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A Fiction of the Past

The Sixties in American History

By: Dominick Cavallo

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A Fiction of the Past

The Sixties in American History

By: Dominick Cavallo

Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white, and college educated. Perhaps none have been more maligned or misunderstood since. In A Fiction of the Past, Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the '60s. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifties. The book digs beyond the post-World War II decades and seeks the historical sources of the youth culture in the distant American past. Cavallo shows how the sixties' most radical ideas and values were deeply etched in the American soul.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312235011

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9780312235017

Fire-Power

The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904–1945

By: Shelford Bidwell,Dominick Graham

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Fire-Power

The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904–1945

By: Shelford Bidwell,Dominick Graham

The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783 a small British force defended the Rock against the Spanish and the French who were determined take this strategically vital point guarding the entrance to the Mediterranean. The tenacity and endurance shown by the attackers and defenders alike, and the sheer ingenuity of the siege operations mounted by both sides, make the episode an epic of military history, and the story gives us a fascinating insight into the realities of siege warfare. In this, the first full study of the siege for over 40 years, James Falkner draws on a wide range of contemporary sources to tell the exciting tale of a huge and complex operation.

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Pen and Sword

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1473814235

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9781473814233

Tug of War

The Battle for Italy 1943-1945

By: Shelfold Bidwell,Dominick Graham

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Tug of War

The Battle for Italy 1943-1945

By: Shelfold Bidwell,Dominick Graham

When the Allies invaded mainland Italy in 1943 they intended only a clearing-up operation to knock Italy out of the war, but Hitler ordered the German armies to defend every foot of the country. The 'Tug of War' was the mysterious force which caused a war to race out of control, and attract vast numbers of men, tanks, guns and aircraft. The book analyses the main battles of Salerno, Cassino, Anzio and the march on Rome.

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Pen and Sword

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1844150984

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A Fiction of the Past

The Sixties in American History

By: Prof. Dominick J. Cavallo

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The Sixties in American History

By: Prof. Dominick J. Cavallo

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1250098343

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9781250098344

Justice

Crimes, Trials, and Punishments

By: Dominick Dunne

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Justice

Crimes, Trials, and Punishments

By: Dominick Dunne

Dominick Dunne's mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. For more than two decades, Vanity Fair published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the Los Angeles media frenzy surrounding O.J. Simpson; the death by fire of multibillionaire banker Edmond Safra; or the Greenwich, Connecticut, murder of Martha Moxley and the indictment—decades later—of Michael Skakel, Dominick Dunne tells it honestly and tells it from his unique perspective. His search for the truth is relentless.

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Crown

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0307557227

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9780307557223

Understanding Others

Peoples, Animals, Pasts

By: Dominick LaCapra

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Understanding Others

Peoples, Animals, Pasts

By: Dominick LaCapra

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Cornell University Press

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1501724908

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9781501724909

Specialization, Market Access and Real Income

By: Dominick Bartelme,Ting Lan,Mr. Andrei A Levchenko

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Specialization, Market Access and Real Income

By: Dominick Bartelme,Ting Lan,Mr. Andrei A Levchenko

This paper estimates the impact of external demand shocks on real income. We utilize a first order approximation to a wide class of small open economy models that feature sector-level gravity in trade flows, which allows us to measure foreign shocks and characterize their welfare impact in terms of reducedform elasticities. We use machine learning techniques to group 4-digit manufacturing sectors into a smaller number of clusters, and show that the cluster-level elasticities of income with respect to foreign shocks can be estimated using high-dimensional statistical techniques. Foreign demand shocks in complex intermediate and capital goods have large positive impacts on real income, whereas impacts in other sectors are negligible. We showthat the estimates imply that countries that specialize in these sectors enjoy greater gains from increased openness, and that (small) export subsidies to these sectors are welfare-improving. Finally, a calibrated multisector production and trade model with input-output linkages and external economies of scale can match the empirical estimates.

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International Monetary Fund

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9798400269370

Renal and Adrenal Tumors

Pathology, Radiology, Ultrasonography, Therapy, Immunology

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Renal and Adrenal Tumors

Pathology, Radiology, Ultrasonography, Therapy, Immunology

The present volume constitutes an attempt to compile contem porary features of diagnosis and treatment of renal and adrenal tumors. A thorough survey of the field is ensured by the authors' considerable scientific experience. Tumors of the kidneys and the adrenal glands are being diagnosed and treated by physicians of different medical disciplines. For both types of tumor, the pathologic cellular substrate is of crucial importance in diagnosis and therapy. In recent years significant diagnostic advances have been made, ranging from angiography through ultrasonography and computer tomography to immunology. New impulses in oncologic therapy have occurred in surgery, radiation therapy, and tumor emboliza tion. A further important topic is renal tumors in infants. Such tumors involve special aspects of both diagnosis and therapy and also have a distinctive prognosis. We are indebted both to Springer-Verlag, who supported us in our intention to write this book, and to our colleagues, whose help is greatly appreciated. For the authors: E. LOHR Essen/Heidelberg, September 1979 Contents (Chapters marked with an asterisk have been translated by H.-U. Eickenberg) Pathology of Renal and Adrenal Neoplasms L.-D. Leder, H.J. Richter, and Chr. Stambolis ...... . 1. Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of the Kidney in the Adult 1.1. General Remarks . 1.2. Heterotopic Tissue . . . . l.2.l. Adrenal Tissue . . . . . .

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364296494X

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9783642964947

Mixed Severity Fires

Nature's Phoenix

By: Dominick A. DellaSala,Chad Hanson

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Mixed Severity Fires

Nature's Phoenix

By: Dominick A. DellaSala,Chad Hanson

The second edition of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix focuses on wildfire as a keystone ecological process that has shaped plant and animal communities for over 400 million years. The book will describe the renewal process that follows wildfires in forests and chaparral ecosystems as "nature's phoenix" by drawing from examples of wildfire effects in several regions of the world.In addition, the book will describe management and policies that have contributed to wildfire problems, including climate change and land-use practices incompatible with nature's phoenix and what must happen to get to coexistence with wildfires that are not going away no matter how much we try to suppress or alter fire behavior. This second edition of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix provides a comprehensive reference for documenting and synthesizing fire's ecological role. - Comprehensive and complete reference on wildfire ecology that includes the latest science and citations - Debunks debates on wildfire management that can be used by conservation groups and decision-makers to shift egregious wildfire policies - Contains a broad synthesis of the ecology of mixed- and high-severity fires, covering such topics as vegetation, birds, mammals, insects, aquatics, and management actions

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Elsevier

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0443137919

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9780443137914

Plastic Product Material and Process Selection Handbook

By: Dominick V Rosato,Donald V Rosato,Matthew v Rosato

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Plastic Product Material and Process Selection Handbook

By: Dominick V Rosato,Donald V Rosato,Matthew v Rosato

This book is for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes. The information and data in this book are provided as a comparative guide to help in understanding the performance of plastics and in making the decisions that must be made when developing a logical approach to fabricating plastic products to meet performance requirements at the lowest costs. It is formatted to allow for easy reader access and this care has been translated into the individual chapter constructions and index. This book makes very clear the behaviour of the 35,000 different plastics with the different behaviours of the hundreds of processes. Products reviewed range from toys to medical devices, to cars, to boats, to underwater devices, containers, springs, pipes, aircraft and spacecraft. The reader's product to be designed and/or fabricated can be directly or indirectly related to plastic materials, fabricating processes and/or product design reviews in this book.*Essential for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes *Will help readers understand the performance of plastics *Helps readers to make decisions which meet performance requirements and to keep costs low

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Elsevier

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0080514057

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9780080514055

Income Distribution

Includes CD

By: Fred Campano,Dominick Salvatore

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Income Distribution

Includes CD

By: Fred Campano,Dominick Salvatore

Income Distribution' was written primarily as a textbook intended for undergraduate economics majors. Each chapter is logically connected with the preceding chapters, providing a general overview of income distribution and its applications.

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Oxford University Press

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0195300912

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9780195300918

Forensic Pathology

By: Dominick DiMaio,Vincent J. DiMaio

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Forensic Pathology

By: Dominick DiMaio,Vincent J. DiMaio

Medicolegal investigation of death is the most crucial and significant function of the medical examiner within the criminal justice system. The medical examiner is primarily concerned with violent, sudden, unexpected, and suspicious deaths and is responsible for determining the cause and manner of death, identifying the deceased, determining the ap

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CRC Press

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1000430146

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9781000430141

Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo

By: Dominick Dunne

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Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo

By: Dominick Dunne

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty--and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

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Ballantine Books

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034543059X

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9780345430595

Writing History, Writing Trauma

By: Dominick LaCapra

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Writing History, Writing Trauma

By: Dominick LaCapra

This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

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JHU Press

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1421414007

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9781421414003

The Nixon Environmental Agenda

An Insider's View of Republican Decision Making 1968-1972

By: David Dominick

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The Nixon Environmental Agenda

An Insider's View of Republican Decision Making 1968-1972

By: David Dominick

The Environmental Protection Agency was established as an independent federal agency in December 1970 to coordinate government action on behalf of the environment. The EPA will be celebrating its golden anniversary in 2020. Mr. Dominick feels the time is right to reflect on the beginnings of the EPA and cast a proactive vision of role of the Environmental Protection Agency in the future. Dominick is a lifelong environmentalist and has unique insight to the birth of the EPA. Dominick worked as a legislative assistant for two US senators from Wyoming. He assisted Senator Milward L. Simpson from 1965 to 1966. In 1968, he was responsible for personnel placements for the Interior and Agriculture Departments on President-Elect Richard Nixon's transition team. President Nixon then appointed Dominick as Commissioner of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (FWPCA). At that time, the FWPCA was part of the Department of Interior. As Commissioner of the FWPCA, Dominick's responsibilities included making policy decisions regarding water pollution control, supervising five assistant commissioners, ten regional offices, and numerous national laboratories. In 1971, President Nixon appointed Dominick as assistant administrator for Hazardous Materials Control for the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He was responsible for national programs in pesticides, radiation, solid waste, noise, and toxic substances. As the principal spokesman for congressional passage of federal pesticides, toxic substances, and noise control legislation, Dominick implemented bans on DDT, predator poisons, mercury, and numerous other agricultural and industrial chemicals. He set radon standards for underground uranium mines and initiated resource recovery and hazardous waste programs. His testimony before congress helped lead to the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act. In addition, Dominick attended many meetings and conferences around the country, serving as an ambassador of the Nixon Administration's environmental policies.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1645845222

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9781645845225

Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight

Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs

By: Bill Evjen,Dominick Baier,György Balássy,Gill Gleeren,David Giard,Alex Golesh,Kevin Grossnicklaus,Caleb Jenkins,Jeffrey Juday,Vishwas Lele,Jeremy Likness,Scott Millett,Christian Nagel,Daron Yondem,Christian Weyer

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Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight

Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs

A team of MVP authors guides you through the .NET 4 Framework Written by a group of experienced MVPs, this unparalleled book delves into the intricate—and often daunting—world of .NET 4. Each author draws from a particular area of expertise to provide invaluable information on using the various .NET 4, C# 4, Silverlight 4, and Visual Studio tools in the real world. The authors break down the vast .NET 4 Framework into easily digestible portions to offer you a strong foundation on what makes .NET such a popular and successful framework for building a wide range of solutions. Breaks down the .NET 4 Framework into easily understandable sections Features more than a dozen MVPs serving as authors, each of whom focuses on a particular area of expertise Covers such topics as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight 4, Windows Communication Foundation, ASP.NET performance, the entity framework, and more Shares C# tips and tricks and .NET architecture best practices from a team of Microsoft MVPs Real World .NET 4 and C# is the ultimate resource for discovering and understanding the .NET 4 Framework.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111823619X

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9781118236192

History, Literature, Critical Theory

By: Dominick LaCapra

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History, Literature, Critical Theory

By: Dominick LaCapra

In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature (particularly the novel) impact and question each other. In one of the chapters LaCapra revisits Gustave Flaubert, pairing him with Joseph Conrad. Other chapters pair J. M. Coetzee and W. G. Sebald, Jonathan Littell's novel, The Kindly Ones, and Saul Friedlander's two-volume, prizewinning history Nazi Germany and the Jews. A recurrent motif of the book is the role of the sacred, its problematic status in sacrifice, its virulent manifestation in social and political violence (notably the Nazi genocide), its role or transformations in literature and art, and its multivalent expressions in "postsecular" hopes, anxieties, and quests. LaCapra concludes the volume with an essay on the place of violence in the thought of Slavoj Zizek. In LaCapra's view Zizek's provocative thought "at times has uncanny echoes of earlier reflections on, or apologies for, political and seemingly regenerative, even sacralized violence.

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Cornell University Press

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0801467764

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The Evolution of the Soul

By: Dominick Romano

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The Evolution of the Soul

By: Dominick Romano

This is a book written from the perspective of a layman and his spiritual journey. It covers insights, fears, and the day-to-day awareness's that occur to all of us. The hope is to inspire others to understand that their spiritual experiences are no different than any of those experienced by great spiritual masters throughout history. In this remarkable writing the author compells us to travel the path of spiritual evolving and the understanding of our connection with the Divine. This book makes a dramatic and enduring contribution to the knowledge of spiritual evolving.

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iUniverse

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059526929X

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Fatal Charms

And Other Tales of Today

By: Dominick Dunne

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Fatal Charms

And Other Tales of Today

By: Dominick Dunne

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

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Crown

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0307815021

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The Final Frontier

America, Science, and Terror

By: Dominick Jenkins

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The Final Frontier

America, Science, and Terror

By: Dominick Jenkins

In this highly original and provocative work, Jenkins provides a meticulously researched history of United States weapons policy and shows how presidential advisors helped produce the very enemies they warned against. The comparisons Jenkins draws with the contemporary situation are clear and compelling.

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Verso

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1859846823

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9781859846827

History in Transit

Experience, Identity, Critical Theory

By: Dominick LaCapra

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History in Transit

Experience, Identity, Critical Theory

By: Dominick LaCapra

History in Transit comprises Dominick LaCapra's explorations of relationships he believes have been insufficiently theorized: between experience and identity, between history and various theories of subjectivity, between extreme events and their representation, between institutional structures and the kinds of knowledge produced within them. Taken together, these discussions form a dialogical encounter, positing the links among epistemological questions, historicist ones, and issues pertaining to disciplinary and institutional politics. Reacting against the antitheoretical bias of some prominent historians, LaCapra presents an alternative model of historiographical practice—one in which emphases on plurality and hybridity are combined with the concept of historical experience. For LaCapra experience emerges as a category both theoretically determined and anchored in the facticity of the everyday. LaCapra tests the assumptions and implications of the way one approaches the past by looking to psychoanalysis to render more self-aware the relationship between the historian and his or her material. He offers criticisms of assumptions held by practicing historians and theorists, placing the study of history at the center of a larger argument about the role of the contemporary university. Contesting both corporatization and claims that the university is in ruins, LaCapra writes, "It is paradoxical that the demand to make the university conform to an ever-increasing extent to a market or business model seems oblivious to the fact that the American university has probably been the most successful of its type in the world, that students from other countries disproportionately desire to study in it.

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Cornell University Press

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150172746X

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9781501727467

Finding Your Voice

A Practical Self Help Guide to Stop Stuttering

By: ALIO Publishing Group,Dominick Barbara

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Finding Your Voice

A Practical Self Help Guide to Stop Stuttering

By: ALIO Publishing Group,Dominick Barbara

Based on a work originally written by practicing psychoanalyst Dominick A. Barbara (M.D., F.A.P.A.), and revised by ALIO Publishing. This book is presented from the viewpoint of a former stutterer and successful therapist (the author himself stuttered until the age of 30). It begins with a brief discussion on the facts behind stuttering, the problems faced by stutterers, and the "Demosthenes complex". Finally, outlined are steps toward achieving a cure for stuttering. Techniques offered include tools for motivating oneself, developing a positive attitude, overcoming fear, and controlling the situation. This information may prove beneficial for speech clinicians, as well as clients, however the material is easily accessible to individuals of all ages and backgrounds, with or without additional resources or treatment. We all have a voice that deserves to be heard. If you're not satisfied with your public speaking skills, or struggle to articulate your words correctly, then order your copy today!

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An Inconvenient Woman

A Novel

By: Dominick Dunne

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An Inconvenient Woman

A Novel

By: Dominick Dunne

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Good unclean fun . . . [a] convoluted, scandal-greased, exposed-backsides-of-the-rich-and-famous story . . . told in a confiding, breathless undertone.”—Entertainment Weekly Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone is in a listening mood. And some cold shoulders have very sharp edges. . . .

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Ballantine Books

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0307815102

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History and Its Limits

Human, Animal, Violence

By: Dominick LaCapra

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History and Its Limits

Human, Animal, Violence

By: Dominick LaCapra

Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how historians treat and are simultaneously implicated in the traumatic processes they attempt to represent. In addressing these questions, he also investigates violence's impact on various types of writing and establishes a distinctive role for critical theory in the face of an insufficiently discriminating aesthetic of the sublime (often unreflectively amalgamated with the uncanny). In History and Its Limits, LaCapra inquires into the related phenomenon of a turn to the "postsecular," even the messianic or the miraculous, in recent theoretical discussions of extreme events by such prominent figures as Giorgio Agamben, Eric L. Santner, and Slavoj Zizek. In a related vein, he discusses Martin Heidegger's evocative, if not enchanting, understanding of "The Origin of the Work of Art." LaCapra subjects to critical scrutiny the sometimes internally divided way in which violence has been valorized in sacrificial, regenerative, or redemptive terms by a series of important modern intellectuals on both the far right and the far left, including Georges Sorel, the early Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, and Ernst Jünger. Violence and victimization are prominent in the relation between the human and the animal. LaCapra questions prevalent anthropocentrism (evident even in theorists of the "posthuman") and the long-standing quest for a decisive criterion separating or dividing the human from the animal. LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with the environment. In raising the issue of desirable transformations in modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting role of transgressive initiatives beyond limits (including limits blocking the recognition that humans are themselves animals).

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0801457688

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Another City, Not My Own

A Novel

By: Dominick Dunne

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Another City, Not My Own

A Novel

By: Dominick Dunne

Gus Bailey, journalist to high society, knows the sordid secrets of the very rich. Now he turns his penetrating gaze to a courtroom in Los Angeles, witnessing the trial of the century unfold before his startled eyes. As the infamous case and characters begin to take shape, and a range of celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Heidi Fleiss share their own theories of the crime, Bailey bears witness to the ultimate perversion of principle and the most amazing gossip machine in Hollywood—all wrapped in a marvelously addictive tale of love, rage, and ruin.

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0345522192

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Health Care Outcomes

Collaborative, Path-based Approaches

By: Dominick L. Flarey

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Health Care Outcomes

Collaborative, Path-based Approaches

By: Dominick L. Flarey

The transformation in the health care industry, begun over a decade ag o, will continue well into the 21st century. And the dominant theme in the new millennium is likely to be collaborative practice and outcome s-based health care delivery. A collection of the most current and inn ovative presentations in path-based, collaborative practices, this boo k focuses on the design, implementation and analysis of outcomes for t he heavy volume DRGs. For each DRG, the authors present two to three s tandard clinical pathways, and then show how those pathways can be man ipulated to alter outcomes. Health Care Outcomes covers topics in Resp iratory, Neonatal/Pediatric, General Surgery, Orthopaedic, and Geriatr ic Care. A comprehensive collection of critical pathways and outcomes maps being used by leading hospitals and health care agencies around t he country, this is an important reference for developing path-based c are models, or revising critical paths and outcomes maps.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0834211378

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Against Odds

Reflections on the Experiences of the British Army, 1914–45

By: Dominick Graham

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Against Odds

Reflections on the Experiences of the British Army, 1914–45

By: Dominick Graham

Professor Graham compares the performance of the British Army in the two world wars. He identifies as a source of failure in the First World War, Sir Douglas Haig's inability to adopt appropriate operations for his chosen strategy, or suitable tactics for the operations. Montgomery usually avoided that mistake in the Second World War. Graham draws upon his own experience of combat to help the reader make a connection between the orders given to corps and their effect on small units.

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ISBN 10

1349271470

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