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The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony

Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets

By: David E. Spiro

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The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony

Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets

By: David E. Spiro

Between 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisdom holds that international capital markets adjusted automatically and remarkably well: enormous amounts of money flowed into oil-rich states, and efficient markets then placed that new money in cash-poor Third World economies. David Spiro has followed the money trail, and the story he tells contradicts the accepted beliefs. Most of the sudden flush of new oil wealth didn't go to poor oil-importing countries around the globe. Instead, the United States made a deal with Saudi Arabia to sell it U.S. securities in secret, a deal resulting in a substantial portion of Saudi assets being held by the U.S. government. With this arrangement, the U.S. government violated its agreements with allies in the developed world. Spiro argues that American policymakers took this action to prop up otherwise intolerable levels of U.S. public debt. In effect, recycled OPEC wealth subsidized the debt-happy policies of the U.S. government as well as the debt-happy consumption of its citizenry.

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Cornell University Press

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1501711970

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9781501711978

Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

By: David K. Jordan,Marc J. Swartz

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Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

By: David K. Jordan,Marc J. Swartz

Pyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having "functions"? What elements and processes of human personality are universal, and why? What is the relationship between religion and personality? Why? What are the pyschological underpinnings of social manipulation?

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416

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University of Alabama Press

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0817356347

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9780817356347

A History of the World's Religions

By: David S. Noss,John Boyer Noss

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A History of the World's Religions

By: David S. Noss,John Boyer Noss

A textbook for introductory college courses in the history of religions, published since 1949 as Man's religions. Surveys the origins, development, and divisions of the major religions of India, the Orient, and the Middle East. Each chapter includes a glossary, most with pronunciation indicated.

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674

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Routledge

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0023884800

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9780023884801

Theory in Anthropology

By: Robert A. Manners,David Kaplan

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Theory in Anthropology

By: Robert A. Manners,David Kaplan

This is VII in a series of ten volumes on the Theory in Anthropology. Originally published in 1968, this is a sourcebook that was created by the authors’ need for making accessible in a single volume a sample of those important pieces which are presently scattered in numerous publications, some of which are difficult for the student to obtain. Our second reason had to do with certain convictions they hold about the aims and methods of anthropology.

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597

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Routledge

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1136550054

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9781136550058

Progress in Anti-Cancer Chemotherapy

By: Gabriel N. Hortobagyi,David Khayat

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Progress in Anti-Cancer Chemotherapy

By: Gabriel N. Hortobagyi,David Khayat

This is the third volume of our series Progress in Anti-Cancer Chemo therapy. Following the strategy of the first two volumes, it covers selected aspects of progress in this fast moving field of Oncology, with contribu tions from some of the world's best known leaders in both basic and clin ical research. This year we focused on seven areas: Three prominent Clinical investigators reviewed conceptual advances in cancer research. Dr Buzdar presented a history and overview of the protection of human subjects who participate in clinical research, and the mechanisms developed to assure the ethical conduct of research on human beings. Frei reviewed an exciting and rapidly moving area of che motherapy of solid tumors, including a cogent discussion of the issues related to dose-intensification. Fisher summarized conceptual advances in our therapeutic approach to breast cancer and the paradigm shifts that lead us to our current management strategies. From this summary he pro jected breast cancer research into the future, a daunting task under any circumstance. Fundamental research in cancer biology has been responsible for our improved understanding of the development and progession of malignant disease. Such understanding will lead to improved diagnosis, therapy, and eventually, prevention. Isaacs reviews the area of hereditary breast cancer, a topic undergoing rapid transformation and with mUltiple impli cations in the daily practice of medicine. Fidler, an international expert in metastasis research reviews the potential utility of angiogenesis inhib itors in research and the therapeutic ramifications.

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383

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Springer Science & Business Media

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2817809181

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9782817809182

Children

Rights and Childhood

By: David Archard

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Rights and Childhood

By: David Archard

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book’s first publication. Divided clearly into three parts, it covers key topics such as: John Locke’s writings on children Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood children’s moral and legal rights a child’s right to vote and to sexual choice parental rights to privacy and autonomy defining and understanding child abuse. The third edition has been fully revised and updated throughout with a new chapter providing an in-depth analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Part 2 has been restructured to move the reader from general theoretical considerations of children’s rights through to practical issues. This volume is ideal reading for advanced studies across Philosophy, Social Work, Law, Childhood Studies, Politics, and Social Policy.

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278

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Routledge

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1317580885

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Learning Without Lessons

Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities

By: David F. Lancy

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Learning Without Lessons

Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities

By: David F. Lancy

This work is designed to fill a rather large lacuna in the field of child development and education. A growing scholarly consensus challenges the universality of western-dominated research in psychology. All or most markers of the child's growth and development are now subject to re-examination through a cross-cultural lens. By the same token, the study of education has been similarly restricted as norms and theory are constructed almost exclusively from research in Euroamerican schools. This work aims to fill a substantial portion of this gap, in particular to document and analyze the myriad processes that come to play as indigenous children learn their culture-without schools or lessons. I will characterize the conglomeration of learning-rich events as instances of "pedagogy in culture." The construct has several connotations, but paramount is the idea that opportunities for learning occur naturally in the course of activities such as work, play, night-time campfire stories, etc., that are not primarily intended to educate"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197645593

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Tertullian the African

An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian's Context and Identities

By: David E. Wilhite

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Tertullian the African

An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian's Context and Identities

By: David E. Wilhite

Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian’s writings. In light of postcolonial concerns, this study utilizes the categories of Roman colonizers, indigenous Africans and new elites. The third category, new elites, is actually intended to destabilize the other two, denying any “essential” Roman or African identity. Thereafter, samples from Tertullian’s writings serve to illustrate comparisons of his own identities and the identities of his rhetorical opponents. The overall study finds Tertullian’s identities to be manifold, complex and discursive. Additionally, his writings are understood to reflect antagonism toward Romans, including Christian Romans (which is significant for his so-called Montanism), and Romanized Africans. While Tertullian accommodates much from Graeco-Roman literature, laws and customs, he nevertheless retains a strongly stated non-Roman-ness and an African-ity, which is highlighted in the present monograph.

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244

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110926261

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9783110926262

Atomic Layer Deposition

Principles, Characteristics, and Nanotechnology Applications

By: Tommi Kääriäinen,David Cameron,Marja-Leena Kääriäinen,Arthur Sherman

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Atomic Layer Deposition

Principles, Characteristics, and Nanotechnology Applications

By: Tommi Kääriäinen,David Cameron,Marja-Leena Kääriäinen,Arthur Sherman

Since the first edition was published in 2008, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) has emerged as a powerful, and sometimes preferred, deposition technology. The new edition of this groundbreaking monograph is the first text to review the subject of ALD comprehensively from a practical perspective. It covers ALD's application to microelectronics (MEMS) and nanotechnology; many important new and emerging applications; thermal processes for ALD growth of nanometer thick films of semiconductors, oxides, metals and nitrides; and the formation of organic and hybrid materials.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118062779

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9781118062777

Book's by David E. Spiro

The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony

The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony

Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

A History of the World's Religions

A History of the World's Religions

Theory in Anthropology

Theory in Anthropology

Progress in Anti-Cancer Chemotherapy

Progress in Anti-Cancer Chemotherapy

Children

Children

Learning Without Lessons

Learning Without Lessons

Tertullian the African

Tertullian the African

Atomic Layer Deposition

Atomic Layer Deposition

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