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Sheela-na-gigs

Unravelling an Enigma

By: Barbara Freitag

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Sheela-na-gigs

Unravelling an Enigma

By: Barbara Freitag

Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they were folk deities with particular responsibility for assistance in childbirth. This fascinating survey sheds new light on a controversial phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures.

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Routledge

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1134282486

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Being There in the Age of Trump

By: Barbara Tepa Lupack

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Being There in the Age of Trump

By: Barbara Tepa Lupack

Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There (published in 1970 and adapted to film in 1979) was prescient in its vision of a simple man without discernible talent or political experience whose knowledge of the world comes almost exclusively from television. Yet his very shallowness establishes him as a TV celebrity and propels him to the pinnacle of American government. Both an incisive satire and a clarion call to resist the collectivizing force of the media that influences American life and shapes, distorts, and ultimately corrupts politics and culture, Being There offered a trenchant comment on the nature of “being” in the modern world of power. And it critiqued the tendency of Americans to seek mindless distraction rather than engagement and to find profundity in banal slogans and slick visuals. Issued a half century ago, Kosinski’s warning not to let hollow imagery trump our good sense and become our new reality is even more urgent today. The first book-length examination of Kosinski in more than a decade, Being There in the Age of Trump goes beyond conventional literary and film analysis to a larger interdisciplinary and cultural study of a work still timely and popular.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793607192

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9781793607195

The Decision to Delist from the Stock Market

Theory and Empirical Evidence of Going Private

By: Barbara Fidanza,Ottorino Morresi,Alberto Pezzi

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The Decision to Delist from the Stock Market

Theory and Empirical Evidence of Going Private

By: Barbara Fidanza,Ottorino Morresi,Alberto Pezzi

In an organized and organic way, this book covers all the possible theoretical and empirical facets of delisting, adding to the well-developed literature on IPOs. IPO and delisting are strictly related; the reasons for delisting may be found in the loss of the incentives that drove the firm to the public market in the past. However, the book presents unique motivations not directly related to the IPO decision. This book covers what the existing literature has not in focusing on specific aspects such as market liquidity and microstructure, listing costs, market for corporate control, corporate governance issues and so on. Of interest to academics and students, this contribution puts all pieces in order and finds a thread that can link each theory to the others.

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Springer

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3319950495

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Reconstructed World

A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson

By: Barbara Roberts

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Reconstructed World

A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson

By: Barbara Roberts

Born in Leicester, England, and raised in a working-class family, Richardson emigrated to northern Manitoba in 1911. She was influential in the women's and peace movements in both countries. Devoutly religious, she challenged orthodoxy and worked outside the mainstream churches for peace and social justice. She cofounded one of the earliest suffrage groups in Manitoba and was a key activist in peace movements during the Boer War and World War I. She also served as an information centre for international antiwar news and ran an internationally focused women's peace crusade in World War I from her Manitoba farmhouse via the post and newspaper columns. Richardson was also a gifted writer and poet. She wrote on a variety of women's movement issues for British and Canadian newspapers and magazines, including Woman's Century, the magazine of the National Council of Women of Canada. Her outcries against war, her indictment of militarism, and her call for women and men to stand together for justice were powerful messages that still have resonance today. Tragically, poor health, both mental and physical, interfered with Richardson's work and prevented her from achieving the recognition attained by feminist contemporaries such as Nellie McClung.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773565922

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9780773565920

Green Hands

By: Barbara Whitton

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Green Hands

By: Barbara Whitton

It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural Scotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of lending a hand on the land, as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits high. Soon one of the girls falters, and Bee and Pauline receive a new posting to a Northumberland dairy farm. Detailing their friendship, daily struggles and romantic intrigues with a lightness of touch, Barbara Whittons autobiographical novel paints a sometimes funny, sometimes bleak picture of time spent in the Womens Land Army during the Second World War.

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Imperial War Museum

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1912423626

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9781912423620

Hydraulics for Operators

By: Barbara Hauser

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Hydraulics for Operators

By: Barbara Hauser

This important new reference addresses the principles and calculations dealing with the hydraulics of water systems. Hydraulics for Operators includes what is necessary for a basic understanding of water and wastewater utility operations, and it emphasizes practical applications of these principles. This practical reference covers a wide variety of important subjects such as mass density and flow, pressure, open channel flow, pumping, friction loss, and flow measurement.Hydraulics for Operators is loaded with graphics, and sample exercises are included to ensure this new book is an easily understood reference. It is a must for your operator library.

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Routledge

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1351439995

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9781351439992

Around Lake Memphremagog

By: Bea Aldrich Nelson,Barbara Kaiser Malloy

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Around Lake Memphremagog

By: Bea Aldrich Nelson,Barbara Kaiser Malloy

Around Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for thousands of years played a critical role in the lives and history of the Wabanaki. Memlabagwok-the Abenaki name for the lake-was the waterway crossroads at the heart of the western Abenaki homelands. Since the 1600s, Lake Memphremagog has influenced the development of the northern Vermont and southern Canadian towns and villages along its shores. This combined cultural history and heritage is recalled here through sketches, vintage photographs, and postcards.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738512508

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American Impressionism and Realism

The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Doreen Bolger,David Park Curry

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American Impressionism and Realism

The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Doreen Bolger,David Park Curry

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997009

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9780870997006

American Impressionism & Realism

A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Queensland Art Gallery

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American Impressionism & Realism

A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg,Queensland Art Gallery

An exhibition publication featuring curatorial essays and works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1876509996

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The Critical Difference

Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading

By: Barbara Johnson

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The Critical Difference

Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading

By: Barbara Johnson

Barbara Johnson investigates the significant and illuminating ways in which both literature and criticism ate "critically different" from what they purport to be. Her subtle and provocative studies of Balzac, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Melville, Poe, Bathes, Lacan, Austin, and Derrida take a refreshing new approach to the fundamental questions of meaning, interpretation, and the relationship between literature and criticism. In each of seven essays, a clear, precise, and detailed reading of the rhetoric of one of more literary or critical works reveals the text's fundamental discrepancies, ambuquities, and contradictions. If rhetoric is seen as language's capacity to differ from literal statement, and if "to differ" can also mean "to disagree," then the reading of the rhetoric of literature and theory here is an attempt to capture the logic of a text's own disagreement with itself.

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JHU Press

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0801827280

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Childe Hassam, American Impressionist

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg

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Childe Hassam, American Impressionist

By: Helene Barbara Weinberg

This illustrated publication accompanies a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, the first retrospective presentation of Hassam's work in a museum since 1972. Unique to this volume are an account of Hassam's lifelong campaign to market his art, a study of the frames he selected and designed for his paintings, and an unprecedented lifetime exhibition record. Included in addition are a checklist of works in the exhibition and a chronology of Hassam's life. All works in the exhibition as well as comparative materials are reproduced."--BOOK JACKET.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588391191

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Uncanny Spectacle

The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent

By: Marc Simpson,John Singer Sargent,Richard Ormond,Helene Barbara Weinberg,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

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Uncanny Spectacle

The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent

By: Marc Simpson,John Singer Sargent,Richard Ormond,Helene Barbara Weinberg,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Drawing on the correspondence of the artist, his friends and his family, as well as a review of contemporary critical responses, this text examines the work of Sargent's early maturity. The text is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Summer 1997.

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Yale University Press

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0300071779

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Engineering Fluid Mechanics

By: Donald F. Elger,Barbara A. LeBret,Clayton T. Crowe,John A. Roberson

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Engineering Fluid Mechanics

By: Donald F. Elger,Barbara A. LeBret,Clayton T. Crowe,John A. Roberson

Engineering Fluid Mechanics guides students from theory to application, emphasizing critical thinking, problem solving, estimation, and other vital engineering skills. Clear, accessible writing puts the focus on essential concepts, while abundant illustrations, charts, diagrams, and examples illustrate complex topics and highlight the physical reality of fluid dynamics applications. Over 1,000 chapter problems provide the “deliberate practice”—with feedback—that leads to material mastery, and discussion of real-world applications provides a frame of reference that enhances student comprehension. The study of fluid mechanics pulls from chemistry, physics, statics, and calculus to describe the behavior of liquid matter; as a strong foundation in these concepts is essential across a variety of engineering fields, this text likewise pulls from civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and more to provide a broadly relevant, immediately practicable knowledge base. Written by a team of educators who are also practicing engineers, this book merges effective pedagogy with professional perspective to help today’s students become tomorrow’s skillful engineers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119723507

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9781119723509

Practical Hydraulics Handbook

By: Barbara Hauser

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Practical Hydraulics Handbook

By: Barbara Hauser

The Second Edition of the Practical Hydraulics Handbook is a must for all those who work with water utility systems. Presented in workbook format and emphasizing practical applications, this Handbook is perfect for hydraulic engineers, technicians, operating personnel, supervisors, managers, consultants, and students. The exceptionally well-organized chapters include information on pressurized systems and open channel flow, principles of energy and force, flow calculations and measurement, pumps, and pumping applications. This latest edition of the Practical Hydraulics Handbook includes new exercises at the end of each chapter and detailed solutions to selected exercises. The well-chosen exercises allow readers to practice applications of the theory and to test their knowledge of the material. The solutions provide guidance and problem-solving techniques that can be used both in the field and in the lab. Reference tables are also provided for calculations of friction loss, velocity, pipe fullness, well drawdown, English/metric conversions, power, and metered flow. These tables make calculations easier and minimize the chance for error. In this new edition of Practical Hydraulics Handbook, all of the major principles and calculations dealing with the hydraulics of water systems are covered, and new and expanded material has been added.

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Routledge

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135142274X

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9781351422741

Wisdom Commentary: Luke 1–9

By: Barbara E. Reid, OP,Shelly Matthews

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Wisdom Commentary: Luke 1–9

By: Barbara E. Reid, OP,Shelly Matthews

Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power with respect to empire, to anti-Judaism, and to other forms of othering. Matthews and Reid draw attention to the ambiguities of the text-both the liberative possibilities and the ways that Luke upholds the patriarchal status quo-and guide readers to empowering reading strategies.

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Liturgical Press

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0814681670

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9780814681671

Ice Hockey

Science on Ice

By: Barbara M. Linde

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Ice Hockey

Science on Ice

By: Barbara M. Linde

Physics explains how an ice hockey player scores a goal. Biology explains why certain exercises help hockey players become better and stronger. Math is used to calculate the exact measurement of different kinds of hockey rinks. Engineers use technology to create the safest equipment for hockey players. Readers see how these areas of STEM come together in a hockey game, and they’re sure to enjoy this unique look at common science curriculum topics. The detailed main text is supported by fun fact boxes, enlightening sidebars, helpful diagrams, and vibrant photographs of ice hockey players in action.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1534561137

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9781534561137

New York and New Jersey Parks Guide

By: Barbara Sinotte

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New York and New Jersey Parks Guide

By: Barbara Sinotte

Take a walk in the park. Or explore a forest, gorge, campground, even a historic site. Spend a week or a weekend. Go biking, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting or cross-country skiing. Or just relax and enjoy the most beautiful scenery in the Northeast! This is a guide to the state and the national parks throughout New York & New Jersey, the wildlife refuges, nature and bike trails, historic sites, facilities and activities at each site, and contact information.

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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1556507372

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Frontiers of Forest Biology

Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western

By: A K Mitchell,Pasi Puttonen,M Stoehr,Barbara J Hawkins

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Frontiers of Forest Biology

Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western

By: A K Mitchell,Pasi Puttonen,M Stoehr,Barbara J Hawkins

Discover new approaches to promote a viable forest industry while protecting non-timber values!Frontiers of Forest Biology: Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association gives you significant new insights on current initiatives in forest biology. Because the field is changing rapidly, you need to keep aware of current trends, as the emphasis in forest research shifts from productivity-based goals to sustainable development of forest resources. In this volume, you will find a comprehensive summary of the state of the art of forest science in North America. Whether your focus is on genetics or on the environmental aspects of forest science, plant physiology, or silviculture, you will find helpful chapters by practitioners as well as cutting-edge research by scientists. This integrated approach is unique in the field. Based on the 1998 Joint Meeting of the North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association, Frontiers of Forest Biology addresses changing priorities in forest resource management. This important book contains fascinating research studies, complete with tables and diagrams, on topics such as biodiversity research, the productivity of commercial species, conserving adaptive variation in forest ecosystems, and the effect of harvesting trees on nutrient leaching.The book maps the frontiers of this fast-changing science with chapters on: the social, biological, and industrial context of forest biology new directions for research into genetics, physiology, plant silviculture, and conservation the impact of genetics on sustainable forestry the effects of cold and disease on plant physiology regeneration of various species after logging new species adapted for agroforestry the impact and management of exotic weeds Frontiers of Forest Biology offers solid information on a broad spectrum of topics and suggests fresh avenues for your investigations in all aspects of forest biology.

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CRC Press

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1000445194

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9781000445190

Women Interned in World War Two Sumatra

Faith, Hope and Survival

By: Barbara Coombes

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Women Interned in World War Two Sumatra

Faith, Hope and Survival

By: Barbara Coombes

Thousands of women and children were among those who struggled to leave Singapore just before capitulation on February 15 1942; their hope was to reach safety. For many that hope was never realised; countless numbers drowned as ships were bombed and sunk on their way to ‘safety’. The ‘lucky’ ones who survived the onslaught of the ships would become guests of the Japanese; many of these would not live to see the end of the war. Two very different women fleeing on those last ships and subsequently interned in camps throughout Sumatra were Margaret Dryburgh, a missionary and teacher, and Shelagh Brown, a secretary at the Singapore Naval Base. Their paths crossed briefly prior to the catastrophic events of 1942 and met again in internment. The ‘Captives Hymn’ composed by Margaret Dryburgh was initially sung by herself along with Shelagh Brown and friend Dorothy MacLeod on 5 July 1942. It has since been sung at services throughout internment and continues to be sung at services all over the world. Music and faith were fundamental to both their lives and Margaret’s creative talents lifted the spirits of everyone during those dark and difficult days. In a remarkable partnership, when the women were struggling to find something new that would lift their flagging spirits, Margaret and fellow internee Norah Chambers produced a ‘Vocal Orchestra’ using women’s voices in place of instruments. The first performance stunned the entire camp; they had never heard anything so beautiful and momentarily made them feel that they were free and floating away with the music. This true account, using personal diaries and family documents traces Margaret Dryburgh and Shelagh Brown’s journey from childhood through to adulthood and internment. Early life shapes adult life and perhaps contributed to their response to captivity which showed courage, tenacity, perseverance and surprisingly, given the appalling conditions, a good deal of humour. ‘May the Day of Freedom Dawn’

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Pen and Sword History

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1526787768

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Accounting Principles, Volume 2

By: Jerry Weygandt,Donald E. Kieso,Paul D. Kimmel,Barbara Trenholm,Anthony C. Warren,Valerie Warren,Lori E. Novak

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Accounting Principles, Volume 2

By: Jerry Weygandt,Donald E. Kieso,Paul D. Kimmel,Barbara Trenholm,Anthony C. Warren,Valerie Warren,Lori E. Novak

Accounting Principles, 9th Canadian Edition empowers students to succeed by providing a clear overview of fundamental financial and managerial accounting concepts with a focus on learning the accounting cycle from the sole proprietor perspective. To develop a deeper understanding of course concepts, students work through high-quality assessment at varying levels, helping them learn more efficiently and create connections between topics and real-world application. There are also a variety of hands-on activities that help students learn how to solve business problems, including running cases with real-world application, Analytics in Action problems, Data Analytics Insight features, and Excel templates. With Accounting Principles, your students will stay on track and be better prepared to connect the classroom to the real world. With Accounting Principles, your students will stay on track and be better prepared to connect the classroom to the real world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119786657

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9781119786658

Occupational Therapy and Ergonomics

Applying Ergonomic Principles to Everyday Occupation in the Home and at Work

By: Franklin Stein,Ingrid Söderback,Susan Cutler,Barbara Larson

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Occupational Therapy and Ergonomics

Applying Ergonomic Principles to Everyday Occupation in the Home and at Work

By: Franklin Stein,Ingrid Söderback,Susan Cutler,Barbara Larson

This practical book describes how the principles of ergonomics should be applied by occupational therapists. It clearly demonstrates how to create functional environments to prevent injuries and enabling people with disabilities to engage in everyday occupations. Occupational stress and other psychological variables are considered in the ergonomics of work. Includes case studies of an administrative secretary, industrial worker, assembly line food handler and maintenance worker Contains a unique insight into the Scandinavian experience in universal design and everyday ergonomics Provides material for applying ergonomic principles to the work environment, including descriptions of the most common injuries occurring at work, occupational rehabilitation programs, job analysis, functional capacity assessments, and work samples

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John Wiley & Sons

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1861565046

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Environmental Design Guidelines for Low Crested Coastal Structures

By: Stephen J. Hawkins,Hans Falk Burcharth,Barbara Zanuttigh,Alberto Lamberti

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Environmental Design Guidelines for Low Crested Coastal Structures

By: Stephen J. Hawkins,Hans Falk Burcharth,Barbara Zanuttigh,Alberto Lamberti

The effect of manmade activities is primarily local but can extend far away from the location of intervention. This underlines the importance of establishing coastal zone management plans covering large stretches of coastlines. In recent years, interest in Low Crested Structures (coastal defense structures with a low-crest) has been growing together with awareness of the sensitivity to environmental impacts produced by coastal defenses. The relation between wave climate, beach erosion, beach defence means, habitat changes and beach value, which clearly exists based on EC research results, suggests the necessity of an integrated approach when designing coastal protection schemes. In accordance with this need, the present design guidelines cover structure stability and construction problems, hydro and morphodynamic effects, environmental effects (colonisation of the structure and water quality), societal and economic impacts (recreational benefits, swimming safety, beach quality). Environmental Design Guidelines for Low Crested Coastal Structures is specifically dedicated to Low Crested Structures, and provides methodological tools both for the engineering design of structures and for the prediction of performance and environmental impacts of such structures. A briefing of current best practice for local and national planning authorities, statutory agencies and other stakeholders in the coastal zone is also covered. Presented in a generic way, this book is appropriate throughout the European Union, taking into account current European Commission policy and directives for the promotion of sustainable development and integrated coastal zone management. - Fills the gap between engineering and ecology in coastal defense planning - Shows the reader how to perform an integrated design of coastal defense schemes - Presents latest insights on hydro-morphodynamics induced by structures - Provides directly applicable tools for the design of low crested structures - Highlights socio-economic perspectives in coastal defense design

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Elsevier

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0080555829

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9780080555829

The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

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The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

Fungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new scientific questions and propel fungal scientists on to the next stages of research. This book is a comprehensive guide on fungi, environmental sensing, genetics, genomics, interactions with microbes, plants, insects, and humans, technological applications, and natural product development.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1683673042

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The Freedoms We Lost

Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

By: Barbara Clark Smith

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The Freedoms We Lost

Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

By: Barbara Clark Smith

A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history. The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in “freedom” as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith charts the largely unknown territory of the unique freedoms enjoyed by colonial American subjects of the British king—that is, American freedom before the Revolution. The Freedoms We Lost recovers a world of common people regularly serving on juries, joining crowds that enforced (or opposed) the king’s edicts, and supplying community enforcement of laws in an era when there were no professional police. The Freedoms We Lost challenges the unquestioned assumption that the American patriots simply introduced freedom where the king had once reigned. Rather, Smith shows that they relied on colonial-era traditions of political participation to drive the Revolution forward—and eventually, betrayed these same traditions as leading patriots gravitated toward “monied men” and elites who would limit the role of common men in the new democracy. By the end of the 1780s, she shows, Americans discovered that forms of participation once proper to subjects of Britain were inappropriate—even impermissible—to citizens of the United States. In a narrative that counters nearly every textbook account of America’s founding era, The Freedoms We Lost challenges us to think about what it means to be free.

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The New Press

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1595585974

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9781595585974

Katherine Dunham

Pioneer of Black Dance

By: Barbara O'Connor

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Katherine Dunham

Pioneer of Black Dance

By: Barbara O'Connor

A biography of Katherine Dunham, emphasizing her childhood, her love of anthropology and dance, and the creation of her unique dance style.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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1575053535

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9781575053530

Temptation For A Teacher

By: Barbara Cartland

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Temptation For A Teacher

By: Barbara Cartland

Shortly after the death of her father the Earl of Weir, beautiful young Lady Arletta is penniless, having been ousted from the family estate. Desperate to escape her misery she is heartened to hear that her close friend Jane is to be married to the new Bishop of Jamaica. The trouble is that at the same time she had agreed to travel to France to be Governess to the children of the Duc de Sauterre. Jane cannot let her fiancée down – nor can she disappoint her new employer. But Arletta has a solution for them both. So that Jane is free to get married, Arletta will travel to the Duc’s Dordogne Châteauposing as Jane! On arrival, she finds the Duc as surly and rude as he is handsome. Worse still he hates the English and she struggles to win him over while resisting the attentions of the Duc’s dashing cousin the Comte, who is rumoured to be a murderer. And soon, despite herself, Arletta finds herself losing her heart to the haughty Frenchman who despises everything she stands for. And who, surely, can never feel anything for her but contempt.

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Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

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1788672194

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9781788672191

Connecticut

A Guide to the State Parks & Historic Sites

By: Barbara Sinotte

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Connecticut

A Guide to the State Parks & Historic Sites

By: Barbara Sinotte

This guide is a must for both visitors and residents who want to enjoy the wide range of recreational opportunities offered here. Connecticut measures 90 miles east to west, 75 miles north to south, with the Connecticut River cutting the state in half. It is rolling and hilly and ever changing. It is tiny, to say the least, but this wonderful state offers some of the best kept parks and forests anywhere and will not disappoint you. Some of the parks are small, but they offer sanctuary for birds and wildlife - and even city-weary urban dwellers. Algonquin State Forest, Cockaponset State Forest, Edward Steichen Memorial Wildlife Preserve, Housatonic Meadows State Park, Macedonia Brook State Park, Rocky Neck State Park, Salmon River State Forest, Salt Meadow National Wildlife Refuge - these are just a few of close to 40 state parks and forests described in this guide. Then there are the historic sites, from Weir Farm National Historic Site to the Yale University Art Gallery, Florence Griswold Museum to the Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail. This guide will help you find the perfect place for a weekend getaway, active family outing, quiet wilderness retreat - almost any type of outdoor experience you desire. Included are nature trails, scenic drives, historic sites, location maps, hiking tips and all the contact information you need.

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1588439852

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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Singer Sargent

By: Stephanie L. Herdrich,John Singer Sargent,Helene Barbara Weinberg,Marjorie Shelley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Singer Sargent

By: Stephanie L. Herdrich,John Singer Sargent,Helene Barbara Weinberg,Marjorie Shelley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

The Museum's collection illuminates all aspects of Sargent's career. The drawings and watercolors in particular reflect his activity outside the portrait studio: his sojourns in Spain, Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa, and in the Middle East; his enduring fascination with Venice; his holidays in the Italian lake district and the Alps; his tours of North America, including Florida and the Rocky Mountains; his visit as an official war artist to the western front in 1918; and his work as a muralist at the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard University's Widener Library."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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0870999524

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Public Health and Society: Current Issues

By: Lillian D. Burke,Barbara Weill

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Public Health and Society: Current Issues

By: Lillian D. Burke,Barbara Weill

Public Health and Society: Current Issues analyzes current public health issues in a historical context, while relating them to individual lives. The text emphasizes the social determinants of health, social justice, and the climate crisis, by leading off with these important topics and then integrates them where appropriate throughout the text. Subsequent chapters explore gun violence, the opioid epidemic, tobacco, vaping, and alcohol use, COVID-19, mental health, environmental health chronic disease, emerging and reemerging diseases, and more. Key features “In the News” articles bring public health topics up-to-date and underscore their modern relevance. Personal vignettes humanize public health issues and make them resonate for readers. Short histories put current issues into historical context, for example, the opioid epidemic (Ch. 5) and alcohol and tobacco use (Ch.6) Comprehensive and up-to-date data and references are included throughout the text. Navigate eBook acc

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1284211304

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