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Battling the Beetle

Taking Action to Restore British Columbia's Interior Forests

By: Ben Parfitt

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Battling the Beetle

Taking Action to Restore British Columbia's Interior Forests

By: Ben Parfitt

The CCPA would like to thank the following organizations for their financial contributions to this work: The BC Federation of Labour, The BC Government and Service Employees' Union, The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, The Endswell Foundation, The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada and The United Steelworkers of America District 3. Cover beetle image courtesy of The Canadian Fores [...] While a significant portion of the trees attacked will be profitably logged, an even greater portion will not, leading to a looming gap in available timber that will result in the loss of one quarter of existing income in many Interior communities.1 Given the severity of the outbreak and its implications for the wellbeing of forests and communities, the BC government's action plan speaks comparati [...] The area includes 30-plus communities ranging from 100 Mile House in the southern portion of the Cariboo Forest Region through Prince George and west to Smithers in the Prince Rupert Forest Region.20 The full extent of the beetle What the authors of that report could not have known was that in the attack remains poorly ensuing three years the very definition of "susceptible" has changed along quan [...] Two central questions before British Columbians are whether the province is responding adequately to the challenges posed by the beetles, in particular in the area of reforestation, and whether we are getting a fair return from logging companies in the midst of an unprecedented, government-mandated, logging increase in response to the beetles. [...] It also heavily influenced the thinking of government-appointed bodies such as the Forest Resources Commission, By the Ministry of Forests which made many recommendations to the province in 1991 on the need own estimate, we are on the for permanent and secured investment pools for reforestation efforts.

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Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives

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0886274176

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Muse - Inside The Muscle Machine

By: Ben Myers

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Muse - Inside The Muscle Machine

By: Ben Myers

This definitive work - the only book on Muse - tells the band's story, from their inception in the small coastal town of Teignmouth, Devon in the mid-1990s, through numerous incendiary live shows and grandiose, critically acclaimed albums, to their status as the biggest British rock band in the world.This best-selling book is now fully updated to include Muse's astonishing fourth album, Black Holes & Revelations, which is their biggest selling record to date, having shifted well over a million copies. Ploughing their own distinct musical furrow has finally reaped rich rewards for this trio of unlikely musical heroes, confirming the band as genuine modern day rock gods.In this definitive account, Ben Myers tells the Muse tale through exclusive interviews with the band and numerous associates, and also includes the author's eyewitness accounts at various stages along the way.Ben Myers is a highly respected music journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Kerrang!, Melody Maker, Q, Uncut and Careless Talk Costs Lives. He has also written the bestselling book Green Day: American Idiots And The New Punk Explosion, as well as the acclaimed biographies John Lydon: Sex Pistols, PiL and Anti-Celebrity and System Of A Down: Right Here In Hollywood.

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Bonnier Zaffre

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1784189405

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9781784189402

The Ten Lost Tribes

A World History

By: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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The Ten Lost Tribes

A World History

By: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became, over two millennia, an engine for global exploration and a key mechanism for understanding the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0199324530

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Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine

By: Ben-Zion Rosenfeld,Joseph Menirav

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Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine

By: Ben-Zion Rosenfeld,Joseph Menirav

The book describes commercial activity in the Jewish community in Roman Palestine and the interactions between these different components of a controlled system. The book also discusses methods for determining prices and price enforcement, the views of the different marketors, and the status of the synagogue as center of commercial activity.

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BRILL

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9047416511

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Ben Jonson

Four Comedies

By: Ben Johnson,Helen Ostovich

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Ben Jonson

Four Comedies

By: Ben Johnson,Helen Ostovich

This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the audiences perception of the plays as performances by commenting on the stage-directions, the self-conscious theatricality of characters and scenes, and the vivid colloquialisms of early modern London that give the dialogue a heightened dimension of realism. Brief introductions to each play discuss the local settings, sources, theatre history and further readings. The general introduction includes a biography of Jonson, a chronology of the plays and masques, and separate essays on each play, dealing particularly with Jonson's satirical treatments of trends and shams of the day, whether political, social, commercial, or spiritual.

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Routledge

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1317897919

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The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2

The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, The New Inn, A Tale of a Tub

By: Ben Jonson

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The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2

The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, The New Inn, A Tale of a Tub

By: Ben Jonson

Dr Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of Jonsonian punctuation.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521318424

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The Migration Journey

The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus

By: Gadi BenEzer,Gadi Ben-Ezer

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The Migration Journey

The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus

By: Gadi BenEzer,Gadi Ben-Ezer

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through unknown country, and stay for a period of one or two years in refugee camps, until they were brought to Israel. The difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by bandits, night travel over mountains, incarceration, illness, and death. A fifth of the group did not survive the journey. This interdisciplinary, ground-breaking book focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. The author argues that powerful processes occur on such journeys that affect the individual and community in life-changing ways, including their initial encounter with and adaptation to their new society. Analyzing the psychosocial impact of the journey, he examines the relations between coping and meaning, trauma and culture, and discusses personal development and growth. "His beautifully written bookof great importancebrings the reader close to a community whose miraculous destiny serves as an inspiration."--Elie Wiesel Gadi BenEzer is a senior lecturer of psychology and anthropology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences in the College of Management in Tel Aviv. In the last two decades, he has worked as a psychotherapist and organizational psychologist with the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel. He has written extensively on Ethiopian Jews, trauma and life stories, and cross-cultural psychotherapy. His book on the immigration and integration of the Ethiopian Jews has become the main text on the subject in Israel.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412804868

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Sephardic Jews in America

A Diasporic History

By: Aviva Ben-Ur

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Sephardic Jews in America

A Diasporic History

By: Aviva Ben-Ur

A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.

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NYU Press

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0814725198

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Zionism and the Creation of a New Society

By: Ben Halpern,Jehuda Reinharz

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Zionism and the Creation of a New Society

By: Ben Halpern,Jehuda Reinharz

In particular, Zionism and the Creation of a New Society reflects upon Israel's existence as both a state and a social structure - a place conceived before its birth as a means of solving a particular social malady: the modern Jewish Problem.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195092090

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The Fields of Britannia

Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape

By: Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart (Archaeologist),Ben Pears

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The Fields of Britannia

Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape

By: Stephen Rippon,Chris Smart (Archaeologist),Ben Pears

It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.

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0199645825

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The Pashtun Tribes in Afghanistan

Wolves Among Men

By: Ben Acheson

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The Pashtun Tribes in Afghanistan

Wolves Among Men

By: Ben Acheson

‘The Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan is a tour de force – combining erudite analysis, historical research, atmospheric story-telling, page-turning prose and above all, profound passion.’ - Sir Nicholas Kay, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan (2019-2020) & British Ambassador to Afghanistan (2017-2019) The abrupt withdrawal of US and NATO forces in 2021 ushered in a new era for Afghanistan. The subsequent Taliban takeover facilitated a reversion to some of the worst hallmarks of Afghanistan’s past, including bans on women’s education and other rights-related roll-backs. Navigating this new reality necessitates that more constructive relationships are built between Westerners and Afghans, particularly with the majority ethnicity – the Pashtun tribes. The Pashtun Tribes in Afghanistan: Wolves Among Men is the toolkit for doing so. It provides the knowledge needed to navigate a complex tribal environment. Framed by first-hand experience and balancing in-depth analysis with engaging anecdotes, it sheds light on the Pashtun way of life still enshrined in the ancient “Pashtunwali” honor code. It explains the tribal structure, tribal territories, historic battles, prominent figures and even Pashtun proverbs and poets. It also highlights how recent wars are destroying the tribal arena. Focusing on people rather than politics, this book unveils the layers, paradoxes and subtleties of the world’s largest tribal society. On turning the final page, readers will understand the Pashtun brand of tribalism and how it influences Afghanistan today. They will be aware that tribal life has been permanently challenged but that the Pashtun identity remains intact – in psychology if not always in practice. They will recognize why Pashtuns are not a single entity and should not be treated as “one”. The need to understand the tribes as they understand themselves will also be clear, particularly their concept of honor. This book illuminates why, from Alexander the Great to Winston Churchill, and even with the Taliban today, Pashtuns are still stereotyped as primitive, violence-prone barbarians. But were men like Rudyard Kipling right to characterize tribesmen as being “as unaccountable as the grey Wolf, who is his blood brother?” This book has the answer.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1399069225

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Walking with Shadows

Super Scripts

By: Ben Myers

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Walking with Shadows

Super Scripts

By: Ben Myers

Ben Myers play "Walking with Shadows" is one of several plays he wrote whilst at the renowned Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berkshire. His work has appeared on the WJEC GCSE drama curriculum in the UK, and been widely studied in schools for several years. He has worked as a creative education consultant for National Drama and the Arts Council, delivering workshops to Drama and English teachers. He is also a published childrens author, pioneering creative practice in primary education for the involvement of children in the creation of a novel, discussing this on Radio 4. He moved from theatre to film in 2005 when he adapted "Walking with Shadows" into a feature length film starring Leslie Phillips, assuming the roles of Director and Executive Producer. He was a guest lecturer and Artist in Residence at the Midnite International Dramatic Arts Festival in Perth, Western Australia, and has regularly appeared in the media discussing his various creative and educational projects. He is an award winning independent filmmaker as writer/director of "Nuryan", which won the best horror/sci fi category at the London Independent Film festival (LIFF)

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Nelson Thornes

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074876514X

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The Material Culture of English Rural Households c. 1250–1600

By: Ben Jervis,Chris Briggs,Alice Forward,Tomasz Gromelski,Matthew Tompkins

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The Material Culture of English Rural Households c. 1250–1600

By: Ben Jervis,Chris Briggs,Alice Forward,Tomasz Gromelski,Matthew Tompkins

This book presents a synthesis and analysis of the possessions of non-elite rural households in medieval England. Drawing on the results of the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households, 1300-1600’, it represents the first national-scale interdisciplinary analysis of non-elite consumption in the later Middle Ages. The research is situated within debates around rising living standards in the period following the Black Death, the commercialisation of the English economy and the timing of a ‘revolution’ in consumer behaviour. Its novelty derives from its focus on non-elite rural households. Whilst there has been considerable work on the possessions of the great households and those living in larger towns, researchers have struggled to identify appropriate sources for understanding the possessions of those living in the countryside, even though they account for the majority of England’s population at this time. This book will address the gap in understanding. The study combines 3 sources of data to address 2 questions: what goods did medieval households own, and what influenced their consumption habits? The first is archaeological evidence, comprising 14,706 objects recovered from archaeological excavations. The book synthesises this data, much of which is unpublished and therefore inaccessible to researchers. The second dataset derives from lists of the seized goods of felons, outlaws and suicides collated by the Escheator, a royal official, in the 14th and 15th centuries. The work of the Escheator is not well understood, but these lists, relating to some of the poorest people in medieval society (for whom traditional sources such as wills and probate inventories do not exist), provide new insights into the living standards of rural households. The lists typically detail and value the possessions of a household, meaning that it is possible to present a quantitative analysis of non-elite consumption for the first time. The final dataset draws on equivalent lists generated by the Coroner for the 16th century. An interdisciplinary approach is essential, as many objects identified archaeologically do not occur in the written records, and goods such as textiles do not survive in the ground. Drawing these sources together therefore allows the presentation of a more comprehensive analysis of the possessions of medieval households. The introduction lays out the research context in a manner accessible to historians and archaeologists who may not be familiar with work in each other’s disciplines. This is followed by a brief summary of the research methodology and the sources underpinning the research. The next 5 chapters focus on addressing the question of what medieval households owned, discussing the evidence for kitchen equipment, tableware, furniture, clothing and personal items. The following 3 chapters discuss household economy, considering the evidence for the production of goods, variation in consumption between town and country and variation in accordance with wealth, firstly through the consideration of these themes at the national scale and secondly through a regional case study focussed on Wiltshire, which has particularly rich archaeological and documentary sources. The volume closes with a concluding chapter which places the research back into its wider context.

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Cardiff University Press

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1911653482

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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1

Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion

By: Dov Noy,Dan Ben-Amos,Ellen Frankel

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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1

Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion

By: Dov Noy,Dan Ben-Amos,Ellen Frankel

Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion begins the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the first volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The 71 tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives, Named in Honor of Dov Noy, The University of Haifa (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Sephardic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827608292

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The Business and Management of Ocean Cruises

By: Michael Vogel, Alexis Papathanassis and Ben Wolber

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The Business and Management of Ocean Cruises

By: Michael Vogel, Alexis Papathanassis and Ben Wolber

This book is divided into six parts, which are organized to guide the reader step by step from the macro level of the cruise industry to the micro level of operations management on board cruise ships. Part I (chapters 1-4) sets the scene for the book by characterizing the conditions under which cruise lines operate. Part II (chapters 5-8) includes four chapters that address issues of significance for corporate managers in the cruise sector. Part III (chapters 9-11) deal with aspects of the marketing mix employed by cruise lines to attract passengers and fill their ships. Part IV (chapters 12-15) is concerned with managerial functions related directly to the cruise product. Part V (chapters 16-19) focuses on operational management functions on board cruise ships. The final Part VI (chapter 20) looks at future development possibilities for the cruise sector.

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CABI

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1845938461

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Every Man Out of His Humour

By: Ben Jonson

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Every Man Out of His Humour

By: Ben Jonson

Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.

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Manchester University Press

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0719015588

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The Emerging Data Revolution in Africa

Strengthening the Statistics, Policy and Decision-making Chain

By: Ben Kiregyera

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The Emerging Data Revolution in Africa

Strengthening the Statistics, Policy and Decision-making Chain

By: Ben Kiregyera

The book presents a nuanced narrative about statistical development in Africa since around the time of independence when emerging states needed statistics mainly to support their planning processes. It highlights challenges faced then, some of which have persisted, including institutional, organizational and technical challenges. These challenges manifest themselves in countries with different degrees of severity and are quite severe in post-conflict countries. Key statistical programmes to support statistical development in Africa in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are presented

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AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

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1920689567

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We Could Be Heroes

By: Tom Fordyce,Ben Dirs

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We Could Be Heroes

By: Tom Fordyce,Ben Dirs

Ben: Do you ever worry you’ll die without having left a mark? Tom: What about when you won that 3 a.m. break-dancing battle with the overweight Australian girl? Ben: It’s not enough. I want to go down in history. Tom: You’re called Ben Dirs. You will. Finely-tuned triathlete Tom Fordyce and hopeless smoker Ben Dirs have made a living blogging for the BBC about the triumphs and tribulations of sport at its highest level – but they will never be World Champions themselves. Well, unless they can find some really pointless sporting challenges... From the gripping slow-motion drama of the World Sauna Championships to the Cotswold Olympicks, in which ‘competitors, wearing boots, attempt to kick each other,’ We Could Be Heroes is a collection of brilliantly funny gonzo despatches from the frontline of sport. If you can race Ben Fogle up a Yorkshire hillside carrying a sack of coal, or kick the shin out of Rory McGrath, you could be the Champion of the World – and what’s more, you’ll have very, very sore shins, my son.

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0330533282

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Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)

By: Dan Ben Amos

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Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)

By: Dan Ben Amos

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.

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0827608713

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Bone Remodeling Process

Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling

By: Rabeb Ben Kahla,Abdelwahed Barkaoui

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Bone Remodeling Process

Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling

By: Rabeb Ben Kahla,Abdelwahed Barkaoui

Bone Remodeling Process: Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling provides a literature review. The first part of the book discusses bones in a normal physiological condition, bringing together the involved actors and factors reported over the past two decades, and the second discusses pathological conditions, highlighting the attack vectors of each bone disease. The third part is devoted to the mathematical descriptions of bone remodeling, formulated to develop models able to provide information that is not amenable to direct measurement, while the last part focuses on models using the finite element method in investigating bone biomechanics.This book creates an overall image of the complex communication network established between the diverse remodeling actors, based on overwhelming control evidence revealed over recent years, as well as visualizes the remodeling defects and possible treatments in each case. It also regroups the models allowing readers to analyze and assess bone mechanical and biological properties. This book details the cellular mechanisms allowing the bone to adapt its microarchitecture to the requirements of the human body, which is the main issue in bone biology and presents the evolution of mathematical modeling used in a bone computer simulation. - Each chapter covers a core topic in bone biomechanics - Provides a multidisciplinary view that effectively links orthopaedics, cellular biology, mechanics, and computer simulation - Draws an overall image about bone biology and cell interactions, for identifying cell populations that are crucial for the remodeling process

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0323902057

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Entertainment Journalism

Making it your Career

By: Ben Falk

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Entertainment Journalism

Making it your Career

By: Ben Falk

Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years’ experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive overview of journalistic reporting on the arts industries, with particular focus on film, music, TV and celebrity gossip. This is coupled with an extensive range of tips and tools to help students and young professionals hone the key skills required for a career in entertainment journalism. Interviews with industry professionals appear throughout, from current editors of the biggest entertainment brands, Hollywood bureau chiefs and critics to consumer publicists, multimedia content producers, live radio correspondents, video makers, TV presenters and social media specialists. Topics include: breaking a story interviewing techniques working at press junkets and red carpet events working with PRs selling as a freelance using social media for reporting and networking breaking into the industry. With up-to-the-minute expert advice, accessibly written guidance on writing and reporting and invaluable perspectives from those within the entertainment world, this is an instructive and insightful book for any aspiring showbiz journalist.

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1317233247

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The Magnetic Lady

By: Ben Jonson

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The Magnetic Lady

By: Ben Jonson

This is the first fully annotated edition of Ben Jonson's The Magnetic Lady, written in 1632. The introduction places the play in the context of Jonson's later dramatic and poetic works and discusses the political context of the Caroline court. A performance history of the play and fresh material relating to its 17th-century reception are also provided. This new edition by Peter Happè reappraises Jonson's much-neglected play and argues for its recognition as a work of real distinction.

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0719048893

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Epigrams and the Forest

By: Ben Jonson

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Epigrams and the Forest

By: Ben Jonson

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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041596749X

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Desiring Donne

Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation

By: Ben Saunders

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Desiring Donne

Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation

By: Ben Saunders

Saunders explores the dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired. This study takes into account recent developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and postmodern psychoanalysis, while offering dazzling close readings of many of Donne's most famous poems.

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Harvard University Press

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0674023471

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Five Plays

By: Ben Jonson

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Five Plays

By: Ben Jonson

The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is a modernized version with full annotation.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192839446

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Bartholomew Fair

By: Ben Jonson

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Bartholomew Fair

By: Ben Jonson

Bartholomew Fair is the climactic play of Ben Jonson's great comic period. Using the fair as a symbolic representation of religious, social, and political conflicts in Jacobean England, Jonson satirizes Puritans, fortune hunters, country bumpkins, and inept representatives of the justice system, along with sharpsters and con men who inhabit the fair. This edition is the first to use the findings of feminist scholarship in examining the play's concern with forced marriage, pregnancy, sexual commerce, and widowhood.

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Manchester University Press

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0719051509

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9780719051500

Getting More from our Forests: Ten Proposals for Building Stability in BC's Forestry Communities

By: Ben Parfitt

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Getting More from our Forests: Ten Proposals for Building Stability in BC's Forestry Communities

By: Ben Parfitt

The CCPA would like to thank the following organizations for their financial contributions to this work: The BC Federation of Labour, The BC Government and Service Employees Union, The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Endswell Fund of Tides Canada Foundation, The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, and The United Steelworkers of America District 3. Getting More from Our Forests: T [...] The end result is that from Hazelton in the northwest Interior, to the banks of the Fraser River in South Vancouver, to Youbou on the shores of Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, mills were closed and the companies who operated them were allowed to retain their tenured Crown timber holdings. [...] Of the five significant mergers to occur in the industry in 2004 and 2005, three involved companies with major Interior forest tenure holdings and one resulted in what is now, by far, the largest forest company in the province. [...] Today, Canfor operates the largest production softwood lumber mill in the world at Houston, BC.4 The company had record profit in 2004 of $420.9 million, and is in the process of building another lumber mill in not-too-distant Vanderhoof that will rival the Houston mill in output.5 The Houston mill's high efficiency helped propel Canfor into the upper echelon of the world's top-performing forest c [...] And he hopes that the province will see the value in what he is doing and give him assured access to timber through a long-term licence agreement, similar to the licences held by the major companies in the region.

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Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives

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0886274567

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Volpone

By: Ben Jonson

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Volpone

By: Ben Jonson

This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about Volpone 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian commedia dell 'art and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed.

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0719051827

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Sturgeon Reach

Shifting Currents At The Heart of the Fraser

By: Terry Glavin,Ben Parfitt

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Sturgeon Reach

Shifting Currents At The Heart of the Fraser

By: Terry Glavin,Ben Parfitt

Sturgeon Reach is the name some have given to a stretch of the Fraser River between Hope and Pitt Meadows, where its flow slows, and it deposits the gravel it's been carrying from the province's interior. Its story is one of rocks and stones, from its geological origins, from the mythic beginnings of human settlement, and from the arrival of Simon Fraser through to the onslaught of dykes and roads and bridges and foundations that today threaten the river's essential nature. Sturgeon Reach hosts an incredible array of life, from giant black cottonwoods to a creature that dates from the age of dinosaurs –– the remarkable white sturgeon. This stretch of river is the spawning ground for major salmon runs. And for millennia, it has also been the home of the Sto:lo Indians. How can we now live well along a river that has a ceaseless desire to overflow its banks and set its own course? How can we allow the life that the river's character fosters to persist in the face of overwhelming development? In the 20th book in the Transmontanus series, Terry Glavin and Ben Parfitt explore Sturgeon Reach — its geography, its history, its critical role in the coastal ecosystem, and the compelling story it tells about competing human needs.

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1554200601

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9781554200603

TRAC 2006

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference which Took Place at the University of Cambridge, 24-25 March 2006

By: Ben Croxford

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TRAC 2006

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference which Took Place at the University of Cambridge, 24-25 March 2006

By: Ben Croxford

The sixteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held in Cambridge in March 2006. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented here. It discusses issues of identity, its expression and recognition, and looks at topics such as public and private religion, 'Romanisation' from a zooarchaeological perspective, and others.

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Oxbow Books Limited

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1842172646

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Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England

By: Ben Jervis

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Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England

By: Ben Jervis

How can pottery studies contribute to the study of medieval archaeology? How do pots relate to documents, landscapes and identities? These are the questions addressed in this book which develops a new approach to the study of pottery in medieval archaeology. Utilising an interpretive framework which focuses upon the relationships between people, places and things, the effect of the production, consumption and discard of pottery is considered, to see pottery not as reflecting medieval life, but as one actor which contributed to the development of multiple experiences and realities in medieval England. By focussing on relationships we move away from viewing pottery simply as an object of study in its own right, to see it as a central component to developing understandings of medieval society. The case studies presented explore how we might use relational approaches to re-consider our approaches to medieval landscapes, overcome the methodological and theoretical divisions between documents and material culture and explore how the use of objects could have multiple implications for the formation and maintenance of identities. The use of this approach makes this book not only of interest to pottery specialists, but also to any archaeologist seeking to develop new interpretive approaches to medieval archaeology and the archaeological study of material culture.

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1782976604

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