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Crucible of Fire

Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service

By: Bruce Hensler

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Crucible of Fire

Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service

By: Bruce Hensler

Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created sweeping changes in the methods of constructing buildings, planning city streets, engineering water distribution systems, underwriting fire insurance, and firefighting itself. Crucible of Fire describes how the practical knowledge gained from fighting nineteenth-century fires gave form and function to modern fire protection efforts. Changes in materials and building design resulted directly from tragedies such as fires in supposedly fireproof hotels. Thousands of buildings burned, millions of dollars were lost, the fire insurance industry faltered, and the nature of volunteerism changed radically before municipal authorities took the necessary actions. The great fires formed a crucible of learning for firefighters, engineers, architects, underwriters, and citizens. Veteran firefighter Bruce Hensler shows how the modern American fire service today is a direct result of the lessons of history and a rethinking of the efficacy of volunteerism in fighting fires. Crucible of Fire is an eye-opening look at today's fire service and a thorough examination of what firefighters, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens can do to protect their homes and communities from the mistakes of the past.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597976849

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Crucible of Fire

Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service

By: Bruce Hensler

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Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service

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Spotswood

By: Bruce Eckman,Jack Eichenlaub,Roy Dey

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Spotswood

By: Bruce Eckman,Jack Eichenlaub,Roy Dey

Images of America: Spotswood features a century's worth of photographs and stories about the town, which has grown from a summer resort area to a thriving World War II-era commercial center to the modern bedroom community that it is today. Included are views of historic tobacco mills and the 1890s Carriage House, which still stands today. Vintage photographs of early people and industries are seen, along with the borough's first school-a 1901 four-room building that became the Margaretta M. Birchall School, which closed its doors in 1979.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738510912

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9780738510910

Obadiah, Jonah and Micah

By: T. Desmond Alexander,David W. Baker,Bruce Waltke

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Obadiah, Jonah and Micah

By: T. Desmond Alexander,David W. Baker,Bruce Waltke

Obadiah's oracle against Edom. Jonah's mission to the city of Nineveh. Micah's message to Samaria and Jerusalem. The texts of these minor but important prophets receive a fresh and penetrating analysis in this introduction and commentary. The authors consider each book's historical setting, composition, structure and authorship, as well as important themes and issues. Each book is then expounded in the concise and informative style that has become the hallmark of the Tyndale series. The original, unrevised text of this volume has been completely retypeset and printed in a larger, more attractive format with the new cover design for the series.

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234

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InterVarsity Press

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0830894810

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9780830894819

Institutional Review Board: Management and Function

Management and Function

By: Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIM&R),,Elizabeth A. Bankert,Bruce G. Gordon,Elisa A. Hurley

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Institutional Review Board: Management and Function

Management and Function

By: Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIM&R),,Elizabeth A. Bankert,Bruce G. Gordon,Elisa A. Hurley

Institutional Review Board (IRB) members and oversight personnel face challenges with research involving new technology, management of big data, globalization of research, and more complex federal regulations. Institutional Review Board: Management and Function, Third Edition provides everything IRBs and administrators need to know about efficiently managing and effectively operating a modern and compliant system of protecting human research subjects. This trusted reference manual has been extensively updated to reflect the 2018 revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (Common Rule). An essential resource for both seasoned and novice IRB administrators and members, Institutional Review Board: Management and Function provides comprehensive and understandable interpretations of the regulations, clear descriptions of the ethical principles on which the regulations are based, and practical step-by-step guidance for effectively implementing regulatory oversight.

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1113

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284181154

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9781284181159

Apples and Oranges

Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

By: Bruce Lincoln

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Apples and Oranges

Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

By: Bruce Lincoln

Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished scholar of religion Bruce Lincoln argues in Apples and Oranges for a comparatism of a more modest sort. Lincoln presents critiques of recent attempts at grand comparison, and enlists numerous theoretical examples of how a more modest, cautious, and discriminating form of comparison might work and what it can accomplish. He does this through studies of shamans, werewolves, human sacrifices, apocalyptic prophecies, sacred kings, and surveys of materials as diverse and wide-ranging as Beowulf, Herodotus’s account of the Scythians, the Native American Ghost Dance, and the Spanish Civil War. Ultimately, Lincoln argues that concentrating one's focus on a relatively small number of items that the researcher can compare closely, offering equal attention to relations of similarity and difference, not only grants dignity to all parties considered, it yields more reliable and more interesting—if less grandiose—results. Giving equal attention to the social, historical, and political contexts and subtexts of religious and literary texts also allows scholars not just to assess their content, but also to understand the forces, problems, and circumstances that motivated and shaped them.

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University of Chicago Press

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022656407X

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9780226564074

To Serve and Protect

Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice

By: Bruce L. Benson

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To Serve and Protect

Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice

By: Bruce L. Benson

Traces the accelerating trend towards privatization in the criminal justice system In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social experiment which, Bruce Benson argues, neither protects the innocent nor dispenses justice. In this comprehensive and timely book, Benson analyzes the accelerating trend toward privatization in the criminal justice system. In so doing, To Serve and Protect challenges and transcends both liberal and conservative policies that have supported government's pervasive role. With lucidity and rigor, he examines the gamut of private-sector input to criminal justice–from private-sector outsourcing of prisons and corrections, security, arbitration to full "private justice" such as business and community-imposed sanctions and citizen crime prevention. Searching for the most cost-effective methods of reducing crime and protecting civil liberties, Benson weighs the benefits and liabilities of various levels of privatization, offering correctives for the current gridlock that will make criminal justice truly accountable to the citizenry and will simultaneously result in reductions in the unchecked power of government.

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NYU Press

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0814709125

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9780814709122

Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Third Edition

From Science to Practice

By: Bruce F. Pennington,Lauren M. McGrath,Robin L. Peterson

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Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Third Edition

From Science to Practice

By: Bruce F. Pennington,Lauren M. McGrath,Robin L. Peterson

A definitive reference--now extensively revised with 70% new material--this book presents cutting-edge knowledge on how learning disorders develop and how to diagnose and treat them effectively. In addition to dyslexia and mathematics disabilities, the book covers speech and language disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disability. Accessibly written, it is grounded in genetics, neuroscience, and developmental neuropsychology. Clinicians and educators are guided to make sense of children's impairments and strengths and make sound diagnostic decisions. Best practices in intervention are reviewed. User-friendly features include case examples and summary tables in each disorder-specific chapter. New to This Edition *Revised throughout to reflect major theoretical, empirical, and technological advances. *Chapters on etiology, brain development, and comorbidity. *Chapters on DSM-5 diagnosis of specific learning disorder, evidence-based assessment, and achievement gaps.

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416

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Guilford Publications

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1462545947

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9781462545940

Posche 911 Performance Handbook 1963-1998, 3rd Edition

By: Bruce Anderson

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Posche 911 Performance Handbook 1963-1998, 3rd Edition

By: Bruce Anderson

Detailed tricks and techniques for enhancing the performance of air-cooled Porsche 911s, from the subtle to the extreme, with added info on maintenance, tune-ups, and resources.

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MotorBooks International

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1616730706

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9781616730703

The Nonsense Factory

The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System

By: Bruce Cannon Gibney

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The Nonsense Factory

The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System

By: Bruce Cannon Gibney

A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths. Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration has ushered in a shadowy system of privatized "justice." Meanwhile, our legislators can't even follow their own rules for making rules, while the rule of law mutates into a perpetual state of emergency. The legal system is becoming an incomprehensible farce. How did this happen? In The Nonsense Factory, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows that over the past seventy years, the legal system has dangerously confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy. As the law bloats into chaos, it staggers on only by excusing itself from the very commands it insists that we obey, leaving Americans at the mercy of arbitrary power. By examining the system as a whole, Gibney shows that the tragedies often portrayed as isolated mistakes or the work of bad actors -- police misconduct, prosecutorial overreach, and the outrages of imperial presidencies -- are really the inevitable consequences of law's descent into lawlessness. The first book to deliver a lucid, comprehensive overview of the entire legal system, from the grandeur of Constitutional theory to the squalid workings of Congress, The Nonsense Factory provides a deeply researched and witty examination of America's state of legal absurdity, concluding with sensible options for reform.

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Hachette Books

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0316475254

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9780316475259

Regulation by Litigation

By: Andrew P. Morriss,Bruce Yandle,Andrew Dorchak

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Regulation by Litigation

By: Andrew P. Morriss,Bruce Yandle,Andrew Dorchak

Examines three major cases in which litigation was used to achieve regulatory ends: the EPA's suit against heavy duty diesel engine manufacturers; asbestos and silica dust litigation by private attorneys; and private and state lawsuits against cigarette manufacturers"--Provided by publisher.

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Yale University Press

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0300120028

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9780300120028

Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium

By: Bruce T. Draine

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Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium

By: Bruce T. Draine

This is a comprehensive and richly illustrated textbook on the astrophysics of the interstellar and intergalactic medium--the gas and dust, as well as the electromagnetic radiation, cosmic rays, and magnetic and gravitational fields, present between the stars in a galaxy and also between galaxies themselves. Topics include radiative processes across the electromagnetic spectrum; radiative transfer; ionization; heating and cooling; astrochemistry; interstellar dust; fluid dynamics, including ionization fronts and shock waves; cosmic rays; distribution and evolution of the interstellar medium; and star formation. While it is assumed that the reader has a background in undergraduate-level physics, including some prior exposure to atomic and molecular physics, statistical mechanics, and electromagnetism, the first six chapters of the book include a review of the basic physics that is used in later chapters. This graduate-level textbook includes references for further reading, and serves as an invaluable resource for working astrophysicists. Essential textbook on the physics of the interstellar and intergalactic medium Based on a course taught by the author for more than twenty years at Princeton University Covers radiative processes, fluid dynamics, cosmic rays, astrochemistry, interstellar dust, and more Discusses the physical state and distribution of the ionized, atomic, and molecular phases of the interstellar medium Reviews diagnostics using emission and absorption lines Features color illustrations and detailed reference materials in appendices Instructor's manual with problems and solutions (available only to teachers)

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560

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Princeton University Press

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1400839084

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9781400839087

Crash Course

From the Good War to the Forever War

By: H. Bruce Franklin

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Crash Course

From the Good War to the Forever War

By: H. Bruce Franklin

In this gripping memoir, renowned historian former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer H. Bruce Franklin offers a unique firsthand look at the American Century's darkest hours. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government and mired in unwinnable wars.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978800916

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Crucible of Fire

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Crucible of Fire

Spotswood

Spotswood

Obadiah, Jonah and Micah

Obadiah, Jonah and Micah

Institutional Review Board: Management and Function

Institutional Review Board: Management and Function

Apples and Oranges

Apples and Oranges

To Serve and Protect

To Serve and Protect

Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Third Edition

Diagnosing Learning Disorders, Third Edition

Posche 911 Performance Handbook 1963-1998, 3rd Edition

Posche 911 Performance Handbook 1963-1998, 3rd Edition

The Nonsense Factory

The Nonsense Factory

Regulation by Litigation

Regulation by Litigation

Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium

Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium

Crash Course

Crash Course

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