection On A Revolution

By: Shahid Al-Bilali

REFLECTION ON A REVOLUTION THE EVOLUTION OF OUR MINDS seeks to bring the knowledge of a turbulent era in Louisville Kentucky and America in the late 1960s and 70s. Drawing from my own participation in that movement, hoping with this book will bring a greater understanding of the people and struggle of that era, that fought to eradicate racial inequality in America.

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Lulu.com

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0359616267

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Hydrogen Production by Water Splitting, Storage and Transportation

From Laboratories to Industries

By: Imran Ali,Gunel T. Imanova,Al Arsh Basheer

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Hydrogen Production by Water Splitting, Storage and Transportation

From Laboratories to Industries

By: Imran Ali,Gunel T. Imanova,Al Arsh Basheer

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the process of hydrogen production by water splitting, including materials used, methods and instrumentation. It discusses hydrogen production methods with a focus on water splitting (laboratory/industrial scales) followed by its storage and perspectives. It describes all the methods of hydrogen production, i.e., water electrolysis, steam electrolysis, steam reforming, membrane electrolysis and water splitting. The effects of various radiations (ultraviolet, visible, gamma, X-ray and infrared) on hydrogen production are also included. Features: Presents a complete collection of hydrogen generation and discusses the water spitting process in detail. Explores the effects of the radiation of hydrogen generation. Discusses hydrogen generation and storage on a large scale. Presents a future perspective of hydrogen as fuel. Includes future challenges and perspectives to produce hydrogen economically on a large scale. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials and chemical engineering, radiation science, physics, chemistry and materials science.

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CRC Press

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1040164668

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‘Fair Play’ or Poisoned Chalice

The Last Years of Britain's Presence and Policy in Southern Arabia

By: Sultan Ghalib bin ‘Awadh al-Qua‘iti II

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‘Fair Play’ or Poisoned Chalice

The Last Years of Britain's Presence and Policy in Southern Arabia

By: Sultan Ghalib bin ‘Awadh al-Qua‘iti II

The region of South Arabia (including the vast region of Hadhramaut) has been a part of the Yemen since 1990 due to a shot-gun marriage of an arrangement following the perestroika, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of its protecting presence. Since then it has been in a regular state of ever-increasing political turmoil and instability. This is due to the United Nations' failure to implement its Resolutions concerning the region's political future prior to British withdrawal in 1967, with Southern Arabia's strategic location at the doorstep of the world's major oil resources and its constant insecurity adding fuel to fire, the latest case being the current crisis and the launch of Operation Decisive Storm in 2015. This study may be deemed authoritarian for the period it covers from many aspects due to the pen from which its authorship flows and the high and sensitive position held by its wielder at the time of the events it covers. It should certainly prove a revealing and illuminating eye-opener about the recent political history of a region that continues to suffer from grave paucity of material for the purpose of scholarship, and about which, regardless of its past greatness and current significance and strategic importance to the world at large, so little is known.

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Darf Publishers Ltd.

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1850773327

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From Ordered to Chaotic Motion in Celestial Mechanics

By: YI-SUI E. T. Al SUN

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From Ordered to Chaotic Motion in Celestial Mechanics

By: YI-SUI E. T. Al SUN

This book provides a brief introduction to some basic but important problems in celestial mechanics, and particularly in the few-body problem, such as the permissible and forbidden region of motion, the evolution of moment of inertia of a system, and the orbital stability of asteroids in the solar system. All these are based on some main results in the authors' research works, which are related to the qualitative method of celestial mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. Some of these works are interdisciplinary, involving celestial mechanics, nonlinear dynamics and other disciplines. The book covers a variety of topics for dynamics in the solar system, including the comets, asteroids, planetary rings, Trojan asteroids, etc. As a senior scientist, Professor Sun shares his research experiences in this book. Readers may find plenty of information both about the theoretical and numerical analyses in celestial mechanics, and about the applications of theories and methods to dynamical problems in astronomy."--

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World Scientific

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9814630551

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The Theater of Experiment

Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Al Coppola

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The Theater of Experiment

Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Al Coppola

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "staged" in a double sense. On the one hand, this study analyzes science in performance: the way that science and scientists were made a public spectacle in comedies, farces, and pantomimes for purposes that could range from the satiric to the pedagogic to the hagiographic. But this book also considers the way in which these plays laid bare science as performance: that is, the way that eighteenth-century science was itself a kind of performing art, subject to regimes of stagecraft that traversed the laboratory, the lecture hall, the anatomy theater, and the public stage. Not only did the representation of natural philosophy in eighteenth-century plays like Thomas Shadwell's Virtuoso, Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, Susanna Centlivre's The Basset Table, and John Rich's Necromancer, or Harelequin Doctor Faustus, influence contemporary debates over the role that experimental science was to play public life, the theater shaped the very form that science itself was to take. By disciplining, and ultimately helping to legitimate, experimental philosophy, the eighteenth-century stage helped to naturalize an epistemology based on self-evident, decontextualized facts that might speak for themselves. In this, the stage and the lab jointly fostered an Enlightenment culture of spectacle that transformed the conditions necessary for the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Precisely because Enlightenment public science initiatives, taking their cue from the public stages, came to embrace the stagecraft and spectacle that Restoration natural philosophy sought to repress from the scene of experimental knowledge production, eighteenth-century science organized itself around not the sober, masculine "modest witness" of experiment but the sentimental, feminized, eager observer of scientific performance.

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Oxford University Press

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0190627263

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9780190627263

Inspired

Healing Journeys from Hockey and Beyond

By: Al Galloway

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Inspired

Healing Journeys from Hockey and Beyond

By: Al Galloway

Nine athletes. Nine inspiring stories of adversity overcome. People in sports are in it to win it. That means fighting for success on their playing field of choice—but it also sometimes means overcoming challenges in their own lives. The nine people interviewed in Inspired share their personal stories of hardship, ranging from cancer and addiction to racial discrimination, sexism, and family suicide. But they also share how they overcame those dark times, and how they got to the successful places they are today. Inspired is an upbeat, entertaining, and informative collection of true stories that shows that just because a person is successful doesn’t mean the road was easy. Their journeys show us all just how far we can go when we have determination and the will to succeed.

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FriesenPress

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1039133886

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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.

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SCM Press

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0334059909

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9780334059905

The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades

Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi

By: Abu YA'la Hamzah Ib Ibn Al-Qalanisi,H. A. R. Gibb

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The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades

Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi

By: Abu YA'la Hamzah Ib Ibn Al-Qalanisi,H. A. R. Gibb

This outstanding work on the First Crusade was written by an Arab scholar from an old and respected family of Damascus. Well-educated in literature, theology and law, he was twice elected mayor of the city and died when he was over 90 years of age in 1160. His Chronicle, translated by H. A. R. Gibb, is of special interest because it presents a contemporary Arab account of how the Crusaders fared while in Damascus. Derived from oral and written reports, the information is remarkable for its documentation. An informative introduction sets the scene just prior to invasion by the Crusaders. Because this original work still retains much material unused by later compilers, it remains an indispensable resource for students of the early Crusades.

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Courier Corporation

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0486425193

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9780486425191

Kurt and Bongo and the Hippies

By: Al Gromer Khan

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Kurt and Bongo and the Hippies

By: Al Gromer Khan

Three nineteen-year-olds: an Indian, a German and an African ́prince ́, thrown together by fate, share a tiny Soho apartment in hippie London. There they enjoy their music and new found freedom until prejudice, the drug mafia, the Secret Service and the Summer of Love ruins it for them.

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Zustand Verlag

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3962175415

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9783962175412

East European Craton

Early Precambrian History and 3D Models of Deep Crustal Structure

By: Michael V. Mints et al.

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East European Craton

Early Precambrian History and 3D Models of Deep Crustal Structure

By: Michael V. Mints et al.

Extensive geological and geophysical surveying contribute to understanding of the deep crustal structure and geological history of the Early Precambrian crust of the eastern Fennoscandian Shield and the basement of the East European Platform. The authors present 3D models of the deep crustal structure of the territory, and reconstruct the succession of geological events"--

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Geological Society of America

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0813725100

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9780813725109

Mexico Beach

By: Al Cathey and Cathey Parker Hobbs

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Mexico Beach

By: Al Cathey and Cathey Parker Hobbs

Hurricane Michael may have taken away some of the landmarks, but these images reveal the history of Florida's Mexico Beach, once known as the "Unforgettable Coast". As French interests in the Americas dwindled, records indicate very little activity around Mexico Beach until rumors of buried riches and sunken ships brought treasure hunters to the coast. In the early 1900s, businessman Felix du Pont purchased the land known today as Mexico Beach. Resin to make turpentine was harvested from the native pine trees, and fishermen could not resist the migratory fish passing through the area's waters. By the 1930s, US Highway 98 was completed, and visitors could finally reach the sugar-soft sand beaches of the "Unforgettable Coast." By 1941, Tyndall Field was constructed and became a training site for Air Force pilots. In 1946, a group of farsighted businessmen, led by Gordon Parker, W.T. McGowan, and J.W. Wainwright, purchased 1,850 acres along the beach for $65,000. Parker's son Charlie moved to the area in 1949 with his wife, Inky, and their family. He soon took over development responsibilities for the Mexico Beach Corporation and laid the groundwork for the beach town known and loved today. Charlie went on to become the city's first mayor and a lifelong advocate of the family-friendly community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467111600

ISBN 13

9781467111607

Book's by Al Sheppard

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