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XAFS for Everyone

By: Scott Calvin

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XAFS for Everyone provides a practical, thorough guide to x-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) spectroscopy for both novices and seasoned practitioners from a range of disciplines. The text is enhanced with more than 200 figures as well as cartoon characters who offer informative commentary on the different approaches used in XAFS spectroscopy.Th

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1439878641

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Electricity in the American Economy

Agent of Technological Progress

By: Sam H. Schurr,Calvin C. Burwell,Warren S. Devine,Sidney Sonenblum

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Electricity in the American Economy

Agent of Technological Progress

By: Sam H. Schurr,Calvin C. Burwell,Warren S. Devine,Sidney Sonenblum

Electricity has penetrated deeply into virtually every aspect of American life, be it in industry, the home, or in the rapidly growing commercial and service sectors. This book documents and analyzes the existence of a strong, and growing, synergy between technological progress and the use of electrified production techniques in the United States during the twentieth century. The authors use two types of information in their work: case studies of the ways in which technological progress in particular industries and economic sectors has depended upon the adoption of electrified methods of production and aggregative long-term national economic statistics that measure the changing relationship over time between increases in the use of electricity and other factor inputs and the growth in industrial productivity. Eleven of the book's thirteen chapters cover the case studies, while the remaining two chapters and the statistical appendix contain the broad quantitative findings and supporting data. In their analysis, the authors address three inter-related questions from a long-term evolutionary perspective: Why has electricity's share of total energy risen so sharply over the years? How has this rise been related to productivity growth? and Why has the rise in electricity led to long-term improvements in the efficiency of overall energy use despite the thermal energy losses sustained when fuels are converted into electricity? The answer to these questions, they contend, is the technological progress represented by electrified production technologies, and in the new ways of organizing production that are now possible. The different ways in which electrical energy has been put to work, and with what results, are examined in the various case studies presented, and further documented in the aggregative statistical analysis. This study reveals the important role that the electrification of production operations has played in supporting productivity growth in manufacturing and other economic sectors in the past, and the important part that it can continue to play in the future. This book will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers; those interested in productivity issues, energy policy, electricity in general, historians of technology, economic historians, and those interested in current technological issues. It will be a necessary acquisition for college and university libraries, as well as those individuals interested in energy, technology, economic growth, history, and the interfaces among them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031303639X

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9780313036392

The Singer

A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict

By: Calvin Miller

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The Singer

A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict

By: Calvin Miller

In this timeless classic now available in the IVP Signature Collection, Calvin Miller retells the story of Jesus through an allegorical poem about a Singer whose song could not be silenced. Since it was first published in 1975, The Singer has offered believers and seekers the world over a deeply personal encounter with the gospel.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830850759

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9780830850754

The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 9: 1865-1866

By: Calvin Fletcher

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The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 9: 1865-1866

By: Calvin Fletcher

Calvin Fletcher, born in Vermont in 1798, came to Indiana from Ohio in 1821, and in the next forty-five years made a fortune, raised eleven children, and was a pillar of the community. This pioneer Indianapolis lawyer, banker, and philanthropist kept a diary for most of his long life, and in it he recorded both the growth of his family and his community. Whether complaining, criticizing, observing shrewdly, or agonizing, Fletcher emerges as both a complex and unforgettable human being. Each of the set's nine volumes has a preface, chronology, and index. Volume nine includes a cumulative index.

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Indiana Historical Society

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087195026X

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9780871950260

Exploring Mishnah's World(s)

Social Scientific Approaches

By: Simcha Fishbane,Calvin Goldscheider,Jack N. Lightstone

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Exploring Mishnah's World(s)

Social Scientific Approaches

By: Simcha Fishbane,Calvin Goldscheider,Jack N. Lightstone

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the historical and literary-historical issues that impinge upon the use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological study, including social scientific approaches to the materials. Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate methodological caveats, an avenue of inquiry open to the social scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.

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Springer Nature

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3030535711

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9783030535711

Ohio Volunteer

The Childhood & Civil War Memoirs of Captain John Calvin Hartzell, OVI

By: John Calvin Hartzell

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The Childhood & Civil War Memoirs of Captain John Calvin Hartzell, OVI

By: John Calvin Hartzell

He also depicted the changing rural economy, the assimilation of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and the transformations wrought by coal mining and the iron industry. Hartzell felt individualism was threatened by the Industrial Revolution and the cruelties of the war. He found his faith in humanity affirmed - and the dramatic tension in his memoir resolved - when 136,000 Union soldiers reenlisted and assured victory for the North."--Jacket.

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Ohio University Press

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0821416065

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9780821416068

The Art of Useless

Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

By: Calvin Hui

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The Art of Useless

Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

By: Calvin Hui

Since embarking on economic reforms in 1978, the People’s Republic of China has also undergone a sweeping cultural reorganization, from proletarian culture under Mao to middle-class consumer culture today. Under these circumstances, how has a Chinese middle class come into being, and how has consumerism become the dominant ideology of an avowedly socialist country? The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China’s unprecedented political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Examining changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films, Calvin Hui traces how culture contributes to China’s changing social relations through the cultivation of new identities and sensibilities. He explores the commodity chain of fashion on a transnational scale, from production to consumption to disposal, as well as media portrayals of the intersections of clothing with class, gender, and ethnicity. Hui illuminates key cinematic narratives, such as a factory worker’s desire for a high-quality suit in the 1960s, an intellectual’s longing for fashionable clothes in the 1980s, and a white-collar woman’s craving for brand-name commodities in the 2000s. He considers how documentary films depict the undersides of consumption—exploited laborers who fantasize about the products they manufacture as well as the accumulation of waste and its disposal—revealing how global capitalism renders migrant factory workers, scavengers, and garbage invisible. A highly interdisciplinary work that combines theoretical nuance with masterful close analyses, The Art of Useless is an innovative rethinking of the emergence of China’s middle-class consumer culture.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549830

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9780231549837

Westward Ha!

Bicycling Cross-Country with My Two Sons

By: Calvin Hight Allen

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Westward Ha!

Bicycling Cross-Country with My Two Sons

By: Calvin Hight Allen

Dad was having a mid-life crisis. His teenage sons wanted to avoid summer jobs. The solution? Ride across America on bicycles. They set out from the east coast in June, loaded down and looking for adventure. They rode straight into the Appalachian Mountains, and into the hottest summer in recorded history. Sure, the pioneers struggled with starvation, disease, and wilderness. But did they have to pedal a loaded bike all day against the wind, wash in the sheriffs bathroom, and camp in 90 degree heat on the courthouse square surrounded by jacked-up Chevies?

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iUniverse

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1469768607

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9781469768601

The Sunset of Science and the Risen Son of Truth

By: Calvin W. Allison

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The Sunset of Science and the Risen Son of Truth

By: Calvin W. Allison

In a unique work of literature, author Calvin W. Allison presents The Sunset of Science and the Risen Son of Truth. The book contains a very stylistic compilation of important topics presented in various forms of writing, including diverse styles of poetry, illustrations, scenarios, analogies, articles, a deeply insightful novella, and a revision of his personal biography. While the Gospel is the centerpiece in this thought-provoking project, the subject matter also branches out to touch on science, politics, environmental issues, and a smidgen of other topics that will align together in a compatible fashion. Calvin wants to open up the readers understanding on a variety of issues while simultaneously expanding their thought process so that they will be able to distinguish between truth and fiction in a time when distortions are regularly passed through the airwaves of the media outlets. The novella included in this work is titled Mental Dexterity. It is a highly informative tale of a talk-show host named Cal, who, in a time when distortions are frequently broadcast to the general public as reliable news, has a keen sense of detecting truth by making connections in details that arent meant to be connected. While some are critical of Cals ability, referring to it as forming perception puzzles, others are threatened by what he is able to perceive, and soon he finds himself in deep societal waters. So brace yourself for the momentum. Because youre about to be engulfed in a mental sphere of intrigue while being intellectually saturated in a stimulating shower of well-prepped penmanship articulated to communicate important information that will work to strengthen your understanding on life-affecting issues.

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1524669636

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9781524669638

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Evolution of a Vampire

By: Calvin Cherry

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Evolution of a Vampire

By: Calvin Cherry

Dear reader,When the boon of sleep becomes a presage of horror, while one's long, shadowy days are laden with sordid events so terrifying they only bridge a thread to the same wicked nightmare, in what can a gentleman find refuge and catharsis? Writing.No one can deny that Abraham Stoker penned a Gothic tour de force in 1897. All readers and moviegoers are familiar with the name Dracula, as a parade of literary colleagues and Hollywood directors have probed the monster&rsq

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Page Publishing Inc

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1641389079

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9781641389075

Cell Apoptosis Research Progress

By: Calvin V. Burnside

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Cell Apoptosis Research Progress

By: Calvin V. Burnside

Apoptosis is the regulated form of cell death. It is a complex process defined by a set of characteristic morphological and biochemical features that involves the active participation of affected cells in a self-destruction cascade. This title looks at research into this programmed cell death.

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1604560665

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Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom

Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South

By: Calvin Schermerhorn

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Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom

Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South

By: Calvin Schermerhorn

“Elegantly argued . . . convincingly shows the centrality of enslaved men and women to the transformation of the coastal upper South’s commercial life.” —TheJournal of Southern History Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom tells the story of how slaves seized opportunities in these conditions to protect their family members from the auction block. Calvin Schermerhorn argues that the African American family provided the key to economic growth in the antebellum Chesapeake. To maximize profits in the burgeoning regional industries, slaveholders needed to employ or hire out a healthy supply of strong slaves, which tended to scatter family members. From each generation, they also selected the young, fit, and fertile for sale or removal to the cotton South. Conscious of this pattern, the enslaved were sometimes able to negotiate mutually beneficial labor terms—to save their families despite that new economy. Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom proposes a new way of understanding the role of American slaves in the antebellum marketplace. Rather than work against it, as one might suppose, enslaved people engaged with the market somewhat as did free Americans. Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade. “Displays exhaustive research, a well-crafted argument, and is a valuable addition to antebellum slave historiography.” —H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews

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1421400898

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9781421400891

Book's by Calvin Irons

XAFS for Everyone

XAFS for Everyone

Electricity in the American Economy

Electricity in the American Economy

The Singer

The Singer

The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 9: 1865-1866

The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 9: 1865-1866

Exploring Mishnah's World(s)

Exploring Mishnah's World(s)

Ohio Volunteer

Ohio Volunteer

The Art of Useless

The Art of Useless

Westward Ha!

Westward Ha!

The Sunset of Science and the Risen Son of Truth

The Sunset of Science and the Risen Son of Truth

STOKER

STOKER

Cell Apoptosis Research Progress

Cell Apoptosis Research Progress

Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom

Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom

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