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Reason to Believe

Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism

By: David Smilde

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Reason to Believe

Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism

By: David Smilde

Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world. For converts, it emphasizes self-discipline and provides a network of communal support, which together have helped many overcome substance abuse, avoid crime and violence, and resolve relationship problems. But can people simply decide to believe in a religion because of the benefits it reportedly delivers? Based on extensive fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this rich urban ethnography seeks an explanation for the explosion of Evangelical Protestantism, unraveling the cultural and personal dynamics of Evangelical conversion to show how and why these men make the choice to convert, and how they come to have faith in a new system of beliefs and practices.

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Univ of California Press

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0520940148

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Accounting

By: Charles Horngren,Walter Harrison,Suzanne Oliver,Peter Best,David Fraser,Rebecca Tan,Roger Willett

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Accounting

By: Charles Horngren,Walter Harrison,Suzanne Oliver,Peter Best,David Fraser,Rebecca Tan,Roger Willett

Success in Accounting begins here! The technical details you need to know and decision making processes you need to understand, with plain language explanations and the power of unlimited practice. Accounting is an engaging resource that focuses on current accounting theory and practice in Australia, within a business context. It emphasises how financial decision-making is based on accurate and complete accounting information and uses case studies to illustrate this in a practical way. The new seventh edition is accurate and up-to-date, guided by extensive technical review feedback and incorporating the latest Australian Accounting Standards. It also provides updated coverage of some of the most significant current issues in accounting such as ethics, information systems and sustainability.

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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1442553472

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Financial Accounting

By: Charles Horngren,Walter Harrison,Suzanne Oliver,Peter Best,David Fraser,Rebecca Tan

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Financial Accounting

By: Charles Horngren,Walter Harrison,Suzanne Oliver,Peter Best,David Fraser,Rebecca Tan

Success in Accounting begins here! The technical details you need to know and decision-making processes you need to understand, with plain-language explanations and unlimited practice. Financial Accounting is an engaging resource that focuses on current accounting theory and practice in Australia, within a business context. It emphasises how financial decision-making is based on accurate and complete accounting information and uses case studies to illustrate this in a practical way. The new 7th edition is accurate and up to date, guided by extensive technical review feedback and incorporating the latest Australian Accounting Standards. It also provides updated coverage of some of the most significant current issues in accounting such as ethics, information systems and sustainability.

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1442553480

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New Mexico Stories

Truths, Tales and Mysteries Along the Rio Grande, A Memoir

By: David Roybal

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New Mexico Stories

Truths, Tales and Mysteries Along the Rio Grande, A Memoir

By: David Roybal

The kindergarten student, her family recently settled from Mexico, wiggled a loose tooth that she hoped would dislodge soon so she could collect a few coins and not feel left out again at her school’s next bake sale. Lieutenant Governor E. Lee Francis decades earlier had his own wish. He wanted a restraining order against Governor David Cargo, who supposedly was making Francis fear for his safety in the state Capitol. New Mexico Stories is full of gems such as these. They’re stories about life, not just in New Mexico but beyond. They’re stories about the human condition. They’re warm, funny, revealing and at times unsettling. Together they constitute a fascinating segment of New Mexico history. David Roybal, in daily, extraordinary rounds over fifty years, positioned himself to absorb it all.

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Sunstone Press

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1611395585

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The Skyband Group, Copán Honduras

Penn State Excavations 1990, 1997

By: David Webster

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The Skyband Group, Copán Honduras

Penn State Excavations 1990, 1997

By: David Webster

The Skyband Group is an impressive elite site in the urban core of Copán, Honduras, which is dominated by the palatial compounds of Maya sub-royal nobles. Such grandees often bore court titles showing that they were clients and officials of kings, but also competitors for political power, especially just before the dynastic collapse around AD 800.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803274301

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Landmarks Preservation and the Property Tax

Assessing Landmark Buildings for Real Taxation Purposes

By: David Listokin

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Landmarks Preservation and the Property Tax

Assessing Landmark Buildings for Real Taxation Purposes

By: David Listokin

Historic preservation is an issue of growing importance and public commitment. Federal and state mechanisms have been established to identify and support historic buildings/sites, while local governments have been active in supporting and protecting historic resources. Communities across the country have established designation programs whereby individual buildings or districts of historical-architectural significance are accorded landmark status. Designation activity has been accompanied by growing interest in other local incentives/disincentives to the support of historic buildings. In this regard, the property tax is viewed as either a possible powerful drawback to or a catalyst of preservation. This study examines the relationship between historic preservation and the property tax, focusing on the question of how designated buildings should be assessed for real taxation purposes. Listokin focuses on New York City in considering the effects of historic status on property value and in evaluating assessment practices. But this book's findings are transferrable to other communities because the base conditions are similar. Many other cities have designation programs modeled on New York City's. In addition, New York's property-tax system and administrative processes resemble those found in communities across the nation. To enhance the transferability of this study's findings, Listokin refers to the national experience and literature, typically on a side-by-side basis with the New York City counterpart.

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Routledge

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1351509853

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9781351509855

Global Real Estate Investment Trusts

People, Process and Management

By: David Parker

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Global Real Estate Investment Trusts

People, Process and Management

By: David Parker

As real estate investment trusts continue to grow exponentially in Asia and Europe - being already well established in the USA and Australasia - a comprehensive guide to the issues involved in REIT property investment decision making is badly needed. This book draws together the most recent developments in REIT management from academic research and professional practice. It is based on current, original academic research, including structured interviews with the managers of a wide range of different types of REITs as well as the research and publications of others, together with the author's 25 years experience in REIT management. It provides a theoretically robust and practically relevant up to date guide to the property investment decision making process for REITs. Presenting new insights, the author breaks the REIT property investment decision making process down into three phases comprising six stages with 30 sequential steps. Each chapter focuses on one stage of the property investment decision making process and introduces the key people in the REIT management team relevant to the activities in that chapter. The theory and principles are considered and illustrated by application to Super REIT, a $15bn diversified REIT. Global Real Estate Investment Trusts: People, Process and Management fuses not only how REITs should undertake property investment decision making - based on how it is undertaken and the underlying property theory, capital market theory and finance theory - but also why each part of the decision making process is important. This book provides the first sole-authored scholarly work specifically on REITs as a business enterprise and REIT property investment decision making as an holistic and cyclical process. The focus is on principles, making it relevant in each of the four major REIT markets around the world: USA, Europe, Asia and Australasia. An essential book for REIT managers and all those practising professionals involved in the REIT industry - including property practitioners, researchers, lawyers, accountants, bankers and directors around the world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444398806

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The Mexican Border Cities

Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality

By: Daniel David Arreola

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The Mexican Border Cities

Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality

By: Daniel David Arreola

Considers border cities, as "Mexican places modified by American influences," from the perspectives of urban morphology, and the urban built environment. Examines 18 settlements from towns of less than 10,000 to cities of nearly a million people. The authors contend that despite their proximity to the US, these cities remain essentially Mexican. More than 75 maps and b&w photos.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816512876

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Forgotten San Diego

By: David Marshall,Eileen Magno

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Forgotten San Diego

By: David Marshall,Eileen Magno

Memories are fleeting, and a region's history can easily be forgotten. This book features over 200 unique and interesting historical postcards that vividly capture San Diego County's forgotten past from 1890 to 1990. From bowling alleys to military bases, from giant dirigibles to sleek airplanes, from billionaires to bulldogs--San Diego has changed so fundamentally that much of its charming history has faded from our memories. Forgotten San Diego showcases the unique evolution of San Diego and its neighboring cities, making sure that the triumphs, tragedies, and oddities of this region live on.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439679282

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Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico

By: David M. Carballo

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Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico

By: David M. Carballo

Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico. It provides a materially informed history of religion and an archaeology of cities that considers religion as a generative force in societal change.

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0190251069

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American Gitanos in Mexico City

Transnationalism, Cultural Identity and Economic Environment

By: David Lagunas

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American Gitanos in Mexico City

Transnationalism, Cultural Identity and Economic Environment

By: David Lagunas

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Gitano community of Mexico City. The ethnographic study showcases the interplay between cultural reproduction, economic reproduction, and the Gitano / non-Gitano opposition. The first part of the book discusses how the cultural identity of this community is reproduced based on migratory processes, social relations and the dynamics of kinship and gender roles to understand the contradiction between value systems and practices in a patriarchal society. In the second part, emphasis is placed on the economic dynamism of this group in its interactions with the majority society in the context of informal economy and the group’s articulation with space and mobility in the territory. The analysis problematizes territorial mobility and circulation regimes based on fieldwork carried out in the process of active participation with Gitano families selling textile clothes and accessories through the country.

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Springer Nature

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3031279972

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9783031279973

Los Angeles

By: David Rieff

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Los Angeles

By: David Rieff

David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare. Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refugees from Latin America and East Asia from an extension of Europe to a diverse patchwork of the peoples of the world. This is an L.A. that has never been described before. With a new afterword.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439143315

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Before L.A.

Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

By: David Samuel Torres-Rouff

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Before L.A.

Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

By: David Samuel Torres-Rouff

David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America’s most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today. It is a fascinating study of how an innovative intercultural community developed along racial lines, and how immigrants from the United States engineered a profound shift in civic ideals and the physical environment, creating a social and spatial rupture that endures to this day.

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Yale University Press

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0300141238

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9780300141238

Bolivia

The Bradt Travel Guide

By: David Atkinson

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Bolivia

The Bradt Travel Guide

By: David Atkinson

One of South America's most stunning spectacles, the great Salar de Uvuni salt lake, is here as well as Lake Titicaca. Bolivia retains its pre-Columbian traditions more than any other country in South America, with agricultural practices unchanged since the Incas, and traditional festivals and markets. It also has modern nightclubs, comfortable hotels and ecolodges, and is the ideal place to soak up some Latin American culture before the onset of mass tourism.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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184162165X

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9781841621654

Fodor's Panama

By: David Dudenhoefer

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Fodor's Panama

By: David Dudenhoefer

Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.

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Fodors Travel Publications

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1400019265

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The French in Central America

Culture and Commerce, 1820-1930

By: Thomas David Schoonover

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The French in Central America

Culture and Commerce, 1820-1930

By: Thomas David Schoonover

Accounts of the international relations of Central America have been dominated by the role of the United States and Great Britain. The role of France in Central America has largely been overshadowed by the other great powers. In a well-written, tight, and masterful synthesis, Thomas Schoonover redresses this imbalance.p Based on exhaustive multinational archival research, The French in Central America: Culture and Commerce, 1820-1930 details French attempts to establish a sphere of influence in Central America amongst the machinations of the British, Germans, and U.S. who all sought to dominate trade in Central America, control transit routes between the oceans, advise the national militaries, and influence cultural developments.p The book traces the involvement of the French in Central America from Independence to the unsteady economic years following World War I. Central America, in the nineteenth century was an area of vital importance to the French, who, along with a number of other powers, were interested in building a canal across the isthmus. The French in Central America demonstrates how the French used both economic and military means to further their desire for economic as well as colonial expansion. More importantly, the book examines how the French worked to develop strong cultural bonds with the nations of Central America through education, language schools, orders, and military missions. The French sought cultural advantage in considerable part because they hoped and expected commercial benefits to result.p The French in Central America: Culture and Commerce, 1820-1930 is an important addition to the growing literature on the international relations of the Americas. Thisbook will be of great interest to professors and students of French and Central American history as well as individuals interested in international relations and cultural studies.p

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842027920

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The Rough Guide to Europe 2004

By: David Abram,Rough Guides (Firm)

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The Rough Guide to Europe 2004

By: David Abram,Rough Guides (Firm)

European authors bring travelers the hidden highlights others miss, including the best values across the continent and insights into Europe's cultural, political, and contemporary life. of color photos. 103 maps.

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1843531089

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Geographic Information Systems and Science

By: Paul A. Longley,Mike Goodchild,David J. Maguire,David W. Rhind

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Geographic Information Systems and Science

By: Paul A. Longley,Mike Goodchild,David J. Maguire,David W. Rhind

The Third Edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field and still retains its accessible format to appeal to a broad range of students. Now divided into five clear sections the book investigates the unique, complex and difficult problems that are posed by geographic information and together they build into a holistic understanding of the key principles of GIS. This is the most current, authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the field, that goes from fundamental principles to the big picture of: GIS and the New World Order security, health and well-being digital differentiation in GIS consumption the core organizing role of GIS in Geography the greening of GIS grand challenges of GIScience science and explanation Key features: Four-colour throughout Associated website with free online resources Teacher’s manual available for lecturers A complete learning resource, with accompanying instructor links, free online lab resources and personal syllabi Includes learning objectives and review boxes throughout each chapter New in this edition: Completely revised with a new five part structure: Foundations; Principles; Techniques; Analysis; Management and Policy All new personality boxes of current GIS practitioners New chapters on Distributed GIS, Map Production, Geovisualization, Modeling, and Managing GIS

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470721448

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The Rough Guide to the Philippines

By: David Dalton,Rough Guides (Firm)

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The Rough Guide to the Philippines

By: David Dalton,Rough Guides (Firm)

Explore every corner of the Philippines using the clearest maps of any guide. Choose where to go and what to see, inspired by dozens of photos. Read expert background on everything from trekking through tribal villages to the country's premium dive spots. Rely on our selection of the best places to stay, eat and party, for every budget. It's like having a local friend help plan your trip.

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Penguin

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1843538067

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San Café

By: David Perlstein

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San Café

By: David Perlstein

SAN CAFÉ casts a ribald, satirical eye on Latin American leftist politics and American corporate greed. Security consultant Bobby Gatling anticipates a working vacation in the Central American nation of San Cristo. But revolutionaries challenge a government controlled by Bobby's client, Mobys Inc., the world's largest coffee retailer. A jungle ambush and the disappearance of an Italian priest deepen Bobby's involvement. He must lead a challenging manhunt while dealing with a Marxist presidential candidate fond of gourmet cooking, a delusional Cristano army officer, bloodthirsty American mercenaries, a purple-haired Italian journalist-diva and Mobys' domineering CEO-as well as Bobby's nominal boss, the beautiful, gun-toting Maria Skavronsky.

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iUniverse

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1475941706

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9781475941708

Housekeeping by Design

Hotels and Labor

By: David Brody

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Housekeeping by Design

Hotels and Labor

By: David Brody

One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized space that you don’t have to clean. That doesn’t, however, mean the work disappears—when we’re not looking, someone else is doing it. With Housekeeping by Design, David Brody introduces us to those people—the housekeepers whose labor keeps the rooms clean and the guests happy. Through unprecedented access to staff at several hotels, Brody shows us just how much work goes on behind the scenes—and how much management goes out of its way to make sure that labor stays hidden. We see the incredible amount of hard physical work that is involved in cleaning and preparing a room, how spaces, furniture, and other objects are designed to facilitate a smooth flow of hidden labor, and, crucially, how that design could be improved for workers and management alike if front-line staff were involved in the design process. After reading this fascinating exposé of the ways hotels work—or don’t for housekeepers—one thing is certain: checking in will never be the same again.

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University of Chicago Press

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022638926X

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9780226389264

The Original Vicksburg National Military Park and Vicinity

By: David B. Dumas

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The Original Vicksburg National Military Park and Vicinity

By: David B. Dumas

The Vicksburg National Military Park as it exists today is about two-thirds the size of the original park. The book describes the park as it was when the park was created. The book contains the name and location of markers and monuments that are currently located in the park. The book contains a brief history of the park, early photographs, descriptions, and styles of state markers and monuments. There are early maps of the park showing all the trenches and approaches. This book will give the park visitor far more insight as to the locations of all the markers that were associated with the park.

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AuthorHouse

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1524652040

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Lion of the Senate

When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress

By: Nick Littlefield,David Nexon

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Lion of the Senate

When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress

By: Nick Littlefield,David Nexon

Two former top domestic-policy advisors to Senator Ted Kennedy offer an inside look at the fight he took up that led the demoralized 1994 Democrats to push ahead with their agenda and reach across the aisle to work with Republicans to pass key progressive legislation, "--NoveList.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476796157

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Collision of Worlds

A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain

By: David M. Carballo

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Collision of Worlds

A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain

By: David M. Carballo

Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and initiated the globalized world we inhabit today. The violent clash that culminated in the Aztec-Spanish war of 1519-21 and the new colonial order it created were millennia in the making, entwining the previously independent cultural developments of both sides of the Atlantic. Collision of Worlds provides a deep history of this encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain, from their prehistories to the urban and imperial societies they built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Leading Mesoamerican archaeologist David Carballo offers a unique perspective on these fabled events with a focus on the physical world of places and things, their similarities and differences in trans-Atlantic perspective, and their interweaving in an encounter characterized by conquest and colonialism, but also resilience on the part of Native peoples. An engrossing and sweeping account, Collision of Worlds debunks long-held myths and contextualizes the deep roots and enduring consequences of the Aztec-Spanish conflict as never before.

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Oxford University Press

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0190864370

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9780190864378

Cancun & the Yucatan For Dummies

By: Lynne Bairstow,David Baird

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Cancun & the Yucatan For Dummies

By: Lynne Bairstow,David Baird

In Cancun and the Yucatan, you can enjoy exquisite beaches, exhilarating adventures, or rejuvenating relaxation. You can go to Playa del Carmen with its hip social life or Isla Mujeres, where life moves along in a manana mode. Whether you want to explore ancient Mayan culture or modern day margarita culture, enjoy a siesta or a fiesta, stay in a luxurious resort or small palapa hotel, seek out best archaeological sites or the liveliest nightlife, this friendly guide is just the ticket with the scoop on: The best beaches, known for powdery white sand and crystal-clear waters Cozumel, a diver’s paradise with a myriad of water activities centered around its famous reef World-class scuba diving, snorkeling, cenote diving, fly fishing, golf, tennis, or birding Delicious local specialties Shopping for jewelry and authentic Mexican crafts Like every For Dummies travel guide, Cancun & the Yucatan For Dummies, Second Edition, includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss—and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471746940

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Cooperation and Collective Action

Archaeological Perspectives

By: David M. Carballo

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Cooperation and Collective Action

Archaeological Perspectives

By: David M. Carballo

[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research."—Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. Cooperation and Collective Action is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action. Disentangling the motivations and institutions that foster group cooperation among competitive individuals remains one of the few great conundrums within evolutionary theory. The breadth and material focus of archaeology provide a much needed complement to existing research on cooperation and collective action, which thus far has relied largely on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and limited historic cases. In Cooperation and Collective Action, diverse case studies address the evolution of the emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457174081

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The Plague Files

Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville

By: Alexandra Parma Cook,Noble David Cook

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The Plague Files

Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville

By: Alexandra Parma Cook,Noble David Cook

In The Plague Files, Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook recount the travails of 1580s Seville, exposing the difficult lives of ordinary people and shedding light on the challenges municipal officials faced as they attempted to find solutions to the public health emergencies that threatened the city's residents. The Plague Files provides an indispensable resource for those studying early modern Spain.

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LSU Press

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0807134988

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King

The Social Archaeology of a Late Mississippian Town in Northwestern Georgia

By: David Hally

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King

The Social Archaeology of a Late Mississippian Town in Northwestern Georgia

By: David Hally

At the time of Spanish contact in AD 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants in north-western Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdoms distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. This book is about one such town, known to archaeologists as the King site.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817354603

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The January 6th Report

By: Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,David Remnick,Jamie Raskin

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The January 6th Report

By: Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,David Remnick,Jamie Raskin

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** NOTE: The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693–716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endnotes and witness testimony transcripts. Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the United States Capitol. On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol, an act of domestic terror without parallel in American history, designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. In a resolution six months later, the House of Representatives called it "one of the darkest days of our democracy," and established a special committee to investigate how and why the attack happened. Celadon Books, in collaboration with The New Yorker, presents the committee's final report, the definitive account of January 6th and what led up to it, based on more than a year of investigation by nine members of Congress and committee staff, with a preface by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and an epilogue by Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the committee.

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Private Security Law

Case Studies

By: David Maxwell

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Private Security Law

Case Studies

By: David Maxwell

Private Security Law: Case Studies is uniquely designed for the special needs of private security practitioners, students, and instructors. Part One of the book encompasses negligence, intentional torts, agency contracts, alarms, and damages. Part Two covers authority of the private citizen, deprivation of rights, and entrapment. The factual cases presented in this book touch on the everyday duties of persons associated with the private security industry. Private Security Law: Case Studies provides a basic orientation to problems capable of inciting litigation. The information presented through case laws comes from cases chosen for their factual, realistic, and practical connection to the private security industry. This focused approach addresses specific problem areas of the industry and provides information necessary to a security manager to avert future loss. Specially designed for private security practitioners, instructors, and students. Examines cases that are practical, realistic and relevant to specific areas of private security. Provides the information security managers need to avoid future problems.

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0750690348

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Children, Race, and Power

Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center

By: Gerald Markowitz,David Rosner

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Children, Race, and Power

Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center

By: Gerald Markowitz,David Rosner

A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations, this important work captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the story of the civil rights movement.

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Routledge

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1136692851

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Galápagos Wildlife

By: David Horwell,Pete Oxford

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Galápagos Wildlife

By: David Horwell,Pete Oxford

Bradt's fully illustrated wildlife guides focus on regions of the world particularly celebrated for their amazing and often unique species. With spectacular photography or exclusive watercolour drawings throughout, each visitors' guide provides an introduction to the region's principal flora and fauna alongside suggested wildlife itineraries, practical information on when to go and what to take and photography tips. Written in a deliberately engaging way, they offer something different from dry field guides, and will appeal to the interested layman as much as the wildlife devotee. Ideal as a lightweight companion to any wildlife trip they also make a handsome souvenir. The Pantanal of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay is South America's Serengeti: its wetlands are the largest on earth (they're half the size of France) and, in the dry season, crocodiles and storks jostle to gobble the last of the dying fish. Here, the continent's largest cat, the jaguar, lives alongside giant otters, anacondas and the world's largest parrot. A comprehensive introduction to the best place to watch wildlife in South America, and beautifully illustrated throughout, Bradt's Pantanal Wildlife is the only portable book to cover all the main wildlife groups while focussing exclusively on the Pantanal.Based in Argentina, James Lowen is a wildlife writer, editor, photographer and lecturer. He is editor of the only magazine to focus on birdwatching in Latin America.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1841621005

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Four Corners Level 3 Workbook

By: Jack C. Richards,David Bohlke

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Four Corners Level 3 Workbook

By: Jack C. Richards,David Bohlke

Four Corners is an integrated four-skills English course for adults and young adults. Four Corners Workbook, Level 3 has eight-page units that can be used in class or for homework. Each unit provides students with additional vocabulary, grammar, functional language, and reading practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521127513

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I Ask for Justice

Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944

By: David Carey, Jr.

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I Ask for Justice

Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944

By: David Carey, Jr.

Given Guatemala’s record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances and an important tool for advancing their agendas. As both a mirror and an instrument of the state, the judicial system simultaneously illuminates the limits of state rule and the state’s ability to co-opt Guatemalans by hearing their voices in court. Against the backdrop of two of Latin America’s most oppressive regimes—the dictatorships of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898–1920) and General Jorge Ubico (1931–1944)—David Carey Jr. explores the ways in which indigenous people, women, and the poor used Guatemala’s legal system to manipulate the boundaries between legality and criminality. Using court records that are surprisingly rich in Maya women’s voices, he analyzes how bootleggers, cross-dressers, and other litigants crafted their narratives to defend their human rights. Revealing how nuances of power, gender, ethnicity, class, and morality were constructed and contested, this history of crime and criminality demonstrates how Maya men and women attempted to improve their socioeconomic positions and to press for their rights with strategies that ranged from the pursuit of illicit activities to the deployment of the legal system.

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University of Texas Press

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029274868X

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The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras

By: David L. Webster

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The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras

By: David L. Webster

Dorie Reents-Budet, Curator, Pre-Columbian Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Claude Baudez, William Fash Jr., Berthold Riese, William Sanders, and David Webster contribute to this monograph, and using an integrated art historical and anthropological approach, consider the House of the Bacabs' context as an elite Maya structure, its excavation and restoration, and its iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction and interpretation, to establish models for understanding Classic Maya social and political life.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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Rethinking Zapotec Time

Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico

By: David Tavárez

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Rethinking Zapotec Time

Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico

By: David Tavárez

In 1702, after the brutal suppression of a Zapotec revolt, the bishop of Oaxaca proclaimed an amnesty for idolatry in exchange for collective confessions. To evade conflict, Northern Zapotec communities denounced ritual specialists and surrendered sacred songs and 102 divinatory manuals, which preserve cosmological accounts, exchanges with divine beings, and protocols of pre-Columbian origin that strongly resemble sections of the Codex Borgia. These texts were sent to Spain as evidence of failed Dominican evangelization efforts, and there they remained, in oblivion, until the 1960s. In this book, David Tavárez dives deep into this formidable archive of ritual and divinatory manuals, the largest calendar corpus in the colonial Americas, and emerges with a rich understanding of Indigenous social and cultural history, Mesoamerican theories of cosmos and time, and Zapotec ancestor worship. Drawing on his knowledge of Zapotec and Nahuatl, two decades of archival research, and a decade of fieldwork, Tavárez dissects Mesoamerican calendars as well as Native resistance and accommodation to the colonial conquest of time, while also addressing entangled transatlantic histories and shining new light on texts still connected to contemporary observances in Zapotec communities.

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1477324518

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Historical Dictionary of the "dirty Wars"

By: David R. Kohut,Olga Vilella,Beatrice Julian

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Historical Dictionary of the "dirty Wars"

By: David R. Kohut,Olga Vilella,Beatrice Julian

During the 1970s and 1980s, national-security regimes in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay declared war on suspected subversives, carrying out campaigns of mass human rights violations. The Historical Dictionary of the "Dirty Wars" describes the period, including the background and aftermath.

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0810848538

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