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Moving Pictures

American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910

By: Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser

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Moving Pictures

American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910

By: Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser

Explores the complex relationship between American art and the new medium of film.

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212

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Hudson Hills

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1555952283

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9781555952280

Builders of the Third Reich

The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour

By: Charles Dick

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Builders of the Third Reich

The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour

By: Charles Dick

This is the first comprehensive critical study of the Organisation Todt (OT), a key institution which oversaw the Third Reich's vast slave labour programme together with the SS, Wehrmacht and industry. The book breaks new ground by revealing the full extent of the organisation's brutal and murderous operations across occupied Europe and in the Reich. For the first time, Charles Dick provides a strong voice for camp survivors overseen by the OT, drawing on an extensive collection of personal accounts and analysing the violence they endured. Builders of the Third Reich shows Hitler used the OT, which had a labour force of around 1.5 million people in 1944, as an instrument of subjugation and occupation to project German imperial power. Drawing on a broad range of primary sources, it demonstrates how the organisation participated in the plunder of Europe's raw materials and manpower, greatly boosting the German war economy. The book reveals how OT staff shot, beat or worked tens of thousands of prisoners to death, both within the SS-run concentration camp system and outside it, with analysis of OT operations showing that where it had sole, or very high levels of control over camps, prisoner death rates were extremely high. Examining how engineers and builders, individuals who fitted the category of 'ordinary men' as precisely as any other group so far examined by historians, perpetrated war crimes, this volume reflects on how few OT personnel were interrogated or came to trial and how the organisation passed largely under the radar of post-war prosecutors, researchers and the general public.

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385

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350182680

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9781350182684

Internet Success

A Study of Open-source Software Commons

By: Charles M. Schweik,Robert C. English

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Internet Success

A Study of Open-source Software Commons

By: Charles M. Schweik,Robert C. English

A systematic examination of the factors that influence the success or abandonment of open-source software projects and the implications for other kinds of collaborations. The use of open-source software (OSS)--readable software source code that can be copied, modified, and distributed freely--has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number of OSS projects hosted on SourceForge.net (the largest hosting Web site for OSS), for example, grew from just over 100,000 in 2006 to more than 250,000 at the beginning of 2011. But why are some projects successful--that is, able to produce usable software and sustain ongoing development over time--while others are abandoned? In this book, the product of the first large-scale empirical study to look at social, technical, and institutional aspects of OSS, Charles Schweik and Robert English examine factors that lead to success in OSS projects and work toward a better understanding of Internet-based collaboration. Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, Schweik and English examine stages of OSS development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment. Schweik and English argue that analyzing the conditions of OSS successes may also inform Internet collaborations in fields beyond software engineering, particularly those that aim to solve complex technical, social, and political problems.

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365

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MIT Press

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0262017253

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9780262017251

Americans of Royal Descent

Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families ...

By: Charles Henry Browning

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Americans of Royal Descent

Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families ...

By: Charles Henry Browning

A standard work on royal genealogy, this collection contains nearly 200 pedigrees showing the lineal descent of hundreds of American families from the kings of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and France. The data derives from authoritative reference works, from family histories, and from manuscript pedigrees held in both public and private repositories. The indexes contain references to upwards of 3,000 surnames, many with multiple entries. One need only trace a surname through a lineage to connect with the Blood Royal. (Earlier editions of this work are not necessarily superseded by the seventh edition, but the seventh is held to be the most authoritative, and is therefore the most popular.)

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630054X

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9780806300542

Economics of Ecological Resources

Selected Essays

By: Charles Perrings

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Economics of Ecological Resources

Selected Essays

By: Charles Perrings

Perrings' book is a well edited, and presented, integrated work based upon nine of his articles and book chapters published between 1989 and 1995.' - Clive L. Spash, Environmental Values Economics of Ecological Resources presents new or recently published work on ecological economies, sustainability, poverty, resource degradation and decision-making under uncertainty. The book explores the allocation of resources in jointly determined ecological-economic systems. An introductory chapter examines the work of other major contributors to the field of ecological economics and introduces Professor Perrings's work and the material in this volume. The first of three parts is concerned with the dynamics of joint systems and with the implications for the control and conservation of ecological resources. The second part focuses on the conditioning effect of the economic environment on private decisions in low income resource-dependent economies. The final part considers the way that decision makers handle the uncertainty that is an integral feature of the evolution of the ecological-economic system.

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296

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1782541144

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9781782541141

An Introduction to the U.S. Congress

By: Charles B. Cushman

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An Introduction to the U.S. Congress

By: Charles B. Cushman

What does Congress do? How does it do it? Why is it such a complicated institution? This concise primer offers students and general readers a brief and systematic introduction to Congress and the role it plays in the US political system. Drawing on his experience as a former Congressional staff member, the author explores the different political natures of the House and Senate, examines Congress's interaction with other branches of the Federal government, and looks ahead to the domestic and foreign challenges that are likely to drive the Congressional agenda for decades to come. The book provides revealing insights into the sometimes-contradictory Congressional responsibilities of representation and lawmaking; oversight and appropriation; and managing and organizing the government. It includes a case study (on the formation of the Department of Homeland Security) that sheds light on Congress's often-complicated procedures. The book also includes boxed features on Congressional action - highlighting such topics as file sharing and student loans - that show students how Congress's work affects their lives. Chapter-ending lists of web resources add to the book's usefulness.

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385

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Routledge

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1317476689

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9781317476689

Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia

By: Charles S. Keyser

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Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia

By: Charles S. Keyser

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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190

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385242258

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Book's by Charles M. Walker

Moving Pictures

Moving Pictures

Builders of the Third Reich

Builders of the Third Reich

Internet Success

Internet Success

Americans of Royal Descent

Americans of Royal Descent

Economics of Ecological Resources

Economics of Ecological Resources

An Introduction to the U.S. Congress

An Introduction to the U.S. Congress

Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia

Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia

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