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Seeds of Empire

Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

By: Andrew J. Torget

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Seeds of Empire

Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

By: Andrew J. Torget

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

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Power Lines

Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

By: Andrew Needham

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Power Lines

Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

By: Andrew Needham

How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American Southwest In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five coal-burning power plants surrounded the reservation, generating electricity for export to Phoenix, Los Angeles, and other cities. Exploring the postwar developments of these two very different landscapes, Power Lines tells the story of the far-reaching environmental and social inequalities of metropolitan growth, and the roots of the contemporary coal-fueled climate change crisis. Andrew Needham explains how inexpensive electricity became a requirement for modern life in Phoenix—driving assembly lines and cooling the oppressive heat. Navajo officials initially hoped energy development would improve their lands too, but as ash piles marked their landscape, air pollution filled the skies, and almost half of Navajo households remained without electricity, many Navajos came to view power lines as a sign of their subordination in the Southwest. Drawing together urban, environmental, and American Indian history, Needham demonstrates how power lines created unequal connections between distant landscapes and how environmental changes associated with suburbanization reached far beyond the metropolitan frontier. Needham also offers a new account of postwar inequality, arguing that residents of the metropolitan periphery suffered similar patterns of marginalization as those faced in America's inner cities. Telling how coal from Indian lands became the fuel of modernity in the Southwest, Power Lines explores the dramatic effects that this energy system has had on the people and environment of the region.

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Princeton University Press

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0691173540

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Simpsonville

By: Andrew M. Staton

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Simpsonville

By: Andrew M. Staton

Simpsonville was little more than a stop on the road between Greenville and Laurens, South Carolina, when a man named Peter Simpson moved to the area in the 1840s. Simpson became the postmaster and blacksmith for the area, then known as "Plain" or "Dry Ridge," and streets and churches began to spring up, creating a town. By the time of its incorporation in 1901, Simpsonville was thriving as a small railroad town, with a textile mill drawing more to the area in 1908. Under the leadership of two particularly influential and long-standing mayors, Dr. L.L. Richardson and Ralph Hendricks, Simpsonville grew throughout the 20th century to become the hub of commerce and development that it is today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law: Fundamentals, 2016 Edition

By: By Edward P. Welch, Robert S. Saunders, Allison L. Land, Jennifer C. Voss, Andrew J. Turezyn

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law: Fundamentals, 2016 Edition

By: By Edward P. Welch, Robert S. Saunders, Allison L. Land, Jennifer C. Voss, Andrew J. Turezyn

For quick access to Delaware Corporation Law when youand’re away from the office, hereand’s a handy portable version of Folk you can easily carry to court in your briefcase. Adapted from the major 3-volume analysis of Delaware Corporation Law that is constantly cited by courts and relied upon daily by corporate lawyers everywhere, Folk Fundamentals gives you: The complete text of the Delaware General Corporation Law The essential and most commonly used analytic elements of the larger setand’s commentary Take this convenient one-volume softcover and“distillationand” any place you need to refer to Folk on the spot. Organized for Quick and Easy Reference! Following the unique and convenient organizational format of the 3-volume set, Folk Fundamentals provides annotated commentary with each section of the statute. Each sectionand’s commentary incorporates discussion of every significant court decision (including non-Delaware cases) that interprets the language and intent of that section, and adds the incisive analysis of Folk and his successor authors. This expert commentary synthesizes statute, cases, and analysis into clear, up-to-date guidance that can be put to immediate use in any business activity or situation affected by Delaware Corporation Law . With Folk Fundamentals, youand’ll be able to: Locate any provision of Delaware Corporation Lawand—quickly Quote directly from the statute or commentary in the office or the courtroom Support or counter arguments with Folkand’s proven analysis

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Wolters Kluwer

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The Papers of Andrew Jackson

By: Andrew Jackson

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The Papers of Andrew Jackson

By: Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson is one of the most critical and controversial figures in American history. A dominant actor on the American scene in the period between the Revolution and Civil War, he stamped his name first on a mass political movement and then an era. At the same time Jackson's ascendancy accelerated the dispossession and death of Native Americans and spurred the expansion of slavery. 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' is a project to collect and publish Jackson's entire extant literary record. The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson's most important papers to the public in easily readable form."--

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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The Atlantic Ocean

Reports from Britain and America

By: Andrew O'Hagan

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The Atlantic Ocean

Reports from Britain and America

By: Andrew O'Hagan

A stunning collection of reportage about the complicated relationship betweenBritain and America from the acclaimed journalist and novelist, and the "bestessayist of his generation" ("New York Times").

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Campaign Crossroads

Presidential Politics in Indiana from Lincoln to Obama

By: Andrew E. Stoner

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Campaign Crossroads

Presidential Politics in Indiana from Lincoln to Obama

By: Andrew E. Stoner

Campaign Crossroads looks back over the varied, sometimes important, sometimes irrelevant, but always interesting presidential campaign cycles in Indiana’s history. By taking in the influences of technology, transportation and communication itself, we see an evolution in the political process that is not only altogether Hoosier, but also altogether American in its quality and importance. Using a narrative approach with a mix of primary and secondary sources, the work examines not only the rhetoric of presidents and presidential hopefuls, but also the nature of campaigns and their impact on Indiana communities. While Indiana enjoyed the position of being a battleground state for the better part of a century from the 1870s until the 1960s, it has also been ignored, dismissed, and has on occasion created unexpected political drama.

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Live From New York

The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

By: Tom Shales,James Andrew Miller

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Live From New York

The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

By: Tom Shales,James Andrew Miller

James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales's definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live, hailed as "incredible" (Vulture) and "required reading" (People). When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Live from New York was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics and off-camera escapades. Now decades have passed, and bestselling authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales have returned to Studio 8H. Over more than 100 pages of new material, they raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies.

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Little, Brown

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Encyclopedia Of Cosmology, The - Set 2: Frontiers In Cosmology (In 3 Volumes)

By: Claudia De Rham,Andrew J Tolley

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Encyclopedia Of Cosmology, The - Set 2: Frontiers In Cosmology (In 3 Volumes)

By: Claudia De Rham,Andrew J Tolley

The second set of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, in three volumes, continues this major, long-lasting, seminal reference at the graduate student level laid out by the most prominent researchers in the general field of cosmology. Together, these volumes will be a comprehensive review of the most important current topics in cosmology, discussing the important concepts and current status in each field, covering both theory and observation.These three volumes are edited by Dr Giovanni Fazio from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, with each volume authored or edited by specialists in the area: Modified Gravity by Claudia de Rham and Andrew Tolley (Imperial College), Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics edited by Floyd Stecker (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), Black Holes edited by Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University). These volumes follow the earlier publication in 2020 of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, which comprises the following four volumes: Galaxy Formation and Evolution by Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University), Numerical Simulations in Cosmology edited by Kentaro Nagamine (Osaka University / University of Nevada), Dark Energy by Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science), and Dark Matter by Jihn E Kim (Seoul National University). The Encyclopedia aims to provide an overview of the most important topics in cosmology and serve as an up-to-date reference in astrophysics.

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World Scientific

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9811289719

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law: Fundamentals

2011 Edition

By: Edward P. Welch,Andrew J. Turezyn,Robert S. Saunders

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law: Fundamentals

2011 Edition

By: Edward P. Welch,Andrew J. Turezyn,Robert S. Saunders

For quick access to Delaware Corporation Law when you’re away from theoffice, here’s a handy portable version of Folk you caneasily carry to court in your briefcase. Adapted from the major 3-volumeanalysis of Delaware Corporation Law that is constantly cited by courtsand relied upon daily by corporate lawyers everywhere, Folk Fundamentalsgives you:The complete text of the Delaware General Corporation LawThe essential and most commonly used analytic elements of the larger set’scommentaryTake this convenient one-volume softcover “distillation” any place you need torefer to Folk on the spot.Organized for Quick and Easy Reference!Following the unique and convenient organizational format of the 3-volume set,Folk Fundamentals provides annotated commentary with each section ofthe statute. Each section’s commentary incorporates discussion of everysignificant court decision (including non-Delaware cases) that interprets thelanguage and intent of that section, and adds the incisive analysis of Folkand his successor authors. This expert commentary synthesizes statute, cases,and analysis into clear, up-to-date guidance that can be put to immediate usein any business activity or situation affected by Delaware Corporation Law.With Folk Fundamentals, you’ll be able to:Locate any provision of Delaware Corporation Law —quicklyQuote directly from the statute or commentary in the office or the courtroomSupport or counter arguments with Folk ’s proven analysis

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735593086

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Trans* Lives in the United States

Challenges of Transition and Beyond

By: Andrew Cutler Seeber

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Trans* Lives in the United States

Challenges of Transition and Beyond

By: Andrew Cutler Seeber

Being and becoming trans* is a complex and varied experience whether an individual is living openly as trans* or not. Few published studies in either the academic or popular press illuminate the challenges of living as a trans* person after medical and social transition are complete. Trans* Lives in the United States builds upon earlier research and contributes a much-needed theoretically grounded empirical study that examines the hurdles from transition to the end of life by employing an intersectional analytical frame. The analysis pays careful attention to the role of class inequality, and draws on critical race studies, sexuality studies, and feminist studies. Drawing upon thirty face-to-face interviews, it privileges the experiences and voices of trans* individuals from a wide range of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds. Moving beyond earlier studies that ended with an analysis of the moment of identity transition, this text provides a more nuanced understanding of the complex negotiations that individuals who self-identify as trans* endure.

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Routledge

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1351584286

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The National Party Chairmen and Committees

Factionalism at the Top

By: Andrew Goldman

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The National Party Chairmen and Committees

Factionalism at the Top

By: Andrew Goldman

This study traces the history of the national committee chairmanships of the two major political parties in the United States, emphasizing the national conventions and presidential campaigns - where national factions often reveal themselves. Candidate and ideolological factionalism, as the evidence of this volume demonstrates, has been the principal engine of convention action. Factional conflicts have had consequences not just for the political parties but for the party system itself. The institutional history of the two national committees and their chairmanships reveals a previously unrecorded aspect of United States national party development.

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1315490676

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Governing Cambodia's Forests

By: Andrew Cock

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Governing Cambodia's Forests

By: Andrew Cock

The widespread destruction of Cambodia's forests in recent decades saw the loss of the last major area of pristine tropical forest in South-east Asia. The proceeds of often indiscriminate logging and sale of forest and plantation concessions have enriched the country's ruling elite but cost its rural population dearly. It was, moreover, a process in which foreign aid donors were deeply involved, even if the outcome was contrary to their intentions. The tragedy of Cambodia's forests has received much international publicity from environmental NGOs but far less scholarly treatment. That deficiency is now addressed by this detailed and sophisticated case study of how externally sponsored reform agendas can be manipulated by domestic elites.

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Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

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8776944018

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Evolution of Sexual Reproduction in Marine Invertebrates

Example of gymnolaemate bryozoans

By: Andrew (Andrey N.) Ostrovsky

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Evolution of Sexual Reproduction in Marine Invertebrates

Example of gymnolaemate bryozoans

By: Andrew (Andrey N.) Ostrovsky

Three major aspects that distinguish this book are that (1) it contains the most detailed analysis of the sexual reproduction (oogenesis, fertilization and embryonic incubation) in a particular phylum of the aquatic invertebrates (Bryozoa) ever made; this analysis is based on an exhaustive review of the literature on that topic published over the last 260 years, as well as extensive original histological, anatomical and morphological data obtained during studies of both extant and extinct species; (2) this broad analysis has made it possible to reconstruct the major patterns, stages and trends in the evolution of sexual reproduction in various bryozoan clades, showing numerous examples of parallelisms during transitions from broadcasting to embryonic incubation, from planktotrophic to non-feeding larvae and from lecithotrophy to placentation; corresponding shifts in oogenesis, fertilization and embryonic development are discussed in detail; and (3) the key evolutionary novelties acquired by Bryozoa are compared with similar innovations that have evolved in other groups of marine invertebrates, showing the general trends in the evolution of their sexual reproduction. Ecological background of these innovations is considered too. Altogether these aspects make the monograph an “Encyclopedia of bryozoan sexual reproduction,” offering an integral picture of the evolution of this complex phenomenon.

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9400771460

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In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

By: Andrew Bolton,Amanda Garfinkel,Jessica Regan,Stephanie Kramer

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In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

By: Andrew Bolton,Amanda Garfinkel,Jessica Regan,Stephanie Kramer

A new glossary of American fashion explores the expressive qualities of works by pioneering designers, who established the nation’s style, and the up-and-coming designers shaping its future. In America: A Lexicon of Fashion presents a modern vocabulary of American dress that emphasizes emotions while not discounting the simple, practical, and egalitarian character that has traditionally separated American ready-to-wear from European haute couture. Stunning new photography showcases over 100 garments from the 1940s to the present that offer a timely new perspective on the diverse and multifaceted nature of American fashion. The catalogue features works that display qualities such as belonging, comfort, desire, exuberance, fellowship, joy, nostalgia, optimism, reverence, spontaneity, strength, and sweetness by well-known designers and emerging creatives, including: Gilbert Adrian Geoffrey Beene Thom Browne Bonnie Cashin Willy Chavarria Olivia Cheng Telfar Clemens Oscar de la Renta Colm Dillane Perry Ellis Tremaine Emory Tom Ford Rudi Gernreich Halston Elizabeth Hawes Carolina Herrera Conner Ives Charles James Kerby Jean-Raymond Donna Karan Calvin Klein Michael Kors Ralph Lauren Vera Maxwell Claire McCardell Norman Norell Heron Preston Christopher John Rogers Raul Solís Hillary Taymour Diane von Furstenberg Vera Wang

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397343

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9781588397348

The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May 1869-July 1875

By: Andrew Johnson

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The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May 1869-July 1875

By: Andrew Johnson

Is there life after the presidency? That is the question with which Andrew Johnson wrestled after his return to Tennessee in March 1869 until his death in the summer of 1875. He answered that question with a resounding "yes" and revitalized his political ambitions. For his six post-presidential years, Johnson relentlessly pursued a vindication of earlier setbacks and embarrassments. He had hardly arrived back in Greenville before he began mapping his strategy to recapture public acclaim. Johnson eschewed the opportunity to compete for the governor's chair and opted instead to set his sights on the prospects of going back to the nation's capital, preferably as a U. S. senator. Johnson engaged in three separate campaigns, one in 1869, one in 1872, and the final one is 1874-75. In the first, he sought election to the U. S. Senate. At the very last minute the tide went against him in the legislature, and Johnson thereby lost a wonderful opportunity to return to Washington only a few months after the end of his presidency. In 1872, Tennessee stipulated that its new congressional seat would be an at-large one. This suited Johnson, who favored a statewide, rather than a district, race. When he could not secure the formal nomination of the state's Democratic part, he boldly declared himself an independent candidate. Although he knew full well that his actual chances of election over either a Republican or a Democratic rival were slim, Johnson stayed in the fray. Confederates exerted one the Democratic party, and he succeeded. The Republican contender emerged victorious, much as Johnson had calculated, and therefore in a somewhat perverse this strengthened Johnson's political clout for another day. The day came in 1874, when he launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Johnson labored mightily throughout the state in this cause: by the time the legislature convened, he was the major contender for the post. But Democratic party successes in the gubernatorial and legislative elections had encouraged a number of other hopefuls. Eventually, the legislature staged fifty-five ballots before Johnson carried the day in late January 1875. As fate would have it, President Grant summoned a special session if the U. S. Senate to meet in March, enabling Johnson to claim his seat well ahead of the normal schedule. The ex-president strode confidently into the Senate chamber, the scene of his impeachment embarrassment in 1868, and took the oath of office. Many well-wishers, as well as old foes, greeted the battle-scarred political veteran whose vindication had been achieved at last. After lingering in Washington after the close of the Senate session, Johnson returned to Tennessee, where he lived out the short remainder of his days. With the exception of serious financial reverses and a nearly fatal battle with cholera in 1873, Johnson's sole focus had been his political rehabilitation. Considering his return to the Senate, albeit brief, the argument could be made that he succeeded. But, considering the verdict of most historians, it remains debatable whether he achieved his aims. The Editor: Paul H. Bergeron is professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572330910

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Pandemonium

How Globalization and Trade are Putting the World at Risk

By: Andrew Nikiforuk

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Pandemonium

How Globalization and Trade are Putting the World at Risk

By: Andrew Nikiforuk

This is a clear-eyed guide to the hidden biological terrorists on our doorstep. Every Australian knows a story or two about biological bombs, European invaders, rampaging microbes to name a few. It's all part and parcel of the continent's vivid history, and a reflection of our truly human penchant for juggling explosive species.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702236187

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Routledge Companion to UK Counter Terrorism

By: Andrew Staniforth

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Routledge Companion to UK Counter Terrorism

By: Andrew Staniforth

This authoritative companion brings together the learning of the first decade since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, drawing on the personal and professional foresight of key individuals identifying future challenges that still lie ahead in the decades yet to come.

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Routledge

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0415685850

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Times of Troubles

By: Andrew Sanders

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Times of Troubles

By: Andrew Sanders

How 'The Troubles' in Ulster defined the Scottish and British military experience post-WW2.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748655131

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Select Legal Topics

By: Andrew J. Schatkin

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Select Legal Topics

By: Andrew J. Schatkin

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions. Select Legal Topics also covers issues of mental disease or defects in the case of a criminal client and considers the rules in the criminal procedure law concerning motions to set aside the verdict as well as post-conviction motions. Section one analyzes mainly criminal law issues. Section two considers civil rights issues. Included in this section are such issues as the First Amendment, state action, and other more specific and exact issues in this area. Section three of the book considers various procedural issues. The book also includes a comprehensive index and table of cases. This book, to some extent, is general in character but also hones in and analyses certain legal developments in significant United States Supreme Court decisions. It will be of great benefit both to lawyers, law students, law faculty, university professors, and judges at the federal and state level.

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Governing Biobanks

Understanding the Interplay between Law and Practice

By: Jane Kaye,Susan Gibbons,Catherine Heeney,Andrew Smart

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Governing Biobanks

Understanding the Interplay between Law and Practice

By: Jane Kaye,Susan Gibbons,Catherine Heeney,Andrew Smart

Biobanks are proliferating rapidly worldwide because they are powerful tools and organisational structures for undertaking medical research. By linking samples to data on the health of individuals, it is anticipated that biobanks will be used to explore the relationship between genes, environment and lifestyle for many diseases, as well as the potential of individually-tailored drug treatments based on genetic predisposition. However, they also raise considerable challenges for existing legal frameworks and research governance structures. This book critically examines the current governance structures in place for biobanks in England and Wales. It shows that the technologies, techniques and practices involved in biobanking do not always conform neatly to existing legal principles and frameworks that apply to other areas of medical research. Using a socio-legal approach, including interview data gathered from the scientific community, this book provides unique insights and makes recommendations about appropriate governance mechanisms for biobanking in the future. It also explores the issues around the secondary use of information, such as consent and how to protect privacy, when biobanks are accessed by a number of different third parties. These issues have relevance both within England and Wales and to a wide international audience, as well as for other areas where large datasets are used.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847318835

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Systematics and the Fossil Record

Documenting Evolutionary Patterns

By: Andrew B. Smith

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Systematics and the Fossil Record

Documenting Evolutionary Patterns

By: Andrew B. Smith

This new text sets out to establish the key role played by systematics in deciphering patterns of evolution from the fossil record. It begins by considering the nature of the species in the fossil record and then outlines recent advances in the methodology used to establish phylogenetics relationships, stressing why fossil evidence can be crucial. The way species are grouped into higher taxa, and how this affects their utility in evolutionary studies is also discussed. Because the fossil record abounds with sampling and preservational biases, the book emphasizes that observed patterns can rarely be taken at face value. It is argued that evolutionary trees, constructed from combining phylogenetic and biostratigraphic data, provide the best approach for investigating patterns of evolution through geologic time. The only integrated text covering the study of evolutionary patterns from a phylogenetic stance.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444313908

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Hong Kong Public Law Reports, Vol.3, Part 3

By: Andrew Byrnes,Johannes Chan

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Hong Kong Public Law Reports, Vol.3, Part 3

By: Andrew Byrnes,Johannes Chan

The Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance came into force in June 1991, ushering in an important new stage of development in the Hong Kong legal system. This series contains all the judgements in which Bill of Rights issues are decided, and is thus an invalu

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622093493

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The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales

By: Andrew Boon

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The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales

By: Andrew Boon

The fourth edition of this respected textbook examines the regulation and conduct of lawyers in England and Wales and addresses new developments in the field, including those in international practice, sexual misconduct, and the environment. Focusing on the practice of, and interrelationship between, solicitors and barristers, the book provides background to current arrangements while exploring contemporary rules of conduct, systems of regulation, and controversies. The four main parts cover client duties, wider obligations, key contexts, and regulation. Parts one to three provide an academic introduction to the subject of lawyers' ethics. They are suitable as a core text for a semester course at undergraduate level, providing grounding for vocational training, such as the Solicitors' Qualifying Examination. Comparisons are made with conduct rules applying in other leading common law jurisdictions where relevant. These parts also explore links between the subject of ethics and the development of lawyers' practical skills. Part four applies the general principles to three elements of regulation: practice, admission, and discipline. The approach throughout is socio-legal. While the essential law is described, relevant social science research informs consideration of issues and debates.

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1509971777

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The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1770-1803

By: Andrew Jackson

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The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1770-1803

By: Andrew Jackson

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870492195

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9780870492198

Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh

Baseball's Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955

By: Andrew O’Toole

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Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh

Baseball's Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955

By: Andrew O’Toole

Branch Rickey was one of the most important and charismatic figures in all of baseball, the archetype for all general managers who would follow. His contributions to the game were both numerous and highly significant; they include the desegregation of the majors, airline travel to road games, and the innovation of the minor league "farm" system. This work focuses on Rickey's tenure as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1950 through 1955. In addition to contemporary accounts, Rickey's personal correspondence and interoffice memorandums are used to document his struggle to revamp the fate of a small-market team.

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McFarland

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0786408391

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9780786408399

Beyond the Usual Beating

The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago

By: Andrew S. Baer

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Beyond the Usual Beating

The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago

By: Andrew S. Baer

The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge’s decades-long tenure on the Chicago police force was marked by racist and barbaric interrogation methods, including psychological torture, burnings, and mock executions—techniques that went far “beyond the usual beating.” After being exposed in 1989, he became a symbol of police brutality and the unequal treatment of nonwhite people, and the persistent outcry against him led to reforms such as the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois. But Burge hardly developed or operated in a vacuum, as Andrew S. Baer explores to stark effect here. He identifies the darkness of the Burge era as a product of local social forces, arising from a specific milieu beyond the nationwide racialized reactionary fever of the 1960s and 1970s. Similarly, the popular resistance movements that rallied in his wake actually predated Burge’s exposure but cohered with unexpected power due to the galvanizing focus on his crimes and abuses. For more than thirty years, a shifting coalition including torture survivors, their families, civil rights attorneys, and journalists helped to corroborate allegations of violence, free the wrongfully convicted, have Burge fired and incarcerated, and win passage of a municipal reparations package, among other victories. Beyond the Usual Beating reveals that though the Burge scandal underscores the relationship between personal bigotry and structural racism in the criminal justice system, it also shows how ordinary people held perpetrators accountable in the face of intransigent local power.

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University of Chicago Press

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022670050X

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9780226700502

Human Impact on the Natural Environment

Past, Present and Future

By: Andrew S. Goudie

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Human Impact on the Natural Environment

Past, Present and Future

By: Andrew S. Goudie

A brand new edition of the definitive textbook on humankind’s impact on the Earth’s environment—now in full color This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms, and the atmosphere. It considers the ways in which climate changes and modifications in land cover may change the environment in coming decades. Thoroughly revised to cover the remarkable transformation in interest that humans are having in the environment, this book examines previously uncovered topics, such as rewilding, ecosystem services, techniques for study, novel and no analogue ecosystems, and more. It also presents the latest views on big themes such as human origins, the anthropocene, domestication, extinctions, and ecological invasions. Extensively re-written, Human Impact on the Natural Environment, Eighth Edition contains many new and updated statistical tables, figures, and references. It offers enlightening chapters that look at the past and present state of the world—examining our impact on the land itself and the creatures that inhabit it; the oceans, lakes, rivers and streams; and the climate and atmosphere. The book also takes a deep look at our future impact on the planet and its resources—our affect on the coastal environments, the cryosphere and the drylands, as well as the hydrological and geomorphological impacts. Fully updated to take account of recent advances in our understanding of global warming and other phenomena Offers current opinions on such topics as human origins, the anthropocene, domestication, extinctions, and ecological invasions Features a full-color presentation to allow for more and clearer photographs and diagrams Contains more international case studies than previous editions to balance UK examples Human Impact on the Natural Environment is essential reading for undergraduates in geography and environmental science, and for those who want a thorough, wide-ranging and balanced overview of the impacts of humans upon natural processes and systems from the Stone Age to the Anthropocene and who wish to understand the major environmental issues that concern the human race at the present time.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119403731

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9781119403739

The Elementalists

By: Andrew Maloney

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The Elementalists

By: Andrew Maloney

So you wanna be a wielder? For a handful of special students, things are about to get dangerously weird. Fourteen-year-old Frankie Delarosa and her older brother, Cruz, are already having enough trouble in their lives. But when a psychotic entity comprised entirely of energy begins hunting them down, it will take the combined efforts of an untested group of wisecracking, hardheaded teenagers from Sevenpointe Academy a special school for wielders of the seven classical elements to help them escape with their lives. Fleeing a town full of mindless zombies, being attacked on all sides by primordial beings, and facing a deadly maze intended to keep them away from the one person who can help them, the Elementalists come to realize the most important truth of all: For better, for worse, for friends... The Elementalists Potentially saving the world, or just really good at blowing stuff up...

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WestBow Press

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1490808442

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9781490808444

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