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Creating a Learning Society

A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald

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Creating a Learning Society

A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald

“A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader’s Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work’s central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text’s central thesis—that every policy affects learning—is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward. “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”—Harvard Business Review

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Columbia University Press

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0231540620

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Modelling, Simulation and Control of Urban Wastewater Systems

By: Manfred Schütze,David Butler,Bruce M. Beck

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Modelling, Simulation and Control of Urban Wastewater Systems

By: Manfred Schütze,David Butler,Bruce M. Beck

by Professor Poul Harremoes Environmental engineering has been a discipline dominated by empirical approaches to engineering. Historically speaking, the development of urban drainage structures was very successful on the basis of pure empiricism. Just think of the impressive structures built by the Romans long before the discipline of hydraulics came into being. The fact is that the Romans did not know much about the theories of hydraulics, which were discovered as late as the mid-1800s. However, with the Renaissance came a new era. Astronomy (Galileos) and basic physics (Newton) started the scientific revolution and in the mid-1800s Navier and Stokes developed the application of Newtons laws to hydrodynamics, and later, St. Venant the first basic physics description of the motion of water in open channels. The combination of basic physical understanding of the phenomena involved in the flow of water in pipes and the experience gained by "trial and error", the engineering approach to urban drainage improved the design and performance of the engineering drainage infrastructure. However, due to the mathematical complications of the basic equations, solutions were available only to quite simple cases of practical significance until the introduction of new principles of calculation made possible by computers and their ability to crunch numbers. Now even intricate hydraulic phenomena can be simulated with a reasonable degree of confidence that the simulations are in agreement with performance in practice, if the models are adequately calibrated with sample performance data.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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144710157X

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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

By: Bruce C. Gilbert,M. J. Davies,D. M. Murphy

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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

By: Bruce C. Gilbert,M. J. Davies,D. M. Murphy

Reflecting the growing volume of published work in this field, researchers will find this book an invaluable source of information on current methods and applications.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0854043152

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Organometallics in Synthesis

Fourth Manual

By: Bruce H. Lipshutz

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Organometallics in Synthesis

Fourth Manual

By: Bruce H. Lipshutz

Provides detailed procedures and useful hints on organometallic reactions of Cu, Rh, Ni, and Au With contributions from leading organic chemists who specialize in the use of organometallics in organic synthesis, this acclaimed Manual offers an especially valuable resource for all synthetic chemists, providing a practical reference for conducting transition metal mediated synthetic reactions. This Fourth Manual is divided into four chapters: Chapter I: Organocopper Chemistry Chapter II: Organorhodium Chemistry Chapter III: Organonickel Chemistry Chapter IV: Organogold Chemistry Each of these newly written chapters features detailed, practical examples from the literature that guide readers through the preparation of organometallic reagents and their applications in organic synthesis. Procedures are presented in the Manual's acclaimed step-by-step recipe format, enabling both novices and experienced synthetic chemists to perform all the reactions with ease. In addition, the Manual features: Extensive background information on the organometallic chemistry of Cu, Rh, Ni, and Au References to the primary literature facilitating further investigation of all the reactions covered in the Manual Mechanistic considerations to help readers better understand how the desired products are formed Future research opportunities for each organometallic class Organometallics in Synthesis provides extensive and detailed information enabling synthetic chemists to readily assess the applicability of a synthetic method to a given need, and then to perform the reaction with confidence. The Manual covers both established organometallic procedures along with the most recently published protocols. Industrial processes are increasingly relying on organometallic chemistry. In this Manual, readers will find applications to such fields as natural products total synthesis, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, biotechnology, agricultural science, polymers, and materials science.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118651448

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Such Is Death

A Carolus Deane Mystery

By: Leo Bruce

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Such Is Death

A Carolus Deane Mystery

By: Leo Bruce

Someone very, very clever planned this murder: the place, a remote shelter on the promenade at Selby-on-Sea; the occasion, a blustery evening in late November; the victim, somebody ready-made for a crack-of-doom from a coal hammer. Diary notes indicate someone had been planning the "ideal" murder, one which no police, no detective could solve. The murderer's gratification would be wholly cerebral, a triumph of mind over matter. However, the murderer had not counted on the clever, tenacious, unpredictable mind of that unique schoolmaster, Carolus Deene.

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Chicago Review Press

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161373302X

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The American Stud Book

Vol. III

By: Sandres D. Bruce

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The American Stud Book

Vol. III

By: Sandres D. Bruce

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385482208

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Joseph Conrad

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Bruce Teets

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Joseph Conrad

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Bruce Teets

Originally published in 1990, this is a comprehensive and annotated bibliography of the writings on Joseph Conrad and his works. Covering the years from 1895 to 1975 it also includes indexes of authors, secondary works, periodicals and newspapers, foreign languages and primary titles. Part of a series of annotated bibliographies on English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 this will be a valuable resource for students of literature.

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1000040496

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The Split Self

From Goethe to Broch

By: Peter Bruce Waldeck

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The Split Self

From Goethe to Broch

By: Peter Bruce Waldeck

The theme of the split self -- defined as a division of personality between an emancipated adult incapable of love and a child still endowed with this basic capacity but oppressed by the father figure -- is analyzed in a series of works of German literature.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838722148

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Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Second Edition

A Neuropsychological Framework

By: Bruce F. Pennington

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Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Second Edition

A Neuropsychological Framework

By: Bruce F. Pennington

This book has been replaced by Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3791-4.

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Guilford Press

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1606237861

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Enduring Polygamy

Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis

By: Bruce Whitehouse

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Enduring Polygamy

Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis

By: Bruce Whitehouse

Why hasn’t polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the customs, gender norms and hierarchies, kinship structures, and laws affecting marriage, and situates polygamy within structures of inequality that shape marital options, especially for young Malian women. Through an approach of cultural relativism, the book offers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested form of marriage. Without shying away from questions of patriarchy and women’s oppression, it presents polygamy from the everyday vantage points of Bamako residents themselves, allowing readers to make informed judgments about it and to appreciate the full spectrum of human cultural diversity.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978831153

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Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

By: Donald E. Kieso,Jerry J. Weygandt,Terry D. Warfield,Irene M. Wiecek,Bruce J. McConomy

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Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

By: Donald E. Kieso,Jerry J. Weygandt,Terry D. Warfield,Irene M. Wiecek,Bruce J. McConomy

Intermediate Accounting, 12th Edition, Volume 2, continues to be the number one intermediate accounting resource in the Canadian market. Viewed as the most reliable resource by accounting students, faculty, and professionals, this course helps students understand, prepare, and use financial information by linking education with the real-world accounting environment. This new edition now incorporates new data analytics content and up-to-date coverage of leases and revenue recognition.

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1119497043

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Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

By: Jerry J. Weygandt,Donald E. Kieso,Irene M. Wiecek,Terry D. Warfield,Bruce J. McConomy

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Intermediate Accounting, Volume 2

By: Jerry J. Weygandt,Donald E. Kieso,Irene M. Wiecek,Terry D. Warfield,Bruce J. McConomy

Intermediate Accounting, 13th Canadian Edition has always been, and continues to be, the gold standard that helps connect students to the what, the why, and the how of accounting information. Through new edition updates, you will be able to spark efficient and effective learning and inspire and prepare students to be the accounting professionals of tomorrow. To help develop a deeper understanding of course concepts and move beyond basic understanding, students work through a high-quality assessment at varying levels, helping them learn more efficiently and create connections between topics and real-world application. This course also presents an emphasis on decision-making through Integrated Cases and Research and Analysis questions that allow students to analyze business transactions, apply both IFRS and ASPE, and explore how different accounting standards impact real companies. Throughout the course, students also work through a variety of hands-on activities including Data Analytics Problems, Analytics in Action features, Excel templates, and a new emphasis on sustainability, all within the chapter context. These applications help students develop an accounting decision-making mindset and improve the professional judgement and communication skills needed to be successful in the evolving accounting world.

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1119740444

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My Brain is Open

The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos

By: Bruce Schechter

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My Brain is Open

The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos

By: Bruce Schechter

Traces the eccentric life of legendary mathematician Paul Erdos, a wandering genius who fled his native Hungary during the Holocaust and helped devise the mathematical basis of computer science.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684859807

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DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

By: R. Bruce Elder

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DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

By: R. Bruce Elder

This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema’s lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain in the reception of it. Far from anxious about film’s provenance in popular entertainment, some writers and artists proclaimed that the cinema was the most important art for the moderns, as it exemplified the vibrancy of contemporary life. This view of the cinema was especially common among those whose commitments were to advanced artistic practices. Their notions about how to recast the art media (or the forms forged from those media’s materials) and the urgency of doing so formed the principal part of the conceptual core of the artistic programs advanced by the vanguard art movements of the first half of the twentieth century. This book, a companion to the author’s previous, Harmony & Dissent, examines the Dada and Surrealist movements as responses to the advent of the cinema.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554586410

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Mergers and Merger Remedies in the EU

Assessing the Consequences for Competition

By: Stephen Davies,Bruce Lyons

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Mergers and Merger Remedies in the EU

Assessing the Consequences for Competition

By: Stephen Davies,Bruce Lyons

. . . for practitioners considering whether to use economists to evaluate merger proposals, this book provides a relevant insight into the types of information that would be necessary to develop even a basic simulation model, and some guidance as to circumstances where such technique may be appropriate. Vanessa Holliday, Competition and Consumer Law Journal . . . highly recommended for practitioners as well as academics interested in merger remedies. Arndt Christiansen, European Competition Law Review Headlines are made when the European Commission prohibits a merger, but this is actually very rare. Clearances subject to conditions (i.e. remedies) happen ten times as frequently, but have received far less attention in academic literature. This book provides an empirical assessment of the effectiveness of merger remedies, employing a novel simulation methodology based on formal economic theory. The authors were given unprecedented access to data available to case handlers, concerning a range of remedied mergers covering 21 markets. Using this they have adapted simple simulation techniques to appraise the competitive effects of these mergers and the impact of potential and actual remedies. Ex-ante results are then compared with ex-post impact to examine the actual effectiveness of remedies. The results provide a critique of both simple market share analysis and remedy design. This research thus contributes to economics research and practical merger policy. This rare empirical assessment of the efficacy of remedies in competition policy will be of great significance and interest to policy makers, as well as to economists, lawyers, practitioners and students in competition law.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1847209971

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Neuropsychology in the Care of People with Epilepsy

By: Christoph Helmstaedter, Bruce Hermann, Maryse Lassonde, Philippe Kahane, Alexis Arzimanoglou

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Neuropsychology in the Care of People with Epilepsy

By: Christoph Helmstaedter, Bruce Hermann, Maryse Lassonde, Philippe Kahane, Alexis Arzimanoglou

Having appeared in the 1930s in Montreal, standardised neuropsychological evaluation has become an essential tool in the clinical diagnosis and evaluation of surgical epileptic patients. Nevertheless, despite great progress over the last 20 to 30 years in the diagnosis and medical treatment of epilepsy, clinical neuropsychology still remains largely associated with surgical epilepsy, particularly surgery of the temporal lobe. Clinical neurology has still not managed to clear a way in the daily practice with patients with all types of epilepsy despite significant advances in cognitive neuroscience and a large number of clinical studies on epilepsy and cognition. How is it that there are only rarely major advances in the field of clinical neuropsychology? It has long been time for this question to be asked, and for an attempt to be made to bring about changes. This was the aim of the Toronto workshop and the result of this book. Every approach was debated, providing important elements to reflect on and allowing a great forum for exchanges. This book includes the communications from the main participants and comments from some others on specific subjects.

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John Libbey Eurotext

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274200808X

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Wine Analysis and Production

By: Bruce Zoecklein,Kenneth C. Fugelsang,Barry H. Gump,Fred S. Nury

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Wine Analysis and Production

By: Bruce Zoecklein,Kenneth C. Fugelsang,Barry H. Gump,Fred S. Nury

Winemaking as a form of food preseIVation is as old as civilization. Wine has been an integral component of people's daily diet since its discovery and has also played an important role in the development of society, reli gion, and culture. We are currently drinking the best wines ever produced. We are able to do this because of our increased understanding of grape growing, biochemistry and microbiology of fermentation, our use of ad vanced technology in production, and our ability to measure the various major and minor components that comprise this fascinating beverage. Historically, winemakers succeeded with slow but gradual improvements brought about by combinations of folklore, obseIVation, and luck. How ever, they also had monumental failures resulting in the necessity to dis pose of wine or convert it into distilled spirits or vinegar. It was assumed that even the most marginally drinkable wines could be marketed. This is not the case for modern producers. The costs of grapes, the technology used in production, oak barrels, corks, bottling equipment, etc. , have in creased dramatically and continue to rise. Consumers are now accustomed to supplies of inexpensive and high-quality varietals and blends; they con tinue to demand better. Modern winemakers now rely on basic science and xvi Preface xvii the systematic application of their art to produce products pleasing to the increasingly knowledgeable consumer base that enjoys wine as part of its civilized society.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475769679

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The Formula One Record Book (2023)

Grand Prix Results, Team & Driver Stats, All-Time Records

By: Bruce Jones

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The Formula One Record Book (2023)

Grand Prix Results, Team & Driver Stats, All-Time Records

By: Bruce Jones

With more than one thousand sets of Grand Prix results, this is the ultimate reference for Formula One fans. The Formula One Record Book is an essential resource for any motorsport fan. This massive stats and records bible includes the full results of every Grand Prix in F1 history and much more besides. Featuring detailed driver and constructor statistics sourced from the industry-leading data providers at Motorsport Stats, championship standings and season reviews, it offers a comprehensive overview of Formula One history in a single, strikingly designed package. Alongside the facts and statistics you'll also find fascinating trivia and commentary from Bruce Jones, author of the bestselling Formula One Grand Prix Guide. Add in all-time records for drivers and constructors, and you have have a complete Formula One chronicle spanning more than 70 years of incredible racing.

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Welbeck

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1802794441

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The Rise of American Philosophy

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930

By: Bruce Kuklick

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The Rise of American Philosophy

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930

By: Bruce Kuklick

Concentrating on the era when American academic philosophy was nearly equated with Harvard, the ideas, lives, and social milieu of Pierce, James, Royce, Whitehead, and others are critically analyzed

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Yale University Press

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0300024134

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Jane Austen & Company

Collected Essays

By: Bruce Stovel

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Jane Austen & Company

Collected Essays

By: Bruce Stovel

Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis—comic novelists all. And comedy is the connection between these twelve elegant essays by the distinguished academic Bruce Stovel, who most lovingly engages Austen herself through his studies of her comic novels, her art of conversation, her pleasure principle, and her prayers. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel, the collection includes an introduction by Juliet McMaster and an afterword by Isobel Grundy.

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University of Alberta

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0888646771

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The Politics of Population

State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875

By: Bruce Curtis

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The Politics of Population

State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875

By: Bruce Curtis

Curtis discusses census making as a political project, investigating its place in and impact on party politics and ethnic, religious, and sectional struggles.

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University of Toronto Press

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The Converse of the Pen

Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-century Familiar Letter

By: Bruce Redford

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The Converse of the Pen

Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-century Familiar Letter

By: Bruce Redford

Though historians of English literature have long labeled the eighteenth century the golden age of letter writing, few have paid more than lip service to the unique epistolary craftsmanship of the period. Bruce Redford corrects this omission with the first sustained investigation of the eighteenth-century familiar letter as a literary form in its own right. His study supplies the reader with a critical approach and biographical perspective for appreciating the genre that defined an era. Redford examines six masters of the "talking letter": Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, William Cowper, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, James Boswell, and Samuel Johnson. All seek the paradoxical goal of artful spontaneity. Each exploits the distinctive resources of the eighteenth-century letter writer: a flexible conversational manner, a repertoire of literary and social allusion, a flair for dramatic impersonation. The voices of these letter writers "make distance, presence," in Samuel Richardson's phrase, by devising substitutes for gesture, vocal inflection, and physical context, turning each letter into a performance--an act. The resulting verbal constructs create a mysterious tension between the claims of fact and the possibilities of art. Redford recovers a neglected literary form and makes possible a deeper understanding of major eighteenth-century writers who devoted much of their talent and time to "the converse of the pen.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226706788

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The Development of Psychopathology

Nature and Nurture

By: Bruce Franklin Pennington

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The Development of Psychopathology

Nature and Nurture

By: Bruce Franklin Pennington

This highly readable volume illuminates the interplay among biological, psychological, and social-contextual processes in the development of such prevalent problems as depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, dyslexia, and autism. Leading developmental scientist Bruce F. Pennington explains the variety of methods currently being used to investigate the mind-brain connection, including behavioral and molecular genetics, studies of brain structure and function, neuropsychology, and treatment studies. Shedding new light on where mental disorders come from, how they develop, and why they are so common, the book also examines the implications for treatment and prevention.

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Guilford Press

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1572307552

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Knowledge of the External World

By: Bruce Aune

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Knowledge of the External World

By: Bruce Aune

Many philosophers believe that the traditional problem of our knowledge of the external world was dissolved by Wittgestein and others. They argue that it was not really a problem - just a linguistic `confusion' that did not actually require a solution. Bruce Aune argues that they are wrong. He casts doubt on the generally accepted reasons for putting the problem aside and proposes an entirely new approach. By considering the history of the problem from Descartes to Kant, Aune shows that analogous arguments create difficulties for the contemporary philosophical consensus. He makes it clear that the problem remains acute, particualarly for our understanding of scientific evidence. The solution he proposes draws upon contemporary philosophy of science and probability theory.

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Reduction, Rationality and Game Theory in Marxian Economics

By: Bruce Philp

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Reduction, Rationality and Game Theory in Marxian Economics

By: Bruce Philp

The main areas of interest in Marxian economics are examined, paying particular attention to class conflict, analytical Marxism and game theory and will be of interest to a wide variety of economists and social scientists.

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Economy/Society

Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure

By: Bruce G. Carruthers,Sarah L. Babb

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Economy/Society

Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure

By: Bruce G. Carruthers,Sarah L. Babb

In this long-awaited second edition of Economy/Society Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure, authors Carruthers and Babb continue to offer an accessible introduction to the way social arrangements affect economic activity, and shows that economic exchanges are deeply embedded in social relationships. Understanding how society shapes the economy helps us answer many important questions. For example, how does advertising get people to buy things? How do people use their social connections to get jobs? How did large bureaucratic organizations come to be so pervasive in modern economies—and what difference does it make? How can we explain the persistence of economic inequalities between men and women and across racial groups? Why do some countries become rich while others stay poor? This book presents sociological answers to questions like these, and encourages its readers to view the economy through a sociological lens.

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SAGE Publications

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1452281130

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The Boy Detectives MEGAPACK ®: 12 Great Mysteries

By: Mark Twain,Roy G. Snell,Bruce Campbell,Capwell Wyckoff,Hugh Lloyd

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The Boy Detectives MEGAPACK ®: 12 Great Mysteries

By: Mark Twain,Roy G. Snell,Bruce Campbell,Capwell Wyckoff,Hugh Lloyd

12 tales featuring boy detectives, from Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer, Dective" to entries in the Mercer Boys, Ken Holt, Hal Keene, and Skippy Dare series, and lots more -- over 1,400 pages of great reading! Here are: THE MERCER BOYS AT WOODCREST, by Capwell Wyckoff THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON BOX, by Bruce Campbell THE AIR MYSTERY OF ISLE LA MOTTE, by E. J. Craine THE LOST MINE OF THE AMAZON, by Hugh Lloyd PRISONERS IN DEVIL’S BOG, by Hugh Lloyd BOB DEXTER AND THE STORM MOUNTAIN MYSTERY, by Willard F. Baker THE MYSTERY HUNTERS AT THE HAUNTED LODGE, by Capwell Wyckoff TRIPLE SPIES, by Roy G. Snell DETECTIVES, INC., by William Heyliger TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE, by Mark Twain If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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1479407585

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Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting's Clinical Anesthesia

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By: Bruce F. Cullen,M. Christine Stock,Rafael Ortega,Sam R. Sharar,Natalie F. Holt,Christopher W. Connor,Naveen Nathan

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Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting's Clinical Anesthesia

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By: Bruce F. Cullen,M. Christine Stock,Rafael Ortega,Sam R. Sharar,Natalie F. Holt,Christopher W. Connor,Naveen Nathan

Covering the full spectrum of clinical issues and options in anesthesiology, Barash, Cullen, and Stoelting’s Clinical Anesthesia, Ninth Edition, edited by Drs. Bruce F. Cullen, M. Christine Stock, Rafael Ortega, Sam R. Sharar, Natalie F. Holt, Christopher W. Connor, and Naveen Nathan, provides insightful coverage of pharmacology, physiology, co-existing diseases, and surgical procedures. This award-winning text delivers state-of-the-art content unparalleled in clarity and depth of coverage that equip you to effectively apply today’s standards of care and make optimal clinical decisions on behalf of your patients.

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1975199081

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Evidence for Faith 101

Understanding Apologetics in Plain Language

By: Bruce Bickel,Stan Jantz

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Evidence for Faith 101

Understanding Apologetics in Plain Language

By: Bruce Bickel,Stan Jantz

Free of clichés or rhetorical arguments, a primer on Christian apologetics tackles vital questions people of all ages and beliefs are asking, presenting evidence from the world, history, and lives of people who have been changed by something bigger than themselves. Original.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736922954

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William Desmond Taylor

A Dossier

By: Bruce Long

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William Desmond Taylor

A Dossier

By: Bruce Long

Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was a leading silent film director remembered as the victim of Hollywood's most sensational unsolved murder, which shook the nation and shattered the reputations of several top Hollywood stars. Until now, Taylor's film career and leadership role in the Hollywood film industry have been completely overshadowed by the scandal of his death. By reprinting over 400 items from contemporary newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, the book reveals Taylor's life in Hollywood_from his arrival as a minor actor in 1912 until his death in 1922 as one of Hollywood's top directors. These annotated clippings and articles, many containing Taylor's own words, provide substantial insight into Hollywood life and film production during the decade that transformed Hollywood into the movie capital of the world. Included in the book is the most extensive filmography of Taylor's work ever published. Taylor's murder is also examined, including a critical analysis of two published 'solutions' to the crime.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461674344

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The Lacanian Subject

Between Language and Jouissance

By: Bruce Fink

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The Lacanian Subject

Between Language and Jouissance

By: Bruce Fink

This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own knotted web of our parents' desires that led them to bring us into this world. Lucidly guiding readers through the labyrinth of Lacanian theory--unpacking such central notions as the Other, object a, the unconscious as structures like a language, alienation and separation, the paternal metaphor, jouissance, and sexual difference--Fink demonstrates in-depth knowledge of Lacan's theoretical and clinical work. Indeed, this is the first book to appear in English that displays a firm grasp of both theory and practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author being one of the only Americans to have undergone full training with Lacan's school in Paris. Fink Leads the reader step by step into Lacan's conceptual system to explain how one comes to be a subject--leading to psychosis. Presenting Lacan's theory in the context of his clinical preoccupations, Fink provides the most balanced, sophisticated, and penetrating view of Lacan's work to date--invaluable to the initiated and the uninitiated alike.

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Princeton University Press

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1400885671

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Our Changing Views of Photons

A Tutorial Memoir

By: Bruce W. Shore

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Our Changing Views of Photons

A Tutorial Memoir

By: Bruce W. Shore

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light. Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises in Photonics and Quantum Technology, with career and investment opportunities. Notions of photons have evolved from the energy-packet crowds of Planck and Einstein, the later field modes of Dirac, the seeming conflict of wave and particle photons, to the ubiquitous laser photons of today. Readers who take interest in contemporary technology will benefit from learning what photons are now considered to be, and how our views of photons have changed — in learning about the various operational definitions that have been used for photons and their association with a variety of quantum-state manipulations that include Quantum Information, astronomical sources and crowds of photons, the boxed fields of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and single photons on demand, the photons of Feynman and Glauber, and the photon constituents of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The narrative points to contemporary photons as causers of change to atoms, as carriers of messages, and as subject to controllable creation and alteration — a considerable diversity of photons, not just one kind. Our Changing Views of Photons: A Tutorial Memoir presents those general topics as a memoir of the author's involvement with physics and the photons of theoretical Quantum Optics, written conversationally for readers with no assumed prior exposure to science. It offers lay readers a glimpse of scientific discovery — of how ideas become practical, as a small scientific community reconsiders its assumptions and offers the theoretical ideas that are then developed, revised, and adopted into technology for daily use. For readers who want a more detailed understanding of the theory, three substantial appendices provide tutorials that, assuming no prior familiarity, proceed from a very elementary start to basics of discrete states and abstract vector spaces; Lie groups; notions of quantum theory and the Schrödinger equation for quantum-state manipulation; Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism, with wave modes that become photons, possibly exhibiting quantum entanglement; and the coupling of atoms and fields to create quasiparticles. The appendices can be seen as a companion to traditional textbooks on Quantum Optics.

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Oxford University Press

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0192607642

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Chance, Strategy, and Choice

An Introduction to the Mathematics of Games and Elections

By: Samuel Bruce Smith

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Chance, Strategy, and Choice

An Introduction to the Mathematics of Games and Elections

By: Samuel Bruce Smith

Games and elections are fundamental activities in society with applications in economics, political science, and sociology. These topics offer familiar, current, and lively subjects for a course in mathematics. This classroom-tested textbook, primarily intended for a general education course in game theory at the freshman or sophomore level, provides an elementary treatment of games and elections. Starting with basics such as gambling, zero-sum and combinatorial games, Nash equilibria, social dilemmas, and fairness and impossibility theorems for elections, the text then goes further into the theory with accessible proofs of advanced topics such as the Sprague–Grundy theorem and Arrow's impossibility theorem. • Uses an integrative approach to probability, game, and social choice theory • Provides a gentle introduction to the logic of mathematical proof, thus equipping readers with the necessary tools for further mathematical studies • Contains numerous exercises and examples of varying levels of difficulty • Requires only a high school mathematical background.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316033708

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