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Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

By: Elizabeth Kneebone,Alan Berube

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Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

By: Elizabeth Kneebone,Alan Berube

It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty “in place” meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families—affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today’s America is a very different place. Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. After decades in which suburbs added poor residents at a faster pace than cities, the 2000s marked a tipping point. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the country and more than half of the metropolitan poor. However, the antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. As Kneebone and Berube cogently demonstrate, the solution no longer fits the problem. The spread of suburban poverty has many causes, including shifts in affordable housing and jobs, population dynamics, immigration, and a struggling economy. The phenomenon raises several daunting challenges, such as the need for more (and better) transportation options, services, and financial resources. But necessity also produces opportunity—in this case, the opportunity to rethink and modernize services, structures, and procedures so that they work in more scaled, cross-cutting, and resource-efficient ways to address widespread need. This book embraces that opportunity. Kneebone and Berube paint a new picture of poverty in America as well as the best ways to combat it. Confronting Suburban Poverty in America offers a series of workable recommendations for public, private, and nonprofit leaders seeking to modernize poverty alleviation and community development strategies and connect residents with economic opportunity. The authors highlight efforts in metro areas where local leaders are learning how to do more with less and adjusting their approaches to address the metropolitan scale of poverty—for example, integrating services and service delivery, collaborating across sectors and jurisdictions, and using data-driven and flexible funding strategies. “We believe the goal of public policy must be to provide all families with access to communities, whether in cities or suburbs, that offer a high quality of life and solid platform for upward mobility over time. Understanding the new reality of poverty in metropolitan America is a critical step toward realizing that goal.”—from Chapter One

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815725809

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9780815725800

One Door Shuts

My Autobiography

By: Alan Coleman

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One Door Shuts

My Autobiography

By: Alan Coleman

After an incredible early life Alan Coleman found himself working as an original director on Crossroads which was the UK's first ever daily 'soap opera.' He would then produce the much loved childrens series Escape into Night, The Jensen Code and The Kids From 47A. After being head hunted by Reg Grundy he would move to Australia to help establish the Grundy Organisation's Drama Department. Alan was the driving force behind The Young Doctors and worked on other Grundy hits including Prisoner: Cell Block H, Class of 74 and Case For The Defence. Alan has executive produced Neighbours, Shortland Street in New Zealand, Unter Uns in Germany and Goede Tijden - Slechte Tijden in The Netherlands. His directing credits include Home And Away, Above The Law, Going Home and Family Affairs in the UK. One Door Shuts lifts the lid on the behind the scenes action on the various shows which Alan has been involved with and he shares his unique knowledge of the skills and disciplines required in order to work in this specialised art form in Take Five.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466915854

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9781466915855

My Journey

By: Alan Levy

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My Journey

By: Alan Levy

The book describes grwoing up in NYC, being the first member of his family to graduate from college and graduate scool and descibes the development of important new medical products and the formation of multiple early stage healthcare companies and the process of taking companies public and selling companies.

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Archway Publishing

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166571817X

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Night Action

By: Alan Evans

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Night Action

By: Alan Evans

One single mistake will cost them everything. Lieutenant David Brent and his crew are waiting on a torpedo boat – fast, agile and terribly vulnerable. They are the sole members of a Commando raiding party, poised to charge ashore on a carefully orchestrated rescue mission. Little do they know that Hell is about to break loose... The near-suicidal mission has been ordered at the very highest level of government. Now, engines idling, alert for the tell-tale sounds of patrolling E-boats, they can only pray to come out of this alive... A nerve-shredding war thriller that crackles with intensity, perfect for fans of Anthony Trew, Douglas Reeman and Philip McCutchan.

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Canelo

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1788638603

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Drosscape: Wasting Land Urban America

By: Alan Berger

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Drosscape: Wasting Land Urban America

By: Alan Berger

Annotation Do you really know what's under that new house you just bought? How about what's underneath the neighbourhood playground? Was the big-box retailer down the street built atop a toxic site?These are just a few of the worrisome scenarios as our cities begin a stealthy relocation of industrial facilities from the inner city to the urban periphery. These are the places Alan Berger has coined "drosscapes," and this is his guide to the previously ignored field of waste landscapes.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568987137

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Christ and Controversy

The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 1600-2000

By: Alan P.F. Sell

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Christ and Controversy

The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 1600-2000

By: Alan P.F. Sell

What may happen when Christians take doctrine seriously? One possible answer is that the shape of churchly life "on the ground" can be significantly altered. This pioneering study is both an account of the doctrine of the person of Christ as it has been expounded by the theologians of historic English and Welsh Nonconformity, and an attempt to show that while many Nonconformists held classical orthodox views of the doctrine between 1600 and 2000, others advocated alternative understandings of Christ's person; hence the evolution of the ecclesial landscape as we have come to know it. The traditions here under review are those of Old Dissent: the Congregationalists, Baptists, Presbyterians and their Unitarian heirs; and the Calvinistic and Arminian Methodist bodies that owe their origin to the Evangelical Revival of the eighteenth century.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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161097669X

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9781610976695

Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children

Apprentices from 1784 to 1902

By: Alan N. Miller

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Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children

Apprentices from 1784 to 1902

By: Alan N. Miller

Just as he did for the 29 counties of East Tennessee and the 19 counties of West Tennessee, Dr. Alan Miller has sifted through the apprenticeship records of Middle Tennessee and brought them within the reach of the genealogy researcher. This second volume of Tennessee's "forgotten children" contains some 7,000 apprenticeship records scattered among the minutes of the county courts for Middle Tennessee. These records span the period from 1784 to 1902 and list in tabular form the apprenticeships created in the following 35 Tennessee counties: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Overton, Perry, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Van Buren, Warren, Wayne, White, Williamson, and Wilson.

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0806352469

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Journeys through Emerging Adulthood

An Introduction to Development from Ages 18-30 Around the World

By: Alan Reifman

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Journeys through Emerging Adulthood

An Introduction to Development from Ages 18-30 Around the World

By: Alan Reifman

Journeys through Emerging Adulthood takes the reader on a tour of contemporary transitions to adulthood, reporting on the latest cross-national and cross-cultural research into young adulthood and separating fact from fiction about this important life phase. Alan Reifman shows how today’s youth are taking more time to enter traditional adult roles, and explores the benefits and disadvantages of this gradual emergence into adulthood. This essential textbook navigates the research that reveals the substantial variety in young people’s paths to adulthood. It covers the spectrum of the young adult experience, examining the influence that parents have on their grown children’s progress and identity as adults, and considering the impact of traditional milestones such as higher education, establishing a career, forming romantic relationships and becoming a parent. It examines key topics including mental health in emerging adults and the likelihood of substance abuse, and how young adults might reach out into the community through volunteerism, religious involvement and political activism. Each section includes examples and studies conducted in a range of countries, exploring how the journey to adulthood can vary according to cultural context as well as individual circumstance. The book affirms that while there is great variety in how one transitions to adulthood, there is no correct path, and most people fare well – or even thrive – in adulthood. Featuring end-of-chapter summaries, quizzes and activities, Journeys Through Emerging Adulthood provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of this significant life stage, connecting fundamental psychological theories with modern social phenomena. Reifman’s text is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students of psychology, human development and sociology, as well as students and researchers of any discipline interested in the path to adulthood.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000624226

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Capitalism in America

A History

By: Alan Greenspan,Adrian Wooldridge

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Capitalism in America

A History

By: Alan Greenspan,Adrian Wooldridge

From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen. Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From even the start of his fabled career, Alan Greenspan was duly famous for his deep understanding of even the most arcane corners of the American economy, and his restless curiosity to know even more. To the extent possible, he has made a science of understanding how the US economy works almost as a living organism--how it grows and changes, surges and stalls. He has made a particular study of the question of productivity growth, at the heart of which is the riddle of innovation. Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, see the opposite? In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs, enlightenment ideals as well as terrible moral failings. Every crucial debate is here--from the role of slavery in the antebellum Southern economy to the real impact of FDR's New Deal to America's violent mood swings in its openness to global trade and its impact. But to read Capitalism in America is above all to be stirred deeply by the extraordinary productive energies unleashed by millions of ordinary Americans that have driven this country to unprecedented heights of power and prosperity. At heart, the authors argue, America's genius has been its unique tolerance for the effects of creative destruction, the ceaseless churn of the old giving way to the new, driven by new people and new ideas. Often messy and painful, creative destruction has also lifted almost all Americans to standards of living unimaginable to even the wealthiest citizens of the world a few generations past. A sense of justice and human decency demands that those who bear the brunt of the pain of change be protected, but America has always accepted more pain for more gain, and its vaunted rise cannot otherwise be understood, or its challenges faced, without recognizing this legacy. For now, in our time, productivity growth has stalled again, stirring up the populist furies. There's no better moment to apply the lessons of history to the most pressing question we face, that of whether the United States will preserve its preeminence, or see its leadership pass to other, inevitably less democratic powers.

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0735222444

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EBOOK: Growing Older: Quality of Life in Old Age

By: Catherine Hagan Hennessy,Alan Walker

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EBOOK: Growing Older: Quality of Life in Old Age

By: Catherine Hagan Hennessy,Alan Walker

This volume introduces the work of the Economic and Social Reseach Council (ESRC) funded Growing Older Programme (1999-2004) and provides a showcase for the other volumes in the series. It focuses on ways in which quality of life can be extended for older people and offers short research-based summaries of key findings on a variety of core topics with a major emphasis on the views of older people themselves. Many of the leading names in social gerontology in the United Kingdom have contributed their findings, providing the most up-to-date and broad-ranging information available on quality of life in old age. Topics discussed include: ·Defining and measuring quality of life ·Inequalities in quality of life ·Technology and the built environment ·Healthy and active ageing ·Family and support networks ·Participation and grandparenthood Growing Older is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of social gerontology, sociology and social policy. It is of interest to professionals working with older people, including social workers, gerontology nurses and community support workers. There are also important findings for policy-makers. Contributors: Sara Arber; Madhavi Bajekal; David Blane; John Bond; Ann Bowling; Jabeer Butt; Lynda Clarke; Joanne Cook; Kate Davidson; Murna Downs; Zahava Gabriel; Ini Grewal; Catherine Hagan Hennessey; Caroline Holland; Gill Hubbard; Leonie Kellaher; Charlotte MacDonald; Tony Maltby; Jo Moriarty; Joan Murphy; James Nazroo; Sheila M. Peace; Chris Phillipson; Ceridwen Roberts; Sasha Scambler; Thomas Scharf; Allison Smith; Susan Tester; Christina Victor; Alan Walker; Lorna Warren.

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0335228224

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9780335228225

Rudyard Kipling

The Books I Leave Behind

By: David Alan Richards,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Rudyard Kipling

The Books I Leave Behind

By: David Alan Richards,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

This text is organized chronologically, beginning with Kipling's birth in India in 1865 and extending to movies, plays and new editions of his works that have appeared since his death in 1936. The selected items create a timeline of his life and popular works, including 'The Jungle Books' and 'The Just So Stories'.

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Yale University Press

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0300126743

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9780300126747

Numerical Methods for Laplace Transform Inversion

By: Alan M. Cohen

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Numerical Methods for Laplace Transform Inversion

By: Alan M. Cohen

This book gives background material on the theory of Laplace transforms, together with a fairly comprehensive list of methods that are available at the current time. Computer programs are included for those methods that perform consistently well on a wide range of Laplace transforms. Operational methods have been used for over a century to solve problems such as ordinary and partial differential equations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387688552

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9780387688558

I Was There

Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll

By: Alan Edwards

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I Was There

Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll

By: Alan Edwards

Alan is such a wonderful storyteller' Debbie Harry 'Alan Edwards is a class act: observant, attentive, always in the right place at the right time. I Was There tells you how' Jon Savage 'A beautiful, warm, jaw-dropping, once-in-a-lifetime, lifting-the-stone guide to a secret world . . . I loved it' Tony Parsons Alan Edwards, the godfather of British music PR, has worked with some of the most legendary artists of our time, from David Bowie to the Spice Girls via the Rolling Stones, the Stranglers, Prince and Amy Winehouse. In I Was There, he describes getting his break in the mid-'70s as a scruffy, stoned 20-year-old just back from the hippie trail; his encounter with London's thriving punk scene, which inspired him to set up his own PR company; broadening his horizons as his work with the likes of Blondie takes him to the US and beyond; and his move into the world of pop with the Spice Girls during the tabloid-crazed '90s. At the centre of this story sits the defining relationship of Edwards' career: his close, thirty-year collaboration with David Bowie. He guides us through a series of vivid, funny, always insightful behind-the-scenes reports, whether he's playing a spontaneous game of football with Bob Marley, listening to Prince discuss the future of civilisation in a nightclub VIP area, or being used as a pawn in the power struggle between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Above all, we're treated to Edwards' fascinating observations about the brilliant artists he was worked with and what makes them tick, as he looks back on his role in the last five decades of music and culture.

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Simon and Schuster

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1398525251

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9781398525252

The Pretoria Pit Disaster

A Centenary Account

By: Alan Davies

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The Pretoria Pit Disaster

A Centenary Account

By: Alan Davies

The dramatic and chilling story of Lancashire's worst coal mining accident, which was also the third worst mining disaster in British history.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445623919

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Air Lubricated and Air Cavity Ships

Development, Design, and Application

By: Gennadiy Alexeevitch Pavlov,Liang Yun,Alan Bliault,Shu-Long He

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Air Lubricated and Air Cavity Ships

Development, Design, and Application

By: Gennadiy Alexeevitch Pavlov,Liang Yun,Alan Bliault,Shu-Long He

Air Lubrication and Air Cavity Technology is a major development that has emerged in recent years as a means to reduce resistance and powering for many types of ships, and an efficient design for high speed marine vessels. This book introduces the mechanisms for boundary layer drag reduction and concepts studied in early research work. Air bubble and sheet lubrication for displacement vessels is outlined and the key projects introduced. Generation of low volume flow air cavities under the hull of displacement, semi displacement and planing vessels are introduced together with theoretical and empirical analysis and design methods. Resistance reduction, power reduction and fuel efficiency are covered for both displacement and high speed vessels. Air layer and air cavity effects on vessel static and dynamic stability are covered, linked to regulatory requirements such as IMO. Seaway motions and reduced impact load of high speed craft in waves are discussed including model test results. Integration of propulsion systems for optimum powering is summarized. A design proposal for a wave piercing air cavity craft is included in an appendix. A comprehensive listing of document resources and internet locations is provided for further research.

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Springer Nature

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1071604252

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Furnace

By: William Alan Rieser

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Furnace

By: William Alan Rieser

Furnace is a fantasy/horror adventure in which a wealthy man tries to find out the truth about his daughter's death, an investigation considered hopeless by the authorities who consider it a case of human spontaneous combustion or HSC. When a real psychic is included in the Probe team, they uncover an insidious plot by a group of malicious adversaries, people who have been perpetrating the fraud in a never-ending, deadly war against mankind for thousands of years. The horrors uncovered and the lengths to which these fiends will go to preserve themselves and their murderous mission carry those who would end the travesty into realms of pure terror. When the truth is finally revealed, Probe is compelled to face an erroneously documented myth, a powerful demon who will stop at nothing to get revenge for a trauma inflicted against him in ages past.

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iUniverse

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0595233082

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Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield

The Walkden Yard Connection

By: Alan Davies

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Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield

The Walkden Yard Connection

By: Alan Davies

At Walkden, near Wigan, the Lancashire Central Collieries locomotives were based. Serving all the local mines, the little tank locos hauled wagons of coal to the large yards there for onward travel to all points. Alan Davies tells the story of the locos of the coalfield.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445635046

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Research Design in Clinical Psychology

By: Alan E. Kazdin

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Research Design in Clinical Psychology

By: Alan E. Kazdin

Fully revised and updated, this text offers a comprehensive guide to research methods and research design in clinical psychology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108838782

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Campbell-Walsh Urology

By: Alan J. Wein,Louis R. Kavoussi,Andrew C. Novick,Alan W. Partin,Craig A. Peters

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Campbell-Walsh Urology

By: Alan J. Wein,Louis R. Kavoussi,Andrew C. Novick,Alan W. Partin,Craig A. Peters

Since 1954, Campbell-Walsh Urology has been internationally recognized as the pre-eminent text in its field. Edited by Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD(hon), Louis R. Kavoussi, MD, Alan W. Partin, MD, PhD, Craig A. Peters, MD, FACS, FAAP, and the late Andrew C. Novick, MD, it provides you with everything you need to know at every stage of your career, covering the entire breadth and depth of urology - from anatomy and physiology through the latest diagnostic approaches and medical and surgical treatments. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader with intuitive search tools and adjustable font sizes. Elsevier eBooks provide instant portable access to your entire library, no matter what device you're using or where you're located. Be certain with expert, dependable, accurate answers for every stage of your career from the most comprehensive, definitive text in the field! Required reading for all urology residents, Campbell-Walsh Urology is the predominant reference used by The American Board of Urology for its board examination questions. Visually grasp and better understand critical information with the aid of algorithms, photographs, radiographs, and line drawings to illustrate essential concepts, nuances of clinical presentation and technique, and decision making. Stay on the cutting edge with online updates. Get trusted perspectives and insights from hundreds of well-respected global contributors, all of whom are at the top and the cutting edge of their respective fields. Stay current with the latest knowledge and practices. Brand-new chapters and comprehensive updates throughout include new information on perioperative care in adults and children, premature ejaculation, retroperitoneal tumors, nocturia, and more! Meticulously revised chapters cover the most recent advancements in robotic and laparoscopic bladder surgery, open surgery of the kidney, management of metastic and invasive bladder cancer, and many other hot topics! Reference information quickly thanks to a new, streamlined print format and easily searchable online access to supplemental figures, tables, additional references, and expanded discussions as well as procedural videos and more at www.expertconsult.com.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455722987

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Raymond Williams

By: Alan O'Connor

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Raymond Williams

By: Alan O'Connor

Raymond Williams--a Welsh media critic and one of the founding thinkers behind the popular field of cultural studies--believed that the traditional focus of biographies on individuals isolated these people from their communities. For this reason, Alan O'Connor looks at Williams and his time period, one of social change and crisis in Wales and England. Williams, the son of a railway worker, would have pursued university studies, an atypical act for a working-class boy, had the Second World War not disrupted his plans. So the unorthodox intellectual executed his work outside the university until 1960, decades after he originally intended to begin his studies. O'Connor then turns to Williams's studies of media, revealing his subject's life-long emphasis on the interchange between culture and democracy. He shows the ways in which these ideas were revolutionary, upsetting conservative thinkers of the time, and concludes with the same message of hope that Williams carried with him daily: In a period dominated by conservative forces, Raymond Williams still thought it worthwhile to struggle for small changes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742535509

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9780742535503

England, Our England

By: Alan Titchmarsh

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England, Our England

By: Alan Titchmarsh

An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: From Austen to Wordsworth,Jerusalem to the Scout’s Honour, Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory, Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers, Tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea, Victoria sponge to fish pie and the rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1848942958

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9781848942950

DC Comics Year By Year, New Edition

A Visual Chronicle

By: Alan Cowsill,Alex Irvine,Matthew K. Manning,Michael Mcavennie,Melanie Scott,Daniel Wallace

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DC Comics Year By Year, New Edition

A Visual Chronicle

By: Alan Cowsill,Alex Irvine,Matthew K. Manning,Michael Mcavennie,Melanie Scott,Daniel Wallace

The most comprehensive guide to the history of DC Comics ever published In 1938, Superman led the charge. The world's first Super Hero was soon followed by his Justice League teammates Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, Shazam! and Green Lantern. These heroes, and their Super-Villainous foes such as Lex Luthor and The Joker, became the foundation of DC Comics. You can trace these characters' evolution, and learn about the company and creators who made them the enduring pop culture icons they are today in DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle - the most comprehensive, chronological history of DC Comics ever published. Fully updated, this best-selling, visually stunning book details the debuts and careers of every major hero and villain in the DC Universe. It also chronicles the company's fascinating 85-year history, highlighting its publishing milestones and expansion into movies and television, alongside the real-world events that shaped the times. Created in full collaboration with DC Comics and written by leading comics historians Matthew K. Manning, Daniel Wallace, Mike McAvennie, Alex Irvine, Alan Cowsill and Melanie Scott, the new edition brings the DC Comics story right up to date, covering recent landmark events such as Rebirth, Dark Nights: Metal, Doomsday Clock and Heroes in Crisis. DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle is guaranteed to keep fans enthralled for hours on end. (TM) & © DC Comics. (s19)

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1465496084

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9781465496089

The Sex Pistols

the secret history

By: Alan Cross

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The Sex Pistols

the secret history

By: Alan Cross

Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music. Here he provides a history of punk-rock revolutionaries The Sex Pistols. This look at the band—"Delivering Anarchy to the UK"—is adapted from the audiobook of the same name.

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Joe Books Ltd

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1927002028

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9781927002025

The Complete Guide to Investing in Real Estate Tax Liens and Deeds

How to Earn High Rates of Return - Safely

By: Alan Northcott

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The Complete Guide to Investing in Real Estate Tax Liens and Deeds

How to Earn High Rates of Return - Safely

By: Alan Northcott

Rev. ed. of: The complete guide to investing in real estate tax liens & deeds: how to earn high rates of return-safely / Jamaine Burrell. c2006.

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Atlantic Publishing Company

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1601388993

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Excel Basic Skills Homework Book

Reading and Comprehension, Years 1 & 2

By: Alan Horsfield

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Excel Basic Skills Homework Book

Reading and Comprehension, Years 1 & 2

By: Alan Horsfield

After completing Excel Basic Skills: Reading and Comprehensi on Years 1-2 your child will have improved their reading and compr ehension skills, and will be prepared for more advanced work at primary school level. In this book your child will find: a s tep-by-step learning approach a review of basic reading and com prehension skills a wide variety of activities many di fferent text-types to read and analyse a lift-out answer sectio n Comprehension of text involves bringing meaning to writt en (and spoken) language. It is more than the reading of printed words. The meaning of words, their context in which they exist along with punct uation and writing style all contribute to the comprehension of a specif ic piece of text. By experiencing a range of text types the child is mor e able to find the meaning in a given text. This book uses a rang e of text types so that the student will feel confident in a variety of situations. Text types are usually broken into two broad types. Within e ach group are numerous varieties - some are listed below: l iterary texts which include narratives (novels/stories), poetry and dram a scripts factual texts which include explanations, expositions, information reports, recounts and procedures

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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology

By: Alan F. Schatzberg,Charles B. Nemeroff

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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology

By: Alan F. Schatzberg,Charles B. Nemeroff

Now updated to keep professionals current with the latest research and trends in the field, this edition covers both basic science and clinical practice, and draws on the talents of 53 new contributors to guarantee fresh, authoritative perspectives on advances in psychiatric drug therapy.

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Extreme Killing

Understanding Serial and Mass Murder

By: James Alan Fox,Jack Levin,Emma E. Fridel

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Extreme Killing

Understanding Serial and Mass Murder

By: James Alan Fox,Jack Levin,Emma E. Fridel

Extreme Killing offers you a comprehensive overview of multiple homicide, including both serial and mass murder. Filled with classic and contemporary case studies, this fully updated Fourth Edition reflects a growing concern for specific types of multiple homicides—indiscriminate public massacres, terrorist attacks, hate crimes, and school shootings—as well as largely debated issues such as gun control and mental illness. Renowned experts and authors in the field, James Alan Fox, Jack Levin, and Emma Fridel bring their years of research and experience to create distinctions between serial and mass murders, address characteristics of both killers and their victims, and recognize the special concerns around multiple murder victims and their survivors. You will examine the latest theories of criminal behavior and apply them to mass and serial murderers from around the world, such as the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, the Grim Sleeper in Los Angeles, the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, the shooting of nine African Americans by a white supremacist in a Charleston church, and more.

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SAGE Publications

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1506349137

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American History

A Survey

By: Alan Brinkley,Harvey H. Jackson,Bradley R. Rice

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American History

A Survey

By: Alan Brinkley,Harvey H. Jackson,Bradley R. Rice

Study guide to the first volume of a survey of the history of the USA. Balancing the social and cultural issues with the political and diplomatic, the book includes historiographical debates, new attention to native American history and revised sections on women's history.

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007015029X

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How Maps Work

Representation, Visualization, and Design

By: Alan M. MacEachren

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How Maps Work

Representation, Visualization, and Design

By: Alan M. MacEachren

Now available in paperback for the first time, this classic work presents a cognitive-semiotic framework for understanding how maps work as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial representations. Explored are the ways in which the many representational choices inherent in mapping interact with information processing and knowledge construction, and how the resulting insights can be used to make informed symbolization and design decisions. A new preface to the paperback edition situates the book within the context of contemporary technologies. As the nature of maps continues to evolve, Alan MacEachren emphasizes the ongoing need to think systematically about the ways people interact with and use spatial information.

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Guilford Press

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157230040X

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Twilight in Hazard

An Appalachian Reckoning

By: Alan Maimon

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Twilight in Hazard

An Appalachian Reckoning

By: Alan Maimon

“Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.” —Associated Press From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . . When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region “like a foreign correspondent would.” And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times’s Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic—a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything—and nothing—you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon’s Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter’s immersion in a place, and of his return years later—this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner’s daughter—to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology. Twilight in Hazard refuses to mythologize Central Appalachia. It is a plea to move past the fixation on coal, and a reminder of the true costs to democracy when the media retreats from places of rural distress. It is an intimate portrait of a people staring down some of the most pernicious forces at work in America today while simultaneously being asked: How could you let this happen to yourselves? Twilight in Hazard instead tells the more riveting, noirish, and sometimes bitingly humorous story of how we all let this happen.

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Melville House

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1612198864

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From Colonization to Democracy

A New Historical Geography of South Africa

By: Alan Lester

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From Colonization to Democracy

A New Historical Geography of South Africa

By: Alan Lester

This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present society, including social groupings and their stratification, policital institutions, the patterns of human geography, economic structure, and external links and influences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755632028

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Chasing New Horizons

Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

By: Alan Stern,David Grinspoon

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Chasing New Horizons

Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

By: Alan Stern,David Grinspoon

Shares a behind-the-scenes account of the science, politics, egos, and public expectations that shaped the New Horizons' mission to Pluto and beyond, citing the endeavor's boundary-breaking achievements and how they reflect the collective power of shared human goals.

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Picador

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1250098963

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Plant Conservation

An Ecosystem Approach

By: Alan Hamilton

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Plant Conservation

An Ecosystem Approach

By: Alan Hamilton

In this, the latest in the People and Plants series, plant conservation is described in the context of livelihoods and development, and ways of balancing the conservation of plant diversity with the use of plants and the environment for human benefit are discussed. A central contention in this book is that local people must be involved if conservation is to be successful. Also examined are ways of prioritizing plants and places for conservation initiatives, approaches to in situ and ex situ conservation, and how to approach problems of unsustainable harvesting of wild plants. Roles for botanists, foresters, sociologists, development workers and others are discussed. This book acts as a unifying text for the series, integrating case studies and methodologies considered in previous volumes and pointing out in a comprehensive, accessible volume the valuable lessons to be learned.

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Routledge

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1136559795

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Red Cactus

The Life of Anna Kingsford

By: Alan Pert

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Red Cactus

The Life of Anna Kingsford

By: Alan Pert

Here at last, an accurate biography of the amazing Englishwoman, Anna Kingsford (1846-1888). 2nd edition now available. Anna Kingsford accomplished much of lasting value in her life, tragically cut short by consumption. Beautiful, talented and rich, she eloped with a theology student at the age of 21, and married him on the condition that she be free to pursue her own career. She owned a paper in London, then took a medical degree in Paris to aid her promotion of progressive causes. As a mystic of a high order, she received illuminations which formed the basis of her classic Hermeticwork, The Perfect Way. On invitation, she became president of the British Theosophical Society, but fell out with the irascible Madame Blavatsky to form her own Hermetic Society. She will long be remembered for her mystical works, her promotion of vegetarianism and animal welfare, and her courage in exposing cant and hypocrisy in a repressive age. Anna Kingsford's reputation has been seriously maligned in some quarters. Did she kill two Frenchmen by mind power? Was her mind taken over by a black magician? In past lives was she Mary Magdalen, Joan of Arc, and Anne Boleyn? Now, for the first time, these and other disturbing questions are answered.

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174018405X

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