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Devoted

38 Extraordinary Tales of Love, Loyalty, and Life With Dogs

By: Rebecca Ascher-Walsh

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Devoted

38 Extraordinary Tales of Love, Loyalty, and Life With Dogs

By: Rebecca Ascher-Walsh

Unlikely Friendships meets Marley and Me. This heartwarming gift book from National Geographic presents a collection of inspiring dog stories and touching photos—dogs who comfort veterans, dogs who learn to surf, dogs who detect cancer, and dogs who save the day: Each one is devoted. These 38 uplifting dog stories showcase the most amazing dog rescues, accomplishments, and abilities that fascinate us and touch our hearts.

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National Geographic Books

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1426212631

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Why Governments Waste Natural Resources

Policy Failures in Developing Countries

By: William Ascher

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Why Governments Waste Natural Resources

Policy Failures in Developing Countries

By: William Ascher

Drawing on 16 case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, reveals the complex political and programmatic reasons why government officials in developing countries often willfully adopt wasteful natural resource policies.

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JHU Press

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0801860962

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9780801860966

The Russian Revolution

A Beginner's Guide

By: Abraham Ascher

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The Russian Revolution

A Beginner's Guide

By: Abraham Ascher

1917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, “a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to offer”. But the dream was short-lived, bringing in its wake seventy years of conflict and instability that nearly ended in nuclear war. How could such a revolution take place and what caused it to go so very wrong? Presenting a uniquely long view of events, Abraham Ascher takes readers from the seeds of revolution in the 1880s right through to Stalin’s state terror and the power of the communist legacy in Russia today. Original and shrewd, Ascher’s analysis offers an unparalled introduction to this watershed period in world history

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Simon and Schuster

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1780743882

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9781780743882

The Filmmaker's Handbook

A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age: Fifth Edition

By: Steven Ascher,Edward Pincus

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The Filmmaker's Handbook

A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age: Fifth Edition

By: Steven Ascher,Edward Pincus

The authoritative guide to producing, directing, shooting, editing, and distributing your video or film. Whether you aspire to be a great filmmaker yourself or are looking for movie gifts, this comprehensive guide to filmmaking is the first step in turning a hobby into a career. Widely acknowledged as the “bible” of video and film production, and used in courses around the world, The Filmmaker’s Handbook is now updated with the latest advances in HD and digital formats. For students and teachers, professionals and novices, this indispensable handbook covers all aspects of movie making. • Techniques for making dramatic features, documentaries, corporate, broadcast, and experimental videos and films • Shooting with DSLRs, video, film, and digital cinema cameras • In-depth coverage of lenses, lighting, sound recording, editing, and mixing • Understanding HDR, RAW, Log, 4K, UHD, and other formats • The business aspects of funding and producing your project • Getting your movie shown in theaters, on television, streaming services, and online

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Penguin

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1101613807

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9781101613801

X Child Stars

Where Are They Now?

By: Kathy Garver,Fred Ascher

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X Child Stars

Where Are They Now?

By: Kathy Garver,Fred Ascher

This enlightening book is the go-to guide for fans for biographical information, rare photos, and interesting trivia about their favorite child stars, shows, series, networks, and the times that defined the shows. Spanning forty years of television history, this book details both the success stories and misfortunes of many child stars. Included in this book are the stories of Anissa Jones, Buffy on Family Affair, who tragically died from a drug overdose at the age of eighteen, as well as Ron Howard, who starred in both The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days, and who later became an Academy Award–winning director. A child star herself, Kathy Garver profiles these and other legends of classic television in a book that will answer the question: Where are they now?

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1630761141

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9781630761141

How to Survive Middle School: U.S. History

A Do-It-Yourself Study Guide

By: Rebecca Ascher-Walsh,Annie Scavelli

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How to Survive Middle School: U.S. History

A Do-It-Yourself Study Guide

By: Rebecca Ascher-Walsh,Annie Scavelli

THINK U.S. HISTORY IS HARD? Make learning easy with this do-it-yourself study guide that includes everything kids need to know to tackle middle school U.S. History! Learning is an adventure both inside and outside of the classroom with the How to Survive Middle School study guide series! These colorful, highly visual books cover all the essential info kids need to ace important middle school classes. Large topics are broken down into easy-to-digest chunks, and reflective questions help kids check understanding and become critical thinkers. Written by middle school teachers and vetted by curriculum experts, this series is the perfect school supplement or homeschool resource—and a great way to help create independent learners. HTSMS: U.S. History includes key facts and super-helpful illustrations, maps, and vocab that explore topics including: Native American Peoples European Colonies and the Declaration of Independence Civil War World Wars I & II The Great Depression The Cold War Civil Rights The Vietnam War and more! Books also available for: World History, English, Math, and Science.

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Bright Matter Books

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0525571442

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9780525571445

Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By: Deborah Ascher Barnstone

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Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By: Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era

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University of Michigan Press

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0472119907

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9780472119905

The Frog Principle

The Loss of Freedom in America

By: Walter A. Ascher

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The Frog Principle

The Loss of Freedom in America

By: Walter A. Ascher

George Orwell is laughing in his grave. We call ourselves the Land of the Free but our freedom has been slowly taken from us beginning in the sixties. Since 9-11 the pace of loss of freedom has accelerated beyond the wildest dream in all aspects of our lives. We gave the government the right to take away our freedoms. Our children will ever know what freedom really was in the United States. We have lost our rights over our children, our property and we have citizens spying on each other. Under the guise of War on Terror the government can arrest a U.S. citizen without a cause, prevent us from traveling, listen to our phone conversations and often banking records without a court order. The War on Drugs allows the government to seize our assets without a trial. Our court system, the death penalty and laws on obscenity are amusing and frightful to people of other nations. This book covers in twenty chapters examples of how we have lost our freedoms. We have become the frogs who are being boiled to death.

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1463479530

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9781463479534

Hope's Daughter

By: Joani Ascher

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Hope's Daughter

By: Joani Ascher

In February 1941, Jane Baldwin has two goals—one is to become a stock broker and have her own seat on the New York Stock Exchange, something women have never done. The other is to see her sister finish college and have a good life. Meeting a man who flatters her and entices her interest changes her outlook, and she plans for the day she will wed him. Meanwhile, she is a secretary for a young man who is secretly teaching her the business of stock trading. War rages in Europe, and Prescott Weaver, Jane's boss, prepares to serve in the U.S. military as soon as possible. Anticipating his absence, he has Jane learn all she must know to run his office for him. Neither he nor Jane realizes how long their reliance on each other must wait before they can acknowledge the love built silently between them. And when Jane's world suddenly crashes, she must find a way to survive.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509224963

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9781509224968

The Way to Go

Moving by Sea, Land, and Air

By: Kate Ascher

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The Way to Go

Moving by Sea, Land, and Air

By: Kate Ascher

In our digital age, it's easy to forget that almost everything we enjoy about modern life depends on movement. We ride cars, buses and trains to work and play; enjoy food and clothes shipped over oceans; fly high in the sky to any point on the planet. So what does it really take to keep our world constantly moving? Exploring our incredible interconnected world is the task of Kate Ascher's The Way To Go. Lusciously illustrated and meticulously researched, The Way To Go reveals the highly complex and largely invisible network of global transportation.

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Penguin Books

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0143127942

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9780143127949

A Community under Siege

The Jews of Breslau under Nazism

By: Abraham Ascher

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A Community under Siege

The Jews of Breslau under Nazism

By: Abraham Ascher

This is a study of how the Jewish community of Breslau--the third largest and one of the most affluent in Germany--coped with Nazi persecution. Ascher has included the experiences of his immediate family, although the book is based mainly on archival sources, numerous personal reminiscences, as well as publications by the Jewish community in the 1930s. It is the first comprehensive study of a local Jewish community in Germany under Nazi rule. Until the very end, the Breslau Jews maintained a stance of defiance and sought to persevere as a cohesive group with its own institutions. They categorically denied the Nazi claim that they were not genuine Germans, but at the same time they also refused to abandon their Jewish heritage. They created a new school for the children evicted from public schools, established a variety of new cultural institutions, placed new emphasis on religious observance, maintained the Jewish hospital against all odds, and, perhaps most remarkably, increased the range of welfare services, which were desperately needed as more and more of their number lost their livelihood. In short, the Jews of Breslau refused to abandon either their institutions or the values that they had nurtured for decades. In the end, it was of no avail as the Nazis used their overwhelming power to liquidate the community by force.

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Stanford University Press

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0804755183

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9780804755184

The Evolution of Development Thinking

Governance, Economics, Assistance, and Security

By: William Ascher,Garry D. Brewer,G. Shabbir Cheema,John M. Heffron

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The Evolution of Development Thinking

Governance, Economics, Assistance, and Security

By: William Ascher,Garry D. Brewer,G. Shabbir Cheema,John M. Heffron

This landmark book offers a comprehensive analysis of how development approaches have evolved since World War II, examining and also evaluating the succession of theories, doctrines, and practices that have been formulated and applied in the Third World and beyond. Covering all developing regions, the book offers an integrated approach for considering the entwined aspects of development: governance, economics, foreign assistance, civil society, and the military. With reference to carefully chosen case studies, the authors offer distinctive explanations for why development approaches fall short and systematically relate the evolution of development thinking to current challenges, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of key institutions and the clashes of institutional interests that have distorted otherwise sound doctrines and negatively affected development practice. In identifying the dynamics that account for shortcomings in past development attempts, and recommending a better integration of doctrines across the entire range of inter-connected development fronts, the book points to how development practice may be improved to better advance human dignity.

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Springer

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1137560398

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9781137560391

Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries

By: William Ascher

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Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries

By: William Ascher

Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108280986

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9781108280983

The Works

Anatomy of a City

By: Kate Ascher

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The Works

Anatomy of a City

By: Kate Ascher

A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city “It's a rare person who won't find something of interest in The Works, whether it's an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or the view of what's down a manhole.” —New York Post Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes and behind the scenes to explain exactly how an urban infrastructure operates. Deftly weaving text and graphics, author Kate Ascher explores the systems that manage water, traffic, sewage and garbage, subways, electricity, mail, and much more. Full of fascinating facts and anecdotes, The Works gives readers a unique glimpse at what lies behind and beneath urban life in the twenty-first century.

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0143112708

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9780143112709

The Color of Modernism

Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany

By: Deborah Ascher Barnstone

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The Color of Modernism

Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany

By: Deborah Ascher Barnstone

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was white-pure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. The Color of Modernism explodes this myth of whiteness by offering a riot of color in modern architectural treatises, polemics, and buildings. Focusing on Germany in the early 20th century, one of modernism's most foundational and influential periods, it examines the different scientific and artistic color theories which were advanced by members of the German avant-garde, from Bruno Taut to Walter Gropius to Hans Scharoun. German color theory went on to have a profound influence on the modern movement, and Germany serves as the key case study for an international phenomenon which encompassed modern architects worldwide from le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto to Berthold Lubetkin and Lina Bo Bardi. Supported by accessible introductions to the development of color theory in philosophy, science and the arts, the book uses the German case to explore the new ways in which color was used in architecture and urban design, turning attention to an important yet overlooked aspect of the period. Much more than a mere correction to the historical record, the book leads the reader on an adventure into the color-filled worlds of psychology, the paranormal, theories of sensory perception, and pleasure, showing how each in turn influenced the modern movement. The Color of Modernism will fundamentally change the way the early modernist period is seen and discussed.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350251364

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9781350251366

Portfolio Society

On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction

By: Ivan Ascher

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Portfolio Society

On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction

By: Ivan Ascher

A bold extension of Marx's Capital for the twenty-first century: at once a critique of modern finance and of the societies under its spell. As financial markets expand and continue to refashion the world in their own image, the wealth of capitalist societies no longer presents itself, as it did to Karl Marx in the nineteenth century, as a “monstrous collection of commodities.” Instead, it appears as an equally monstrous collection of financial securities, and the critique of political economy must proceed accordingly. But what would it mean to write Capital in the twenty-first century? Are we really to believe that risk, rather than labor, is now regarded as the true fount of economic value? Can it truly be the case that the credit relation—at least in the global North—has replaced the wage relation as the key site of exploitation and political struggle? And finally, if precarity is indeed the name of today's proletarian condition, what possible future does it actually portend, what analysis does it require? Through a series of creative substitutions, in Portfolio Society Ivan Ascherextends Marx's critical project in bold and unexpected ways. Ascher not only explains some of the often mystifying processes of contemporary finance, he also invites us to consider what becomes of capitalism itself in those places where the relation of capital to its own future is now mediated by financial markets. In the end, we may find that much has changed and much has not; relations of domination endure, and mystifications abound, but the devil is in the details, and that is where Ascher directs our attention. At once a critique of modern finance and of the societies under its spell, Portfolio Society succeeds in revealing the potential limits of Capital, while reveling still in its limitless potential.

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MIT Press

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1935408747

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9781935408741

Everything Is Chess

By: Bernie Ascher

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Everything Is Chess

By: Bernie Ascher

Everything Is Chess is an amusing collection of essays on current events and world history as seen through the eyes of an avid chess player with a sense of humor. It is mostly nonfiction and explores a wide variety of diverse subjects.

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1546232575

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9781546232575

The Revolution of 1905

Russia in Disarray

By: Abraham Ascher

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The Revolution of 1905

Russia in Disarray

By: Abraham Ascher

The first of two volumes, this is the most comprehensive account of the Revolution of 1905—a decisive turning point in modern Russian history—to appear in any Western language in a generation.

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Stanford University Press

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0804723273

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9780804723275

Bringing in the Future

Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries

By: William Ascher

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Bringing in the Future

Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries

By: William Ascher

Humans are plagued by shortsighted thinking, preferring to put off work on complex, deep-seated, or difficult problems in favor of quick-fix solutions to immediate needs. When short-term thinking is applied to economic development, especially in fragile nations, the results—corruption, waste, and faulty planning—are often disastrous. In Bringing in the Future, William Ascher draws on the latest research from psychology, economics, institutional design, and legal theory to suggest strategies to overcome powerful obstacles to long-term planning in developing countries. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Ascher applies strategies such as the creation and scheduling of tangible and intangible rewards, cognitive exercises to increase the understanding of longer-term consequences, self-restraint mechanisms to protect long-term commitments and enhance credibility, and restructuring policy-making processes to permit greater influence of long-term considerations. Featuring theoretically informed research findings and sound policy examples, this volume will assist policy makers, activists, and scholars seeking to understand how the vagaries of human behavior affect international development.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226029182

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9780226029184

Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice

By: Ira D. Glick,Douglas S. Rait,Alison M. Heru,Michael Ascher

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Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice

By: Ira D. Glick,Douglas S. Rait,Alison M. Heru,Michael Ascher

Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice has been the psychiatric and mental health clinician's trusted companion for over four decades. This new fifth edition delivers the essential information that clinicians of all disciplines need to provide effective family-centered interventions for couples and families. A practical clinical guide, it helps clinicians integrate family-systems approaches with pharmacotherapies for individual patients and their families. Couples and Family Therapy in Clinical Practice draws on the authors’ extensive clinical experience as well as on the scientific literature in the family-systems, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neuroscience fields.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118897250

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9781118897256

Scheming for the Poor

The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America

By: William Ascher

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Scheming for the Poor

The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America

By: William Ascher

Comparison of political aspects of economic policy aiming at income redistribution in Argentina, Chile and Peru - focuses on the policy- making process, comparing the approaches of populist, reformist and radical political leadership; discusses inflation and investment policy, trade policy, balance of payments, tax reform, land reform, wage policy, public expenditure on social services, etc.; considers trade union attitudes and landowners, rural workers, entrepreneurs and employers attitudes, and armed forces political opposition.

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Harvard University Press

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0674790855

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9780674790858

The Transparent State

Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany

By: Deborah Ascher Barnstone

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The Transparent State

Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany

By: Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.

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Psychology Press

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0415700183

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9780415700184

Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence

Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development

By: William Ascher,Natalia Mirovitskaya

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Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence

Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development

By: William Ascher,Natalia Mirovitskaya

Although many scholars and practitioners recognize that development and conflict are intertwined, there is much less understanding of the mechanisms behind these linkages. This book takes a new approach by critically examining how various development strategies provoke or help prevent intrastate violence, based on cases from all developing regions.

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Springer

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1137555122

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9781137555120

Was Hitler a Riddle?

Western Democracies and National Socialism

By: Abraham Ascher

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Was Hitler a Riddle?

Western Democracies and National Socialism

By: Abraham Ascher

A study of what western leaders knew about Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology & policies before the outbreak of World War II. Was Hitler A Riddle? is the first comparative study of how British, French, and American diplomats serving in Germany assessed Hitler and the Nazi movement. These assessments provided the governments in London, Paris, and Washington with ample information about the ruthlessness of the authorities in Germany and of their determination to conquer vast stretches of Europe. Had the British, French, and American leaders acted on this information and taken measures to rein in Hitler, the history of the twentieth century would have been far less bloody: the second world war might well have been avoided, the Soviet Union would not have expanded into central and eastern Europe, and the world would have been spared the Cold War. Praise for Was Hitler a Riddle? “A pioneering work of great importance.” —Walter Laquer “Ascher is succinct, insightful, and convincing.” —Evan Bukey, University of Arkansas “[A vast majority] . . . probably assume that the leaders of Great Britain, France, and the United States simply did not know what was happening in the early years of the Third Reich, much less understand it. Abraham Ascher’s concise book Was Hitler a Riddle? definitively dispels this explanation. In what can only be described as a model of how properly to write scholarly history aimed at a broader audience, Ascher establishes that western leaders knew a great deal about Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party’s ideology, and the policies of the new regime long before the German invasion of Poland.” —Russel Lemmons

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Stanford University Press

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0804784590

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9780804784597

The Flood

A Novel

By: Carol Ascher

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The Flood

A Novel

By: Carol Ascher

Nine-year-old Eva Hoffman is the daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees who have found a precarious safety among a small community of European exiles attached to a psychoanalytic hospital in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, and the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, is being tried in the local court. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice—and courage—both within and outside her family.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810132931

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9780810132931

Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries

Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution

By: William Ascher,Robert G. Healy

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Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries

Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution

By: William Ascher,Robert G. Healy

Drawing on case studies developed over a two-year period, 1987–1989, by Fellows in the Program in International Development Policy at Duke University, including experienced representatives from developing countries, the World Bank, and scholars, the authors integrate the growing interest in environmental protection and resource conservation into the existing body of knowledge about the political economy of developing countries. This book is about the links that tie resource use, environmental quality, and economic development, and the way in which those links are affected by the distribution of income and resource ownership. The links may be relatively simple, as in the case of peasant farmers too poor to conserve resources for the future and with nothing to gain from sound environmental practices. Or they may be very complex—as the authors find when they demonstrate how achievement of higher incomes by the rich can increase environmentally destructive behavior by the poor. Many of the links in some way involve rural land use, whether for agriculture or forestry.Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countriesargues that the policies that matter are not merely those dealing with resources and the environment, but a much broader set that includes income distribution and asset ownership.

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Duke University Press

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082231049X

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9780822310495

The Hunt for Rudy Sellers

By: George Ascher

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The Hunt for Rudy Sellers

By: George Ascher

C.I.A. agent Rudy Sellers thought that he had it all, afterall, he was their elite agent. He decided to set up his own empire. The president of The United States gave the order to bring him in. However, there is only one man that can track him down.

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iUniverse

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0595191703

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9780595191703

Python Cookbook

By: Alex Martelli,Anna Ravenscroft,David Ascher

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Python Cookbook

By: Alex Martelli,Anna Ravenscroft,David Ascher

Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. It is now being used by an increasing number of major organizations, including NASA and Google.Updated for Python 2.4, The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition offers a wealth of useful code for all Python programmers, not just advanced practitioners. Like its predecessor, the new edition provides solutions to problems that Python programmers face everyday.It now includes over 200 recipes that range from simple tasks, such as working with dictionaries and list comprehensions, to complex tasks, such as monitoring a network and building a templating system. This revised version also includes new chapters on topics such as time, money, and metaprogramming.Here's a list of additional topics covered: Manipulating text Searching and sorting Working with files and the filesystem Object-oriented programming Dealing with threads and processes System administration Interacting with databases Creating user interfaces Network and web programming Processing XML Distributed programming Debugging and testing Another advantage of The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition is its trio of authors--three well-known Python programming experts, who are highly visible on email lists and in newsgroups, and speak often at Python conferences.With scores of practical examples and pertinent background information, The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition is the one source you need if you're looking to build efficient, flexible, scalable, and well-integrated systems.

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Isn't It Romantic?

Finding the Magic in Everyday Life

By: Barbara Lazear Ascher

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Isn't It Romantic?

Finding the Magic in Everyday Life

By: Barbara Lazear Ascher

Offering enchantment to a disenchanted age, this intelligent, lyrical, and multifaceted book explores the perennial appeal of romance, and its essential role in art, philosophy, history, literature, and humans' relationships with each other and with the natural world. Expanding the idea of romance far past boy-girl sentimentality, Barbara Lazear Ascher defines it as yearning, hope, and reverence for the unattainable that can redeem passion, imagination, and civilization in our everyday lives. Provocative and enlightening, Dancing in the Dark challenges the readers to perceive and experience what matters in life, engaging their hearts as well as their minds. -- Barbara Lazear Ascher is a contributing editor at Self with a monthly column. -- Ascher's work has appeared in Elle, Vogue, European Travel and Life, Redbook, Mademoiselle, and many other magazines.

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Cliff Street Books

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0060932473

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Mathematics Elsewhere

An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures

By: Marcia Ascher

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Mathematics Elsewhere

An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures

By: Marcia Ascher

Mathematics Elsewhere is a fascinating and important contribution to a global view of mathematics. Presenting mathematical ideas of peoples from a variety of small-scale and traditional cultures, it humanizes our view of mathematics and expands our conception of what is mathematical. Through engaging examples of how particular societies structure time, reach decisions about the future, make models and maps, systematize relationships, and create intriguing figures, Marcia Ascher demonstrates that traditional cultures have mathematical ideas that are far more substantial and sophisticated than is generally acknowledged. Malagasy divination rituals, for example, rely on complex algebraic algorithms. And some cultures use calendars far more abstract and elegant than our own. Ascher also shows that certain concepts assumed to be universal--that time is a single progression, for instance, or that equality is a static relationship--are not. The Basque notion of equivalence, for example, is a dynamic and temporal one not adequately captured by the familiar equal sign. Other ideas taken to be the exclusive province of professionally trained Western mathematicians are, in fact, shared by people in many societies. The ideas discussed come from geographically varied cultures, including the Borana and Malagasy of Africa, the Tongans and Marshall Islanders of Oceania, the Tamil of South India, the Basques of Western Europe, and the Balinese and Kodi of Indonesia. This book belongs on the shelves of mathematicians, math students, and math educators, and in the hands of anyone interested in traditional societies or how people think. Illustrating how mathematical ideas play a vital role in diverse human endeavors from navigation to social interaction to religion, it offers--through the vehicle of mathematics--unique cultural encounters to any reader.

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