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Robert Koehler’s The Strike

The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest

By: James M. Dennis

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Robert Koehler’s The Strike

The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest

By: James M. Dennis

Every work of art has a story behind it. In 1886 the German American artist Robert Koehler painted a dramatic wide-angle depiction of an imagined confrontation between factory workers and their employer. He called this oil painting The Strike. It has had a long and tumultuous international history as a symbol of class struggle and the cause of workers’ rights. First exhibited just days before the tragic Chicago Haymarket riot, The Strike became an inspiration for the labor movement. In the midst of the campaign for an eight-hour workday, it gained international attention at expositions in Paris, Munich, and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Though the painting fell into obscurity for decades in the early twentieth century, The Strike lived on in wood-engraved reproductions in labor publications. Its purchase, restoration, and exhibition by New Left activist Lee Baxandall in the early 1970s launched it to international fame once more, and collectors and galleries around the world scrambled to acquire it. It is now housed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, Germany. Art historian James M. Dennis has crafted a compelling “biography” of Koehler’s painting: its exhibitions, acclaim, neglect, and rediscovery. He introduces its German-born creator and politically diverse audiences and traces the painting’s acceptance and rejection through the years, exploring how class and sociopolitical movements affected its reception. Dennis considers the significance of key figures in the painting, such as the woman asserting her presence in the center of action. He compellingly explains why The Strike has earned its identity as the iconic painting of the industrial labor movement.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299251330

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9780299251338

Essential Dutch Dictionary: Teach Yourself

By: Gerdi Quist,Dennis Strik

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Essential Dutch Dictionary: Teach Yourself

By: Gerdi Quist,Dennis Strik

With over 30,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, Essential Dutch Dictionary is the perfect tool to support your Dutch learning. This new edition is fully updated with a guide to usage and insights from the author to help you learn and remember new words and phrases. New interactive features: NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at: www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of the Netherlands.

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Teach Yourself

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1444131761

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9781444131765

Spirits and Clocks

Machine and Organism in Descartes

By: Dennis Des Chene

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Spirits and Clocks

Machine and Organism in Descartes

By: Dennis Des Chene

Although the basis of modern biology is Cartesian, Descartes's theories of biology have been more often ridiculed than studied. Yet, Dennis Des Chene demonstrates, the themes, arguments, and vocabulary of his mechanistic biology pervade the writings of many seventeenth-century authors. In his illuminating account of Cartesian physiology in its historical context, Des Chene focuses on the philosopher's innovative reworking of that field, including the nature of life, the problem of generation, and the concepts of health and illness. Des Chene begins by surveying works that Descartes would likely have encountered, from late Aristotelian theories of the soul to medical literature and treatises on machines. The Cartesian theory of vital operations is examined with particular attention to the generation of animals. Des Chene also considers the role of the machine-model in furnishing a method in physiology, the ambiguities of the notion of machine, and of Descartes's problem of simulation. Finally, he looks at the various kinds of unity of the body, both in itself and in its union with the soul. Spirits and Clocks continues Des Chene's highly regarded exploration—begun in his previous book, Life's Form—of the scholastic and Cartesian sciences as well as the dialogue between these two worldviews.

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Cornell University Press

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1501723723

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9781501723728

Honus Wagner

A Biography

By: Dennis DeValeria,Jeanne Burke DeValeria

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Honus Wagner

A Biography

By: Dennis DeValeria,Jeanne Burke DeValeria

A fine chronicle of events in and around the life of a great ball player and a nice gentleman.

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Macmillan

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0805037500

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9780805037500

John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility

By: Dennis Flynn

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John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility

By: Dennis Flynn

Percy's continental travels in the 1580s may be related to the early travels of Donne and to the plans of Catholic exiles for an invasion of England six years before the defeat of the Armada.

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Indiana University Press

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025332906X

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9780253329066

Science and the Media

Delgado's Brave Bulls and the Ethics of Scientific Disclosure

By: Peter J. Snyder,Linda C. Mayes,Dennis Spencer

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Science and the Media

Delgado's Brave Bulls and the Ethics of Scientific Disclosure

By: Peter J. Snyder,Linda C. Mayes,Dennis Spencer

Of great utility for every scientist faced with publicizing their discoveries via the media, this book addresses questions of responsibility for the balance and accuracy of scientific reporting, and attempts to be a guide for the scientist in their quest to inform the general public about their research in honest, truthful, and still interesting ways. Case studies by leading scholars in the fields of bioethics (pharmaceutical research (Declan Doogan, Senior VP Pfizer), medical journal editing (Jerome Kassirer, former editor of NEJM), science journalism, philosophy of science, history of medicine (John Warner, chair history of medicine Yale), public health (Ruth Katz, Dean public health, George Washington University), and philosophy of religion (Reverend Wesley Carr, former Dean of Westminster) illustrate positions and points of view and offer unique perspectives on the complex dance between science and the media. - Provides a compelling overview and analysis of the difficulties of dealing with mass media and collects tips and solutions. - Includes case studies from the experience of a number of high-profile contributors from different fields - Provides an easy-to-read, carefully selected and synthesized overview well suited to teaching and as further reading source in respective classes - Includes a famous movie from Jose Delgado that shows his attempts in the 60s to demonstrate "remote control" of a bull

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Academic Press

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0080920292

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9780080920290

Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

By: Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University

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Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

By: Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University

In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the multi-authored Witch of Edmonton, and Milton's Samson Agonistes.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195349520

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9780195349528

Sentinel of the Seas

Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built

By: Dennis M. Powers

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Sentinel of the Seas

Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built

By: Dennis M. Powers

One of the most rugged expanses in the continental U.S., the coast of northern California and Oregon saw frequent shipping disasters in the 19th century, before Congress ordered the construction of lighthouses on such dangerous promontories as Heceta Head, Cape Mendocino and a seaward-trending pile of rocks called St. George Reef. The brave, resourceful engineer who directed the Tillamook Rock lighthouse construction, Alexander Ballantyne, was later engaged for the St. George job, and it's this story that author Powers (Treasure Ship) chronicles here. Without any maps to illustrate it, however, readers will need an atlas to follow the movement of men and ships up and down the coast. Later chapters describing lighthouse life prove less problematic; lighthouse keepers were fascinating, courageous characters (and included a good number of women) who not only kept lights burning and fog horns sounding, but also risked life and limb to rescue people stranded in torrential weather.

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Citadel Press

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0806528427

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9780806528427

Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems

Applications

By: Dennis F. Galletta,Ping Zhang

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Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems

Applications

By: Dennis F. Galletta,Ping Zhang

Provides commentaries and descriptions of research programs that guides 21st century scholars, graduate students, and industry professionals. This work focuses on applications and evaluations including special case studies, specific contexts or tasks, HCI methodological concerns, and the use and adoption process.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765614871

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9780765614872

Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change

The Transformation of Life in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861-1921

By: David I. Kertzer,Dennis P. Hogan

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Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change

The Transformation of Life in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861-1921

By: David I. Kertzer,Dennis P. Hogan

Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change represents an unprecedented interdisciplinary effort to discover how changes in family life and demographic behavior actually occurred in this crucial period, and how people's lives were affected. The book takes issue with a number of the most influential demographic and sociological theories dealing with the evolution of the Western family and the factors responsible for fertility decline. As in so many other parts of Europe, the northern Italian community of Casalecchio experienced massive social and economic changes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Characterized by sharecropping agriculture and large, complex family households, the community faced the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and dramatic political change. Making use of unusually rich archival sources to reconstruct the live of 19,000 people who lived in Casalecchio during this period, Kertzer and Hogan challenge many current generalizations regarding the emergence of modern European society.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299121941

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9780299121945

Chaos in Ecology

Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics

By: J. M. Cushing,Robert F. Costantino,Brian Dennis,Robert Desharnais,Shandelle Marie Henson

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Chaos in Ecology

Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics

By: J. M. Cushing,Robert F. Costantino,Brian Dennis,Robert Desharnais,Shandelle Marie Henson

It is impossible to predict the exact behavior of all biological systems and how these same systems are exemplified by patterns of complexity and regularity. Decades of research in ecology have documented how these sorts of patterns are the consequences of deceptively simple rules that determine the nature of the patterns created. Chaos in Ecology will explain how simple beginnings result in complicated results. Chaos in Ecology is the inaugural volume of Theoretical Ecology Series. The authors of this volume have employed data from a proven model system in population dynamics. As a result, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in the ecology of populations. - It is impossible to predict the exact behavior of almost all biological systems and yet these same systems are exemplified by patterns of complexity and regularity. Decades of research in ecology have documented that these sorts of patterns are the consequence of deceptively simple rules that determine the nature of the patterns created. In essence, simple beginnings result in complicated results - This realization is captured in the mathematical notion of "chaos" and is rendered intuitive by the oft-repeated metaphor: "A butterfly beats its wings in China and causing a thunderstorm in the Midwest." Thus, seemingly trivial initial conditions (e.g. a butterfly in China) cascade through a series of intermediate events to create a significant large-scale event (e.g. a thunderstorm) - Chaos in Ecology is the inaugural volume of Theoretical Ecology Series. The authors of this volume have employed data from a proven model system in population dynamics. As a result, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in the ecology of populations

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Elsevier

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0080528872

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9780080528878

The Laughter of the Saints

Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain

By: Ryan Dennis Giles

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The Laughter of the Saints

Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain

By: Ryan Dennis Giles

The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802099521

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America in the Twenties and Thirties

The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

By: Sean Dennis Cashman

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America in the Twenties and Thirties

The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

By: Sean Dennis Cashman

In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New Deal in providing millions with relief, job opportunities, and hope before America was poised for its ascent to globalism on the eve of World War II. The book concludes with an account of the sliding path to war as Europe and Asia became prey to the ambitions of Hitler and military opportunists in Japan. The book also surveys the creative achievements of America's lost generation of artists, writers, and intellectuals; continuing innovations in transportation and communications wrought by automobiles and airplanes, radio and motion pictures; the experiences of black Americans, labor, and America's different classes and ethnic groups; and the tragicomedy of national prohibition. The cast of characters includes FDR, the New Dealers, Eleanor Roosevelt, George W. Norris, William E. Borah, Huey Long, Henry Ford, Clarence Darrow, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Orson Welles, Wendell Willkie, and the stars of radio and the silver screen. The first book in this series, America in the Gilded Age, is now accounted a classic for historiographical synthesis and stylisic polish. America in the Age of the Titans, covering the Progressive Era and World War I, and America in the Twenties and Thirties reveal the author's unerring grasp of various primary and secondary sources and his emphasis upon structures, individuals, and anecdotes about them. The book is lavishly illustrated with various prints, photographs, and reproductions from the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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NYU Press

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0814772080

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9780814772089

The British General Election of 2017

By: Philip Cowley,Dennis Kavanagh

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The British General Election of 2017

By: Philip Cowley,Dennis Kavanagh

The British General Election of 2017 is the definitive and authoritative account of one of the most dramatic elections in British history. Throwing aside her natural caution, Theresa May called a snap election and was widely expected to crush Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Her gamble backfired spectacularly as the Conservatives lost their Commons majority to a resurgent Labour led by one of the most unconventional politicians to lead a major British political party. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, with unparalleled access to all the key players, The British General Election of 2017 offers a revelatory guide to what really happened. The 20th edition in this prestigious series of books dating back to 1945, it is designed to appeal to everyone — from Westminster insiders and politics students to the wider general public.

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Springer

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3319959360

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9783319959368

Antlers

A Guide to Collecting, Scoring, Mounting, and Carving

By: Dennis Walrod

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Antlers

A Guide to Collecting, Scoring, Mounting, and Carving

By: Dennis Walrod

Newly rewritten chapter on the future of antlers. Collecting, scoring, and carving antlers. A complete and multi-faceted guide for Whitetail, mule deer, elk, and moose antlers.

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Stackpole Books

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0811742148

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The Constitution's Penman

Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter

By: Dennis C. Rasmussen

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The Constitution's Penman

Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter

By: Dennis C. Rasmussen

Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies’ man with a wicked sense of humor, a staunch opponent of slavery, and an unabashed elitist. Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as “the most colorful man in North America” at the time of the founding, was a dominant figure at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. In fact, he spoke more often, proposed more motions, and had more motions adopted than any other delegate. He also put the Constitution into its final form, choosing the arrangement and much of the wording of its provisions, not to mention composing the famous preamble (“We the People of the United States . . .”) nearly from scratch. The Constitution’s Penman is the first book to explore the constitutional vision of this fascinating, neglected, and influential American. As Dennis Rasmussen deftly shows, some aspects of Morris’s political thought were intriguingly idiosyncratic, such as his argument that the Senate should be an aristocratic body whose members would serve life terms without pay. Other aspects of his vision for America’s constitutional order, however, were astoundingly prescient. Morris saw as clearly as any of the framers the need for a powerful executive with a popular mandate, the central role that parties would play in American politics, and the unfathomable evils that slavery would visit on American life. Rasmussen demonstrates that it is impossible to fully understand the Constitution without appreciating the central role that Morris played in shaping it.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634142

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9780700634149

Art in Detroit Public Places

By: Dennis Alan Nawrocki

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Art in Detroit Public Places

By: Dennis Alan Nawrocki

Profiles in Diversity explores the momentous transformation in Europe from 1750-1870 by looking at the lives of European Jews who experienced it.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814333788

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9780814333785

Broughton's monthly planet reader and astrological journal

By: Luke Dennis Broughton

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Broughton's monthly planet reader and astrological journal

By: Luke Dennis Broughton

Astrological observations on the nativity of Abraham Lincoln and the fate of the nation.

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Рипол Классик

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5872630514

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9785872630517

The Media in Black and White

By: Everette E. Dennis

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The Media in Black and White

By: Everette E. Dennis

The media's treatment of and interaction with race, like race itself, is one of the most sensitive areas hi American society. Whether hi its coverage and treatment of racial matters or racial connections inside media organizations themselves, mass communication is deeply involved with race. The Media in Black and White brings together twenty journalists and scholars, of various racial backgrounds, to grapple with a controversial issue: the role that media industries, from advertising to newspapers to the information superhighway, play in helping Americans understand race. Contributors include Ellis Cose, a contributing editor for Newsweek; Manning Marable, chairman of Columbia University's African-American Research Center; William Wong, a columnist for the Oakland Tribune; Lisa Penaloza, a University of Illinois professor; and Melita Marie Garza, a Chicago Tribune reporter. Among the topics discussed are: the quality of reporting on immigrant issues; how sensationalism may be deepening the chasm of misunderstanding between the races; how the coverage of America's drug wars has been marked by racism; and whether politically correct language is interfering with coverage of vital issues and problems. The contributors of The Media in Black and White hope to broaden the narrow vision of the United States and the world beyond with their contributions to the debate over race and the media. The commentary found hi this important work will be of interest to sociologists, communication specialists, and black studies scholars.

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Routledge

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1351303465

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9781351303460

The Infidel and the Professor

David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

By: Dennis C. Rasmussen

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The Infidel and the Professor

David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

By: Dennis C. Rasmussen

Dearest friends -- The cheerful skeptic (1711-1749) -- Encountering Hume (1723-1749) -- A budding friendship (1750-1754) -- The historian and the Kirk (1754-1759) -- Theorizing the moral sentiments (1759) -- Fêted in France (1759-1766) -- Quarrel with a wild philosopher (1766-1767) -- Mortally sick at sea (1767-1775) -- Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Dialoguing about natural religion (1776) -- A philosopher's death (1776) -- Ten times more abuse (1776-1777) -- Smith's final years in Edinburgh (1777-1790) -- Hume's My Own Life and Smith's Letter from Adam Smith, LL. D. to William Strahan, Esq

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Princeton University Press

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0691192286

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9780691192284

Guilty Creatures

Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

By: Dennis Kezar

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Guilty Creatures

Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

By: Dennis Kezar

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Oxford University Press

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0199753377

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9780199753376

General Zoology

Investigating the Animal World

By: Dennis Holley

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General Zoology

Investigating the Animal World

By: Dennis Holley

General Zoology: Investigating the Animal World is an introductory level college biology textbook that provides students with an accessible and engaging look at the fundamentals of zoology. Written for a one-term, undergraduate course of mixed majors and non-majors, this reader-friendly text is concept driven vs. terminology driven. That is, the text is based on the underlying concepts and principles of zoology rather than strict memorization of terminology. Written in a student-centered, conversational style, this educational research-based textbook uniquely connects students and our society to animals from various perspectives—economic, ecologic, medical, and cultural, exploring how the animal world and human realm are intimately intertwined. End-of-chapter questions challenge students to think critically and creatively while incorporating science process skills and zoological principles.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457542129

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The New Imperatives of Educational Change

Achievement with Integrity

By: Dennis Shirley

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The New Imperatives of Educational Change

Achievement with Integrity

By: Dennis Shirley

The New Imperatives of Educational Change is a clarion call to move beyond the standardized testing and marketplace competition that have become pervasive in school systems to focus instead on creating the conditions that will encourage all students to become critical and independent thinkers. Dennis Shirley presents five new imperatives to guide educators and policymakers towards a re-thinking of what it means to teach effectively and to learn in depth. The evidentiary imperative requires educators to attain a better grasp of what data actually reveal about international trends in student learning. The interpretive imperative encourages mindful deliberation before acting on evidence in order to promote the integrity of a school community. The professional imperative describes new international research findings on promising pedagogies and curricula that propel learning in new directions. The global imperative argues that we all must look beyond our national boundaries to improve the flourishing of all young people, wherever they may be found. Finally, the existential imperative reminds us that students look to their teachers as role models who can dignify learning with meaning and embellish life with joy. Visionary in its scope and practical in its details, The New Imperatives of Educational Change is an indispensable road map for all teachers, principals, and system leaders.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317404572

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9781317404576

Possum Gallows

By: M Dennis Downey

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Possum Gallows

By: M Dennis Downey

Doctor Ben O'Keefe, psychiatrist and Rachel Mint, the rock star of her time known as Rikki to her ravenous fans, are siblings separated at birth and become coconspirators in a freewheeling dash towards destruction as they try to decipher a past that is slippery to the grasp and promises only more heart break and despair. They can run from their parents but cannot hide from that part of them that lies within. In the end they find that having it all means exactly that, for good and for bad.

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FriesenPress

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1460239261

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Uniquely Nevada

By: Rebecca O'Connor,Rebecca K. O'Connor,Dennis Myers

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Uniquely Nevada

By: Rebecca O'Connor,Rebecca K. O'Connor,Dennis Myers

A brief introduction to Nevada and what makes it unique.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1403446504

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9781403446503

Lord Byron and the History of Desire

By: Ian Dennis

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Lord Byron and the History of Desire

By: Ian Dennis

Drawing on the work of Eric Gans and René Girard, novelist and literary scholar Dennis (U. of Ottawa) contends that British poet Byron (1788-1824) changed his ideas about what could and should be desired during the course of his writing career. He considers victory and defeat in the eastern tales, heroic victimhood in Prometheus and The Prisoner of Chillon, Byron's sincerity, and the market in Don Juan. Only names and titles are indexed.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874130662

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9780874130669

The Chinese Information War

Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests, 2d ed.

By: Dennis F. Poindexter

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The Chinese Information War

Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests, 2d ed.

By: Dennis F. Poindexter

China's information war against the United States is clever technically, broadly applied and successful. The intelligence community in the U.S. has publicly stated this is a kind of war we do not know how to fight--yet it is the U.S. military that developed and expanded the doctrine of information war. In fact, the U.S. military is at a disadvantage because it is part of a democratic, decentralized system of government that separates the state from commercial business. China's political systems are more easily adapted to this form of warfare, as their recent land seizures in the South China Sea demonstrate. We call this annexation, when it is a new form of conquest.

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McFarland

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1476672717

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9781476672717

Choral Repertoire

By: Dennis Shrock

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Choral Repertoire

By: Dennis Shrock

Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the canon of the Western choral tradition. Designed for practicing conductors and directors, students and teachers of choral music, amateur and professional singers, scholars, and interested vocal enthusiasts, it is an account of the complete choral output of the most significant composers of this genre throughout history. Organized by era (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern), Choral Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era; trends and styles unique to various countries; biographical sketches of over 500 composers; and performance annotations of more than 5,000 individual works. This book will be an essential guide to programming, a reference tool for program notes and other research, and, most importantly, a key resource for conductors, instructors, scholars, and students of choral music.

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Oxford University Press

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0199886873

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9780199886876

The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

By: Dennis Tedlock

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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

By: Dennis Tedlock

Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.

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384

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081221143X

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9780812211436

Normandy

The Real Story

By: Shelagh Whitaker,Dennis Whitaker

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Normandy

The Real Story

By: Shelagh Whitaker,Dennis Whitaker

“It was the [allied armies’] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and launched the liberation of Western Europe.” —from Normandy: The Real Story For decades, it’s been the conventional wisdom that “brute force” alone beat the German army at Normandy. Now a definitive new history, coauthored by a highly decorated field commander, proves otherwise. Using archival data, oral histories, and exclusive new interviews, Normandy: The Real Story takes the reader deep into the minds, hearts, and souls of the allied armies to show how—despite the shortcomings of their superiors and the inferiority of their weaponry—they destroyed two well-equipped German armies and won the war. Here is the crucial summer of 1944 as seen by both sides, from the British spy, code-named “Garbo,” who successfully misled the Nazis about the time and place of the D-day landings, to the poor planning for action after the assault that forced the allies to fight for nine weeks “field to field, hedgerow to hedgerow.” Here too are the questionable command decisions of Montgomery, Eisenhower, and Bradley, the insatiable ego of Patton. Yet, fighting in some of the most miserable conditions of the war, the allied soldiers used ingenuity, resilience, and raw courage to drive the enemy from France in what John Keegan describes as “the biggest disaster to hit the German army in the course of the war.” Normandy is an inspiring tribute to the common fighting men of five nations who won the pivotal campaign that lead to peace and freedom.

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Presidio Press

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0307538974

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9780307538970

Veterinary Hematology

Atlas of Common Domestic and Non-Domestic Species

By: William J. Reagan,Armando R. Irizarry Rovira,Dennis B. DeNicola

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Veterinary Hematology

Atlas of Common Domestic and Non-Domestic Species

By: William J. Reagan,Armando R. Irizarry Rovira,Dennis B. DeNicola

Now in its third edition, Veterinary Hematology: Atlas of Common Domestic and Non-Domestic Species continues to offer veterinarians and veterinary technicians an essential guide to veterinary hematology. Comprehensive in scope, the atlas presents the fundamentals of both normal and abnormal blood cell morphologies, with coverage of a wide range of species, including dogs, cats, horses, ruminants, llamas, rats, mice, nonhuman primates, ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. Designed as a useful and accessible guide, the updated third edition presents more than 300 color images and includes a new chapter that describes the best techniques for using hematology instruments. The authors—noted experts on the topic—clearly show how to identify and interpret the hematological changes that may occur in a variety of species. In addition, a companion website offers a wealth of additional hematological images. This vital atlas: Provides an updated edition of the popular veterinary hematology atlas for veterinarians, veterinary students, and veterinary technicians Contains a new instructive chapter on hematology instrumentation Presents hundreds of high-quality color photographs that help in identification Covers a range of species from dogs and cats to birds and reptiles Features a companion website that provides a wealth of hematological images Written for both novice and experienced veterinarians, Veterinary Hematology provides a complete resource to blood morphologic abnormalities in domestic and non-domestic species.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111906497X

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9781119064978

An Exceptional Law

Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936

By: Dennis G. Molinaro

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An Exceptional Law

Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936

By: Dennis G. Molinaro

An Exceptional Law showcases how the emergency law used to repress labour activism during the First World War became normalized with the creation of Section 98 of the Criminal Code, following the Winnipeg General Strike.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442629584

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9781442629585

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