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The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

By: Judea Pearl,Dana Mackenzie

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The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

By: Judea Pearl,Dana Mackenzie

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

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Basic Books

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0465097618

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The Social Psychology of Disability

By: Dana Dunn

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The Social Psychology of Disability

By: Dana Dunn

The book's overarching message is an important one: The experience of most people with disabilities is not what nondisabled persons anticipate--contrary to the latter's beliefs and expectations, the former can lead full and normal lives. Thus, The Social Psychology of Disability is designed to counter stereotypical or biased perspectives aimed at an often overlooked minority group."--Publisher information.

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Academy of Rehabilitation Psyc

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0199985693

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9780199985692

Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease

A Guide to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Wellness

By: Dana Trentini,Mary Shomon

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Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease

A Guide to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Wellness

By: Dana Trentini,Mary Shomon

At minimum, 27 million Americans have thyroid disease. Despite being the majority of thyroid sufferers, women rarely know that thyroid problems increase their risk of pregnancy complications, including infertility, preeclampsia, miscarriage, premature delivery, and low birth weight. This awareness gap affects patients and doctors, who know little about the ramifications of an undiagnosed or under-treated thyroid condition on a mother and her unborn baby. Founder of HypothyroidMom.com Dana Trentini and thyroid health advocate and bestselling author Mary Shomon have both endured challenges with pregnancies due to thyroid disorders. In Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease, they team up to give readers the answers they need. With personal stories and cutting-edge medical advice from leading health practitioners, the book explains how to recognize thyroid symptoms, get properly diagnosed/treated, manage thyroid problems during pregnancy, overcome thyroid-related infertility, and deal with postpartum challenges.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0738218685

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9780738218687

Mets Fan

By: Dana Brand

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Mets Fan

By: Dana Brand

This collection of well-crafted essays spans more than 40 years of franchise history but hews to a single theme: the experience--sometimes humorous, sometimes painful--of being a fan of the New York Mets. From the sound of jets overhead to Keith Hernandez and the Seinfeld connection, Hofstra professor Dana Brand writes about the experiences and lore that make baseball in Queens unique. Mets fans will recognize themselves in this book, and everyone who enjoys great baseball writing will delight in the reading.

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McFarland

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0786482486

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9780786482481

Winslow Homer and the Camera

Photography and the Art of Painting

By: Frank H. Goodyear III,Dana E. Byrd

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Winslow Homer and the Camera

Photography and the Art of Painting

By: Frank H. Goodyear III,Dana E. Byrd

A revelatory exploration of Winslow Homer’s engagement with photography, shedding new light on his celebrated paintings and works on paper One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer’s art, this volume exposes Homer’s own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer’s understanding of the camera’s ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America’s most original painters.

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Yale University Press

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0300214553

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Lies of Men

By: Dana Killion

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Lies of Men

By: Dana Killion

A murdered source. A board room power play. Reporting this story may prove fatal. Investigative reporter Andrea Kellner is under fire. After she inherits a media company from her husband, a hostile board member hires an efficiency consultant to force her out. Turning a blind eye to the power struggle, she throws herself into her next story only to find her key source dying in her home with an X slashed across her mouth. While even Andrea thinks the victim's corrupt ex-husband is the likely culprit, a second murder with a similar M.O. hints at a much larger scheme. Two strong, successful women are dead, their only connections are a divorce attorney and ex-husbands with an ugly past. Can Andrea expose the murderer before the killer takes another victim? Lies of Menis the third thrilling novel in the Andrea Kellner mystery series. If you like complex plots and smart, ballsy, crime-solving women, you’ll love Dana Killion’s page-turning series.

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Obscura Press

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0999187449

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The Monarch Effect: Surviving Poison, Predators, and People (Scholastic Focus)

By: Dana L. Church

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The Monarch Effect: Surviving Poison, Predators, and People (Scholastic Focus)

By: Dana L. Church

A not-so-typical look at the mysteries of the monarch butterfly Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at middle-grade and young adult readers. These books help readers learn about the world in which they live and develop their critical thinking skills so that they may become dynamic citizens who are able to analyze and understand our past, participate in essential discussions about our present, and work to grow and build our future. With their stunning black-and-orange wings, monarch butterflies are one of the most recognizable insects on the planet. But despite their delicate beauty, these creatures are warriors. The moment they hatch, they're fighting for their lives. Everything is the enemy: from the very leaf they live on to the humans and animals around them to nature itself. How does such a tiny egg survive to become a butterfly? And even after emerging from the cocoon, unimaginable danger awaits: migration. Every year, monarchs take flight, making one of the greatest migrations in the world. However, for a long time, their destination was unknown within the scientific community. Through the research of scientists in Canada and the United States and the support and efforts of ordinary people as well as Indigenous knowledge in Mexico, that mystery was finally solved. But to do so would involve years of searching across three countries and encounters with feuding scientists, the consequences of colonialism, and life-and-death stakes. Weaving together the untold story of survival, scientific discoveries, and the relationship between humans and butterflies, The Monarch Effect explores how one small insect can have an incredible impact on the entire planet.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338749234

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9781338749236

Andrea Kellner Mysteries - Books 1-3

By: Dana Killion

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Andrea Kellner Mysteries - Books 1-3

By: Dana Killion

Now available in one digital box set, books one, two, and three of the Andrea Kellner Mystery series. If you like smart, gutsy, crime-solving women, you'll love this page-turning series. Lies in High Places: A shooting on a Chicago expressway sends journalist Andrea Kellner on a mission to get the scoop that will save her career, but at what cost? With a boss who wants her sitting on the sidelines--or back in his bed, a competitive co-worker who just wants her gone, and a detective blinded by his own past, Andrea must look past CPD's explanation and discover the truth behind the shootings. Provided she can live to tell the story. The Last Lie: When a grief-stricken man crashes a charity gala and demands answers for his daughter's death, Andrea knows it's her duty to investigate. but she never expected him to point the blame--and his gun--at her date and his energy drink empire. To uncover the truth, Andrea must confront the man she thought she knew and corporate execs with hush money to spare, before her sister becomes the next victim. Lies of Men: After inheriting a media company, Andrea must turn a blind eye to the corporate power struggles and throw herself into her next story, only to find her key source dying in her own home, an X slashed across her mouth. While even Andrea thinks the likely culprit is the victim's corrupt ex-husband, a second murder with a similar M.O. hints at a much larger scheme.

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Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900-1921

By: Dana Gardner Munro

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Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900-1921

By: Dana Gardner Munro

The commonly held view that the interests of American business dominated U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean during the early part of this century is challenged by Dana G. Munro, prominent scholar and former State Department official. He argues that the basic purpose of U.S. policy was to create in Latin America political and economic stability so that disorder and failure to meet foreign obligations there would not imperil the security of the United States. The U.S. government increasingly intervened in the internal affairs of the Central American and West Indian republics when it felt that their stability was threatened. This policy culminated in the military occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and varying degrees of control in other countries. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400877857

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Growing and Eating Sustainably

Agroecology in Action

By: Dana James,Evan Bowness

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Growing and Eating Sustainably

Agroecology in Action

By: Dana James,Evan Bowness

The industrial food system, from production to consumption and waste, is a major contributor to environmental, social and economic problems. A few powerful multinational corporations have consolidated control of agricultural markets and wealth while many farmers struggle to make a living and millions of people go hungry every day. Consumer access to healthy and culturally appropriate food remains largely an option for only those who can afford it. Responding to these destructive practices, global agrarian movements are calling for a transition to agroecology. Agroecological farming follows ecological principles for growing food in a way that respects diverse sociocultural contexts, connects urban eaters and rural growers and attends to power dynamics. Growing and Eating Sustainably shines light on the process of agroecological transition by showcasing the experiences of growers and eaters in southern Brazil, a country where agrarian movements have long been at the forefront of pushing for more sustainable and just food systems. Through stories and photographs of people, landscapes, farms and farming practices, and urban spaces, this book communicates how to advance systems-level agroecological transitions by linking rural and urban areas and connecting diverse agroecological experiences.

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Fernwood Publishing

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1773635107

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The Provisional City

Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism

By: Dana Cuff

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The Provisional City

Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism

By: Dana Cuff

A look at urban transformation through the architecture and land development of large-scale residential projects.

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MIT Press

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0262532026

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9780262532020

Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century

By: Robert L. Benson,Giles Constable,Carol Dana Lanham,Charles Homer Haskins

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Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century

By: Robert L. Benson,Giles Constable,Carol Dana Lanham,Charles Homer Haskins

Twenty-seven authors approach the diverse areas of the cultural, religious, and social life of the twelfth century. These essays form a basic resource for all interested in this pivotal century. A reprint of the first edition first published in 1982.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802068502

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The Seaman's Friend

A Treatise on Practical Seamanship

By: Richard Henry Dana

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The Seaman's Friend

A Treatise on Practical Seamanship

By: Richard Henry Dana

An authentic look at the standard operating procedures aboard a 19th-century ship by the author of Two Years Before the Mast, from tying knots to quelling a mutiny. Glossary.

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Courier Corporation

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0486157180

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The Destructionists

The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

By: Dana Milbank

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The Destructionists

The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

By: Dana Milbank

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist "A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party fell prey to Trumpism."—The New York Times Book Review In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol. Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt. In the quarter century in between, Americans have witnessed the crackup of the party of Lincoln and Reagan, to its current iteration as a haven for white supremacists, political violence, conspiracy theories and authoritarianism. Following the questionable careers of party heavyweights Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, and Rudy Giuliani, and those of many lesser known lowlights, Milbank recounts the shocking lengths the Republican Party has gone to to maintain its grip on the American people.

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059346639X

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The Best American Essays 2024

By: Wesley Morris,Kim Dana Kupperman

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The Best American Essays 2024

By: Wesley Morris,Kim Dana Kupperman

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman. “Imparting some piece of yourself—any part—is arduous and warrants some kind of commendation,” writes guest editor Wesley Morris in his introduction. Both personal and personable, the essayists in this volume use their own vulnerability to guide readers on excursions that unfold on uncomfortable edges. From contemplating the nuances of memory to exploring the complexities of family, romance, gender identity, illness, and death, Morris’s selection of essays presents a roundup of the thinkers who masterfully grapple with the issues of our time. The Best American Essays 2024 includes TEJU COLE • MICHAEL W. CLUNE • YIYUN LI • JAMES McAULEY • RÉMY NGAMIJE • JENNIFER SENIOR • SALLIE TISDALE • JERALD WALKER • JENISHA WATTS and others

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HarperCollins

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0063351587

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The Dana Family in America

By: Elizabeth Ellery Dana

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The Dana Family in America

By: Elizabeth Ellery Dana

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

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3375177143

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THE QUEST FOR THIN PLACES

How to Find Spirituality after Deconstruction

By: Dana Robert Hicks

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THE QUEST FOR THIN PLACES

How to Find Spirituality after Deconstruction

By: Dana Robert Hicks

Breaking things is easy. Rebuilding things is much more difficult. Once you have “deconstructed” from toxic religious beliefs, what is next? Moving from being “religious” to a rich life of spirituality is easier said than done. The temptation for many people who deconstruct from an unhealthy form of dogmatic fundamentalism is to adopt a new form of non-religious dogmatic fundamentalism that is just as toxic. Religious deconstruction is not a linear process. We won’t one day “arrive” and figure it all out. There is no “end” to the deconstructing and reconstructing cycle. In this book, Dana Robert Hicks outlines a cyclical model of continuous deconstruction and reconstruction. The model helps facilitate the deepest longings of the human heart: the experiences of awe, wonder, and transcendence.

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SacraSage Press

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1958670561

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Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2022 Edition (IL)

By: Pro Rfza

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Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2022 Edition (IL)

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Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2022 Edition

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Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

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1543836216

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9781543836219

Reading Sideways

The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction

By: Dana Seitler

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Reading Sideways

The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction

By: Dana Seitler

Reading Sideways explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality in works of modern American literature. It tracks the crosswise circulation of aesthetic ideas in fiction and argues that at stake in the aesthetic turn of these works was not only the theorization of aesthetic experience but also an engagement with political arguments and debates about available modes of sociability and sexual expression. To track these engagements, its author, Dana Seitler, performs a method she calls “lateral reading,” a mode of interpretation that moves horizontally through various historical entanglements and across the fields of the arts to make sense of—and see in a new light—their connections, challenges, and productive frictions. Each chapter takes a different art form as its object: sculpture, portraiture, homecraft, and opera. These art forms appear in some of the major works of literature of the period central to negotiations of gender, race, and sexuality, including those by Henry James, Davis, Willa Cather, Du Bois, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. But the literary texts that each chapter of this book takes as its motivation not only include a specific art form or object as central to its politics, they also build an alternative aesthetic vocabulary through which they seek to alter, challenge, or participate in the making of social and sexual life. By cultivating a counter-aesthetics of the unfinished, the uncertain, the small, the low, and the allusive, these fictions recognize other ways of knowing and being than those oriented toward reductively gendered accounts of beauty, classed imperatives established by the norms of taste, or apolitical treatises of sexual disinterestedness. And within them—and through “reading sideways”—we can witness the coming-into-legibility of a set of diffuse practices that provide a pivot point for engaging the political methods of minoritized subjects at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823282643

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A Century of Science in America

By: Salisbury Dana John Salisbury Dana,John Dana

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A Century of Science in America

By: Salisbury Dana John Salisbury Dana,John Dana

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Applewood Books

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1429043806

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The American Journal of Science

Vol. XXXIV

By: James D. Dana,Edward S. Dana

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The American Journal of Science

Vol. XXXIV

By: James D. Dana,Edward S. Dana

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

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3368628976

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Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2021 Edition

By: Dana Shilling

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Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2021 Edition

By: Dana Shilling

The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law will help you navigate complex and potentially costly Human Resources issues. You'll know what to do (and what not to do) to avoid costly mistakes or oversights, confront HR problems - legally and effectively - and understand the rules. The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law offers fast, dependable, plain English legal guidance for HR-related situations from ADA accommodation, diversity training, and privacy issues to hiring and termination, employee benefit plans, compensation, and recordkeeping. It brings you the most up-to-date information as well as practical tips and checklists in a well-organized, easy-to-use resource.

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Wolters Kluwer

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1543817866

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Family Plots

The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture

By: Dana Heller

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Family Plots

The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture

By: Dana Heller

Demonstrates an approach toward contemporary popular culture that accounts for the transitory condition of the American family romance, and argues that the family romance must be seen as both a cause and effect of a more widespread cultural remapping. Discussions on television's romance with the family and works by authors such as Anne Tyler and Amy Tan explore how new family romances critique Oedipal imperatives and cultural norms. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812215443

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The Big East

Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

By: Dana O'Neil

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The Big East

Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

By: Dana O'Neil

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East “This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazine The names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the Pearl, and of course Gavitt. And the moments are part of college basketball lore: the Sweater Game, Villanova Beats Georgetown, and Six Overtimes. But this is the story of the Big East Conference that you haven’t heard before—of how the Northeast, once an afterthought, became the epicenter of college basketball. Before the league’s founding, East Coast basketball had crowned just three national champions in forty years, and none since 1954. But in the Big East’s first ten years, five of its teams played for a national championship. The league didn’t merely inherit good teams; it created them. But how did this unlikely group of schools come to dominate college basketball so quickly and completely? Including interviews with more than sixty of the key figures in the conference’s history, The Big East charts the league’s daring beginnings and its incredible rise. It transports fans inside packed arenas to epic wars fought between transcendent players, and behind locker-room doors where combustible coaches battled even more fiercely for a leg up. Started on a handshake and a prayer, the Big East carved an improbable arc in sports history, an ensemble of Catholic schools banding together to not only improve their own stations but rewrite the geographic boundaries of basketball. As former UConn coach Jim Calhoun eloquently put it, “It was Camelot. Camelot with bad language.”

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