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Mission Control: The Roadmap to Long-Term, Data-Driven Public Infrastructure

By: Benjamin Schmidt

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Mission Control: The Roadmap to Long-Term, Data-Driven Public Infrastructure

By: Benjamin Schmidt

You can't make it better until you make it work. In America, we don't create bad infrastructure-we just fail to maintain it. The crumbling infrastructure of US cities and towns is often overshadowed by budget concerns, national turmoil, and global crises. As a leader in your local government, you know this better than anyone. But progress is possible. In Mission Control, technologist and entrepreneur Benjamin Schmidt shares how you can join the data-driven revolution and lead the way in adopting new processes and technologies to save money, achieve better outcomes, and make a tangible difference in your civil infrastructure management. A pioneer in public infrastructure technology, Benjamin explains how to overcome the common obstacles and wrong turns that stop innovators in their tracks, demonstrating how obtaining the right data works as a foundation for informed decision-making. Sometimes a good idea just needs a push in the right direction. Learn how to avoid the pitfalls, gain momentum, and take actionable steps with a proven framework for inspiring progress and disrupting the status quo.

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1544530706

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The Analysis of Virtue in Alasdair Macintyre and His View of “The Enlightenment Project”

By: Benjamin Okon MSP

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The Analysis of Virtue in Alasdair Macintyre and His View of “The Enlightenment Project”

By: Benjamin Okon MSP

MacIntyre is greatly discontented with the nature of contemporary morality, which according to him has a form, i.e. what appears like morality, but lacks essential content. He argues that the most common feature of contemporary ethical discourse is that much of it is used to express individual preferences, which leads to disagreements among philosophers, and eventually results in debates that are interminable in character. MacIntyre attributes the cause of this situation to the activities of the enlightenment philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries who, in an attempt to find rational justification for morality repudiated those essential elements that define the essence of morality and give it its contents. Such elements include historical narrative, tradition, teleology, and divine law. In MacIntyres opinion, morality so constructed was destined for failure, since it was not founded on the true nature of the human person. The obvious consequences of this failure were the birth of diverse post-enlightenment ethical theories and a substantial change in the conception of virtue. In order to remedy this deplorable condition of contemporary ethics MacIntyre, along with other virtue ethicists, advocates a certain renaissance of ethical principles that are founded on the true nature of the human person, characterized by historical narrative, tradition, and teleology, all grounded on divine legislation. Morality thus reconstructed finds its fullest expression in the theory of human character traits, i.e. virtues. This is what has motivated MacIntyres construction of virtue theory, which has brought him into confrontation with the enlightenment philosophers. Our study and analysis of MacIntyres theory of virtue reveals that his account of virtue is inadequate. This inadequacy is what has motivated our own project of reconstructing MacIntyres theory of virtue in view of offering an account of virtue that is adequate. In this way our own project complements that of MacIntyre.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514484390

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The Letter of Aristeas

'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews'

By: Benjamin G. Wright

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The Letter of Aristeas

'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews'

By: Benjamin G. Wright

The Letter of Aristeas has been an object modern scholarly interest since the seventeenth century. It is best known for containing the earliest version of the translation of the Hebrew Law into Greek, and this story accounts for much of the scholarly attention paid to the work. Yet, this legend only takes up a small percentage of the work. Looking at Aristeas as a whole, the work reveals an author who has acquired a Greek education and employs both Jewish and Greek sources in his work, and he has produced a Greek book. Even though Aristeas has garnered scholarly attention, no fully fledged commentary has been written on it. The works of R. Tramontano, M. Hadas and others, often referred to as commentaries, only contain text and annotated notes. This volume fills the gap in the scholarship on Aristeas by providing a full, paragraph-by-paragraph commentary, containing a new translation, text-critical notes, general commentary, and notes on specific words, phrases and ideas.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110431491

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9783110431490

Burning the Reichstag

An Investigation Into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

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Burning the Reichstag

An Investigation Into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

A dramatic new account of the Reichstag fire and the origins of the Nazi rise to power

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199322325

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The Wakanda Files

A Technological Exploration of the Avengers and Beyond - Includes Content from 22 Movies of MARVEL Studios

By: Troy Benjamin

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The Wakanda Files

A Technological Exploration of the Avengers and Beyond - Includes Content from 22 Movies of MARVEL Studios

By: Troy Benjamin

The Wakanda Files is a collection of blueprints and papers amassed by Wakanda’s War Dogs that traces the technology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Becker & Mayer

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0760372616

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Walter Benjamin's Archive

Images, Texts, Signs

By: Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin's Archive

Images, Texts, Signs

By: Walter Benjamin

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin’s Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.

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Verso Books

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178478205X

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Death in the Tiergarten

Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser’s Berlin

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

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Death in the Tiergarten

Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser’s Berlin

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

From Alexanderplatz, the bustling Berlin square ringed by bleak slums, to Moabit, site of the city's most feared prison, Death in the Tiergarten illuminates the culture of criminal justice in late imperial Germany. In vivid prose, Benjamin Hett examines daily movement through the Berlin criminal courts and the lawyers, judges, jurors, thieves, pimps, and murderers who inhabited this world. Drawing on previously untapped sources, including court records, pamphlet literature, and pulp novels, Hett examines how the law reflected the broader urban culture and politics of a rapidly changing city. In this book, German criminal law looks very different from conventional narratives of a rigid, static system with authoritarian continuities traceable from Bismarck to Hitler. From the murder trial of Anna and Hermann Heinze in 1891 to the surprising treatment of the notorious Captain of Koepenick in 1906, Hett illuminates a transformation in the criminal justice system that unleashed a culture war fought over issues of permissiveness versus discipline, the boundaries of public discussion of crime and sexuality, and the role of gender in the courts. Trained in both the law and history, Hett offers a uniquely valuable perspective on the dynamic intersections of law and society, and presents an impressive new view of early twentieth-century German history.

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Harvard University Press

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0674038614

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9780674038615

Guide to the Literature of Botany. Being a Classified Selection of Botanical Works, Including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus'

By: Benjamin Daydon Jackson

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Guide to the Literature of Botany. Being a Classified Selection of Botanical Works, Including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus'

By: Benjamin Daydon Jackson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385436184

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Social Aspects of Alcoholism

By: Benjamin Kissin,Henri Begleiter

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Social Aspects of Alcoholism

By: Benjamin Kissin,Henri Begleiter

The first three volumes of this series have dealt with materials which generally justify the title, The Biology of Alcoholism. This is only remotely true of the present volume, Social Aspects of Alcoholism, or of the final volume to come, Treatment and Rehabilitation. Except for small portions of the treatment section which involve pharmacotherapy, much of these last two volumes deals with the psychological aspects of alcoholism and still more with the social. It is interesting to review the evolution of this new pattern over the past seven years, a pattern which, had it existed initially, would have resulted, if not in a dif ferent format, at least in a different title. Our initial selection of areas to be covered was influenced by our desire to present as "hard" data as possible, in an attempt to lend a greater aura of scientific rigor to a field which was generally considered as "soft. " When we completed our review of this material in volumes 1-3, we recognized that what we might have gained in rigor, we had more than lost in completeness. These volumes presented a picture of a biological disease syndrome for which the remedies and preventive measures were presumably also biological. And yet, most workers in the field readily accept the significant contributions of psychological and social factors to the pathogenesis and treatment of alcoholism.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475794959

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Adaptive Spatial Alignment

By: Gordon M. Redding,Benjamin Wallace

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Adaptive Spatial Alignment

By: Gordon M. Redding,Benjamin Wallace

For most people, prism adaptation is an amusing demonstration, first experienced perhaps in an introductory psychology course. This monograph relates this peculiar phenomenon to the larger context of cognitive science, especially motor control and learning. The first part sketches the background concepts necessary to understand the contribution of prism adaptation to the larger issue of adaptive perceptual-motor performance including: * a review of the basic concepts of motor control and learning that enable strategic response in the prism adaptation situation; * the development of a hypothesis about spatial representation and spatial mapping and an introduction to the basic idea of adaptive spatial alignment; and * a contrasting view of perceptual and motor learning and a review of evidence for the involvement of nonassociative and associative learning in prism adaptation. Directly concerned with data and theory in prism adaptation, the second part presents: * an outline of prism adaptation methodology and a list of several empirical conclusions from previous research that constrained development of theoretical framework; * a theory of strategic perceptual-motor control and learning which enables adaptive performance during prism exposure, but does not directly involve adaptive spatial alignment; * an extention of the theory to include realignment processes which correct for the spatial misalignment among sensorimotor systems produced by prisms; and * a demonstration of how traditional issues in prism adaptation may be rephrased in terms of the present theoretical framework. The last part of this volume reviews the research conducted in developing and testing the present theory of prism adaptation. It summarizes the initial investigations (employing a naturalistic exposure setting), reports some more rigorous tests with an experimentally constrained research paradigm, points out the more general theoretical issues raised by the authors' analysis of prism adaptation, and makes specific suggestions for further research within the prism adaptation paradigm.

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Psychology Press

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113480234X

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Sediments in the Tema Harbour (Ghana)

Chemical Pollution and Sedimentation Rates

By: Benjamin O. Botwe

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Sediments in the Tema Harbour (Ghana)

Chemical Pollution and Sedimentation Rates

By: Benjamin O. Botwe

Sediment pollution and accumulation in harbours are major environmental issues and studies that advance their solutions are essential for harbour sustainability. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of chemical pollution in sediments and sediment accumulation rates in the tropical Tema Harbour (Ghana). This book contributes to improving our ability to use an integrated approach involving sediment chemistry and bioassays in one comprehensive assessment of the contamination state of a tropical coastal environment. Whole-sediment toxicity bioassays using the amphipod Corophium volutator and the polychaete Hediste diversicolor as bioindicators were combined with data on concentrations of total metal and metal binding forms, radionuclides, organochlorine pesticides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in bottom sediments as well as total metal concentrations in settling silt-clay particles collected by sediment traps to characterise the hazard, risk and impact of sediments from the tropical coastal Tema Harbour.

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CRC Press

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0429836473

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Staffing Organizations

Contemporary Practice and Theory

By: Robert E. Ployhart,Benjamin Schneider,Neal Schmitt

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Staffing Organizations

Contemporary Practice and Theory

By: Robert E. Ployhart,Benjamin Schneider,Neal Schmitt

Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, the new third edition of a classic in the field, shows how organizations of all sizes can use effective staffing procedures as a source of sustained competitive advantage. Practically, the book shows how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including condu

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1439847053

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Hitler's Personal Prisoner

The Life of Martin Niemöller

By: Christine Brocks

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Hitler's Personal Prisoner

The Life of Martin Niemöller

By: Christine Brocks

From 1938 to 1945, the Protestant church leader Martin Niemoeller was detained as 'Hitler's Personal Prisoner' in Nazi concentration camps, and has been widely hailed as an icon of Christian resistance against the Nazis. Benjamin Ziemann uncovers a more problematic 'historical' Niemoeller behind the legend of the resistance hero.

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Oxford University Press

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0192862588

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Rolopad

The Adventures of an Inventor

By: Benjamin Kinberg

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Rolopad

The Adventures of an Inventor

By: Benjamin Kinberg

ROLOPAD, The Adventures of an Inventor - occurred to me one day while leafing through an old Rolodex and I thought it could be interesting to recount the odds and ends of the various characters encountered in my journey into, through and out of the playthings world many of whom have departed for sunnier or colder climes known and unknown.

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1481719955

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Antarctic Policymaking and Science in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany (1957-1990)

By: Benjamin Peter Abbink

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Antarctic Policymaking and Science in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany (1957-1990)

By: Benjamin Peter Abbink

The focus of this study is on Dutch Antarctic policy. In order to explain Dutch Antarctic policy from the late 1950s until 1990 and to place it in a broader context, Dutch policy will be compared with the Antarctic policies of Belgium and Germany (Federal Republic of Germany, FRG) in the same period. 6 The comparison offers insights into the functioning of the ATS and into the roles - if any - of the three countries in this international regime in the period under investigation. This adds another central question to this research: How does Dutch Antarctic policy compare with the Belgian and German Antarctic policies in the same period?

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Barkhuis

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9077922601

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Principles of Adaptive Optics

By: Robert K. Tyson,Benjamin West Frazier

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Principles of Adaptive Optics

By: Robert K. Tyson,Benjamin West Frazier

Principles of Adaptive Optics describes the foundations, principles, and applications of adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. This leading textbook addresses the fundamentals of AO at the core of astronomy, high-energy lasers, biomedical imaging, and optical communications. Key Features: Numerous examples to explain and support the underlying principles Hundreds of new references to support the topics that are addressed End-of-chapter questions and exercises A complete system design example threaded through each chapter as new material is introduced

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1000531341

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The Sabermetric Revolution

Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball

By: Benjamin Baumer,Andrew Zimbalist

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The Sabermetric Revolution

Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball

By: Benjamin Baumer,Andrew Zimbalist

From the front office to the family room, sabermetrics has dramatically changed the way baseball players are assessed and valued by fans and managers alike. Rocketed to popularity by the 2003 bestseller Moneyball and the film of the same name, the use of sabermetrics to analyze player performance has appeared to be a David to the Goliath of systemically advantaged richer teams that could be toppled only by creative statistical analysis. The story has been so compelling that, over the past decade, team after team has integrated statistical analysis into its front office. But how accurately can crunching numbers quantify a player's ability? Do sabermetrics truly level the playing field for financially disadvantaged teams? How much of the baseball analytic trend is fad and how much fact? The Sabermetric Revolution sets the record straight on the role of analytics in baseball. Former Mets sabermetrician Benjamin Baumer and leading sports economist Andrew Zimbalist correct common misinterpretations and develop new methods to assess the effectiveness of sabermetrics on team performance. Tracing the growth of front office dependence on sabermetrics and the breadth of its use today, they explore how Major League Baseball and the field of sports analytics have changed since the 2002 season. Their conclusion is optimistic, but the authors also caution that sabermetric insights will be more difficult to come by in the future. The Sabermetric Revolution offers more than a fascinating case study of the use of statistics by general managers and front office executives: for fans and fantasy leagues, this book will provide an accessible primer on the real math behind moneyball as well as new insight into the changing business of baseball.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812209125

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Encounters with Modernity

The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975

By: Benjamin Ziemann

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Encounters with Modernity

The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975

By: Benjamin Ziemann

During the three decades from 1945 to 1975, the Catholic Church in West Germany employed a broad range of methods from empirical social research. Statistics, opinion polling, and organizational sociology, as well as psychoanalysis and other approaches from the “psy sciences,” were debated and introduced in pastoral care. In adopting these methods for their own work, bishops, parish clergy, and pastoral sociologists tried to open the church up to modernity in a rapidly changing society. In the process, they contributed to the reform agenda of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Through its analysis of the intersections between organized religion and applied social sciences, this award-winning book offers fascinating insights into the trajectory of the Catholic Church in postwar Germany.

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Berghahn Books

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178238345X

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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870

By: Benjamin Maria Baader

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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870

By: Benjamin Maria Baader

Baader examines changes in practices of prayer and synagogue worship, rabbinic writings that encouraged men to cultivate a Judaism shaped by feminine values, the transformation of exclusively male philanthropic organizations into modern voluntary organizations in which men and women participated, and the new roles assumed by women as educators, activists, and religious writers. By documenting the expansion of women's spaces and women's roles in bourgeoisie Judaism and tracing the feminization of Jewish men's religious practices, Baader provides fresh insights into the gender organization of traditional Jewish culture and modern German middle-class society."--BOOK JACKET.

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Indiana University Press

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0253347343

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Risking Immeasurable Harm

Immigration Restriction and U. S. -Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924-1932

By: Benjamin C. Montoya

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Risking Immeasurable Harm

Immigration Restriction and U. S. -Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924-1932

By: Benjamin C. Montoya

The debate over restricting the number of Mexican immigrants to the United States began early in the twentieth century, a time when U.S.-Mexican relations were still tenuous following the Mexican Revolution and when heated conflicts over mineral rights, primarily oil, were raging between the two nations. Though Mexico had economic reasons for curbing emigration, the racist tone of the quota debate taking place in the United States offended Mexicans' national pride and played a large part in obstructing mutual support for immigration restriction between the United States and Mexico. Risking Immeasurable Harm explains how the prospect of immigration restriction affects diplomatic relations by analyzing U.S. efforts to place a quota on immigration from Mexico during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The controversial quota raised important questions about how domestic immigration policy debates had international consequences, primarily how the racist justifications for immigration restriction threatened to undermine U.S. relations with Mexico. Benjamin C. Montoya follows the quota debate from its origin in 1924, spurred by the passage of the Immigration Act, to its conclusion in 1932. He examines congressional policy debate and the U.S. State Department's steady opposition to the quota scheme. Despite the concerns of American diplomats, in 1930 the Senate passed the Harris Bill, which singled out Mexico among all other Latin American nations for immigration restriction. The lingering effects of the quota debates continued to strain diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico beyond the Great Depression. Relevant to current debates about immigration and the role of restrictions in inter-American diplomacy, Risking Immeasurable Harm demonstrates the correlation of immigration restriction and diplomacy, the ways racism can affect diplomatic relations, and how domestic immigration policy can have international consequences.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496219864

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A Tax in Blood

By: Benjamin M. Schutz

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A Tax in Blood

By: Benjamin M. Schutz

A faked suicide sucks Leo Haggerty into the investigation of a terrorist bombing Leo Haggerty walks the long wall of the Vietnam War Memorial, his girlfriend, Samantha, and his best friend, Arnie, at his sides. Arnie wanders away and meets a young boy whose mother asks if the veteran could lift her son up high enough to read the name of his uncle, his namesake. Some men might break down at the sight of the wall, but Arnie is stone-faced. Since he returned from ’Nam, nothing moves him at all. That night, a newsbreak: There’s been a bombing at the memorial. Nineteen are dead, including the child. The FBI pursues the case doggedly, but they get nowhere, and it falls to Haggerty to prove that a man found dead in a motel room, suicide note by his side, did not, in fact, kill himself. As the case points him toward the bombers whose rampage has struck fear into the heart of Washington, DC, Haggerty will find out there’s a dark side to patriotism. A Tax in Blood is the 3rd book in the Leo Haggerty Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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1497652952

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Market Orientalism

Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States

By: Benjamin Smith

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Market Orientalism

Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States

By: Benjamin Smith

Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where practices, signs, and perceptions of propriety matter. Market Orientalism examines how emerging markets are imagined as cultural economic spaces—spaces that are assembled, ranked, desired, and sometimes punished in ways built on earlier forms of dealing with "backward" economies and peoples. Such imaginations not only impact investment and guide policy, but also create stories of economic value that separate "us" from "them." While market Orientalism functions anywhere that questions of "deserved" wealth come down to cultural/economic differences between places, Smith focuses on the Arab states of the Gulf. By combining field research with extensive analysis of news archives concerning the cultural economies of the Gulf states, Market Orientalism addresses important motivations for economic relations and provides a framework to analyze how prejudice, fashion, taste, and waste are vital to both narrow and widespread forms of economic activity.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653441

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Medieval Germany, 500–1300

A Political Interpretation

By: Benjamin Arnold

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Medieval Germany, 500–1300

A Political Interpretation

By: Benjamin Arnold

Medieval Germany, 500-1300 is an interpretation of the foundation of Germany based upon the three most outstanding characteristics of the medieval polity: its division into several distinct peoples with their own customs, dialects, and economic interests from whom the later 'Germans' would be drawn; the imperial ambitions to which the successive German dynasties aspired; and the structure of German kingship, which was a military, religious, and juridical exercise of authority rather than a meticulous administration based upon scribal institutions.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349256773

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The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation

History and Hermeneutics

By: Benjamin A. Edsall

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The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation

History and Hermeneutics

By: Benjamin A. Edsall

Situates Pauline analysis within the context of early Christian institutions. Examines the hermeneutics of reception-historical studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108471315

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The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left

Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond

By: L. Benjamin Rolsky

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The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left

Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond

By: L. Benjamin Rolsky

For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by “culture wars” waged between religious conservatives and secular liberals. In most instances, Protestant conservatives have been cast as the instigators of such warfare, while religious liberals have been largely ignored. In this book, L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left into action. The creator of comedies such as All in the Family and Maude, Lear was spurred to found the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way in response to the rise of the religious right. Rolsky offers engaged readings of Lear’s iconic sitcoms and published writings, considering them as an expression of what he calls the spiritual politics of the religious left. He shows how prime-time television became a focus of political dispute and demonstrates how Lear’s emergence as an interfaith activist catalyzed ecumenical Protestants, Catholics, and Jews who were determined to push back against conservatism’s ascent. Rolsky concludes that Lear’s political involvement exemplified religious liberals’ commitment to engaging politics on explicitly moral grounds in defense of what they saw as the public interest. An interdisciplinary analysis of the definitive cultural clashes of our fractious times, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left foregrounds the foundational roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America’s religious history.

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Columbia University Press

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0231550421

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Innovation and Public Policy

By: Austan Goolsbee,Benjamin F. Jones

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Innovation and Public Policy

By: Austan Goolsbee,Benjamin F. Jones

Using the latest empirical and conceptual research for readers in economics, business, and policy, this volume surveys the key components of innovation policy and the social returns to innovation investment. In advanced economies like the United States, innovation has long been recognized as a central force for increasing economic prosperity and human welfare. Today, the US government promotes innovation through various mechanisms, including tax credits for private-sector research, grant support for basic and applied research, and institutions like the Small Business Innovation Research Program of the National Science Foundation. Drawing on the latest empirical and conceptual research, Innovation and Public Policy surveys the key components of innovation policy and the social returns to innovation investment. It examines mechanisms that can advance the pace of invention and innovative activity, including expanding the research workforce through schooling and immigration policy and funding basic research. It also considers scientific grant systems for funding basic research, including those at institutions like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and investigates the role of entrepreneurship policy and of other institutions that promote an environment conducive to scientific breakthroughs.

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259

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University of Chicago Press

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ISBN 10

022680559X

ISBN 13

9780226805597

Book's by Benjamin Schmidt

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