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A Dictionary of Contemporary World History

By: Christopher Riches,Jan Palmowski

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A Dictionary of Contemporary World History

By: Christopher Riches,Jan Palmowski

This authoritative dictionary provides expansive coverage on the most important people, organizations, events, movements, and ideas from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent developments and contains new entries on people, organizations and events that have come to prominence, or had a major impact, in the last year. Recent new entries include [b]Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Brexit, Donald Trump, Erna Solberg, Justin Trudeau,[/b] and [b]Moon Jae In[/b]. Maps complement the text to allow for easy reference, and tables include lists of office-holders for countries and organizations and winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. This dictionary is updated regularly throughout the year, and via annual new editions, ensuring that all recent developments are included in its coverage. It is a reliable resource for students of history, politics, and international relations as well as for journalists, policy-makers, and general readers interested in the modern world.

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Oxford University Press

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0192661043

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Artists, Obsessives and Chicago Originals

Selected Articles

By: Christopher Borrelli

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Artists, Obsessives and Chicago Originals

Selected Articles

By: Christopher Borrelli

Reporter Christopher Borrelli has a fascination with the quirky and the obsessive, and a talent for finding unique angles and stories when it comes to artists, entertainers, and everyday people. This book collects his in-depth profiles of celebrities, as well as profiles and commentary on everyday people he affectionately calls "obsessives." The kind of folk who fascinate Borrelli can be workers at a local prop shop, carhops at the fast-food chain Sonic, or a video collective that has over 4,000 VHS copies of Jerry Maguire. But regardless of the quirks of a featured subject, Borrelli gives an illustrative and illuminating look into their true character—from celebrities we all "know" to cult heroes and veritable unknowns. Filled with entertaining celebrity Q&A's, unique views on cultural phenomenons, and insightful takes on all things Chicago, Borrelli is one of the Chicago Tribune's most enjoyable and humorous writers. His feature pieces are sure to offer inspiring perspectives on art, entertainment, film, found life, celebrities, and Chicago originals. This broad collection of Borrelli's best articles and commentary will appeal to his fans, Chicagoans, and consumers of pop culture across the country.

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Agate Publishing

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1572844582

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Biomechanics of Sport

By: Christopher L. Vaughan

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Biomechanics of Sport

By: Christopher L. Vaughan

This informative text features current and thorough reviews of the biomechanics of sport for improved performance, etiology, and pre-vention of injuries. Winter sports and aquatics are covered, with an emphasis on developing training programs for ski-jumping, alpine, and cross country skiing. Other sports featured include modeling perspectives in speed skating, swimming, and the mechanics of rowing and sculling. Track-and-field athletics, ball games, weight lifting, and training are examined in terms of per-formance, safety, and re-search methodology. Sports scientists and sports medicine specialists will find this book invaluable.

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CRC Press

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100009880X

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Human Rights, Disability, and Capabilities

By: Christopher A. Riddle

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Human Rights, Disability, and Capabilities

By: Christopher A. Riddle

This book presents the argument that health has special moral importance because of the disadvantage one suffers when subjected to impairment or disabling barriers. Christopher A. Riddle asserts that ill health and the presence of disabling barriers are human rights issues and that we require a foundational conception of justice in order to promote the rights of people with disabilities. The claim that disability is a human rights issue is defended on the grounds that people with disabilities experience violations to their dignity, equality, and autonomy. Because human rights exist as a subset of other justice-based rights, Riddle contends that we must support a foundation of justice compatible with endorsing these three principles (equality, dignity, and autonomy). This volume argues that the “capabilities approach” is the best currency of justice for removing the disabling barriers that consistently violate approximately one billion people’s human rights.

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Springer

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1137599936

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Classic American Furniture

20 Elegant Shaker and Arts & Crafts Projects

By: Christopher Schwarz,Woodworking Magazine Editors

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Classic American Furniture

20 Elegant Shaker and Arts & Crafts Projects

By: Christopher Schwarz,Woodworking Magazine Editors

Beautiful woodowrking furniture projects you'll be proud to build! If you enjoy the satisfaction of making beautiful furniture, you'll be pleased with the projects in this book. Classic American Furniture offers 20 attractive pieces--all custom designed by Christopher Schwarz and the editors of Woodworking Magazine. Every project has been thoroughly planned so it not only looks good, but it's simple to build. You'll also find: • Simple hand-tool techniques you can use to create a hand-crafted look. • Skill-building advice that will make you a better woodworker overall. • Special finishing techniques. Follow the advice in this book and you'll have the skills and confidence to create beautiful furniture every time.

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Penguin

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1440337438

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Toward the Charter

Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960

By: Christopher MacLennan

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Toward the Charter

Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960

By: Christopher MacLennan

At the end of the Second World War, a growing concern that Canadians' civil liberties were not adequately protected, coupled with the international revival of the concept of universal human rights, led to a long public campaign to adopt a national bill of rights. While these initial efforts had been only partially successful by the 1960s, they laid the foundation for the radical change in Canadian human rights achieved by Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1980s. In Toward the Charter Christopher MacLennan explores the origins of this dramatic revolution in Canadian human rights, from its beginnings in the Great Depression to the critical developments of the 1960s. Drawing heavily on the experiences of a diverse range of human rights advocates, the author provides a detailed account of the various efforts to resist the abuse of civil liberties at the hands of the federal government and provincial legislatures and the resulting campaign for a national bill of rights. The important roles played by parliamentarians such as John Diefenbaker and academics such as F.R. Scott are placed alongside those of trade unionists, women, and a long list of individuals representing Canada's multicultural groups to reveal the diversity of the bill of rights movement. At the same time MacLennan weaves Canadian-made arguments for a bill of rights with ideas from the international human rights movement led by the United Nations to show that the Canadian experience can only be understood within a wider, global context.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077352536X

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Lives in Land – Mucking excavations

Volume 1. Prehistory, Context and Summary

By: Christopher Evans,Grahame Appleby,Sam Lucy

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Lives in Land – Mucking excavations

Volume 1. Prehistory, Context and Summary

By: Christopher Evans,Grahame Appleby,Sam Lucy

The excavations led by Margaret and Tom Jones on the Thames gravel terraces at Mucking, Essex, undertaken between 1965 and 1978 are legendary. The largest area excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles, involving around 5000 participants, recorded around 44,000 archaeological features dating from the Beaker to Anglo-Saxon periods and recovered something in the region of 1.7 million finds of Mesolithic to post-medieval date. While various publications have emerged over the intervening years, the death of both directors, insufficient funding, many organizational complications and the sheer volume of material evidence have severely delayed full publication of this extraordinary palimpsest landscape. Lives in Land is the first of two major volumes which bring together all the evidence from Mucking, presenting both the detail of many important structures and assemblages and a comprehensive synthesis of landscape development through the ages: settlement histories, changing land-use, death and burial, industry and craft activities. The long time-gap since completion of the excavations has allowed the authors the unprecedented opportunity to stand back from the density of site data and place the vast sum of Mucking evidence in the wider context of the archaeology of southern England throughout the major periods of occupation and activity. Lives in Land begins with a thorough evaluation of the methods, philosophy and archival status of the Mucking project against the organizational and funding background of its time, and discusses its fascinating and complex history through a period of fundamental change in archaeological practice, legislation, finance, research priorities and theoretical paradigms in British Archaeology. Subsequent chapters deal with the prehistoric landscape, each focusing on the major themes that emerge by major period from analysis and synthesis of the data. The authors draw on archival material including site notebooks and personal accounts from key participants to provide a detailed but lively account of this iconic landscape investigation.

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Oxbow Books

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1785701517

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Psychology and Its Cities

A New History of Early American Psychology

By: Christopher D. Green

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Psychology and Its Cities

A New History of Early American Psychology

By: Christopher D. Green

Within the social and political upheaval of American cities in the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century, a new scientific discipline, psychology, strove to carve out a place for itself. In this new history of early American psychology, Christopher D. Green highlights the urban contexts in which much of early American psychology developed and tells the stories of well-known early psychologists, including William James, G. Stanley Hall, John Dewey, and James McKeen Cattell, detailing how early psychologists attempted to alleviate the turmoil around them. American psychologists sought out the daunting intellectual, emotional, and social challenges that were threatening to destabilize the nation’s burgeoning urban areas and proposed novel solutions, sometimes to positive and sometimes to negative effect. Their contributions helped develop our modern ideas about the mind, person, and society. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in the history of psychology.

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Routledge

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135167160X

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Workbenches Revised Edition

From Design & Theory to Construction & Use

By: Christopher Schwarz

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Workbenches Revised Edition

From Design & Theory to Construction & Use

By: Christopher Schwarz

Two centuries of workbench wisdom in one book With this book, your very first workbench will do everything you need it to do--possibly for the rest of your woodworking career. Encompassing years of historical research and real-world trials, Christopher Schwarz boils down centuries of the history and engineering of workbenches into basic ideas that all woodworkers can use. • Learn how to design your own world-class workbench • Learn the fundamental rules of good workbench design that have been largely forgotten • Learn how to build an inexpensive and practical bench that hasn't been in widespread use for over 100 years • Learn how to properly use any workbench In this revised and updated edition you'll find plans for five benches--two sturdy English benches and two variations on the French Roubo, as well as a portable bench you can clamp to any solid surface. The old-school benches in this book are simpler than modern benches, easier to build and perfect for both power and hand tools. Beginning woodworkers can build any of these benches. The technical drawings are clear and show every detail. Using the step-by-step instructions, you will be amazed at how easily these workbenches can be constructed.

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1440343128

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Becoming Tsimshian

The Social Life of Names

By: Christopher F. Roth

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Becoming Tsimshian

The Social Life of Names

By: Christopher F. Roth

The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. Human agency and social status reside in names rather than in the individuals who hold these names, and the politics of succession associated with names and name-taking rituals have been, and continue to be, at the center of Tsimshian life. Becoming Tsimshian examines the way in which names link members of a lineage to a past and to the places where that past unfolded. At traditional potlatch feasts, for example, collective social and symbolic behavior �gives the person to the name.� Oral histories recounted at a potlatch describe the origins of the name, of the house lineage, and of the lineage's rights to territories, resources, and heraldic privileges. This ownership is renewed and recognized by successive generations, and the historical relationship to the land is remembered and recounted in the lineage's chronicles, or adawx. In investigating the different dimensions of the Tsimshian naming system, Christopher F. Roth draws extensively on recent literature, archival reference, and elders in Tsimshian communities. Becoming Tsimshian, which covers important themes in linguistic and cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, will be of great value to scholars in Native American studies and Northwest Coast anthropology, as well as in linguistics.

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University of Washington Press

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0295989238

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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

By: Christopher G. Morris,Academic Press

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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

By: Christopher G. Morris,Academic Press

A Dictonary of Science and Technology. Color Illustration Section. Symbols and Units. Fundamental Physical Constants. Measurement Conversion. Periodic Table of the Elements. Atomic Weights. Particles. The Solar System. Geologial Timetable. Five-Kingdom Classification of Organisms. Chronology of Modern Science. Photo Credits.

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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0122004000

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Race Relations and Cultural Differences

Educational and Interpersonal Perspectives

By: Gajendra Verma,Christopher Bagley

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Race Relations and Cultural Differences

Educational and Interpersonal Perspectives

By: Gajendra Verma,Christopher Bagley

A collection of key papers given at three international conferences in Britain, the United States and Canada on race relations and multiculturalism are drawn together in this book. The first section includes three papers on the state of theory in race relations; the second contains papers on educational themes, examining in particular the pitfalls in multicultural education. It also looks at the development and problems of second language education for minority groups in several countries. The final section focuses on special topics including the adjustment and identity of children of mixed race marriages; the plight of children from Canada’s native communities; and the hearing impaired as a minority group.

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Routledge

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1136510036

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Keeping the Circle

American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885-2004

By: Christopher Arris Oakley

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Keeping the Circle

American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885-2004

By: Christopher Arris Oakley

Keeping the Circle presents an overview of the modern history and identity of the Native peoples in twentieth-century North Carolina, including the Lumbees, the Tuscaroras, the Waccamaw Sioux, the Occaneechis, the Meherrins, the Haliwa-Saponis, and the Coharies. From the late 1800s until the 1930s, Native peoples in the eastern part of the state lived and farmed in small isolated communities. Although relatively insulated, they were acculturated, and few fit the traditional stereotype of an Indian. They spoke English, practiced Christianity, and in general lived and worked like other North Carolinians. Nonetheless, Indians in the state maintained a strong sense of "Indianness."" "The political, social, and economic changes effected by the New Deal and World War II forced Native Americans in eastern North Carolina to alter their definition of Indianness. The paths for gaining recognition of their Native identity in recent decades have varied: for some, identity has been achieved and expressed on a local stage; for others, sense of self is linked inextricably to national issues and concerns. Using a combination of oral history and archival research, Christopher Arris Oakley traces the strategic response of these Native groups in North Carolina to postwar society and draws broader conclusions about Native American identity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080325069X

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Redacted Dominionism

A Biblical Approach to Grounding Environmental Responsibility

By: Christopher Cone

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Redacted Dominionism

A Biblical Approach to Grounding Environmental Responsibility

By: Christopher Cone

Critiques of the environmental ramifications of the early Genesis narrative by environmental thinkers such as Aldo Leopold, Ian McHarg, and Lynn White underscore a long-standing tension between the environmental movement and Western Christianity. The evangelical community, especially, has been at odds with the environmental movement, in grounding its theology of human relations to nature on the Genesis narrative--a narrative the environmental community views generally as contributing negatively to environmental matters. Redacted Dominionism is a literal interpretation of the early Genesis narrative that recognizes human relations to nature are based on theocentric themes. Redacted Dominionism understands humanity as initially given dominion over nature, by virtue of the image of God in humanity, but that human disobedience to God tarnished that image, and human qualification for dominion was lost. Post-fall, the dominion mandate is never repeated in Genesis and seems even to be replaced. Redacted Dominionism offers an important biblical approach to understanding human responsibility to God for how we interact with His creation.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630870374

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9781630870379

Unequivocal Justice

By: Christopher Freiman

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Unequivocal Justice

By: Christopher Freiman

Unequivocal Justice challenges the prevailing view within political philosophy that broadly free market regimes are inconsistent with the basic principles of liberal egalitarian justice. Freiman argues that the liberal egalitarian rejection of free market regimes rests on a crucial methodological mistake. Liberal egalitarians regularly assume an ideal "public interest" model of political behavior and a nonideal "private interest" model of behavior in the market and civil society. Freiman argues that this asymmetrical application of behavioral assumptions biases the analysis and undercuts ideal theoretical treatments of every major liberal egalitarian principle, including political liberty, economic sufficiency, fair opportunity, and social equality. This book reexamines the institutional implications of each of these principles in nonideal conditions, making novel philosophical use of political psychology and public choice economics along the way.

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1351810626

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Aces High

A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII, Volume One

By: Christopher Shores,Clive Williams

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Aces High

A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII, Volume One

By: Christopher Shores,Clive Williams

A revised collection of the biographies of the highest scoring Allied fighter pilots of World War II. All details of their combat are arranged in tabular form. Included are a selection of photographs from hitherto private collections.

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1898697000

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Natural Law Liberalism

By: Christopher Wolfe

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Natural Law Liberalism

By: Christopher Wolfe

Liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory, but - properly understood - mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism (as represented by Rawls, Guttman and Thompson, Dworkin, Raz, and Macedo) rejects natural law and seeks to diminish its historical contribution to the liberal political tradition, but it is only one, defective variant of liberalism. A careful analysis of the history of liberalism, identifying its core principles, and a similar examination of classical natural law theory (as represented by Thomas Aquinas and his intellectual descendants), show that a natural law liberalism is possible and desirable. Natural law theory embraces the key principles of liberalism, and it also provides balance in resisting some of its problematic tendencies. Natural law liberalism is the soundest basis for American public philosophy, and it is a potentially more attractive and persuasive form of liberalism for nations that have tended to resist it.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139457985

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Melville’s Other Lives

Bodies on Trial in The Piazza Tales

By: Christopher Sten

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Melville’s Other Lives

Bodies on Trial in The Piazza Tales

By: Christopher Sten

Melville’s Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales—Herman Melville’s only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime—and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville’s stories. As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male figures: a writer, a lawyer, a ship captain, a homeowner, an architect, a world traveler, and characters who are outsiders, minorities, outcasts, or "others": a seamstress, an office drudge, enslaved Africans, a traveling salesman, island castaways, the poor. In each, Melville concentrates on the trials of the human body, its pain and trauma, its struggles and frustrations. Some tales concern common trials such as illness or invalidism ("The Piazza"), the tedium of office work ("Bartleby"), or the aggravation of door-to-door salesmen ("The Lightning-Rod Man"). Others concern extraordinary trials: the traumatic violence of a rebellion on a slave ship ("Benito Cereno"), the hardships of surviving on a wasteland archipelago ("The Encantadas"), the perils of creating a monstrous "man-machine" ("The Bell-Tower"). In their concern for the cultural meanings of such trials, Melville’s stories look forward to the work of Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, and other cultural materialists who have shown how cultures define, control, and oppress bodies based on their otherness. As a storyteller, Melville understood how such cultural dynamics operate and seized on our collective obsession with the human body as subject, symbol, and vehicle to dramatize his tales.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813945453

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9780813945453

On the Padres' Trail

By: Christopher Vecsey

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On the Padres' Trail

By: Christopher Vecsey

Beginning with the arrival of the Europeans in the New World and the invasion of the Caribbean, this volume traces the expansion of Catholicism into New Spain. It devotes special attention to the history of the Catholic faith and institutions among the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.

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0268037027

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9780268037024

The Neurobiology of Zinc: Deficiency, toxicity, and pathology

By: Christopher J. Frederickson,G. A. Howell,E. J. Kasarskis

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The Neurobiology of Zinc: Deficiency, toxicity, and pathology

By: Christopher J. Frederickson,G. A. Howell,E. J. Kasarskis

Abstract: The proceedings of a satellite symposium to the 1983 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience highlight the functions of zinc in the nervous system. Part A, containing 25 papers, focuses on physiochemistry, anatomy, and analytic techniques, while part B, containing 22 papers, emphasizes the consequences of zinc deficiency, toxicity, and pathlolgy. Part A also includes a discussion of zinc in neural information processing, neurotransmitter biosynthesis, and brain functioning. Part B examines the effects of zinc deficiency on brain development and the effects of zinc deprivation. Both parts include indexes. (wz).

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