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Magic City Nights

Birmingham’s Rock ’n’ Roll Years

By: Andre Millard

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Magic City Nights

Birmingham’s Rock ’n’ Roll Years

By: Andre Millard

This exploration of rock 'n' roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral histories of musicians, their fans and professionals in the popular music industry. Collected over a twenty-year period, their stories describe the coming of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, the rise of the garage bands in the 1960s, of southern rock in the 1970s, and of alternative music in the 1980s and 1990s. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Magic City Nights provides an insider's view of the dramatic changes in the business and status of popular music from the era of the vacuum tube to twenty-first-century digital technology. These collective memories offer a unique perspective on the impact of a subversive and racially integrated music culture in one of the most conservative and racially divided cities in the country.

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0819576999

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America on Record

A History of Recorded Sound

By: Andre Millard

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A History of Recorded Sound

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Cambridge University Press

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0521835151

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Magic City Nights

Birmingham’s Rock ’n’ Roll Years

By: Andre Millard

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XMPP

The Definitive Guide

By: Peter Saint-Andre,Kevin Smith,Remko Tronçon

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XMPP

The Definitive Guide

By: Peter Saint-Andre,Kevin Smith,Remko Tronçon

This is a complete overview of the XMPP instant messaging protocol that gives developers the tools they need to build applications for real-time communication.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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059652126X

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9780596521264

The Captivity of Innocence

Babel and the Yahwist

By: Andre LaCocque

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The Captivity of Innocence

Babel and the Yahwist

By: Andre LaCocque

In this study-the third panel of a trilogy on J's tales about evil and innocence in the primeval era-the author turns to Genesis 11:1-9, another parable, this time on the so-called "Tower of Babel." The Captivity of Innocence analyzes a systemic robotization of society as a way of keeping innocence behind bars, contending that innocence never fails to offend, never fails to stir envy and hate. Here, evil is not wrought by an individual like Cain or Lamech, but by "all the earth," so that the summit of evil is now reached before Abraham's breakthrough in Genesis' following chapter. The present analysis uses a variety of techniques to interpret the biblical text, including historical-critical, literary, sociopolitical, psychoanalytic, and deconstructive approaches. The inescapable conclusion is that "Babel" is the "Kafkaesque" image of our world and is a powerful paradigm of our hubristic contrivances and constructions-"Des Tours de Babel," says Derrida-in order to deny our finiteness. Then innocence is trampled upon, but it is not overcome: Babel/Babylon's fate is to crumble down, and to bring up from her ashes the Knight of Faith.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608993531

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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

By: Andre Bernard,Clifton Fadiman

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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

By: Andre Bernard,Clifton Fadiman

From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.

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Little, Brown

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0446931268

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Imagining a Postnational World

Hegemony and Space in Modern China

By: Marc Andre Matten

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Imagining a Postnational World

Hegemony and Space in Modern China

By: Marc Andre Matten

This book analyzes the historical significance of rivaling concepts of world order in 20th century East Asia. Since the arrival of European imperialism in 19th century – coupled with its different schools of political philosophy and international law – China has struggled to combine ideas on national sovereignty, spatiality and hegemony in its quest of either imitating or replacing European norms of world order. By analyzing Chinese visions of regional and international order and comparing them with Japanese proposals of that era, this book discusses in detail the relationship of territoriality and political rule, discourses of amity and enmity, and finally the role of hegemoniality in the process of imagining a possible postnational world in 21st century East Asia and beyond.

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BRILL

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9004327150

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Labor Economics, second edition

By: Pierre Cahuc,Stephane Carcillo,Andre Zylberberg

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Labor Economics, second edition

By: Pierre Cahuc,Stephane Carcillo,Andre Zylberberg

The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional reference covering all aspects of labor economics, with substantial new material. This landmark graduate-level text combines depth and breadth of coverage with recent, cutting-edge work in all the major areas of modern labor economics. Its command of the literature and its coverage of the latest theoretical, methodological, and empirical developments make it also a valuable resource for practicing labor economists. This second edition has been substantially updated and augmented. It incorporates examples drawn from many countries, and it presents empirical methods using contributions that have proved to be milestones in labor economics. The data and codes of these research publications, as well as numerous tables and figures describing the functioning of labor markets, are all available on a dedicated website (www.labor-economics.org), along with slides that can be used as course aids and a discussion forum. This edition devotes more space to the analysis of public policy and the levers available to policy makers, with new chapters on such topics as discrimination, globalization, income redistribution, employment protection, and the minimum wage or labor market programs for the unemployed. Theories are explained on the basis of the simplest possible models, which are in turn related to empirical results. Mathematical appendixes provide a toolkit for understanding the models.

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MIT Press

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0262325543

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9780262325547

Revolution of 1861

The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict

By: Andre Fleche

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Revolution of 1861

The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict

By: Andre Fleche

The Revolution of 1861

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807835234

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Coronavirus Politics

The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19

By: Scott L Greer,Elizabeth King,Elize Massard da Fonseca,Andre Peralta-Santos

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Coronavirus Politics

The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19

By: Scott L Greer,Elizabeth King,Elize Massard da Fonseca,Andre Peralta-Santos

COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472902466

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9780472902460

The American Untouchables: America & the Racial Contract

A historical perspective on race-based politics

By: Andre Smith

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The American Untouchables: America & the Racial Contract

A historical perspective on race-based politics

By: Andre Smith

The issue of race is often a scab Americans choose to ignore. However social science has a responsibility and an obligation to examine not simply the amenable subjects but also the controversial. This work, in a word, is controversial. Thomas Franks (2004) argued that cultural differences led white Kansans to abandon the Democratic Party for the Republican Party during the 1980s. He specifically argued that abortion was the unifying issue in this ideological migration. Simultaneously, future President Ronald Reagan opened his campaign for the presidency in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the sight of the massacre of four young civil rights activists over a decade earlier. Race has and is a factor in the American experience; Franks’ premise is simply that the absence of the concentration of African Americans in the Kansas area negated the influence of the “black threat hypothesis” on the observed ideological switch of white Kansans. This work argues that Franks’ premise fails to incorporate the over arching ideological switch of white voter migration to the Republican party that was occurring during the same period, and that Reagan’s speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi was an overt cue that he was rejecting the civil rights consensus for an historically established “race-based social contract” that positioned people of color outside the traditional bounds of the social contract. The study is a sociopolitical analysis of the African American experience utilizing the “racial contract” framework developed by Charles Mills. The “racial contract” holds that the social contract explicitly dictates interactions and transaction costs between citizens and government. Mills supposition is that historically non-Western Europeans were excluded from the penalties for violations of the social contract, and a tacit race based contract dictated transaction costs and interactions between Europeans and non-Europeans. The work utilizes the framework to trace the sociopolitical environment from the first appearance of Africans in America to the present. It has the supposition that the initial sociopolitical status of Africans in America was as a result of the reformation of the Western feudal agrarian culture, with African captives attached to the land as the neo-serfs; but that the reformation of feudalism was only possible within the context that Africans were implicitly viewed as outside the bounds of the codified social contract. It traces American sociopolitical conflict over the expansion of the “racial contract,” which was the basis of the American Civil War; and the establishment of an implicit sociopolitical order within the bounds of the racial contract at the end of the Civil War, with codified sanctions for violations of commensality and endogamy.

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Vernon Press

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1622736265

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Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

By: Stanley Krippner,Fariba Bogzaran,Andre Percia de Carvalho

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Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

By: Stanley Krippner,Fariba Bogzaran,Andre Percia de Carvalho

From visions of a past life to glimpses of the future, history is full of accounts of unusual dreams. This fascinating book explores historical, scientific, and cross-cultural research on these sorts of extraordinary dreams, and offers practical suggestions on how to work with them—either individually or as a member of a dream group—to enhance one's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health. Each chapter is devoted to a particular type of dream, and presents a summary of research data on their nature. Specific categories of dreams discussed include creative, lucid, out-of-body, pregnancy, healing, collective, telepathic, clairvoyant, precognitive, past-life, initiation, and spiritual visitation dreams, as well as dreams within dreams. Entertaining and instructive, this book points the way to an expanded conception of human potential for the twenty first century.

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State University of New York Press

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0791489132

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9780791489130

America on Record

A History of Recorded Sound

By: Andre Millard

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America on Record

A History of Recorded Sound

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Cambridge University Press

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Pathology of bone tumours

Personal experience

By: Andre Mazabraud

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Pathology of bone tumours

Personal experience

By: Andre Mazabraud

This book deals with the pathologic diagnosis of malignant and benign bone tumors. The final chapters are devoted to extra-skeletal skeletogenic tumors and pseudo-tumoral lesions that may be confused with true tumors. To emphasis the indissoluble nature of the anatomic and clinical relations, the discussions are preceded by one or two clinical cases. The author imparts his personal experience without ignoring the material in the literature on the subject. Over 1100 radiographic and histologic illustrations. The references mention recent studies but also review the classical studies leading to definition of the various disease entities. The chief differential diagnoses and the pitfalls to be avoided are reviewed in an insert at the end of each chapter.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642958397

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StarBriefs Plus

A Dictionary of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Symbols in Astronomy and Related Space Sciences

By: Andre Heck

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StarBriefs Plus

A Dictionary of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Symbols in Astronomy and Related Space Sciences

By: Andre Heck

With about 200,000 entries, StarBriefs Plus represents the most comprehensive and accurately validated collection of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions and symbols within astronomy, related space sciences and other related fields. As such, this invaluable reference source (and its companion volume, StarGuides Plus) should be on the reference shelf of every library, organization or individual with any interest in these areas. Besides astronomy and associated space sciences, related fields such as aeronautics, aeronomy, astronautics, atmospheric sciences, chemistry, communications, computer sciences, data processing, education, electronics, engineering, energetics, environment, geodesy, geophysics, information handling, management, mathematics, meteorology, optics, physics, remote sensing, and so on, are also covered when justified. Terms in common use and/or of general interest have also been included where appropriate.

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0306486032

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Magic City Nights

Magic City Nights

America on Record

America on Record

Magic City Nights

Magic City Nights

XMPP

XMPP

The Captivity of Innocence

The Captivity of Innocence

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Imagining a Postnational World

Imagining a Postnational World

Labor Economics, second edition

Labor Economics, second edition

Revolution of 1861

Revolution of 1861

Coronavirus Politics

Coronavirus Politics

The American Untouchables: America & the Racial Contract

The American Untouchables: America & the Racial Contract

Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

America on Record

America on Record

Pathology of bone tumours

Pathology of bone tumours

StarBriefs Plus

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