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The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains

An International Political Ecology of the Himalaya

By: Alexander E. Davis

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The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains

An International Political Ecology of the Himalaya

By: Alexander E. Davis

The book addresses the urgent need for rethinking the geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya, by emphasising the entanglements between these two factors. Most international relations analyses of the Himalaya emphasize the central role of the region’s states and their great power struggles. By reducing the region to its state actors, however, we miss the intense more-than-human diversity of the region, and the crucial role that the mountains play in the global environment. In doing so, the book makes a major contribution to international relations theory by drawing on insights from international political ecology. It first theorises international political ecology and examines the Himalaya as a global region, before moving looking at the international aspects of political ecology in the Himalaya through key areas of the mountains where international politics and ecology are deeply, inextricably linked. It presents three detailed case studies of different environmental and political issues in the Himalaya: icecaps (the India-China-Pakistan boundary dispute in the western Himalaya), foothills and forests (the Nepal-Bhutan-Sikkim borderlands), and rivers (the India-China Bangladesh dispute over the Brahmaputra River basin). Each case study draws on a mix of source materials including fieldwork, government sources, foreign policy discourse, Himalayan ethnographies, and environmental and ecological sciences scholarship.

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Springer Nature

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981991681X

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9789819916818

India and the Anglosphere

Race, Identity and Hierarchy in International Relations

By: Alexander Davis

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India and the Anglosphere

Race, Identity and Hierarchy in International Relations

By: Alexander Davis

India has become known in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia as ‘the world’s largest democracy’, a ‘natural ally’, the ‘democratic counterweight’ to China and a trading partner of ‘massive economic potential’. This new foreign policy orthodoxy assumes that India will join with these four states and act just as any other democracy would. A set of political and think tank elites has emerged which seek to advance the cause of a culturally superior, if ill-defined, ‘Anglosphere’. Building on postcolonial and constructivist approaches to international relations, this book argues that the same Eurocentric assumptions about India pervade the foreign policies of the Anglosphere states, international relations theory and the idea of the Anglosphere. The assertion of a shared cultural superiority has long guided the foreign policies of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, and this has been central to these states’ relationships with postcolonial India. This book details these difficulties through historical and contemporary case studies, which reveal the impossibility of drawing India into Anglosphere-type relationships. At the centre of India-Anglosphere relations, then, is not a shared resonance over liberal ideals, but a postcolonial clash over race, identity and hierarchy. A valuable contribution to the much-needed scholarly quest to follow a critical lens of inquiry into international relations, this book will be of interest to academics and advanced students in international relations, Indian foreign policy, Asian studies, and those interested in the ‘Anglosphere’ as a concept in international affairs.

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Routledge

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1351185691

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Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

By: M.L. Albert,H. Goodglass,N.A. Helm,A.B. Rubens,M.P. Alexander

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Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

By: M.L. Albert,H. Goodglass,N.A. Helm,A.B. Rubens,M.P. Alexander

This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of "Disorders of Human Communication". Each monograph deals in detail with a particular aspect of vocal communication and its disorders, and is written by internationally distinguished experts. Therefore, the series will provide an authoritative source of up-to-date scientific and clinical informa tion relating to the whole field of normal and abnormal speech communication, and as such will succeed the earlier monumental work "Handbuch der Stimm und Sprachheilkunde" by R. Luchsinger and G. E. Arnold (last issued in 1970). This series will prove invaluable for clinicians, teachers and research workers in phoniatrics and logopaedics, phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, otolaryngology, neurology and neurosurgery, psychology and psychiatry, paediatrics and audiology. Several of the monographs will also be useful to voice and singing teachers, and to their pupils. G. E. Arnold, Jackson, Miss. F. Winckel, Berlin B. D. Wyke, London Preface Neurologists, neuropsychologists, speech pathologists and other clinicians who care for dysphasic patients have often complained that available books on dysphasia tend to be parochially theoretical, and insufficiently directed towards clinical reality. These books provide the categories, labels, and theoretical speculations of one school or another; but dysphasic patients as often as not do not fit neatly into a specific theoretical category. Clinical patterns of dysphasic syndromes of most patients with dysphasia rarely conform fully to the pictures painted in the textbooks.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3709186056

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9783709186053

A Practical Guide to Comprehensive Stroke Care

Meeting Population Needs

By: Lalit Kalra,Charles David Alexander Wolfe,Anthony Rudd

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A Practical Guide to Comprehensive Stroke Care

Meeting Population Needs

By: Lalit Kalra,Charles David Alexander Wolfe,Anthony Rudd

Written for health professionals and managers involved in the planning or provision of stroke care, this book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the evidence and practices that underpin high quality stroke care. It sets the scene by describing the epidemiology, trends and needs of stroke patients, followed by chapters on the prevention of stroke, investigation and management of TIAs (transient ischaemic attack), early management and thrombolysis, clinical management of acute stroke patients and rehabilitation. Each chapter is thematically-linked and provides a complete, up-to-date review of evidence, its implications for clinical practice, proven multidisciplinary models of delivering high quality care, organisation of services for greatest impact within cost constraints and emerging areas for future management of stroke patients. This book is unique as it covers areas such as palliative and end-of-life care for stroke patients, planning and provision of stroke services, benchmarking for quality of services and management of stroke patients in community settings. It will be a unique resource for anyone caring for stroke patients, regardless of discipline or level of expertise, and provides a quick and friendly compendium of evidence, good practice and practical hints on organising care.

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World Scientific

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9814299510

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9789814299510

The Way of the Ship

America's Maritime History Reenvisoned, 1600-2000

By: Alex Roland,W. Jeffrey Bolster,Alexander Keyssar

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The Way of the Ship

America's Maritime History Reenvisoned, 1600-2000

By: Alex Roland,W. Jeffrey Bolster,Alexander Keyssar

The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470136006

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9780470136003

History of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry

By: Alexander Eckel

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History of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry

By: Alexander Eckel

Thinking only of the bravery and mighty deeds of the Tennessee Calvary, this volume has taken on the task of portraying the regimental history of the Fourth Tennessee Calvary. Originally from Jefferson County Tennessee, the author served in Company C of the Fourth Tennessee Calvary until his capture during the McCook Raid on July 31, 1864. He gives a firsthand account of the movements, battles, and issues concerning the political and military situation in East Tennessee as well as the surrounding areas.

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The Overmountain Press

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1570722234

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Play, Physical Activity and Public Health

The Reframing of Children's Leisure Lives

By: Stephanie A. Alexander,Katherine L. Frohlich,Caroline Fusco

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Play, Physical Activity and Public Health

The Reframing of Children's Leisure Lives

By: Stephanie A. Alexander,Katherine L. Frohlich,Caroline Fusco

Are children playing less than they used to? Are rising obesity rates linked to a decline in children’s time to play freely? These and other related questions have filled the pages of newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals for the past decade. Researchers and journalists have attributed these issues to societal changes around children’s lives and leisure, the growth of structured and organised activities and increasing perceptions of risk in children’s play. Play, Physical Activity and Public Health presents a discussion of the way modern notions of play are rendering children’s leisure activities less free and less engaged in simply for fun. Based on original qualitative research, and analysis of contemporary media from Canada and elsewhere, this book argues that the growing health concerns around childhood play entail a paradox: by advocating, promoting, discussing, and re-directing children’s play, a new form of children’s leisure is emerging - one that is purpose-driven, instrumentalised for health, and ultimately, less free. We explore how play has become goal-oriented, a means to health ends, and how the management of pleasure in play as well as diverse risk discourses around play continue to limit and constrain possibilities for children and families to play and engage in leisure freely. Incorporating past critiques of this trend in play, we argue for research and practice to create new possibilities and ways of thinking about children's play, leisure, fun and childhood, that are less constrained and managed, and importantly less geared towards health goals. This is a valuable resource for students of the sociology of sport, kinesiology, sports and health psychology, education, public health, and childhood studies. It is also an important read for school teachers, public health practitioners, psychologists, physical education teachers, academics and parents interested in how children’s leisure lives are being shaped by the growing and diverse discussions around play.

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Routledge

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1351971697

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Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis

By: Alexander Mehler,Reinhard Köhler

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Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis

By: Alexander Mehler,Reinhard Köhler

This book presents recent developments in automatic text analysis. Providing an overview of linguistic modeling, it collects contributions of authors from a multidisciplinary area that focus on the topic of automatic text analysis from different perspectives. It includes chapters on cognitive modeling and visual systems modeling, and contributes to the computational linguistic and information theoretical grounding of automatic text analysis.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540375201

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9783540375203

Hampton Roads

Remembering Our Schools

By: Cassandra Newby-Alexander,Jeffrey Littlejohn,Charles H. Ford,Sonia Yaco,The Norfolk Historical Society

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Hampton Roads

Remembering Our Schools

By: Cassandra Newby-Alexander,Jeffrey Littlejohn,Charles H. Ford,Sonia Yaco,The Norfolk Historical Society

With this striking collection of historical images, experience a front-row view of the origination of the public school system within Hampton Roads and the epic struggle for racial equality. From the seventeenth century until the present, this area of the Old Dominion has been at the forefront of challenges, including Reconstruction, Jim Crow law, racial disharmony and public resistance to tax-based public schools. The fiftieth anniversary of the reopening of Norfolks desegregated schools marks an especially appropriate occasion on which to look back at the evolution of public education in the Hampton Roads region.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625842864

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Liquid Interfaces In Chemical, Biological And Pharmaceutical Applications

By: Alexander G. Volkov

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Liquid Interfaces In Chemical, Biological And Pharmaceutical Applications

By: Alexander G. Volkov

Offers a comprehensive treatment of surface chemistry and its applications to chemical engineering, biology, and medicine. Focuses on the chmical and physical structure of oil-water interfaces and membrane surfaces. Details interfacial potentials, ion solvation, and electrostatic instabilities in double layers.

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CRC Press

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0824745191

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9780824745196

The Archival Politics of International Courts

By: Henry Alexander Redwood

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The Archival Politics of International Courts

By: Henry Alexander Redwood

The archives produced by international courts have received little empirical, theoretical or methodological attention within international criminal justice (ICJ) or international relations (IR) studies. Yet, as this book argues, these archives both contain a significant record of past violence, and also help to constitute the international community as a particular reality. As such, this book first offers an interdisciplinary reading of archives, integrating new insights from IR, archival science and post-colonial anthropology to establish the link between archives and community formation. It then focuses on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda's archive, to offer a critical reading of how knowledge is produced in international courts, provides an account of the type of international community that is imagined within these archives, and establishes the importance of the materiality of archives for understanding how knowledge is produced and contested within the international domain.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108956688

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Caves and Karst Across Time

By: Yongli Gao,E. Calvin Alexander Jr.

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Caves and Karst Across Time

By: Yongli Gao,E. Calvin Alexander Jr.

Knowledge and understanding of cave and karst systems have evolved dramatically since the creation of the Geological Society of America in 1888. This book, which came out of a session during GSA's 2013 Annual Meeting, highlights the changes in the study and application of cave and karst systems since GSA's origin, while looking ahead to future advancements"--

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Geological Society of America

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081372516X

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The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy

Hegemony, Morality and Power in the International Sphere

By: Colin Alexander

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The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy

Hegemony, Morality and Power in the International Sphere

By: Colin Alexander

This edited volume provides one of the most formidable critical inquiries into public diplomacy’s relationship with hegemony, morality and power. Wherein, the examination of public diplomacy’s ‘frontiers’ will aid scholars and students alike in their acquiring of greater critical understanding around the values and intentions that are at the crux of this area of statecraft. For the contributing authors to this edited volume, public diplomacy is not just a political communications term, it is also a moral term within which actors attempt to convey a sense of their own virtuosity and ‘goodness’ to international audiences. The book thereby provides fascinating insight into public diplomacy from the under-researched angle of moral philosophy and ethics, arguing that public diplomacy is one of the primary vehicles through which international actors engage in moral rhetoric to meet their power goals. The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy is a landmark book for scholars, students and practitioners of the subject. At a practical level, it provides a series of interesting case studies of public diplomacy in peripheral settings. However, at a conceptual level, it challenges the reader to consider more fully the assumptions that they may make about public diplomacy and its role within the international system.

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Routledge

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1000389073

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Such Troops as These

The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson

By: Bevin Alexander

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Such Troops as These

The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson

By: Bevin Alexander

Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a provocative analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains one of the most catastrophic conflicts in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy. But one general had a vision that could win the War for the South—Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Jackson believed invading the eastern states from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender, but failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee. In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Jackson as the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book.

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Penguin

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0425271307

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9780425271308

The Immune System

Mental Health and Neurological Conditions

By: Hymie Anisman,Shawn Hayley,Alexander W. Kusnecov

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The Immune System

Mental Health and Neurological Conditions

By: Hymie Anisman,Shawn Hayley,Alexander W. Kusnecov

The Immune System: Mental Health and Neurological Conditions fully investigates how immune-related cellular, molecular, and anatomical changes impact mental functioning. The book combines human and animal studies to reveal immunological changes related to mental-health problems. In addition, users will find comprehensive information on new research related to the microbial composition of the gut microbiome and how it influences brain function and mental health. Common comorbidities with mental illness and their inherent immunological or inflammatory components are also covered. New chapters and sections on peripheral and central mechanisms in relation to viral pathogens, RNA editing to treat diseases, and COVID-19 will be included. Written by leaders in the field, the book synthesizes basic and clinical research to provide a thorough understanding on the role of immunity in neuropsychiatry. This book covers both mental-health conditions and degenerative disorders of the brain, including depression, schizophrenia, autism-like spectrum disorders, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's-like dementia. - Considers both basic human and animal studies that address immunological changes relating to mental health problems across the lifespan - Incorporates techniques, concepts, and ideas from a variety of social, behavioral, and life sciences - Includes new chapter on viral factors (COVID-19) relating to mental and neurological disorders - Reviews how to utilize psychedelics in the treatment of depressive illness

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Elsevier

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044323566X

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9780443235665

How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

By: Bevin Alexander

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How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

By: Bevin Alexander

Destroying conventional historical wisdom, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals how the South most definitely could have defeated the North-and how close a Confederate victory came to happening. Alexander shows: •How the Confederacy had its greatest chance to win the war just three months into the fighting-but blew it • How the Confederacy’s three most important leaders- President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson– clashed over how to fight the war • How the Confederate army devised–but never fully exploited–a way to negate the Union’s huge advantages in manpower and weaponry • How Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders understood the Union’s vulnerability better than the Confederacy’s leaders did How the South Could Have Won the Civil War provides a startling account of how a relatively small number of tactical and strategic mistakes cost the South the war and changed the course of history.

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0307346005

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The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains

The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains

India and the Anglosphere

India and the Anglosphere

Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

A Practical Guide to Comprehensive Stroke Care

A Practical Guide to Comprehensive Stroke Care

The Way of the Ship

The Way of the Ship

History of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry

History of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry

Play, Physical Activity and Public Health

Play, Physical Activity and Public Health

Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis

Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis

Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads

Liquid Interfaces In Chemical, Biological And Pharmaceutical Applications

Liquid Interfaces In Chemical, Biological And Pharmaceutical Applications

The Archival Politics of International Courts

The Archival Politics of International Courts

Caves and Karst Across Time

Caves and Karst Across Time

The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy

The Frontiers of Public Diplomacy

Such Troops as These

Such Troops as These

The Immune System

The Immune System

How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

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