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Principles of Medical Jurisprudence

Designed for the Professions of Law and Medicine

By: Amos Dean

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Principles of Medical Jurisprudence

Designed for the Professions of Law and Medicine

By: Amos Dean

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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3752559683

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9783752559682

The Epic Hero

By: Dean A. Miller

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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title From Odysseus to Aeneas, from Beowulf to King Arthur, from the Mahâbhârata to the Ossetian "Nart" tales, epic heroes and their stories have symbolized the power of the human imagination. Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed typology of the hero in Western myth: birth, parentage, familial ties, sexuality, character, deeds, death, and afterlife. Dean A. Miller examines the place of the hero in the physical world (wilderness, castle, prison cell) and in society (among monarchs, fools, shamans, rivals, and gods). He looks at the hero in battle and quest; at his political status; and at his relationship to established religion. The book spans Western epic traditions, including Greek, Roman, Nordic, and Celtic, as well as the Indian and Persian legacies. A large section of the book also examines the figures who modify or accompany the hero: partners, helpers (animals and sometimes monsters), foes, foils, and even antitypes. The Epic Hero provides a comprehensive and provocative guide to epic heroes, and to the richly imaginative tales they inhabit.

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529

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JHU Press

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080187792X

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9780801877926

The Decline Effect

The Hidden Probability Law Controlling Markets, Politics, Culture, Religion, Epidemics and War

By: Dean Brooks

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The Decline Effect

The Hidden Probability Law Controlling Markets, Politics, Culture, Religion, Epidemics and War

By: Dean Brooks

A crisis is coming for everyone who uses math and science. For decades now, the classical model of probability (the indifference principle and the Gaussian distribution) has been breaking down and revealing its limitations in fields from economics to epidemiology. Now a new approach has revealed the underlying non-classical principle behind all these 'anomalous' laws: — Pareto’s law of elite incomes — Zipf’s law of word frequencies — Lotka’s law of scientific publications — Kleiber’s law of metabolic rates — the Clausewitz-Dupuy law of combat friction — Moore’s law of computing costs — the Wright-Henderson cost law — Weibull’s law of electronics failures — the Flynn Effect in IQ scores — Benford’s law of digit frequencies — Farr’s law of epidemics — Hubbell’s neutral theory of biodiversity — Rogers’ law of innovation classes — Wilson’s law of island biogeography — Smeed’s law of traffic fatalities The general law behind all these particular laws (and countless others) is the "decline effect". As a system ages or grows in size, the rules of probability subtly change. Entropy increases, rare items become rarer, and average performance measures decline. The human meaning of a decline may be positive (decreasing costs, falling epidemic mortality) or negative (lower customer loyalty, decreasing efficiency), but the mathematical pattern is always the same. The implications are enormous, as these examples show: All epidemic diseases decline in infectiousness and in lethality. HIV-AIDS went from a highly infectious, 95-percent fatal disease, to a survivable condition with a latency of decades. COVID-19 went from a death rate of 7 percent in early 2020, to under 2 percent in 2022. Hereditary dynasties around the world declined smoothly in lifespan, from hundreds of years to tens of years. When democracies replaced monarchies, the decline (in spans of party control) continued.

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FriesenPress

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1039151876

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Discovery and Invention

The Urban Plays of Lanford Wilson

By: Anne Dean

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Discovery and Invention

The Urban Plays of Lanford Wilson

By: Anne Dean

Above all, Wilson wants to tell the truth; for him, reality is almost - but not quite - enough. By creating his drama out of his own rich life experiences, he finds little need to exaggerate. Eugene Ionesco once observed that one discovers more than one invents, and that invention is really discovery or rediscovery.

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160

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838635482

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9780838635483

A Politics of All

Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy

By: Dean Caivano

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A Politics of All

Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy

By: Dean Caivano

In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics of all. Democracy from this standpoint does not entail liberal consensus-building but rejects hierarchical forms of authority, supplanted by ongoing political resistance by “the people” to obtain freedom and equality.

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189

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793652589

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The Saga of Tom Horn

The Story of a Cattlemen's War : with Personal Narratives, Newspaper Accounts, and Official Documents and Testimonies

By: Dean Fenton Krakel

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The Saga of Tom Horn

The Story of a Cattlemen's War : with Personal Narratives, Newspaper Accounts, and Official Documents and Testimonies

By: Dean Fenton Krakel

An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for this saga of Tom Horn, a former Pinkerton detective, an expert hunter and dead shot, and one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in the history of the Old West. Some radicals in the powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Association turned to the man who once boasted, “Killing men in my specialty; I look to it as a business proposition, and I think I have a corner on the market.” Cattle thieves were duly warned, blood was shed, and Tom Horn was implicated but never charged. Then on the morning of July 18, 1901, Willie Nickell, the fourteen-year-old son of a Wyoming sheepman, was shot. Horn’s career was ended. The arrest, trial, and execution of Tom Horn ignite fireworks in Dean Krakel’s book, and a colorful cast of cattle barons and lawmen adds to the sizzle. A jury convicted Tom Horn, but his hanging did not settle the specter of guilt.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803277679

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Book's by Dean A. Miller

Principles of Medical Jurisprudence

Principles of Medical Jurisprudence

The Epic Hero

The Epic Hero

The Decline Effect

The Decline Effect

Discovery and Invention

Discovery and Invention

A Politics of All

A Politics of All

The Saga of Tom Horn

The Saga of Tom Horn

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