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Fundamentals of Craniofacial Growth

By: Andrew D. Dixon,David A.N. Hoyte,Olli Ronning

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Fundamentals of Craniofacial Growth

By: Andrew D. Dixon,David A.N. Hoyte,Olli Ronning

This book brings together in one volume selected important topics in craniofacial growth. Topics include: principles of skeletal growth; osteogenesis and its control; formation of the cranial base and craniofacial joints; prenatal development of the facial skeleton; growth of the mandible, nasomaxillary complex, orbit, cranial base, ear capsule, and cranial vault; bone remodeling; muscles; soft tissues; and blood vessels. Fundamentals of Craniofacial Growth contains detailed illustrations and extensive reference lists. Independently authored chapters provide comprehensive reviews encompassing both contemporary and historical perspectives. In addition to medicine and dentistry, contributors provide expertise from such diverse backgrounds as anatomy, biology, biomathematics, embryology, orthodontics, physical anthropology, and plastic and reconstructive surgery.

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CRC Press

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1351446657

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9781351446655

Sociology

Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life

By: David M. Newman

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Sociology

Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life

By: David M. Newman

In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Eleventh Edition, David M. Newman continues to show students how to see the “unfamiliar in the familiar”—to step back and see organization and predictability in their take-for-granted personal experiences. With his approachable writing style and lively personal anecdotes, the author’s goal since the first edition has been the same: to write a textbook that “reads like a real book.” Newman uses the metaphors of “architecture” and “construction,” to help students understand that society is not something that exists “out there,” independently of them; it is a human creation that is planned, formed, maintained, or altered by individuals. Using vivid prose, current examples, and fresh data, this text presents a unique and thought-provoking overview of how society is constructed and experienced. Instead of surveying every subfield in sociology, the more streamlined coverage focuses on the individual and society, the construction of self and society, and social inequality in the context of social structures.

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SAGE Publications

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1506341527

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9781506341521

Learning in Groups

A Handbook for Improving Group Work

By: David Jaques

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Learning in Groups

A Handbook for Improving Group Work

By: David Jaques

The book, rateher than a formal lectures or presentations, allows students to have greater scope ot negotiate meaning and express themselves and their own ideas. It also helps them to establish far more effective relationships, not only with their tutors and trainers but with each other. It can also play a central role in developing key profesional skills, such as listening, presenting ideas, persuasion ...

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Psychology Press

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0749430915

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Cipières

Landscape and Community in Alpes-Maritimes, France

By: David Austin,Rosamond Faith,Andrew Fleming,David Siddle

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Cipières

Landscape and Community in Alpes-Maritimes, France

By: David Austin,Rosamond Faith,Andrew Fleming,David Siddle

Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography. Cipières: Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a unique exploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in the village with material evidence in the landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and holistic account of the development of one community and its lands. Beginning with a history of the Project, the volume examines the village’s morphology and archaeology, including a landscape survey and investigation of the agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, before moving on to examine settlement patterns, population, politics, social structure and the local economy from the fifth century through to 1900. After a period of decline, the area is now undergoing regeneration, and history is bought up-to-date and placed in its modern context through reflections of the modern day region.

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Windgather Press

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1909686166

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9781909686168

Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery.

Six Holy Objects That Tell the Remarkable Story of the Gospels

By: David Gibson,Michael McKinley

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Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery.

Six Holy Objects That Tell the Remarkable Story of the Gospels

By: David Gibson,Michael McKinley

As featured in the original series Finding Jesus on CNN"--Jacket.

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Macmillan

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1250069106

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9781250069108

Improving Teaching And Learning In Higher Education: A Whole Institution Approach

A whole institute approach

By: D'Andrea, Vaneeta,Gosling, David

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Improving Teaching And Learning In Higher Education: A Whole Institution Approach

A whole institute approach

By: D'Andrea, Vaneeta,Gosling, David

Universities are increasingly being required to pay greater attention to improving teaching and enhancing student learning. This text will assist universities and colleges to achieve these goals by establishing an approach to institutional change which is well-founded on both research and practical experience.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335210686

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9780335210688

Teacher Educators' Professional Learning in Communities

By: Linor L. Hadar,David L. Brody

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Teacher Educators' Professional Learning in Communities

By: Linor L. Hadar,David L. Brody

Teacher Educators’ Professional Learning in Communities explores teacher educators' professional development in the communal model of learning. Learning in groups has proved to be a major avenue for supporting such development and change among teachers and other professions, but one which has received sparse attention with regards to teacher educators’ development. This book aims to examine such communities in order to identify factors that promote or hinder professional learning for teacher educators. Blending research on communal learning with seven years of practical experience in these contexts, the authors present their analysis of the communal professional development process and provide a conceptual basis for understanding this type of professional learning for teacher educators. The book addresses organizational aspects of teacher educators’ learning in communities, such as creating a safe environment, group reflection, feedback and discussion about student learning. Personal professional learning aspects are also explored, including the reduction of personal isolation, the process of transition towards change, and withdrawal from the goals of the community. Finally, influences and implications for professional learning among teacher educators are discussed. Teacher educators stand at the crux of the entire educational enterprise, because of their responsibility in training the next generation of teachers. As such, their professional development is increasingly important in promoting and advancing educational practice. Integrating current literature with pictures of practice about the use of the communal model in professional development in educational settings, it will be of key interest to researchers and postgraduate students in several fields: professional development, teacher educators, and communities of learners. Practitioners who are involved with the professional development of teacher educators will also find this book extremely useful.

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Routledge

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1317292502

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9781317292500

McDonald and Avery Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent - E-Book

By: Jeffrey A. Dean,David R. Avery,Ralph E. McDonald

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McDonald and Avery Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent - E-Book

By: Jeffrey A. Dean,David R. Avery,Ralph E. McDonald

A leading text in pediatric dentistry, McDonald and Avery’s Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent provides expert, complete coverage of oral care for infants, children, and teenagers. All the latest diagnostic and treatment recommendations are included! Comprehensive discussions are provided on pediatric examination, development, morphology, eruption of the teeth, and dental caries. This edition helps you improve patient outcomes with up-to-date coverage of restorative materials, cosmetic tooth whitening, care of anxious patients, and sedation techniques for children. Complete, one-source coverage includes the best patient outcomes for all of the major pediatric treatments in prosthodontics, restorative dentistry, trauma management, occlusion, gingivitis and periodontal disease, and facial esthetics. A clinical focus includes topics such as such as radiographic techniques, dental materials, pit and fissure sealants, and management of cleft lip and palate. Practical discussions include practice management and how to deal with child abuse and neglect. Full-color photographs and illustrations accurately depict trauma, restorative dentistry, implants, and prosthetics. A new Pediatric Oral Surgery chapter discusses the latest developments in office-based pediatric oral surgery, along with head and neck infections and medical conditions in the pediatric patient. Emphasis is added to preventive care and to treatment of the medically compromised patient. An Evolve website includes case studies, an image library, links to ADEA, ADA, and CDC reports on pediatric dentistry, and other web links.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323079660

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9780323079662

Manufacture and Distillation of Alcoholic Liquors by P. Duplais. the Most Important 19th Century Distilling Guide and the Bible O

By: David Nathan-Maister

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Manufacture and Distillation of Alcoholic Liquors by P. Duplais. the Most Important 19th Century Distilling Guide and the Bible O

By: David Nathan-Maister

Pierre Duplais' seminal Traite de la Fabrication des Liqueurs et de la Distillation des Alcools is the authoritative French distillation guide. It went through seven editions from 1855 to 1900 and is the basis of our understanding of 19th century French distillation techniques. A single English edition was published in Philadelphia in 1871, translated by M. McKennie. The special section on absinthe is of particular importance - this is our most accurate and comprehensive guide to the recipes and techniques used by late 19th century absinthe distillers, and is informally regarded as the bible of those seeking to duplicate their recipes today. McKennie's translation appears to have been issued in a very small print run, and surviving copies are extremely scarce. This new facsimile edition published by The Virtual Absinthe Museum has been painstakingly compiled from scans of a rare original copy. This perfect-bound PAPERBACK version is just under 700 pages.

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Lulu.com

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0955692105

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Old Age in the Old Regime

Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France

By: David Troyansky

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Old Age in the Old Regime

Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France

By: David Troyansky

This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.

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Cornell University Press

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1501746367

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The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa

By: David F. Grose

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The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa

By: David F. Grose

A landmark contribution to our knowledge of the Roman glass industry in the Western Mediterranean

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University of Michigan Press

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0472130625

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Waters Under the Bridge

A mother and son family history spanning 1920s to 2000 in England, Ireland and Australia

By: Isobelle and David 'Khyber' Close

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Waters Under the Bridge

A mother and son family history spanning 1920s to 2000 in England, Ireland and Australia

By: Isobelle and David 'Khyber' Close

David Close’s English mother Isobelle Harwood never knew her mother, who died from TB just after childbirth and his Irish father Jack Close never knew his father, who was jailed for bigamy. To the Irish, ‘close’ means ‘near-enough’ while Jack always was, legally speaking, a bastard. These sociological factors shaped their working-class family struggles before, during and after World War Two in England and reappear as ‘family karma’ down the generations of this now-scattered clan. His mother’s childhood memories of orphanage life in the 1920s were followed by years of domestic servitude in the houses of her rich or unscrupulous ‘betters’ until she trained as a nurse during the war. She calls this story ‘Finding Myself’, which is part 1 of this book. Isobelle saw a photograph of and became pen-pals with an Irish nurses’ brother called Jack, a sailor on Atlantic convoy duties who she married on Victory in Europe Day in May 1945. David was born in June the following year. The second section ‘Knowing Myself’ reveals their married life until Isobelle’s battle with life-threatening TB when she was thirty years old in 1953. On recovery, her doctors claimed that if she lived in a dry climate and had no more children she would have a life-expectancy of ten more years. However, she produced two more offspring and managed to ride for an hour on a camel in China at the age of seventy-six. Part 3 contains David’s childhood memories of England, Ireland and in 1961 the first ten years of family life in Oz. Some of his father Jack’s wartime exploits and then his untimely death in 1982 lead the reader into the last section titled Release Retrospectives containing his mother’s mature reflections on grief, life and the all and everything, as well as her Back to Britain and Silk Road Diaries. Her son David’s lifelong troubled relationship with his father is explored in his other autobiographical works, but his two chapters titled ‘Close encounters of the personal secret kind’ and ‘Conflicts and growth amidst grief’ explore three of the Close family’s personal experiences of communications from beyond the grave – pointing towards reincarnation being cosmic reality central to any ‘Divine Plan’ and the healing answer to why we are here…

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0992290473

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Learning Contracts

A Practical Guide

By: Anderson, Geoff,Boud, David,Sampson, Jane

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Learning Contracts

A Practical Guide

By: Anderson, Geoff,Boud, David,Sampson, Jane

Learning contracts have been a successful feature of many university/continuing education programmes over the last 20 years but many staff are still unfamiliar with them or have difficulty using them. This guide introduces the learning contract to those considering using them on their courses.

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Routledge

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1135361134

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Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass

By: David Whitehouse,Corning Museum of Glass

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Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass

By: David Whitehouse,Corning Museum of Glass

This volumn covers 481 objects from the first century B.C. to the eighth century A.D.

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Hudson Hills

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0872901394

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A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology

By: David M. Culbreth

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A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology

By: David M. Culbreth

1927 Comprising the organic drugs which are or have been recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary together with important allied species.

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Health Research Books

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0787302295

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Music for a Mixed Taste

Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works

By: Steven David Zohn

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Music for a Mixed Taste

Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works

By: Steven David Zohn

This first full-length study of Telemann's concertos, sonatas, and suites focuses on his imaginative mixing of styles and genres. Special attention is also devoted to the extra musical meanings and humor of his programmatic overture-suites, his unprecedented self-publishing enterprise, and the social resonances of his Polish-style works.

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Oxford University Press

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0190247851

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9780190247850

Werner Bergengruen's Das Buch Rodenstein

A detailed analysis

By: David J. Parent

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Werner Bergengruen's Das Buch Rodenstein

A detailed analysis

By: David J. Parent

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111728498

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9783111728490

The Rough Guide to France

By: David Abram

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The Rough Guide to France

By: David Abram

From cosmopolitan Paris to the sunny Cote d'Azur, from historical Normandy to the rocky Pyrenes, this new edition updates the best of towns, attractions, and landscapes of every region. 100 maps. of color photos.

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1843530562

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9781843530565

Rasch Meta-Metres of Growth for Some Intelligence and Attainment Tests

By: David Andrich,Ida Marais,Sonia Sappl

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Rasch Meta-Metres of Growth for Some Intelligence and Attainment Tests

By: David Andrich,Ida Marais,Sonia Sappl

This book adapts Rasch’s approach for quantifying growth on physiological variables, where growth decelerates, to intellectual variables. To apply this approach, it is necessary to construct measurements in a constant unit over the relevant range of the variable. With such measurements, the book illustrates the approach to quantifying growth on six intellectual variables - two intelligences tests and two each of tests of proficiencies in reading comprehension and mathematics. The book discusses how it is not immediately obvious that deceleration on a quantitative scale should also hold for the growth in intellectual variables. It goes on to show that this is indeed the case with all six tests analysed and considers some implications of this feature for understanding intellectual development, in particular the centrality of the growth trajectory set in early life.

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Springer Nature

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981994693X

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9789819946938

Understanding Undergraduates

Challenging Our Preconceptions of Student Performance

By: Celia Popovic,David A. Green (Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University)

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Understanding Undergraduates

Challenging Our Preconceptions of Student Performance

By: Celia Popovic,David A. Green (Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University)

In this unique work, the authors explore teachers' beliefs about university students' performance and expose which beliefs are well-founded, which are mistaken, which mask other underlying factors, and what they can do about them.

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Routledge

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0415667542

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9780415667548

Mediterranean France

By: David Burke

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Mediterranean France

By: David Burke

This guidebook to Mediterranean France is a thorough trip planner with excellent and practical on-the-road tools, and memorable vacation mementos packed with all the photos you missed.

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0762706074

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Blood Year

The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism

By: David Kilcullen

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Blood Year

The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism

By: David Kilcullen

In 2014, a resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine; post-Saddam Iraq lost a third of its territory to an army of hyper-violent millennialists; and the peace process in Israel seemed to completely collapse. In short, the post-Cold War security order that the US had constructed after 1991 seemed to be coming apart at the seams. David Kilcullen was one of the architects of America's strategy in the late phases of the second Gulf War, and he has also spent time in Afghanistan and other hotspots. In Blood Year, he provides a wide-angle view of the current situation in the Middle East and analyzes how America and the West ended up in such dire circumstances. Kilcullen lays much of the blame on Bush's initial decision to invade Iraq (which had negative secondary effects in Afghanistan), but also takes Obama to task for simply withdrawing and adopting a "leading from behind" strategy. As events have proven, Kilcullen contends, withdrawal was a fundamentally misguided plan. The U.S. had uncorked the genie, and it had a responsibility to at least attempt to keep it under control. Instead, the U.S. is at a point where administration officials state that the losses of Ramadi and Palmyra are manageable setbacks. Kilcullen argues that the U.S. needs to re-engage in the region, whether it wants to or not, because it is largely responsible for the situation that is now unfolding. Blood Year is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding not only why the region that the U.S. invaded a dozen years ago has collapsed into utter chaos, but also what the U.S. can do to alleviate the grim situation.

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Oxford University Press

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0190600543

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9780190600549

Songs for a Revolution

The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany

By: Eckhard John,David Robb

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Songs for a Revolution

The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany

By: Eckhard John,David Robb

Makes available twenty-two protest songs of the period up to and including the 1848 Revolution in Germany along with a reception history of the songs through their revival after 1945.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1640140484

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Jacques Tati His Life & Art

By: David Bellos

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Jacques Tati His Life & Art

By: David Bellos

Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakeable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of sheer slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati's rise and fall, from his earliest beginnings as a music hall mime during the Depression, to the success of Jour de Fete and Mon Oncle, to Playtime, the grandiose masterpiece that left the once delebrated director bankrupt and begging for equipment to complete his final films. Analysing Tati's singular vision, Bellos reveals the intricate staging of his most famous gags and draws upon hitherto inaccessible archives to produce a unique assessment of his work and its context for film lovers and film students alike.

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Random House

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1407065947

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9781407065946

The Civil War in Yorkshire

Fairfax Versus Newcastle

By: David Cooke

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The Civil War in Yorkshire

Fairfax Versus Newcastle

By: David Cooke

During the English Civil Wars the streets and fields of Yorkshire were fought over for the control of the county. In the bitter confrontation between king and Parliament, Yorkshire was the key to control of the North. This historical guide tells the story of this Yorkshire war, using contemporary accounts, early and modern maps and a wealth of other illustrations. It also provides detailed tours of the battlegrounds and other sites.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783460040

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The Age of Deference

The Supreme Court, National Security, and the Constitutional Order

By: David Rudenstine

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The Age of Deference

The Supreme Court, National Security, and the Constitutional Order

By: David Rudenstine

In October 1948-one year after the creation of the U.S. Air Force as a separate military branch-a B-29 Superfortress crashed on a test run, killing the plane's crew. The plane was constructed with poor materials, and the families of the dead sued the U.S. government for damages. In the case, the government claimed that releasing information relating to the crash would reveal important state secrets, and refused to hand over the requested documents. Judges at both the U.S. District Court level and Circuit level rejected the government's argument and ruled in favor of the families. However, in 1953, the Supreme Court reversed the lower courts' decisions and ruled that in the realm of national security, the executive branch had a right to withhold information from the public. Judicial deference to the executive on national security matters has increased ever since the issuance of that landmark decision. Today, the government's ability to invoke state secrets privileges goes unquestioned by a largely supine judicial branch. David Rudenstine's The Age of Deference traces the Court's role in the rise of judicial deference to executive power since the end of World War II. He shows how in case after case, going back to the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies, the Court has ceded authority in national security matters to the executive branch. Since 9/11, the executive faces even less oversight. According to Rudenstine, this has had a negative impact both on individual rights and on our ability to check executive authority when necessary. Judges are mindful of the limits of their competence in national security matters; this, combined with their insulation from political accountability, has caused them in matters as important as the nation's security to defer to the executive. Judges are also afraid of being responsible for a decision that puts the nation at risk and the consequences for the judiciary in the wake of such a decision. Nonetheless, The Age of Deference argues that as important as these considerations are in shaping a judicial disposition, the Supreme Court has leaned too far, too often, and for too long in the direction of abdication. There is a broad spectrum separating judicial abdication, at one end, from judicial usurpation, at the other, and The Age of Deference argues that the rule of law compels the court to re-define its perspective and the legal doctrines central to the Age.

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