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Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management

A Different Approach to ISO 14000 Compliance

By: Jan Emblemsvåg,Bert Bras

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Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management

A Different Approach to ISO 14000 Compliance

By: Jan Emblemsvåg,Bert Bras

It is clear that our environment is changing, and not for the better. Companies cannot ignore environmental issues anymore. Public awareness is growing, legislation is tightening, and demand for ISO 14000 compliance is rising. For many, however, the field of environmental management (including ISO 14000) is full of unfamiliar terms, high learning curves, unproductive approaches, much frustration, and often little action. If environmental management is to become widely accepted and self-motivated in industry, it must connect to the basic motivators for business: increased competitiveness and profitability. Activity-Based Cost And Environmental Management: A Different Approach to the ISO 14000 Compliance demonstrates how environmental assessment and management can be performed based upon familiar principles: cost accounting and cost management. Specifically, this book describes how the well-established Activity-Based Costing and Management principles can be extended with non-monetary environmental dimensions. The result is a single, integrated framework called Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management that provides the tools and abilities to do both environmental management and cost management in an integrated manner and according to modern management principles. This integration of economic and environmental dimensions based upon familiar cost accounting and management principles makes it easier for decision-makers to not only include the environment in their decision-making, but also to identify, rank and prioritize opportunities for win-win situations where competitiveness is increased and environmental impact reduced at the same time. In this book, the basic concepts of Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management are described, as well as how to make your own integrated Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management implementations and how to get the most out of them using uncertainty distributions, Monte Carlo simulations, and sensitivity charts. Among others, the book includes chapters on environmental management and Activity-Based Costing, as well as several real-life case studies from companies for which the authors implemented Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441986049

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Discourse on Leadership

A Critical Appraisal

By: Bert A. Spector

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Discourse on Leadership

A Critical Appraisal

By: Bert A. Spector

In a wide-ranging and provocative new study, Bert A. Spector provides a critical analysis of past and present theories of leadership. Spector asserts that our perception of leadership influences who we vote for, who we hire and promote, and ultimately, who we choose to grant our authority to. Focusing on leadership in discourse, the book sets out to explore how the notion of leadership has been articulated, studied and debated by academics, but also by practitioners, journalists, and others who seek to influence the thoughts of others. Paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, intellectual and historical forces that have helped shape the discussion, Discourse on Leadership offers an insightful historiography of leadership as a concept and considers how our understanding of it continues to evolve.

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Cambridge University Press

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131671246X

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Dwelling Portably

Tips from the People Who Sparked the Tiny House Movement, 1980-2012

By: Bert Davis

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Dwelling Portably

Tips from the People Who Sparked the Tiny House Movement, 1980-2012

By: Bert Davis

Full of information about living without a permanent residence, this complete collection contains helpful and informative tips for living far outside of cities and bereft of technology. All of the tips and advice have been edited down to what remains relevant in a technologically changing world, and it is crammed full of informative tips for biking, tents, showering, cooking, and living. Whether camping on the edges, living simply, or getting by on the road and loving it, this book is for modern nomads choosing alternative lifestyles to working 9–5 in the same place.

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Microcosm Publishing

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1621060225

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Dwelling Portably 2008-2012

By: Bert Davis

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Dwelling Portably 2008-2012

By: Bert Davis

Couldn't get enough from the 500 pages in 1980-2008? Here's the newest updates! As usual, Dwelling Portably crams in way too much information to easily sum up — from practical advice about being homeless or low-budget in-motion by choice — camping on the edges, living simply, getting by on the road and loving it. Decades of collective experience have gone into creating this zine, so you know it is full of useful and tested information. This fifth collection contains Dwelling Portably (April 2010), Ab #9 (December 2009), and Ab #10 (May 2010).

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Dwelling Portably 2009-2015

More tips from the people who inspired the Tiny House Movement, plus highlights from 2000-2008

By: Bert Davis

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Dwelling Portably 2009-2015

More tips from the people who inspired the Tiny House Movement, plus highlights from 2000-2008

By: Bert Davis

The Dwelling Portably series returns with Holly and Bert's newest contribution to their fourth decade of DIY homesteading. The 2009-2015 collection assembles their correspondence and what they've picked up over the last six years, lovingly crafted on manual typewriters from a remote Oregon outpost. The tips and tricks presented here are practical and useful—pertaining to things like biking, permanent camping, alternative communities, DIY healthcare, disaster preparation, eating off the land, and MacGyver-like skills to prepare you for any and all situations. Whether you’re planning to step off the grid or just simplify your life a little, Dwelling Portably has something for just about everyone.

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Microcosm Publishing

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1621064719

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The Guests of Ants

How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts

By: Bert Hölldobler,Christina L. Kwapich

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The Guests of Ants

How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts

By: Bert Hölldobler,Christina L. Kwapich

Pulitzer Prize-winner Bert Hölldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral mechanisms whereby invaders known as myrmecophiles break into ant colonies. By decoding ants' sophisticated communication systems, these invaders disguise themselves as friendly, suppress ant aggression, and feast on colony resources.

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Harvard University Press

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0674265513

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Having a Baby

By: Diana Bert

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Having a Baby

By: Diana Bert

Abstract: The experiences of 7 women before, during, and after their pregnancies are described by each one in this book. Topics include the various stages of pregnancy, miscarriage, finding and obstetrician and a pediatrician, amninocentesis, tobacco-alcohol-drugs, and sex during and after pregnancy. Also discussed are the actual birth experiences, the first weeks at home afterwards, nursing, postpartum depression, going back to work, and the fathers' expperiences. (as).

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Delacorte Press

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0385293348

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Irony and Drama

A Poetics

By: Bert O. States

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Irony and Drama

A Poetics

By: Bert O. States

Professor States provides nothing less than a new theory of the drama based upon the principles of irony and dialectic. Very close in approach to the Continental structuralists, he treats irony, not as a literary device or as an attitude in the mind of the playgoer, but as a means of confronting reality—a way of testing and resolving conflicting ideas. Pointing out the limitations of conventional categories such as comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy, he views drama instead as a vehicle for perceiving and ordering the possibilities of human experience. After setting forth his thesis boldly and persuasively, Professor States explores other mod es such as the epic and the lyric and shows how they interact with the dramatic principle. He manages to cover, in a minimum amount of space, the entire range of dramatic styles and periods, placing special emphasis on playwrights of universal appeal like Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw, and Beckett.

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Cornell University Press

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1501743597

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Recent trends in algebraic development techniques

By: Didier Bert,Christine Choppy

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Recent trends in algebraic development techniques

By: Didier Bert,Christine Choppy

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT'99, held in Toulouse, France in September 1999. The 23 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 workshop presentations. The papers address the following topics: algebraic specification and other specification formalisms, test and validation, concurrent processes applications, logic and validation, combining formalisms, subsorts and partiality, structuring, rewriting, co-algebras and sketches, refinement, institutions and categories, and ASM specifications.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540678980

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Numerous Meanings

By: Bert Bultinck

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Numerous Meanings

By: Bert Bultinck

Outlandish as it may seem to the uninitiated, the meaning of English cardinal numbers has been the object of many heated and fascinating debates. Notwithstanding the numerous important objections that have been formulated in the last three decades, the (neo-)Gricean, scalar account is still the standard semantic description of numerals. In this book, Bultinck writes the history of this implicature-driven approach and demonstrates that it suffers from methodological insecurity and postulates highly non-conventional meanings of numerals as their "literal meaning", while it confuses the level of lexical semantics with that of utterances and cannot deal with a large number of counter-examples. Relying on the results of an extensive corpus-based analysis, an alternative account of the meaning of English cardinals and the ways in which their interpretation is influenced by other linguistic elements is presented. As such, this analysis constitutes a prism that offers todays linguist an iridescent history of one of the most fascinating, if often misconstrued, topics in contemporary meaning research: the conversational implicatures.

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0080456790

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Elliptic Theory on Singular Manifolds

By: Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii,Anton Yu. Savin,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze,Boris Yu. Sternin

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Elliptic Theory on Singular Manifolds

By: Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii,Anton Yu. Savin,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze,Boris Yu. Sternin

The analysis and topology of elliptic operators on manifolds with singularities are much more complicated than in the smooth case and require completely new mathematical notions and theories. While there has recently been much progress in the field, many of these results have remained scattered in journals and preprints. Starting from an ele

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1420034979

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Database Schema Evolution and Meta-Modeling

9th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects FoMLaDO/DEMM 2000 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 18-21, 2000 Selected Papers

By: Herman Balsters,Bert de Brock

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Database Schema Evolution and Meta-Modeling

9th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects FoMLaDO/DEMM 2000 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 18-21, 2000 Selected Papers

By: Herman Balsters,Bert de Brock

This book presents a thoroughly refereed selection of papers accepted for the 9th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects focusing on Database Schema Evolution and Meta-Modeling, FoMLaDO/DEMM 2000, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in September 2000. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited survey paper were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this post-proceedings volume. All current aspects of database schema evolution and meta-modeling are addressed.

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3540422722

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Rough Cut from a Bygone War

By: Bert Quint

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Rough Cut from a Bygone War

By: Bert Quint

Sam Sloane is an over-the-hill foreign correspondent still plagued by painful memories of his reporting days in Vietnam. He has refused to adapt to the cheapening of TV news and is called home to be fired. Back in the mahogany foxholes of New York, he finds himself confronting not only today’s corporate America, but the demons of his own past. A wounded cameraman helps him to deal with the nightmares and face the future. It’s a story of the intense friendship of comrades who live together and come close to dying together. It is also a poignant tale of Americans and Vietnamese, frightened men and lonely women, and of one little girl who is the symbol of wartime Vietnam. There is tragedy and profanity and dark humor but this story tells of more than man’s inhumanity to man. It speaks of man’s humanity to man.

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iUniverse

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0595130143

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9780595130146

Elliptic Mixed, Transmission and Singular Crack Problems

By: Gohar Harutyunyan,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze

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Elliptic Mixed, Transmission and Singular Crack Problems

By: Gohar Harutyunyan,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze

Mixed, transmission, or crack problems belong to the analysis of boundary value problems on manifolds with singularities. The Zaremba problem with a jump between Dirichlet and Neumann conditions along an interface on the boundary is a classical example. The central theme of this book is to study mixed problems in standard Sobolev spaces as well as in weighted edge spaces where the interfaces are interpreted as edges. Parametrices and regularity of solutions are obtained within a systematic calculus of boundary value problems on manifolds with conical or edge singularities. This calculus allows singularities on the interface and homotopies between mixed and crack problems. Additional edge conditions are computed in terms of relative index results. In a detailed final chapter, the intuitive ideas of the approach are illustrated, and there is a discussion of future challenges. A special feature of the text is the inclusion of many worked-out examples which help the reader to appreciate the scope of the theory and to treat new cases of practical interest. This book is addressed to mathematicians and physicists interested in models with singularities, associated boundary value problems, and their solvability strategies based on pseudo-differential operators. The material is also useful for students in higher semesters and young researchers, as well as for experienced specialists working in analysis on manifolds with geometric singularities, the applications of index theory and spectral theory, operator algebras with symbolic structures, quantisation, and asymptotic analysis.

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European Mathematical Society

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303719040X

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Practical Theology and the Interpretation of Crossing Boundaries

Essays in Honour of Professor M.P.J. Van Knippenberg

By: Bert Roebben

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Practical Theology and the Interpretation of Crossing Boundaries

Essays in Honour of Professor M.P.J. Van Knippenberg

By: Bert Roebben

In October 2002 the Tilburg Professor of Practical Theology, Tjeu van Knippenberg, retired. In order to honour him as a bright scholar in the field of fundamental practical theology and pastoral care, 23 of his colleagues at Tilburg University and elsewhere (Nijmegen and Leuven) contributed to this festschrift. Their attention is focused on the concept of boundaries in practical theology: between context and Christian tradition, church and society, personal identity and Christian narrative, individual and community. Different research projects out of the Tilburg tradition of practical theology are presented from an empirical-hermeneutical perspective.

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3825866173

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Dwelling Portably, 20002008

By: Bert Davis,Holly Davis

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Dwelling Portably, 20002008

By: Bert Davis,Holly Davis

Full of information about living without a permanent residence, this collection contains helpful and informative tips for biking, tents, showering, and cooking. These zines from 2000 to 2008 show how to live the lifestyle far outside of cities and bereft of technology.

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1621061698

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The Early Days

By: Bert Beman

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The Early Days

By: Bert Beman

This book began as a letter to her daughter in answer to some specific questions about the old days. The author was encouraged to expand the letter into this delightful memoir that not only will engage her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, when they are old enough to enjoy it, but is universal enough in scope to inspire anyone who has ever had to meet some difficult challenges. Not many of us will ever have to buy our own cow to feed four youngsters under the age of five or grow and can our own food to keep from going hungry, or wait ten years for our husband to finally land a real job. During the Great Depression the author had to subsist on her wits and creativity. Like the time in 1939 when her over-generous husband invited a traveling wayfarer with an expensive camera and a German accent to share the old Virginia farmhouse which, unbeknownst to the author, was near a secret government facility She finally figured out he was a German spy.

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0595269893

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A Ghost in Waterloo Station

By: Bert Almon

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A Ghost in Waterloo Station

By: Bert Almon

The poems in A Ghost in Waterloo Station take the everyday world as their point of departure, but the place of arrival is never the shore you started from. Vivid invocations and meditations on childhood, art, and travel bring together places and people as likeable and unexpected as the wry poetic sensibility recommending them to our attention. Greece is a country where clarity / is inescapable unless it forces your lids shut. Swallows enter their nests high on the white stacked walls at Indian Lodge as if the ghost/ of a remorseful pickpocket/ were slipping a wallet/ back where it come from. There is much humour here, and warmth, combined with an awareness of loss and the weight of history—all delivered in a voice distinctive in its combination of narrative, whimsy, and psychological observation.

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Brindle and Glass

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1926972597

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Head First Java

By: Kathy Sierra,Bert Bates

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Head First Java

By: Kathy Sierra,Bert Bates

Head First Java" engages readers on many levels, bringing the latest learning theories and research together to create not just a book to read, but a multi-sensory learning experience.

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0596004656

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9780596004651

College Bound

By: Bert Miller

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College Bound

By: Bert Miller

College Bound is a touching, coming-of-age story, which tells the tale of a young, working class man who overcomes financial challenges, alcoholism, and a devastating accident to attend college. The main character endures long, punishing hours in the hard rock construction trade and spends his evenings working on muscle cars but he dreams of a better life. He eventually sells everything he owns including his prized Shelby mustang to swap a life of cutting stone and pouring concrete for a college education. The novel follows the main character on a journey of self-discovery as he works his way through college, juggling a menagerie of jobs including set-up crew for a rock band and a stint in an army medical battalion, while living in a hard partying fraternity house that is thrown off campus for drug, alcohol and sexual code violations. This work of New Adult fiction is an authentic account of the college experience from the perspective of a “Joe Sixpack” who never thought becoming a “Joe College” graduate was in his life plan. College Bound is refreshingly honest and will have you laughing one minute and crying the next.

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Saguaro Books, LLC

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1545754306

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Direct Selling Channels

By: Bert Rosenbloom

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Direct Selling Channels

By: Bert Rosenbloom

Here is the first book to examine direct selling--the distribution of consumer products and services through personal, face-to-face sales away from fixed business locations. Direct selling has long been a major marketing channel for companies around the world. In the U.S. alone, by the start of the present decade, direct selling accounted for $12 billion in sales volume produced by almost five million independent direct salespeople. In this fundamental resource, leading authorities who have spent years studying direct selling channels provide in-depth insights, analyses, and research findings on such key topics as customer response patterns, sales motivation, personal selling methods, minority participation, multinational direct selling, and directions for future research in direct selling. This marketing channel continues to thrive and grow and Direct Selling Channels prepares readers for the challenges of the twenty-first century by providing the latest and most in-depth thought, analysis, and research on direct selling that is not available from any other source. The breadth and depth of coverage of direct selling found in this volume will help readers gain knowledge, insight, and practical wisdom about an area of marketing where superficial, stereotypical myths have so often been passed off as truth. The material presented is directly relevant to both long-range strategic planning and day-to-day management issues so it can be put to immediate use for managing direct selling channels more effectively. Direct Selling Channels represents the state-of-the-art thought and research in this area. Reader’s understanding of direct selling channels will be enriched by chapters that explore: the salient issues facing direct selling today research findings on consumers’attitudes toward direct selling methods the reasons why people become direct salespeople innovative concepts such as trust-based relationship selling the relationship between sex-role self concept and sales performance how to identify international markets for new products sold through direct selling channels

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Routledge

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113658613X

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European Directors and Their Films

Essays on Cinema

By: Bert Cardullo

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European Directors and Their Films

Essays on Cinema

By: Bert Cardullo

In European Directors and Their Films: Essays on Cinema, Bert Cardullo offers readable analyses of some of the most important film artists and individual films of the last several decades. Beyond simple biographical capsules and plot summaries, these readings demonstrate with elegance and clarity what cinema means as well as shows, explaining how international moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810885263

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The Winning Tradition

A History of Kentucky Wildcat Basketball

By: Bert Nelli,Steve Nelli

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The Winning Tradition

A History of Kentucky Wildcat Basketball

By: Bert Nelli,Steve Nelli

In its 95-year history, the Kentucky Wildcats have won more games than any other college basketball team. Their winning percentage is the highest in the country. They share the record for the most 20-win seasons. They are second in all-time number one rankings. And despite no longer holding the record for winningest coach, Adolph Rupp will always be a giant in the pantheon of college basketball. When The Winning Tradition first appeared in 1984, it was the first complete history of the Wildcat basketball program. Bert Nelli pointed out that, contrary to the accepted mythology, Adolph Rupp arrived at a program already strong and storied. Nor did Rupp bring an entirely new style of play to the Bluegrass. Instead he adopted—and perfected—that of his predecessor, John Mauer. What Rupp did bring was an ability to charm the news media and a fierce determination to turn out winning teams, making him the undisputed "Baron of Basketball." This new and expanded edition of The Winning Tradition brings the history of Kentucky basketball up to date. Nelli and his son Steve turn the same unflinching gaze that characterized the honesty of the first edition on the scandals that marred Eddie Sutton's tenure, the return to glory under Rick Pitino, and a full accounting of Tubby Smith's history-making first year. The start of basketball season is welcomed in the Bluegrass with an unmatched enthusiasm and intensity. Each year brings a new team, new stars, and new glory. Other books have documented individual seasons, individual players, or individual coaches. But The Winning Tradition remains the only complete and authoritative history of the most celebrated college basketball program in the world. A book no fan can afford to be without, The Winning Tradition brings alive the agonies, frustrations, and glories of each season of Kentucky basketball, from the first team (fielded by women) to the surprising victory in the 1998 NCAA tournament.

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0813188237

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Beauty or Statistics

Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000

By: Bert Theunissen

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Beauty or Statistics

Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000

By: Bert Theunissen

In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field. The livestock breeds that take centre stage in this book – dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses – were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeders to improve their animals, however, were much older. Tracing the history of practical stockbreeding, the role of Mendelism in scientific breeding, and the emergence of quantitative genetics, Beauty or Statistics shows that the story of the scientific modernization of livestock breeding can be more fruitfully analysed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487535392

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Playwriting

The Structure of Action

By: Sam Smiley,Norman A. Bert

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Playwriting

The Structure of Action

By: Sam Smiley,Norman A. Bert

The incidence of melanoma has increased by 2000% since 1930 and one person dies each hour from the disease. This cutting edge guide provides scientifically accurate information which patients and their families need, to understand melanoma and its treatment and to receive necessary reassurance. It is also a vitally important resource for those who want information about preventing the disease or finding it early when it is most curable. Catherine M. Poole, a melanoma survivor and melanoma patient advocate for many organisations, and Dr. DuPont Guerry, an internationally renowned melanoma expert, have collaborated to provide current, correct and easily understood information on the disease. The authors have had first-hand contact with a multitude of patients with melanoma, and they understand exactly how to empower patients to gain control of their situations and obtain the best treatment.

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Yale University Press

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0300128509

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9780300128505

William Humphrey

Destroyer of Myths

By: Bert Almon

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William Humphrey

Destroyer of Myths

By: Bert Almon

This is the first full-length study of the life and writings of the Texas novelist, William Humphrey, who died August 21, 1997. Based on research in Humphrey's vast archives at the University of Texas, it provides the first full picture of his life and identifies many untraced sources of his work. The guiding principle is an exploration of Humphrey's satire on life-destroying myths: the myths of the hunter, the South, the cowboy hero, the Depression-era outlaw, and, supremely, the myth of Texas. To his dismay, Humphrey was often seen as a celebrator of these myths.

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157441044X

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Glen Gair

A Tale from a Highland Glen

By: Bert Scorgie

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Glen Gair

A Tale from a Highland Glen

By: Bert Scorgie

Glen Gair is an imaginary Scottish Highland Glen situated in the Great Glen Area. Although the Glen is fictitious my story relates to what took place after the Second World War. In the Nineteen Fifties the Government decided to embark on a massive Construction Programme where they granted licenses to allow the building of Hydro Electric Dams and Power stations throughout the Highland region, this programme lasted for twenty five years. The coming of the Schemes transformed the Highland Glens beyond all recognition and brought wealth to many of the remote parts of the Scottish Highlands. The work site was short lived and most were completed in about five years. The workmen would move on and many of the younger local men would go with them, lost to their native Glen forever. Creating a sort of Mini Highland clearance.

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1469179946

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Geopolitics

A Guide to the Issues

By: Bert Chapman

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Geopolitics

A Guide to the Issues

By: Bert Chapman

This concise introduction to the growth and evolution of geopolitics as a discipline includes biographical information on its leading historical and contemporary practitioners and detailed analysis of its literature. An important book on a topic that has been neglected for too long, Geopolitics: A Guide to the Issues will provide readers with an enhanced understanding of how geography influences personal, national, and international economics, politics, and security. The work begins with the history of geopolitics from the late 19th century to the present, then discusses the intellectual renaissance the discipline is experiencing today due to the prevalence of international security threats involving territorial, airborne, space-based, and waterborne possession and acquisition. The book emphasizes current and emerging international geopolitical trends, examining how the U.S. and other countries, including Australia, Brazil, China, India, and Russia, are integrating geopolitics into national security planning. It profiles international geopolitical scholars and their work, and it analyzes emerging academic, military, and governmental literature, including "gray" literature and social networking technologies, such as blogs and Twitter.

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