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Symmetric Generation of Groups

With Applications to Many of the Sporadic Finite Simple Groups

By: Robert Curtis

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Symmetric Generation of Groups

With Applications to Many of the Sporadic Finite Simple Groups

By: Robert Curtis

Comprehensive text which develops the notion of symmetric generation and applies the technique to sporadic simple groups.

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Cambridge University Press

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052185721X

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9780521857215

University Babylon

Film and Race Politics on Campus

By: Curtis Marez

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University Babylon

Film and Race Politics on Campus

By: Curtis Marez

From the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universities and Hollywood entities have disseminated influential ideas of race, gender, class, and sexual difference. Even more directly, Hollywood has drawn writers, actors, and other talent from ranks of professors and students while also promoting the industry in classrooms, curricula, and film studies programs. In addition to founding film schools, university administrators have offered campuses as filming locations. In University Babylon, Curtis Marez argues that cinema has been central to the uneven incorporation and exclusion of different kinds of students, professors, and knowledge. Working together, Marez argues, film and educational institutions have produced a powerful ideology that links respectability to academic merit in order to marginalize and manage people of color. Combining concepts and methods from critical university studies, ethnic studies, native studies, and film studies, University Babylon analyzes the symbolic and institutional collaborations between Hollywood filmmakers and university administrators over the representation of students and, by extension, college life more broadly.

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University of California Press

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0520304578

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9780520304574

Health Effects of Municipal Waste Incineration

By: Curtis C. Travis,Holly A. Hattemer-Frey

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Health Effects of Municipal Waste Incineration

By: Curtis C. Travis,Holly A. Hattemer-Frey

This much-needed book provides an enlightening perspective on the environmental and human health impacts of municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration. Over 100 tables and figures allows speedy access to important data you will refer to again and again. The comprehensive text assesses the human health risks associated with exposure to facility emitted pollutants-especially the highly toxic dioxin. It includes an evaluation of multipathway (inhalation and food chain) exposures. This essential publication also evaluates facility emissions, plausible air concentrations, the potential for deposition of pollutants onto plant, soil, and water surfaces, the movement and accumulation of pollutants through environmental media, and the potential for human exposure. Health Effects of Municipal Waste Incineration is an up-to-date volume which encourages readers to formulate opinions about some of the fundamental issues affecting the management of municipal solid waste. Anyone involved with environmental science, hazardous waste, toxicology, risk analysis and/or environmental engineering will certainly value and utilize this well-written resource.

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CRC Press

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0849349338

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9780849349331

Positive Feedback in Natural Systems

By: Donald L. DeAngelis,Wilfried M. Post,Curtis C. Travis

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Positive Feedback in Natural Systems

By: Donald L. DeAngelis,Wilfried M. Post,Curtis C. Travis

Cybernetics, a science concerned with understanding how systems are regulated, has reflected the preoccupations of the century in which it was born. Regulation is important in twentieth century society, where both machines and social organizations are complex. Cybernetics focused on and became primarily associated with the homeostasis or stability of system behavior and with the negative feedbacks that stabilize systems. It paid less attention to the processes opposite to negative feedback, the positive feedback processes that act to change systems. We attempt to redress the balance here by illustrating the enormous importance of positive feedbacks in natural systems. In an article in the American Scientist in 1963, Maruyama called for increased attention to this topic, noting that processes of change could occur when a "deviation in anyone component of the system caused deviations in other components that acted back on the first component to reinforce of amplify the initial deviation." The deviation amplification is the result of positive feedback among system components. Maruyama demonstrated by numerous examples that the neglect of such processes was unjustified and suggested that a new branch of cybernetics, "the second cybernetics," be devoted to their study.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642826253

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9783642826252

God and Nature

A Theologian and a Scientist Conversing on the Divine Promise of Possibility

By: Curtis L. Thompson,Joyce M. Cuff

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God and Nature

A Theologian and a Scientist Conversing on the Divine Promise of Possibility

By: Curtis L. Thompson,Joyce M. Cuff

The current religion and science dialogue begs for greater clarity on the relation of God to nature. In God and Nature two scholars who embrace contemporary insights from science and religion explore the complexities of this debate. As the narrative unfolds, classical and contemporary thinkers are engaged as discussion partners in articulating a philosophical theology of nature. Conceptual pairs, in which two concepts play off of each other, provide the structure for each of the seven chapters, with usually the first concept being more scientific in character and the second more religious in tone. These pairs of concepts-from chronology and creation to creativity and creator-help to thematize and structure the progressing narrative. Within each chapter the two concepts are first investigated independently, then interdependently, and finally in relation to the divine. At the story's completion nature has emerged as alive with possibility that is as alluring as the actuality it evokes. Envisioned is a divine Creator who works in and through the possibility of creation to lure it into fuller manifestations via creative transformation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441189149

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9781441189141

Glass' Office Gynecology

By: Michele Curtis,Silvia T. Linares,Leah Antoniewicz

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Glass' Office Gynecology

By: Michele Curtis,Silvia T. Linares,Leah Antoniewicz

Stay on top of the latest advances in the ambulatory care of women with Glass' Office Gynecology, 7e, today’s most up-to-date and practical guide to the common issues seen every day by women’s health providers in an office setting. Chapters mirror the common issues seen by practitioners and include epidemiology of gynecologic disease, examination tips, laboratory testing, diagnostic procedures, treatment and appropriate follow up, as well as referral for specialty treatment and counseling. Clinical notes make this book a handy resource for the busy practitioner.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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145115402X

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9781451154023

The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815

By: Curtis P. Nettels

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The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815

By: Curtis P. Nettels

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery.

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Routledge

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1315496755

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9781315496757

Ohio Confederate Connection

Facts You May Not Know About the Civil War

By: Curtis A. Early

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Ohio Confederate Connection

Facts You May Not Know About the Civil War

By: Curtis A. Early

In Ohio Confederate Connection, Curtis Early, descendent of Lt. General Jubal A. Early of the Confederate States of America, and his wife, Gloria, present facts about the Civil War that may not be widely known. Gloria and Curtis Early have been doing Civil War re-enactments for the past twenty years, in which Curtis portrays General Early and Gloria portrays a southern belle. They give talks at school, libraries, Civil War round tables, encampments, and other events on the significance of the Civil War. Additionally, they travel to many states to do the re-enactments, and they spend much of their time researching various topics related to the Civil War. In 2005, Curtis and his grandson Patrick walked down the Shenandoah Valley, traveling over 170 miles in twelve days. The ground that he covered represented the middle part of General Earlys famous march from Cold Harbor, Virginia, to the gates of Washington in 1864. Curtis has also walked from Hanging Rock, Virginia, to Winchester, Virginia, to raise money for the restoration of General Earlys house in Virginia, which dates to the late 1700s. Curtis and Gloria have written Ohio Confederate Connection together to help people better understand what really caused the Civil War (the War Between the States). Included is a list of recommended reading about the Civil War.

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iUniverse

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1450273734

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9781450273732

The State of the Nation

Government and the Quest for a Better Society

By: Derek Curtis Bok

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The State of the Nation

Government and the Quest for a Better Society

By: Derek Curtis Bok

The author shows that although Americans are better off today in most areas than they were in 1960, they have performed poorly compared with other leading industrial nations.

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Harvard University Press

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0674292111

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9780674292116

Following the Cloud - A Vision of the Convergence of Science and the Church

Reconciling Science and the World with the Post-Modern Church

By: Harold Curtis

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Following the Cloud - A Vision of the Convergence of Science and the Church

Reconciling Science and the World with the Post-Modern Church

By: Harold Curtis

... Following the footsteps of The Elijah Task and The Eternal Church, Following the Cloud presents a prophetic vision of the convergence of Science, the World, and the Church which reveals the Hand of God in all Creation."--Page 4 of cover; approximately mid page

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Harold Curtis

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1419645714

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9781419645716

The Vegetation of Wisconsin

An Ordination of Plant Communities

By: John Thomas Curtis

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The Vegetation of Wisconsin

An Ordination of Plant Communities

By: John Thomas Curtis

One of the most important contributions in the field of plant ecology during the twentieth century, this definitive survey established the geographical limits, species compositions, and as much as possible of the environmental relations of the communities composing the vegetation of Wisconsin.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299019403

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9780299019402

Caught Red Starred

By: Curtis B. Robinson

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Caught Red Starred

By: Curtis B. Robinson

Based on two years of research, a Master’s Thesis “Two Front War Between the Wars” and a lecture series entitled “Caught Red Starred”, Curtis B. Robinson’s first book narrates, analyzes, and reconstructs the shadowing and the apprehension of members of the Woolwich Spy-Ring in Britain in the closing days before the Second World War. Here is the story of an of the observation of shady characters like Percy Glading and his friends by a the Secret Service with the help of a double agent informant who managed to infiltrate the spy-ring undetected. Their goal was to assist Joseph Stalin in his plans to elevate the Soviet Union to the status of world power by – in the days before the bomb was the measure for power – creating a powerful naval force, as prescribed by Alfred Thayer Mahan. Utilizing some of the latest documents to be declassified as well as an abundance of other archival materials, and written from the perspective of behind a desk at MI5, he argues that the Woolwich case provides a clear demonstration that it was not only the duty of secret servicemen to uphold the Official Secrets Act by, in this case, attempting to deny naval secrets to the Soviet Union who under Stalin was undergoing an ambitious rearmament program, but also to confront their ideological enemy – the communist movement in Great Britain.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465340432

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9781465340436

Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

By: Curtis Runstedler

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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

By: Curtis Runstedler

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.

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Springer Nature

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3031266064

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9783031266065

The Burden of Black Religion

By: Curtis J. Evans

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The Burden of Black Religion

By: Curtis J. Evans

Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race. In The Burden of Black Religion, Curtis Evans traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum period to the middle of the twentieth century. Central to the story, he argues, was the deep-rooted notion that blacks were somehow "naturally" religious. At first, this assumed natural impulse toward religion served as a signal trait of black people's humanity -- potentially their unique contribution to American culture. Abolitionists seized on this point, linking black religion to the black capacity for freedom. Soon, however, these first halting steps toward a multiracial democracy were reversed. As Americans began to value reason, rationality, and science over religious piety, the idea of an innate black religiosity was used to justify preserving the inequalities of the status quo. Later, social scientists -- both black and white -- sought to reverse the damage caused by these racist ideas and in the process proved that blacks were in fact fully capable of incorporation into white American culture. This important work reveals how interpretations of black religion played a crucial role in shaping broader views of African Americans and had real consequences in their lives. In the process, Evans offers an intellectual and cultural history of race in a crucial period of American history.

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Oxford University Press

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0199716544

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9780199716548

Columbus Beer

Recent Brewing & Deep Roots

By: Curtis Schieber

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Columbus Beer

Recent Brewing & Deep Roots

By: Curtis Schieber

Brewing in Columbus began more than two centuries ago. The taps were only turned off during Prohibition and the short pause that preceded the modern craft beer explosion. For generations, names such as Hoster, Born, Schlee and Wagner secured staunch local loyalty for their brands and earned national acclaim for their brewmasters. Today, more than thirty craft breweries ply a prosperous trade in the capital city. After huge California craft brewery Stone became serious about Columbus for its East Coast expansion, Scotland's successful BrewDog chose central Ohio for its U.S. beachhead. Author Curtis Schieber celebrates the rise, fall and triumphant return of brewing in Ohio's capital.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439663629

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9781439663622

Mexico Under Fire

Being the Diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, During the American Military Occupation of Northern Mexico, 1846-1847

By: Samuel Ryan Curtis

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Mexico Under Fire

Being the Diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, During the American Military Occupation of Northern Mexico, 1846-1847

By: Samuel Ryan Curtis

Nor was the U.S. military prepared for a struggle against Mexican guerrilla forces and desperate bandits. Colonel Curtis was a diary keeper, and this record of his experiences in Mexico gives a clear picture of his efforts to restore and maintain order under nearly impossible conditions: of death and suffering in his regiment from disease, not fighting, and of the tedium of army camp life.

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TCU Press

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0875651275

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9780875651279

The $3 Million Turnover

By: Richard Curtis

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The $3 Million Turnover

By: Richard Curtis

In the cutthroat, glamorous world of professional sports, one man works behind the scenes to fix his superstar clients’ biggest problems: agent Dave Bolt. Officially, Dave Bolt is a sports agent, representing professional athletes in basketball, football, baseball, hockey—you name it. Unofficially, he’s a kind of undercover operator, a troubleshooter for a number of pro sports organizations. He’s there to sweep the drug problems, the corruption, and the sex scandals under the rug. Bolt’s walk on the dark side starts with one phone call concerning the hottest basketball prospect in the country. It ends with a hairline fracture of his cheekbone, temporary blindness, a scrotumful of somebody’s knee, and the loss of the most promising marital prospect since his divorce. Oh, and a commission of staggering proportions. Looks like Bolt’s got a new side gig . . .

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Open Road Media

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1497608503

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9781497608504

The Myth of Colorblind Christians

Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era

By: Jesse Curtis

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The Myth of Colorblind Christians

Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era

By: Jesse Curtis

Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, white Americans turned to an ideology of colorblindness. Personal kindness, not systemic reform, seemed to be the way to solve racial problems. In those same decades, a religious movement known as evangelicalism captured the nation’s attention and became a powerful political force. In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals’ efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form of whiteness, infusing the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed a Christian brand of colorblindness to protect new investments in whiteness. While black evangelicals used the rhetoric of Christian unity to challenge racism, white evangelicals repurposed this language to silence their black counterparts and retain power, arguing that all were equal in Christ and that Christians should not talk about race. As white evangelicals portrayed movements for racial justice as threats to Christian unity and presented their own racial commitments as fidelity to the gospel, they made Christian colorblindness into a key pillar of America’s religio-racial hierarchy. In the process, they anchored their own identities and shaped the very meaning of whiteness in American society. At once compelling and timely, The Myth of Colorblind Christians exposes how white evangelical communities avoided antiracist action and continue to thrive today.

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NYU Press

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1479809381

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9781479809387

Socrates and the Immoralists

By: Curtis N. Johnson

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Socrates and the Immoralists

By: Curtis N. Johnson

Socrates and the Immoralists assembles an in-depth exploration of Socrates' argument for the just life, focusing specifically on the dialogues with the "immoralists" Polus, Callicles, and Thrasymachus, and illuminates the complexities of Socrates' thought, showing the interplay of the seemingly contradictory parts of Socrates' ambition, ultimately vindicating the overall coherence of his views.

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Lexington Books

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0739109820

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9780739109823

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