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The Book of Zechariah and its Influence

By: Christopher Tuckett

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The Book of Zechariah and its Influence

By: Christopher Tuckett

This title was first published in 2003. The book bearing the title of 'Zechariah' is, in its present form, an amalgam of oracles and prophecies stemming from Zechariah himself as well as others. It became part of Jewish scripture, was revered and valued, and was a partiuclar favourite of a number of early Christian writers. Often cited by New Testament writers, this book of one of the most important of the 'minor prophets' is itself deeply indebted to earlier Jewish prophetic texts and has been an important resource for later writers, Jewish and Christian, as they sought to tap their own 'Biblical' material. The amalgam of oracles and prophecies presented in the book of Zechariah offers an ideal thematic focus for the leading scholars in this volume who explore areas of the Hebrew Bible, post-Biblical Jewish literature, and early Christian literature and history (in the New Testament and beyond). The essays examine the book of Zechariah itself as well as its subsequent interpretation by a number of other writers, Jewish and Christian. The essays raise important issues in relation to the influence of biblical texts in subsequent literature and also the broad area of 'intertextuality'' and the way in which later texts relate to and use earlier texts in their sacred tradition.

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Routledge

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1351773070

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The Color of Our Shame

Race and Justice in Our Time

By: Christopher J. Lebron

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The Color of Our Shame

Race and Justice in Our Time

By: Christopher J. Lebron

The Color of Our Shame argues that political thought must supply the arguments necessary to address the moral problems that attend racial inequality and make those problems salient to a democratic polity.

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Oxford University Press

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019993634X

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CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

22 Methodical Arguments for Biblical Truth

By: Christopher H.K. Persaud

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CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

22 Methodical Arguments for Biblical Truth

By: Christopher H.K. Persaud

Doubt and disbelief in God's existence and his plan of redemption for lost humankind is becoming increasingly evident in today's hedonistic, self-directed world. Many Christian believers even, choose to listen to, and to acknowledge a “feel-good-now” Gospel, notwithstanding its deviation from Biblical truth and its possible damning implications. Conversely, many people are wont to deny the existence of a devil and the reality of a place of unceasing torment and/or destruction called hell. A good God cannot be so cruel, they opine. Jesus commissioned his followers to take his Gospel to the far reaches of the Earth, and the Holy Scriptures encourage Christians in Jude 1: 3, “...to earnestly contend for the faith.” More than at any other time in history, believers must defend the Christian Gospel and advocate its timeless truths everywhere so that all of humankind may hear about Christ's offer of eternal life in a place named Paradise. The miscellany of contemplative inquiries and arguments presented in CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH purposes to do just that – endorse and advance the Gospel of Christ and help establish Biblical truth! Much too much is at stake for not spreading...or not listening to Christ’s entreaty!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479773379

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Organisational Change

Development and Transformation

By: Dianne Waddell,Andrew Creed,Thomas G. Cummings,Christopher G. Worley

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Organisational Change

Development and Transformation

By: Dianne Waddell,Andrew Creed,Thomas G. Cummings,Christopher G. Worley

Change Management is a crucial process for gaining the competitive advantage that is the goal of many organisations. Leaders and change agents are often faced with conflicting challenges of motivating and understanding increasingly diverse workforces, accounting to stakeholders and planning for the future in a chaotic environment. Comprising 12 chapters in 6 parts, the text opens with an explanation of the environment of change faced by organisations today. It then deals with managing organisational development, which is a planned process of change which is often subject to the incursions of organisational transformation, a more dramatic and unpredictable type of change. With the field of organisational change continuing to evolve, especially in an international context, future directions of change management are also discussed. Finally, to emphasise the relationship between theory to practice, Organisational Change: Development and Transformation 6e provides 10 local and international case studies and a suite of online cases supported by a case matrix. Case studies, exercises and support material present the challenges of change management in a real-life manner - examining issues from a variety of viewpoints.

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Cengage AU

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0170366685

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Black Male Success in Higher Education

How the Mathematical Brotherhood Empowers a Collegiate Community to Thrive

By: Christopher C. Jett

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Black Male Success in Higher Education

How the Mathematical Brotherhood Empowers a Collegiate Community to Thrive

By: Christopher C. Jett

This book examines the experiences of a cohort of 16 Black male math majors. It amplifies the participants' voices to chronicle their persistence in the major. Using Black masculinity and critical race theory, the author employs an asset-based approach to tell a captivating story about this cohort within a racially affirming learning community. This book showcases the nation's top producer of Black male math majors, extends the knowledge base regarding HBCUs' multigenerational legacy of success, and makes a significant contribution to the growing body of discipline-based education research. In so doing, the author provides recommendations for families, educators, policymakers, and researchers to improve Black boys' and men's mathematics achievement outcomes"--

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Teachers College Press

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0807767409

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The Autisms

By: Mary Coleman,Christopher Gillberg

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The Autisms

By: Mary Coleman,Christopher Gillberg

Rev. ed. of: Biology of the autistic syndromes / Christopher Gillberg, Mary Coleman. 3rd ed. 2000.

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OUP USA

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0199732124

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Power and Principle

The Politics of International Criminal Courts

By: Christopher Rudolph

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Power and Principle

The Politics of International Criminal Courts

By: Christopher Rudolph

On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power. Such events are why human rights activists have long pressed for institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute some of the world’s most severe crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. While proponents extol the creation of the ICC as a transformative victory for principles of international humanitarian law, critics have often characterized it as either irrelevant or dangerous in a world dominated by power politics. Christopher Rudolph argues in Power and Principle that both perspectives are extreme. In contrast to prevailing scholarship, he shows how the interplay between power politics and international humanitarian law have shaped the institutional development of international criminal courts from Nuremberg to the ICC. Rudolph identifies the factors that drove the creation of international criminal courts, explains the politics behind their institutional design, and investigates the behavior of the ICC. Through the development and empirical testing of several theoretical frameworks, Power and Principle helps us better understand the factors that resulted in the emergence of international criminal courts and helps us determine the broader implications of their presence in society.

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Cornell University Press

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1501708414

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Outcome-Based Cooperation

In Communities, Business, Regulation, and Dispute Resolution

By: Christopher Hodges

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Outcome-Based Cooperation

In Communities, Business, Regulation, and Dispute Resolution

By: Christopher Hodges

How do we cooperate – in social, local, business, and state communities? This book proposes an Outcome-Based Cooperative Model, in which all stakeholders work together on the basis of trust and respect to achieve shared aims and outcomes. The Outcome-Based Cooperative Model is built up from an extensive analysis of behavioural and social psychology, genetic anthropology, research into behaviour and culture in societies, organisations, regulation, and enforcement. The starting point is acceptance that humanity is facing ever larger risks, which are now systemic and even existential. To overcome the challenges, humans need to cooperate more, rather than compete, alienate, or draw apart. Answering how we do that requires basing ourselves, our institutions, and systems on relationships that are built on trust. Trust is based on evidence that we can be trusted to behave well (ethically), built up over time. We should aim to agree common goals and outcomes, moderating those that conflict, produce evidence that we can be trusted, and examine our performance in achieving the right outcomes, rather than harmful ones. The implications are that we need to do more in rebasing our relationships in local groupings, business organisations, regulation, and dispute resolution. The book examines recent systems and developments in all these areas, and makes proposals of profound importance for reform. This is a new blueprint for liberty, solidarity, performance, and achievement.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509962492

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Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program

A Guide for Professionals

By: Christopher Germer,Kristin Neff

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Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program

A Guide for Professionals

By: Christopher Germer,Kristin Neff

This is the authoritative guide to conducting the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, which provides powerful tools for coping with life challenges and enhancing emotional well-being. MSC codevelopers Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff review relevant theory and research and describe the program's unique pedagogy. Readers are taken step by step through facilitating each of the eight sessions and the accompanying full-day retreat. Detailed vignettes illustrate not only how to teach the course's didactic and experiential content, but also how to engage with participants, manage group processes, and overcome common obstacles. The final section of the book describes how to integrate self-compassion into psychotherapy. Purchasers get access to a companion website with downloadable audio recordings of the guided meditations. Note: This book is not intended to replace formal training for teaching the MSC program. See also two related resources for MSC participants and general readers, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook, by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer, and The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, by Christopher Germer.

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Guilford Publications

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1462539025

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Families in Transition

Social Change, Family Formation and Kin Relationships

By: Charles, Nickie,Charlotte Aull Davies,Christopher Charles Harris

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Families in Transition

Social Change, Family Formation and Kin Relationships

By: Charles, Nickie,Charlotte Aull Davies,Christopher Charles Harris

This book analyses the specific ways in which family lives have changed and how they have been affected by the major structural and cultural changes of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Policy Press

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History of Massachusetts Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

By: Christopher Cox

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History of Massachusetts Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

By: Christopher Cox

This book has information of all Massachusetts Civil War Regiment were organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Massachusetts Regiments all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.

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Lulu.com

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1304469921

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Thoracic Surgery: Lung Resections, Bronchoplasty

By: Douglas J. Mathisen,Christopher Morse

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Thoracic Surgery: Lung Resections, Bronchoplasty

By: Douglas J. Mathisen,Christopher Morse

Take your surgical skills to the next level with Thoracic Surgery: Lung Resections, Bronchoplasty a volume in the Master Techniques in Surgery Series! This thoracic surgery reference provides the richly illustrated, step-by-step guidance you need to perfect a full range of pulmonary resection techniques, avoid and manage complications, and achieve optimal outcomes.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469889110

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Uncle Sam Wants You

World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

By: Christopher Capozzola

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Uncle Sam Wants You

World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

By: Christopher Capozzola

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of the nation's most serious political violence, including notorious episodes of outright mob violence. To solve this problem, Americans turned over increasing amounts of power to the federal government. In the end, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers, Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens.

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Oxford University Press

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0199830967

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Interior States

Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States

By: Christopher Castiglia

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Interior States

Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States

By: Christopher Castiglia

In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens’ democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in associations with others but in the turbulent and conflicted interiors of their own bodies. He describes how the human interior—with its battles between appetite and restraint, desire and deferral—became a displacement of the divided sociality of nineteenth-century America’s public sphere and contributed to the vanishing of that sphere in the twentieth century and the twenty-first. Drawing insightful connections between political structures, social relations, and cultural forms, he explains that as the interior came to reflect the ideological conflicts of the social world, citizens were encouraged to (mis)understand vigilant self-scrutiny and self-management as effective democratic action. In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth, as discourses of interiority gained prominence, so did powerful counter-narratives. Castiglia reveals the flamboyant pages of antebellum popular fiction to be an archive of unruly democratic aspirations. Through close readings of works by Maria Monk and George Lippard, Walt Whitman and Timothy Shay Arthur, Hannah Webster Foster and Hannah Crafts, and Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Castiglia highlights a refusal to be reformed or self-contained. In antebellum authors’ representations of nervousness, desire, appetite, fantasy, and imagination, he finds democratic strivings that refused to disappear. Taking inspiration from those writers and turning to the present, Castiglia advocates a humanism-without-humans that, denied the adjudicative power of interiority, promises to release democracy from its inner life and to return it to the public sphere where U.S. citizens may yet create unprecedented possibilities for social action.

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Duke University Press

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082238924X

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John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806

A Biography

By: Mary Beacock Fryer,Christopher Dracott

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John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806

A Biography

By: Mary Beacock Fryer,Christopher Dracott

One of the legendary figures of Ontario history, John Graves Simcoe was the commander of the Queen’s Rangers during the American Revolution. In 1791 he was appointed the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, and upon his arrival in 1792 he founded the town of York (present-day Toronto). John Graves Simcoe completes a trilogy of Simcoe books published by Dundurn Press. Mary Beacock Fryer’s Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was first published in 1989, while Our Young Soldier: Lieutenant Francis Simcoe, 6 June 1791-6 April 1812 was released in 1996. For this third volume, Fryer has teamed with Christopher Dracott, whose vantage point from Devonshire, England helps to provide this book with a complete view of Simcoe’s life.

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Evolution

Beyond the Realm of Real Science

By: Christopher H. K. Persaud

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Evolution

Beyond the Realm of Real Science

By: Christopher H. K. Persaud

Darwinian evolution is taught unreservedly to students of science around the world as incontrovertible truth even though many aspects of the theory have been thoroughly discredited while others are woefully lacking in corroboration from a standpoint of proper scientific precept and practice. Practical and honest scientists increasingly are acknowledging that evolutionism is biologically and mathematically impossible. The outlandish premise is at odds with the laws of physics and manifestly incompatible with genuine geological and paleontological criteria for aging and classifying rocks, strata and fossils. Evolutionary theory's ostracism of God as a supreme designer and creator of the universe and of life has emboldened many of history's most ruthless dictators who have embraced its disturbing message to commit crimes of unspeakable evil. Many millions of people have lost their lives as demagogues, fueled by evolutionist inclinations, have sought to legitimize sinister proclivities such as racism, bigotry, eugenics and ethnic cleansing, among other perpetrations of antipathy and wickedness. It is not unreasonable to assume that many of today's social and behavioral thinkers, as well as misguided scientists who support evolutionary theory, also nurture predilections that are far removed from wholesome deportment and espouse leanings that show scant respect for the sanctity of human life. Evolutionary thought falls outside the precincts of essential moral contemplation.and is beyond the realm of real science!

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Xulon Press

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160266630X

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Minnesota and Dacotah

By: Christopher Columbus Andrews,Christopher Andrews

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Minnesota and Dacotah

By: Christopher Columbus Andrews,Christopher Andrews

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Minnesota And Dacotah: In Letters Descriptive Of A Tour Through The North-west, In The Autumn Of 1856; With Information Relative To Public Lands, And A Table Of Statistics Christopher Columbus Andrews R. Farnham, 1857 Dakota; Dakota Territory; Minnesota

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Applewood Books

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1429045558

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Leadership Landscapes

Mapping cross-cultural differences in global leadership

By: Christopher Higgins

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Leadership Landscapes

Mapping cross-cultural differences in global leadership

By: Christopher Higgins

‘Leadership Landscapes’ provides an invaluable reference point for senior executives or those striving towards a successful cross-border career, to understand how cultural differences impact upon leadership styles and practices. Each semester, we publish a report on our quantitative survey-based global study, alongside our review of extant in-country leadership literature, preferably written by local scholars and professionals in their native language. Moreover, we attempt to empirically validate these findings by conducting expert interviews with native specialists. This new issue of our ongoing leadership series presents country-specific analyses of culturally endorsed leadership practices and styles in the following countries or territories: Channel Islands, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Nepal, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela. This publication contains contributions from around 111 researchers from 26 countries who participated in the Cross-Cultural Business Skills elective offered by the Part-time Academy of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). Final Editors: Sander Schroevers and Christopher Higgings, Bibliographic editor Isabella Swart. The following authors contributed: Abigail Boadu, Abubakar Ahmadzai, Adam Omar, Raja Aleksander van der Heijden, Александър Миленков (Aleksandar Milenkov), Andres Figueira, Antero Do Valle, Bo Jongejan, Boy Dekker, Carenza Kral, Casper Smit, Chynna Zeegelaar, Daan Smit, Dalia Ben Masoud, Dani Ruiz De Alegria Ezcurra, Daniël van de Merwe, Daniela Lozano Traviesa, Danielle de Vries, David Makkinje, Dennis Mackaaij, Derav Berwari, Dion van Dieren, Duncan Egberts, Emilia Gabrielsen, Eva Sadler, Fawad Jafari, Ferry Bakker, Fiete Kaupp, Frans Westerman, Gail van Loveren, Giovanni Bekker, Hamlin El Azab Ali, Hannah Connell, Ilana Holthoer, James Hall, Jawwad Saleem, Jaz Wanamaker, Jirmeja Yspol, Joachim de Vos, João Filipe Salvador Cabrita, Karim Erakrak, Kenan Doğan, Kevin Koolman, Kuba Kacperski, Lars Groot, Laurens Mutsaers, Lianne Bakker, Lita van Loo, Lizan Lemmen, Lugino Samseer, Lyon Goes, Любен Шкалов (Lyuben Shkalov), Maarten Schooneman, Mara Elícegui Ortiz De Urbina, Marc Orlandini, María Álvarez Aguirre, Maria Canal Clavell, Maria Paradell Barrena, Marie-Louise Ammann, Matt Bouman, Mejrem Beka, Melanie Flohil, Melody Kroneraff, Menno Fouchier, Merve Akyüz, Michael Sheikrojan, Michel Pan, Michiel Adamse, Mickey Nieraeth, Miguel Fajardo Presencio, Milou Ruizendaal, Miriam Vadillo Garcia, Misha Schachtschabel, Morteza Mohamadi, Naserdinne El Bouhdifi, Nikki van Amerom, Noelia Martínez Guinea, Parteek Chhibber, Phương Hằng Lê, Pieter van Iperen, Ralph Heuff, Robbert van Veen, Salle Safiani, Samiha Aouragh, Sander van de Kolk, Sander van Noort, Sarah Brown, Senai Sambini, Shahbana Manzaij, Sharon Afenkhena, Shuraisel Henriquez, Silke van Wijk, Sjagoefta Khodabaks, Sky Pinter, Soeradj Biharie, Stefan van Es, Stefano Dooijes, Suze Garstman, Thierry van Gastel, Tim Antoni, Titia Amucha, Unai Arambarri Yeregui, Viktor Gebbeken, Viktorie Šenkýřová, Wiresh Jawalapersad, Yaniek van der Maarel, Znar Berwari, Zoë Heerema and Zoë Markantonakis.

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9079646601

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The Participant

A Century of Participation in Four Stories

By: Christopher M. Kelty

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The Participant

A Century of Participation in Four Stories

By: Christopher M. Kelty

Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposite effect. We find ourselves suspicious of how participation extracts our data or monetizes our emotions, and the more procedural participation becomes, the more it seems to recede from our grasp. In this book, Christopher M. Kelty traces four stories of participation across the twentieth century, showing how they are part of a much longer-term problem in relation to the individual and collective experience of representative democracy. Kelty argues that in the last century or so, the power of participation has dwindled; over time, it has been formatted in ways that cramp and dwarf it, even as the drive to participate has spread to nearly every kind of human endeavor, all around the world. The Participant is a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today. It is a book that asks, “Why do we participate?” And sometimes, “Why do we refuse?”

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University of Chicago Press

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022666693X

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State Organized Terror

The Case Of Violent Internal Repression

By: P. Timothy Bushnell,Vladimir Shlapentokh,Christopher Vanderpool,Jeyaratnam Sundram

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State Organized Terror

The Case Of Violent Internal Repression

By: P. Timothy Bushnell,Vladimir Shlapentokh,Christopher Vanderpool,Jeyaratnam Sundram

This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression", addresses the antecedent structural factors conducive to state organized terror and provides insights into the political and social psychology of state terror.

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Routledge

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1000313050

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Media Localism

The Policies of Place

By: Christopher Ali

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Media Localism

The Policies of Place

By: Christopher Ali

We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and regulators' unwillingness to critically examine local media blunt challenges to the status quo. Ali argues that reconciling the places where we live with the spaces we inhabit will point regulators toward effective policies that strengthens local media. That new approach will again elevate local media to its rightful place as a vital part of the public good.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252099168

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Sightseeking

Clues to the Landscape History of New England

By: Christopher J. Lenney

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Clues to the Landscape History of New England

By: Christopher J. Lenney

A startlingly original synthesis of keen observation and interpretive skill that will transform one s understanding of New England s man-made landscape

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UPNE

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1584654635

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Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism

By: Christopher Langlois

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Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism

By: Christopher Langlois

Maurice Blanchot occupies a central though still-overlooked position in the Anglo-American reception of 20th-century continental philosophy and literary criticism. On the one hand, his rigorous yet always-playful exchanges with the most challenging figures of the philosophical and literary canons of modernity have led thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault to acknowledge Blanchot as a major influence on the development of literary and philosophical culture after World War II. On the other hand, Blanchot's reputation for frustrating readers with his difficult style of thought and writing has resulted in a missed opportunity for leveraging Blanchot in advancing the most essential discussions and debates going on today in the comparative study of literature, philosophy, politics, history, ethics, and art. Blanchot's voice is simply too profound, too erudite, and too illuminating of what is at stake at the intersections of these disciplines not to be exercising more of an influence than it has in only a minority of intellectual circles. Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism brings together an international cast of leading and emergent scholars in making the case for precisely what contemporary modernist studies stands to gain from close inspection of Blanchot's provocative post-war writings.

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150133137X

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History of New Jersey Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

By: Christopher Cox

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History of New Jersey Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

By: Christopher Cox

This book has information of all New Jersey Civil War Regiment were organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the New Jersey Regiments all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.

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"I Sure Wish this Dam Thing Was Over"

The WWII Letters And Experiences Of Private Carl E. Meyers

By: Christopher C. Meyers,Charles R. Meyers

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"I Sure Wish this Dam Thing Was Over"

The WWII Letters And Experiences Of Private Carl E. Meyers

By: Christopher C. Meyers,Charles R. Meyers

This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E. Meyers, an Ohio man, from registering for the draft in 1940 to fighting in the European Theater of Operations in 1944. A large part of the book is the letters Meyers wrote home from his basic training and from Europe. This volume traces his military experiences from 1940 to 1944, showing how an average American went through registering for the draft, being drafted, basic training, and combat during World War II. The primary theme is an examination of the ordeals of a common, everyday American draftee, Carl E. Meyers, as he experienced World War II. He registered for the draft when the Selective Service Act passed in 1940, and surprisingly enough was drafted in 1944; his being selected was surprising because he was a Pre-Pearl Harbor father and Selective Service tried not to draft those men. He experienced the boredom and monotony of basic training in a state far from home, and after completing his training was shipped to Europe and fought in that theater, in General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army. In Europe he again experienced the mundane of waiting for his unit to be sent into combat, which happened in the November 1944 offensive. He was killed in that campaign, making the ultimate sacrifice for his country.

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0761866698

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Australian Property Law

Principles to Practice

By: Michael Nancarrow,Penny Carruthers,Steven White,Christopher Boge,Dominic Cudmore,Astrid Di Carlo

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Australian Property Law

Principles to Practice

By: Michael Nancarrow,Penny Carruthers,Steven White,Christopher Boge,Dominic Cudmore,Astrid Di Carlo

Australian Property Law: Principles to Practice is an engaging introduction to property law in Australia. Covering substantive law and procedural matters, this textbook presents the law of personal and real property in a contemporary light. Australian Property Law details how property law practice is transformed by technology and provides insights into contemporary challenges and risks. Taking a thematic approach, the text covers possession of goods and land, land tenure, estates and future interests, property registration systems, Indigenous land rights and native title, social housing, Crown land and ethics. Complex concepts are contextualised by linking case law and legislation to practical applications. Each chapter is supported by digital tools including case and legislation boxes with links to the full source online, links to useful online resources, multiple-choice questions, review questions and longer narrative problems. Australian Property Law provides an essential introduction to the principles and practice of property law in an ever-changing technological environment.

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1009284509

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The Harlem Fox

J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970

By: John Christopher Walter

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The Harlem Fox

J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970

By: John Christopher Walter

This is the biography of J. Raymond Jones, premiere political strategist and first Black leader of Tammany Hall, who served New York City and the Democratic Party from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil rights era. His rise thorough the ranks of the Party is traced in dramatic detail as his power expands to influence national politics and the political destinies of people like John Lindsay, Adam Clayton Powell, and Lyndon Johnson. It is based on extensive interviews with Jones and Jones's proteges, including politically prominent figures, Robert Wagner, former mayor of New York City, Percy Sutton, and Congressman Charles Rangel. These memoirs are also a history of New York City politics during some of its most interesting and transitional eras. It is a lively account of the gradual emergence of blacks as a key element in the National Democratic Party coalition and will make an excellent case study for political activists by providing a practical, behind-the-scenes view of the political process in our nation's largest city.

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0887067565

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James Baldwin and the Heavenly City

Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt

By: Christopher Z. Hobson

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James Baldwin and the Heavenly City

Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt

By: Christopher Z. Hobson

Behind James Baldwin’s uncanny ability to evoke a nation’s crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, James Baldwin and the Heavenly City shows that Baldwin’s novels use biblical ideas in partly but not fully secularized ways to express the possible human attainment of a new life embodying a real but undefinable holiness. Focusing on Baldwin’s six novels, along with essays, stories, and drama, the book first shows Baldwin’s method of recasting biblical and African American prophetic traditions to reveal their liberating core. It then examines several key themes: the prophet’s selection, seen in Baldwin’s debut novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain; the three linked ideas of prophetic art, the “apocalyptic body,” and the “apocalyptic city,” as presented in all his novels; and the polarity between prophecy and doubt, the subject of his last novel, Just Above My Head. This important work provides new readings of Baldwin’s novels, reassesses his once-neglected later fiction, and shows Gospel music’s centrality (with blues) in his fictional imagination.

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MSU Press

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1628953365

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Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature

By: Christopher Langlois

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Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature

By: Christopher Langlois

Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major post-1945 works in prose: The Unnamable, Texts for Nothing, How It Is, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho. Through a sustained dialogue with the theoretical work of Maurice Blanchot, it accomplishes a systematic interrogation of what happens in the space of literature when writing, and first of all Beckett's, encounters the language of terror, thereby giving new significance - ethical, ontological, and political - to what speaks in Beckett's texts.a a

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Edinburgh University Press

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147441902X

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Queering Richard Rolle

Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England

By: Christopher M. Roman

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Queering Richard Rolle

Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England

By: Christopher M. Roman

This book examines three aspects of Rolle’s thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound ecology. These facets of his work invoke both a way of understanding being in the world, an opening up of the body in queer ways to experience the divine, and a way to consider divine contemplation in terms of singing the body. Queering Richard Rolle considers how Rolle navigates queer, eremitic conduct in order to create an identity always in process

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British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba, 1898-1964

By: Christopher Hull

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British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba, 1898-1964

By: Christopher Hull

An analysis of Cuba's history from a British diplomatic perspective during the period of US political and economic domination, from 1898 to 1964. It investigates how Britain attempted to protect its trade and other interests in the island, whilst always sensitive to the reactions of its most important ally, the United States.

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1137301767

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Rise of the DEO

Leadership by Design

By: Maria Giudice,Christopher Ireland

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Rise of the DEO

Leadership by Design

By: Maria Giudice,Christopher Ireland

The majority of companies, their employees and their leaders navigate a space where competitors appear overnight, customers demand innovations monthly, business plans rarely last a full year and career ladders have been replaced by trampolines. This environment of constant change will only accelerate in the future and traditional business leaders are ill equipped to deal with it. Just as we took our cues from MBAs and the military in casting the ideal CEO of the 20th century, we can look to design - in its broadest form - to model our future leader, the DEO. These leaders possess characteristics, behaviors and mindsets that allow them to excel in unpredictable, fast-moving and value-charged conditions. They are catalysts for transformation and agents of change. A hybrid of strategic business executive and creative problem-solver, the DEO is willing to take on anything as an object of design and looks at ALL problems as design challenges. Readers will learn not only why this form of leadership is essential to the success of modern organizations, but also what characteristics are best suited to this role. Through intimate conversations with leading DEOs, we explore the mindsets, communities, processes and practices common to creative business leaders. The book lays out—graphically and through example—how DEOs run their companies and why this approach makes sense now. We help readers identify these skills in themselves and their colleagues, and we guide them in using these skills to build, revive or reinvent the next generation of great companies and organization.

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0133441318

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The Biology of the Autistic Syndromes

By: Christopher Gillberg,Mary Coleman

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The Biology of the Autistic Syndromes

By: Christopher Gillberg,Mary Coleman

Autism is not a single disease but a syndrome of different diseases. In this completely reworked and updated third edition, two world authorities, Christopher Gillberg and Mary Coleman, address the difficulties this presents for clinical diagnosis with diagnostic aids and clear guidelines for medical evaluation. Epidemiology, neuropsychological studies and behavior complexes, such as self-injury, are reviewed in detail, and the authors give a detailed explanation of what is known about the molecular biology and genetics of autism. Epilepsy and electrophysiological studies are also covered, as well as biochemistry, endocrinology, immunology, brain imaging and neuropathology. The available medical therapies are reviewed, along with an update on what is known about other interventions, such as psychoeducational and behavioral modification procedures. The book concludes with an integration of current knowledge from diverse fields. This is an essential text for clinicians and will also be of interest to parents of autistic children.

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Cambridge University Press

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1898683220

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Old Lands

A Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese

By: Christopher Witmore

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Old Lands

A Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese

By: Christopher Witmore

Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. Following waters in search of rest through the lens of Lucretian poetics, Christopher Witmore reconstitutes an untimely mode of ambulatory writing, chorography, mindful of the challenges we all face in these precarious times. Turning on pressing concerns that arise out of object-oriented encounters, Old Lands ponders the disappearance of an agrarian world rooted in the Neolithic, the transition to urban-styles of living, and changes in communication, movement, and metabolism, while opening fresh perspectives on long-term inhabitation, changing mobilities, and appropriation through pollution. Carefully composed with those objects encountered along its varied paths, this book offers an original and wonderous account of a region in twenty-seven segments, and fulfills a longstanding ambition within archaeology to generate a polychronic narrative that stands as a complement and alternative to diachronic history. Old Lands will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and scholars of the Eastern Peloponnese. Those interested in the long-term changes in society, technology, and culture in this region will find this book captivating.

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Routledge

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1351109413

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Pediatric Psychopharmacology

By: Lawrence Scahill,Christopher Kratochvil

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Pediatric Psychopharmacology

By: Lawrence Scahill,Christopher Kratochvil

When the first edition of Pediatric Psychopharmacology published in 2002, it filled a void in child and adolescent psychiatry and quickly establishing itself as the definitive text-reference in pediatric psychopharmacology. While numerous short, clinically focused paperbacks have been published since then, no competitors with the scholarly breadth, depth, and luster of this volume have emerged. In the second edition, Christopher Kratochvil, MD, a highly respected expert in pediatric psychopharmacology, joins the outstanding editorial team led by Dr. Martin and Dr. Scahill. In the new edition, the editors streamline the flow of information to reflect the growth in scientific data since the first edition appeared. The overall structure of the book remains the same, with major sections on underlying biology; somatic interventions; assessment and treatment; and special considerations.

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0195398211

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Taylor and Hoyt's Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus E-Book

By: Scott R. Lambert,Christopher J. Lyons

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Taylor and Hoyt's Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus E-Book

By: Scott R. Lambert,Christopher J. Lyons

New chapters, new editors and contributors make Taylor and Hoyt's Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 5th Edition, the most current and complete reference available in this evolving field. Editors Scott R. Lambert and Christopher J. Lyons, both globally recognized leaders, provide authoritative coverage of all the pediatric ophthalmic conditions you’re likely to encounter in practice, including the latest clinical advances in etiology, diagnosis, and medical and surgical management. Expert guidance on the complete spectrum of childhood eye disorders and strabismus, including a unique "practical problems" section designed to help you handle difficult patient situations. More than 1,800 high-quality images and artworks provide visual guidance in diagnosis and management. A practical "how to" perform strabismus surgery chapter with extensive step-by-step artworks for complete visual guidance. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Comprehensive updates of all topics, with nine brand-new chapters covering significant advances in the management of refractive errors in children; binocular vision; conjunctival tumors; optimal approaches to patient-family communication, and a unique chapter on the impact of mobile apps for the pediatric ophthalmologist. State-of-the-art coverage of key areas such as OCT and all of the newest imaging techniques for the eye, orbit and visual pathways; anti-VEGF treatment for retinopathy of prematurity; and minimally invasive strabismus surgery. An expanded video collection with more than 60 narrated instructional clips depicting multiple diagnostic and surgical techniques. Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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0702066176

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9780702066177

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