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The Modern West

American Landscapes, 1890-1950

By: Emily Ballew Neff,Barry Holstun Lopez

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The Modern West

American Landscapes, 1890-1950

By: Emily Ballew Neff,Barry Holstun Lopez

A fascinating and novel exploration of the transformative role played by the American West in the development of modernism in the United States Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artists during the first half of the 20th century. Paintings, watercolors, and photographs by renowned artists such as Frederic Remington, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, Dorothea Lange, and Jackson Pollock are considered alongside American Indian ledger drawings, tempuras, and Dineh sandpaintings. Taken together, these works document the quest to create a specifically American art in the decades prior to World War II. The Modern West begins with a captivating meditation on the relationship between human culture and the physical landscape by Barry Lopez, who traveled the West in the artists' footsteps. Emily Ballew Neff then describes the evolving importance of the West for American artists working out a radically new aesthetic response to space and place, from artist-explorers on the turn-of-the-century frontier, to visionaries of a Californian arcadia, to desert luminaries who found in its stark topography a natural equivalent to abstraction. Beautifully illustrated and handsomely designed, this book is essential to anyone interested in the West and the history of modernism in American art.

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Yale University Press

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0300114486

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9780300114485

Multiple Stresses in Ecosystems

By: Jr. Cech,Barry W. Wilson,Donald G. Crosby

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Multiple Stresses in Ecosystems

By: Jr. Cech,Barry W. Wilson,Donald G. Crosby

Ecotoxicology is the evaluation of toxic effects within the environment, typically within one specific ecosystem, like a forest, stream, or lake. For years now, ecotoxicological studies have tended to focus on one toxicant at a time. But that isn't how an ecosystem encounters toxicants (or stresses): there may be several elements at work in the air, several more in the water, and still more already within the soil of any given ecosystem, and all have some level of toxic influence on that ecosystem. Multiple Stresses in Ecosystems presents the state-of-the-art in determining the effects of these multiple impacts upon ecosystems. Resulting from a vanguard conference originally held in 1993 at UC Davis, this new work is divided into three sections that present methodolgies for assessing the health of an ecosystem; the effects of multiple toxicological impacts upon an ecosystem, and which tools are worth using to assess these dangers. Environmental scientists, chemists, toxicologists, risk analysts, and probably the entire membership of SETAC will find need for this book, as will wetlands scientists, ecologists, and research biologists.

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Routledge

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1351429647

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9781351429641

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

...and Other Great Comebacks from the Annals of Sports

By: Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport

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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

...and Other Great Comebacks from the Annals of Sports

By: Barry Wilner,Ken Rappoport

When Harvard came back from a 16-point deficit with less than a minute to go to tie Yale in their now-famous 1968 gridiron tilt, the headline in the Harvard Crimson the following Monda proudly boasted, "Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29." This and nineteen other improbable comebacks are the subjects of Wilner and Rappoport's latest volume of extraordinary achievements from the world of sports, and include the 1914 "miracle" Braves, Billy Casper's incredible rally to beat Arnold Palmer in the 1966 U.S. Open, the New York Giants' magical playoff run in 1951, and others. Also included are sidebars on individual athletes whose "combacks" included overcoming disease (i.e. Lance Armstrong) and reviving a career (i.e. Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali).

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Taylor Trade Publishing

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1461626102

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9781461626107

The Governor's Hounds

The Texas State Police, 1870–1873

By: Barry A. Crouch,Donaly E. Brice

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The Governor's Hounds

The Texas State Police, 1870–1873

By: Barry A. Crouch,Donaly E. Brice

In the tumultuous years following the Civil War, violence and lawlessness plagued the state of Texas, often overwhelming the ability of local law enforcement to maintain order. In response, Reconstruction-era governor Edmund J. Davis created a statewide police force that could be mobilized whenever and wherever local authorities were unable or unwilling to control lawlessness. During its three years (1870–1873) of existence, however, the Texas State Police was reviled as an arm of the Radical Republican party and widely condemned for being oppressive, arrogant, staffed with criminals and African Americans, and expensive to maintain, as well as for enforcing the new and unpopular laws that protected the rights of freed slaves. Drawing extensively on the wealth of previously untouched records in the Texas State Archives, as well as other contemporary sources, Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice here offer the first major objective assessment of the Texas State Police and its role in maintaining law and order in Reconstruction Texas. Examining the activities of the force throughout its tenure and across the state, the authors find that the Texas State Police actually did much to solve the problem of violence in a largely lawless state. While acknowledging that much of the criticism the agency received was merited, the authors make a convincing case that the state police performed many of the same duties that the Texas Rangers later assumed and fulfilled the same need for a mobile, statewide law enforcement agency.

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University of Texas Press

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0292742479

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9780292742475

About Nellie and Me

By: Barry Dickson,Seonida

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About Nellie and Me

By: Barry Dickson,Seonida

About Nellie and Me brings together two touching stories of young people growing up in the big city.A Home for NellieA smuggled kitten, a "no pets" rule and the story of Nellie McClung push Sharon into action in her housing project. It looks as though her older friend Mrs. Davis will lose her kittens unless a way can be found to get the rules changed.About Clocks, Candy, Bullies and MeIt's an ordinary day. The alarm clock crashes into Billy's sleep, his mother nags him, and once again he has to face Larry, the neighbourhood tough guy. But when Billy returns to the apartment, things are anything but ordinary. His brother is home from training school and his father is coming for supper. That evening the family must decide: should his father come back home to stay?

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James Lorimer & Company

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0888621744

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9780888621740

Tuskegee Airmen

By: Barry M. Stentiford

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Tuskegee Airmen

By: Barry M. Stentiford

This poignant history of the Tuskegee Airmen separates myth and legend from fact, placing them within the context of the growth of American airpower and the early stirrings of the African American Civil Rights Movement. The "Tuskegee Airmen"—the first African American pilots to serve in the U.S. military—were comprised of the 99th Fighter Squadron, the 332nd Fighter Group, and the 477th Bombardment Group, all of whose members received their initial training at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama. Their successful service during World War II helped end military segregation, which was an important step in ending Jim Crow laws in civilian society. This volume in Greenwood's Landmarks of the American Mosaic series depicts the Tuskegee Airmen at the junction of two historical trends: the growth of airpower and its concurrent development as a critical factor in the American military, and the early stirring of the Civil Rights Movement. Tuskegee Airmen explains how the United States's involvement in battling foes that represented a threat to the American way of life helped to push the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to allow African American soldiers to serve in the Army Air Corps. This work builds on the works of others, forming a synthesis from earlier studies that approached the topic mostly from either a "black struggles" or military history perspective.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Raising Sugar Cane

A Memoir

By: Barry Raffray

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Raising Sugar Cane

A Memoir

By: Barry Raffray

This book is about the life of a little boy born during WW II raised on a sugarcane plantation in Southern Louisiana. These were hard times for poor folks who had to work very hard to earn meager living wages to support their families. Although money was scarce, living and working on the land allowed you to grow and raise much of your food, which the city people could not do. Generally, one had food or the means to get food if you were inclined to do so by working extra time on the land, provide it was after your normal work day was completed. Some landowners would not allow workers to use their land for gardens. Times were hard, and folks were poor, but most of us did not know we were poor because all of our friends and neighbors had the same things; we had nothing. You made the most of what you did have. It was a simple time when you could grow your own food and make your own toys to entertain yourself and your friends. As a youngster, I had plenty fun times, growing up on the plantation. This book is about some of those times as best as I can recall them. Most of this book is written in the manner that we talked before education came into play. If this story were told with proper English and punctuation, the reader would miss out on the flavor of the times of these happenings.

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1524613622

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9781524613624

Lone Wolf #1: Night Raider

By: Mike Barry

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Lone Wolf #1: Night Raider

By: Mike Barry

When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Burt Wulff was a nice guy, once. A New York cop, narcotics division. But he’s seen too much destruction done by the poison in America’s veins - heroin. Too much corrupted and made foul, and finally one life too many - and too close - destroyed. Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond love, even beyond hate. He’s simply beyond giving the slightest damn whether he lives or dies, so long as he can kill the killers - thousands of them, all over America and all over the world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440542341

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9781440542343

Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Barry Grant

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Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Barry Grant

The original super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, is back on the case - When James Wilson retires from journalism, he decides to settle down in Herefordshire with a room-mate, a Mr Cedric Coombes, and at first thinks little of his new friend’s eccentric behaviour. But he can’t shake the feeling that he knows him from somewhere else. As Coombes displays his magnificent deductive prowess, and becomes embroiled in the police investigation of the apparent murder of a man in bathtub, Wilson, or should we say Watson, begins to wonder just who this Coombes really is . . .

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1780101155

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9781780101156

Across the Line

Tales of the First Black Basketball Players in the ACC and SEC

By: Barry Jacobs

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Across the Line

Tales of the First Black Basketball Players in the ACC and SEC

By: Barry Jacobs

In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry Wallace feared he would be shot when he first stepped onto a court in his Vanderbilt uniform. During one road game, Georgia's Ronnie Hogue fended off a hostile crowd with a chair. Craig Mobley had to flee the Clemson campus, along with other black students. C.B. Claiborne couldn't attend the Duke team banquet when it was held at an all-white country club. Wendell Hudson's mother cried with heartache when her son decided to play at the University of Alabama, and Al Heartley locked himself in a campus dorm at North Carolina State for safety the night Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Grounded in the civil rights struggles on campuses throughout the south, the voices of players, coaches, opponents and fans reveal the long-neglected story of race, sports and social history. Barry Jacobs has covered college basketball as well as news and other sports since 1976 for numerous publications, among them the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, People, Oceans, the Saturday Evening Post and the Sporting News. He is the author of four books, including Coach K's Little Blue Book, The World According to Dean, and Three Paths to Glory. For 14 years he wrote the Fan’s Guide to ACC Basketball. He also served as an elected county commissioner for 20 years and supervises Moorefields, an historic site near Hillsborough, NC.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493071297

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9781493071296

Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research

A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research

By: Barry Bozeman,Mary K. Feeney

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Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research

A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research

By: Barry Bozeman,Mary K. Feeney

This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.

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Routledge

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1317460707

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The Stuart Age

England, 1603–1714

By: Barry Coward,Peter Gaunt

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The Stuart Age

England, 1603–1714

By: Barry Coward,Peter Gaunt

The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by Peter Gaunt to reflect new work and changing trends in research on the Stuart age. It expands on key areas including the early Stuart economic, religious and social context; key military events and debates surrounding the English Civil War; colonial expansion, foreign policy and overseas wars; and significant developments in Scotland and Ireland. A new opening chapter provides an important overview of current historiographical trends in Stuart history, introducing readers to key recent work on the topic. The Stuart Age is a long-standing favourite of lecturers and students of early modern British history, and this new edition is essential reading for those studying Stuart Britain.

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1351985418

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9781351985413

The Magnificent Seasons

How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports HIstory and Uplifted a City and the Country

By: Art Shamsky,Barry Zeman

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The Magnificent Seasons

How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports HIstory and Uplifted a City and the Country

By: Art Shamsky,Barry Zeman

The magical season of 1969--when the Jets, Mets, and Knicks all won championships--is recounted by the players who made it all happen and the fans who experienced it.

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Macmillan

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031233253X

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9780312332532

Painting in Stone

Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By: Fabio Barry

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Painting in Stone

Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By: Fabio Barry

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.

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Yale University Press

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0300248164

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9780300248166

Mammaries

By: Barry Krantz

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Mammaries

By: Barry Krantz

Barry Krantz was lucky enough to grow up in a small town in the late forties and fifties, one where you knew just about everyones name. You also knew anyone in town who would help you out if you needed it, and youd help them in return. Growing up in Lawrence, Indiana, in the forties, Barry first met his lifelong friend, Richard, a.k.a. Rocky, in the first grade. In Mammaries, his memoir, he looks back on the fun and the crazy pranks that he and his buddies played on just about everyone when they were growing up; in a small town, you could invent your own fun. He reminisces about going through the twelve years of school with the same group of buddies, many of whom are still friends today.

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1450273475

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North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 47 ‰ÛÒ 70 Volume 2 A Collection of Tributes to the War Dead and Veterans

By: Barry Munson

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North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 47 ‰ÛÒ 70 Volume 2 A Collection of Tributes to the War Dead and Veterans

By: Barry Munson

North Carolina sent over 125,000 men and boys to service in the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives through disease, accidents, or on the battlefield during the four war years. Previous to the war, death was a more private affair, with family and friends there to comfort the dying and bid him or her farewell. Burials took place in the community in a churchyard or in a selected place where generations of a family lay. But with the war, what would happen to the bodies of their loved ones-fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, and other relatives so far away from home? This book, a compilation of obituaries written in NC newspapers, seeks to answer that question-what happened to a loved one? There are approximately 1200 names in this collection.

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Lulu.com

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1794702962

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9781794702967

The Silence

By: Barry K. Brickey

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The Silence

By: Barry K. Brickey

Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking. Some things dwell in the dark: waiting...watching...haunting. Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces. And silence is the last thing you hear, when it’s already too late.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462813798

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9781462813797

Gridiron Glory

The Story of the Army-Navy Football Rivalry

By: Barry Wilner,Kenn Rappoport

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Gridiron Glory

The Story of the Army-Navy Football Rivalry

By: Barry Wilner,Kenn Rappoport

Consistantly ranked among the top ten college football rivalries by fans and pundits alike, the annual Army-Navy game is the one rivalry that, as one commentator has noted, stops the most powerful men and women in the world in their tracks for one day a year.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589792777

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9781589792777

What to Listen for in Jazz

By: Barry Kernfeld

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What to Listen for in Jazz

By: Barry Kernfeld

From the editor of the "New Grove Dictionary of Jazz" comes a unique way of approaching and understanding jazz. Drawing on 21 historic jazz recordings, reproduced on a compact disc that accompanies the book, Barry Kernfeld illustrates jazz rhythm, form, arrangement, composition, improvisation, style and sound.

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Yale University Press

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0300072597

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9780300072594

Historical Dictionary of Canada

By: Stephen Azzi,Barry M. Gough

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Historical Dictionary of Canada

By: Stephen Azzi,Barry M. Gough

Canada has become a leader among the modern nations of the world. It has emerged as a modern industrial nation, and as a key player in the resource, commodities, and financial institutions that make up today’s world. This third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Canada contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. It includes over 700 cross-referenced entries on a wide range of topics, covering the broad sweep of Canadian history from long before European contact until present day. Topics include Indigenous peoples, women, religion, regions, politics, international affairs, arts and culture, the environment, the economy, language, and war. This is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Canada. It introduces readers to the successes and failures, the conflicts and accommodations, the events and trends that have shaped Canadian history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538120348

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9781538120347

The Economic Analysis of Unions

New Approaches and Evidence

By: Barry T. Hirsch,John T. Addison

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The Economic Analysis of Unions

New Approaches and Evidence

By: Barry T. Hirsch,John T. Addison

1. An Overview 2. Unionism: Individual and Collective Choice 3. Union Membership and Growth 4. Unions, Bargaining and Strikes 5. Union Effects on Relative Wages 6. Unions, Wage Dispersion and the Distribution of Income 7. Unions and Economic Performance: Productivity, Productivity Growth and Probability 8. Unions and Inflation 9. Unions and Politics

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Taylor & Francis

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1040121594

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9781040121597

Problems of Reflexivity and Dialectics in Sociological Inquiry (RLE Social Theory)

Language Theorizing Difference

By: Barry Sandywell,David Silverman,Maurice Roche,Paul Filmer,Michael Phillipson

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Problems of Reflexivity and Dialectics in Sociological Inquiry (RLE Social Theory)

Language Theorizing Difference

By: Barry Sandywell,David Silverman,Maurice Roche,Paul Filmer,Michael Phillipson

This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social theory a ‘social’ activity. It is essentially a collaborative text, by five authors, committed to a re-awakening of some of the forgotten dimensions of social theorizing. The collaborative work was originally occasioned by an attempt to analyse the notion of social stratification and its treatment in the sociological tradition. The authors’ main concern here is with the nature of social theorizing, and in particular the ‘difference’ between Self and Other, being and beings, Language and Speech. The papers in the book focus on themes that are fundamental to the sense of inquiry and tradition which they are concerned to display. The themes discussed include speech, Language, Identity, Difference, Critical Tradition, Community, Metaphor, Dialectics, Observing and Reading.

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1317651332

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9781317651338

Comprehensive Organic Synthesis: Additions to and substitutions at C-C[pi]-Bonds

By: Barry M. Trost

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Comprehensive Organic Synthesis: Additions to and substitutions at C-C[pi]-Bonds

By: Barry M. Trost

Volume 4 focuses on additions and the resulting substitutions at carbon-carbon &pgr;-bonds. Part 1 includes processes generally considered as simple polar reactions, reactive electrophiles and nucleophiles adding to alkenes and alkynes. A major topic is Michael-type addition to electron deficient &pgr;-bonds, featured in the first six chapters. In part 2 are collected the four general processes leading to nucleophilic aromatic substitution, including radical chain processes and transition metal activation through to &pgr;-complexation. Metal-activated addition (generally by nucleophiles) to alkenes and polyenes is presented in part 3, including allylic alkylation catalyzed by palladium. The coverage of nonpolar additions in part 4 includes radical additions, organometal addition (Heck reaction), carbene addition, and 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions.

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0080405959

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9780080405957

Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes

By: Barry R. Ostrager,Thomas R. Newman

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Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes

By: Barry R. Ostrager,Thomas R. Newman

In todayand’s insurance coverage litigation environment, the practitioner who needs to determine what isand—and is notand—covered under various policy provisions is up against some formidable challenges. Literally thousands of cases on insurance issues find their way into courtrooms every year, and the decisions can be as difficult to decipher as they are to track. Find the authoritative guidance you need with Ostrager and Newmanand’s Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes. This three-volume resource helps you quickly and easily pinpoint detailed analysis of lead cases in key jurisdictions, provides excerpts from standard insurance policies, including critical commentary on key provisions, and offers insights into planning and implementation of successful litigation strategies. Ostrager and Newmanand’s Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes, Seventeenth Edition addresses todayand’s critical coverage issues, such as: The Insurerand’s Duty to Defend Trigger and Scope of Occurrence-Based Coverage Bad Faith and Wrongful Refusal to Settle Property Insurance Rights and Obligations of Co-Insurers Insurability of Punitive Damages Excess Insurance and Analysis of Pollution Exclusions Directors and Officers Coverage Employee Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Claims Make the Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes your one-stop source for the current state of the law on: The effect of a reservation of rights letter...disclaimer and denials of coverage The rules governing all aspects of giving notice of a claim including mechanics of language and timelines Effect of misrepresentations and omissions in insurance applications Reverse bad faith and contributory bad faith Reinsurance The legal issues presented in litigation involving hazardous waste and environmental cleanup Coverage provided by general liability insurance, including personal injury and advertising injury coverage Rules for apportioning the cost of defense among insurers

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Wolters Kluwer

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1454844191

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9781454844198

Citizens of Craven County, North Carolina, and Vicinity - Volume 2 - 1814-1818

By: Barry Munson

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Citizens of Craven County, North Carolina, and Vicinity - Volume 2 - 1814-1818

By: Barry Munson

These advertisements for the years 1814-1818 are compiled in this volume. In them the citizens of Craven County and the surrounding area sold and rented their houses, sold lots, plantations, and personal property, and slaves; owners sought runaway slaves; horses strayed; items were lost and sought; proceedings of courts were published. In 1812, war was declared between the United States and Great Britain; the Carolina Federal Republican carried the war declaration that year. The war brought advertisements for deserters from the army and navy.

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1794757228

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9781794757226

The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors

From the Silent Era to 1965

By: Barry Monush

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The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors

From the Silent Era to 1965

By: Barry Monush

For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars – Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks – to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions – good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1 000 photos!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1480329983

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Objects of Translation

Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter

By: Finbarr Barry Flood

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Objects of Translation

Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter

By: Finbarr Barry Flood

Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book--which ranges in time from the early eighth to the early thirteenth centuries--challenges existing narratives that cast the period as one of enduring hostility between monolithic "Hindu" and "Muslim" cultures. These narratives of conflict have generally depended upon premodern texts for their understanding of the past. By contrast, this book considers the role of material culture and highlights how objects such as coins, dress, monuments, paintings, and sculptures mediated diverse modes of encounter during a critical but neglected period in South Asian history. The book explores modes of circulation--among them looting, gifting, and trade--through which artisans and artifacts traveled, remapping cultural boundaries usually imagined as stable and static. It analyzes the relationship between mobility and practices of cultural translation, and the role of both in the emergence of complex transcultural identities. Among the subjects discussed are the rendering of Arabic sacred texts in Sanskrit on Indian coins, the adoption of Turko-Persian dress by Buddhist rulers, the work of Indian stone masons in Afghanistan, and the incorporation of carvings from Hindu and Jain temples in early Indian mosques. Objects of Translation draws upon contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and globalization to argue for radically new approaches to the cultural geography of premodern South Asia and the Islamic world.

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Princeton University Press

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1400833248

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9781400833245

Birds of the Trans-Pecos

By: Jim Peterson,Barry R. Zimmer

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Birds of the Trans-Pecos

By: Jim Peterson,Barry R. Zimmer

The Trans-Pecos, that huge region of Texas west of the Pecos River, is richer in recorded bird species than all but three of the United States. Hundreds of birders come here each year in search of species such as the Colima Warbler which are rarely if ever spotted in other parts of the country. Yet, until now, there was no comprehensive birding guide devoted to the entire region. Designed for intermediate to advanced birders, Birds of the Trans-Pecos provides an annotated checklist of all 482 species found in the region. The species accounts include seasonal distribution, documentation of nesting, most likely habitat, and the bird's status as a "Texas Review Species." The authors also describe the geography and bird habitats of the Trans-Pecos; federal and state parklands in the area (including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains), with the species that occur in each; and the mountain-breeding birds and species of special interest.

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University of Texas Press

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0292787928

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9780292787926

Wiley GAAP 2010

Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

By: Barry J. Epstein,Ralph Nach,Steven M. Bragg

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Wiley GAAP 2010

Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

By: Barry J. Epstein,Ralph Nach,Steven M. Bragg

This is a study and analysis of all generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for 2010, restating the original, highly technical pronouncements in easy-to-understand terms while providing battle-tested implementation guidance and real-world examples.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470453192

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9780470453193

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

By: Barry Forshaw

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The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

By: Barry Forshaw

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts

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Penguin

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1405383879

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Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context

By: Barry Goldson,Chris Cunneen,Sophie Russell,David Brown,Eileen Baldry,Melanie Schwartz,Damon Briggs

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Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context

By: Barry Goldson,Chris Cunneen,Sophie Russell,David Brown,Eileen Baldry,Melanie Schwartz,Damon Briggs

This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law, policy and practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the ‘moving images’ of youth justice regimes and penal cultures, the principal drivers of reform, the core outcomes of such processes and the overall implications for theory building. It addresses a wide range of questions including: How has the temporal and spatial patterning of youth justice and penality evolved since the early 1980s to the present time? What impacts have legislative and policy reforms imposed upon processes of criminalisation, sentencing practices and the use of penal detention for children and young people? How do we comprehend both the diverse ways in which public representations of ‘young offenders’ are shaped, structured and disseminated and the varied, conflicting and contradictory effects of such representations? To what extent do international human rights standards influence law, policy and practice in the realms of youth justice and penality? To what extent are youth justice systems implicated in the production and reproduction of social injustices? How, and to what degree, are youth justice systems and penal cultures internationalised, nationalised, regionalised or localised? The book is essential reading for researchers, students and tutors in criminology, criminal justice, law, social policy, sociology and youth studies.

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Routledge

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1351242121

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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century

By: Barry Mazor

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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century

By: Barry Mazor

Here is the first book to explore the legacy of Jimmie Rodgers, offering a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity to the pinnacle of renown. As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to every song he performed. But more than anything else, Mazor suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public personas--working stiff, decked-out cowboy, suave ladies' man--that connected him to a broad public and set the stage for the stars who followed.

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