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Beyond the Big Ditch

Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

By: Ashley Carse

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Beyond the Big Ditch

Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

By: Ashley Carse

A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal. In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, he explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities. Carse draws on a wide range of ethnographic and archival material to show the social and ecological implications of transportation across Panama. The Canal moves ships over an aquatic staircase of locks that demand an enormous amount of fresh water from the surrounding region. Each passing ship drains 52 million gallons out to sea—a volume comparable to the daily water use of half a million Panamanians. Infrastructures like the Panama Canal, Carse argues, do not simply conquer nature; they rework ecologies in ways that serve specific political and economic priorities. Interweaving histories that range from the depopulation of the U.S. Canal Zone a century ago to road construction conflicts and water hyacinth invasions in canal waters, the book illuminates the human and nonhuman actors that have come together at the margins of the famous trade route. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal. Beyond the Big Ditch calls us to consider how infrastructures are materially embedded in place, producing environments with winners and losers.

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MIT Press

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0262028115

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9780262028110

The Gernsback Days

A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911 to 1936

By: Mike Ashley,Michael Ashley,Robert A. W. Lowndes

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The Gernsback Days

A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911 to 1936

By: Mike Ashley,Michael Ashley,Robert A. W. Lowndes

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Hugo Gernsback, and the start of a serious study of the contribution he made to the development of science fiction. . . . It seemed to me that the time was due to reinvestigate the Gernsback era and dig into the facts surrounding the origins of Amazing Stories. I wanted to find out exactly why Hugo Gernsback had launched the magazine, what he was trying to achieve, and to consider what effects he had-good and bad. . . . Too many writers and editors from the Gernsback days have been unjustly neglected, or unfairly criticized. Now, I hope, Robert A. W. Lowndes and I have provided the grounds for a fair consideration of their efforts, and a true reconstruction of the development of science fiction. It's the closest to time travel you'll ever get. I hope you enjoy the trip."-Mike Ashley, Preface

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502

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Wildside Press LLC

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0809510553

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9780809510559

The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

By: Michael Ashley,Mike Ashley

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The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

By: Michael Ashley,Mike Ashley

This is the first of three volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the growth and development of the science fiction magazines from when Hugo Gernsback launched the very first, Amazing Stories, in 1926 through to the birth of the atomic age and the death of the pulps in the early 1950s. These were the days of the youth of science fiction, when it was brash, raw and exciting: the days of the first great space operas by Edward Elmer Smith and Edmond Hamilton, through the cosmic thought variants by Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson and others to the early 1940s when John W. Campbell at Astounding did his best to nurture the infant genre into adulthood. Under him such major names as Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt and Theodore Sturgeon emerged who, along with other such new talents as Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke, helped create modern science fiction. For over forty years magazines were at the heart of science fiction and this book considers how the magazines, and their publishers, editors and authors influenced the growth and perception of this fascinating genre.

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316

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Liverpool University Press

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0853238553

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9780853238553

Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative

By: Ashley Scott Kelly,Xiaoxuan Lu

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Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative

By: Ashley Scott Kelly,Xiaoxuan Lu

This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos-China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent "firsts" in Laos: Laos's first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys landscape architecture's spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs.

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Springer Nature

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981164067X

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9789811640674

Rumination and Related Constructs

Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Thinking Too Much

By: Ashley Borders

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Rumination and Related Constructs

Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Thinking Too Much

By: Ashley Borders

Rumination and Related Constructs: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Thinking Too Much synthesizes existing research relating to rumination. Integrating research and theories from clinical, social, cognitive, and health psychology, it features empirical findings related to why people ruminate, as well as treatments that decrease rumination. The book applies a transdiagnostic approach, looking beyond just depression to emphasize the wide range of clinical outcomes associated with repetitive thought. The book additionally describes research on physiological reactivity to rumination, the expression of rumination, potential benefits of rumination, and much more. - Summarizes research on the emotional, behavioral, and physical consequences of rumination - Discusses rumination in conjunction with different psychological disorders - Integrates existing theories about rumination - Identifies triggers and personality traits that influence whether people ruminate - Explores cognitive and neural correlates of rumination - Reviews established treatments for rumination

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Academic Press

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0128126310

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9780128126318

Top Dog

The Science of Winning and Losing

By: Po Bronson,Ashley Merryman

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Top Dog

The Science of Winning and Losing

By: Po Bronson,Ashley Merryman

New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting (such as "How Not to Talk to Your Kids," "Creativity Crisis," and "Losing Is Good for You"). In Top Dog, Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing blend of science and storytelling to reveal what's truly in the heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What teamwork really requires. It's baseball, the SAT, sales contests, and Linux. How before da Vinci and FedEx were innovators, first, they were great competitors. Olympians carry Top Dog in their gym bags. It's in briefcases of Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Risk takers from Silicon Valley to Vegas race to implement its ideas, as educators debate it in halls of academia. Now see for yourself what this game-changing talk is all about.

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Twelve

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1455515167

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Beyond the Big Ditch

Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

By: Ashley Carse

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Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

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MIT Press

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Hoe Fiction III: The Saga Continues...

By: Ashley M. Hardy

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Hoe Fiction III: The Saga Continues...

By: Ashley M. Hardy

What happens to the investments made in a relationship? Broken-hearted and unpredictable people are a danger to themselves, leaving casualties in their wake. After every storm, there is no clear path to progression, just a chance to give a second one. Desi receives a visit from a childhood friend, reminding her of the good times. Reese is occupied with the family restaurant, facing some tough life decisions. Rich grows tired of Lena's antics. Will he fight for the baby? Harriet's senses are awakened. Candace is betrayed, again. Another weekend in the town leaves more questions and misunderstandings unresolved.

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Lulu.com

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1365936384

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9781365936388

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Birthday Party

By: Ashley Olsen,Effin Older

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You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Birthday Party

By: Ashley Olsen,Effin Older

The twins investigate the disappearance of a gift at their birthday party.

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1568327625

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You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Christmas Party

By: Ellen Reymes,Mary-Kate Olsen,Ashley Olsen

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You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Christmas Party

By: Ellen Reymes,Mary-Kate Olsen,Ashley Olsen

Join Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and their friends for a Christmas party in the high mountains of Vail, Colorado where they ski, snowmobile, and go sledding.

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0590769588

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Beyond the Big Ditch

Beyond the Big Ditch

The Gernsback Days

The Gernsback Days

The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative

Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative

Rumination and Related Constructs

Rumination and Related Constructs

Top Dog

Top Dog

Beyond the Big Ditch

Beyond the Big Ditch

Hoe Fiction III: The Saga Continues...

Hoe Fiction III: The Saga Continues...

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Birthday Party

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Birthday Party

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