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And Then We Went Fishing

A Story of Fatherhood, Fate, and Forgiveness

By: Dirk Benedict

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And Then We Went Fishing

A Story of Fatherhood, Fate, and Forgiveness

By: Dirk Benedict

From actor Dirk Benedict comes this brilliant autobiographical telling of two unique and engrossing events that had an enormous impact on his life. He intertwines the story of his wife’s unexpectedly complicated home birthing with his own coming of age in Montana—and the violent death of his father. Past events of love, friendship, hatred, and fatherhood culminate in a dramatic explosion before him, linking his father’s death with the birth of his first child. Benedict’s writing style is lively, creative, and always engaging. His use of humor, pathos, and imagery is masterful. He has taken two rites of passage in his life and woven them together to produce a story that is every bit as entertaining as it is moving. Given Dirk’s unique storytelling ability and well-honed sense of timing, And Then We Went Fishing will keep you hooked from page one to its powerful, poignant conclusion.

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Square One Publishers, Inc.

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0757053025

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9780757053023

Dirk Benedict in the 25th Century: Battlestar

By: Dirk Benedict

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Dirk Benedict in the 25th Century: Battlestar

By: Dirk Benedict

From the pages of the Mis-Adventures of Adam West comes this new action packed space adventure. Dirk Benedict— “Starbuck” in the original Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team’s “Faceman”— is signing autographs at a convention when a mysterious scientist appears, transporting Dirk to Earth’s far-flung future, where he discovers he’s mankind’s only hope against an oppressive computer and its robot army!

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StormFront Entertainment

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1632945932

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9781632945938

Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy

A True Story of Discovery, Acting, Health, Illness, Recovery, and Life

By: Dirk Benedict

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Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy

A True Story of Discovery, Acting, Health, Illness, Recovery, and Life

By: Dirk Benedict

The best-selling memoir Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy tells the fascinating story of actor Dirk Benedict’s journey from the big sky country of Montana to the hustle and hype of Hollywood. It also describes his odyssey of self-discovery and growth as he changes from struggling actor to celebrity, from meat eater to vegetarian, from cancer victim to cancer victor. Brilliantly written—insightful, witty, and always challenging—Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy may change the way you perceive actors, and even make you reconsider the truths in your own life.

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Square One Publishers, Inc.

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0757052770

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9780757052774

Asking and Listening

Ethnography as Personal Adaptation

By: Paul Bohannan,Dirk van der Elst

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Asking and Listening

Ethnography as Personal Adaptation

By: Paul Bohannan,Dirk van der Elst

Giving students the capacity to include ethnography in their own experience! Asking and Listening is the first book to trace the changing ways in which human beings have learned to look at the Others Beyond the Gate with their strange languages and stranger customs. Not a history of ethnography so much as a chronicle of its uses and potentials, Asking and Listening examines the premises of ethnography and concerns itself with a wide range of issues such as ethnocentrism and the morass of cultural relativism, the cultures of corporations, and the meaning of ethnography for government policy. It ends with an examination of the problems in charting our tomorrows: ethnography in the information age, and for the future. Through its pragmatic analysis of cultures as storehouses of alternatives in the way universal problems can and have been approached, Asking and Listening offers students not merely the opportunity to make sense of descriptions of other peoples lifeways, but makes such ethnographic knowledge immediately useful in their own lives, choices, and career plans.

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Waveland Press

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1478608048

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9781478608042

Lost Worlds of 1863

Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest

By: W. Dirk Raat

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Lost Worlds of 1863

Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest

By: W. Dirk Raat

A comparative history of the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest offers a unique comparative narrative approach to the diaspora experiences of the Apaches, O’odham and Yaqui in Arizona and Sonora, the Navajo and Yavapai in Arizona, the Shoshone of Utah, the Utes of Colorado, the Northern Paiutes of Nevada and California, and other indigenous communities in the region. Focusing on the events of the year 1863, W. Dirk Raat provides an in-depth examination of the mid-nineteenth century genocide and devastation of the American Indian. Addressing the loss of both the identity and the sacred landscape of indigenous peoples, the author compares various kinds of relocation between different indigenous groups ranging from the removal and assimilation policies of the United States government regarding the Navajo and Paiute people, to the outright massacre and extermination of the Bear River Shoshone. The book is organized around detailed individual case studies that include extensive histories of the pre-contact, Spanish, and Mexican worlds that created the context for the pivotal events of 1863. This important volume: Narrates the history of Indian communities such as the Yavapai, Apache, O'odham, and Navajo both before and after 1863 Addresses how the American Indian has been able to survive genocide, and in some cases thrive in the present day Discusses topics including Indian slavery and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Yaqui deportation, Apache prisoners of war, and Great Basin tribal politics Explores Indian ceremonial rites and belief systems to illustrate the relationship between sacred landscapes and personal identity Features sub-chapters on topics such as the Hopi-Navajo land controversy and Native American boarding schools Includes numerous maps and illustrations, contextualizing the content for readers Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest is essential reading for academics, students, and general readers with interest in Western history, Native American history, and the history of Indian-White relations in the United States and Mexico.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119777623

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9781119777625

The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670

By: Dirk van Miert

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The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670

By: Dirk van Miert

A study of the school of biblical scholarship established by Joseph Scaliger in the Dutch Republic in the period 1590-1670.

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Oxford University Press

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0198803931

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9780198803935

Cobblestones

A Personal and Political Journey

By: Dirk de Vos

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Cobblestones

A Personal and Political Journey

By: Dirk de Vos

Dirk de Vos’s journey, which has taken him across continents, within dynamic cultures, and into direct experience within divergent ideologies, originated in the land of apartheid, South Africa, and ended in the far north of another continent. Cobblestones follows the path of this personal journey while embarking on a journey of political discovery as well. With understanding, rooted in his childhood in apartheid South Africa, and spanning work experience in law, multinational business, government, and academics, de Vos is uniquely positioned to comprehend the origins and nature of transformative and manipulative political processes, especially as they bear on the growing importance and problématique of the interplay between human rights and multiculturalism. A central argument that emerges in this intricate mix of personal experience and sociopolitical analysis echoes Gene Veith’s view of political postmodernism as rejecting of individual identity. This results in a collectivist mentality in which individual claims are lost in the demands of the group. de Vos expands on such an idea, demonstrating its origins, addressing the results of social experiments driven by such beliefs, and analyzing the influence of groupism on recent politics in Europe, Africa, and North America. Cobblestones is certain to evoke important, expansive thought and discussion among readers and students alike.

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FriesenPress

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146027749X

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9781460277492

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism

By: Dirk Wiemann

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Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism

By: Dirk Wiemann

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research.

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Routledge

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1317081765

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9781317081760

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin E-Book

Clinical Dermatology

By: William D. James,Dirk M. Elston,James R. Treat,Misha A. Rosenbach

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Andrews' Diseases of the Skin E-Book

Clinical Dermatology

By: William D. James,Dirk M. Elston,James R. Treat,Misha A. Rosenbach

Through thirteen superb editions, Andrews' Diseases of the Skin has remained the reference of choice for core information in dermatology for residency through clinical practice. The fully revised 14th Edition of this award-winning title continues the tradition of excellence with new tools and strategies for diagnosis and treatment, new entities and newly recognized diseases, increased coverage of skin of color, new videos, and more. It's the reference you'll turn to again and again when faced with a clinical conundrum or therapeutically challenging skin disease. - Utilizes a concise, clinically focused, user-friendly format that clearly covers the full range of common and rare skin diseases. The small team author approach provides consistency and clearly conveys the authors' first-hand experience. - Features expanded coverage of skin of color—now 46% of all images—including distinct distribution or presentations, how to recognize disease states, and how treatment responses may differ. - Works in tandem with the companion Andrews' Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas, 2nd Edition, which contains over 3,000 images—one-third of which are skin of color images. - Offers outstanding visual support with more than 1,500 illustrations—more than one-third are of skin of color,[RM1] and more tables and figures to help compare genetic syndromes. - Provides access to more than 20 videos online, depicting venous lake treatment using long-pulsed Nd: YAG laser, chemical peels, Q-switched laser tattoo removal, ED&C (electrodesiccation and curettage), nerve block, and more. - Includes up-to-date coverage of monoclonal antibodies; new cosmetic treatment modalities; new tools in the diagnosis and treatment of lymphoma; new staging, diagnostic modalities, and treatment for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers; and new treatment paradigms for hair disorders. - Keeps you current with newly defined genetic syndromes, environmental changes and alterations in infectious disease states and heat- and cold-related conditions; new contact allergens; new devices such as the 1726 nm laser for acne intervention; and new molecular investigative techniques. - Covers new biologics for psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, itch and hidradenitis suppurativa, and JAK inhibitors for alopecia area and vitiligo, with decision grids to help choose the appropriate drug for each patient.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323878725

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9780323878722

Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia

Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era

By: Dirk Tomsa

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Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia

Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era

By: Dirk Tomsa

This book presents the first sustained analysis of Indonesian party politics in the post-New Order era and the first systematic application of the increasingly influential party institutionalization approach to the case of Indonesia.

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Routledge

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1134045751

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9781134045754

What is Migration History?

By: Christiane Harzig,Dirk Hoerder

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What is Migration History?

By: Christiane Harzig,Dirk Hoerder

The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues across several disciplines. It takes in its scope an overview of migrations through history, how classic theories have interpreted such movements, and contemporary topics and debates including transnational and transcultural lives, access to citizenship, and migrant entrepreneurship. Historical perspectives reveal how the scholarly field emerged and developed over time and across cultures and how historians of migration have recently begun to re-write the story of human life on earth. Throughout, the authors suggest how the movements of millions of mobile men and women persistently challenge changing scholarly paradigms for understanding their lives. Key concepts and theories, such as systems, networks, and gender, are explained and historicized to produce a complex picture of the interaction of migrants, scholars, and disciplinary cultures in a globalized world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745656293

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9780745656298

Genres of Modernity

Contemporary Indian Novels in English

By: Dirk Wiemann

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Genres of Modernity

Contemporary Indian Novels in English

By: Dirk Wiemann

Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English." "Combining close readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rodopi

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9042024933

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9789042024939

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts

Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps

By: Dirk Wiemann

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Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts

Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps

By: Dirk Wiemann

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment and sequence, and a conspicuously 'gappy' texture, verse novels offer productive alternatives to the dominant prose novel in contemporary fiction, where a similar 'gappiness' has become a hallmark, as illustrated by the loosely interlaced multi-strand plot structures of influential 'world novels' (Bolaño, Mitchell, Powers). The verse novel is a form particularly prolific in the postcolonial world and among diasporic or minoritarian writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two of the most prominent areas in which verse novels distinguish themselves from the prose novel to read texts by Derek Walcott, Anne Carson, Bernardine Evaristo, Patience Agbabi and others: In 'planetary' verse novels from the Caribbean, Canada, Samoa and Hawai'i, the central trope of the volcano evokes a world in constant un/making; while post-national verse novels, particularly in Britain, modify the established paradigms of imagined communities. Dirk Wiemann's study speculates whether the resurgence of verse novels correlates with the apprehension of inhabiting a world that has become unpredictable and dangerous but also promising: a 'post-prosaic' world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501399519

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9781501399510

A Tailor in Auschwitz

By: David van Turnhout,Dirk Verhofstadt

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A Tailor in Auschwitz

By: David van Turnhout,Dirk Verhofstadt

David Van Turnhout and Dirk Verhofstadt traced the story of David's Jewish grandfather, Ide Leib Kartuz. Fleeing from antisemitism and violence, he came to Antwerp in 1929 and set up business as a tailor. The family he left behind ended up in the ghetto of Radomsko. Each and every member of the family was gassed at Treblinka. In Belgium, Kartuz joined the resistance movement, but was arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there, his wife and two children immediately died a horrible death. He survived in a unit of tailors where he repaired camp clothing and SS guards' uniforms, sometimes receiving special orders from SS officers. Kartuz endured an inhuman death march to Mauthausen. After the war, back in Antwerp, he made tailored suits for bankers and other business people. His final battle was against the Belgian state, for recognition as a Belgian citizen, member of the resistance and war victim. Very few people realise how difficult it was for Jewish people to survive after liberation. The authors dig deep into the core of the Holocaust and investigate every trail from Radomsko to Miami. In the Auschwitz archives, they discover unpublished witness statements by tailors in Block 1. And completely unexpectedly, they also discover a cousin of Ide's, living in Florida. She had survived as a child by hiding in an attic in Brussels and speaks for the first time about those dark days. It took the authors a year to wind their questing way through important discoveries and setbacks but in this tribute, an unknown piece of history has finally been given a face.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399004379

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9781399004374

Dark and Bright Mathematics

Hidden Harmony in Art, History and Culture

By: Dirk Huylebrouck

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Dark and Bright Mathematics

Hidden Harmony in Art, History and Culture

By: Dirk Huylebrouck

Was it necessary for a 17th century painter to know principles of optics to hide a skull in one of his masterpieces? Is it possible the violent deaths of Roman emperors obey a statistical law? Are there connections between market trends and geometry? How did Islamic artists draw almost perfectly regular nine-sided polygons, when these cannot be traced with the use of compasses? Dirk Huylebrouk asks these and other exciting questions in this collection of essays, originally written for the science magazine EOS, a Dutch equivalent of Scientific American, distributed in Belgium and in The Netherlands. Every chapter can be read independently, as some subjects are repeated, and not strictly interconnected. Such is the case for instance of the golden section, an often-recurring topic in general mathematics. The reader will appreciate the original point of view expressed through each chapter, which makes this book stand out against the general information one can find by browsing the general media. The subtly provocative character of some parts is meant to stimulate the reader for further exploration. The book's title itself may already generate surprise. Sure, to many, mathematics seems to come from hell, but the darkness in the title in fact refers to the lugubrious stories about math and skulls, murders or World War II. There is also a more down-to-earth part is about math and maps, money, Facebook, folding paper, shapes in ice and the most earthly yet unsolved math problems. ‘Bright mathematics’ alludes to Vedic, Islam, New Age, a meta-divine section, and is concluded by an interview with a top mathematician who also wrote about the existence of God.

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Springer Nature

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3031362551

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9783031362552

Phytobacteriology

Principles and Practice

By: Jacob Dirk Janse

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Phytobacteriology

Principles and Practice

By: Jacob Dirk Janse

Introduction to bacteriology and bacteria. Phytobacteriology and diagnosis of bacterial diseases of plants. Disease and symptoms caused by plant pathogenic bacteria. Epidemiology. Damage and losses caused by bacterial plant diseases. Prevention and control of bacterial pathogens and diseases. Examples of bacterial diseases of cultivated and wild plants.

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CABI

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1845930258

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9781845930257

The Police Power

Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

By: Markus Dirk Dubber

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The Police Power

Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

By: Markus Dirk Dubber

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens. Dubber explores the roots of the power to police—the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers—by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal law. He argues that the defining characteristics of this power, including the inability to accurately define it, reflect its origins in the discretionary and virtually limitless patriarchal power of the householder over his household. The paradox of patriarchal police power as the most troubling yet least scrutinized of governmental powers can begin to be resolved by subjecting this branch of government to the critical analysis it merits. Dubber shows us that the question must become how can the police power and criminal law together serve the goals of social equity that define and give direction to contemporary democratic societies? This book goes to the heart of this neglected but crucial topic.

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Columbia University Press

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0231506953

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9780231506953

Documentation and Argument in Early China

The Shàngshū 尚書 (Venerated Documents) and the Shū Traditions

By: Dirk Meyer

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Documentation and Argument in Early China

The Shàngshū 尚書 (Venerated Documents) and the Shū Traditions

By: Dirk Meyer

This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It is the first to establish these traditions—“Shū” (Documents)—as a historically evolving practice of thought-production. By focusing on the literary form of the argument, it interprets the “Shū” as fluid text material that embodies the ever-changing cultural capital of projected conceptual communities. By showing how these communities actualised the “Shū” according to their changing visions of history and evolving group interests, the study establishes that by the Warring States period (ca. 453–221 BC) the “Shū” had become a literary genre employed by diverse groups to legitimize their own arguments. Through forms of textual performance, the “Shū” gave even peripheral communities the means to participate in political discourse by conferring their ideas with ancient authority. Analysing this dynamic environment of socio-political and philosophical change, this study speaks to the Early China field, as well as to those interested in meaning production and foundational text formation more widely.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110708604

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9783110708608

Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965

Cultural Translations, Sexual Anxieties and Racial Fantasies

By: Dirk Gindt

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Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965

Cultural Translations, Sexual Anxieties and Racial Fantasies

By: Dirk Gindt

The immediate post-war period marks a pivotal moment in the internationalization of American theatre when Tennessee Williams' plays became some of Broadway's most critically acclaimed and financially lucrative exports. Dirk Gindt offers a detailed study of the production and reception of Williams' work on Swedish and French stages at the height of his popularity between 1945 and 1965. Analysing the national openings of seminal plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer, Gindt provides rich and nuanced insights into Williams' transnational impact. In the process, he charts a network of fascinating and influential directors, actors, designers, producers and critics, all of whom left distinctive marks on mid-twentieth-century European theatre and culture. Gindt further demonstrates how Williams' work foregrounded cultural apprehensions, racial fantasies and sexual anxieties, which resulted in heated debates in the critical and popular media.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350022063

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9781350022065

Cultures in Contact

World Migrations in the Second Millennium

By: Dirk Hoerder

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Cultures in Contact

World Migrations in the Second Millennium

By: Dirk Hoerder

A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus thirty years in the making, Dirk Hoerder reconceptualizes the history of migration and immigration, establishing that societal transformation cannot be understood without taking into account the impact of migrations and, indeed, that mobility is more characteristic of human behavior than is stasis. Signaling a major paradigm shift, Cultures in Contact creates an English-language map of human movement that is not Atlantic Ocean-based. Hoerder describes the origins, causes, and extent of migrations around the globe and analyzes the cultural interactions they have triggered. He pays particular attention to the consequences of immigration within the receiving countries. His work sweeps from the eleventh century forward through the end of the twentieth, when migration patterns shifted to include transpacific migration, return migrations from former colonies, refugee migrations, and distinct regional labor migrations in the developing world. Hoerder demonstrates that as we enter the third millennium, regional and intercontinental migration patterns no longer resemble those of previous centuries. They have been transformed by new communications systems and other forces of globalization and transnationalism.

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Duke University Press

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0822384078

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9780822384076

Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

By: Dirk-Jan Koch

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Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

By: Dirk-Jan Koch

Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds of unintended effects of foreign aid: backlash effects, conflict effects, migration and resettlement effects, price effects, marginalization effects, behavioural effects, negative spillover effects, governance effects, environmental effects, and ripple effects. Each chapter revolves around a set of concrete case studies, analysing the mechanisms underpinning the unintended effects and proposing ways in which policymakers, practitioners, and evaluators can tackle negative side effects and maximize positive side effects. The book also includes personal testimonies, a succinct overview of unintended effects, and suggestions for further reading. Providing a clear overview of what side effects to anticipate when planning, executing, and evaluating aid, this book will be an important resource for students, development practitioners, and policymakers alike.

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Taylor & Francis

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100099998X

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9781000999983

Arctic Drift

Dirk Pitt #20

By: Clive Cussler,Dirk Cussler

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Arctic Drift

Dirk Pitt #20

By: Clive Cussler,Dirk Cussler

A foundered Victorian ship looking for the fabled Northwest Passage holds a secret in its icy grave . . . When Dirk Pitt of NUMA is almost blown to pieces in a lab explosion, he suspects sabotage. The lab in question belongs to a scientist hoping to use a rare mineral to combat greenhouse gases - but who would want to destroy our one chance to save the planet? But there are those who will do anything to control such a valuable prize. Pitt's investigations take him to the Arctic in search of a clue to the origins of this precious mineral. There he and NUMA colleague Al Giordino must battle for survival against the hostile elements and an evil megalomaniac who is about to plunge the North American continent into war . . . Arctic Drift is a white-knuckle ride of a novel that sees Clive Cussler's greatest hero, Dirk Pitt, fighting his enemies in the cruel Arctic. Praise for Clive Cussler 'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy 'The Adventure King' Daily Express

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Sphere

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1408732971

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9781408732977

Christianity and the History of Violence in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook

By: Dirk Rohmann

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Christianity and the History of Violence in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook

By: Dirk Rohmann

This volume brings together a large number of sources with which to illustrate the problem of religious violence in relation to the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire and post-Roman world. The sources are presented in both the original languages and in new English translation and are accompanied by introductions, comments, and short bibliographies. Thematically, Dirk Rohmann focuses on the ways in which Christians were subjected to violence by their pagan surroundings, on the development and scope of the very Christian ideas of martyrdom and of persecution, on how Christians thought about the nature of God and of holy wars, as well as on the problem of violence within the world of early monasticism and asceticism. Drawing on the amount of texts extant from the first to seventh centuries, this book will be of interest to both students and academics in the areas of ancient and early medieval history, classics, and religious studies.

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382525285X

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Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity

Studies in Text Transmission

By: Dirk Rohmann

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Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity

Studies in Text Transmission

By: Dirk Rohmann

It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.

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3110485559

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Serial Murder and Media Circuses

By: Dirk C. Gibson

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Serial Murder and Media Circuses

By: Dirk C. Gibson

The Axman of New Orleans specialized in killing grocers of Italian descent in the 1910s, apparently to promote jazz music. Dorothea Puente was a little old landlady who murdered her tenants, but kept cashing their government checks. The Manson Family terrorized California in the 1960s, as did the Hillside Stranglers a decade later. Twelve serial murder cases, occurring in eight decades between the 1890s and 1990s, had one thing in common: significant presence of the mass media. This book examines these specific cases of serial murder, and the way the media became involved in the investigations and trials of each. Gibson argues that the American media plays a multidimensional and integral role in serial killings and their investigation—and that this role is not generally a positive one. Serial murder cases motivate the media in unfortunate ways, and the result is that even typically respectable media organizations can be involved in such things as document theft, or in interfering with the capture of serial murderers on the run. This link between multiple murderers and mass communication is not accidental or coincidental; rather, the relationship between the press and serial killers is one of extraordinary importance to both parties. Gibson examines the role of the media in serial murder cases; the body of knowledge on serial murder as seen through the lens of mass communication; the effectiveness of law enforcement responses to serial murderers and how they might be improved if the mass communication influence was better understood; the magnitude of the serial murder problem; and the interaction between the media, the killers, and serial murder investigations. Specific examples and numerous quotes are provided throughout to illustrate this strange and detrimental relationship between media and serial murderers.

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0313080984

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Adorno's Critique of Political Economy

By: Dirk Braunstein

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Adorno's Critique of Political Economy

By: Dirk Braunstein

This book comprehensively refutes the assumption that Adorno’s references to Marx represent a relic from an early stage of his theoretical development. Reconstructing Adorno’s own critique of political economy, it elevates him from cultural critic to highly original social theorist.

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9004525971

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9789004525979

Today Everything is Different

An Adventure in Prayer and Action

By: Dirk G. Lange

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Today Everything is Different

An Adventure in Prayer and Action

By: Dirk G. Lange

In Today Everything Is Different Dirk Lange does not fail to deliver the "unexpected" in helping readers gain both a greater understanding of Christian spirituality and a path to it. On this adventure, an adventure of both the mind and heart, the reader will explore the foundational underpinnings of baptism, the impact of prayer in many forms--especially in community--and the insights of giants like Luther and Bonhoeffer. The great beauty of the book, however, is found in the incredibly moving stories Lange shares, including personal stories of the prayer groups and underground church in East Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In these, we see firsthand evidence of the spiritual power to be discovered as we simply, faithfully, and prayerfully embrace the gift given in baptism; live faithfully in our everyday lives; and respond to God's call as a community to walk arm in arm into the world alongside and for our neighbor.

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1506438229

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9781506438221

Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)

The Antique as Innovation

By: Dirk Jacob Jansen

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Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)

The Antique as Innovation

By: Dirk Jacob Jansen

In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation, Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515–Vienna 1588). His manifold activities — also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic and scholarly advisor of powerful patrons such as Hans Jakob Fugger, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II — are examined in detail, and studied within the context of the cosmopolitan learned and courtly environments in which he moved. These volumes offer a substantial reassessment of Strada’s importance as an agent of change, transmitting the ideas and artistic language of the Italian Renaissance to the North.

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9004359494

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9789004359499

Postcolonial Literatures in English

An Introduction

By: Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann

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Postcolonial Literatures in English

An Introduction

By: Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann

The term ‘postcolonial literatures in English’ designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved from those regions to the global north. This volume introduces the central themes of postcolonial literary studies and delineates how these themes are reflected and elaborated in exemplary literary works by postcolonial authors from around the world. It also offers succinct definitions of key terms like Orientalism, hybridity, Indigeneity or writing back.

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Springer

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3476055981

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Carbon Taxation for International Maritime Fuels: Assessing the Options

By: Ian Parry,Mr.Dirk Heine,Kelley Kizzier,Tristan Smith

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Carbon Taxation for International Maritime Fuels: Assessing the Options

By: Ian Parry,Mr.Dirk Heine,Kelley Kizzier,Tristan Smith

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) announced in April 2018 a target of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the sector by 50 percent below 2008 levels by 2050 and subsequent meetings of the IMO will develop a strategy for making headway on this commitment. This paper seeks to inform dialogue about the possibility of a carbon tax as a key element of GHG mitigation policy for international maritime transport. The paper discusses the case for the tax over alternative mitigation instruments, options for the practical design issues, and then presents estimates of the impacts of carbon taxation and other instruments from an analytical model of the maritime sector.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484376668

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9781484376669

The Great Mughals and their India

By: Dirk Collier

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The Great Mughals and their India

By: Dirk Collier

A definitive, comprehensive and engrossing chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties of the world – the Mughal – from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last of the clan. The magnificent Mughal legacy – the world-famous Taj Mahal being the most prominent among countless other examples – is an inexhaustible source of inspiration to historians, writers, moviemakers, artists and ordinary mortals alike. Mughal history abounds with all the ingredients of classical drama: ambition and frustration, hope and despair, grandeur and decline, love and hate, and loyalty and betrayal. In other words: it is great to read and offers ample food for thought on the human condition. Much more importantly, Mughal history deserves to be widely read and reflected upon, because of its lasting cultural and socio-political relevance to today’s world in general and the Indian subcontinent in particular. The Mughals have left us with a legacy that cannot be erased. With regard to the eventful reigns of Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb and their successors, crucial questions arise: Where did they succeed? Where did they fail? And more importantly, what should we learn from their triumphs and failures? The author believes that history books should be accurate, informative and entertaining. In The Great Mughals and Their India, he has kept these objectives in mind in an attempt to narrate Mughal history from their perspective. At the same time, he does not shy away from dealing with controversial issues. Here is a fascinating and riveting saga that brings alive a spectacular bygone era – authentically and convincingly.

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Hay House, Inc

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9384544981

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9789384544980

Financial Analytics with R

Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science

By: Mark J. Bennett,Dirk L. Hugen

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Financial Analytics with R

Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science

By: Mark J. Bennett,Dirk L. Hugen

Are you innately curious about dynamically inter-operating financial markets? Since the crisis of 2008, there is a need for professionals with more understanding about statistics and data analysis, who can discuss the various risk metrics, particularly those involving extreme events. By providing a resource for training students and professionals in basic and sophisticated analytics, this book meets that need. It offers both the intuition and basic vocabulary as a step towards the financial, statistical, and algorithmic knowledge required to resolve the industry problems, and it depicts a systematic way of developing analytical programs for finance in the statistical language R. Build a hands-on laboratory and run many simulations. Explore the analytical fringes of investments and risk management. Bennett and Hugen help profit-seeking investors and data science students sharpen their skills in many areas, including time-series, forecasting, portfolio selection, covariance clustering, prediction, and derivative securities.

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1316776751

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A Short Walk from Harrods

A Memoir

By: Dirk Bogarde

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A Short Walk from Harrods

A Memoir

By: Dirk Bogarde

_______________ 'The autobiography comes full circle - appropriately enough, because this is a book in which people come to terms with the past, make peace with inner demons, learn to say goodbye to loved ones and become sensitive, caring human beings' - The Independent _______________ First published in 1993, A Short Walk from Harrods is volume six of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs. Forced to return to London because of his manager and his partner's rapidly deteriorating health, Bogarde learned to re-adapt to life in the west London neighbourhoods that groomed him as an aspiring young actor. With his fame fading and his descent into old age, the entire process had become rather difficult to endure. He writes of stalking the streets like an 'apologetic turtle' and avoiding society, announcing that he would, from then on, only do 'matinees' because he is too tired to go out in the evenings. Although this memoir finds Bogarde at his most vulnerable, he retains the lucidity and charm that makes his writing so enjoyable. As ever, he expresses a deep sentimentality that ensures no detail goes unnoticed or unfelt.

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1448208319

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Getting Energy Prices Right

From Principle to Practice

By: Ian W.H. Parry,Mr.Dirk Heine,Eliza Lis,Shanjun Li

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Getting Energy Prices Right

From Principle to Practice

By: Ian W.H. Parry,Mr.Dirk Heine,Eliza Lis,Shanjun Li

Energy taxes can produce substantial environmental and revenue benefits and are an important component of countries’ fiscal systems. Although the principle that these taxes should reflect global warming, air pollution, road congestion, and other adverse environmental impacts of energy use is well established, there has been little previous work providing guidance on how countries can put this principle into practice. This book develops a practical methodology, and associated tools, to show how the major environmental damages from energy can be quantified for different countries and used to design the efficient set of energy taxes.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484388577

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A Concise History of Mathematics

By: Dirk Jan Struik

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A Concise History of Mathematics

By: Dirk Jan Struik

This compact, well-written history covers major mathematical ideas and techniques from the ancient Near East to 20th-century computer theory, surveying the works of Archimedes, Pascal, Gauss, Hilbert, and many others. "The author's ability as a first-class historian as well as an able mathematician has enabled him to produce a work which is unquestionably one of the best." — Nature.

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0486602559

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