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Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time)

By: Claude M. Steele

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Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time)

By: Claude M. Steele

The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity. Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393341488

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9780393341485

The Black President

Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

By: Claude A. Clegg III

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The Black President

Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

By: Claude A. Clegg III

The first sweeping, legacy-defining history of the entire Obama presidency. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Biography & Autobiography by the Association of American Publishers In The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic, inspirational, yet contentious political context. He captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while insightfully rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of the most unlikely of his successors. In elucidating the Obama moment in American politics and culture, this book is also, at its core, a sweeping exploration of the Obama presidency's historical environment, impact, and meaning for African Americans—the tens of millions of people from every walk of life who collectively were his staunchest group of supporters and who most starkly experienced both the euphoric triumphs and dispiriting shortcomings of his years in office. In Obama's own words, his White House years were "the best of times and worst of times" for Black America. Clegg is vitally concerned with the veracity of this claim, along with how Obama engaged the aspirations, struggles, and disappointments of his most loyal constituency and how representative segments of Black America engaged, experienced, and interpreted his historic presidency. Clegg draws on an expansive archive of materials, including government records and reports, interviews, speeches, memoirs, and insider accounts, in order to examine Obama's complicated upbringing and early political ambitions, his delicate navigation of matters of race, the nature and impacts of his administration's policies and politics, the inspired but also carefully choreographed symbolism of his presidency (and Michelle Obama's role), and the spectrum of allies and enemies that he made along the way. The successes and the aspirations of the Obama era, Clegg argues, are explicitly connected to our current racist, toxic political discourse. Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not only for historians, politics junkies, and Obama fans but also for anyone seeking to understand America's contemporary struggles with inequality, prejudice, and fear.

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JHU Press

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1421441896

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9781421441894

Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

By: Claude Cernuschi

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Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

By: Claude Cernuschi

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete. Claude Cernuschi analyzes each comparison on a case-by-case basis, primarily because the interpretation of cartoons and caricatures is highly contingent on their specific historical and cultural context. Although this connection has gone unnoticed in the literature, in retrospect, this correlation makes perfect sense. Not only was Schiele’s artistic production frequently compared to caricature (and derided for being “grotesque”), but Expressionism and caricature are natural allies. One may belong to “high” art and the other to “popular” culture, yet both presuppose similar assumptions and deploy a similar rhetorical position: namely, that the exaggeration of human physiognomy allows deeper psychological “truths” to emerge. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, popular culture, and politics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000648354

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Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830

Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

By: Claude Julien Rawson

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Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830

Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

By: Claude Julien Rawson

Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660-1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and sixteenth-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660-1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of 'sensibility' or 'sentiment'. The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain.

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Yale University Press

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0300079168

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9780300079166

Order from Confusion Sprung

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper

By: Claude Rawson

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Order from Confusion Sprung

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper

By: Claude Rawson

Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.

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Routledge

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0429876459

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9780429876455

The Trinity Foot Beagles - An Informal Record of Cambridge Sport and Sportsmen During the Past Fifty Years

By: F. Claude Kempson

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The Trinity Foot Beagles - An Informal Record of Cambridge Sport and Sportsmen During the Past Fifty Years

By: F. Claude Kempson

First published in 1912, this is a humorous recollection of the highlights and shenanigans that occurred within the world of Cambridge countryside sport, including fox hunting, shooting and horse racing. This text has been republished here for its historical and cultural significance. Including a new introduction on the subject of the foxhound.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473342023

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African American Southerners in Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Claude H. Nolen

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African American Southerners in Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Claude H. Nolen

This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks in the last decades of slavery, the Civil War years, and the following period of Reconstruction. African Americans suffered and resisted bondage in virtually every aspect of their lives, but persevered through centuries of brutality to their present place at the center of American life. Utilizing statements made by former slaves and other sources close to them, the author takes a close look at the culture and lifestyle of this proud people in the final decades of slavery, their experiences of being in the military and fighting in the Civil War, and the active role taken by the Southern blacks during Reconstruction.

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McFarland

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0786424516

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9780786424511

National Healing

Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition

By: Claude Hurlbert

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National Healing

Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition

By: Claude Hurlbert

In National Healing, author Claude Hurlbert persuasively relates nationalism to institutional racism and contends that these are both symptoms of a national ill health afflicting American higher education and found even in the field of writing studies. Teachers and scholars, even in progressive fields like composition, are unwittingly at odds with their own most liberatory purposes, he says, and he advocates consciously broadening our understanding of rhetoric and writing instruction to include rhetorical traditions of non-Western cultures. Threading a personal narrative of his own experiences as a student, professor, and citizen through a wide ranging discussion of theory, pedagogy, and philosophy in the writing classroom, Hurlbert weaves a vision that moves beyond simple polemic and simplistic multiculturalism. National Healing offers a compelling new aesthetic, epistemological, and rhetorical configuration.

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University Press of Colorado

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0874218365

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9780874218367

Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

By: Jean-Michel Muller,Nicolas Brisebarre,Florent de Dinechin,Claude-Pierre Jeannerod,Vincent Lefèvre,Guillaume Melquiond,Nathalie Revol,Damien Stehlé,Serge Torres

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Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

By: Jean-Michel Muller,Nicolas Brisebarre,Florent de Dinechin,Claude-Pierre Jeannerod,Vincent Lefèvre,Guillaume Melquiond,Nathalie Revol,Damien Stehlé,Serge Torres

Floating-point arithmetic is the most widely used way of implementing real-number arithmetic on modern computers. However, making such an arithmetic reliable and portable, yet fast, is a very difficult task. As a result, floating-point arithmetic is far from being exploited to its full potential. This handbook aims to provide a complete overview of modern floating-point arithmetic. So that the techniques presented can be put directly into practice in actual coding or design, they are illustrated, whenever possible, by a corresponding program. The handbook is designed for programmers of numerical applications, compiler designers, programmers of floating-point algorithms, designers of arithmetic operators, and more generally, students and researchers in numerical analysis who wish to better understand a tool used in their daily work and research.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0817647058

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9780817647056

Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

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Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Searching for a Troubled Past -- 1. Bygones -- 2. Old Demons of the New South -- 3. The Reaping -- 4. Presumed Guilt -- 5. A Blot Upon the State -- 6. A Reckoning -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Cover 4.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252035887

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9780252035883

Genetics of Fitness and Physical Performance

By: Claude Bouchard,Robert M. Malina,Louis Pérusse

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Genetics of Fitness and Physical Performance

By: Claude Bouchard,Robert M. Malina,Louis Pérusse

Genetics of Fitness and Physical Performance is the first comprehensive reference on the role of the genes in influencing individual variation in fitness and performance. This essential compendium reviews the past 25 years of accumulated evidence on the genetic basis of health- and performance-related fitness phenotypes. Focusing on the interests of sport scientists, the authors provide insight into the significance of this research on nearly every aspect of the study of human physical activity. The book presents the biological basis of heredity and explains the concepts and methods of genetic epidemiology and molecular biology that are necessary to understand this specialized field. With the rapid advances in molecular biology and the paradigms of human genetics, exercise scientists face a dynamic and vibrant new field. This book offers readers new opportunities to better understand atherosclerosis, noninsulin dependent diabetes, obesity, and hypertension by searching for single gene effects and identifying susceptibility genes. The authors review the evidence on the role of the genes for human traits as it pertains to the exercise science field. And they explore the scientific, practical, and ethical issues that confront exercise scientists as progress is made in this field. Genetics of Fitness and Physical Performance is vital reading for scholars in the field of exercise and sport science to understand how recent discoveries in genetics might shape their future research.

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Human Kinetics

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0873229517

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Dynamics of Pond Aquaculture

By: Hillary S. Egna,Claude E. Boyd

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Dynamics of Pond Aquaculture

By: Hillary S. Egna,Claude E. Boyd

The culmination of over a decade's worth of research by the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), Dynamics of Pond Aquaculture not only explains the physical, chemical, and biological processes that interact in pond culture systems, but also presents real-world research findings and considers the people who depend on these systems. This book uses data from CRSP field research sites in East Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, and North America to present a complete picture of the pond system and the environment in which it exists. A thorough study of the principles and practices of aquaculture, the book reflects the state of the art in pond aquaculture and incorporates recent advances that have changed the science in the last decade or so. It provides a thorough review of the many methods, techniques, and ideas that comprise this complex and fascinating area of study.

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CRC Press

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1351454064

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9781351454063

Parasitism

The Ecology and Evolution of Intimate Interactions

By: Claude Combes

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Parasitism

The Ecology and Evolution of Intimate Interactions

By: Claude Combes

In Parasitism, Claude Combes explores the fascinating adaptations parasites have developed through their intimate interactions with their hosts. He begins with the biology of parasites—their life cycles, habitats, and different types of associations with their hosts. Next he discusses genetic interactions between hosts and parasites, and he ends with a section on the community ecology of parasites and their role in the evolution of their hosts. Throughout the book Combes enlivens his discussion with a wealth of concrete examples of host-parasite interactions.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226114465

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9780226114460

No Wonder You Wonder!

Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries

By: Claude Phipps

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No Wonder You Wonder!

Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries

By: Claude Phipps

This book explores and explains scientific mysteries and principles, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and an abundance of illustrations. Chapters are short, but give an understanding of technology and science not available elsewhere. Questions include: • What holds a satellite up while it goes around the Earth? • Why is the sky (made out of clear air!) blue instead of green, or just black as night like the sky that high altitude jumper Felix Baumgartner saw? • How is laser light different from “normal” light? • Did Columbus really discover that the Earth is round? • Which one invention will assuredly survive our civilization? • Why can’t you travel back in time? If you often feel embarrassed because you don’t have a clue about lasers, the difference between volts, amps and watts, or how jet planes really work – but you would like to understand the physical principles of our modern world, whether you’re a teen or a parent – this book is for you! To understand the basics of quantum mechanics, or of protons, neutrons and electrons, you don’t need algebra, calculus, or a lot of equations or technical buzzwords. Too many people have been soured on science by science teachers who have made simple concepts seem complex. This book is the antidote: all it requires is your curiosity. Advance praise for No Wonder You Wonder!: “From beginning to end, and with laugh after laugh, I enjoyed every single word of this remarkable book. Phipps is a hell of a good writer, and the kind of physics teacher that I would have loved as a young student. No Wonder You Wonder can be engrossing for anyone with a bit of curiosity, not just the scientific minded.” – Christophe Bonnal, Chief Engineer, CNES (French Space Agency) “No Wonder You Wonder is a fa ntastic book. Covering topics such as space, matter, and the energy within the universe, this book does an excellent job of clarifying these topics. It's a great read for young scientists and aspiring physicists.” – August R., high school freshman

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Springer

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3319216805

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9783319216805

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

By: Claude Rawson

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The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

By: Claude Rawson

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107495407

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Literary Authority

An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy

By: Claude Willan

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Literary Authority

An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy

By: Claude Willan

This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature, an author can accrue significant and lasting economic and cultural power. We take for granted, now, that authority dwells in literature and in being its author. This state of affairs was not naturally occurring, but deliberately invented. This book tells the story of that invention. The story's central figures are Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. But its narrative begins in the 1680s, with the last gasp of the bond linking literary to political authority. While Jacobite poets celebrated (and mourned) the Stuart dynasty, Whig writers traced the philosophical and aesthetic consequences of the accession of William of Orange. Both groups left behind sets of literary devices ready-made to confer and validate authority. Claude Willan challenges the continued reign of the "Scriblerian" model of the period and shows how that reign was engineered. In so doing he historicizes the relationship between "good" and "bad" writing, and suggests how we might think about literature and beauty had Pope and Johnson not taken literary authority for themselves. What might literature have looked like, and what could we use it like for, he provocatively asks.

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Stanford University Press

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1503635279

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9781503635272

The Genetics of Obesity

By: Claude Bouchard

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The Genetics of Obesity

By: Claude Bouchard

This book provides a comprehensive compilation of the evidence available regarding the role of genetic differences in the etiology of human obesities and their health and metabolic implications. It also identifies the most promising research areas, methods, and strategies for use in future efforts to understand the genetic basis of obesities and their consequences on human health. Leading researchers in their respective fields present contributed chapters on such topics as etiology and the prevalence of obesities, nongenetic determinants of obesity and fat topography, and animal models and molecular biological technology used to delineate the genetic basis of human obesities. A major portion of the book is devoted to human genetic research and clinical observations encompassing adoption studies, twin studies, family studies, single gene effects, temporal trends and etiology heterogeneity, energy intake and food preference, energy expenditure, and susceptibility to metabolic derangements in the obese state. Future directions of research in the field are covered in the book as well.

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CRC Press

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1000103102

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9781000103106

Use of Biomarkers for Environmental Quality Assessment

By: Jean-Claude Amiard,Thierry Caquet,Laurent Lagadic

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Use of Biomarkers for Environmental Quality Assessment

By: Jean-Claude Amiard,Thierry Caquet,Laurent Lagadic

This work is primarily designed for any person or organization in charge of assessment of the quality of natural resources and of pollution prevention.

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100044564X

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9781000445640

Out of the Shadows

The Health and Well-Being of Private Contractors Working in Conflict Environments

By: Molly Dunigan,Carrie M. Farmer,Rachel M. Burns,Alison Hawks,Claude Messan Setodji

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Out of the Shadows

The Health and Well-Being of Private Contractors Working in Conflict Environments

By: Molly Dunigan,Carrie M. Farmer,Rachel M. Burns,Alison Hawks,Claude Messan Setodji

Deployed contractors may be exposed to the same stressors as military personnel. A RAND survey examined the mental and physical health of contractors, their deployment experiences, and their access to and use of health care resources.

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Rand Corporation

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0833082337

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9780833082336

John Locke and the Bank of England

By: Claude Roche

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John Locke and the Bank of England

By: Claude Roche

John Locke was one of the first shareholders of the Bank of England and participated in parliamentary debates surrounding its creation. He had a key role in the monetary reform of 1696. This book examines Locke’s thought in relation to credit, banking regulation, the monetary and financial system, the gold standard and the principles of Natural Right. It also establishes a link between Locke’s economic and financial ideas and his political philosophy. John Locke and the Bank of England will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of central banking, financial history, the history of economic thought and political economy.

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Routledge

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1000386341

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9781000386349

Index to the London Magazine

By: Frank P. Riga,Claude A. Prance

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Index to the London Magazine

By: Frank P. Riga,Claude A. Prance

This book was originally published in 1978. The London Magazine is briefly told in the accomplisments and failures of its four editors, and during the fourteen months of his editorship, 1820-21, John Scott succeeded in establishing the London as one of the finest literary periodicals of the nineteenth century. John Taylor, the second editor, maintained the high quality of the magazine by securing many excellent writers. But by the end of 1825, the first year of Henry Southern's editorship, the magazine had lost most of its distinguished writers. When Charles night began editing the London in 1828, its great period was already a memory. This book presents a brief history of the magazine alongside the index.

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